Which variables can be used to increase/decrease the grain size of czochralski-grown polycrystalline silicon?

Which variables (such as pull speed, melt temperature, annealing temperature/duration, cooling rate, etc.) affect the grain size of czochralski-grown polycrystalline silicon? In what direction...

10 January 2021 2,204 6 View

Can somebody recommend me a decent textbook to learn more about signaling pathways and their mechanistic principles in general?

I studied biochemistry and molecular biology in my bachelors and Immunology in my masters. I never came across a suitable course for general signaling pathways and principles. My interest is...

13 December 2020 5,690 5 View

Do you have any application suggestion for automated data collection for surveys?

I'm planning to do survey for about more than 700 people online. Is there has any software you can suggest to collect the data? Thanks

05 October 2020 8,079 7 View

Where can I obtain Streptomyces lividans strains for enzyme production?

I am having trouble figuring out where to obtain Streptomyces lividans strains that are commonly used for enzyme production. Specifically I am searching for the following strains: S. lividans...

25 May 2020 6,205 3 View

How can I modify a request?

I was trying to request a book, but by mistake, I sent request before finishing my message asking for it so now it makes no sense and I don't know how to edit it or send a new one again. Can you...

22 April 2020 2,250 3 View

What devices are available for percutaneous pH monitoring?

I'm interested in percutaneously measuring local changes in tissue pH in vivo with and without a therapy. What devices are available for percutaneous pH monitoring in large animals?

20 March 2020 2,731 3 View

How to genotype between wild-type and heterozygous mutant zebrafish with only 1 bp difference?

22 January 2020 7,703 4 View

What is the best way to approach building a custom polypeptide?

I am trying to build a custom poly peptide that is ~50 amino acids in length, and it will ideally have a charge of ~+4 at pH 7. I can get the positively charged attributes from incorporating a...

08 December 2019 3,597 1 View

Whole Blood Over Recovering Compared to Blood Plasma?

My Immunoassay is giving higher analyte concentrations for the same sample before plasma separation vs after plasma separation. For instance, I run my assay with whole blood, and I get a reading,...

10 July 2019 7,391 3 View

How can I perform a meta-analysis of incidence rates (X events per 100,000 person years) with 95% CI without a comparison group?

I'm performing a meta-analysis, attempting to produce a summary statistic for incidence rate of events of sudden death per 100,000 person years with 95% CI, and eventual subgroup analysis. I am...

11 June 2019 5,867 5 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 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

Did anyone ever try using pLVX-TetOne Plasmid with a copGFP as a selection marker instead of Puromycin?

When using a lentiviral vector for inducible expression of genes using the Tet-On system. In the literature, I saw a widely used of pLVX-TetOne-Puro Plasmid, is there a reason why people prefer to...

25 February 2021 1,011 3 View

Will a 10xHis-tag prevent anti-MBP from binding to MBP?

I have a protein with a 10xHis-MBP tag on the N-terminus. I'm fairly certain I am expressing my protein, but I'm not getting a signal on my western blot. Is there a possibility that the 10xHis tag...

25 February 2021 8,404 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

Could you please suggests a tutorial or paper or any other materials to learn multiple gene expression in TCGA and GTEx databases?

I would like to analyze multiple gene expressions in normal and cancer tissue by using the data in the TCGA and GTEx databases. Please suggest a tutorial or paper showing step by step analysis of...

23 February 2021 9,007 3 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

How to use protein A G beads to purify antibody?

Secretory universal influenza antibody CR9114 were successfully expressed by adenovirus vector ,then we used protein A G beads purify CR9114.But the molecular weight of the purified antibody under...

22 February 2021 4,318 2 View

Which CpGs have a significant effect on gene expression?

It is known that methylated CpG around TSS decreases gene expression. However, It is difficult to know exactly which CpG has a greater impact on gene expression. Are there any databases known...

20 February 2021 5,634 3 View

I can detect my protein but the encoding DNA sequence has stop codons within. Should I ignore the stop codons?

I constructed a synthetic DNA library (scFv, VH-VL orientation) with a 3' reporter and 8x histag. I cloned and expressed this gene following which I performed an ELISA. The ELISA results suggested...

19 February 2021 7,006 5 View