Why and how to avoid negative values in optical density by spectrophotometry when measurements corrected by blank solvent?

I am trying to assess chlorophyll-a content from coral tissue using spectrophotometry (with SPECTROstar Nano, BMG). However, I always seem to obtain some negative values in my optical density raw...

20 January 2021 1,542 4 View

What is the best way to differentiate L. rhamnosus and L. casei in plate co-cultivation?

I'm having troubles in the differentiation and quantitation of each bacteria population during co-cultivation. The morphologic characteristics are very similar and it's really difficult to count...

13 January 2021 1,550 1 View

Have you ever included two last authors in the co-authorship of a publication?

Hello, As you must know, it is now sometimes possible to have several co-first authors in the co-authorship of a scientific publication, when two persons led the paper and had equal contribution...

21 September 2020 2,995 5 View

Which is the viscosity recommended for using Methyl cellulose to perform oral gavage (mice )?

Hello, we would like to perform oral gavage in mice. The vehicle recommended for our drug consist on 0.5% methylcellulose and 5% Dimethylacetamide (0.1 ml/ 10g mouse). Could somebody help us to...

20 August 2020 8,720 2 View

How does internal resistance affects the self discharge in a super capacitor?

If ESR doubles for instance, what should we expect for self discharge?

30 May 2019 3,190 0 View

Article - Research to evaluate the compaction of soils under > 2 years test ?

13 August 2018 9,973 4 View

Wich are the best combination of Restriction Enzimes for double digestion?

I want to do a RFLP assay for DNA of bacteriophages. in this case I want to performance double digestion because not all restriction enzimes cut the specific sequence of strands of DNA. thanks...

06 July 2018 4,134 1 View

Exosome Quantification

24 May 2017 3,750 3 View

Somebody had use Millipore ECM590 | Blood Vessel Staining Kit?

Im trying to use it with cow tissue, but I don't know if Im doing the protocol right.

24 August 2016 3,467 1 View

How to differentiate an action of intervention of environmental surveillance, health surveillance and epidemiological surveillance?

The Contingency Plan for Brazil Public Health Emergency uses environmental surveillance, health surveillance and epidemiological surveillance as technical areas of intervention for public health...

07 August 2016 2,092 3 View

How do I increase the yield of my PCR product?

Hello, We would like to increase the yield of our PCR product. We are running a series of PCR reactions that is targeting ~1.1kb sequence. We begin each reaction with ~400pg of template DNA...

02 March 2021 4,029 3 View

Research on Supply Chain Management in Indian context?

Hi, I am planning to apply for the PhD degree in the Supply Chain Mgt. with specific area of "Cold Storage warehouses" during Pandemics and wars. Where lock downs and shut downs are frequent....

02 March 2021 285 2 View

PACYC PCR not working after several attempts. Would anyone have any suggestions?

So, I have been trying to run a pACYC PCR which will be used later on for a Gibson Assembly. However the PCR is not working. I have already tried gradient PCR and changing extension time; however...

02 March 2021 1,146 2 View

Does anyone know HRM channel in a 2 plex QIAGEN Rotor- Gene Q qPCR can be used as a separate channel?

I am going to have 3 different probes in my qPCR work that I am going to do. But I realized that the machine we have in the lab is a Rotor-Gene Q 2plex HRM Platform, saying it has green, yellow,...

01 March 2021 8,544 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

To dear Researchers, I was analyzing a series of concentration for estimation of Real-Time PCR efficiency. The concentration was 1:10. I used MS-excel to evaluate Slope. The result of slope was -8...

01 March 2021 8,683 4 View

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Does anyone have the experience of using Taq Man probes in the QIAGEN Rotar- Gene qPCR machine?

01 March 2021 5,311 1 View

MiRNA qpcr problem?

Dear All, mirna primer showing some problem in the melting curve? any idea why? As attached is the melting curve. The forward sequence is obtained from miRBase and reverse primer is universal.

28 February 2021 5,008 4 View

Why am I not able to use all VEP programs for the in silico analysis of avpr1b SNP's?

Good day researchers I am busy analysing the predicted effects of certain SNP's in AVPR1b. When using the VEP prediction programs (SIFT, Polyphen, FATHMM, LRT, Provean, Mutation Assessor, and...

28 February 2021 5,197 1 View

What is the difference between genotype and haplotype data in the ped format?

Hi everybody In the ped format for genotype, alleles of any SNP are represented by two columns (one for each allele, separated by a space). Is a column sufficient for the haplotype to...

27 February 2021 1,965 1 View

Runs of nucleotides in Sanger sequencing?

I performed site directed mutagenesis, transformation, and then I sent out plasmids for Sanger sequencing and found out that there is extension of DNA just before the stop codon. I am not sure...

27 February 2021 547 3 View