I need to accelerate corrosion in steel parts that are used in a salt-water environment. Is there a technique for doing so?

I have a structure that employs d-ring swiveling tie-downs that corrode during use and become "frozen". I have sample swivel assemblies that I wish to corrode to see if I can free them using one...

01 March 2021 3,739 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

Does anyone ever solved this following Matlab error : "Error using imaqdevice/start (line 95) pointgrey: Failed to stop the camera acquisition." ?

I use Matlab 2014b to capture some images with a PointGrey camera connected with USB3 port. I initialize the camera in a function which basically execute these followed lines : vid =...

22 February 2021 6,386 1 View

Making my research papers available for readers?

17 February 2021 8,533 2 View

3T3-L1 cells, is this a bacterial contamination or a cross contamination with different cell line? or something else?

Hi, I am experiencing some difficulties with 3T3-L1 cells culturing recently. I am working with 3T3-L1 cells for almost 4 years now and have seen bacterial contaminations/ unhealthy cells and...

13 February 2021 4,040 3 View

What are the main conditions suited for synthesizing a PVDF thin film by solvent casting method?

I have been trying to synthesize PVDF thin film by solvent casting method. I started by using 2:3 DMSO: acetone as solvents. The solution was stirred for 3hrs at 60 deg and was dried at 90 degrees...

09 February 2021 8,850 3 View

Wave velocity and rock density paradox?

Practically it is known that seismic velocity increases as rock density increases, why then does the wave velocity equation involving elastic moduli and density indicate that velocity is inversely...

09 February 2021 1,843 3 View

What is the magnitude of yearly rhizopdeposition in tropical forests?

Hi all, I am trying to find reference values on annual soil rhizodeposition rates for different kinds of forests, with a particular interest for tropical rainforests. Do we have an idea of the...

26 January 2021 4,278 4 View

Recipe for old qiagen DNA extraction buffer AP2?

Hi there, I'm looking for the recipe for a buffer no longer made by qiagen, but that i need for a procedure i'd like to carry out. I'd like to follow the extraction procedure laid out in the...

17 January 2021 8,496 1 View

Will an electromagnet core be as efficient if it is made of several pieces?

If you had a design for an electromagnet core that required it to be assembled out of several parts would it still produce as strong a magnetic field as the same core but made out of a single...

17 January 2021 5,821 3 View

How does the gut microbiome affect the fibrotic process within the liver?

and Can the gut microbe be used for the treatment or diagnosis of liver fibrosis?

02 March 2021 557 2 View

I have a problem with kanamycin - why the kanamycin doesn't affect?

Hi everyone, I need to expression of GFP with pET28 plasmid in E. coli BL21(DE3) plysE. Transformed cells have kanamycin and chloramphenicol resistance. Normally, only transformed cells should...

22 February 2021 4,032 4 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

Would you please recommend a function in R software that could be used with FUNGuild output to merge different rows that have similar guilds?

Dear colleagues, I have an output of FUNGuild tool (ASVs abundance in different samples and assigned to guilds) and would like to merge the ASVs that had similar ecological guilds using R...

16 February 2021 4,292 7 View

Do you have any experience with transfection of EBV immortalized B cells with Lipofectamine?

I know that efficiency of transfection for primary B cells is very low with Lipofectamine. But I did not try that for EBV immortalized B cells. Do you have any experience with transfection of EBV...

05 February 2021 4,159 1 View

What are the naitve functions of bacterial NRP?

The bacterial NRPs (nonribosomal polypeptides) are famous as clinical drugs such as antibiotics, but is there other native function of these NRPs of bacteria except antimicrobial, because their...

01 February 2021 4,280 1 View

Does euthanasia by CO2 inhalation cause NF-kB activation in mouse heart or body in general?

I was wondering if euthanizing mice by carbon dioxide inhalation would cause activation of NF-kB inflammatory response?

26 January 2021 4,096 2 View

I am looking to develop a basic oral microbiome assay. Can anyone advise on culture vessel, conditions and organisms that require minimal maintenance?

I am looking to investigate oral care products with an easy-to-prepare culture of orally derrived microorganisms.

21 January 2021 3,448 1 View

How to solve a problem in analysis of colistin sulphate using HPLC-UV?

Hi everybody, I am setting up a method for analysis of colistin sulphate by HPLC-UV. I tried different previously-published methods but the results were not acceptable (long run time, bad...

16 January 2021 5,911 3 View

Does use of hand sanitizer negatively impact the skin microbiome?

Hello, Most hand sanitizers contain 60-80% alcohol. Alcohol destroys organisms including bacteria, fungi, protists, and enveloped viruses by breaking down the plasma membrane. In recent...

16 January 2021 6,923 11 View