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How to Balance Bench work with Reading and Writing?

I am a second-year grad student. I am finding it difficult finding time to read literature and write (things like qualifying exam, thesis, grants). I find myself so busy with bench work that I...

01 March 2021 3,325 4 View

Is BRSV ("bovine respiratory syncytial virus") less susceptible to RNA degradation than SARS-CoV-2 when thawing a sample?

I've noticed that when thawing long-frozen samples (3-4 months at -20 C), most of the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not remain intact, but that the surrogate appears to. Has anyone else noticed this?

09 January 2021 4,168 7 View

Can you centrifuge and re-suspend a cDNA sample?

I am woking with very low concentrations of RNA in an attempt to run a qPCR analysis. Given this, I am going to attempt to synthesize cDNA without diluting my sample, and in two different,...

12 December 2020 3,247 3 View

Is the "Releve" method still standard protocol for plant community sampling and percent cover estimation?

I am not a botanist but need to estimate the average percent vegetation cover of my study area. I have researched this and found articles that use the "releve" method for determining plot size...

22 September 2020 5,676 6 View

How to accelerate Langevin dynamics simulations for bead-spring polymer chain models?

I'm running simulations for a bead-spring polymer networks using LAMMPS. I need my simulations to reach biologically relevant timescales of at least a few milliseconds. However each simulation...

14 September 2020 2,954 1 View

Can features from a feature selection algorithm based on classification be used for regression?

I am working on a regression task where I am trying to predict future values of a stock/resource. At the moment, my model uses a large set of lags as input features and I want to use feature...

31 August 2020 2,409 3 View

Convex Optimization for Deep Learning?

Is there such a thing as convex optimization for large deep learning networks? Is there a way to guarantee convergence? Has anyone looked into this?

06 August 2020 5,384 4 View

What happens in post-secondary education when instructors don't use traditional grades?

I am looking for empirical studies that examine the use of non-traditional grading in higher education. This means NOT using A-F grades during a course (even if, at the conclusion of the course,...

09 June 2020 1,519 6 View

What is the role of journals' reviewers? Should they be absolute judges?

- Ask questions where they are not sure/convinced about a statement/conclusion VS reject a statement/conclusion where they 'think' it is not correct? - Provide suggestions to improve a...

21 May 2020 2,624 7 View

Looking for immunologist or virologist to help with literature-based study for COVID treatment. Can you help?

On the side, I doing some research (literature-based) on a particular treatment that may help for COVID-19 symptoms but I need someone with a stronger medical knowledge base with expertise in...

29 April 2020 8,098 11 View

Are these moths Spodoptera frugiperda?

The caterpillars of the moths were collected as fruitborers in pepper at a farmer. I reared them till the adults hatched and compared them with pictures and descriptions on the internet. Are these...

24 February 2021 7,785 5 View

Trouble shooting with his tagged protein expression in E.Coli?

i have issues in expressing a chicken protein in BL21 cells with his tag. I do not see induction even at 18 degrees. Any suggestions

15 February 2021 8,939 3 View

Has anybody used the Chicken anti-mCherry antibody (ab205402) in immunohistochemistry?

I'm looking for a primary antibody to detect tdTomato in spinal cord slices of mutant mice. I know that the most widely used antibody for this purpose is the mouse anti-RFP from Rockland, but I...

02 February 2021 5,515 3 View

Helicoverpa armigera eggs are not hatching in lab condition, why?

Dear RG friends, I am providing a complete H. armigera diet for larvae and maintaining the eggs in the growth chamber as well as in-room conditions. But since three months, eggs laid from the...

21 January 2021 5,546 32 View

Detection of insect eggs in stored and processed products?

Currently, in order to identify insect eggs in stored or processed products (such as contaminated flour or wafer samples), staining was performed based on the method mentioned in the below...

15 January 2021 6,362 5 View

Which test to use check normality for count data if I have 3 treatments and one dependent variable?

I am working on a experimental design. I have three treatments(three temperatures) . I have 18 fish under each sample and after a desired time I will check if there is any variation in their...

01 January 2021 9,167 3 View

Can you advise reference publications/standards on characterizing animal genetics research and development activities, and the outputs it generates?

I am doing semantic analysis of science and grey literature publications in the field of animal genetics and breeding. I have a standard dictionary but I am not sure if it captures the state of...

31 December 2020 4,924 3 View

What is the preferable incubation period in injecting ethanol into the duck eggs for antiteratogenic studies?

I have been working on the anti-teratogenic activity of a plant extract towards ethanol induced duck embryos however, many studies use the 14 days incubation period and then remove the embryo for...

17 November 2020 4,701 5 View

How can I get eggs of an univoltine casebearer moth for a threshold study?

I am planning to conduct a cage study to determine a critical density of an univoltine casebearer moth in red clover seed crop. This requires to release first instar larvae in the cages with the...

02 November 2020 6,577 3 View

How can I get help to identify a species of Coniopterygidae from Peru?

I found a species of Coniopterygidae preying on eggs and nymphs of Aleurothrixus floccosus in a lemon tree. I have followed its biology and have pictures of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults. With my...

16 October 2020 6,421 2 View

Ashraful Kabir

Be vegetarian- only habituation. Yoga is effective in this case.

Kiprotich Kiptum

We need just to be social beings and value one another as we are in a life cycle. When you are young you are fed and when you grow old you feed your children and parents and this demonstrates egg-chicken relationship.