Why use both bead beating and enzymes (lysostaphin and lysozyme) for DNA extraction from sputum samples?

Hello, I have read in a few publications that to extract total DNA from sputum samples, both bead beating and enzymes are used to disrupt the cells. Bead beating is supposed to be efficient in...

18 February 2021 3,360 2 View

What are the causes of hyphae granulation?

Greetings, The examination of the interaction zone between Fusarium oxysporum and Pseudomonas by light microscope revealed clear hyphae without septa and the presence of granulations (vesicles),...

05 February 2021 5,523 4 View

How to calculate the field capacity??

28 December 2020 1,521 2 View

How to decrease the difference between the simulation result obtained by comsol and analytical result ?

Hello, I am working on a piezoelectric energy harvester in comsol so I coupled the electrical circuit interface with the piezoelectric device multiphysics. I tried to confirm these results with...

07 December 2020 1,007 2 View

What is the index of germination and howa calculate it??

16 November 2020 4,856 8 View

Hormone levels in male mice ?

Dear Colleagues, Can anyone tell me if there are Data about hormone levels in male mice , E2 Estrogen, and Testosterone blood levels in male mice. Thank you very much.

20 September 2020 1,035 3 View

How can I fix the connvergence error!?

opt freq gaussian calculation is performed, I got normal termination , however, the structure has nottotaly converged. because I had no convergence in Maximum Displacement! how can I solve this...

06 September 2020 4,283 3 View

Determination of activated carbon surface functional groups by Boehm titration ?

i did titration to determine functional groups on the surface of activated carbon, when the titration was done on Na2HC03 and NaOH by HCl, a big volume was necessary to reach equilibrium, and...

13 July 2020 1,022 2 View

Keras code python ?

Hello, I am using a VGG16 on keras to do some image classification on a dataset, What does it mean that the validation loss is smaller all the time than the train loss?. Is 80% a reasonable...

11 July 2020 569 6 View

How to get PWM signals from Dspace?

I'm working on dSPACE 1104 with DSP-4 channel PWM generation bloc. I need to use the PWM signals in other programs but i didn't know how to get them since this bloc has no outputs on matlab...

04 March 2020 2,854 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

Is it possible that Cancer cells could survive in heparinized blood for 48 hours?

Hi everyone, I am just wondering if we incubated 200 microliter of whole blood with 50 microliter of cancer cells(1bout 5000cells) do you think that cancer would survive for 48 hours?

23 February 2021 3,840 3 View

What should be the duration of exposure to simulated space environments with Rodents?

Hi, I am currently working on a pilot study to get some data related to the impact of long duration spaceflight to the microbiome and the immune system. I plan to use rats and simulate...

22 February 2021 592 1 View

The PC12 cell line characteristics?

Hello dear scientists, Does the undifferentiated PC12 cell line in terms of chromosome characteristics, proliferation, and drug reactions have the characteristics of cancer cells? Where is it...

21 February 2021 8,945 3 View

What is the minimum number of exosomes/ml to have a good yield of total RNA for Illumina sequencing?

I am using IZON qEV2 columns to isolate exosomes from 100 ml of cancer cell conditioned medium. in NTA analysis I usually see concentration of 2x10^9 particles/ml. But when I proceed with this...

20 February 2021 6,879 3 View

How can you tell if your organotypic slice culture is healthy ?

I'm working on organotypic cerebellar slice cultures from postnatal rats and I'm not sure how to tell if the slices are healthy at any given point. I know there should be a lot of microglial...

15 February 2021 2,830 2 View