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Hey, does anyone know any effective way to separate virus from exosomes fraction? my problem with the separation of the EVs in this system is the fact that the virus that we work with particles...

06 December 2020 4,765 2 View

Number of cells for extacellular vesicles extraction?

hello! I want to extract vesicles from MDA MB 231 cell ligne, culture in serum free media for 48h, would you help me with th number of cells required to have the vesicles? thank you

03 December 2020 6,488 2 View

What are the XRD analysis conditions of the cement, sand and Limestone ?

I am a Phd student and I need to do XRD analysis on my pouder samples namely ( cement- sand- limestone and calcined clay). I was asked asked to specify the analysis conditions: -the nature of...

07 October 2020 5,737 6 View

Can anyone recommend me some articles about Fire endurance of wood concrete?

Are there documentations about Fire endurance of wood or wood shavings concrete? The literature is not very clear about this .

12 August 2020 8,203 3 View

Is it possible to use plant extract as natural sterilizer?

For economic reasons, sterilzation against covid_19 is very necessary, so is it possible to use plant extract?

11 May 2020 2,674 14 View

Which statistical analysis is more appropriate for my study?

I am trying to find the relationship between the use of defence mechanisms in early adulthood as predictors of neuroticism. Those who use more defence mechanisms will score higher on the...

14 April 2020 3,353 7 View

How do I carry out performance evaluation on a sorting machine?

I design a prototype for sorting tomatoes based on size and colours. The prototype will sort big red, big green, small green and small red

12 March 2020 2,386 3 View

Preparation of the mix for Standard PCR (without using a kit)?

Hi, Please anyone already prepared the mix for Standard PCR? But without using a commercial kit. It is for staphylococcal enterotoxins genes. I am looking for the concentrations of each...

08 February 2020 4,487 6 View

How to deal with mental health issues?

I feel communication helps in coping such issues to some level.

16 August 2019 7,405 31 View

Course -Preparation advices !?

Dear colleagues, As I am new in the domain of teaching courses, so it takes too much of time to prepare my course, saying for example: cryptography course, web development,..etc,... So, my...

30 May 2019 6,236 3 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

Transformation into the Stbl3 chemo competent cells?

03 February 2021 1,111 5 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

What is the composition of the solid and broth agar to grow Streptomyces from freezed sample? what are extraction steps of products from broth agar?

Please what are the composition of the solid agar could I use to grow the bacteria? what are the composition of the broth agar could I use to grow the bacteria and how to extract the natural...

26 January 2021 5,006 1 View

What is the best way and technique for serial dilution of bactria to get accurate number of colony ?

Hello I am infecting cells with bacteria in a well and then I am doing serial dilution of this well 1 in 10 and culture the two last dilution on MHA agar I have difficulty in getting accurate...

26 January 2021 9,256 5 View

How to reduce or increase CFU/ml value ?

I collected the water sample from pond and 1 ml of pond sample diluted with 9ml with water and 100 microliter was cultured into the MacConkey agar plates .Finally,80 colonies were formed in the...

24 January 2021 1,925 3 View