Can I use TCA instead of TFA for protein analyis in RP-HPLC?

I am trying to analyze lipase using the reverse phase-HPLC C18 column. In the literature, 0.1 % TFA was and 60% ACN was used. Can I use TCA in place of TFA? If any other methods are available to...

25 February 2021 2,388 3 View

What is the difference between Q sepharose column and DEAE Sepharose column?

I am working on protein (lipase enzyme) purification. After using the Sephadex G-25 fine column, which column (Q or DEAE sepharose column) should I use? What are the buffers should I select? Thank you

16 February 2021 6,921 5 View

How to use ArcGIS to separate certain % of data points scattered over certain area?

I was able to make a grid using fishnet in ArcGIS. But after that, I need to select 20% of points from each cell and make a different file containing ids of the data points as testing data set....

07 January 2021 9,533 1 View

How to quantify the two components overlapping in HPLC?

I am analyzing the biodiesel using reverse-phase HPLC. Methyl Oleate and Methyl Palmitate are overlapping in a single peak. How can I quantify the individual components from the same peak?

14 November 2019 1,406 9 View

I am working on a medical imaging research and if anyone knows where I could find CT scans of the brain with and without contrast agents?

I have looked up Cancer Imaging Archive but I need a bigger dataset. Can anyone help me out with some good places to look at for more images with and without contrast agents?

28 October 2019 4,219 3 View

Formula to calculate the plating cell volume based on the doubling time, culturing time, desired confluency and the volume of the culture flask?

Hi I am working on various cancer cell lines now. For my experiments, doubling time is really very important. Because even a small percentage of dead cells will affect my measurements. I have...

09 June 2019 6,592 6 View

Difference in carbon footprint between imported and locally produced food?

Field to fork studies....any papers or on going research?

28 May 2019 5,334 3 View

How to troubleshoot the IF staining problems in skin tissues?

Hi We are working in the area of psoriatic diseases. We are everytime getting the problem in expression of protein in dermis. We unable to see the expression in epidermis. Even, we did IHC too...

29 November 2018 4,074 1 View

Why is in situ hybridisation preferred over immunohistochemistry in paraffin embedded mouse embryo sections?

I am trying to characterize early embryos and most literature I have read seems to prefer in situ hybridization over immunohistochemistry to study expression profiles of different proteins. Does...

13 November 2018 8,911 1 View

What is the Power-Train-Efficiency of Diesel engine locomotive in %?

I am thinking the efficiency to be around 15%. Please help me with the exact value.

25 October 2018 8,025 4 View

High aspect ratio hexahedral mesh optimization solver?

I am interested in evaluating mesh optimization solvers that converge to high aspect ratio unstructured hexahedral grids. In other words, I am interested in a solver that optimizes warpage,...

26 February 2021 7,279 2 View

How to interpolate from a time-series database ?

Hi, I am having trouble with a problem, in the field of Optimal Control and the generation of optimal time-series. Let's consider a system, whose dynamics are represented by dx/dt =...

24 February 2021 9,105 2 View

Have you ever experiencing air vent trouble in fermentation process?

Dear all, My research group is currently working with a 12-litre fermenter. Somehow, if we do the fermentation for more than 20 hours, the process will be more prone to contamination. Our current...

23 February 2021 1,908 2 View

How to calculate the fraction metabolized of a drug by an enzyme using clearance(ml/min) values of the metabolite formed?

I am trying to find the fraction metabolized of a drug by CYP and UGT enzymes. I am unable to get the values of fraction metabolized (Fm) directly from the literature. Can we calculate the Fm of a...

21 February 2021 5,379 2 View

Is Genetic Algorithm usage for Motor Conception FEA optimization a good choice?

Hi RG community, Like the title shows ,i was wondering if choosing the GA for this kind of Optimizaiton is a good choice? For example we have a population of 100 (for 7-8 Optimization Variables),...

14 February 2021 1,160 7 View

How long does it take to design and validate transition state analogue inhibitors?

Hi, I'm asking from the point of view of designing a research plan: How long (approximately) can it take to determine the transition state structure of an enzyme substrate using kinetic isotope...

14 February 2021 2,610 1 View

Kinetics of Enzyme production in Recombinant E Coli?

Hello, I am trying to find kinetic information (such as rate of enzyme production etc.) on the expression of taq polymerase in E-Coli after inserting a recombinant plasmid. Any help would be...

12 February 2021 1,386 3 View

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Hello! I want to determine the activity of my in house Reverse Transcriptase enzyme. For this, I have used Thermo's Enzcheck Reverse Transcriptase assay kit. I used commercial Thermo RT enzyme to...

08 February 2021 7,285 1 View

How define one baker unit(BU) is the amount of hydrogen peroxide catalase ?

07 February 2021 2,006 1 View

Does DNA A-tailing survive after agarose gel electrophoresis and purification?

Hi everyone, I need to clone in pGEM-T vector the result of amplifying a metagenomic library by PCR with a high fidelity polymerase but I only want to clone the fragments of an specific size...

04 February 2021 6,051 8 View