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How would I go about getting an expert review on the interview questions for the dissertation?

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Is there a technique to store fixed cells after flow for later RNA analysis?

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Removing vitreous from baby rat eyes?

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Test for silicone residue from silicone part?

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ANSYS Meshing Issue - How To Mesh Complicated Geometry (~80,000 Faces)?

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How to get higher concentration of linearised plasmid?

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Who are leading theorists today on memory ?

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I wish to inactivate mammalian source phospholipase activity, can anyone offer insight or references to published work?

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Are likelihood-based approaches to statistical modelling REALLY removing the arbitrary problem of 95% significance?

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Which fluorescent dye to use for measuring total ROS production?

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Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

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The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

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How to calculate battery consumption for IoT device?

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Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

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How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

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Where would? can? positive charge(vacancy) be when grounded?

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ZnS oxidizes to ZnO!!why??

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Can explain this diagram to me, is this the average consumption curve for one day or the total consumption of days in a month summed up in specific?

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How to prepare OH- terminated Si Wafer?

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