What mechanism is involved when chitosan is coated on magnetic nanoparticles?

Hello! I am currently working on coating of chitosan on magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. I am wondering how this coating process happened? i.e. through what mechanism that chitosan can be coated on...

13 January 2021 5,657 5 View

How to reduce background noise when testing cholesterol level in rat serum?

l've got rat serum samples with different background (from pink to yellow) and l'm trying to test total cholesterol, HDL and triglyceride in mice serum. l'm worried that the background noise...

14 November 2020 6,628 3 View

Is rotary evaporator a must before going through TPC, TFC and DPPH assay?

I am doing an optimization of ginger extract using doe software, firstly I extract the ground ginger with 20ml solvents of 60%, 70% and 80% ethanol using the ultrasound water bath in different...

23 October 2020 3,268 10 View

Failure in using Gene Pulser Xcell (Biorad) ?

02 October 2020 8,642 1 View

How to make the peak fitting better in TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement ?

Hi I am doing TOPAS Rieltveld Refinement by JEdit on PbTiO3-based perovskite solid solution found that my peak fitting is not that good. I got Rwp 4.584%, Rexp 0.825%, Rp 2.780, and GOF 5.560....

01 October 2020 1,981 5 View

How to quickly know the new research area landscape and find a research gap in this new area?

As a Ph.D. candidate who enters a new research area that differs from the research topic in the master period (e.g. shift form crop breeding to soil ecology), how to quickly know the new research...

23 September 2020 8,131 5 View

How to fabricate metal foil or powder from lumps?

I prepared alloy lump by Arc melter. The lumps is ball shape with 5 mm in diameter. I would like to synthesize metal foil in um or powder in um or nm from the lump. I searched some equipment like...

13 August 2020 4,067 1 View

Is construction or real estate sector a pillar industry of the national economy?

Is construction or real estate sector a pillar industry of the national economy? The Chinese government once declared real estate sector as a pillar industry of the national economy in 2003. And...

02 July 2020 1,085 2 View

HEK-293t cell detach but still alive during killing curve set up?

Hi there, I'm trying to build a killing curve for HEK-293T towards hygromycin B for the following transfection experiment. I plated the cell at 1.3X10^5 cell/well in the 24 well plates the night...

30 June 2020 7,368 1 View

DNA absorbance test on SpectraMax Microplate Reader, why A260/A280 false?

Hi guys. Here is the problem: Using an SpectraMax Microplate Reader for DNA absorbance test, there is one problem that the A260/A280 is always wrong, sometimes half plate wrong and sometime,...

29 March 2020 5,972 3 View

Is there anyone who experienced with cytotoxic effect of Hoescht 33342 dye?

Is Hoechst toxic to cells? In general, it is known as non-toxic. I am working with dsRED MDA-MB-231 cell line. I applied it for my PDMS-based microfluidic platform, for this reason, I incubated...

26 February 2021 9,119 3 View

Why anti-CD20 or other antibodies are not used to label target cells in flow cytometry t-cell cytotoxicity assay?

New to the field of cell therapy. Why fluorescent-labeled antibodies to target cell antigens are not used for determining target cell count by flow cytometry in cytotoxicity assay (eg car-t)? Cell...

21 February 2021 3,278 3 View

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The tested drug is a chemotherapeutic agent the type of the cell lines is colorectal cancer cell lines the cell viability was compared to the control my thought was the cells were activated by...

02 February 2021 1,256 11 View

Can I polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

I want to perform the synthesis of a hydrogel and I want to know if I can polymerize NIPPAm with PEGmethacrylate or only with PEGacrylate?

02 February 2021 2,106 6 View

Why is WST-1 assay giving inconsistent result?

i want to determine the cytotoxicity activities of some drugs with WST-1 assay using 293T cell lines in 96 well plate. I usually seed 10,000 cell per well and incubate for ~48 hours. I expected...

01 February 2021 8,554 3 View

How can solve/disperse silicon nanoparticles in water?

I want to add silicon nanoparticles to my hydrogel, but when I sonicated these particles with water to disperse them in water, they agglomerated on the water's surface. How can I disperse them in...

26 January 2021 213 4 View

Anyone know how to dilute strong hydrogel structure?

I am working on PVA-GMA hydrogel that is a really strong polymeric structure like rubber. Because I am in the middle of analysis, it is difficult to dissolve the gel using a common solvent. I...

20 January 2021 3,501 2 View

How can I stain 3d printed cells in hydrogel without damaging the gel?

I tried staining my cells in a gel using standard protocols with 4PF% for fixation and triton-X or saponin for permeabilization but the gel always gets damaged throughout the steps, and at the end...

17 January 2021 4,170 1 View

Can we use Spray dried solid lipid nanoparticles for MTT assay?

I have synthesized Quercetin SLNs and spray dried them using Mannitol to avoid drug leakage. However, I need to perform MTT (cytotoxicity). Can I use the powder directly disperse it into media and...

08 January 2021 6,783 3 View

Why Selenium nanoparticles synthesized by PEG 200 could not be scaled up ?

I could not synthesize Selenium nanoparticles by PEG 200 at up-scale ( more than 100 ml) as it got aggregated while at small amounts it works fine , I work with 850 PPM using selenium powder in...

08 January 2021 10,049 1 View