Please suggest latest published standards on museum collection storage & maintenance. Has COVID brought any significant changes in the protocol?

What is the level of compliance to these published standards in textile museums and what is the impact of this compliance on museum budget and infrastructure?

28 December 2020 757 2 View

Gaussian Optimization Resulting in Unexpected Bend in Structure?

I have been trying to optimize a structure utilizing the ONIOM method of optimization with high level ground state MP2 6-31G d,p and low level ground state 3-21 settings. However, the optimized...

08 February 2020 2,599 2 View

Shall we publish our peer-reviewed article in research outreach (https://researchoutreach.org/)?

I would like to know about the research outreach (https://researchoutreach.org/) publishing agency. For my peer-reviewed article, I am getting an offer to republish that in this. However, I can...

24 January 2019 9,027 88 View

Does anyone have any experience with Protein transfection?

I want to try doing a protein transfection experiment to target my protein of interest. there are are reagents like ProteoJuice which can be used. Does anyone have any experience or insight on the...

16 February 2017 627 3 View

Why we use different types of finger electrodes while depositing interdigitated electrodes in photodetector and why they use different dimensions?

e.g Finger electrodes made up of Ti/Al or Au/Cr(20nm/50nm) in MSM Photodetector

14 April 2016 1,526 6 View

Can relaxed circular plasmid be used for transformation? If yes, is it suitable to use such a plasmid for expression?

11 February 2015 5,831 2 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

How can we obtain a modification factor for creep parameters?

I want to obtain standard creep parameters of salt rock by creep parameters of rectangular samples. Is there a modification factor to convert creep parameters of rectangular (prismatic) rock salt...

01 March 2021 7,131 1 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 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

Anyone found any research papers on solar furnace design calculations (for solar concentration)?

I am thinking about working on solar furnace with heliostats that concentrate sunlight and heat molten salt, but currently no luck with research. Not a lot of papers based on the subject. (check...

01 March 2021 5,023 5 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View