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Hello dear community, I am working on the production of biodiesel via transesterification. I need some help if I may ask, I am wondering on how do you calculate the yield of biodiesel and how do...
20 December 2022 8,001 1 View
I have synthesized H2O-mediated solutions to make a thin film by spine coating, but there a problem that silicon wafer is water repellent, I was thinking to use an organic surfactant with water so...
30 November 2022 3,837 1 View
A transcription factor, by definition, is a: molecule that controls the activity of a gene by determining whether the gene’s DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is transcribed into RNA (ribonucleic...
27 November 2022 10,054 1 View
Hello, I would like to extract DNA from dried insect museum samples and try to amplify a short mitochondrial gene fragment (short portion of cox1). Reading several articles on this topic, I notice...
07 November 2022 220 4 View
I would like to ask about the depth of analysis for producing a paper on identification of species using DNA barcoding technique. For example, I have sampled 3 species of spiders in cave and...
10 October 2022 5,141 4 View
Hi. I would like to ask about a project I am currently working on. This is about obtaining the yield of the mixture at the varying amounts of catalyst and methanol volume for biodiesel...
25 August 2022 1,948 5 View
The R² results obtained with the "Adonis" function have changed after re-running the dataset with the new "Adonis2" function in Vegan. Does anyone know why or have had a similar problem?
10 June 2022 1,614 0 View
Both Aluminum phosphate and magnesium phosphate produces the phosphine gas which is fatal to insects. But the release is much faster in MgP compared AlP. Whether that will influence on the...
26 May 2022 7,627 0 View
Recently, I have been told that I can use E471 (glycerol mono- and di-strearate), which is an emulsifier, as an anti-foaming agent in a dairy-based drink. Do you agree with this suggestion?
28 April 2022 7,787 2 View
Unfortunately carabids.org is down. I am looking for European Carabidae traid data, like Distribution range size, adaptability to environment, habitat preference, body size, hind wing morphology,...
31 March 2022 852 3 View
what do we mean by freshly extracted teeth. Also how do we show the samples in such studies
25 February 2022 4,100 0 View
Hello all, We are looking at some multispectral images that were captured over a period of 90 minutes such that exposure settings were kept fixed. The sensor (Ultracam-D, Vexcel) has...
15 December 2021 7,990 1 View
Hello, could someone explain to me a procedure for DNA recovery after cyanoacrylate fuming (superglue) + staining. Do you previously decontaminate the surface with bleach or exituplus and then...
14 December 2021 6,380 2 View
I´m working with olfactometry and came across some strange odour threshold results. All four members in a dynamic olfactometer panel smelled a sample consistently with high and low...
30 November 2021 1,015 2 View
I am looking at the Axol's IPSC-derived sensory neuron progenitors user guide. It stated that the cells after plated need to be treated mitomycin C to stop flat-non neuron cells proliferation. May...
08 November 2021 5,374 0 View
Hello, Does anyone have any advice on how to measure soil moisture or hydraulic conductivity in a microbial greenhouse experiment? Seedlings will be grown in D40 cones and half of the sample will...
28 September 2021 2,324 3 View
Need to id both specimens in the picture Thanks
26 September 2021 9,352 8 View
From the literature review, one can develop a number of questions as user needs and collect views from users in the case study based on quantitative data. Can these results ranked quantitatively...
11 July 2021 3,689 1 View
Testing the effect of biopesticides or insecticides on natural enemies under laboratory conditions either it may consider as biosafety or conservation?
23 June 2021 1,172 3 View
Hi everyone, I know the presence of a tail spine isn't a common feature for Mobulidae, but i cannot find any image / description regarding the argument, both for living or extinct specie. Any help?
29 May 2021 7,016 0 View
I am studying the effects drugs have on uwb1.289 brac1 cells and in need of its wildtype. ATCC does not cell the wildtype only its inversion form. Is there another vendor that may have these...
07 May 2021 9,232 0 View
Knowing such a fossil could make the difference for dating our phylogenetic trees of the group. Pleurosticts chafers include May beetles, Rose chafers, Dynastine beetles etc.
13 April 2021 6,436 3 View
I have to do research on this subject. now I am doing background research, can you recommend articles that help me with this question thank you.
04 March 2021 1,642 1 View
I m looking for human sensory neurons as primary cells, can anyone please suggest me where i can buy them?
02 March 2021 383 2 View