How do I troubleshoot this solubility problem of PLGA nanoparticle loaded with protein and prepared by Double emulsion method?

05 June 2015 9,706 5 View

How do you determine the number of carboxyl groups in a Graphene oxide?

I wish to know the amount of carboxyl groups in graphene oxide for a conjugation experiment. Is there any technique like acid base titration? If so can anyone provide a protocol for that?

09 October 2014 698 3 View

How can I calculate the degree of thiolation of a material containing free thiol group using Ellman's test?

I have prepare thiolated PEI and I want to know the degree of thiolation. So I did the ellman's test with cysteine as the standard. Now how to calculate the degree of thiolation from this...

05 June 2014 1,423 1 View

Is a copper II acetate test meant for checking the primary and secondary amine groups in a polymer?

Ninhydrin is used for testing the primary, secondary, and tertiary amines of synthetic cationic polymer or protein. Is the copper II acetate test only meant for primary and secondary amines in the...

04 May 2014 3,452 1 View

How can I calculate the DNA bp: dye ratio?

I have YOYO-1 dye and I want to add dye at 5:1 ratio. And I am using a plasmid of length 5411 bp. Please tell me how to calculate this ratio to get a volume of dye to be added to DNA of 1 microgram.

01 February 2014 1,444 2 View

Is there a way to separate free dye from fluorescently Labelled DNA?

I need to conduct a FRET analysis with labelled plasmid DNA and I am using YOYO-1 dye. I need to remove the free dye from the solution and get only the labelled DNA. Is there any technique with...

31 December 2013 8,505 1 View

Can 2% SDS be used as a reaction buffer for Ellman's test?

For a Free Thiol assay, I wanted to used DTNB and a reaction buffer. But since some materials for making reaction buffer is not available. I wanted to use SDS as reaction buffer.

31 December 2013 3,900 1 View

RNA gel electrophoresis - denaturing or non-denaturing??

If I want to just look at the RNA integrity (of RNA stored in -80 for more than a year), should I go for denaturing or non-denaturing electrophoresis? I've seen most people use formaldehyde gels...

02 March 2013 6,224 16 View

Standard curve for relative real time PCR

I have a control cell sample and drug treated cell sample in my experiment. I want to know which sample to be taken for creating a standard curve in relative real time PCR? Should I use the...

02 March 2013 3,916 0 View

How to analyse agilent microarray data using MATLAB?

Using the 2012b version of MATLAB, I wish to know how to import the data and analyse the data for normalization, fold change analyses and background correction.

11 December 2012 9,519 1 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View