Would anyone like to contribute to a book on Science Journalism?

I am looking for anyone interested in contributing to a book on science reporting. This area of journalism is an essential part of our information society and is crucial to decsision making for...

05 June 2018 5,654 0 View

Will English be the dominant language while England itself shrinks in importance?

In science and in law English is becoming evermore the dominant language in the world. This is of course nothing to do with modern Britain but reflects England's past colonial influence (see...

10 November 2017 5,467 15 View

Is the source of ethics to be found in evolution?

Are our ethical and moral rules simply a human manifestation of the instinct to survive? Is morality simply a ritualised set of behaviours centered around survival of the group or...

10 November 2017 4,829 11 View

Will 2017 be another failure for Goats?

In the last three decades or more horned ruminants have failed to achieve. Not one single goat has been elected to high office in spite of more moronic human candidates being sucessful. In...

09 October 2017 6,241 3 View

Crowd Funding in China.

Does anyone know how crowd funding to develop business is operating in China.? I am looking for anyone involved in this kind of venture or anyone who has conducted research in this area to develop...

07 August 2017 7,785 2 View

Is it time to rethink psychiatry from scratch?

07 August 2017 5,352 5 View

Did the Industrial Revolution save us from an Ice Age?

06 July 2017 2,453 26 View

What did early humans eat?

03 April 2017 1,589 15 View

Are humans really their own worst enemy?

What is it about our species that causes us to doubt ourselves to the point that we fear our own achievements. In the last two hundred years we have made gigantic advances in science that have...

02 March 2017 3,756 58 View

Why is paleoanthropology the most contentious of sciences?

01 February 2017 307 98 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 3 View

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

Could you please recommend some good journal that accept very long revie papers (approximately 6000+ words) in neurosurgery, cancer biology ?

01 March 2021 8,087 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View