What is the advantage of E6/E7 mRNA qRT-PCR assay for HR-HPVs over APTIMA HPV Assay in cervcal cancer screening?

08 September 2018 3,857 2 View

Systematic review Vs Scoping review?

Dear RG users, Is there a methodological difference between scoping review and systematic review? What is the clear boundary of these review types?

06 July 2018 8,423 10 View

Factors to be considered while working with a diagnostic marker ?

According to the latest publication on nature (https://www.nature.com/subjects/diagnostic-markers), a diagnostic marker is defines as 'a biological parameter that aid the diagnosis of a disease'....

05 June 2018 6,404 0 View

SPSS vs Stata?

SPSS and Stata are apparently useful for epidemiological studies despite personal preferences. What is really the basic difference between these two packages? Which one is more convenient and...

04 May 2018 532 0 View

Which type of citation manager is use friendly and freely available?

I usually use EndNote to mange citations. Recently I have learned that Mendeley, Zotero and Reference manager tools are also widely applicable in the scientific world. I need experience from...

03 April 2018 4,053 0 View

How viruses evolved?

I have learned from different literature is that the origin of viruses is not well known though there are different theories on the subject. I am looking explanations from RG users on current...

02 March 2018 2,576 5 View

High levels of antibiotic resistance found worldwide, new data shows. How this could be contained?

01 February 2018 4,463 8 View

How can we find a suitable journal to publish our research paper?

What are the most important tips that we should consider to find suitable journal for our paper?

01 February 2018 3,113 8 View

What is the meaning of Odds ratio, Risk ratio and Risk difference and how they are interprated in epidemiological studies?

Dear RG users, I am wondering suggestions from colleagues; what is the clear boundary between OR and RR? How can I easily understand and interprate these epidemiological tools? Reflections are...

31 December 2017 9,723 2 View

What are the different types of cancer vaccines currently being in use?

11 December 2017 193 4 View

What is the best way to keep an anaerobic chamber anoxic in the absence of hydrogen?

I'm a graduate student who works with an anaerobe, so I often work in an anaerobic chamber. I've been working on an assay that involves the steady-state of the quinone/ quinol pool. Anoxic...

03 March 2021 2,971 1 View

Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

Any good recommendations for participant recruitment for online surveys on a grad school student budget?

02 March 2021 4,293 4 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View

Is there a recitation score bank system for fair evaluation and assessment of student recitation?

In actual and virtual class, even if there is rubric for recitation, students may still fail to receive fair grades or scores. Others are active in recitation and others are not or others may fail...

26 February 2021 8,387 3 View

Is it efficient to do liquid biopsy to investigate the gene expressions of the tumor?

To do liquid biopsy and look for specific gene expressions there are so many published papers. Thera are different protocols and procedures used to isolate circulating cell free RNA or mRNA from...

23 February 2021 7,326 5 View

Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations?

Dear colleagues, Do you think there is cognitive oversaturation in the current pandemic? What impact can this have? And other manifestations? The question is mainly aimed at adolescents (pupils,...

23 February 2021 7,796 4 View

Universal bacterial primers targeting a mRNA?

Hi, I'm looking for universal primers targeting a bacterial mRNA to quatify bacterial load by qPCR in a complexe mixture (eukaryote and prokaryote RNA). Ribosomal RNA being depleted, I absolutly...

22 February 2021 9,969 3 View

Must a control group to be in the same semester that a experimental group for a study in education?

Hi everyone, I'm researching about mobile learning in higher education. Due to the small number of the students in the semesters, I cannot have a experimental and control group together. I'm...

22 February 2021 3,653 11 View

How can I get the coding gene sequences of Hela and U2OS cell lines? Is mRNA sequence of Hsp90 alpha tissue specific??

I am looking for hsp90 mRNA sequence in Hela and U2OS cell lines, I have tried through ncbi but always the output is hsp90 in homo sapiens not in the specific cell line. Kindly, could any one...

22 February 2021 1,853 3 View

Latent profile analysis based on two variables/sources of data?

Hello, for my master project, I would like to conduct a latent profile analysis about self-regulated learning skills. I would like to take two different measures into account when creating the...

21 February 2021 2,326 3 View