Does Anyone Know of a Way to Detect Melatonin that is NOT HPLC, RIA or Mass Spec?

I tried to do a Slot Blot and was not successful and melatonin is only .23 Kda so it would probably run off a western blot. Has anyone had success with other methods?

23 January 2021 1,388 3 View

Any advice or articles on combining one qualitative approach with the methods of a different approach?

I am a doctoral student and I am looking to do a qualitative research study that looks at the potential influence of teachers on the way minority students view their leadership capabilities....

28 November 2020 6,217 5 View

Troubles cloning - correct RE digestion and then incorrect sequencing?

I am inserting an MPP5 gene insert into a pCAGGs backbone. When I am finished with the mini prep, I find that my RE digestion is correct, but then when I send it to be sequenced, the MPP5 gene is...

23 November 2020 7,962 2 View

How to convert a cif file to a qe file?

I am trying to convert a cif file to a Quantum espresso file to do DFT calculations

10 September 2020 1,535 4 View

What are the available Nanocomposite Databases?

I am looking for data files of Nano Composites. Any form of data, be it XRD outputs, SEM or TEM images or anything. Where can I find them?

28 August 2020 9,927 5 View

Can I degas drug solutions before applying to mammalian cells for electrophysiology?

I am applying different drug solutions to cells that I am whole-cell patching. Each solution is in a syringe connected to a thin tube that goes through a barrel manifold into a glass micropipette...

24 August 2020 1,956 2 View

How to count % GFP positive cells and GFP intensity using imagej?

I have infected BHK21 cells with a virus that expresses GFP. I want to count the percentage of GFP positive cells and the intensity of the GFP. How do I do this with fluorescent microscope...

17 August 2020 4,009 2 View

CD8+ T cell and natural killer isolation kits from rat spleen?

Hello, Does anyone have any experience with isolation of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells and natural killer cells from rat spleen? I'd prefer kit-based if possible, but any protocols you can provide would...

30 July 2020 5,387 6 View

Best ways to analyze crowdsourced data for a qualitative study?

Hello, I am currently working on a project analyzing crowdsourced data from online trip reports and social media applications. However, I am struggling in defining the methodology for this...

25 February 2020 4,401 3 View

Porcine specific antibody that doesn't react with rabbit?

Does anyone know of an antibody that can be used for immunohistochemistry on paraffin embedded sections that reacts with porcine cells but not rabbit cells? We need to prove that the porcine cells...

20 January 2020 9,014 2 View

Could you recommend any books about Number Theory?

Beginner level books. High level books. Analytical Number Theory. Algebraic Number Theory. Combinatorical Number Theory. Books about partitions. Books about primes.

03 March 2021 7,174 5 View

How to increase a model accuracy ?

dear community, my model is based feature extraction from non stationary signals using discrete Wavelet Transform and then using statistical features then machine learning classifiers in order to...

03 March 2021 6,994 5 View

Arena simulation - how do i model the following model in ARENA (see description) (new to ARENA)?

Hello, I'm fairly new to ARENA and I have the following problem: I have two queues in which, in each queue, a different order type arrives (both having an arrival rate of exponential 10). Order...

02 March 2021 2,431 3 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

What is Flat Lens Antenna?

28 February 2021 5,433 3 View

Can impedance of antenna be less than 50 ohms?

I am simulating helix antenna in hfss, right now, giving excitation with 50 ohms port. When I see the results of Z parameter (real). It shows lower than 50 ohms. Do not understand, if it can be...

27 February 2021 4,218 7 View

What are the application of Fixed points thoery in Chemistry.?

It is said that fixed point theory has lot of applications not in the field of mathematics only but also in various areas. So I am looking for applications in Chemistry only..

26 February 2021 3,533 1 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View

Please. Could you help be in implementing Fractal Discrete Cosine Transform algorithm in Matlab?

I do need the Matlab code of Fractal Discrete Cosine Transform (FDCT). Can anyone who has already implement this code, help me with the implementation of this transform?

24 February 2021 5,602 2 View