Recommendations on CO2 Resistant Rocking Shaker?

A certain protocol we have developed requires the use of a Rocker/Rocking Shaker in which our dishes with cells are maintained in the incubator. The rocking is essential to the protocol but we...

09 February 2021 3,291 1 View

Do you consider it is important to vindicate Spanish as language, in scientific issues and publication of scientific articles?

03 February 2021 3,756 4 View

How to calculate the difference in the electron density of a dimer and its monomers?

Hello, I need to calculate the difference of the electron density of a dimer and the the sum of its monomers. I tried G09 without success, even using nosymm in all calculations. The problem...

15 January 2021 9,537 3 View

How to interpret hierarchical regression when a predictor is no longer significant after new variables are added?

Hello everyone: What does it mean when a variable is significant in one step but then in the next step it's no longer significant? For example, in this article...

29 November 2020 7,354 3 View

How to estimate the optimal cutpoint for a binary outcome in python?

Hello everyone, I have a dataset of diabetic patients which has been used to train an xgboost model in several outcomes such as stroke, amputation, and more. Originally we used the continuous...

21 September 2020 4,970 3 View

Does anyone has achieved the installation of gromacs plugin in PyMol, complete in Linux, with its graphic interface?

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have PyMol installed, with a license. But it has been impossible to add the repository ppa:makson96/dynamics. Even downloaded from github, the package with the...

20 September 2020 6,870 1 View

How to perform power analysis for a one-way ANOVA in R when treatments variances are not exactly the same?

Hi! I've been trying to perform a power analysis for a one-way ANOVA in R using the pwr package. The equation that is employed for this is based on Cohen's f and assumes that variances among the...

16 September 2020 6,098 3 View

How do you find the electrons that occupy a particular orbital in VASP?

I think this question has already been presented here on this forum, but I was not very clear. I'm running VASP calculations involving a mixture of transition metal atoms like Fe, Mn and Co in...

07 September 2020 7,228 3 View

Why doesn't my dbRDA show all the environmental variables considered?

I am performing a db-RDA in R using the package Vegan and the function capscale. I have taken into account 24 environmental factors but the program only considerate 7 of this factors. I have 54...

26 August 2020 919 6 View

How to give to an image color a single representative value?

Hello, I am trying to associate the color of an image to a single numerical value. Images (see attach) correspond to different aloe samples that change in color according to the degree of...

15 July 2020 192 4 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

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23 February 2021 4,014 3 View

How to reduce static electricity of powder after lyophilization?

I am working on synthesizing and then purifying peptides using the SPPS system. After purification of the peptide, the peptide powder is obtained using a freeze dryer. When measuring the powder,...

22 February 2021 10,099 5 View

Can we remove the fmoc group after peptide cleavage?

I have synthesized the peptide using Fmoc based solid phase peptide synthesis. Also I have cleaved the peptide from the resin and lyophilized it, but later realized that, I forgot to deprotect the...

21 February 2021 4,537 3 View

How T cells recognise non-peptide antigens?

This might sound very basic question, but please share with me an explanation of how the T cell is activated when the antigen is not a peptide? What happens? And what are the molecules involved in...

21 February 2021 564 3 View

Help with Amyloid beta detection protocol (western-blotting)?

Hi everyone, I am a first year PhD student working on amyloidosis. I would like some tips and tricks to crack efficiently my current nightmare, i.e. the western blotting of the Amyloid beta and...

11 February 2021 2,513 3 View

How to assing secondary structure to calculated peptide/protein having xyz file?

Hi, I have an optimized structure of some peptides and I would like to represent it as a secondary structure - cartoon. Ok, so server apps ask for pdb file (like Stride). I tried in different...

04 February 2021 517 3 View

Identical spectra for L- and D-peptides after they self-assemble?

Hi dear all, I need advice. I have two peptides with the same sequence but one consists of L-amino acids only and the other consists of D-amino acids only. when they self-assemble in aqueous...

03 February 2021 2,032 3 View

FLAG purification, elution doesn't have protein?

I am purifying a heterotetramer, with one subunit having a 1D4 tag and the other having a FLAG tag. I purified from Sf9 with HBS pH7.3 and 0.002%LMNG first with Anti-1D4 resin and got an adequate...

02 February 2021 3,860 1 View

How long can synthesized peptides using SPPS be stored? Storage Conditions?

I have been synthesizing peptides on resin beads. I am wondering what best storage method is there to store the beads after synthesis before cleaving. And how long can they be stored in that...

02 February 2021 5,636 5 View