Any information about dinitrosalisylic acid reagent end point color stability ?

I work on estimation of alpha amylase activity using dinitrosalisylic acid reagent If i put the reagent to stope the enzymatic reaction and allow the reagent to react with the produced reducing...

17 February 2021 7,402 4 View

Why does flow deformation occur at the test line and control line on nitrocellulose membranes (LFIA)?

I use 1% BSA in 10 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) solution when striping my nitrocellulose membranes with antigens and antibodies. However, I always observe deformed flow when my sample or running...

16 February 2021 4,224 3 View

Can any one explain why the ethyl ester Biodiesel (FAEE) has higher than that of the metyl ester FAME- both of them are derived from the same oil?

Biodiesels derived from waste vegetable oil transesterification with Ethanol (FAEE) show higher peroxide values than those derived by transesterification with methanol (FAME) prepared under the...

13 February 2021 193 6 View

How to improve results of system identification procedure?

Hello, I'm performing system identification of the lateral closed-loop dynamics of a quadrotor. My model receives a setpoint and should return position and acceleration. I've proposed a second...

07 February 2021 9,791 2 View

How can I set up UV irradiation for crosslinking lab?

Hi, I am using a mix of 2 polymers and want to try and crosslink them. I have a UVA lamp of 365nm and have tried the lab previously at 30cm above. How would you recommend I approach the lab and...

31 January 2021 8,711 3 View

Which air pollution/air quality books do you recommend for working with environmental engineering students?

I am exploring up-to-date books on air pollution and air quality, and I would like to know which books do you recommend for environmental engineering students.

25 January 2021 3,972 7 View

How to simulate Sloshing water using Dynamic mesh in ANSYS Fluent ?

I am trying to model sloshing water in a tank in ANSYS Fluent using Wall motion. BUT it seems that System coupling is not responding to wall motion and it works only with Dynamic mesh.

20 January 2021 2,963 3 View

Are there other models that meet the same purpose?

Both Jakes and Gaussian models are used to characterize the power spectral densities of mobile communication channels.

11 January 2021 759 3 View

What is the maximum time duration allowed between photoresist coating and exposure?

I have coated the Silicon wafer with photoresist (AZ1518) but until the exposure (Laser Writer) I had to wait for more than a week (Laser Writer was not operative) - would the photoresist still be...

03 January 2021 9,640 4 View

What would happen if all nitrogen atoms in DNA were replaced by Carbon atoms ?

The DNA molecule is in the form of a double helix, The atoms which compose it are carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and phosphorus

02 January 2021 4,402 3 View

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

What is the best temperature to coat an ELISA plate?

Hello, I want to control the temperature of my ELISA plate during incubations to get consistent results. In general, what is the best temperature to coat the plate with antibody? I have been...

16 February 2021 2,377 7 View

Can Immunogenic BNT162b vaccines protect HUMANS from SARS-CoV-2?

"A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed in quantities sufficient to immunise large populations. We report the preclinical development of two BNT162b vaccine candidates,...

11 February 2021 6,628 9 View

Difference between assessing EC50 in presence of physiological levels of human serum albumin and alpha1 acid glycoprotein vs. % human serum?

01 February 2021 1,825 1 View

How would you assess protein binding adjusted EC50 for a drug that has a binding rate of over 95%?

I'm in need of a reference or a method to come up with a protocol that allows one to get the protein-adjusted EC50 for an antiviral drug in presence of human serum albumin and acid glycoprotein.

27 January 2021 1,402 1 View

Where can I find the receptor binding domain (amino acid sequence) of ALL pathogenic viruses?

I want to compare the RBD of all pathogenic viruses? Is there a database or manuscript that anyone knows of where I can access these?

25 January 2021 3,843 4 View

Can anyone helps me with Autodock 4.2 scripts error ?

After opening the file, I operate command "Script" --> "Ligand Interactions" --> "Show Ligand Binding Site Atoms" and the warning appears as "This script displays ligands and surrounding...

15 January 2021 5,360 1 View

How to calculate binding energy and different interactions from a pdb file of protein-ligand complex?

I have done a docking study by using mcule.inc web-service. I got the .pdb file of my protein-ligand complex from there. As I am using a free student account, I don't have access to more...

14 January 2021 2,321 2 View

What are the insilico tools available to recognize transcription binding sites on a promoter ?

I have to control the expression of a gene ( in vitro ). For designing an optimal promoter assay, I would like to know more about Transcription factor binding region, enhancer and repressor...

11 January 2021 7,992 3 View

Tight binding disperion relation from wannier90_hr.dat file?

I have done ab-initio calculation using vasp and also have done wannier90 calculation and got the wannier90_hr.dat file which contains all the tight-binding hopping terms which are required to...

31 December 2020 6,445 2 View