Is it possible to perform cardiac puncture followed by PBS perfusion with a pump?

Hello all, I will be perfusing mice with PBS for brain harvest and a colleague would like to collect the blood via cardiac puncture (these are 18m old mice so would be nice to maximize use). Has...

15 February 2021 5,312 2 View

What is the difference between blocking buffer tbs vs. pbs and which should I use?

Hi everybody! I am doing western blots on bovine mammary epithelial cells to determine casein. We have two types of blocking buffer in the lab. PBS:...

01 February 2021 9,278 5 View

What types of tubes should I use for allantoin assay?

Hi everyone, I am doing an allantoin assay in urine and all the protocols seem pretty vague. I am currently using this website which seems to be the most helpful:...

07 January 2021 8,023 3 View

What is growing inside a frozen 10X Ripa buffer?

Hello all! I have a strange question today...I noticed that a few of my aliquotted 10x RIPA buffers that were in the -20 C had some kind of potential mold (white balls, some clusters, some with...

20 December 2020 7,424 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

What are these called?

Upon tissue plating for cell isolation, I start to see fibroblasts and after a while these 3D structures start to form. Are they called stroma? Someone in my building told me that she calls them...

30 November 2020 8,685 4 View

Plated Secretory Tissue from Udder--What type of cells are these?

Hello all! I plated some secretory tissue from the udder of a dairy cow. I am trying to isolate mammary epithelial cells. I found these cells on one of my plates, are these developing mammary...

28 October 2020 7,768 3 View

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in the lab?

How difficult is Lysosensor to use in a basic cell culture wet lab? Does anybody happen to have any advice and/or experience with this or similar probes? Thanks in advance!

15 September 2020 8,730 7 View

Quand est ce qu'un chercheur peut-il se sentir satisfait de ses publications?

18 May 2020 7,762 2 View

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18 May 2020 6,271 2 View

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

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

Is there any relevant technique for mesocosm studies in marine environment using Nanoparticles?

I am planning to perform mesocosm study in simulated marine environment using Phosphorus based nanoparticles, i would be using marine micro-organisms in it. kindly suggest me some effective...

07 January 2021 5,877 3 View

How does titanium dioxide (TiO2) as a coating's component enhance the coating performance in terms of anticorrosion??

Greetings, Recently, I was asked by a researcher how does TiO2 enhance the coatings polymeric structure making it able to reduce corrosion reaction by preventing the penetration of aggressive...

02 January 2021 5,257 5 View

Is there any chemical safe for sea environment, but could be used for repelling planktons and microorganisms?

As an example of Julia Child, whose first receipe was shark repelent, my team and I are looking for some chemicals which wont harm planktons but will help keep planktons from our robot in sea.

20 December 2020 9,616 4 View

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

What is the most controllable (marine) bacterial culture you can cultivate in simulated seawater?

02 December 2020 6,796 3 View

Any available international research grant in this COVID-19 year?

Dear researchers, I am a researcher from a university in Malaysia. I know that we all are having a tough situation in this pandemic year. I just posted this to know if there is any possible...

24 November 2020 8,759 3 View

In your opinion, what are the mechanism performed by corrosion inhibitor in a coating for corrosive medium?

Greetings researchers, There are quite a number of studies has been performed to analyze the effects of corrosion inhibitor when incorporated in a coating (epoxy, alkyd and etc) for the...

23 November 2020 6,622 10 View

What can we infer from different microbial communities in fish gut from two different locations?

Recently I have been interested in microbial communities from gut & intestine of the same fish species popular in Indonesia marine aquaculture, Grouper (Epinephelus sp.), but are raised in...

18 November 2020 510 5 View

Which is the importance of fixing (e.g. bivalvia) haemocytes and use anti-clotting solutions in flow cytometry?

I am trying to optimize a flow cytometry method to characterize mytilus spp. haemocytes. In literature I found that someone, to avoid clotting, use anti-clotting solutions or dilute and fix the...

05 November 2020 2,522 4 View