Does anyone have a recommendation for yeast reporter gene plasmid/protocol?

Hi, could anyone recommend a plasmid and/or protocol for reporter gene assay in S. cerevisiae? I want to assess the effect of growth conditions on a transcription factor, so I want to clone it`s...

01 March 2021 210 1 View

Plant research: Watering uniformity/consistency. How important is it?

Trying to gather insight from an unresolved discussion with a colleague here, and either the available literature surrounding this topic and/or my keywords in search of are lacking. Context:...

21 February 2021 6,389 3 View

How to get rough estimation of the concentrations of Oxygen and moisture inside the glove box?

Dear colleagues, I was just wondering if you can suggest a good method to get a rough estimation to the concentration of O2 and H2O inside the glove box as unfortunately, our glove box doesn't...

17 February 2021 1,012 3 View

Onset of Photo Oxidation in Polymers?

Hi! I am looking for some specific information in regards to the minimum amount of UV intensity required to begin the photo degradation process in polymers. I understand each polymer is...

15 February 2021 7,703 4 View

Are you looking for a quality online conference on teaching and learning technology?

This large international conference will be held online this year due to COVID. I am submitting a paper to the Technology Enhanced Language Learning track (8). It is about a topic I have never...

15 February 2021 1,975 15 View

How do you calculate a discrimination index for polytomous data?

Hello, I'm currently running a PCA on a polytomous data set (5 point Likert). I want to create a discrimination index to narrow down my items before running the PCA. After looking around, I'm...

13 February 2021 3,517 2 View

Regarding immunology, transmissivity, herd immunity and vaccines in Sars CoV-2?

This is a follow-up on an earlier question regarding mechanistics of vaccines: why current vaccines don't block transmission. In summary, they don't engage mucosal immune cells to produce IgA....

08 February 2021 8,321 3 View

Which tropical country is the most easy for obtaining research permit (for biological research)?

Dear all, High beurocracy hihly complicate field ecolocial and evolutionary research nowadays. Nearly all tropical countries (maybe all?) requires research permit for performitng research and in...

04 February 2021 3,672 6 View

Can I polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

I want to perform the synthesis of a hydrogel and I want to know if I can polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

02 February 2021 2,106 6 View

What is the maximum storage time for samples used in soil enzyme assays?

01 February 2021 4,616 3 View

Why do my MCFs not form monolayer?

Hello, I am looking for some expertise on culturing MCF7s. I purchased them from ATCC and I have been following all media and culture conditions. Media is EMEM with 10% FBS and 10ug/mL of...

27 February 2021 3,904 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

Can anyone suggest a way to dissolve insulin which is for rat/mouse injection?

We are trying to inject insulin to rat or mouse, but the insulin we've got is powder, and there are many ways for dissolve, like in saline, PBS, DMSO, or in Tris-HCl, can anyone give us a...

13 February 2021 8,426 10 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

Bradford assay for insulin: discrepancies between standard curve and sample concentration during crystallisation?

Hi there, I would like to determine the unknown concentration of human insulin in my sample during crystallisation (the concentration range is roughly 0.5 -2 mg/ml, whereas the initial...

06 February 2021 9,370 7 View

Is there a protocol for the insulin encapsulation at physiological pH?

Hello everyone, I am going to start my master thesis on the encapsulation of insulin. In almost all protocols we found an acidic pH is necessary. Unfortunately, pH

27 January 2021 3,692 5 View

About protocols used for glucose uptake in HepG2 cells?

Hello everyone. I am curently working on a protocol to measure glucose uptake in HepG2 cells using 2-NDBG. The work involves the pre-treatment of cells with an active material and observe if it...

25 January 2021 7,608 3 View

Why fouled membrane has more negative zeta potential and lower IP?

I modified PES membranes with nanoparticles (nanosilver, graphene, halloysite). They were used in UF for WWTP effluent treatment. After filtration, all membranes exhibited more negative zeta...

26 December 2020 5,676 3 View

Is it possible to calculate the sample size of a clinical trial with the Cohen formula when there is no similar article?

We are trying to design a clinical trial on type 2 diabetes patients. The main data that we want to assess include FBS, 2hpp, HbA1c, insulin, and HOMA-IR. Also, we will assess the lipid profile...

21 December 2020 2,454 3 View

Could anyone help with a 2-NBDG experiment on C2C12 cells?

I have been working with the C2C12 myotubes and measured their glucose uptake activity using an indirect glucose uptake assay (measuring how much glucose is left in the medium after stimulating...

23 November 2020 2,118 3 View