Andrea Masotti

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How many researchers are available to work in the southern part of Italy?

We have launched a survey among young Italian researchers (under 40) to explore the approval rating to work in the southern part of Italy. If you are a researcher free to join a research group in...

03 May 2022 584 0 View

Do you know real and documented examples of plagiarism in research papers?

I am looking for research papers copied (in full or in part) by other papers to identify a "percentage of plagiarism". Authors can be different. Can you help me find any papers?

17 October 2013 8,568 21 View

Does anyone know if iPS cells can be cultured indefinitively without problems (to differentiate)

Or within how many passages it is advisable to stay in order not to have troubles with differentiation? I encountered problems to differentiate iPS cells after 50 passages. Do they accumulate...

22 July 2013 7,843 3 View

Salivary miRNAs concentration and sample stability at room temperature

What is the concentration of mRNA and miRNAs that is possible to recover from saliva? Are miRNAs degraded (or not) after 2-3 days if properly stabilized (i.e. RNALater or similar)?

03 October 2012 4,079 2 View

Arsenic spectrophotometry: Is there a reliable protocol for As(III) and As(V) spectrophotometric determination?

Of course, HPLC-ICP-MS is better, but I do not have such an instrument. Alternatives? Thank you

21 September 2012 5,538 2 View

Recovery of circulating miRNAs from plasma/serum

Which is the optimal starting volume of plasma/serum to employ for miRNAs extraction? I tried 100 µl with an extraction kit specifically designed for the recovery of low amount of RNA, but the...

19 September 2012 6,475 35 View

Sperm RNA isolation

Are your sperm samples difficult to lyse? Do you extract starting from whole specimen or do you proceed to prior centrifugation?

04 September 2012 732 13 View