How to polish the samples which are very prone to oxidation for metallography?

I am trying to polish the rare earth based sample for SEM analysis. But the sample is getting oxidized immediately . Can anyone suggest a way to polish these kind of samples?

27 January 2021 4,699 2 View

How do we solve optimization problems involving a maxima or minima in the objective function ?

I am trying to solve a multi-objective optimization problem using the Pyomo library in Python. The objective function includes operational optimization of an electrolyzer for hydrogen production...

11 January 2021 8,018 3 View

Any researchers working on Mucuna pruriens with respect to tissue culture?

15 November 2020 8,675 1 View

How can I confirm that a gene is downregulated in cancer cells through PCR?

A particular gene (gene A) is reported to be downregulated in cancer cells as compared to the normal cells. How can you prove this with the help of PCR?

27 September 2020 5,292 4 View

Why my absorbance values are in negative for antioxidant assay by dpph method ?

plant extract stock is 10 mg/mL from which I pipetted 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 200 uL and made up to 3 mL using methanol then i added 1 ml of 0.004% dpph solution (dissolved in methanol) incubated in...

02 September 2020 1,218 2 View

Is 5ug/ml puomycin works for Huh7 cell lines?

I am trying to make KO in Huh7 cell line but after transduction even at 5ug/ml concentration Huh7-Ctrl cell haven't died. Could someone please recommend me the working concentration of Puromycin...

17 August 2020 5,427 2 View

How can I find the relation of cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment?

in Gastric cancer both cancer stem cells and tumor microenvironment prevents the action of therapeutics and drugs. a. How can I find a co-relation between them? b. How can i evaluate their role...

06 May 2020 6,428 7 View

What should be the best Performance Metrics for SVR Model ?

I am getting the following results for my SVR Model using Python's Sci-kit library : SVR RESULTS - C AND GAMMA PARAMETERS OPTIMIZED BY GRID SEARCH RMSE = 0.17050234208788798 MSE =...

08 February 2020 6,017 2 View

Salicylic acid is poorly soluble in water, I dissolved in 65% ethanol but it is forming precipitation on storage. What to do? Which solvent is best?

It dissolved in 60-65% ethanol but after few hours if storage at 4 degree Celsius it is forming precipitation

19 January 2020 5,092 9 View

In plasmid DNA isolation, potassium acetate re-anneals the plasmid DNA. How exactly does this happen? And why it doesn't happen for chromosomal DNA?

Alkaline lysis method

10 December 2019 2,472 2 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

How does one access the Cranet survey data on HRM practices?

Hello, The Cranet website does not provide any lead to the data obtained from their multinational survey on HRM practices. Any help on accessing the data would be most appreciated. Thank...

01 March 2021 9,536 3 View

Is there any research regarding how training and development is going to change in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution?

As the organizations getting prepared for the fourth industrial revolution, to enhance the skills of their workforce what type of changes are necessary and going to occur in the training and...

01 March 2021 3,199 3 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

How long do vaccines protect us against COVID 19?

Or will we have to get vaccinated every year, as in the case of influenza?

27 February 2021 1,048 5 View

How relevant is Mini slump cone?

for all the rheology researchers, my question is, how relevant is a mini slump cone (smaller than a standard 50 cent rheometer). currently based on testing, the thickness of slumped material is...

26 February 2021 3,668 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

What are the patterns of human behavior that lead to COVID-19 infections?

Does data from contact tracing help in establishing patterns of behavior and social interactions that lead to infections? There are cases here in the Philippines where patients have no travel...

25 February 2021 9,002 13 View

Looking for advices and tips to improve the staining and the gating strategy in human blood?

Hi, I am staining a human blood with CD19, CD3,CD14 and CD16. My gating strategy in FlowJo goes like this: - First, I gate a general population SSC-A VS FSC-A => Then gate for single cells, =>...

21 February 2021 5,724 4 View

No mRNA increase in PCR after successful transfection in ARPE-19 cells ?

Hello, i am a bit curious about my results. I transfected the human cell Line ARPE-19 with a Plasmid containing a GFP tagged p53 (p53-GFP, Plasmid #11770). After 24h i checked under the...

18 February 2021 3,811 7 View