What is a good reference on designing experiments to determine molecular mechanism of disease or biological process?

I need to learn techniques and strategies in planning experiments that try to figure out the molecular mechanisms. Thanks.

01 January 2021 2,525 3 View

Has anybody had staining problems with lysotracker in live cells?

I am working with two fish cells types, a zebrafish liver cell line and primary cultures of trout macrophages. We are using lysotracker to stain them in order to visualize lysosomes in confocal...

16 December 2020 3,935 2 View

Is TRIS-EDTA-CITRATE buffer (pH 7.8) a good antigen retrieve for the TUNEL assay?

Hello everyone! I performed a TUNEL assay simultaneously with an immunofluorescence (SOX9 antibody) on the same sections of human testis. The fluorescence of TUNEL turned out well, but that of...

15 December 2020 1,270 3 View

Does a manager's background such as culture and attitude influence the performance of employees?

30 November 2020 1,585 2 View

If I want to use mean as calculation for my questionnaire, should I test the reliability and validity?

I'm using questionnaire for my research and mean (average) as my data analysis. I'm wondering how to calculate the reliability and validity of my data.

28 September 2020 3,517 3 View

How to induce with L-arabinose Chaperone Competent Cell BL21 (Takara)?

I am using Chaperone Competent Cell BL21 from Takara, pGro7/BL21 , but it is not clear on the protocol how and when I should induce the expression of the chaperones with L-arabinose. First time I...

14 September 2020 8,488 3 View

Is it better to use the arithmetic mean or geometric mean when averaging MPN?g or CFU/g measurements?

This data is from a microbiological evaluation of streetfood locally sold in our region. Thanks.

12 August 2020 5,981 3 View

Any recommendations on the software to do text mining or sentiment analysis on Chinese reviews?

I am trying to do text mining on Chinese reviews. I have tried out many softwares, like the RapidMiner, Chinese Text Analytics, Python. Most of them seem to require certain level of programming...

12 August 2020 9,109 8 View

Where can I find a good set of microbiological standards for aerobic plate count and coliform levels for street food or ready to eat food?

I need these to evaluate the data I obtained from my study. Thanks

10 August 2020 7,466 12 View

What is a good Thomson Reuters or Scopus indexed journal where I can publish my paper regarding Microbial safety aspects of street foods?

I need a journal with a faster turn around time, reasonable review process, and preferably no publication fees.

15 July 2020 8,241 3 View

What is the most Operating System (OS) which can be INSTALL on Tiny hard devices like Raspberry Pi (RPi) hardware ?

I'm targeting to deploy a mesh network and manually configure MANET routing protocols. I'm preparing scenarios, architectures, and hard devices needed to do that. Are there some step-by-step...

03 March 2021 1,931 5 View

What are some of the research gaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence in africa?

i would to know some of the research gaps in the artificial intelligence field in most african countries.

03 March 2021 6,145 3 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities or caverns with respect to their size and shape?

The range of forms and sizes of cavities in rock is very big. Is there a classification scheme for rock cavities regarding their size and shape?

02 March 2021 4,511 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 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

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

Does any one can help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions interactions with guanine (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.)?

Hello every body Does any one has any idea to help me choose a reasonable basis set for intermediate metal ions (i.e Fe2+, Mn2+, Cu2+ and exc.) interactions with guanine or other DNA organic...

01 March 2021 6,187 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View

How to Eliminate cosine error and abbe error in LASER measurement system(for example Rhenishaw XL80)?

I like to do project in laser measurement system. My objective is to eliminate or reduce the cosine error, abbe error in Laser measurement system. I have Rhenishaw XL80 system. Please tell the...

28 February 2021 4,890 3 View