What is this little thing?

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What topic or subject does Production Engineering need to address more?

Contemporary scores or innovations in scientific approaches. Hybrid methodologies, emerging themes and cross-cutting issues?

27 July 2024 648 3 View

Can I use candle-jar technique to lactic acid bacteria?

I don't have the anaerobic generators (Anaeropac) so I'd like to try the candle-jar tecnique for the cultive of lactic acid bacteria

15 July 2024 8,890 2 View

Help to isolate Ralstonia from plant tissue?

I need tips for isolating Ralstonia solanacearum from eucalyptus. I have used some methods, such as isolating from root exudates, but it didn't work. I also tried indirect isolation from macerated...

02 July 2024 9,807 3 View

Does variations in the number of lattice nodes affect lift and drag calculation in Lattice Boltzmann Method?

Dear colleagues, I have spent a few weeks trying to figure this problem out with no success, so that I post this question here. First of all, I have to say I am new to LBM method. I am working...

11 June 2024 1,084 3 View

Inconsistente results with cell line LX-2, any advice?

Hi there! I'm working on my master's thesis and for my project I'm testing a new curcumin derivative in liver fibrosis. I'm working with the cell line LX-2 and have been having problems since the...

21 May 2024 2,171 0 View

Can a pegmatitic gypsum holds Lithium content ?

Hi to all, Just a question, knowing the brines origin of the gypsum and having found pegmatitic clusters of gypsum, with crystals up to 10-12cm, and knowing the ionic interactions of the elements...

13 May 2024 3,657 0 View

I'm having trouble extracting total RNA from a culture of macrophages derived from monocytes infected with Leishmania infantum. Can someone help me?

I start my primary cell culture in a 24-well plate with 2x10⁶/mL PBMCs obtained through Ficoll gradient. After 24 hours, I wash the wells with saline to leave only adherent monocytes (~1x10⁵) in...

12 May 2024 1,045 4 View

What unit is U/s in anton paar rheometer?

Hello everyone, I'm trying to obtain curves of friction coefficient as a function of entrainment speed using a tribology setup geometry in an Anton Paar rheometer. However, the software gives me...

01 May 2024 4,089 2 View

How can I set the distance between peptide and bilayer using Packmol?

I still find Packmol very tricky with parameters. I have two pdb files, one with a pre-quilibrated bilayer and one with the peptide of interest. How can I create a system with three copies of the...

29 April 2024 8,231 1 View

What requirements (or qualities) are most important to be a good university professor?

22 April 2024 3,009 5 View

Is this a facetotecta nauplius?

This larva was captured using a plankton net in the Persian Gulf during the summer. I believe it may be a Facetotecta nauplius.

08 August 2024 3,746 4 View

Please tell me the scientific guidelines (books) on Trombidiformes ticks?

books and scientific papers on the morphology, taxonomy and so on of ticks of the suborder Trombidiformes

17 June 2024 948 2 View

How to evaluate the toxicity of wastewater using zebrafish embryos and larvae?

I am looking for a methodology to evaluate the quality of wastewater using zebrafish larvae and embryos. Test No. 203: Fish, Acute Toxicity Test generally describes the procedure, but I have...

16 June 2024 6,473 0 View

Feeding zebrafish larvae properly, so how many grams or milligrams of Artemia should be given to 6 dpf larvae?

According to standard guidelines, experts suggest proper feeding ratios to grow the ZF healthly.

15 June 2024 4,354 1 View

How many grams or milligrams of Artemia should be given to 6 dpf larvae?

Feeding zebrafish larvae properly is a challenge if we need to grow them. According to standard guidelines, how many grams or milligrams of Artemia should be given to 6 dpf larvae?

13 June 2024 389 0 View

Could anyone share me the following article?

Liu, R.; Wang, Y. (1987). Studies on Chinese species of the genus Parapenaeopsis (Decapoda, Crustacea). Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica. 18(6): 523-539.

12 June 2024 3,701 0 View

How long time does it take for a fruit species to become naturalized and considered locall species?

Plant Taxonomy

09 June 2024 6,845 1 View

What species of ostracod is this?

from Pakistan coast

09 June 2024 4,378 0 View

How to perform the anaysis of taxonomic on raw reads from the mixed sample?

Hi, I am very new to Bioinformatics. Recently, I have the project that aims to perform taxonomic anlysis on raw reads from mixed samples taken from environment. For example, we perfromed NGS...

09 June 2024 6,537 3 View

How to read in multiple files in R and then make a phyloseq object ?

I want to do microbiome analysis using R, for which I have three folders that contain ASV data, metadata i.e. sample data, and taxonomy data for 56 sample studies. I want to read the data in those...

19 May 2024 5,077 2 View

Malcolm Baptie

Hi Francisco,

Some kind of ciliated protist. It is not possible to identify further at that kind of magnification.

Best wishes

Malcolm

Chandravadan Trivedi

It could be Euplotus - a ciliate.

Víctor Aramayo

Hi Francisco

It is normal to find ciliates or another protozoans organisms living with some larval stages of larger invertebrates. These tiny organisms could be flagellates.

Jeroen Van Wichelen

I agree with Victor Aramayo, (heterotrophic) flagellates at first sight...