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

Agarose gel purification pre MinION sequencing?

Dear all, we performed an agarose gel purification with MinElute kit (QIAGEN) to extract bands between 3500 bp and 6000 bp for further sequencing with MinION. After the purification process,...

16 February 2021 5,178 1 View

How can I concentrate peptides?

I am working with an initial volume of 20 mL* and using a 10 kDa filter to separate proteins from peptides. With this filter I am able to concentrate the proteins upstream of the membrane....

15 January 2020 1,520 7 View

Why is one plasmid not transfecting HEK 293t cells , while a simliar second plasmid sucessfully transfects the cells with the same protocol?

I ordered and produced a plasmid from Addgene containing PIK3CA and GFP (pHAGE-PIK3CA-C420R (item #116457). I performed mini- and midi preparations and verified plamid production with a...

02 October 2019 4,078 2 View

Does anybody know the name of this plant from the Canary Islands?

15 April 2019 1,244 6 View

Any data regarding Calcium levels in glioma cells cytoplasm after adenovirus infection?

We are performing experiments on glioma cells. After infection of a cell line (U251), we see that Calcium levels increas even using a mock virus. Any reference that could explain this? Maybe...

03 March 2019 7,772 1 View

Input of WRF wind ouput to a CFD?

Hi. I am trying to a mesoscale and microscale simulation using WRF and a CFD. The output from WRF will be used as the boundary input. I was wondering though since WRF's output for wind is by grid....

21 January 2019 4,990 2 View

How to express units of DPPH radical scavenging activity?

Hi! we are doing some measurements about the DPPH radical scavenging activity of seaweed extracts. We know that the main units used to express this activity are in %. But we have different sample...

31 December 2018 1,744 7 View

How to calculate change in temperature on realistic resistor ?

When using the Specific Heat Capacity ,the following equation provides the temperature change: (T2-T1) = IIRt /(mc) I-Current V-Voltage R-Electrical Resistance t-Time m-Mass of the material c-...

12 December 2018 5,329 2 View

Softened Contact - Exponential - too overclosure. How it is possible?

Hi, It's my first topic so I introduce myself. I'm Iulen, I'm starting a PhD in Zaragoza (Spain). I have created an exponential contact interaction between a deformable body and a rigid body...

09 October 2018 9,097 0 View

What is the state of the drug inside solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs)?

I am a little confuse with the mechanism of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs). The main point of encapsulating drugs into SLNs is because some drugs have low solubility in water. Therefore, SLNs...

01 March 2021 3,703 3 View

Uncertianiny in using dry or wet basis in mixing a sediment with fuel oil?

Hello I'm currently working on a topic related to studying the anaerobic biodegradation of TPH in marine sediments. In this work, sediment should be mixed with fuel oil to a concentration of 20 g...

24 February 2021 9,839 3 View

The Role of Town Planners in CAV Use?

Colleagues and I are about to begin a project investigating the role of town planners and local authorities in establishing the introduction of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). What...

21 February 2021 2,247 3 View

How to overcome convergence issues in concrete arch models?

Hi, I have modelled a three-span arch bridge with soil fill over along with pedestals. The FE modelling is done in LUSAS with HX8M solid elements (i.e. 3D solid modelling). The non-linearity is...

20 February 2021 1,346 2 View

Solid Phase Extraction of drug product containing nanoparticles ?

Hi Everyone, I am trying to develop an SPE method for the vaccine which contains Matrix-M (saponin Quillaja Saponaria ) which is in nano-particle form and size is around 40nm. These nanoparticles...

16 February 2021 1,389 2 View

Is there a paper that shows the effect of the thermal conductivity of solid electrolytes on lithium secondary batteries?

I want to know the effect of thermal conductivity characteristics of solid electrolytes on the all-solid battery, but I don't know which paper to refer to. Is there a paper on thermal behavior?

15 February 2021 8,806 2 View

How to match the XRD of a compound for which there is no JCPDS file ? Is there any other characterization to claim the synthesis of desired compound?

I have synthesized LiMgF3 using the starting precursors LiF and MgF2 via solid state diffusion method. Now I am looking for some characterization to claim the desired product, as there is no...

09 February 2021 921 3 View

COMSOL-lost contact problem-step study problem?

I'm trying to make a deep drawing model that contemplates a force on the blankholder and a sliding of the sheet under the same blankholder (a bit different from the 'die forming' model in the...

02 February 2021 7,599 1 View

Desalting using DSC- 18 SPE columns?

I am looking forward to remove excess of salt form my metal based porphyrin and trying DSC-18 columns for the same, can someone suggest me how how can one decide the polarity of the solvent to...

01 February 2021 9,076 1 View

How best to model transportation during usage phase of LCA for a mobile water tank in SimaPro (kg*km)?

I would like to model the usage phase of a mobile water tank. The tank is transported on a tractor or lorry so I need to model the transportation too. My problem is that when I select a...

01 February 2021 6,759 3 View