Species identification.Who can tell me the scientific names of these Gastropods?

Species identification. I've been doing research on communities of marine macrobenthos recently, but some of them can't be identified, which hinders my research. Who can help me identify these...

14 December 2020 8,357 3 View

I alway get serval big plaques even with very high concentration of bacteriophages. how to get well-distributed plaques with double layer agar method?

I used MS2 (ATCC 15597-B1) strain to do my experiment. I always get serval big plaques (like the picture I attached), but not a plate which has a lot of small plaques I saw from other research....

15 November 2020 7,488 4 View

How can I make the Gold-Antibody conjugate stable ?

I did competitive lateral flow immunoassay using gold bridge method. Antigen-fluorescence bead and immobilized antigen on the PMMA membrane is no problem to measure the optical absorption at 37...

24 August 2020 2,684 4 View

How to represent damping in a system with nonlinear stiffness?

We all know that damping can represent by Damping ratio and Natural frequency . We can represent the damping in terms of ( ''Linear stiffness - The first term in the nonlinear stiffness )...

25 May 2020 6,323 7 View

RNA extraction methods for virus w/o centrifuge?

20 April 2020 4,990 3 View

Anyone has experience in "ligation-free in vivo DNA assembly in E. coli"?

There is a recent publication titled "In vivo DNA assembly using common laboratory bacteria: A re-emerging tool to simplify molecular cloning" (J. Biol. Chem, 2019; doi:...

05 March 2020 153 3 View

How to express and purify Zinc-binding proteins?

We are working on a protein that is predicted to contain a zinc finger (ZnF). Could someone share your experience working with ZnF proteins? Should we add Zn during expression in E. coli? If so,...

23 February 2020 2,125 1 View

A few questions about neoantigens for cancer therapy?

In trying to getting more effective neoantigens for cancer therapy, I have some questions as followings. 1. T-cell activation is considered to be more important than B-cell activation. Which...

01 February 2020 5,667 1 View

How to characterize formation of semi-interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure?

Now I am working on synthesize semi-IPN hydrogel based on polysaccharide and vinyl based monomers. Is there any direct characterization method to confirm formation of the semi-IPN structure?...

15 January 2020 2,269 1 View

Why do the recrystallized grains produced by annealing after cold working have different orientations?

09 May 2019 9,420 2 View

How two melting peaks in DSC of polypropylene can be merged into one crystallization peak?

The figure shows DSC cooling (blue) and 2nd heating (green) curves (step: 10 K/min) for a commercial sample supplied as Atactic Polypropylene (APP). The heating curve illustrates two major...

03 March 2021 5,857 3 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

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

28 February 2021 8,466 2 View

How to calculate the fraction metabolized of a drug by an enzyme using clearance(ml/min) values of the metabolite formed?

I am trying to find the fraction metabolized of a drug by CYP and UGT enzymes. I am unable to get the values of fraction metabolized (Fm) directly from the literature. Can we calculate the Fm of a...

21 February 2021 5,379 2 View

Dealing with BMDM seeding and RNA extraction ?

biomedical master student here , i am dealing with mice BMDM and would like some help , i seed 0.5 x 10^6 cells/per well in a 6 well plate but when i extract the RNA i get a very low yeild , i...

15 February 2021 1,102 5 View

How long can agarose embedded tissues be kept?

I am embedding PFA fixed tissues in low melting point agarose prior to sectioning and I am wondering how long can these can be kept whilst maintaining tissue integrity and fluorescent signal?...

14 February 2021 6,688 3 View

How can I calculate volume fraction of MWCNT from a nano hybrid composite ?

I am adding 0.1wt percent MWCNT to glass fiber epoxy composite and want to determine the volume fraction of the MWCNT from this composite but I don't know how to calculate it. can anyone help me...

09 February 2021 8,883 3 View

Fractional derivative users, are you on the same page with me on the validity of the fractional order parameter, say alpha?

Taking a fractional ODE problem as an example. It has come to my attention that if the fractional order parameter is in the interval (0,1], many only presents results for alpha=0.9, 0.99. I saw...

08 February 2021 9,671 3 View

What is a suitable method to freeze feeders-free, serum free episomal hiPSC?

Hi everyone, I need your professional advice: I started growing episomal iPSC (commercial cell line). I grow them in StemFlex medium. What would you recommend as the most effective freezing...

07 February 2021 8,591 4 View