Is it suitable to stabilise human blood cells by RNA-Later to perform DNA expression studies?

Human blood cells stabilised by RNA-Later to perform DNA expression studies. It is a good way to store white blood cells to perform subsequently the isolation of RNA? Or is it preferable to store...

23 June 2015 3,340 3 View

Can someone give me a suggestion on the cloning procedures?

11 March 2015 1,728 4 View

Does anyone have experience with, or literature on, bone plow or rake phenomenon using locking plate fixation ?

When bone is cut by locking screws. In my experience in metaphyseal bone.

08 February 2015 5,366 2 View

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I have a list of genes annotated with InterProscan. I would like to summarize the results plotting the GO category and look at which major function or biological processes those genes are involved...

12 August 2014 455 2 View

Who knows sites hosting free samples of images with known clusters inside to test clustering machine learning models?

I have several clustering models to be tested and validated on images for which clusters inside are well known.

23 March 2014 7,277 2 View

Could somebody please give me the nucleotide sequence of the TEV protease recognition site?

I would like to use this sequence for TAP of protein complexes.

17 February 2014 7,498 7 View

Which activities should be the most important for academic people?

Normally an academic dedicates do some hours per week to research, some to teach and some to administration of the Department or Faculty. Some hours are also dedicated to external work, as...

01 November 2013 4,783 3 View

Can anyone advise on antibodies against "histone locus bodies" that work in imunofluorescence?

I am trying to identify histone locus bodies in a prostate cancer cell line (PC-3)

09 July 2013 280 3 View

Hek-293 stable cell line problems?

I am having a problem with the selection of my HEK-293 cells. I started the selection with G418 two months ago and I still have in my flask untransfected cells that don't die. What can I do? Try...

20 June 2013 1,849 19 View

What are the best markers for the identification of Neutrophils, eosinophils and circulating dendritic cells in whole blood by flow cytometry?

I need to study these cells in whole blood samples. I normally use the protocol "Lyse-no-wash". It could be used to study these cells, too?

05 April 2013 5,771 10 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

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

The Shannon's index is inversely proportional to Simpson's index (1-D)?

I'm having a problem with my bloxplot with Shannon's and Simpson's indexs. The value of Shannon for my Community 1 indicating higher diversity (in relation of the Community 2), but have lower...

26 February 2021 3,033 9 View

Is anyone working on a project focused on immigrants/newcomers working in the hospitality industry and how they have been impacted by COVID?

The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating economic effects on many industries. However, few have suffered to the same extent as full-service restaurants. Numerous studies have shown that...

24 February 2021 9,496 4 View

What is the optimum time and temperature of blanching and pre-frying potato for frozen fries?

I am helping a local home industry for developing frozen fries from their local farm. I want to know what is the optimum blanching and pre-frying temperature and time for processing. Please also...

23 February 2021 1,616 5 View

Any recommendations for methods to analyze elephant space-use (using GPS) and correlating this with changes in NDVI?

For my Masters I am looking into elephant space-use and its effect on vegetation change. I have elephant GPS collar data and was going to use Google Earth Engine to obtain NDVI values. I would...

16 February 2021 7,097 3 View

How to consider effects of rapid warm adaptation in modeling of ecological impacts of warming?

I would highly appreciate it if my fellow ecologists (biologists) provide their opinion on the thoughts below [esp., shortly tell us which path may be more effective, if they know another way, if...

15 February 2021 3,642 6 View

R/Python package for time-intensity or progressive profiling in sensory evaluation?

Hi I've been looking for a stat package for my sensory evaluation data (progressive profiled which is a multi-timepoint version of descriptive analysis). Is there any available one to...

08 February 2021 9,170 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

Can you recommend a good book on analytical chemistry for non-chemists?

Dear colleagues, I am asking for you recommendation: I need a book on analytical chemistry in environmental sciences. As a non-chemist (a biologist) I have some basic chemistry knowledge but not...

25 January 2021 8,486 8 View