Polymer synthesis simulation - which software?

Hello, I am a synthetic polymer chemist. I would like to explore the simulation counterpart of my experimental work. Can anyone suggest a good software able to simulate polymerization reactions,...

04 February 2021 2,672 4 View

Error when simulate casting process with Procast software?

I am trying to simulate the casting process of a part with the Procast software. I have the following problem. When I want to run, I run into an error as you see in the picture above. Does anyone...

20 January 2021 2,544 2 View

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26 December 2020 1,951 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

Any method to dye shells for photography without deteriorating them?

Hi, I need to dye bivalves to bring out the details of the shell and to be able to take good photos. I have heard that there is a gaseous compound that allows this and doesn't damage the samples,...

27 September 2020 1,864 4 View

Spatial PCA: How to interpret the amount of variance explained by each principal component?

Hey everyone, I hope someone can help me. Please! I've carried out a spatial PCA using the adegenet package in R, following Dr. Jombart's tutorial (i.e. NAs in data replaced to mean allele...

16 September 2020 952 4 View

How to solve xleap error?

It's the first time for me that I try to use ambertools, I installed AmberTools20 with conda (miniconda) now I don't understand how to load a PDB file in xleap I keep getting the same error, the...

16 August 2020 7,815 2 View

Reference style "Games for Health Journal"?

Does anybody knows if there is a reference style in Mendeley for "Games for Health Journal" ISSN 21617856, 2161783X?

09 July 2020 8,151 1 View

Machine learning methods for dynamical systems?

I am comparing different machine learning techniques for learning dynamical systems (e.g. a system of ordinary differential equations), and so far I've used Long-Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM)...

29 June 2020 3,633 5 View

Negative UV-VIS value in gold nanorods?

Hi! I was synthesizing some gold nanorods. What's interesting is, that in one of my trials a negative value in the UV-VIS (around 630nm) was obtained. How is that possible? Also, it was done by...

20 April 2020 9,570 5 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 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

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

What is the best concentration of cDNA to be used for qPCR?

I have synthesised cDNA from 500ng/ul of RNA. The concentration of the cDNA Is about 5000ng/ul. Should I dilute my cDNA or just use it as it is for my qPCR? I usually use 2ul of cDNA for a 20ul...

24 February 2021 8,618 3 View

Recommendations on homogenizers for RNA isolation?

I will be performing RNA isolation with frozen lung biopsy samples and am in the market for a tissue homogenizer. I am wanting a homogenizer that will fit in a 1.5ml tube. I was looking at the...

24 February 2021 3,623 3 View

RNA-seq DEGs downstream analysis and reporting in literature?

I used EdgeR to get the list of DEGs (differentially expressed genes) from my liver RNA-seq experiment. I have done the gene overrepresentation and GSEA based pathway analysis. I am currently...

23 February 2021 8,969 1 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

RNA degraded after good nanodrop readings?

23 February 2021 8,850 2 View

Is there a way to extract total RNA and protein from cell culture at the same time, without denaturing protein?

Hi all, Is there a way to extract RNA and protein from the same cell culture sample? Because we need to use the protein for gelatin zymography at later time, we are looking for a method that can...

22 February 2021 5,341 5 View