Why does silver nitrate turn brown upon addition of leaf extract but no increase in absorption at 400 - 500 nm?

I am currently biosynthesizing silver nanoparticles using ethanolic leaf extract. Upon addition of the leaf extract to 1mM silver nitrate, the solution turns brown in color after exposure to...

08 November 2020 1,009 6 View

How to present the results of a binary logistic regression for an ecological paper?

I conducted a binary logistic regression using the glm function in R. My binary predictor is the presence or absence of my study species. I have two significant variables but am just not sure what...

19 October 2020 5,398 3 View

Why do we shift fermi to zero in electronic band structures?

In most electronic structures the fermi level is always shifted to zero , why ?

26 April 2020 163 1 View

What is the relationship between Imagination and emotion ?

It seems to me that this relationship is foregrounded in for example Japanese arts, but that the two are often uncoupled , for example in arts in the UK? I'm not restricting my field to the arts,...

13 January 2020 773 3 View

What is the relationship between creativity and democracy?

We have just started ReCreaDe a 3 year project investigating the ways that informal and nonformal learning can widen the scope for understanding the relationship between democracy, diversity and...

02 May 2019 3,162 7 View

How to cryopreserve tobacco BY-2 cells?

There is a protocol by Menges and Murray (2004) Plant J 37, 635-644, but the main description is for Arabidopsis cells, and I cannot make out the exact protocol used for the BY-2 cells. Does...

17 January 2019 6,651 3 View

Is anyone working with Fabry cell lines?

I am currently looking for laboratories or cell line repositories that are working or have worked with Fabry disease who are willing to provide me some transformed Fabry cell lines preferably...

03 August 2017 1,805 2 View

Can i find a short (<1000bp), strong and ubiquitous promoter for drosophila in vivo ?

Many of theses promoter i can find are very long (>2500bp; actin5c or tubulin) and i need some space on my plasmid. So, is it possible to find a smaller promoter ?

16 February 2017 4,447 1 View

Can anyone help me with a data set containing windows API calls for use in detecting malware?

25 October 2016 1,910 2 View

Does anyone have a good protocol for using H2DCFDA to measure ROS in adherent cells as macrophages?

I'm culturing adherent cells (5 x 10^5 peritoneal macrophages and bone marrow-derived macrophages), stimulating them with some drugs and a pro-inflammatory stimulus (LPS) for 24hours. I normally...

27 January 2016 733 4 View

Which is the best place in the world for the plant biotechnology research?

I am searching for a good place for the Post Doc,

02 March 2021 4,053 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

Which bacteria are suitable for quorum sensing screening?

I want to find a quorum sensing inhibitor from plant extracts. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae. I looked for these strains...

01 March 2021 7,675 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

How to remove fatty material from plant extract?

The resultant solid was partitioned three times with 250 ml of petroleum ether (40-60/c) to remove any fatty material and evaporated to dryness.

28 February 2021 9,464 2 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View

How long do vaccines protect us against COVID 19?

Or will we have to get vaccinated every year, as in the case of influenza?

27 February 2021 1,048 5 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View