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

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

FDC and FRC cell populations in mouse spleen?

I was trying to isolate fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) and follicular dendritic cells from mice spleen, but kept getting poor yield. I found from literature that the frequency of FDC is around...

17 February 2021 3,506 4 View

Is CXCR5 on T cells affected after a cell sorting?

I have tried to sort CD8+ CXCR5+ in the ARIA but the purity of my sample is about 50%. After sorting, I stain my samples to verify purity but it is low. So, I thought about "downregulation" or...

15 February 2021 8,034 7 View

Lymhpoma cell culture issues, help?

Hi! I need help for some issues in growing mantle cell lymphoma cell lines (REC-1, MAVER-1, Granta-519, Mino, Jeko-1). I noticed that it is a little bit hard to maintain a stable cell culture:...

09 February 2021 7,402 11 View

Are there lymph node mapping dyes that do not interfere with ELISA and Flow-cytometry based Multiplex assay?

I am trying to find axillary and mandibular lymph nodes in naive mice, which is turning out to be more difficult than imagined. Therefore, I would like to know if there are some possibilities of...

27 January 2021 9,669 3 View

Tissue Dissociators for mouse spleens and lymph nodes?

18 January 2021 6,804 6 View

Servers for finding free energy and dissociation constant of protein-protein docked complex?

Hello everyone, I would like to get help about finding any server or application which can give me info about free energy and dissociation constant of protein-protein docking outputs. I have...

15 January 2021 587 3 View

Is there any database or website from where I can get a list of FDA approved drugs for treatment of certain urinary tract infection?

I want to know all prescription drugs which are FDA approved compounds for infection like Urinary Tract Infections along with their causative agents. Can you guide me about any resource, database...

17 December 2020 4,852 3 View

How to calculating association and dissociation constants between two protein after MD simulation?

I am trying to calculate both association and dissociation constants between two proteins after MD simulation but my script isn't working. I need someone to kindly assist with script(s) or...

14 December 2020 3,110 1 View

What is a good marker for imaging mouse macrophages by immunofluorescence in FFPE lymph nodes?

I am new to using mice, and I would like recommendations for specifically staining most, if not all macrophage subsets in murine tissues, particularly in lymph nodes and spleen. My background is...

16 November 2020 3,412 3 View