What is the correct common name for Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris?

There are two extant species of Hydrochoerus: Hydrochoerus isthmius, the lesser or Panamanian capybara, and the genotype species H. hydrochaeris. The latter is the more common species of capybara,...

11 February 2021 3,494 14 View

Is there an alternative to PGLS that considers phylogenetic signal when calculating the estimated value?

I have been working on a study trying to estimate body mass in mammals using a skeletal proxy in R. My dataset has high phylogenetic signal (Pagel's Lambda = 0.9) and I am interested in removing...

26 January 2021 6,997 3 View

Are phylogenetic independent contrasts still used in biology?

I have a regression equation in which I am curious if the amount of scatter around the regression line is driven by phylogeny. I know there is a lot of phylogenetic signal because Pascal's lambda...

22 December 2020 937 1 View

What is the cause of abnormal breathing in anaesthetized rats?

Is anyone able to tell me why my anaesthetized rats often do a 'double breath', or diaphragmatic breath, like a hiccup (see video). This often begins after 1-2 hours under anesthesia, and can...

06 December 2020 2,514 5 View

Problems detecting miR-155 with Advanced Taqman miR kit?

18 October 2020 9,880 3 View

Control miRs for RNA extracted from FFPE DLBCL samples?

04 August 2020 1,195 1 View

Can the magnetic permeability and electric permittivity of the vacuum be modeled as the quantum vacuum magnetization and polarization, respectively?

If the magnetic field permeability and electric field permittivity of the quantum vacuum at a point in spacetime may be understood as the effective vacuum magnetization and vacuum polarization,...

04 June 2020 7,655 2 View

What sample size do I need if my total population is 195 (countries in the world)?

Hi everyone, (Please excuse the ambiguity within the question - protecting my idea) I recently discovered some indexes which I and colleagues would like to see if scores on these indexes across...

02 June 2020 3,960 11 View

Has anyone had issues with automated plagiarism detectors and pre-prints?

I've heard of automated plagiarism systems provided by many journals nowadays picking up on similar content in published abstracts from conferences etc. and since these automated systems are a...

21 March 2020 4,304 4 View

When do I remove participants instead of impute data?

I have a data set of around 1630. Some variables are missing in 20% of the sample (the later questions - survey fatigue/drop out). (I'm considering removing 250 participants who didn't answer...

17 March 2020 7,667 5 View

Does anyone know an alternative product for cardiac Troponin T antibody for Immunofluorescence (Thermo # MA512960)?

We have been using Thermo Fisher anti-cardiac Troponin T antibody for immunofluorescence staining in FFPE mouse heart sections but it was recently discontinued. The literature shows it to be the...

01 March 2021 4,937 1 View

Anyone know of a good progesterone antibody?

I am looking for a good progesterone antibody to quantify levels of progesterone in zebrafish. Applications would be ELISA, and immunohistochemistry.

28 February 2021 5,929 2 View

Markers of mitochondrial activity in FFPE tissues?

Hello everybody, Does someone have any experience with assessing/extimating mitochondrial activity on FFPE tissues? Precisely, no TOM20, ATP5B, etc: we are trying to get an approximative idea of...

24 February 2021 4,618 4 View

How to remove compound ( Europium complex ) from paraffin oil?

How can I remove my compound from paraffin oil? Mistakenly my compound fell in an oil. Compound = Europium complex

22 February 2021 5,667 2 View

Which database is the most suitable for checking English bigrams frequency?

Which database is the most suitable for checking English bigrams frequency? We want to assess the frequency of different English graphemes. Most of the databases that we have checked seem to...

18 February 2021 4,565 3 View

How long can agarose embedded tissues be kept?

I am embedding PFA fixed tissues in low melting point agarose prior to sectioning and I am wondering how long can these can be kept whilst maintaining tissue integrity and fluorescent signal?...

14 February 2021 6,688 3 View

How to do immunofluorescence staining of the microtome sections of paraffin-embedded tissue ?

I plan to do immunofluorescence staining of microtome sections of paraffin-embedded metastatic tumor tissue with two or more than two antibodies with different emission spectra. Should I follow...

10 February 2021 3,113 3 View

How to record RBC autoflourescence in a tissue sample?

RBCs have auto-fluorescence, I want to detect that auto-fluorescence in paraffin embedded tissue samples. Any suggestions?

08 February 2021 9,357 1 View

I am looking for an antibody to Arc protein for use in immunohistochemistry with rhesus monkey brain tissue?

Looking for a well-validated antibody to detect Arc protein expression in paraformaldehyde fixed brain tissue using immunohistochemistry. Ideally this antibody would have been published on using...

07 February 2021 8,457 1 View

How to use the Embedded Region constrain on Abaqus CAE?

Hello fellow academics, For my Final Year Project, I am looking into different ways of modelling the interface between PVA and gelatin. I have successfully modeled the interface using the "tied"...

04 February 2021 8,698 1 View