Anybody with an idea on how do design specific primers for detecting tomato resistance genes tm-1, TM-2 and Tm2^2?

I am trying to identify these 3 genes among some tomato cultivar collections and after aligning some sequences from NCBI, I couldn't find unique sequences to target for specific primers. There...

28 February 2021 606 3 View

Despite single-cell RNA, how can I characterize a new cell subtype/phenotype?

A new cell subtype was found out only during regeneration phases after a cuprizone-induced demyelination model. How can I characterize this cell? It is important to highlight that was already...

13 February 2021 1,245 1 View

Which are the factors that determine in a tourist the destination for their travel?

I'm working on a study of how selection criteria of Tourism have changed considering Pandemic + Vaccination expectation, so propose a new prediction behavioral dynamic model for Riviera Maya (Mexico).

09 February 2021 314 7 View

How do I prepare and store insect samples for JH measurements?

I need to preserve termite samples for future quantification of juvenile hormone in their bodies. Or extract the Juvenile Hormone and keep that samples stored for future quantification. I may need...

09 February 2021 1,995 1 View

How to measure beam radius over some distance in Lumerical fdtd (Collimation evaluation)?

31 January 2021 6,354 2 View

Equation to calculate Chlorophylls and carotenoids concentrations from a MeOH:HCl 1% (v/v) plant extract solution?

Hello everybody! I have performed an acidic MeOH:HCl 1% (v/v) plant extraction from Arabidopsis leaves to calculate Anthocyanins concentrations based on: Rabino, I., and Mancinelli, A. L. 1986....

25 January 2021 3,686 2 View

Cronbach's alpha or McDonald's omega? Which would be more correct and in what cases?

Cronbach's alpha or McDonald's omega? When it comes to reliability, we find different methods for its estimation. Immediately, the name of Cronbach's Alpha coefficient arises, as it is the most...

21 January 2021 330 4 View

Can someone explain why a methyl in phentolamine mesylate presents two correlations for 13C-HSQC, around the region it should appear?

Instead of appearing one single correlation of the signal of the carbon at 20.9 ppm (#11 in the attached figure), aligned to hydrogen at 2.29 ppm, it appeared two correlations (2,32 and 2,26 ppm)....

16 January 2021 4,774 2 View

What is the best method for removing power-line interference (PLI)?

In the paper A wavelet-based method for power-line interference removal i... we propose a new method for removing PLI. This method consists in identifying the ECG and noise frequency range for...

29 December 2020 9,233 3 View

Have you done or thought about doing an article about the impact of covid 19 in your research / work area? If so, which one?

Have you done or thought about doing an article about the impact of covid 19 in your research / work area? If so, which one?

27 December 2020 3,777 12 View

Is there any test to determine the cardiovascular risk of patients with obesity? from the perspective of obesity?

We found tests to determine cardiovascular risk taking into account lipid profile, blood pressure, age, history of diabetes, other laboratories. But when weight is involved, there is a paradox. I...

02 March 2021 6,036 1 View

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02 March 2021 3,060 3 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

Issues with Permeabilization during Flow Cytometry?

Hello Everyone. Currently I am working to characterize macrophages in the myocardium after ischemia-reperfusion injury in rats. Due to the low total cell number isolated from rat hearts I can...

01 March 2021 3,867 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

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Is it possible for two human neuronal cell lines to have different gene sequence for the same protein?

I am looking at the ATP1A2 (Sodium/Potassium ATPase alpha subunit 2) in two human neuronal cell lines. Expression levels of this protein seems to be almost equal when detected by one antibody....

01 March 2021 3,607 3 View

Is CD44 degraded in lysosome together with hyaluronan after CD44 mediated endocytosis of hyaluronic acid?

Also when RHAMM binds hyaluronic acid, they get internalized, will RHAMM also be degraded? Or both CD44 and RHAMM will be transferred back to the cell membrane? Asking for breast cancer cell line...

01 March 2021 8,169 2 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

What could be some reasons why unstimulated monocytes are getting activated?

Im doing PBMC isolation -> CD14+ enrichment using magnetic beads -> stimulation setup. My negative control is just cells in cRPMI but they seem to get activated over and over again.

28 February 2021 7,883 3 View