Who the best teacher in your life and why?

In your school, or college, or university, or research institutions: who is best teacher in your life and why?

09 October 2013 8,112 19 View

Can someone give me their thoughts regarding minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC)?

05 June 2013 8,509 3 View

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10 November 2012 1,648 1 View

Which one has more bacterial numbers planktonic or biofilm?

I am proceeding to do qPCR to know bacterial copy numbers in planktonic and biofilm (72 hours old biofilm with frequent media change) sample. Which one show more copies of DNA planktonic or biofilm?

09 October 2012 8,415 10 View

Does anyone have suggestions regarding the preparation of antibody-tagged nanoparticles for antimicrobial therapy?

I am working on antimicrobial activity of nanoparticles, for targetted antimicrobial therapy I am looking some help on antibody tagged nanoparticle preparation.

09 October 2012 1,947 8 View

Is it possible to use qPCR to measure the effect of antimicrobial agents? Is it better then plate count.

If yes, could anyone please explain what are the factors I need to consider? Apart from control and treatment, what do I need to do for the calculation or final results?

09 October 2012 159 4 View

Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

Is DCFDA appropriate for measuring total ROS production, or can it only detect certain types of ROS? If I want to measure total ROS production, which dye should I use?

01 March 2021 9,447 3 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

In methylene blue test Why is UV absorbance reading very low as soon adsorbent is added and then increasing before reaching equilibrium?

Hello, I'm working on removal of methylene blue. 01. in the dark test very first reading is taken 15 minutes after adding adsorbent to the dye solution and that UV absorbance reading is very...

19 February 2021 472 5 View

Has anyone performed a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay using Lucigens LavaLAMP kit?

Hi there, my lab recently opted to use LavaLAMP from Lucigen instead of the Warmstart kit from NEB. However, Lucigen has yet to create a colormetric kit for RT-LAMP, and adding phenol-Red (pH...

17 February 2021 5,399 1 View

How to create the context-mechanism-outcome configuration (CMOc) in the realist methodology?

In the realist methodology (especially by Raymond Pawson et al), the CMOc is a common structure to explain what works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why? I'm always asked about the...

08 February 2021 2,792 1 View

Why stop the reaction in ice for the fluorescent probe FDA (fluorescein diacetate)?

Hi, In literature I noticed that who stains haemocytes with FDA for 30 min then stop the reaction in ice while this does not apply for 15 min incubation time (or maybe authors did not write this...

08 February 2021 3,366 3 View

What is the possible cause of MSCs low growing?

Hello Everyone, We are inexperienced in culture of MSCs trying to grow a sample from BM of a mare. It is the second time that after preparation of new medium (DMEM-F12 with high glucose - 10% Hy...

07 February 2021 9,989 7 View

Why do cells die after adding MTT dye?

I was doing MTT assay, and in the last day before adding the MTT; the cells looked good (or so I think), but after aspiration of the drug and addition of MTT dye I noticed that most cells seemed...

07 February 2021 3,846 4 View

How to measure the concentration of a labeled protein with no tryptophan or tyrosines?

Hey I'm trying to measure the concentration of a protein I've purified and then labeled with Atto 647 flourescent dye. The protein has no tryptophans or tyrosines (although does have...

04 February 2021 4,482 4 View

How to generate MATLAB code from ANFIS model?

Dear scholars, I was wondering how can I generate MATLAB code of an ANFIS (FIS) model? I need to integrate my ANFIS (FIS)/Fuzzy logic system into another MATLAB code to render optimizations. Do...

04 February 2021 6,098 4 View