Questio regarding micro/nano particles fabrication ?

I will start to fabricate micro/nanoparticles for growth factor release and I check out a procedure quite nice, however, it is lacking some details and since I don't have much knowledge doing this...

20 February 2021 199 2 View

How do you prepare a standard dilution for qPCR?

I am very new to quantitative PCR and need some help for this technique. For my experiment, I need to perform a quantitative reverse transcription PCR. I extract the RNA from my pellet and...

05 February 2021 9,834 4 View

Can I modify vermiculite or perlite by adding nutrients to control a certain situation?

I need to assimilate a determining condition for the plant. However, I need to ask you if it is possible to change the properties and concentration of plant nutrients in this material like perlite...

04 February 2021 8,616 11 View

Western blot with very acidic proteins, any suggestions?

I am trying to do a Western Blot to detect acidic proteins (~30kDa) that have a PI of ~3.5, due to the presence of Asp and Glu repeats. The proteins are about 80% pure. After I ran them on...

24 January 2021 7,226 3 View

What is the half-life of TNF-alpha in vitro?

I'm designing a low-grade chronic treatment with this cytokine and I'm wondering how regularly to change the culture medium based on the half-life of the protein in an in vitro environment....

24 January 2021 5,988 2 View

Which sampling techniques can be used for huge flying insects?

Tropidacris collaris is a grasshopper. Adults, which can reach more than 15 of length, are strong flyers and actually they resemble small birds or bats. Most of the time T. collaris is found in...

13 January 2021 3,735 5 View

How to simulate the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) phenomena in COMSOL? What is the best way to learn how to use COMSOL?

I would like to simulate the Lorentz Force resulting from the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) phenomenon in an ionic solution.

19 December 2020 8,278 9 View

Problems with allele speration by cloning in pKS plasmid?

I am trying to do the allelic separation of a ~8 kb region using cloning strategy with pKS plasmid. However, when I analyze the result of the colony PCR sequencing It seems that both alleles were...

14 December 2020 5,829 2 View

Does freezing treated cell pellet at -80C damages them?

Hello, I hope you are all doing well. I have a question regarding my treated cells group. I plan to do western blot and qRT-PCR for my treated cells. However, to save time, I would like to...

06 December 2020 1,390 5 View

At what concentration does hydrogen peroxide inhibit enzyme activity?

I am trying to measure GUS expression, and was wondering if anyone knew what concentration hydrogen peroxide inhibits the GUS protein??? Thanks ! Any help is appreciated!

23 November 2020 4,101 3 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

What test should i use in comparing the correlation between categorical and continuous variables?

Dear all, I have the variable (Surgery duration) represented by values in minutes and the variable (preoperative neuropraxia cases) represented as (Yes/No) values. I want to compare these two...

03 March 2021 5,427 5 View

Logistical regression using SPSS for a dichotomous dependent variable, with an independent variable of 1, 2, 5 and 10 seconds?

I have an experiment with 28 participants The independent variable is the times 1, 2, 5, and 10 used as the cross hairs during a task These 4 times were tested using 4 different blocks, each...

03 March 2021 9,692 2 View

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

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

I'm dealing with a mediation model and am using the PROCESS module in SPSS. Due to SPSS and PROCESS being limited in the imputation methods - being unable to handle multiple imputation - the other...

02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

Do I need to do linear regression before running mediation analysis using PROCESS MACRO by Hayes ?

I just wanted to check if I need to run a linear regression separately if I am using PROCESS MACRO to run mediation analysis. Thank you.

02 March 2021 4,359 3 View

How to code open-ended questions in SPSS?

Hello all, In SPSS I am going to code 2 open-ended questions. I have already read all the answers and I made a list of the most important categories to which I can code the answers. This question...

02 March 2021 1,757 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

What analysis to choose with a large neste dataset and clearly skewed or kurtotic distributions?

Hello! I have a dataset of n=3000 nested within 8 countries with approximately 200 or 400 responses in each country. I originally planned to perform multilevel modelling with 4 dependent variables...

02 March 2021 6,865 1 View

The procedure compute?

02 March 2021 5,204 3 View