I am interested in medicinal chemistry field, which books are highly recommended to learn from?

I am at the beginner level in drug design and drug discovery, and I am interested to learn more about this field. Which books are highly recommended to start from and gives me all essential...

02 March 2021 8,437 2 View

Is there research limitation on the relationships between digital capabilities, market orientation, brand perception and business performance?

I am looking for supporting studies discussing literature limitations on the relationships between digital capabilities, market orientation, brand perception and business performance. Also, a...

14 February 2021 7,457 5 View

What is the difference between master and doctoral degree?

Hello there.. I've recently submitted my master thesis in marketing. As a reseacher, I now know that the purpose of a master degree is to know academic research tools and how to do and write an...

09 February 2021 6,692 9 View

Safety of the SARS-Cov-2 mRNA vaccine?

Dear colleagues I have the following questions concerning the safety of mRNA vaccines targeting the spike protein of SARS-Cov2: 1) The vaccine elicits antibodies which block the peptide domain...

04 February 2021 721 6 View

Why does the Bio-Rad C1000 touch thermo cycler is stuck in prevoius incomplete run, even after restart?

I ran 96 well plate with temperature gradient 55-65 and a melt curve. It took unreasonably long to run melt curve, after two hours of running melt curve I stopped it from CFX manager software,...

05 January 2021 9,313 1 View

For a new biofertilizer what efficient methods should I follow to test it's quality(non-presence of pathogens, types &number of symbiotic microbes)?

Also it's effects on plants.

22 December 2020 2,318 3 View

How is the right method to measure the charge mobility of a thin polymer layer?

Dear all, I have right now a problem with measuring the charge mobility of different polymers. I have built different types of thin layers OLEDs using different thickness types of polymers. In...

01 December 2020 5,673 4 View

Calculating BAL cell numbers for flow cytometry??

Hello I am trying to do flowcytometry for BAL fluid so i inject1ml of PBS into the trachrea and aspirate back(this done three times) . to calculate the cell count in bal i use a cell counter...

16 November 2020 2,367 2 View

How to make a solution of resazurin powder ???

I want to test chitosan nanoparticles as antimicrobial against pseudomonas How to use resazurin microtitre assay????

08 November 2020 9,533 2 View

What could I expect to happen if I dilute a solution of PMMA in chlorobenzene with acetone?

I received a bottle of PMMA in solution with no information about which solvent was used, so I started using acetone to dilute the original solution. I had not experienced any consequences or...

03 November 2020 4,065 4 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View

Can bacterial suspension be pipetted directly onto petri dish and agar poured onto it?

Hi, recently I encountered a protocol for plating which was not the usual method I have been practicing (pour LB agar onto plate, allow it to solidify, pipette bacterial suspension onto plate,...

28 February 2021 7,292 3 View

Difficulty in cloning of 1kb gene into vector?

I am facing difficulties in cloning a 1kb gene into a vector (pJIT163). I have my gene on interest (GOI) in pUC57 and want to clone in pJIT163 using SalI and BamHI restriction sites. I am getting...

25 February 2021 3,221 7 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

How do I change g/l into mM for bacto agar. I am trying to get the millimolar content of sodium and chloride percentage in bacto agar. How do I do it?

I am doing a salt tolerance-related experiment and for that I need to relate my salt levels to that in bacto agar. I don't want my salt concentrations to increase due to already salt content...

09 February 2021 4,158 1 View

Transformation into the Stbl3 chemo competent cells?

03 February 2021 1,111 5 View

How to Remove DNA From a Sample Without Rupturing Yeast?

I transformed a plasmid into yeast and selected for transformants by growing them in a selective media (liquid, not agar plate). My experiment requires that I continually grow/ split these...

01 February 2021 9,936 2 View

What is the composition of the solid and broth agar to grow Streptomyces from freezed sample? what are extraction steps of products from broth agar?

Please what are the composition of the solid agar could I use to grow the bacteria? what are the composition of the broth agar could I use to grow the bacteria and how to extract the natural...

26 January 2021 5,006 1 View

What is the best way and technique for serial dilution of bactria to get accurate number of colony ?

Hello I am infecting cells with bacteria in a well and then I am doing serial dilution of this well 1 in 10 and culture the two last dilution on MHA agar I have difficulty in getting accurate...

26 January 2021 9,256 5 View

How to reduce or increase CFU/ml value ?

I collected the water sample from pond and 1 ml of pond sample diluted with 9ml with water and 100 microliter was cultured into the MacConkey agar plates .Finally,80 colonies were formed in the...

24 January 2021 1,925 3 View