How can I selectively dry etch Ti on a polymer substrate?

24 February 2021 5,378 1 View

How to identify when a gaussian program is about terminate normally?

Dear all, I am trying to optimize a bimetallic complex using # opt=tight b3lyp/lanl2dz scf=qc geom=connectivity. The program is running for around 5 days but the size of the .chk remains same...

05 February 2021 8,721 3 View

How do you create a 0.5M EDTA disodium salt solution at pH=7.4?

I have been trying to make a 0.5M EDTA solution by dissolving EDTA disodium salt dihydrate in 500mL of purified water and adjusting the pH to ~8.0 so that the salt dissolves. To aid in the...

12 October 2020 3,242 2 View

How can I increase the length of DNA fragments recovered from QIAamp DNA Micro Kit?

Hi everyone. I'm performing DNA extractions for pools of ~10 individual Daphnia magna (water fleas) using the Qiagen QIAamp DNA Micro Kit. I use a pestle to homogenise the Daphnia before entering...

07 September 2020 9,956 1 View

Where could I find3D resistivity/conductivity (ERT) opensource data?

Hi, I would like to know whether is there any open source 3D inversion resistivity/conductivity geophysical data (ERT) available. If yes, how to access it?

06 August 2020 8,209 3 View

Is it normal to get different results when you try to simulate a paper your are basing your research on?

I am simulating AODV and AOMDV in NS 2 to compare their performance in terms of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), Throughput, Delay and energy consumption, in order to propose a better algorithm. The...

18 July 2020 9,755 9 View

How can I assess a method that returns high-expressed genes?

Hello, I working with a method that finds high-expressed genes in a single-cell experiment. How can I assess such method? I know I can compare it with the ones in literature (t-test, regression),...

22 February 2020 3,023 2 View

How should I hydroxylate tungsten powder for organosilane grafting?

I am having trouble depositing MPTMS/APTES onto tungsten and I am concerned there are not enough hydroxyl groups on the powder surface. So far I have been exposing tungsten to water to hydroxylate...

04 February 2020 4,677 2 View

Is it possible to perform a meta-analysis for an index value?

Dear researcher community. I want to ask if it's possible to perform a meta-analysis in an index, I mean, in value without standard deviation. For instance, in the regression model, many indexes...

04 December 2019 3,797 1 View

PLS-DA or LDA for NIR analysis?

I was wondering, for discrimination or classification propose is better use LDA instead PLS-DA in NIR data?. What analysis will works better in this kinds of data?. And why? Thanks so much in...

15 October 2019 8,409 8 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 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

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 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

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

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

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View

Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Color of spiro-ometad film?

What does the color of a spiro-ometad film indicate? I got purple, green, red, even black color of the spiro film. Is there anything we can get from the preliminary color analysis(e.g. oxidation...

21 February 2021 1,831 4 View