IF troubleshooting: looking at an intracellular protein that localizes to the cell's and how to reduce increase in signal due to cell ruffles?

I am currently trying to stain for PI3KBeta in MDA-MB-231 cells. My current issue is that 1) beta stains all over the cell and 2) there is an increase in signal at the edge of the cell and this...

24 February 2021 8,582 1 View

How to delete a copy of a paper, and how to delete a co-author's name?

I mistakenly uploaded a copy of the same paper and entered my alternative name. How to delete them out? (I couldn't navigate to the right buttons to do it. So from where to where is what I don't...

07 January 2021 7,694 6 View

How can Meta-Analysis be applied to the Life cycle assessment (LCA) of Wastewater treatment Plants (WWTPs)?

I am new into the meta-analysis concept. Having done a little reading and watched videos on YouTube, I understand there are different kinds of meta-analysis. And the type of summary statistics or...

29 December 2020 3,677 3 View

Best Way to Preserve Nitrifying Bacteria in Liquid Culture?

I have a heterogeneous culture of nitrifying bacteria that was originally isolated from the field. It has been kept alive for several months in a bioreactor. I want to pull some of this...

18 December 2020 5,411 4 View

HPLC data show negative peak on the blanks, please can I solve the problem?

09 November 2020 5,884 5 View

Any molecular beacon producing company to recommend ?

Hello, For one of my projects I would like to test a Live RNA imaging using molecular beacons such as in this paper : Molecular Beacon-based Detection and Isolation of Working-ty... As we...

28 October 2020 9,457 2 View

MsaClustalW() Take ages. What to do ?

Hello, I'm new to the bioinformatics world and would like a feedback on which MSA tool to use. I want to find a consensus sequence in about 18000 sequences (from marine biology samples) from...

19 October 2020 2,607 2 View

What is the best way to store PBMC after isolation?

So I need to store these for 4 weeks at least, before I do a Dyna bead negative T cell isolation on it. What should I store it in FBS? or DMSO and at 4 degrees? or is -20 not good for the cells?

26 July 2020 2,339 3 View

Best way to preserve non-sporulating bacteria?

What is the best way to preserve non-sporulating bacteria for further study?

20 May 2020 5,532 5 View

Best way to preserve heterogeneous culture of non-sporulating bacteria?

I have a culture of heterogeneous bacteria that will NOT form endospores. This bacteria was originally isolated in nature and is a complex culture of multiple species. I want to be able to...

20 May 2020 8,369 1 View

Adherance of Polyaniline coating over stainless steel?

Is the electropolymerisation of polyaniline coating over stainless steel (SS) via Cyclic voltammetry technique is really adherant? Else how to improve the adhesion of the coating, whether any...

01 March 2021 8,220 2 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

1 nm thick MgO thin-film to be deposited on Si wafer using thermal evaporation. What will be the optimum deposition conditions?

Favourable conditions of base pressure, rate of deposition. Also, by which characterisation technique to be used to verify the thickness of the deposited film.

28 February 2021 3,640 3 View

How to immerse bricks in wax ( for coating ) ?

Do we immerse the bricks horizontally or vertically ? #bricks#waterproofingsurface#civil#engeenering#chemicalengineering#wax#parafinwax

28 February 2021 6,685 2 View

For gelatin coating for culturing HUVEC.Should the gelatin be made in sterile water or PBS? Do I need to autoclave the gelatin soln after making it ?

I want to use 0.1% gelatin. Should that be made in PBS or sterile water? Should I autoclave the gelatin soln after making it in water/PBS?

28 February 2021 274 2 View

Why is my platinum counter electrode getting dirty during electrodeposition?

I am conducting anodic electrodeposition of MnO2 onto a stainless steel substrate, using a platinum strip as a counter electrode. This is done galvanostatically, with the current held between 5...

27 February 2021 1,829 3 View

What pH condition required to coat APTES on silica coated Fe3O4?

It's a hydrolysis reaction, which may produce by either acid or base-catalyzed reaction. so can anybody help me with this, which condition is suitable for this reaction?

26 February 2021 1,760 8 View

What is the best surface to culture cells isolated from a skin biopsy?

Hello, recently I am having some difficulties with maintaining the cell culture of primary cells isolated from a skin biopsy (normal and malignant). The coating of culture plates with Matrigel (a...

26 February 2021 6,151 2 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

How does charge on working electrode changes with rising potential?

During performing CV of a GCE or modified GCE, we rise the potential in the first half of the cycle and reduce it in reverse half. During the first half, what is the nature of charge on GCE or...

25 February 2021 7,994 3 View