Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

How to compute the distance in km between two points inside the Earth?

Hello everyone. I am looking for a simple formula to compute the distance in Km between two points inside the Earth. I do not mean the usual problem between to cities (distance along the surface)...

02 February 2021 3,455 4 View

How do I post details of my new book?

Barracks, Forts and Ramparts: Regeneration Challenges for Portsmouth Harbour's Defence Heritage, by Celia Clark with Martin Marks OBE. Tricorn Books 2020. ISBN 9781912821648. 450 pages,...

30 December 2020 2,872 1 View

How do you transmit and evaluate ethics and moral values in you teaching activity?

Ethics and moral values have always being an essential part of teaching and scientific research. How do you teach and evaluate these essential subjects in your daily interaction with students?

23 December 2020 5,058 7 View

Titulo: Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) assay design?

23 November 2020 7,770 3 View

Having issues understanding the particles/mL to molarity conversion, I've seen many different way but non of them seem to match one an the other?

I have 68nm spherical Au NPs, which gave me a concentration of 1.22 x 10^9 particles/mL. How can I calculate the molarity without the need for TEM?

22 November 2020 8,850 3 View

How to migrate a graph database to SQL?

In the research that I am working on, I need to migrate a graph database to sql to carry out tests, I am using neo4j as a tool, the information I have found is about migrating from SQL to neo4j...

09 November 2020 1,869 3 View

How to calculate grain size if FWHM of Lorentzian contribution is nearly zero and lower that FWHM of instrument?

I want to calculate grain size and microstrains. I fitted my peaks with a Voigt function but the FWHM of the Loretzian contribution resulted to be nearly zero, lower than the FWHM obtained from...

28 October 2020 2,578 1 View

Which solvent would you choose to perform polyamide-6 dip-coating on metal part ?

Which solvent would you choose to perform polyamide 6 coating on metal part ? I guess the vapor pressure at room temperature has to be high to evaporate properly after dipping. So among m-cresol,...

11 October 2020 8,104 3 View

Can anyone explain the calculation process of integrated biomarker response (IBR)? Any specifical software?

Hi. I'm working with soil enzymes and I have an issue because i saw several papers that used "integrated biological response" or IBRv2 to integrate data from enzymes and build a hexagonal star...

11 October 2020 5,131 3 View

Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Expression cloning by using cDNA,do I need to modify the cDNA first?

I am going to have a expression cloning of mammalian gene by using shuttle plasmid to transforming the E.coli However I don't know I should only inserting the Coding sequence ,or I can...

28 February 2021 5,440 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How can I assign a velocity along one direction to CO2 molecules in a molecular dynamics simulation using GROMACS?

Dear all, I am trying to perform a MD simulation about the interaction between CO2 and a polymer. I create my model, solvate it and perform the NVT and NPT equilibration. Now I am not able to...

26 February 2021 10,014 3 View

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View

Why do the PCR bands from the cDNA templates (extraction from the cell after transfection) show different size from the band of the plasmid template?

After transfection with the plasmid ( linearized ) and subcloning of the cell lines, RNA was extracted from the cell and then reverse transcripted to cDNA. When PCR reactions were run to verify...

25 February 2021 5,712 3 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

Recalcitrant seed short-mid storage method?

Dear peer scientists, Ultradry storage is not suitable for recalcitrant seeds. However, theoretically, if we can stabilize the structure of the subcellular membrane, as well as glassify the...

25 February 2021 2,442 1 View