Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Different antibodies show signal at same MW in SDS-PAGE, what is wrong?

16 February 2021 2,857 9 View

The modern system of international relations: unipolar or multipolar world?

Do you think that there is one center of power in the modern world, or are all countries equal in the international arena?

01 January 2021 7,026 2 View

Mie scattering of a Gaussian with curved wavefront by a sphere?

Can anyone please suggest some references? I would like to simulate scattering of a fundamental mode of a fiber by a microsphere. I am only familiar with a plane wave case, but in case of a curved...

01 January 2021 1,440 3 View

Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit 260/230 contamination?

I've been trying to extract DNA from rat liver tissue using Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit. I followed handbook procedure and all of my samples had low 260/230 (

21 December 2020 7,100 3 View

Student's t-test or DeSeq2 for RNA-Seq data analysis?

Hi everybody, I am analysing RNA-Seq data of patient samples. One group of samples has a certain monoallelic deletion, the other group 2 copies of the wildtype gene. Now, I want to compare the...

28 November 2020 5,977 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

Why after cloning recombinant pET in E. coli DH5a I get a very low plasmid yield after extraction?

I chemically transformed a ligation product (pET28a and my gene of 3051 bp) into E coli DH5alpha competent cells. I plated 200 and 800 ml of my transformation on plates of LB agar Kan (25 mg/ml)....

13 September 2020 4,421 3 View

Good markers to distinguish D1R/D2R striatal medium spiny neurons?

Hi! I want to distinguish D1R and D2R subpopulations of medium spiny neurons in striatum in immunofluorescence. Most of the papers I found use transgenic EGFP mice targeting this receptors, but I...

31 August 2020 3,863 2 View

does anyone have the user manual of the geostrain program?

Hello, I am looking for the user manual of the geostrain software, I have downloaded the software but the user manual is not found. I will be very grateful for your help Cheers

14 June 2020 4,169 1 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

When is it unnecessary to change organisational culture?

As a former management practitioner, I recall a generally accepted view that changing organisational culture is difficult, so you should only attempt it if the organisational change that you are...

27 February 2021 2,595 8 View

How can I separate Gertrud Pfister's profile and the profile of Gerald Gems?

we are co-authors of several publications. But I am the only and single author of most of my publications which are based on my own research. How can I separate the profiles?

21 February 2021 4,582 3 View

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

Change of First name?

In some publications you refer Deivid Chica (with Barranco) but the true first name is Maria Dolores Chica , in spanish Ma. Dolores Chica. Before I answer yes is an author Deivid Chica, but...

18 February 2021 5,004 3 View

How should I compute a new variable with z-scores?

I would like to create a new variable using 4 different measures: hIndex (range: 1-47), # of publications (range: 0-111), and 2 other measures (range: 1-7). I changed all of these variables into...

09 February 2021 4,866 3 View

Do you know any reporting tool, guidelines for credibility assessment tool used for studies/publications with Artificial Intelligence?

I want to conduct a Systematic Review and assess the quality of methods used/proposed by researchers. I found out that scientists often utilize QUADAS for that...

05 February 2021 8,743 5 View

How do Research Gate proceed to integrate in the reference data publications and citations the recently published journals ?

How do Research Gate proceed to integrate in the reference data for publications and citations the recently published journals - for instance for the last months of 2020 and for instance Intl J...

02 February 2021 9,336 7 View

How to add journals not listed on Research Gate ?

I have two publications one listed in the web of science master list " European Online Journal of Natural and Social Sciences " ISSN: 1805-3602 and Second " Journal of Managerial Sciences"...

26 January 2021 7,158 7 View

Can you recommend a good book on analytical chemistry for non-chemists?

Dear colleagues, I am asking for you recommendation: I need a book on analytical chemistry in environmental sciences. As a non-chemist (a biologist) I have some basic chemistry knowledge but not...

25 January 2021 8,486 8 View