What would be the best speed to pellet Leptospira interrogans?

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Ethylene glycol is newtonian or non newtonian fluid?

Some sources say it is treated as Newtonian as ethylene glycol has a higher viscosity than water, which affects the flow characteristics in simulations. But some also say it is non-Newtonian.

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Can any of you suggest how to find the detection limit.?

I am working on flourescence sensing of heavy metals using quantum dots.Can any of you suggest how to find the detection limit. Whether it is calculated from formula or we can get from instrument?

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Cloning of flaviviruses is difficult i have noticed that cells loose their transformation ability after cloning fragments inside vector any advice?

As flaviviruses genome is very frequently prone to mutation hence it is very difficult to clone whole genome inside vector what kind of vector and cells can sustain such amount of cloning...

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I am not getting proper colonies while ligating one of fragments in my vector the colonies seems to be normal but in light it seems lysed any reason?

I am working on cloning of a gene fragment inside my vector everything we tried to do correctly like making insert and vector with utmost care but after ligation the morphology of colonies seems...

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Can anyone suggest what amount of powder I have to disperse in the solvent for taking the FTIR spectra?

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I have a doubt in finding the amount of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic contribution in a canted system?

Is it possible to differentiate or calculate, the amount of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic contribution in a canted system? (Weakly frustrated canted antiferromagnetic system)

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How transmittance is dependent on the band gap and atomic structure?

UV-Visible NIR analysis

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Whether size obtained from TEM and XRD should be equal?

I have got crystalline size around 15nm from xrd but TEM is giving particle size 4nm

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If I dop a metal ion into the ternary nanoparticles can I call it as heterostructure?

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Whether the same synthesised inorganic nanoparticle show different heavy metal sensing by flourescence?

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Is there a problem with my RNA pellet?

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How does grain and grain boundary affect the ceramic when studying its dielectric properties?

I am not able to get good literature and the physics behind how first these grains and grain boundaries arises out of no where when we make a pellet to study its dielectric properties and then how...

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PBMC infection with virus?

In my study, I intend to infect PBMCs with SARS-CoV-2. After that, I will analyze NK cells by flow cytometry to see if their phenotype changes or if they show degranulation. After the infection, I...

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How to increase protein lysate concentration?

I am trying to prepare samples for IP. The pellet size is good and I am using 1% Tx-100 and using a syringe to further lyse the cells and maintain protein-protein interactions. I keep having a...

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What is the best practice for resuspending cell pellets during competent cell preparation (both electro and comp)?

I'm fairly new to making homemade comp cells and have done so with some mild success. What is generally an acceptable way of resuspending comp cells during wash steps? I've been told to swirl the...

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How do you get pure primary macrophage cell culture?

I have been harvesting monocyte-derived macrophages from buffalo and cattle fresh whole blood using the same protocol for years and getting good macrophage cultures. Below is the protocol that I...

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Pink bacterial colonies?

I am cloning an overexpression plasmid with my protein of interest tagged with mScarlet. After transforming my ligated product into DH5α bacteria and plating on LB agar, I noticed colonies with a...

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How to make soil water characteristic curve using centrifuge?

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How to determine tannin content in fodder pellets?

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Why my plant protein cannot resolubilize after TCA/Acetone extraction?

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Teresa Rocha

I always heard that leptospires go down at 5000 g. Less than that they are said to remain in the supernatant. I've prepared antigens like that, but I'm not sure about the degree of survival of cells after centrifugation.

Lisa Muslich

Hello, Doctor Teresa Rocha. I'm planing a research on leptospires obtain from urine sampels. Do you have any experience regarding separation of leptospira from another components in urine that I'm afraid might disturbing any results of PCR? Thank you so much for your help.