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What is the need of washing solid residue with formic acid prior to washing with distilled water?

I come across a journal reporting pretreatment of a lignocellulosic biomass using formic acid. After the pretreatment, the authors washed the solid with 6 volume of formic acid, followed by...

31 October 2016 1,198 3 View

Does anyone have experience using BioVision Ethanol Assay Kit?

This is the first time I have used the kit. When I ran ethanol calibration curve using the ethanol standard provided, I found that there was precipitation at the bottom of the microplate. The...

13 November 2013 3,141 0 View

For enzyme inactivation, is it necessary to adjust the pH of sample to slightly acidic (~3.8) before boiling it?

This protocol is reported in a journal written by Paolucci-Jeanjean et al. (2000).

06 August 2013 4,723 24 View

Very low A260/A230 ratio in extracted DNA from sludge sample using FastDNA SPIN kit for soil.

I am using FastDNA SPIN kit for soil to extract DNA from sludge samples. However, the A260/A230 ratio is very low (i.e. 0.2), which signifies contamination of humic substance. Does anyone use the...

28 April 2013 3,036 4 View

In designing an optimization experiment, can we consider duration as one of the parameters? (The experiment will be carried out in batch.)

Optimization using response surface methodology.

19 July 2012 8,491 15 View