What is the proper range of FRET efficacy?

I would like to use FRET effect to probe the distance between two functional moieties (I am sure the distance is smaller than 10 nm). I have tried several times, but I found out that the FRET...

21 February 2021 3,562 1 View

What's the function of each ingredient in a binding buffer?

I read a binding buffer in references. The recipe was listed as follows: Glucose (4.5g/L), Magnesium Chloride (5 mM), yeast tRNA (0.1 mg/ml) and BSA (1 mg/ml) was dissolved in DPBS. This buffer...

23 December 2020 8,440 4 View

Why transwell insert can cut off some drug molecules?

I am preparing a co-culture experiment in which transwell inserts will be used. According to the references, 0.4 micrometer PET membrane was selected. And different drugs were added to the upper...

15 November 2020 3,718 2 View

Can I use HUVEC cell line, not primary cell, to form barrier system in transwell?

I would like to measure the permeability of my drug using in vitro model, transwell, specifically. However, I only have the cell line, not the primary cell. Can I use the cell line to plate in the...

08 November 2020 3,330 1 View

How can I choose the concentration of Triton X-100 when I would like to permeabilize cells for flow cytometry?

Triton X-100 has been widely used to permeablize cells for flow cytometry. How can I choose the concentration of Triton X-100 if I would like to detect expression of one protein in the whole cell?...

31 October 2020 462 1 View

How to define Darcy's flow for pore pressure cohesive element in Abaqus?

Hi everyone, I am trying to define a Darcy's flow for pore pressure cohesive element in Abaqus. When I give permeability to the elements, the output of tangential flow rate (GFVR) is always shown...

11 October 2020 1,195 3 View

Extracting surface area, volume and cortical thickness from multiple groups using FreeSurfer?

Hello everyone, I'm new to FreeSurfer and this question might sound a bit stupid: I'm trying to get the volumetric measures, surface area and cortical thickness of brain regions of three groups...

29 July 2020 8,574 3 View

How many cm deepth of soil does the definition of soil composition generally refer to?

In general, for example, we think soil consist of 40% of minerals, 10% of organic matters, and 50% of water and air. My question is as follow: Does the soil used for the above definition refer...

03 July 2020 4,972 1 View

What are the dominate compounds of clay, silt, and sand in soil?

For example, what are the dominate 5 compounds in clay mineral? 80% of SiO2, etc.? Is the proportion/order of these dominate compounds changed with other factors, e.g., pH? Thank you in advance.

03 July 2020 453 1 View

Dose someone could give me sugestions about 3DNA, Nucleic acid builder, Namot2 and PyMol?

I am working on the MD simulation of 3D self-assembling nanostructures. But researchers in our group have mainly worked on proteins, small molecules and synthesized polymers. Softwares including...

31 March 2020 9,688 3 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

How to manually calculate p value in ANOVA? what is the equation or formula for it?

How to manually calculate p value in ANOVA? what is the equation or formula for it?

03 March 2021 4,928 5 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to choose ANN number of hidden layers and nodes?

Hello, Could you please share any interesting research explaining how to choose the number of hidden layers and nodes per layer in case of regression problems using ANN? Thank you, any help would...

01 March 2021 6,200 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 could I take into consideration the weights of observation in a system of seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) in rstudio?

I build a model of 4 regression equations (probit and OLS) in R studio. I need to take the weights of observations into consideration. While it is simple to do so for every regression equation,...

27 February 2021 1,233 1 View

Mixed ANOVA - help?

I'm currently working on a piece which asks to conduct an ANOVA - looking at the effect of sporting group (2 levels), and exercise trials (two trials with six levels). I've computed this all...

27 February 2021 9,626 4 View

Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View