Does the pressure(-600 mmHg) affects pH?

When I conducted the degassing experiment using decompression under anaerobic condition(and I used ferrous based chelating agent), the oxidized ferric were observerd. So, could you tell me the...

03 March 2021 4,892 5 View

Can you correct the wt%/at% of an incorrectly assigned peak in EDS?

For instance, I get a spectrum and the software incorrectly assigns a Si peak as W. If I don't catch it on the software and only have the report (which lists both wt% and at%), is there a way to...

10 February 2021 7,665 4 View

How much the nanoparticles reach the inflammatory tissue?

Dear colleagues, I want to know the average analysis data of EPR effect on inflammatory tissue (acute lung inflammation/injury, ischemia/reperfusion, rheumatoid arthritis, and sepsis..) In...

22 December 2020 3,147 2 View

How to measure the bonding strength of transfered graphene on PDMS substrate?

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was used to grow graphene on copper (Cu ) substrate, then the single layer graphene was transfered onto a PDMS substrate. I want to measure the bonding strength of...

17 October 2020 3,567 3 View

What's wrong with my sample stained with MAP2 antibody?

I've studied and fabricated a nanostructured substrate for the enhancement of neuronal differentiation. I usually confirmed the levels of differentiation using immunocytochemistry, but I recently...

20 September 2020 5,725 3 View

Does DTT affect cell lysis?

Hi, I am currently working with S. cerevisiae. general rule of thumbs for yeast cell lysis is to use 0.2M NaOH incubation followed by lysis using high urea buffer (containing 100mM DTT) at 70oC...

05 September 2020 6,915 3 View

How can I calculate or see bond angles in Gaussian16?

In Gaussian program, I calculated formaldehyde using "opt+frq". In the results, I can see the bond length and so on, except bond angles. How can I see the bond angles in that program? Thank you...

30 July 2020 7,165 3 View

Why this HPLC data show negative peak?

Lysine was dissolved in mobile phase and injected in HPLC but there are two peaks. One for positive at 2.1 min and another for negative at 2.8 min? Contents of moilbe phase are ACN:Water:TFA =...

08 July 2020 2,695 13 View

How to define the particle agglomeration in composite materials or foundry alloys and measure its size distribution quantitatively?

28 June 2020 7,614 3 View

How can I disaggregating silica nanoparticles(~22nm) agglomerates?

We purchased some silica nanoparticles (~22nm, 34 wt%)dispersed in water from Sigma Aldrich , and planned to mix this nanoparticles with GPTMS( (3-Glycidyloxypropyl)trimethoxysilane) and distilled...

01 June 2020 612 5 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

How to perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

How to measure 50uL of cells?

Hello, I am planning to do a transformation, and on the protocol it says "Scrape a 50 ml volume of yeast from the YPAD plate using a sterile inoculating loop or sterile toothpick". But I can...

14 February 2021 6,247 3 View

Cells not growing in large scale protein expression?

I am using KRX cell. I have grown my overnight cultures at 37 degrees. When I inoculate 1L TB media, my cells do not grow. I have also tried using 25 degree incubation of overnight cultures and...

10 February 2021 3,871 3 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

What could be the cause to have an E.coli DH10B transformed with pUC18 to grow in MKL + ampicillin but is not LAC+?

Hello everyone, I did a transformation of E. coli DH10B using pUC18 plasmid. The bacterias did grow on MKL medium with ampicillin but the colonies showed a white/pink colour and the medium was...

08 February 2021 9,720 3 View