Share a copy of RaFD Dataset?

I tried to get this dataset from the original link but no one approved my requests for weeks. Can someone share with me a private link to use? You can send it to my institutional email:...

14 February 2021 1,908 1 View

Help with Amyloid beta detection protocol (western-blotting)?

Hi everyone, I am a first year PhD student working on amyloidosis. I would like some tips and tricks to crack efficiently my current nightmare, i.e. the western blotting of the Amyloid beta and...

11 February 2021 2,513 3 View

Does viral RNA extraction from nasopharyngeal swabs require pre-centrifugation with supernatant collection?

06 February 2021 323 3 View

Aspen plus (hydrometallurgy set-up) & reactions solid-liquid ?

I have to simulate a hydrometallurgical process where there are the following phases: - leaching (solid-liquid reactions) - cementation (solid-liquid reactions) - electrowinning (energy ) -...

30 January 2021 9,225 3 View

How to prediction non-visible parts of microscopic pictures?

Dear all, I like to ask if someone has experience with evaluating pictures towards the prediction of non-visible parts. I have confocal-laser-scanning microscopic pictures of yeast cells and want...

28 December 2020 4,309 11 View

Coronal or Sagittal mouse brain sections to visualise vessels?

Hello, I am a first year PhD student and I am working on Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). I would like to investigate the presence of my proteins of interest in a CAA/Alzheimer's disease mouse...

05 December 2020 907 3 View

What is the cleanest / best way to handle different software dependencies / configurations?

Dear RG users, I noticed that several toolboxes developed for python are compatible with some specific releases and not with others and in general there is a precise set of tools defining the...

30 November 2020 4,545 5 View

Why maximum allowable limits for toxic metals or heavy metals in agricultural soils vary among countries and institutions?

For example, the maximum allowable limit for USEPA in agricultural soils are very low when compared to Tanzania's maximum allowable limits see figure below. Does this can affect the management...

23 November 2020 5,052 10 View

What is the best way to get organoids of the same size?

I would like to get organoids of the same size. We filter organoids using a 100 um filter and then pass that filtrate through a 40 um filter followed by flipping the 40 um filter. Then we wash the...

22 November 2020 9,391 3 View

How to match Matplotlib color mapping in a R ggscatter plot (or ggplot)?

I created this shinyapp and am having a hard time seeing the image I thought I was...

13 October 2020 223 2 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 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 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

Is it possible that Cancer cells could survive in heparinized blood for 48 hours?

Hi everyone, I am just wondering if we incubated 200 microliter of whole blood with 50 microliter of cancer cells(1bout 5000cells) do you think that cancer would survive for 48 hours?

23 February 2021 3,840 3 View

The PC12 cell line characteristics?

Hello dear scientists, Does the undifferentiated PC12 cell line in terms of chromosome characteristics, proliferation, and drug reactions have the characteristics of cancer cells? Where is it...

21 February 2021 8,945 3 View

What is the minimum number of exosomes/ml to have a good yield of total RNA for Illumina sequencing?

I am using IZON qEV2 columns to isolate exosomes from 100 ml of cancer cell conditioned medium. in NTA analysis I usually see concentration of 2x10^9 particles/ml. But when I proceed with this...

20 February 2021 6,879 3 View

Can the viability assays (ex: MTT/CCK-8) measure cell proliferation? or are they solely viability assays?

I want to conduct a proliferation assay to test a chemotherapy combination on a cancer cell line. At first, I thought about the MTT assay. But now, all sources are saying that these do not measure...

14 February 2021 3,142 7 View

How much should I centrifuge cells in agarose-coated plates to get spheroids?

Right now I am using HT29 cells, but I will also use HCT116 and probably breast cancer cell lines.

09 February 2021 2,063 6 View

C-4 I cervical cancer cell line tissue culture protocol?

Hi there! My lab has been brought an array of C-4 I cell line. The cells did not succeed in attaching to the bottom of the flask and remained floating in the media. Although we followed the...

04 February 2021 10,018 5 View