Despite single-cell RNA, how can I characterize a new cell subtype/phenotype?

A new cell subtype was found out only during regeneration phases after a cuprizone-induced demyelination model. How can I characterize this cell? It is important to highlight that was already...

13 February 2021 1,245 1 View

Permanent Fluid temperature initialization in Ansys Fluent?

Dear researchers, I am coupling Design Optimization with ANSYS Fluent in Workbench 2020 R2. I can do the analysis. I am patching the initial Temperature values of the zones. However, the patch...

28 January 2021 4,265 2 View

Luciferase assay for miRNA-gene: How to obtain DNA (PCR product) from the mutated primer?

To perform the Luciferase assay for microRNA-gene interaction its necessary a primer (wild-type) to amplificate the specific ligation site and also a mutated primer. But if your primer has a...

19 January 2021 8,568 3 View

How to couple Moldex 3D with MATLAB for design optimization of an injection mould?

Hello, I would like to use the software Moldex 3D for the design optimization of an injection mould. How can I couple Moldex 3D with a MATLAB code? Any help appreciated, I wish you all a happy...

09 January 2021 569 2 View

How to setup ANSYS Fluent for simulating the filling stage of an injection mould?

Hello, I am using ANSYS Fluent for simulating the filling stage of an injection mould. However, when comparing the results with those of specialized software, such as Moldex 3D, I found the...

07 January 2021 7,992 1 View

Which plants and trees have the best ability to prevent the entry of particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM1) and nanoparticles in indoor environments ?

In recent years our group has highlighted the importance of trees and plants in public and recreation parks in large mega cities. However, we are interested in developing "green shields" to be...

05 January 2021 6,500 3 View

How to phosphorylate specific residues on pymol?

Hi everyone, I am using the pyTMs plug in on Pymol to phosphorylate a particular threonine in my protein. I am having difficulty in selecting only one or two residues - it seems I can only...

05 January 2021 230 3 View

How to perform Potential Surface Energy Exploration (PES) calculations?

I would like to receive help, as I am trying to make an analysis of the ethanol PES, but the calculations are always giving error. I use the conda-forge version of xtb (* xtb version 6.3.2...

04 January 2021 602 2 View

How do you create a funnel plot in STATA to assess publication bias using proportions from the metaprop command (for a meta-analysis)??

Hi everyone! I am trying to use STATA to create a funnel plot to asses publication bias using proportions from studies for a large meta-analysis (having used the metaprop command). I"m having...

09 December 2020 6,096 3 View

How to get the model shape matrix from Nastran?

I need to include the bending mode dynamics in my simulation. So far, I am only considering the rigid body dynamics. So I need to implement the following equation: q'' + Kg*q = Phi*F(t), where:...

19 November 2020 4,270 5 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

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28 February 2021 9,936 2 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