How to find the mean, SD and CI in SPSS?

Hi, I hope that someone can help me with this task: I have 5 groups of participants which are numbered in SPSS from 1 to 5 (according to their group number) and are all under the variable group....

03 March 2021 506 3 View

Can cells be reused after using WST 8/ CCK 8 from Sigma Aldrich?

Hi all, Can cells be reused after I have seed them onto 96 well plates and test them with cell counting kit at OD450 (CCK8) at 12 hours, wash them with PBS x3 and add new media and let them...

24 February 2021 5,072 1 View

How do I change a preprint to published?

I want to know how to change the status of an article.

21 February 2021 1,536 2 View

What buffer to use for biotinylation as alternative to PBS?

I'm looking to biotinylate a protein that precipitates in PBS. The recommended reconstitution buffer for the protein is urea/Tris buffer, pH 7,5 (7 M urea, 5 mM EDTA, 15 mM mercaptoethanol, 20 mM...

04 January 2021 7,681 5 View

Absolute Quantification: Serial dilution resulted in same CT values?

Hello, we are currently working on absolute quantification with SYBR Green qPCR. We excised from a plasmid containing the cDNA, a fragment, which will be amplified by the primers we used in our...

10 November 2020 769 4 View

What would cause Cell Titre Glo assay wells to luminesce less than the media only wells?

Hi all, I'm doing a bunch of Cell Titre Glo assays to assess the effects of several inhibitors on 2 cell lines. Problem is, for some of the wells they seem to be luminescing less than the...

30 October 2020 1,513 2 View

Can you recommend a reliable AMH ELISA for rat serum/plasma?

I am looking for a reliable and sensitive AMH ELISA for use with rat serum (and potentially plasma). Recommendations are welcomed! Thank you in advance.

08 July 2020 3,207 2 View

To what extend do you agree with this proposition on sustainable procurement??

" Picture a world where every product and appliance is environmentally friendly, where every supermarket item is fair trade, where corruption is an urban myth and poverty a long-distant memory....

19 May 2020 1,933 3 View

How Do You Incubate Microfluidic Chips with Cells?

Hello, I am interested in this research field. I have the prototype of my microfluidic chips, but I am having a hard time finding literature that says exactly how they incubate their chips (with...

21 April 2020 3,277 5 View

Meta-analysis on prognostic studies: How to reach an optimal cut-off value?

I'm doing a meta-analysis on prognostic studies. The studies I have included present the following values: AUC, 95% CI, a cut-off value and associated sensitivity and specificity. Also, is it...

01 March 2020 10,001 2 View

Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

NFL theorem is valid for algorithms training in fixed training set. However, the general characteristic of algorithms in expanded or open dataset has not been proved yet. Could you show your...

01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

Hi, I have a problem with my mouse Adipose MSC primary culture?

I am working on mouse adipose mesanchymal stem cells. After removing the mouse peritoneal fat and extracting, I do the primary culture, I used DMEM F12 medium with 15% FBS, but with this, the...

13 February 2021 9,838 1 View

3T3-L1 cells, is this a bacterial contamination or a cross contamination with different cell line? or something else?

Hi, I am experiencing some difficulties with 3T3-L1 cells culturing recently. I am working with 3T3-L1 cells for almost 4 years now and have seen bacterial contaminations/ unhealthy cells and...

13 February 2021 4,040 3 View

What is the best way to minimize/prevent the effects of rigor mortis in excised mouse muscle?

I'm planning to excise mouse muscle to use for ex vivo mechanical testing. What is the best way to prevent the stiffening effects of rigor mortis from confounding results if I cannot isolate the...

30 January 2021 1,641 2 View

How to extract RNA from brown adipose tissue(BAT)?

30 January 2021 6,610 3 View

When is it optimal to choose an OFAT (One factor at a time) design over DOE (design of experiment)?

As a current undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology who is still learning DOE (Design of experiment) on my own, I have heard and read that an OFAT design is considered the most inefficient...

29 January 2021 8,256 3 View

Can you polarize Jurkat cells into different T helper subsets?

I am wondering if anyone has had success with in vitro polarization (via cytokines) of Jurkat cells. My goal is to understand the affect of a drug on Treg induction and differentiation. I...

12 January 2021 3,606 2 View

How to approach quantification of cytoplasmic immunofluorescent signal in adipocytes?

Any ideas on how to quantify a non-nuclear immunofluorescent signal in adipocytes? I had the idea to do a watershed on inverted image to "locate" the center of the empty space where lipid droplets...

05 January 2021 5,420 1 View

Neural stem cell clumping during cell expansion? differentiation?

Hello, I am currently working towards neuronal differentiation through the use of rNSCs. I keep running into the same problem, cell clumping. The controls (complete media) clump further than the...

04 January 2021 7,756 5 View

Are these IPScs Differentiated ?

Hi everyone, So these are images of IPSCs 2 days post passaging/splitting. I noticed that the overall morphology of colonies are not compact or round and without distinct border. However, at...

28 December 2020 3,503 3 View