What mechanism is involved when chitosan is coated on magnetic nanoparticles?

Hello! I am currently working on coating of chitosan on magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. I am wondering how this coating process happened? i.e. through what mechanism that chitosan can be coated on...

13 January 2021 5,657 5 View

How to reduce background noise when testing cholesterol level in rat serum?

l've got rat serum samples with different background (from pink to yellow) and l'm trying to test total cholesterol, HDL and triglyceride in mice serum. l'm worried that the background noise...

14 November 2020 6,628 3 View

Is rotary evaporator a must before going through TPC, TFC and DPPH assay?

I am doing an optimization of ginger extract using doe software, firstly I extract the ground ginger with 20ml solvents of 60%, 70% and 80% ethanol using the ultrasound water bath in different...

23 October 2020 3,268 10 View

Failure in using Gene Pulser Xcell (Biorad) ?

02 October 2020 8,642 1 View

How to make the peak fitting better in TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement ?

Hi I am doing TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement by JEdit on PbTiO3-based perovskite solid solution found that my peak fitting is not that good. I got Rwp 4.584%, Rexp 0.825%, Rp 2.780, and GOF 5.560....

01 October 2020 1,981 5 View

How to quickly know the new research area landscape and find a research gap in this new area?

As a Ph.D. candidate who enters a new research area that differs from the research topic in the master period (e.g. shift form crop breeding to soil ecology), how to quickly know the new research...

23 September 2020 8,131 5 View

Is construction or real estate sector a pillar industry of the national economy?

Is construction or real estate sector a pillar industry of the national economy? The Chinese government once declared real estate sector as a pillar industry of the national economy in 2003. And...

02 July 2020 1,085 2 View

HEK-293t cell detach but still alive during killing curve set up?

Hi there, I'm trying to build a killing curve for HEK-293T towards hygromycin B for the following transfection experiment. I plated the cell at 1.3X10^5 cell/well in the 24 well plates the night...

30 June 2020 7,368 1 View

DNA absorbance test on SpectraMax Microplate Reader, why A260/A280 false?

Hi guys. Here is the problem: Using an SpectraMax Microplate Reader for DNA absorbance test, there is one problem that the A260/A280 is always wrong, sometimes half plate wrong and sometime,...

29 March 2020 5,972 3 View

What do chitosan-coated nanoparticles look like?

Hello! It is my first time to try to coat chitosan onto Fe3O4 nanoparticles. I am wondering what form of the chitosan-coated iron nanoparticles I should expect? After washing and drying, should...

28 January 2020 6,418 4 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

MD MOE RMSD

How to calculate the RMSD values for a MD simulation using MOE?

07 August 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

fatal error

When I tried to energy minimization my system, I got fatal error as below. Fatal error: Atomtype opls_116 not found Although I've already added this line: ; include water #include "oplsaa.ff/spc.itp" to [molecultype] directive in my topology.

16 June 2021 0 0 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

Buffer to disrupt platelet alpha granules for PF4 quantification?

Hello! I want to quantify by ELISA the secreted (from platelets poor plasma) and the non-secreted (from platelet lysate) PF4 before and after TRAP stimulation. I will use the ELISA from R&D...

03 March 2021 1,499 2 View

Buffer Exchange using column packed with sephadex G-25 effect on protein concentration?

Hello, If i am doing a buffer exchange for an antibody of 1mg/mL, does the elution lose protein in the process of buffer exchange? For example, if i flow through 500 uL of 1mg/mL sample, and...

03 March 2021 6,299 3 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View