What is a good reference on designing experiments to determine molecular mechanism of disease or biological process?

I need to learn techniques and strategies in planning experiments that try to figure out the molecular mechanisms. Thanks.

01 January 2021 2,525 3 View

Has anybody had staining problems with lysotracker in live cells?

I am working with two fish cells types, a zebrafish liver cell line and primary cultures of trout macrophages. We are using lysotracker to stain them in order to visualize lysosomes in confocal...

16 December 2020 3,935 2 View

Is TRIS-EDTA-CITRATE buffer (pH 7.8) a good antigen retrieve for the TUNEL assay?

Hello everyone! I performed a TUNEL assay simultaneously with an immunofluorescence (SOX9 antibody) on the same sections of human testis. The fluorescence of TUNEL turned out well, but that of...

15 December 2020 1,270 3 View

Does a manager's background such as culture and attitude influence the performance of employees?

30 November 2020 1,585 2 View

If I want to use mean as calculation for my questionnaire, should I test the reliability and validity?

I'm using questionnaire for my research and mean (average) as my data analysis. I'm wondering how to calculate the reliability and validity of my data.

28 September 2020 3,517 3 View

How to induce with L-arabinose Chaperone Competent Cell BL21 (Takara)?

I am using Chaperone Competent Cell BL21 from Takara, pGro7/BL21 , but it is not clear on the protocol how and when I should induce the expression of the chaperones with L-arabinose. First time I...

14 September 2020 8,488 3 View

Is it better to use the arithmetic mean or geometric mean when averaging MPN?g or CFU/g measurements?

This data is from a microbiological evaluation of streetfood locally sold in our region. Thanks.

12 August 2020 5,981 3 View

Any recommendations on the software to do text mining or sentiment analysis on Chinese reviews?

I am trying to do text mining on Chinese reviews. I have tried out many softwares, like the RapidMiner, Chinese Text Analytics, Python. Most of them seem to require certain level of programming...

12 August 2020 9,109 8 View

Where can I find a good set of microbiological standards for aerobic plate count and coliform levels for street food or ready to eat food?

I need these to evaluate the data I obtained from my study. Thanks

10 August 2020 7,466 12 View

What is a good Thomson Reuters or Scopus indexed journal where I can publish my paper regarding Microbial safety aspects of street foods?

I need a journal with a faster turn around time, reasonable review process, and preferably no publication fees.

15 July 2020 8,241 3 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

03 March 2021 1,499 2 View

Buffer Exchange using column packed with sephadex G-25 effect on protein concentration?

Hello, If i am doing a buffer exchange for an antibody of 1mg/mL, does the elution lose protein in the process of buffer exchange? For example, if i flow through 500 uL of 1mg/mL sample, and...

03 March 2021 6,299 3 View

How optimize the Size Exclusion Chromatography?

Hello! I'll do a size exclusion chromatography, but I only have an open column, and I'll perform the peptide extraction from yeast, using buffer lysis (sodium phosphate 50 mM/NaCl 30 mM/DNAse and...

01 March 2021 2,215 2 View

Why are my bands weird in this Agarose gel?

Can someone please give me some possible things that could go wrong? Here is my recipe: 0.5g Agarose 50 mL of TAE 1x 1 uL ethyl bromide. Gel was run at 100V for 1 hour. The buffer used is also TAE.

01 March 2021 9,952 3 View

What do I do with DLS peaks that are from the buffer?

I'm looking at the aggregation of my protein sample using DLS. Unfortunately, my buffer (20mM HEPES) also results in a set of peaks. These are at approximately 1 and 1000 d.nm. The lowest peak...

01 March 2021 9,015 2 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

How to highlight novelty in your research paper?

I have come up with a method and had written a paper on it. Paper got rejected by a journal stating that there is no theoretical novelty. I am kind of confused on why the novelty that I am able to...

28 February 2021 2,393 8 View

What is the most suitable resuspension buffer for TCA/acetone precipitated protein?

I need to extract protein from fermented carbon sources for Bradford assay. Most researchers experiencing insolubility of pellet in resuspension buffer. Please assist me to select most suitable...

26 February 2021 7,129 3 View

What urea buffer can i use for biotagged protein extraction from streptavidin beads?

Hi all, I have been doing research on biotagged LDB1 proteins in Mel cells. I purify the proteins using M280 streptavidin beads. The yield is very low so I've been trying to optimize it by...

24 February 2021 5,749 3 View

Why is My firend's profile not visible?

Hello, I created a profile for my friend on google scholar. I have added a verified email address. I marked the profile as public. Formerly his profile was visible. However, now, When I type his...

24 February 2021 8,680 3 View