Best protocol for immunogold using araldite resin ?

Hello, We perfom Tokuyasu method (ultrathin cryo sectionning) very often to make immunogold experiments. This time, we need to make a PLT technique with K4M or LR white resin. Our results were...

14 February 2021 4,959 1 View

How to remove a sapphire disk from LR white resin embedding ?

Hello, We tried to do CLEM experiment on sapphire disk including cryo fixation (Leica ICE) and then cryo substitution using LR white resin. Once the resin is polymerized, we can't remove the...

13 January 2021 5,223 3 View

What do you suggest me as a low-cost electronic monitoring of honeybees using 3-5mg RFID tags?

We would like to control the honeybees' ID at the entrance of a flight tunnel. We would like to detect a honeybee in a cube of 10x10x10 cm3 in front of the tunnel door while flying, and thus...

17 December 2020 3,464 2 View

What are the competencies to put forward in Higher Education to prepare students to evolve in a world where IA is ubiquituous?

What are the competencies to put forward in Higher Education to prepare students to evolve in a world where IA is ubiquituous?

15 December 2020 6,350 4 View

Is it possible to invert a PLSR model, i-e to predict X based on Y?

There are many tools to build a PLSR model to predict a response variable Y based on a multivariate predictive variable X (reflectance spectra for example). My question is the following: once we...

06 December 2020 3,096 11 View

Have you ever included two last authors in the co-authorship of a publication?

Hello, As you must know, it is now sometimes possible to have several co-first authors in the co-authorship of a scientific publication, when two persons led the paper and had equal contribution...

21 September 2020 2,995 5 View

How does one find constants of the motion for a chaotic flow?

I'm reviewing a lot of papers where the authors take a 3-D autonomous chaotic system (think Lorenz) and add a fourth variable bidirectionally coupled to the other three and then report its unusual...

04 May 2020 3,785 33 View

Device abstraction for navigation in VR ?

Hello everyone The UMI3D Consortium's working group dedicated to embodiment is currently looking for a device agnostic way to manage navigation in Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE). Are you...

08 April 2020 4,951 3 View

Redundancy analysis (RDA) order variables change result, why?

Hi everyone. I am in the process of making RDAs between faunistic and environmental tables. What I don't understand is that depending on the order in which I place my environmental variables...

29 March 2020 2,179 5 View

How to prepare fish (whole) in order to send it for analysis?

Hi, I have to collect fish, blend it, dry it and send it to a laboratory in order to have analysis of the fish composition. I need a whole fish, and I was wondering if there is a method to...

25 June 2019 1,884 2 View

Necessary tube lenght to cool Natural gas in a dry-ice cooling bath?

I have a tank which contains natural gas at 250 Bar and 293 Kelvin. I want to cool the gas in a dry-ice cooling bath to about 195 Kelvin. The gas will flow in a copper-tube through the bath with a...

27 February 2021 8,128 1 View

Is there a way to grow biofilm in lab to mimic biofilms in showers and baths? Also, how can I measure it?

Hello, I am new to biofilm research and have a question about growing and measuring biofilms. We want to research the effect of a type of enzymes in breaking down biofilms in showers, baths, hot...

14 February 2021 3,522 3 View

Any probe or assay for the detection of Cysteine in yeast invivo ?

Dear fellow researchers, I would like to detect the cysteine levels for yeast in vivo. I would really appreciate if anyone could suggest me any fluorescent probe or assay kit available. Currently...

11 February 2021 3,292 3 View

Which fungicide are good for primary cells? Does it yeast contamination? How to get rid of them without killing the cells? How to get rid of spores?

Hello! Our lab is working with primary cells which we are isolating from the colorectal tissue. During the isolation, we are washing the tissue with pen-strep and then also add some pen-strep in...

07 February 2021 8,258 3 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

Are there any technical and safety tips or details for hot salt baths?

29 January 2021 6,036 2 View

What should be the current and voltage for nickel coating of around 15 micron for steel specimen and also the bath composition?

I need the complete setup information.

21 January 2021 6,455 4 View

Is MOPS buffer needed for in vitro horizontal gene transfer in thr coculture of two different pathogenic bacterial species?

Actually i am working on possibilities of horizontal gene transfer of resistant gene in broth coculture of two different types of bacteria, and the protocol i follow involves the use of MOPS...

19 January 2021 4,566 2 View

How to dissolve ferrostatin-1?

17 January 2021 1,906 4 View

Are most sol-gel adhesion issues because of surface impurities?

We are trying to get a sol-gel film coating on diecast aluminum/silica (87%/13%) parts, and it is flaking off quite rapidly. This same flaking isn't happening with prototype milled aluminum...

13 January 2021 1,110 4 View