How to make Fast Green FCF from powder?

Hi everyone We need Fast Green to electroporate plasmid into mice embryos, therefore we simply need it to see some color in the liquid we are electroporating so that electroporation is more...

07 February 2021 1,671 2 View

Why and how to avoid negative values in optical density by spectrophotometry when measurements corrected by blank solvent?

I am trying to assess chlorophyll-a content from coral tissue using spectrophotometry (with SPECTROstar Nano, BMG). However, I always seem to obtain some negative values in my optical density raw...

20 January 2021 1,542 4 View

Why green band returns more inliers than NIR band during image registration?

Hello I'm using image registration over the bands of the micasense red-edge camera. Using RedEdge band as the fixed image. After removing inliers I can notice that inliers of the NIR band are...

13 January 2021 3,980 2 View

Problem executing MrBayes. Help?

Hi, I'm trying to run MrBayes 3.2.7 with a matrix of 37 species and 20561 nucleotides. I consistently receive the following error: MrBayes > Execute...

18 November 2020 3,867 3 View

Which commercial DNAse do you recommend me?

Which is the best DNAse (or DNAse kit) you have worked with? I am looking for a good DNAse that can remove DNA from an RNA sample in one pass. Material would be used for future RT-qPCR analysis....

18 November 2020 8,769 3 View

Is there same kind of limit when annealing two DNA products?

Hi there I'm planning on annealing two PCR products to perform some mutagenesis in a plasmid. I was recommended to try and keep it to 600pb each, for example, but for one of the plasmids there...

15 November 2020 8,656 3 View

What is the relationship between plant hormones and plant allometry?

Hi, i'm looking for bibliographic references that explains the relationship between plant hormones and plant allometry (relation between the size of an organism and aspects of its physiology and...

21 September 2020 9,653 6 View

Why does the value of fresh and dry weight change in a plant?

In an experiment I found that the fresh weight of the root was less than that of the stem, however when I found the dry weight, the weight of the stem was less than that of the root. Why are these...

20 September 2020 2,269 16 View

Animals - Special Issue, "Learning Theory Applied to the Welfare of Animals", looking to submit?

Dear Colleagues, Please see the following link and information for more details. If you are thinking about submitting, please feel free to reach out to me directly here or at...

09 September 2020 6,361 1 View

An enrichment meta-analysis: How do we best refine our publication search?

Here's a question that extends beyond applied animal behavior researchers, with hopefully a few researchers or even librarians with expertise in massive article searches that might be able to...

21 August 2020 5,211 3 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Waters 2707 HPLC autosampler problem?

I am using a 2707 waters HPLC device. When I try to inject a sample, it says missing plate or rack. I changed the needle and calibrated its position but I still get the same problem. I even get...

02 March 2021 1,408 1 View

Should we change media after1st 6hrs after plating HUVEC bought from INVITROGEN?it's not recomended by invitrogen.Will DMSO present in stock matter?

We have HUVEC bought from Invitrogen. Cat no -C-003-5c. while first plating the cells we have bought the protocol suggests not to centrifuge the cell with media to remove the DMSO. Should we...

02 March 2021 3,713 2 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

Benefits of the 24 welled plate?

We have always used the 96 welled plate, the 48 welled plate but apparently there is much evidence on the 24 welled plate and above all its benefits.It states it is the same you would use on ELISA...

28 February 2021 1,149 1 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View