Gifu University

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Environment

Evaluation of the Productivity of Social Wasp Colonies (Vespinae) and an Introduction to the Traditional Japanese Vespula Wasp Hunting Technique

Tatsuya Saga^1,2

¹Tajimi Senior High School, ²Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Gifu University

This methodological paper evaluates the productivity of a social wasp colony by examining the number of meconia per 100 cells of comb, to estimate the total number of adults the wasps produced. The associated video describes how to search for Vespula wasp nests, a method developed by amateur wasp chasers.

Biochemistry

Ultra-High-Speed Western Blot using Immunoreaction Enhancing Technology

Sayuri L. Higashi^1,2, Kazuya Yagyu^1,2, Haruna Nagase^1,2, Craig S. Pearson¹, Herbert M. Geller¹, Yasuhiro Katagiri¹

¹Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology, Cell and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, ²United Graduate School of Drug Discovery and Medical Information Sciences, Gifu University

An ultra-high-speed western blotting technique is developed by improving the kinetics of antigen-antibody binding through cyclic draining and replenishing (CDR) technology in conjunction with an immunoreaction enhancing agent.