How to polish the samples which are very prone to oxidation for metallography?

I am trying to polish the rare earth based sample for SEM analysis. But the sample is getting oxidized immediately . Can anyone suggest a way to polish these kind of samples?

27 January 2021 4,699 2 View

How do we solve optimization problems involving a maxima or minima in the objective function ?

I am trying to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pyomo library in Python. The objective function includes operational optimization of an electrolyzer for hydrogen production...

11 January 2021 8,018 3 View

I need help to find the best method and tool for co-registration of DEMs to know the elevation change for landslides and flood?

To calculate the DEM of Difference between two DEMs of different time scales e.g. DEM1 of 2000 AD and DEM2 of 2019 AD, the two DEMS must be co-registered with each other. I am not working on the...

08 December 2020 9,778 1 View

Any researchers working on Mucuna pruriens with respect to tissue culture?

15 November 2020 8,675 1 View

How can I confirm that a gene is downregulated in cancer cells through PCR?

A particular gene (gene A) is reported to be downregulated in cancer cells as compared to the normal cells. How can you prove this with the help of PCR?

27 September 2020 5,292 4 View

Why my absorbance values are in negative for antioxidant assay by dpph method ?

plant extract stock is 10 mg/mL from which I pipetted 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200 uL and made up to 3 mL using methanol then i added 1 ml of 0.004% dpph solution (dissolved in methanol) incubated in...

02 September 2020 1,218 2 View

Is 5ug/ml puomycin works for Huh7 cell lines?

I am trying to make KO in Huh7 cell line but after transduction even at 5ug/ml concentration Huh7-Ctrl cell haven't died. Could someone please recommend me the working concentration of Puromycin...

17 August 2020 5,427 2 View

How can I find the relation of cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment?

in Gastric cancer both cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment prevents the action of therapeutics and drugs. a. How can I find a co-relation between them? b. How can i evaluate their role...

06 May 2020 6,428 7 View

What should be the best Performance Metrics for SVR Model ?

I am getting the following results for my SVR Model using Python's Sci-kit library : SVR RESULTS - C AND GAMMA PARAMETERS OPTIMIZED BY GRID SEARCH RMSE = 0.17050234208788798 MSE =...

08 February 2020 6,017 2 View

Salicylic acid is poorly soluble in water, I dissolved in 65% ethanol but it is forming precipitation on storage. What to do? Which solvent is best?

It dissolved in 60-65% ethanol but after few hours if storage at 4 degree Celsius it is forming precipitation

19 January 2020 5,092 9 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

What solvent can I used for Paal Knorr reaction between 6-amino hexanoic acid and 2.5 hexanedione?

I am try to make the Paal Knorr reaction between 2.5 hexnedione and 6-amino hexanoic acid, my problem is type of solvent to use, because 6-hexaminohexanoic acid is soluble in water but I am not...

02 March 2021 4,443 2 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 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

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 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

How to remove DCU and HOBT from my reaction?

I am doing a acid and a chiral amino alcohol reaction using DCC and HOBT in DCM or THF? Can anyone suggest me how to remove DCU and HOBT from a reaction mixture??

28 February 2021 2,153 1 View