Good sites to recruit survey participants on a grad school student budget?

Any good recommendations for participant recruitment for online surveys on a grad school student budget?

02 March 2021 4,293 4 View

What is the stability of 2 3-dihydroxyquinoxaline in acidic water?

I'm developing a UHPLC assay, and the fluorescent product is 2,3-dihydroxyquinoxaline. The reaction to produce this requires hydrochloric acid (about 1.2 M). Will storage in this acidic...

20 February 2021 5,820 4 View

What is the best way to improve the working potential window of a solid electrolyte?

My solid polymer electrolyte shows low bulk resistance show quite a low bulk resistance. However, the potential window (obtained from LVS) is very small. Please how can I improve the operating...

31 January 2021 3,340 9 View

What is the best procedure for measuring the pH of aqueous colloidal systems?

There has long been a debate among my colleagues about measuring the pH of aqueous colloids. As I see there is no general truth in the matter, so I ask this question below. What is the best and...

31 January 2021 8,203 3 View

Is carboxymethyl cellulose a better electrolyte host polymer than methyl cellulose and cellulose acetate?

I want to prepare a cellulose-based biopolymer solid electrolyte by solution casting technique. However, choosing the right cellulose derivative has been my major challenge. Among the many factors...

30 January 2021 5,355 3 View

How can I implement a Generalized Estimating Equation method on spatially autocorrelated time-series data?

I used Generalized Estimating Equations (geepack in R) on my regularly monitored (twice a year) plant abundance data in grid cells to evaluate their trends of density. Since these are time-series...

26 January 2021 3,833 1 View

How to extract isodose lines from radiotherapy dose cloud into masks that can be overlaid on images using python?

I'm able to load a dose cloud into python as a numpy ndarray using pynrrd. The next challenge is to extract isodose lines (like V50%) to create masks (bitmap images) that I can overlay onto other...

19 January 2021 8,503 2 View

How to calculate percent of identity in aligned RNA sequences with a sliding window ?

Hello, I aligned some RNA sequences to identify if some part are similar. I would like to represent my result with the similarity in y-axis and the alignement in x-axis. I want to calculate this...

13 January 2021 7,833 3 View

Which peak should I consider when calculating ZIF-8's crystalline size from XRD?

Hello, Using the Scherrer's equation, one could calculate, roughly, the crystalline size of ZIF-8. However, I am confused as to which peak in the XRD pattern should be taken for the calculation?...

10 January 2021 8,633 3 View

Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System?

Dear friends I would like to ask about your experience with the instrument (Bio Rad CFX96 Touch Real time PCR System) and its performance. Also I would like to know if this version need...

29 November 2020 2,166 5 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

Does Napabucasin soluble in dichloromethane and in ethanol?

I need to prepare a solution of Napabucasin (inhibitor of cancer cell stemness) in dichloromethane. The drug is expensive, so maybe somebody already tried to do it. If it is soluble, what is the...

02 March 2021 9,945 3 View

Help request in CST microwave?

im working now on TPV solar cells and metamaterials and i realy need our help in CST microwave i have a tpv cell simulation and i want to extract particullarly the absorbtion of only the active...

02 March 2021 2,246 2 View

Dapi fluorescence protocol for colon cell lines ?

28 February 2021 2,534 2 View

Does RNAiMAX transfection reagent work in serum free medium?

I diluted siRNA and RNAiMAX in opti-MEM and added to the cells which they were in the growth medium. Is it a right way? or should I culture cells in the opti-MEM medium for a while and not in...

26 February 2021 10,041 3 View

Has anyone had luck using cell lines other than HEK 293 (such as COS1) to package lentivirus?

I am looking to package lentivirus in endothelial cells but I am opposed to using 293 cells due to personal ethics regarding the source. I have done some reading and saw that COS1, COS7, & CHO...

25 February 2021 3,030 1 View

Unknown debris sheets observed in cell culture flasks?

Hi, We culture neural progenitor cells in T175 culture flasks coated with PLO-Laminin. We have successfully grown these cells with our protocol for months. Recently, we observed large sheets...

25 February 2021 3,443 4 View

How do I transfect a large plasmid into PC12 cells with nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor?

I have a large 16 kb plasmid, which I need to transfect into PC12 cells. Lipofectamin 2000 didn't work and with GFP alone the transfection rate is very low. I also tried the neon invitrogen...

25 February 2021 6,635 5 View

What is a good reagent for lentiviral plasmid transfection in HeLa cells?

I have been using Lipofectamine 2000 but was hoping there may be a better protocol or one for something like Lipofectamine PLUS reagent.

24 February 2021 1,633 4 View

Is it possible that Cancer cells could survive in heparinized blood for 48 hours?

Hi everyone, I am just wondering if we incubated 200 microliter of whole blood with 50 microliter of cancer cells(1bout 5000cells) do you think that cancer would survive for 48 hours?

23 February 2021 3,840 3 View