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I am looking for recommendations to effectively culture pesticide resistant bacteria. I tried with normal LB agar without pesticides and results are not satisfying as only one particular...
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Our lab have Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 25423 and I study other papers that use it. But now we can not find it in ATCC site. What did happen?
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i am working in a project where we want to separate the magneto-tactic bacteria from the Egyptian aquatic environment and use the magnetosomes of these bacteria after that what is the technique...
10 October 2018 5,680 6 View
I have a list of taxa names at the family and genus level and their relative abundances. Is it possible to make a phylogenetic tree out with just the names and also add in a marker to demonstrate...
20 September 2018 9,350 3 View
Hi all, I am working on growing actinomycetes in broth and to measure its turbidity in indicating the presence of growth. Why are we measuring optical density of bacteria at 600nm in general?...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uFmLG51NkE If a significant percentage of this type of bacteria's genetic make up is consequent upon this behaviour can it be regarded as an example of an...
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Whilst snorkelling I came upon this sea urchin which seems to have developed this "growth" on its side. The patch is on its side and it feels hard to the touch. After some research I found that...
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Hello colleagues, Could anyone provide us with a well tested protocol - based on your own experience - for using comet assay in detecting DNA damage in bacteria? We could find some published...
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I conducted a Distance-based redundancy analysis (similar to RDA or PCoA) in the R package vegan (Oksanen et al. 2016) on both on both a Bray-Curtis and on a weighted, rooted, Unifrac matrix of...
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I mean it would be agar surface down or up?
22 August 2018 9,216 15 View
There has been a very hot and dry summer. This phenomenon have been observed in several lakes. The lakes are not saline and have low impact of human activity. The bacteria are rod shaped and...
17 August 2018 6,935 6 View
In our lab we are working on different bacterial communities. Accidentally we have found a bacteria (as contamination) which showing positive activity on some plate assay (secondary metabolites)....
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Granulysin is one of many enzymes in the lytic granules of T cells and NK cells. Publications suggest positive charges drive it to bind to bacteria and mitochondrial membranes. Does it have a...
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Hi, I was thinking of why should one prefer lyophilization over dry powder filling. All the APIs are manufactured in solid form and solid excipients like mannitol, trehalose, etc. Can the API...
30 July 2018 3,009 4 View
I our WWTP I have notice a suddenly drop of SVI. From 170 to 80 . in the last week the SVI was about 170 but after few days the SVI decreased to 107, in the next day to 80 and yesterday to 65....
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Guys, I have been freeze-drying Vancomycin for some studies. But since the last three batches, the number of vials breaking during lyophilization are too much! I haven't changed the material...
25 July 2018 9,963 3 View
I've studied quite a few papers along the way in regards to the use of S. aureus as a testing material to test the capability of corrosion inhibitor. However, non of the paper actually told me...
08 July 2018 9,476 3 View
How can we determine which pathogen (bacteria, fungi, virus) is responsible for a given plant disease from a phenotypic observation (for example: spots, smudges on leaves) ??
07 July 2018 8,942 14 View
For a database project, I need comprehensive list/data of heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria. I'd appreciate if you share a link.
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