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I am about to start some new experiments that rely on TAT-Cre (from Millipore) to delete a gene of interest in cell culture in order to study the impact on cell differentiation and gene...
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I have been trying to generate clones using pENTR DTOPO for gateway cloning. I am able to amplify my insert, set up a reaction and get colonies. But when I do a colony PCR with insert specific...
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What is the optimum voltage and ampres? Thank you all in advance.
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I wanted to use proteinase K to treat conditioned media in order to determine if a protein factor is responsible for the effect seen when CM is used on cells. I have come across various protocols...
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Dear all. I'm trying to sequence the coding regions of a gene called NDST1 in a 400 individuals - population ( The samples of the population were collected in total DNA form). Problem is the gene...
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I want to extract genomic DNA from tumour cells. Can anyone help me how? most simple without PCI.
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Please give an explanation for the above question.
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I add filtered L-cysteine in cool anaerobic broth as a reducing agent. Is it possible to add L-cysteine in the culture media before autoclaving without compromising the reducing property of...
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I purchased poly dA-dT.poly dA-dT 10 unit packs from sigma and the concentration was found spectrophotometrically. I got a weight of this product in ug/ ml but I would like to prepare a uM...
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When I dissolve DPPH in acidified methanol(15% 1N HCl) it is showing yellow color. what might be the problem, is it acid or methanol or DPPH?
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What is the chemical name of ZEN.
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Hi, I have recently encountered a loading problem with one of my blots. The data just didnt make any sense. I reprobed for actin. The loading problem should be correctable for actin normalization...
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I am looking for optimised protocol for western blot of 2D gels! any one routinely doing please help me!! I am missing minute details like voltage , buffer etc. Working wirth semidry GE...
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During the experiment and literature I found that many peoples had used tris Hcl for protein extraion in the range of 20 to 100 mM concentration. why peoples are not extracting proteins at...
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I am planning to isolate Islets from a rat pancreas using Ficoll density gradient of 1.108g/mL,; 1.096g/ML; 1.069g/mLand 1.037g/mL. I have bought Ficoll 400 powder and I would like to make these...
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I have problems determining the reliable dilution for my qPCR. I have repeated the experiment 3 times, it seems that I have gotten different results for every experiment. However by comparing the...
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Hi，guys！Does anyone know the difference between 2X and 5X sds loading buffer? It is said that maybe you cannot get appropriate results using 5X Loading buffer. Does anyone know the...
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I wish to perform a chemical crosslink experiment on a homodimer protein with low thermal stability. Due to thermal stability issues, the desired crosslink needs to be done
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What is the optimal protein concentration of cell lysate used for this assay kit?
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I am doing work on the isolation of antioxidant compounds. The new compounds exhibited higher antioxidant than the fractions in beta carotene bleaching but weaker in DPPH assay. Is there any...
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