What to do with absence of fluorescence label in Fucci2a mouse-derived fibroblast culture?

Dear all, I have harvested fibroblast cells from R26p-Fucci2 mouse embryos (mouse line as described in this paper: https://dev.biologists.org/content/140/1/237) and cultured them on plastic,...

17 February 2021 3,368 2 View

Differences between sheep blood with Alsever solution vs citrated/defibrinated sheep blood in microbiological media?

I am aware of a study that has compared the use of citrated and defibrinated sheep's blood in microbiological media (Hair Sheep Blood, Citrated or Defibrinated, Fulfills All Req... ), but can...

10 February 2021 5,927 1 View

(Scale request) Anyone has the Malay version of Eating Attitude Test-26/40 (EAT-26/40)?

Dear Researchers, My research team is conducting a eating disorder related research in Malaysia and we would like to use the Malay translated version of EAT26/40. I have tried to email the...

24 January 2021 8,925 2 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

There are prominent crystal formation in my cell culture dish, what are the possible causes and how to get rid of them?

17 December 2020 3,093 4 View

Can I get exosomes from cryopreserved whole blood supplemented with concentration of DMSO (10%)?

I read many papers about exosome isolation from fresh blood or frozen plasma, but not for frozen whole blood. I am wondering whether can I get exosomes from cryopreserved whole blood? One of my...

26 October 2020 5,166 3 View

What corporate social responsibilities do social media companies have in relation to the use of psychographic profiling in advertising ?

What are the responsibilities of CSR ? What social media companies have done to protect the privacy or information of their users ?

12 October 2020 433 5 View

Is there any possibalities of PDMS coating on Biochar Powder?

Hello, I'm doing a research regarding gas adsorption on hydrophoobic biochar. Is there any way to coat PDMS on the biochar powder?

05 October 2020 5,610 1 View

May I know is Triple Negative cell line MDA-MB-468 is auto fluorescence ?

I am doing immunofluorescence using MDA-MB-468 cell to determine ICAM-1 and E-cadherin with Santa Cruz Biotechnology ICAM-1 (G-5) mouse anti-human (Primary antibody), Santa Cruz Biotechnology...

27 August 2020 1,641 4 View

Can anti-Fas (anti-CD95) be used to prepare apoptotic cancer cell as antigens for DC to present antigen?

Researchers usually used irradiation (such as x-ray) to induce cancer cell apoptosis to prepare available antigens for DC to uptake that present the antigen to T cells. Can other apoptotic methods...

26 August 2020 5,445 4 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 to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 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

How to perform Kaplan-meier survival analysis in SPSS?

Hi everyone, This is my first time of attempting to run survival analysis. I have a data on patients with End-stage Kidney Diseases (ESKD). I would want to run survival probability by treatment...

16 February 2021 2,647 3 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

Are there any technical and safety tips or details for hot salt baths?

29 January 2021 6,036 2 View

How can you attach polyurethane devices on glass slides?

I am making microfluidic devices made of polyurethane. The problem I am facing is that I am unable to attach these devices to glass slide even after plasma treatment (air plasma). Some of the...

28 January 2021 5,194 2 View

Why does COD increase over time when external carbon sources are added in the denitrification process in waste water?

Why does COD increase over time when external carbon sources are added in the denitrification process in waste water? After 1 hour, the concentration increased from 30mg/l to 40mg/l after 20...

17 January 2021 374 9 View

Seperate of organic and inorganic phosphorus in waste water?

Is it possible to separate organic and inorganic phosphorus in wastewater with a filter?

14 January 2021 952 3 View

Why wont my microbial fuel cell generate any current?

I have constructed a 2 chamber MFC for my senior research assignment and it has yet to produce any voltage. I used nafion as a PEM membrane and used graphite brushes as the electrodes. I have the...

11 January 2021 5,553 4 View