What program can I use to caclulate dipole moment efficiently and without the need of excessive computation?

Hi, I am a third year chemistry undergrad doing my group project in which I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules. to do this we require the chemical properties of these...

24 February 2021 1,384 3 View

Do you kow of any database containing data on retention time, log P and polarizability for a large number of molecules?

Hi, I am a chemistry undergraduate doing my dissertation project on HPLC. In my project, I need to predict the HPLC retention time of 20 aromatic molecules, the calibration set. To do this I will...

24 February 2021 2,602 1 View

Oil red O protocol for flow cytometry?

18 February 2021 4,214 3 View

After staining a gel with coomassie can I stain the same gel with fluorescent dye?

I want to know if it is possible to be done the inverse to view / verify other bands that not look in staining a gel with coomassie.

01 February 2021 8,647 5 View

What a 50% positive predictive value mean?

I want to explain a threshold of 50% PPV to describe how some assays perform when the prevalence of disease is high or low

07 October 2020 8,657 6 View

Author who is not actually an author of some of my publications?

I came out to realize that a person who is enlisted as an author of some publications that I am the REAL AUTHOR, is marked instead of me. How do I change that? Example: Standardized sampling...

21 September 2020 378 7 View

How to increase the short circuit current density in a perovskite solar cell?

I'm optimizing the procedure for making inverted PSCs: ITO / PTAA(8nm) / CsMAFA(320nm) / PCBM(60nm) / BCP(9nm) / Ag(100nm). The cells look very good, I have a very good FF (0.70) and Voc (1.0V),...

16 September 2020 6,286 8 View

After SARS-CoV-2 has lost its envelope, e.g. due to surfactant disinfectants, could the RNA alone be a infectious agent for COVID-19?

Although surfactant disinfectants are generally considered to have virucidal activity against all lipid enveloped viruses, some authors claim their inefficiency against SARS-CoV-2 (as it happens...

13 July 2020 7,389 4 View

Could the end of the spread of COVID-19 be determined by environmental factors?

Beyond temperature and humidity, are there other parameters that can explain the winter spread of COVID-19? I would like to know the various opinions and scientific evidence on this intriguing issue.

27 May 2020 3,357 13 View

Could the search for a pandemic culprit lead to conflicts or new Cold Wars among Countries?

I'd like to share opinions and evidence on the following topic: Is the search for a culprit of the COVID-19 pandemic, assuming that it is an investigation with a reliably achievable result, a...

22 May 2020 5,803 8 View

Can I get information about research laboratories that are currently having in culture, internationally/locally standardised microorganisms?

Microorganisms of interest include; E.coli; Salmonella typhimurium; Pseudomonas aeroginosa; Streptoccocus pneumoniae; Staphyloccocus aureus and Candida albicans. Locations closer to Port...

18 February 2021 6,500 3 View

Any probe or assay for the detection of Cysteine in yeast invivo ?

Dear fellow researchers, I would like to detect the cysteine levels for yeast in vivo. I would really appreciate if anyone could suggest me any fluorescent probe or assay kit available. Currently...

11 February 2021 3,292 3 View

Can I use asymmetric PCR amplification on a pool of circular plasmids to increase each plasmid's signal?

Hello, Here is my experiment: I transfect in a plasmid that has been cut once (a linear piece of dsDNA) into human cultured cells. I wait 48hrs to allow the cells to "repair" the plasmid making...

10 February 2021 6,090 3 View

Which fungicide are good for primary cells? Does it yeast contamination? How to get rid of them without killing the cells? How to get rid of spores?

Hello! Our lab is working with primary cells which we are isolating from the colorectal tissue. During the isolation, we are washing the tissue with pen-strep and then also add some pen-strep in...

07 February 2021 8,258 3 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

Western blot transfer problem - what could cause it?

Hi everyone, We are doing western blot with yeast protein extracts. We are applying a wet transfer method using Tris-Gly as a transfer buffer (with 10% methanol) and running it with constant...

25 January 2021 4,228 6 View

Can someone explain why my A260/A280 ratio is lower than 1?

We are conducting a measurement of Ribonucleic acid from baker's yeast (S. cerevisiae) (Sigma-Aldrich R6750) concentration using Eon Biotek Microplate reader. We dilute the RNA in various...

24 January 2021 9,830 3 View

Has someone used TTC agar overlay method and can help me?

I have tried to use TTC agar overlay method for a few times to identify respiratory-deficient yeast which were affected by EthBr. The problem is that cells which should have stayed white also have...

22 January 2021 585 10 View

When sequencing a plasmid to confirm transformation has been successful, would I have to sequence the full plasmid?

I have transformed some DH5alpha cells with point mutated proteins placed in pcDNA plasmid and extracted the plasmid; now I have to send the plasmid for sequencing for confirming the presence of...

19 January 2021 5,842 3 View

Is MOPS buffer needed for in vitro horizontal gene transfer in thr coculture of two different pathogenic bacterial species?

Actually i am working on possibilities of horizontal gene transfer of resistant gene in broth coculture of two different types of bacteria, and the protocol i follow involves the use of MOPS...

19 January 2021 4,566 2 View