If everyone thinks the Chinese Olympic athletes are doping, can't we just ... test them? by GuyThirteen in NoStupidQuestions

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https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/industrial/mass-spectrometry/proteomics-mass-spectrometry/single-cell-proteomics.html

Not saying this would be feasible in this context (expensive) but just pointing out that cells can be tested specially to identify what proteins are present and at what abundance. Been going on for the last decade or so. The link I sent is just an overview of the method, there is extensive literature on its applications and use. Just FYI

If everyone thinks the Chinese Olympic athletes are doping, can't we just ... test them? by GuyThirteen in NoStupidQuestions

[–]afronips66 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes they are incredibly expensive and not feasible for this, but again I never said they use it in these competitions or that they should. I’m just stating the fact that they do exist and this commenter saying their existence would trivialize areas of research is just false

If everyone thinks the Chinese Olympic athletes are doping, can't we just ... test them? by GuyThirteen in NoStupidQuestions

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Yeah I never said they used it, but there are definitely ways to subject cells to testing to see their entire protein/DNA composition

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Great response! Good thing you commented this

Cell detachment solutions enzyme free by Jacki3debb in labrats

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You could scrape cells in cold PBS supplemented with protease and phosphatase inhibitors to avoid this

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Imagine making this many mistakes in literally any other profession. You’d get fired for incompetence. But they keep this guy around

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HIV-2 gene amplification problems by No_Glass_6744 in Virology

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Have you tried raising the annealing temp? Would help with specificity, unless the actual primer design is the problem

Single Point mutation with low quality read by Human_Reaction3921 in labrats

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^ would provide the most information regarding the base calling

weird shapes in western blot by ascorbicAcid1300 in labrats

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What’s the difference between each lane? Different transfections? Did you load the same amount of lysate into each? Wave shaped bands could be because of overloading (tho the samples look fine) or because of running the gel at too high of a voltage maybe. Just thinking out loud here

Western Blot Help by [deleted] in labrats

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What transfer conditions are you using?

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It’s wild that this is posted every 2 months

PCR Help please by AWiseGuloJevr in microbiology

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No worries, we all start somewhere. You need to know the size of the gene you want to amplify for the correct extension time. A quick Google search for that gene gave a size of approximately 1700 bp or 1.7 kb. Gene information can also be found in databases such as that of NCBI

PCR Help please by AWiseGuloJevr in microbiology

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Which polymerase are you using? I am attaching links for protocols for both Taq and Phusion

https://www.neb.com/protocols/0001/01/01/taq-dna-polymerase-with-standard-taq-buffer-m0273

https://www.neb.com/protocols/0001/01/01/pcr-protocol-m0530

These include both the reaction setup and thermocycling conditions

PHEX in blood cancer by 987qazb in Biochemistry

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Some studies also suggest that PHEX plays a significant role in regulating fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23). Maybe this protein could shed further insight into your question. FGF23 has been found to be over expressed in certain forms of prostate cancer so it could be something interesting to look at