Does the cholesterol content in plasma membrane affects the efficiency of cell lysis during initial process of RNA extraction?

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Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

What low-cut filter (high Pass frequency) to be used for response spectrum (Tripartite plots) ?

What low-cut filter (high Pass frequency) to be used for the response spectrum (Tripartite plots)? I am currently working on differentiating between hard/soft site responses in Indo-Gangetic...

21 February 2021 9,273 2 View

How to characterize epitopes within a peptide sequence?

Greetings In a theoretical perspective, I want to use a human-derived peptide as a plausible antigen but the problem associated with tolerance hampers my approach. Then I thought why not denature...

20 January 2021 2,201 1 View

How can I generate a population with a fixed correlation coefficient in R?

I want to generate an artificial population using two variables (say x & y) with a fixed correlation between x & y. Which package/command in R software can help in this?

18 January 2021 2,545 9 View

Rietveld refinement of cement paste?

I am a beginner in rietveld refinement, my samples contain numerous overlapped peaks and amorphous phases. I have few doubts related to rietveld refinement of cement paste: 1. My quantifications...

11 January 2021 8,873 6 View

Difficult to silence gene?

I have been trying to silence a gene of interest but I could not get silencing efficiencies beyond 50% My method of detection is via RT-qPCR and samples were extracted 48hrs post transfection. Are...

09 January 2021 3,404 4 View

Please suggest ways to perform Discreet Element Modeling (DEM) on stabilized clayey soil; is it effective to simulate clay for DEM analysis?

I am looking for answer considering modelling in PFC

26 December 2020 5,509 1 View

What's the diff. btwn Attitudinal & Psychological factors? Most important, which comprise factors of TPB, TAM (Davis 1989), and contextual factors?

Hi there Sometimes I get confused between psychological & Attitudinal factors. My study is related to the "factors influencing consumer purchase intention towards electric vehicles". The...

24 December 2020 6,065 3 View

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Hi, I am interested to see the effect of BCG on macrophages (microglia )Therefore , I would like to know the amounts and the routes of administration which is safe in mice and how long is...

20 December 2020 7,166 2 View

What is virtual photon field , how is it helpfull to explain the Lamb shift on hydrogen atom ?

It is known that the Lamb shift is the consequence of the interaction of the electron with its virtual photon field. What is the meaning of virtual photon field? And how is it helpful to explain...

03 December 2020 535 3 View

Does the pressure(-600 mmHg) affects pH?

When I conducted the degassing experiment using decompression under anaerobic condition(and I used ferrous based chelating agent), the oxidized ferric were observerd. So, could you tell me the...

03 March 2021 4,892 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

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

Sample dilution for quantitative analysis using ELISA?

If the detection range is in ng/ml but the reference range is in ug/ml for a molecule or protein in serum or plasma .how to dilute and what is the initial volume to be taken for quantitative analysis

02 March 2021 7,670 3 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

POlymer+DMSO solution and moisture??

What could be the reason of moisture at the sides of Vial when I am preparing my polmyer+DMSO solution for membrane fabrication? What etiquettes I am possibly missing here?

28 February 2021 6,516 5 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

Which database would give me this list of chemical components?

Dear colleagues: I would like to know if anyone knows of a database that gives me the parameters pH, K, K, Mg, P, C, N, Zn, Cu, Ni and Cd of common foods. I find a lot of information of proteins,...

26 February 2021 5,525 3 View

Is there any one who can provide a donation of HPV detection and genotyping kits in exchange collaboration fors?

Warm greetings My name is Ayichew S. and I am doing my Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology (on Human papillomavirus). At this stage, I have almost completed a clinical sample Cervical swabs)...

25 February 2021 1,660 3 View