How to extract RNA from brown adipose tissue(BAT)?

30 January 2021 6,610 3 View

How to determine fluorescence quantum yield for photoswitchable/photochromic compounds?

How to determine FQY for photoswitchable compounds? I found most related publications didnt mention, or just said that they used "Absolute quantum yield spectrometer." I think such technique...

31 October 2020 8,002 5 View

Are there any easy way to test the activity of CYP51?

I'm looking for a relative easy way to test the activity of CYP51. Are there any way that I can measure it without using LC-MS or gas chromatography. A simple absorbance or fluorescence test will...

08 October 2020 6,687 3 View

Hi everyone, how can we remove the snow-covered areas in global scale?

We obtained the global results using remote sensing reanalysis dataset. But the snow-coverd areas should be removed (like the blank area in the picture below, sources: Purdy et al., 2016). Does...

20 September 2020 3,463 5 View

How to extract RNA from pancreas?

RNA extraction from pancreas of ruminants is very difficult due to the existence of abundant RNase. Previously, our research group tried to remove the pancreas from animal immediatley after...

20 September 2020 1,097 2 View

How to add a scale bar for images acquired from Molecular Device Imagexpress pico?

I saved some images when I scanned certain area using imagexpress pico. But don't know how to add scale bar either in system or image J. I am wondering if anybody can provide some help on that?

17 September 2020 8,068 4 View

How to get bending moment in Ansys shell181 element?

Hello, I would like to compare the bending moment of a tube with beam and shell element in ansys? The tube has the same dimension in beam and shell element. In beam element, i can get the...

24 August 2020 2,352 1 View

How should I design the N-terminal VC plasmid of BiFC assay?

I'm going to detect protein-protein interaction with BiFC assays and my target proteins are ER retention with KDEL motif. so I want to fuse VC to the N-terminal of my protein. My question is if...

22 July 2020 3,456 1 View

How to grow more BL21 auxothrophic strain cells?

Dear all, I have just purchased a BL21 auxothrophic strain (RF12) from Addgene. The cells come in the form of agar stab. I intend to grow more cells which will be ready to used for protein...

11 May 2020 8,384 3 View

Experience with immunostaining with anti-Hepatocyte Specific Antigen (Hep Par-1) antibodies in frozen tissue?

Dear scientists, I would like to stain the formaldehyde-fixed, OCT-embedded human liver tissues with anti-Hep Par-1 antibodies (DAKO; clone OCH1E5) for IHC staining. Do you by any chance having...

20 February 2020 3,017 3 View

In PRIMER, is it possible to downweight certain taxa in multivariate community datasets to reflect uncertainty around identification??

I have a dataset with about 80 different species. As usual, some species are very easy to identify with certainty whereas others are more difficult, which means that I am less certain of my...

03 March 2021 8,066 4 View

How to calculate BREQ 3 questionnaire?

how to calculate BEHAVIOURAL REGULATION IN EXERCISE QUESTIONNAIRE BREQ 3 ,which contain 24 questions and each question has 5 answers (0- Strongly disagree , 1-disagree, 2- Neither agree nor...

02 March 2021 811 3 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Please suggest a good text book for "Research Methodology in Life Sciences". Which book would be good for PhD Scholars?

Please provide Book Title and author name

02 March 2021 9,059 3 View

Could any one guide me, to write research proposal for grant? ?

We have one plant, the local people using this for controlling blood sugar, the toxicity and antidiabetic activity of the plant is not reported yet, please guide from whag should be the process ?...

02 March 2021 2,300 1 View

How to calculate the annealing temperature of a primer pair?

I have to amplify a gene and my primers just reached. The Tm for Forward primer is 64.2, and that of reverse primer is 65.5. Can some one suggest how to get the best annealing temperature? Thanks...

01 March 2021 360 7 View

Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

What is the ideal efficiency for a qPCR?

hello everyone, I need to do standard curves for my qPCR, what is the ideal efficiency range? I tried a primer (Mglu2 receptor) that gave an efficiency of 90.2%. Is it accepted?

28 February 2021 1,254 3 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View