Can random sampling have inclusion criteria?

As random sampling means that everyone in the population have an equal chance to be chosen, can it have inclusion criteria? My research participants have been chosen based on the inclusion...

26 February 2021 6,905 10 View

Hye All, Greetings, How can i get surface run off water data?

this is for my thesis project, so this is the title of my thesis, the effect of land use on hydrological components in Muar, Johor, Malaysia any ideas, guidance, and suggestions all? Thank You, :)

02 February 2021 265 5 View

What is the difference of FTIR for functional properties and structural properties of protein?

I need to send my sample to outsource laboratory and how can i tell them that i want to run the FTIR for structural properties of protein? is there any differenece between FTIR for functional...

15 January 2021 8,992 1 View

What's the correct way of treating ordinal variable as continuous in regression?

08 January 2021 920 16 View

Does low pHPZC (Zero point charge) indicates higher negative charged surface ?

I found that, there is a difference in pHPZC value when higher impregnation ratio of acid on adsorbent surface. Lower pHPZC value when higher ratio of acid impregnation and adsorption performance...

05 January 2021 7,224 3 View

Why do I see many vacuoles on my cancer cells?

I am currently growing BICR31 cancer cells for conditioned media collection, and as I passaged it I have seen many bubbles/vacuoles - like structures. Cells were healthy during the first split...

05 January 2021 2,320 5 View

Why does activation process called as activation? what does the term means actually?

I'm referring to activated carbon activation. Activation process does increase the surface area and functional groups content in activated carbon compared to biochar and raw biomass. But I'm...

30 December 2020 6,514 1 View

What is the good water absorption value for construction materials (brick, mortar etc.)?

According to many construction standards such as ASTM, a good construction material should have a water absorption value within 20%. However, if we compare with many water absorption values (from...

26 November 2020 8,538 8 View

What sample extraction/ preparation needed prior HPLC test?

I want to screen the presence of plastic additives in a few water samples using HPLC-UV. I am very new to HPLC, and after doing a reading on the sample preparation for HPLC, I found there are a...

19 November 2020 2,724 4 View

Questions about wire in gel electrophoresis machine?

I'm running gel for electrophoresis process. At first, there are bubble after I switch on the machine. Then, I let it for about 1 hour. When I check it after that, there are no bubbles and the...

02 November 2020 8,747 4 View

How vaccines of covid 19 work?

Millions ask how vaccines of covid 19 be successful and safe, its here to explain generally how vaccine of pfizer work ,mRNA vaccines teach our cells how to make a protein that will trigger an...

28 February 2021 2,723 4 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

Errors in DNA sequences?

I am trying to better understand the scope of DNA replication and sequencing errors, e.g. 1. I have seen similar error rates of 10e4 to 10e5 for cell & instrumental DNA replication,...

24 February 2021 4,397 3 View

Best plasmid could be used as a standard curve for AAV titration?

I have been trying to have a good AAV titration for my production and I have tried different plasmids to set up as a standard curve but each one behaves differently. i am trying to use ITR for...

23 February 2021 5,167 3 View

How to control the variants vof covid 19 in second and third waves?

A the world find means to control covid 19 by vaccination ,new variants came to spread and make the world in fear and danger, to understand the conduct of these variants, es constantly change...

21 February 2021 3,080 6 View

Surprisingly low antibody titers against SASRS-COV-2 RBD in hamsters compared to mice?

21 February 2021 6,958 2 View

Will SARS-CoV-2 Spike be broken into S1 and S2 by denaturing conditions?

Hello, I am performing a western blot of my SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentiviral particles. I denature my virus by adding concentrated virus to 2X Laemmli buffer at 1:1, then boiling for...

17 February 2021 4,844 4 View

How to calculate the TCID50 when the highest CPE is 50% or less?

I am doing TCID50 to measure progeny virus and some treatments protected the cells in a way that the highest CPE observed is 50% or less. How should I do the titre calculation in that case? Thank you!

16 February 2021 8,768 1 View

How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to make a standard curve in ELISA after serial dilution?

Hello, I am trying to know tomato virus titer/concentration in samples and I will perform serial dilution of the positive control. I wanted to ask How to estimate/know plant virus concentration to...

13 February 2021 6,534 4 View

What are the possible effects of COVID -19 Vaccine/s on the persons already recovered from the disease?

Persons recovered from COVID -19 are having antibodies against the virus inside their bodies. They are having T cells already sensitized to the antigens of the virus. If they are vaccinated (may...

12 February 2021 4,106 22 View