Kamoru A. Adedokun

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For how long does normal saline (0.9% NaCl in H2O) support fresh biopsies meant for immunofluorescence stain?

Does normal saline (0.9% NaCl in H2O) have a limit of support for fresh biopsies meant for immunofluorescent stain in terms of length of time?

15 September 2020 6,388 19 View

Is there any difference between glycerin and glycerol, especially as a mounting medium for immunofluorescence staining??

Is glycerol enough as a mounting medium without mixing with PBS for immunofluorescent techniques for frozen sections, and what is the difference from using glycerine in replacement?

15 October 2019 2,887 9 View

What are the potential metabolic markers for monitoring conditions of growing culture cell lines?

I like to know the possible markers of metabolism in cancer cells such as in monitoring glycolytic, extracellular acidification and oxygen consumption rates, effected by treatment with an extract.

26 September 2019 866 3 View

What best advice could you offer a group of authors whose article has been accepted and issue-listed but not published for more than 7 months?

How do you advise a group of authors whose papers already accepted but only listed for several months under ahead-of-print without publication as necessary?

24 May 2019 3,638 5 View

Osmotic Fragility Testing: Is there existing a specific conventionally accepted standard method for the assay?

There existing various methods of finding osmotic resistance of red blood cells in various disorders, including the use of calibration curve, direct colorimetric estimation of haemolysis, cell...

30 July 2018 8,730 1 View

Is test of significance/association enough to draw inference in a study involving exposure-disease relationship?

17 February 2018 9,799 3 View

Standard deviation (SD) or standard error of mean (SEM): which way to go; what are the factors to consider in reporting?

Which one under- or overestimates significance in the test of association?. Often times, I come across both choices in the selection of SD and SEM as a measure of spread, however, little is...

10 February 2018 5,110 1 View

Will COVID-19 impact peer-review process as well?

Currently, COVID-19 has caused the most turbulent times in the history of global epidemics and is virtually forcing many people to an uneasy "sit-at-home" in many parts of the world. Will the...

01 January 1970 6,375 40 View

New coronavirus strain (B.1.1.7) intensifies the scary alarm: what is the prospect of the available vaccines?

Definitely, we should not fold our arms in the wake of the fast evolving knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 mutation. Currently, a new British strain, B.1.1.7, sets off a scary alarm intensifying the threat...

01 January 1970 2,592 14 View

2020 Nobel Season Opens with Medicine Prize Now, Who Do You Have in Mind for Remarkable Discoveries?

Global spotlight is on 2020 Nobel prizes which is slated to commence today, Monday October 5, 2020. Many researchers have been mentioned and nominated in various capacities for their discoveries...

01 January 1970 8,291 3 View

What does it mean, a submission with "editor assigned" for three months changed to "new submission"?

I have come across a submission changing from "under review" to "reviewer invited", which sometimes implies that a reviewer objected to further reviewing a manuscript or one of the reviewers'...

01 January 1970 2,004 4 View

Publishing consistently in one journal or changing journal for different manuscript submissions, which one is better?

Over time, it looks confusing if there is any shortcoming in the choice of publishing continually in one journal, rather than choosing different journals for different paper submissions... I...

01 January 1970 1,850 5 View

Do journals really need a language editor (or copyeditor) after thorough review process before going ahead to publish an article?

Sometimes, I feel it is required for every journal to get a language editor. Do you think it is, or not necessarily required?

01 January 1970 5,375 43 View

What are the tips for drafting a successful grant application for schorlaly Research?

To write a captivating, motivating and scientifically attractive application, what are the needed tips to have one?.

01 January 1970 2,779 11 View

Who is a corresponding author?

Many questions have arisen due to designation of the position of a corresponding authorship among; 1. the originator of an idea (the owner of the concept), 2. the person who uploads the...

01 January 1970 4,376 55 View

Irreproducibility of research results after follow-ups:should academic institutions be compelled to return the grant money used to fund those studies?

Today, it is unarguable that numbers of research outcomes are highly proliferating, with very huge number being sponsored with grant funding. Again, one of the formidable challenges militating...

01 January 1970 2,588 8 View

The Boom & Bust Game: Impact Factors of Journals Influenced by COVID-19

Phil Davis, a bibliometric expert wrote when Lancet took the 2021/2022 impact factor lead: "No discovery or invention in the history of science can come close to the effect COVID-19 papers had on...

01 January 1970 2,436 4 View