What are the pretrained-language-model that is obviously better than BERT and RoBERTa?

19 January 2021 602 2 View

Can I design an aptamer that can sense microbial activity?

I am trying to design a boron nitride based biosensor that can sense the abnormality of microbial activities on fish skin. I am very curious that is it possible to have such an aptamer that can...

23 September 2020 6,352 4 View

Can I build a stable cell line for CO-IP?

I want to know two protein interactions via CO-IP, and one of the proteins has several different mutations. I need to transfect all these mutations into HEK293T cells for doing Co-IP every time,...

03 September 2020 342 3 View

Based on transformer, how to improve the text generation results?

If I do not pretrain the text generation model like BART, how to improve the result based on transformer like tensor2tensor? What are the improvement ideas for transformer in text generation task?

18 August 2020 7,265 3 View

Are there any deep models that are better than BERT-CRF in NER task?

Named entity recognition (NER) is task that mark tags of the input text sequence. BERT-CRF is a good NER model. I want to find a better NER model. Or I want to improve the BERT-CRF model. What...

18 August 2020 7,070 2 View

What are the effects of gender of performer on animal?

I remember a paper studied the effects of gender of handler on animal (mouse?) showing that male handler has more negative effects on animal (for example, causing animal anxious) compared to...

05 August 2020 4,131 1 View

Question of pretraining text-generation task, it seems that pretraining is not work for a small model?

My task is to generate keywords from sentences. I pretrain a text-generation model. I mask the sentences' tokens and predict the whole sentences' tokens. Pretraining batch_size = 8 and step =...

28 July 2020 5,675 1 View

How to tackle endogenous problems with "truncated" data structure?

When I want to estimate educational return, I run a regression like: ln(wage)=beta1+beta2*education+other control variables+u In order to tackle the endogenous problems induced by potential...

21 June 2020 2,244 1 View

What is the principle of Unsupervised Data Augmentation (UDA)? Why does UDA work?

UDA(https://github.com/google-research/uda) could achieve good accuracy by only 20 training data on text classification. But I find it is hard to reproduce the result on my own dataset. So I...

05 June 2020 1,486 2 View

What are the simplest methods for the label noise problem?

If I have enough low quality data from unsupervised methods or rule-based methods. Do you think removing the wrong data predicted by trained model is a simple but effective method?

02 June 2020 4,078 3 View

How can I measure MMP-1 protein activity or protein level from liver tissue?

Instead of checking only the mRNA level, I want to check the active protein level of MMP-1 in Liver tissue from mice. How can I do that?

03 March 2021 1,763 2 View

IHC on mouse liver hepatocytes?

Can anyone help me choose primary antibodies for mouse liver hepatocytes and also in conjunction Cd8 cells. Also Cd3 cells. I want to look at hepatocytes and adjacent immune cells in mice with...

01 March 2021 6,953 1 View

How to avoid ulcers in s.c. injected tumors ?

Recently, we have injected s.c. B16F10 tumor cells in BL/6 mice. At around 12-15th day some animals showed ulcerations in tumors , with a big hole in the middle (it looks like a volcano). We have...

01 March 2021 9,938 3 View

Interested to stain mice tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, anybody has a protocol to recommend?

Interested to stain mice brain tissue with WGA 488 conjugate, appreciate if anyone willing to offer me some guidance or suggestions! Thank you!

28 February 2021 3,951 2 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View

Looking for genomic DNA extraction kits from mouse tissue (centrifuge-based, not spin-column)?

Hello. I am looking to extract genomic DNA from mouse brain and lungs and I need a kit that is not spin-column based because I need to scale up the solution amounts for 400mg tissue (most cap at...

25 February 2021 155 2 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

Is it harmful to breed for Cre Homozygosity initially?

Hello, I am currently using a Cas9 knock in system that will be expressed in the liver. To do so STOP codon fl/fl Cas9 KI mice were bred with Albumin-Cre mice to generate heterozgous pups, that...

24 February 2021 5,759 3 View

How to empty large intestine in mice ?

Hi all I am working on colon-targeted drug delivery for which I kept mice fasting for 6h using fasting grills during scotophase (dark period). I observed liquid fecal content in the cecum and...

23 February 2021 7,701 2 View

Does PHA-P stimulate the proliferation of lymphocytes from mice?

Hello, I will start performing MLR using lymphocytes from mice's spleen and I would like to know the better way for the stimulation. If is using PHA-P or CD3/CD28? I would like to know as well if...

23 February 2021 5,476 4 View