How to extract RNA from brown adipose tissue(BAT)?

30 January 2021 6,610 3 View

Are there any easy way to test the activity of CYP51?

I'm looking for a relative easy way to test the activity of CYP51. Are there any way that I can measure it without using LC-MS or gas chromatography. A simple absorbance or fluorescence test will...

08 October 2020 6,687 3 View

How to extract RNA from pancreas?

RNA extraction from pancreas of ruminants is very difficult due to the existence of abundant RNase. Previously, our research group tried to remove the pancreas from animal immediatley after...

20 September 2020 1,097 2 View

How to get bending moment in Ansys shell181 element?

Hello, I would like to compare the bending moment of a tube with beam and shell element in ansys? The tube has the same dimension in beam and shell element. In beam element, i can get the...

24 August 2020 2,352 1 View

Roche has stopped its Universal Probe primer design service, does anyone know where or how we can design primers to fit Universal Probe Library?

Roche announced the Universal Probe primer design service will be stop in the end of 2020, but the primer design website has already been shutted...

10 February 2020 4,745 2 View

Reusing C18 ziptip while desalting the peptide sample before LC-MS/MS ?

Reusing C18 ziptip while desalting the peptide sample before LC-MS/MS ? Hello everyone I have a question while using ziptip Do you suggest that reuse the zip after one sample binding and...

11 December 2019 7,865 3 View

What reason can affect drug concentration to cell viability in MTT assay ?

I did MTT to find the best drug(for cancer) concentration to do Western blot, as drug concentration got higher cell viability got lower, but at the highest concentration has a peak on cell...

14 August 2019 3,745 5 View

Does mesoporous silica NP dissolve in water?

Hi, guys. Recently, I was doing research on mesoporous silica. I used the traditional ingredient to synthesis it, namely TEOS, CTAB, ammounia aqueous, ethanol and water. To my surprise, when I...

08 July 2019 9,961 5 View

What kind of matrigel for orthotopic injection of breast cancer cells into the mammary fat pad of mice?

I am planning to do orthotopic injection of breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231 and 4T1 cells) into the mammary fat pad of mice to observe cancer metastasis and tumor growth. In lots of references I...

04 July 2019 6,278 5 View

How to measuring extracellular ATP level?

How to measuring extracellular ATP level in tumor specimens, not the culture cell? Is there are commecial Kits available?

17 November 2018 1,053 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What is the status of bread making and more bakery foods with the use of insect flour/powder?

Insects have been consumed by human diet since prehistoric times. At present, the idea of looking at insects as food has been getting traction worldwide, also in response to increasing food...

03 March 2021 6,223 5 View

Any references about insects or animals that can damage or weathering of rock or fossil material?

Are there any references to insects or animals that can cause damage or weathering to the rock or fossil material? books or paper that would be nice. Thank you very much!

24 February 2021 6,805 3 View

What is your preference for journals for publishing in the field of Hyperspectral Imaging or Remote sensing?

I believe that we need to share our experience in publishing in the field of Hyperspectral Imaging or remote sensing? What is the best journal that you publish with? What is the worst experience...

23 February 2021 3,411 4 View

Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How reliable is estimation of copy numbers by absolute qPCR?

Hello, I would like to compare the expression levels of several genes in insects, so I prepared standard curves and estimated copy numbers of each sequence in my samples. But for one of the genes,...

11 February 2021 8,421 13 View

Are there any papers that deal with the effects of climate change on the pollination in Tropical orchids?

There are a few papers dealing with the effects of climate change on the pollination of European orchids, but I wonder if similar studies have been carried out in the Tropics.

04 February 2021 1,818 4 View

How do you annotate figures to show significance?

30 January 2021 1,008 3 View

Helicoverpa armigera eggs are not hatching in lab condition, why?

Dear RG friends, I am providing a complete H. armigera diet for larvae and maintaining the eggs in the growth chamber as well as in-room conditions. But since three months, eggs laid from the...

21 January 2021 5,546 32 View