How to prepare a thin polymer film by post-polymerization/crosslinking?

24 February 2021 2,362 5 View

Mixed ANOVA or Multilevel modeling?

Hi everyone, I'm having some questions about choosing the right test for my experiment and I hope I can find help here! Here are the settings of the experiment: 1. participants are randomly...

14 February 2021 1,028 4 View

How to do variation partition for a distance matrix for microbial ecology?

I have bacterial, fungal, and protist OTU table. I want to know to what extent protist and fungi distribution can explain the bacteria distribution. I only know Mantel test could do a correlation...

11 January 2021 4,164 2 View

Are there any method to detect implanted stem cells?

Dear, We developed a microcarrier that was pre-seeded hUC-MSCs to repair a rat bone defect. However, we didn't use GFP or Luciferin to track cell survival. If there's any way to identify the...

15 December 2020 6,065 3 View

How to characterize the dispersion of aluminum oxide in Al matrix composite which reinforced by alumina during the powder metallurgy?

Now we could characterize the disperion of Al2O3 in AMCs (pure Al reinforced by Al2O3 ) after sintering. But the process of powder metallurgy has a lot of steps, which take long time. The cycle...

08 November 2020 5,244 3 View

Is that possible the filter of flow cytometry was failed so I got those data using FL1 vs FL2 and FL1 vs FL3?

The cells were expressing GFP and also incubated with PI for dead cells detection. This is my first-time using this BD Accuri C6 and I'm not sure if I need to set compensation (I tried to follow...

01 November 2020 8,360 3 View

What if the abbreviations of two technical terms in the manuscript are the same?

I'm wrting an article, there are two terms "Carboxymethylcellulose" and "Critical Micelle Concentratio" both have the abbreviations of "CMC". How should i distinguish them?

23 June 2020 2,115 5 View

ImzMLConverter installation & running issues?

Hi Everyone, Did anyone have a similar issue when install and run imzMLConverter? I followed the instruction on https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ibs/imzMLConverter/ and used the command it provides....

23 May 2020 3,936 3 View

How to revise survey items based on unexpected EFA results?

Hi, there. A few days ago, I posed a question about factor analysis of survey results, but I left many important details unspecified. HERE is the more detailed one. I develop a theoretical model...

06 May 2020 4,937 10 View

Many cases of identical answers to consectutive questions.How to revise survey items?

Hi, there. I am working on my Ph.D dissertation. I have run a factor analysis of 56 items with maximum likelihood and direct oblimin method. It turns out that only one factor can be extracted...

25 April 2020 6,267 10 View

Gel electrophoresis result for total RNA samples, 1.5 Agarose gel was used, How to improve the integrity of RNA?

Gel electrophoresis, RNA degradation, RNA extraction from fresh tissue

02 March 2021 5,433 5 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Precipitate after adding laemmli buffer to protein solution containing Potassium Acetate?

Hi, I am running a size exclusion chromatography experiment with a buffer containing Potassium Acetate as a salt. I analyse these fractions through SDS-PAGE. After boiling my SEC fractions in...

01 March 2021 2,622 3 View

What is the most suitable server for predicting protein structures in bacteria?

I have used the i-Tasser several times, however it has been unavailable for several days. I tried the swiss-model, but the output was not very pleasant due to the model used. Is there any other...

28 February 2021 4,521 3 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Are protein samples in SDS compatible with ELISA?

I have used an AllPrep DNA/RNA/Protein Mini Kit QIAGEN kit to extract RNA and protein from my samples. At the end of the protein purification, I resuspend my protein in 5% SDS. Will these samples...

28 February 2021 7,370 3 View

Problem with shRNA transfection. Why are only two plates getting contaminated instead of all?

I transfected my LNCaP-WT cells with 3 shRNA plus their NTC two weeks ago and split two puromycin selected cell plates on Friday last week(Feb 26). I checked for GFP in the cells, and they all...

28 February 2021 4,949 3 View

RIA. How to measure?

When you use RIA, with a control the unknown sample with antibodies, you bare in mind the binding sites of the antibodies. However you still need to measure labelled antigen (radioactive) and not...

28 February 2021 2,133 3 View

Any specific pipeline or parameter to analyse total transcriptomics study of brain tissue samples?

I have two groups of brain samples, control and treated for example. It was total RNA nova seq sequencing. I tried all the available pipeline like: star+rsem+deseq2, Hista+stringtie+cuffdiff,...

27 February 2021 356 6 View

Why is the efficiency of viral mRNA electroporation in PBMC low?

Hello, I have been struggling with the electroporation of PBMC with HIV-I mRNA. Although the quality of the RNA generated is good, and the handling of the cells in meticulous, the frequency of...

27 February 2021 9,233 3 View