How can measure antibacterial activity of plant oil not plant essential oil such as Zataria and oliveria ?

someone has specialist in this field to guide me? since The oil is not absorbed in the culture medium (LB and PDA), I have faced to a problem.

11 December 2018 2,907 0 View

I want to add plant oil in my algae culture. Can i ask to suggest the best protocol?

I want to add plant oil in my algae culture medium. As you know, the oil does not dissolve in water. So I have to encapsulate the oil. Thanks for the best protocol to encapsulate the proposal?

04 May 2018 5,568 0 View

What is the roles of hydrocarbons such as decane and dodecane in unicellular green algae and usage of these algae as human food ?

some hydrocarbons such as decane, dodecane and tetradecane in my samples are dominant(20%) ,I want to know the roles of these compound on algae? Are these algae harmful or not as a food resources...

03 April 2018 2,031 3 View

How to pellet an algal suspension (high volume)?

my samples are green algae. due to my lab facilities , centrifuge and filtration is possible, but centrifuge to high rate was very time consuming and I lost many biomass as i had to use...

10 November 2017 7,552 0 View

How to make fractions of chloroform extract of plant, using seperating funnel?

28 February 2021 8,466 2 View

Is anyone working on a project focused on immigrants/newcomers working in the hospitality industry and how they have been impacted by COVID?

The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating economic effects on many industries. However, few have suffered to the same extent as full-service restaurants. Numerous studies have shown that...

24 February 2021 9,496 4 View

What is the optimum time and temperature of blanching and pre-frying potato for frozen fries?

I am helping a local home industry for developing frozen fries from their local farm. I want to know what is the optimum blanching and pre-frying temperature and time for processing. Please also...

23 February 2021 1,616 5 View

What is the actual chemistry going on between iodate and ascorbic acid?

I am studying biochemistry at university, as part of the course we do several titration experiments. In our handouts, we were given the following half equations: IO3- + 6H+ + 4e- I+ +...

16 February 2021 8,731 1 View

Acid phenol:chloroform (25:24:1) for RNA extraction instead of (125:24:1)?

Hi everyone! I am about to extract RNA for RNA sequencing assays and my Invitrogen kit/protocol...

14 February 2021 1,755 3 View

R/Python package for time-intensity or progressive profiling in sensory evaluation?

Hi I've been looking for a stat package for my sensory evaluation data (progressive profiled which is a multi-timepoint version of descriptive analysis). Is there any available one to...

08 February 2021 9,170 3 View

Why do we wash azolectin with acetone?

I want to prepare liposomes made of azolectin (sometimes spelled as asolectin). I start with the azolectin powder, and many protocols say that I should wash it with acetone (dissolve, centrifuge,...

04 February 2021 2,738 3 View

I'm looking for a PhD scholarship in Food Science and related areas, can anyone suggest me?

I'm looking for a PhD scholarship in Food Science and related areas, can anyone suggest me?

25 January 2021 1,722 9 View

How to distinguish pure and adulterated honey using NMR spectroscopy?

What are the common adulterants in commercial honey? how to identify pure honey and adulterated honey with the help of NMR spectroscopy? Is there any other technique to check purity of honey?

20 January 2021 5,456 12 View

Can anyone suggest an RNA extraction protocol from grape berries?

I am trying to extract RNA, from grape berries of a red variety, for qPCR (to study gene expression). I have tried nucleozol and a CTAB protocol (with b-mercaptoethanol+boric acid + cleaning with...

18 January 2021 8,857 2 View