PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Quantifying leaking DNA from bacteria - what's the secret?

Hi, all! I need to determine if my treatment causes membrane damage in bacteria (S. aureus and E. cloacae), but I cannot use a fluorescent probe such as PI and similar ones because my compound is...

24 February 2021 2,006 2 View

How T cells recognise non-peptide antigens?

This might sound very basic question, but please share with me an explanation of how the T cell is activated when the antigen is not a peptide? What happens? And what are the molecules involved in...

21 February 2021 564 3 View

Please let me know how to remove mycoplasma contamination from cell line?

I am facing a problem in maintaining the cell line of HepG2 and HepG2.2.15. I have used plasmocin Tm treatment (Invivo gen) Cat.#ant-mpt Lot #MPT-41-01 for more than a month. I have also used...

21 February 2021 6,046 4 View

How long does it take to design and validate transition state analogue inhibitors?

Hi, I'm asking from the point of view of designing a research plan: How long (approximately) can it take to determine the transition state structure of an enzyme substrate using kinetic isotope...

14 February 2021 2,610 1 View

Western blot protein of interest falling at a lower weight than expected?

My protein of interest is DAGLa (115 kDa). We received the antibody for this from another researcher who reliably shows bands at this weight. We do see a light banding at this weight, but the...

11 February 2021 6,009 3 View

Which Journals would you advise to submit a Letter which briefly talks about neurosurgical treatment of neuro-oncological patient during Sars-COV-2?

Possibily not an open access journal which does not add any publishing costs once being accepted. Thank you in advance

09 February 2021 717 6 View

Hyperspectral Image : open, visualize, process in Python?

I am looking for a tutorial or course to learn how to open, visualize , process hyperspectral images in .hdr , .raw format using python. Any recommendation for a tutorial is appreciated ? Thank...

08 February 2021 7,896 3 View

Sample Size for Quasi-Experimental Quants using one-tailed t-test?

Hi, sorry I'm stumped. I'm going to do a study on the leadership styles (using the MLQ Form 5X) of minority women administrators in medical schools. How will I calculate the sample size? Thank...

30 January 2021 2,865 4 View

Can you do Ponceau staining after loading control for Western Blot?

Hello everyone! I forgot to take a picture of my Ponceau stain prior to starting my first round of primary and secondary antibodies. I'm currently doing my loading control now and was wondering...

25 January 2021 757 3 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

can I treat waste water containing solvents and alcohol with electrocoagulation?

there are solvents and alcohol in the waste water of a factory that produces disinfectants. Increasing this waste water requires very serious operations. Can I treat this waste water with...

27 February 2021 2,609 3 View

How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT?

Im looking for any papers, reports,articles, links etc on information on How vulnerable is water and wastewater infrastructure to cyber terrorism in an age of IoT.

24 February 2021 2,750 4 View

Can bio-decomposer be a successful alternative to reduce residue burning?

To maintain the proper crop plan most of the times there is not enough time to make the field ready for the next crop. In this particular context , can bio-decompser be a solution? What about...

16 February 2021 7,068 24 View

What are backpropagation formulas for residual neural networks?

14 February 2021 4,194 3 View

Charmm/GROMACS Residue 'ZN' not found in residue topology database?

I am trying to do some MD simulations of a protein with zinc ions. I am trying to use a charmm forcefield (I have tried 2017 and 2021) and Gromacs. I get an error when doing pdb2gmx Residue 'ZN'...

12 February 2021 9,367 2 View

Do the introduced salts (NaOH/ HCl) influence the spectroscopic shifts of the fluorescence excitation-emission matrix?

During the resin (XAD-8) fractionation of wastewater salts (NaOH or HaCl) are used for acid or base elutions/pH adjustments. Since the amount of introduced salt is minimal, so is it required to...

08 February 2021 9,489 2 View

Is there any difference between "SEP" as a non standard residue and phohophorylated serine?

I am trying to run a molecular dynamics simulation for a ligand that contains a "SEP" residue. also, I am preparing my files using Charmm-GUI using charmm36 ff, but it says that it will rename my...

31 January 2021 6,321 1 View

How to calculate the error terms in 2-way mixed ANOVA?

30 January 2021 4,684 4 View

Why can I not find all of my residues in model predicted by Swiss-Model?

I am trying to perform homology modeling using the swiss-model but I have found that the swiss-model gives the same number of residues as that of the template. Whereas my sequence has more...

21 January 2021 5,568 3 View