Why use both bead beating and enzymes (lysostaphin and lysozyme) for DNA extraction from sputum samples?

Hello, I have read in a few publications that to extract total DNA from sputum samples, both bead beating and enzymes are used to disrupt the cells. Bead beating is supposed to be efficient in...

18 February 2021 3,360 2 View

What are the causes of hyphae granulation?

Greetings, The examination of the interaction zone between Fusarium oxysporum and Pseudomonas by light microscope revealed clear hyphae without septa and the presence of granulations (vesicles),...

05 February 2021 5,523 4 View

How to calculate the field capacity??

28 December 2020 1,521 2 View

How to decrease the difference between the simulation result obtained by comsol and analytical result ?

Hello, I am working on a piezoelectric energy harvester in comsol so I coupled the electrical circuit interface with the piezoelectric device multiphysics. I tried to confirm these results with...

07 December 2020 1,007 2 View

What is the index of germination and howa calculate it??

16 November 2020 4,856 8 View

Hormone levels in male mice ?

Dear Colleagues, Can anyone tell me if there are Data about hormone levels in male mice , E2 Estrogen, and Testosterone blood levels in male mice. Thank you very much.

20 September 2020 1,035 3 View

How can I fix the connvergence error!?

opt freq gaussian calculation is performed, I got normal termination , however, the structure has nottotaly converged. because I had no convergence in Maximum Displacement! how can I solve this...

06 September 2020 4,283 3 View

Determination of activated carbon surface functional groups by Boehm titration ?

i did titration to determine functional groups on the surface of activated carbon, when the titration was done on Na2HC03 and NaOH by HCl, a big volume was necessary to reach equilibrium, and...

13 July 2020 1,022 2 View

Keras code python ?

Hello, I am using a VGG16 on keras to do some image classification on a dataset, What does it mean that the validation loss is smaller all the time than the train loss?. Is 80% a reasonable...

11 July 2020 569 6 View

What is the mechanism of nanomaterials to reduce or detoxification mycotoxins ?

I want to get a clear explanation that it is not adsorption or opening of the lactone ring, for example, nano-magnesium oxide, how it works when it binds or interacts with aflatoxin, what is the...

27 April 2020 2,972 4 View

Energy minimization in LAMMPS using NVT ?

How do I do energy minimization in lammps with NVT ensemble ? I am using the following command and it does not seem to work. It stops at extremely high energy and gives me the error zero search...

01 March 2021 2,294 3 View

How can I edit suggested publications?

Hi there! I regularly receive suggestion about papers and authors that are totally out of my area. Does anybody know how I can fix this? Thank you!

01 March 2021 9,574 4 View

How to separate water from glycerol solvent in a solvent recovery vacuum distillation column?

I am currently doing my third year design project. I have been assigned to design a glycerol recovery column in vinyl acetate monomer production. The process unit before the recovery column is an...

01 March 2021 9,525 4 View

Multi effect distillation modeling in EES?

Dear colleagues If anyone has a model of multi-effect distillation in EES or MATLAB software, please send it to me.

24 February 2021 7,282 1 View

Can you perform the Murexide test on samples fixed in Formalin?

I have a fixed sample and would like to use the murexide reaction to test for uric acid composition. I no longer have fresh samples

22 February 2021 1,328 1 View

Monte Carlo simulation?

Hi, i am conducting a Monte Carlo simulation for my new distribution but the MSE values are increasing while the sample size increase, does any experience this issue before and what should i do...

22 February 2021 3,680 4 View

What is the best etching method for Mg-Ca alloy?

I have used Picral etchant (4.2 g Picric acid, 10 mL Acetic acid, 70 mL Ethanol, 10 mL distilled water) but it didn't work. Is there any alternative?

21 February 2021 2,558 5 View

How would I use a glycerol fixation to fix whole brain Drosophila tissue?

I need to take IF images with DAPI on a confocal but I need to use a glycerol fixation. Has anyone done this method before, if so how was it done? Thank you.

21 February 2021 3,081 3 View

How to dilute Toxin-DMSO solution?

I have a concentrated solution of a toxin(50 micromolar) in DMSO 100%. I need to dilute it inorder to dilute both the toxin and DMSO wich can be toxic to cells. Which would you guys recommend to...

19 February 2021 7,447 2 View

Is there any general protocol for immunohistology staining?

I have some fixed slides of tissue and need to do some staining, but I am not sure where to start. There are many protocols online. Any suggestions?

17 February 2021 3,062 4 View