How to calculate age-standardized prevalence ratio with 95%CI?

I need to calculate the prevalence ratios to show the trend of prevalence of a drug group used by pregnant women over the years (2001-2018). I would like to use the year 2001 with age distribution...

05 January 2021 7,986 5 View

Does CD31 indicate cell viability?

Hi, I am wondering if the immunofluorescent staining of CD31 antibodies can both mark endothelial cells and indicating their viability. In other words, if I perform immunofluorescent staining for...

23 December 2020 5,815 4 View

How to increase titer of Herpesvirus, Adenovirus?

I'm working with Herpesvirus and Adenovirus. For Herpesvirus, I use Vero cell line to activate and check virus titer. For Adenovirus, I use Hela cell line. Recently, I could activate them, but...

16 December 2020 4,073 5 View

How big can a enhancer deletion be ? how can we obtain homologous deletion clone ?

Hi all, I have tried to use Crispr Cas9 ( plasmid px333_cas9_mCherry) to delete some enhancers. I designed sgRNA using Chopchop website to target both sides of an enhancer to induce homologous...

13 December 2020 942 3 View

How to calculate the fractional vegetation cover (FVC) from Landsat imagery?

Hi folks, I wonder if anyone know how to calculate the fractional vegetation cover (FVC) from Landsat imagery? As far as I have read about that NDVI, NDVIs, and NDVIv are three required input...

07 December 2020 4,054 2 View

Is it possible to identify/classify rubber using satellite imagery with machine learning?

As of now, I am trying to explore the potential of using high/very high-resolution satellite imagery with machine learning (ML) to identify or map forest cover (e.g. rubber). As a newbie in this...

17 November 2020 7,187 3 View

Cloudy brain samples in sucrose solution?

I have some samples I left in sucrose for a couple of weeks after perfusion and was wondering if these samples are still salvageable? I perfused the brain, then they were fixed in 4% pfa for 24...

15 November 2020 1,728 2 View

On what basis, and which algorithms to choose for a health dataset for performing comparitive analysis?

The final objective of my Ph.D. work is to design Hybrid Model(s) for Disease Prediction on Health-Dataset (like statlog, cleveland heart dataset) by using Datamining/Machinelearning...

06 November 2020 2,670 3 View

CDNA PCR problems: why did the sample without reverse transcriptase enzyme (band 5 in both two genes) have strong band with gen A?

Dear all, These are data from gel base of cDNA sample for PCR with protocol attached on the figure. Band 5 is no reverse transcriptase enzyme during doing cDNA library used random primer. With gen...

04 October 2020 8,774 4 View

Why were cDNA PCR got multiple bands when added DMSO?

Dear all, All samples are cDNA, using reverse transcriptase enzyme to make cDNA from RNA. One group is doing PCR without DMSO, and other group is doing PCR with DMSO. One is without DMSO, the...

04 October 2020 1,320 3 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

B-mercaptoethanol (BME) protocol?

Hi everybody, I have been running a multiplex IHC which allow me to stain the same tissue with different markers (Primary Ab + Secondary conjugated Ab) (AF487, AF555, AF647). Since I would like to...

27 February 2021 5,028 2 View

Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 2 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View