Carolina Reyes

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Can yeast use Aqds as a redox mediator similar to bacteria?

Many organic dyes such as methylene blue, thionine and neutral red can be used as electron shuttles by yeast. Has anyone ever studied alternative redox shuttles like aqds with yeast? Is it toxic...

13 February 2022 8,689 0 View

Has anyone determined how binding of metylene blue to Nafion 117 affects the performance of MFCs?

I've been using very low concentrations of Methylene blue in my MFC experiments and noted overtime binding of it on my Nafion membrane. Has anyone else experienced this?

01 December 2021 5,235 1 View

Is it really correct to try and correlate porewater concentrations with microbial abundances?

While reading several microbial diversity studies I came across some where certain environmental variables were being correlated with microbial abundances. One of those variables was change in...

28 January 2014 8,137 9 View

Can PVPP or PVP be DEPC treated and autoclaved for RNA work?

I would like to use PVPP for an RNA isolation method, however, I need it to be RNase free.

11 February 2013 8,439 6 View

Are microbial communities less likely to vary at the cm scale vs m or km scales in marine sediments?

This is a question I have been pondering given the many recent metagenomic studies repeatedly argue sample replicates are a necessity for these types of studies. However, should those replicates...

05 January 2013 5,293 8 View