What are the potential metabolic markers for monitoring conditions of growing culture cell lines?

I like to know the possible markers of metabolism in cancer cells such as in monitoring glycolytic, extracellular acidification and oxygen consumption rates, effected by treatment with an extract.

25 September 2019 627 3 View

What best advice could you offer a group of authors whose article has been accepted and issue-listed but not published for more than 7 months?

How do you advise a group of authors whose papers already accepted but only listed for several months under ahead-of-print without publication as necessary?

23 May 2019 3,479 5 View

Standard deviation (SD) or standard error of mean (SEM): which way to go; what are the factors to consider in reporting?

Which one under- or overestimates significance in the test of association?. Often times, I come across both choices in the selection of SD and SEM as a measure of spread, however, little is...

09 February 2018 4,926 1 View

Pulverizing or not pulverizing samples for Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) ?

I am trying to study the hydration of hydrated cementitious binder at different days of curing. The samples are in 40 x 40 x 160 prisms. I intend slicing them into 8mm thick samples. If these...

23 October 2016 7,743 14 View

Do journals really need a language editor (or copyeditor) after thorough review process before going ahead to publish an article?

Sometimes, I feel it is required for every journal to get a language editor. Do you think it is, or not necessarily required?

01 January 1970 5,092 43 View

Publishing consistently in one journal or changing journal for different manuscript submissions, which one is better?

Over time, it looks confusing if there is any shortcoming in the choice of publishing continually in one journal, rather than choosing different journals for different paper submissions... I...

01 January 1970 1,701 5 View

2020 Nobel Season Opens with Medicine Prize Now, Who Do You Have in Mind for Remarkable Discoveries?

Global spotlight is on 2020 Nobel prizes which is slated to commence today, Monday October 5, 2020. Many researchers have been mentioned and nominated in various capacities for their discoveries...

01 January 1970 8,128 3 View

New coronavirus strain (B.1.1.7) intensifies the scary alarm: what is the prospect of the available vaccines?

Definitely, we should not fold our arms in the wake of the fast evolving knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 mutation. Currently, a new British strain, B.1.1.7, sets off a scary alarm intensifying the threat...

01 January 1970 2,346 14 View

Will COVID-19 impact peer-review process as well?

Currently, COVID-19 has caused the most turbulent times in the history of global epidemics and is virtually forcing many people to an uneasy "sit-at-home" in many parts of the world. Will the...

01 January 1970 6,210 40 View

What does it mean, a submission with "editor assigned" for three months changed to "new submission"?

I have come across a submission changing from "under review" to "reviewer invited", which sometimes implies that a reviewer objected to further reviewing a manuscript or one of the reviewers'...

01 January 1970 1,797 4 View

Logistical regression using SPSS for a dichotomous dependent variable, with an independent variable of 1, 2, 5 and 10 seconds?

I have an experiment with 28 participants The independent variable is the times 1, 2, 5, and 10 used as the cross hairs during a task These 4 times were tested using 4 different blocks, each...

03 March 2021 9,692 2 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View

What is Flat Lens Antenna?

28 February 2021 5,433 3 View

Can impedance of antenna be less than 50 ohms?

I am simulating helix antenna in hfss, right now, giving excitation with 50 ohms port. When I see the results of Z parameter (real). It shows lower than 50 ohms. Do not understand, if it can be...

27 February 2021 4,218 7 View

How to use measure capacitance change in COMSOL time dependent study ?

I want to measure change of capacitance due to relative displacement between two parallel plates in COMSOL. Distance between two plates changes with time. So I'm using a time dependent study but...

26 February 2021 8,567 3 View

How could I process data in RCT to include it in meta-analysis?

I'm in the process of doing a meta-analysis and have encountered some problems with the RCT data. One of my outcom is muscle strength. In one study, I have three different measurements of muscle...

25 February 2021 7,603 3 View