How long do vaccines protect us against COVID 19?

Or will we have to get vaccinated every year, as in the case of influenza?

27 February 2021 1,048 5 View

What is better to buy a real-time pcr machine or an endpoint?

Hello everyone, we are acquiring a new molecular biology laboratory with the fundamental objective of identifying species of microalgae and cyanobacteria. Perhaps you could help us decide if it is...

24 January 2021 8,320 4 View

Can you trust vaccines that were made in a year, will help fight Sars-Cov2?

That vaccines have been produced in such a short time, makes me doubt if they will help fight this pandemic and if they will not do us more harm.

06 January 2021 3,469 19 View

Which are the specific cells instructed to constructing the "spikes" after a shot of a mRNA vaccine?

Hello, I am not a biology researcher, but I am working in intradisciplinary research and would like to know the answer to this question, which I have not being able to understand. This questions...

06 January 2021 3,845 4 View

Thawing or defrosting methods for frozen soil samples?

I have soil samples that have been frozen for a while and I need to re-acclimate them for a series of analyses that require incubation at 25C. I have been looking for laboratory methods but seem...

04 January 2021 4,862 3 View

Prediction of novel precursor miRNAs in viral genomes?

Dear, I performed a multi-sequence alignment (MSA) with all the complete genome sequences of SARS-related viruses. I then used RNALalifold from the ViennaRNA package, with default parameters, to...

06 December 2020 1,704 3 View

Which primer pair is better for amplifying endophytic fungal communities in roots of trees while avoiding host amplification?

Which primer pair is better for amplifying endophytic fungal communities (metabarcoding with Illumina sequencing) in roots of trees while avoiding host amplification? I would greatly appreciate a...

03 September 2020 728 3 View

Does Autodock Crankpep's parameter file contain data for Zn?

I'm trying to dock a zinc complex, but when I tried to prepare the ligand, I get an error saying that there are no Gasteiger parameters available for it. I know you can add atom types in Autodock...

29 June 2020 2,031 2 View

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Hello, I am looking for the original version of COHIP. To measure quality of life related to oral health, in children.

15 June 2020 5,166 1 View

What criteria should I take into account to buy a power supply for electrophoresis?

10 June 2020 7,900 15 View

How do you write a simplified C block code of this average-current control on PSIM?

This is a Buck (step-down) Converter and I am new to this program. I need to program with simplified C block and I actually don't know what to do. Can anyone show me how to do this? Or at least...

02 March 2021 8,233 1 View

Do you know good and user-friendly programs to measure plant quantitative traits?

For my research i will need to measure plant quantitative traits (especially leaves area and roots length, but would be nice to add some more information). I recently discovered...

01 March 2021 5,035 2 View

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

26 February 2021 4,413 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Is it possible to set a breakpoint at a specific DYNAMIC instruction using the GNU Debugger (GDB)?

Using GDB, it is straightforward to debug and monitor a target program by setting a break-point at a specific instruction, since the instruction addresses are known. However, we have two...

24 February 2021 1,598 2 View

Is anyone working on a project focused on immigrants/newcomers working in the hospitality industry and how they have been impacted by COVID?

The on-going Covid-19 pandemic has had devastating economic effects on many industries. However, few have suffered to the same extent as full-service restaurants. Numerous studies have shown that...

24 February 2021 9,496 4 View