Is there a way to automatically gather surface area from a 3D model based on color/texture?

I have been constructing 3D models of large corals and I was wondering if there is a software that I can use to gather the area of live tissue vs dead/disease? I am aware there is a way by tracing...

17 December 2020 6,991 1 View

How can sea water be used as an input for green hydrogen production?

If you extract sea water, and filter it, would it be suitable as an input for green hydrogen production? From an electrochemical perspective, would this be the only process step required?

13 December 2020 2,665 8 View

Linear vs Supercoiled vs Nicked DNA on agarose?

I am pretty new to molecular biology techniques and just when I think I have it all figured out, something stumps me. This is how this gel (1.5% agarose) is loaded: 1. GeneRuler ready to use cat#...

06 October 2020 7,523 4 View

Can the Bray-Curtis Dissimilarity Index show differences in relative abundances of particular species. If not, which analyses can?

Hi all, I have a dataset of fish surveys containing counts of 80 or so species seen at 11 different reefs over a several year period. I would like to compare the community composition between...

13 May 2020 9,976 12 View

Can someone translate this paragraph into plain English?

Hi all, I'm looking into observational studies to try and better characterize treatment-resistant depression. I'm having trouble deciphering the paragraph in bold below, having read it multiple...

19 February 2020 9,823 2 View

Predicting the Age of home buyers - model based method?

All, I have a data-set which contains information on both the type of property an individual(s) purchased, along with some information on the individuals themselves. However, I am missing age...

19 February 2020 5,728 3 View

Techniques for removing electrosprayed nanoparticles from collector plates?

Hi, I am electrospraying polysaccharide micro particles directly onto a flat aluminium collector/foil surface. I am now trying to find a way to effectively remove them from the plate for...

04 February 2020 365 3 View

Best way to weigh hundreds of samples for a hyb ELISA?

We use a hybridization ELISA as a PK assay. We have hundreds of samples from different tissues of various treatments. Currently we're pre-weighing the tubes, then weighing the tubes with tissue...

16 August 2018 2,261 3 View

Does anybody know about a good mouse FPR2/FPRL1 antibody for flow cytometry?

24 May 2016 2,899 1 View

What are the known effects of Egyptian Goose on native bird populations in the UK/Europe?

12 January 2015 5,730 6 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

PUC19 as a transfer plasmid for lentiviral delivery?

Hello, Is it possible to use pUC19 as a transfer vector to be packed in using the second generation viral particles packaging system( pMD2.G; psPAX2 plasmids)? As far as I understand it there is...

28 February 2021 4,868 2 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

Best plasmid could be used as a standard curve for AAV titration?

I have been trying to have a good AAV titration for my production and I have tried different plasmids to set up as a standard curve but each one behaves differently. i am trying to use ITR for...

23 February 2021 5,167 3 View

Will SARS-CoV-2 Spike be broken into S1 and S2 by denaturing conditions?

Hello, I am performing a western blot of my SARS-CoV-2 Spike-pseudotyped lentiviral particles. I denature my virus by adding concentrated virus to 2X Laemmli buffer at 1:1, then boiling for...

17 February 2021 4,844 4 View

How to dissolve querceitin in HEPES?

I am trying to do the isothermal titration calorimetry study of quercetin. I want to reach a final concentration of 5 mM quercetin in HEPES or MES buffer with

15 February 2021 2,159 3 View

Regarding immunology, transmissivity, herd immunity and vaccines in Sars CoV-2?

This is a follow-up on an earlier question regarding mechanistics of vaccines: why current vaccines don't block transmission. In summary, they don't engage mucosal immune cells to produce IgA....

08 February 2021 8,321 3 View

Why am I getting such large heats of dilution in my Isothermal Titration Calorimetry Experiment?

I am trying to measure binding of calcium to an expressed protein we are studying and am getting very large heats of dilution for the calcium solution in my control tests. We prepared a 1 M CaCl2...

07 February 2021 7,532 1 View

ACE2 Blotted as a double band?

Hello, I have recently run a western of Vero cells for ACE2. I detected ACE2 at the correct size, but it presents as a double band. The sample was prepared by lysing cells in 1X Laemmli...

07 February 2021 6,973 3 View

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Western Bands?

Hello, I am western blotting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from lentiviral using an antibody against S1. To prepare samples, I mixed concentrated lentivirus 1:1 with 2X Laemmli buffer and boiled...

07 February 2021 3,643 4 View