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As we can see, Diabetes has become a common disease now a days. Many people are suffering from this. There are only medicines to control it. It would be if this can be cured by gene modifications.
19 June 2023 3,559 0 View
I know that Beauveria bassiana is an entomopathogenic fungus that is mainly utilized as a bio-pesticide due to the production of enzymes like chitinase that can make insects dead or sick, but can...
26 May 2023 1,754 0 View
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25 March 2023 6,241 1 View
What are the economic and cultural impacts of insects on human societies?
23 March 2023 5,843 1 View
How do insects contribute to soil health and nutrient cycling?
23 March 2023 7,733 2 View
What is Qeios? I have got repeated mail for Qeios priprint hosting. What is your recommendation?
15 February 2023 5,971 0 View
In the city of Dnepr and Dnipropetrovsk region (Ukraine) many damaged trees Ulmus pumila are found in 2021 -2022. Other elm species are not damaged. These are mainly mature trees. Young trees are...
06 February 2023 4,458 4 View
Hi, I will be whole genome resequencing multiple individuals from each of a set (> 2) of related species, followed by aligning each to its own species' chromosome-level reference genome...
28 January 2023 7,862 3 View
South Asia is prone to heat stress, we know heat stress reduces yield up to 35% depending up on severity of heat wave. I want to know how much of wheat is getting lost each year (Mt.) due to heat...
20 January 2023 10,170 0 View
Hello fellow researchers, I'm working on biodiesel production and I need gas chromatography in order to determine yield, the equipment has this column: Teknokroma TRB-WAX L:30 ID:0.53 DF:1.0...
15 January 2023 6,197 3 View
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 8,078 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 3,916 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 10,125 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 334 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 5,208 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 2,034 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 1,684 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 7,696 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 7,853 2 View
Hi everyone, I have some trouble getting good-quality high molecular DNA from Beauveria bassiana strains grown on PDA Petri plates. I have performed several CTAB and SDS protocols, but I didn’t...
25 April 2022 5,954 0 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 909 3 View
Can I define a few specific spectral lines (by wavelength or wavenumber) to ask if these lines have been recorded in stellar spectral surveys?
28 February 2022 2,814 0 View
what do we mean by freshly extracted teeth. Also how do we show the samples in such studies
25 February 2022 4,153 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 8,085 1 View