Has anyone used Pro-Touch color bands to mark raptors?

We have been color banding American Kestrels using A-craft alpha-numeric color bands since ~2013 and would like to test other options. I am curious if any other researchers have experience using...

01 February 2021 6,786 3 View

Why have a specified percentage absorbance to be reached for flow test on UV Vis?

When performing a flow test the objective is to find the total amount of blank to be replaced by sample with pump. Why would a specified percentage of 100% i.e. 99.5% of that absorbance be used?

17 December 2020 7,762 3 View

Qiagen Viral RNA extraction kit showed similar results for positive and negative control. How should I proceed?

Our team is looking for viral RNA in the environment. We took swabs off of doorknobs using cotton dipped in water and then submerging that swab in viral transport media. We also wiped 1 surface...

08 June 2020 6,532 3 View

MitoSpy vs. MitoTacker?

I have a very long and rich history using MitoTracker dyes, but I had not, until recently, even heard of MitoSpy. Has anyone used this dye side-by-side with any of the MitoTracker? Is MitoSpy the...

25 November 2019 3,412 2 View

Where can I purchase syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP)?

Hello, I'm looking to purchase syndiotactic polypropylene (sPP). Most articles I find cite purchasing it from Sigma Aldrich, but they sold their last stock in 2013. MilliporeSigma has isotactic...

10 June 2019 6,852 6 View

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08 January 2019 3,512 5 View

How do you construct a crRNA for pCas9 (addgene 42876)?

Hello, I'm designing a CRISPR/Cas9 protocol for school purposes (I attend a extra project next to my study). I have to use the pCas9 plasmid (addgene #42876) for CRISPR eventually. This plasmid...

08 July 2018 5,461 1 View

Is the Pacbio Sequel or the Illumina HiSeq 2500 better for detection of alternative splicing by RNA-seq (next-generation sequencing, NGS)?

We have a biological condition that we believe decreases splicing fidelity in c elegans. In our preliminary RNA seq data using 2x50 bp, 22 million reads per sample and 5 replicates, we found only...

28 March 2018 3,160 3 View

Has anyone compared zero air with nitrogen for nanoflow electrospray of peptides using 5600 with NanoSpray III source?

We are spending more than the cost of the service contract every year on buying 'zero air' cylinders for the electrospray sheath gas. We have the 5600 and 6600 with NanoSpray III sources. We...

31 October 2017 4,279 3 View

At what Forchheimer number does flow (in a porous media) transition from Forchheimer like to fully turbulent? (Literature references appreciated)

22 May 2017 3,830 4 View

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test Fluorescent Compounds Other Than Fluorescence Spectrometers ??

Is There Any Feasible Method To Test The Efficiency Of Fluorescent Compounds Other Than UV Spectrometers ? Suggestions Would Be Appreciated !

02 March 2021 5,785 3 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

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 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

Samples to study circular dichroism (chirality)?

I want to build a low-cost polarimeter to study circular dichroism (chirality). What type of samples can I use? I am looking for samples that can be found outside the laboratory.

01 March 2021 9,101 3 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 View

How to compare 2 samples recruited with different sampling methods?

If I want to compare characteristics of 2 groups of patients, one group is recruited from a random sample of the general public while another group is from a sample with a fixed gender (male to...

26 February 2021 3,526 3 View