Has anyone tried to scan fluorescence IHC slides with microarray scanner?

I have an old slide microarray scanner (VIDAR Revolution 4200) and would like to give it a "second life", as IHC scanner array (fluorescence dyes), FISH over tissue or similar. Has anyone tried...

24 February 2021 9,210 1 View

Different antibodies show signal at same MW in SDS-PAGE, what is wrong?

16 February 2021 2,857 9 View

The modern system of international relations: unipolar or multipolar world?

Do you think that there is one center of power in the modern world, or are all countries equal in the international arena?

01 January 2021 7,026 2 View

Mie scattering of a Gaussian with curved wavefront by a sphere?

Can anyone please suggest some references? I would like to simulate scattering of a fundamental mode of a fiber by a microsphere. I am only familiar with a plane wave case, but in case of a curved...

01 January 2021 1,440 3 View

Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit 260/230 contamination?

I've been trying to extract DNA from rat liver tissue using Blood and tissue DNeasy mini kit. I followed handbook procedure and all of my samples had low 260/230 (

21 December 2020 7,100 3 View

Student's t-test or DeSeq2 for RNA-Seq data analysis?

Hi everybody, I am analysing RNA-Seq data of patient samples. One group of samples has a certain monoallelic deletion, the other group 2 copies of the wildtype gene. Now, I want to compare the...

28 November 2020 5,977 3 View

Cre-loxp system does not work (lines #017455 and #017320, JAX). Why?

We bought this year two lines (#017455 and #017320) to get specific expression of channelrhodopsin2 (ChETA, in this case) in parvalbumin-positive (PV) interneurons. We hoped that crossing a mouse...

16 November 2020 8,701 1 View

Why after cloning recombinant pET in E. coli DH5a I get a very low plasmid yield after extraction?

I chemically transformed a ligation product (pET28a and my gene of 3051 bp) into E coli DH5alpha competent cells. I plated 200 and 800 ml of my transformation on plates of LB agar Kan (25 mg/ml)....

13 September 2020 4,421 3 View

Good markers to distinguish D1R/D2R striatal medium spiny neurons?

Hi! I want to distinguish D1R and D2R subpopulations of medium spiny neurons in striatum in immunofluorescence. Most of the papers I found use transgenic EGFP mice targeting this receptors, but I...

31 August 2020 3,863 2 View

does anyone have the user manual of the geostrain program?

Hello, I am looking for the user manual of the geostrain software, I have downloaded the software but the user manual is not found. I will be very grateful for your help Cheers

14 June 2020 4,169 1 View

I need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles that are in ~100 nm size and do high resolution TEM to look at mesopores. what grids should I use?

Need to image mesoporous silica nanoparticles using the TEM. Also, need high resolution TEM images to see the mesoporous structure. Kindly suggest what kind of grids to use. Thanks, Shatadru

02 March 2021 1,787 2 View

Discrete Phase model (DPM) particle break-up has particle size limits during particle tracking?

Hello, I am currently working on simulating water droplet partciles in a closed room. When I use uniform particles, without "particle break-up", I can carry out the simulation without any problem....

02 March 2021 3,053 2 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

Can chitosan alone can act as a reducing agent for Cu(0) nanoparticle sythesis?

[Synthesizing Cu nanoparticles without using chemical reductants]

01 March 2021 8,359 1 View

What are the new 2D nanomaterials were used for Silver nanoparticles stabilization?

In the stabilization of AgNPs are vital in current research interest. However, some of the 2D nano-materials like graphene oxide, MoS2, etc... previously used to stabilize it. But still they shown...

01 March 2021 2,207 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

How to check the uv-vis absorption of nanoparticle by surface plasmon resonance?

I try to check the uv-vis absorption of Indium nanoparticle. Now I am measuring in solution, can I measure it in the form of a film?

01 March 2021 930 3 View

Distribution of particles in metal matrix?

How would define the "good" and "poor" distribution of particles within the matrix. Is there a quantitative solution to assess the distribution of the particles, which then having denotation of...

28 February 2021 7,397 8 View

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 View

How can I calculate the rdf of water molecules around 'Na' ions that are closest(adsorbed) to the nanoparticle(solute)?

Hi, I want to calculate the radial distribution function for water molecules around the Na+ ions adsorbed on the surface of a spherical nanoparticle using the gromacs trajectory dynamically? For...

28 February 2021 5,650 1 View