How long do vaccines protect us against COVID 19?

Or will we have to get vaccinated every year, as in the case of influenza?

27 February 2021 1,048 5 View

What is better to buy a real-time pcr machine or an endpoint?

Hello everyone, we are acquiring a new molecular biology laboratory with the fundamental objective of identifying species of microalgae and cyanobacteria. Perhaps you could help us decide if it is...

24 January 2021 8,320 4 View

Can you trust vaccines that were made in a year, will help fight Sars-Cov2?

That vaccines have been produced in such a short time, makes me doubt if they will help fight this pandemic and if they will not do us more harm.

06 January 2021 3,469 19 View

Which are the specific cells instructed to constructing the "spikes" after a shot of a mRNA vaccine?

Hello, I am not a biology researcher, but I am working in intradisciplinary research and would like to know the answer to this question, which I have not being able to understand. This questions...

06 January 2021 3,845 4 View

Thawing or defrosting methods for frozen soil samples?

I have soil samples that have been frozen for a while and I need to re-acclimate them for a series of analyses that require incubation at 25C. I have been looking for laboratory methods but seem...

04 January 2021 4,862 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

Are there differences between performance of two identical Simple Wes machines?

03 December 2020 8,975 4 View

How do I produce a carbon composite consisting of 2 metals?

I have a question in regards to the formation of a carbon composite for wastewater application. I came across some articles that suggest doing co-precipitaition, however those articles requires...

20 September 2020 9,793 5 View

Which primer pair is better for amplifying endophytic fungal communities in roots of trees while avoiding host amplification?

Which primer pair is better for amplifying endophytic fungal communities (metabarcoding with Illumina sequencing) in roots of trees while avoiding host amplification? I would greatly appreciate a...

03 September 2020 728 3 View

How do I fix my fraction collector, Frac-920 and AktaPurifier?

Hello all, I frequently use the Akta purifier for protein purification and recently have been getting error messages in unicorn saying "error 2012 no response frac, 900". The frac 920 is designed...

02 September 2020 2,757 1 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

Why do the air flow results vary totally when adding scalar in CFD ?

Dear All, We are using Autodesk cfd to calculate the air flow in a single sided naturally ventilated room, where air flow depends only on buoyancy due to temperature difference between inside and...

25 February 2021 9,602 4 View

Is there a suitable way to confine cell attachment area inside a multi-well plate?

Are there any types of cylindrical cell culture inserts that are designed to confine cell seeding area? Say, if I'm using a 12 well plate (3.5 cm^2/well), but only want to seed cells in the middle...

22 February 2021 7,127 4 View

Hi..how to isolate crude HDL (all subfractions) from human serum by size exclusion chromatography?

I would like to know about isolation of crude HDL from serum by SEC. Is it possible to perform with a serum sample volume of

19 February 2021 5,576 2 View

How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor using DFT ?

Dear friends, I am a beginner at DFT calculation. I have done a structure optimization using DFT- B3LYP/6-31G*, Nevertheless, I don't know How to calculate the Atomic Polar Tensor (APT) in...

17 February 2021 9,082 3 View

Measurement of water retention in organic substrates without a pressure plate?

Hello, I'm trying to measure the physical and hydrological properties of organic substrate media. Currently, I'm referring The book Soil sampling and Methods of Analysis by Carter and Gregorich....

09 February 2021 3,233 8 View

Any model suggestion for the Electronic Health Records dataset ?

I have sequentially measured the time-series Electronic Health Record patient dataset. This is 7 years of research and each patient's blood pressure, Hba1c, LDL, Hb, Baseline Age,...were measured...

09 February 2021 4,933 8 View

Does Gaussian 09W software take too long to give a result if we have a large chemical structure ?

DFT - gaussviev - gaussian09W - HOMO - LUMO

08 February 2021 6,012 5 View

Electron density difference maps(Fo-Fc): what is the meaning of negative densities (red blobs)?

Dear community, As far as I understand, negative density features point at stuff that is in the model, but not supported by experimental data. However, in many cases (e.g. attached image), when...

06 February 2021 2,847 2 View

How to calculate electrical conductivity and charge carriers density with DOS and Transmission?

Hi everyone, I'm trying to simulate some graphene nanoribbons to determine their electron mobility. I use DFTB+ for simulation software. With this software I can plot transmission in regards of...

03 February 2021 9,315 3 View