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Dilutions

Dilution

1. The act of being diluted.

2. A diluted solution or mixture.

3. In microbiologic techniques, a method for counting the number of viable cells in a suspension; a sample is diluted to the point where an aliquot, when plated, yields a countable number of separate colonies.


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What bacteria could this be?

... studying BSc Biology and for part of my food microbiology assessment, we have had to grow bacteria from cheese types in cultures (of different dilutions). So I have managed to identify all them apart from this one, I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. The bacteria ...

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by jessaimeewhite
Sat Dec 08, 2012 1:34 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: What bacteria could this be?
Replies: 0
Views: 372

cell number dilutions

Hi..I jus started wrk in a cancer bio lab wer i amsupposed to do anxtt preassay optimisation with diff cell num 4 thp1 cellline..numbers from 10*10^4..8*10^4....6*10^4...4*10^4....and 2*10^4..how to do do it say aftwer trypan blue hemocytometer count i get 42*10^4 cells/ml..plz help

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by ankitaalive
Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:22 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: cell number dilutions
Replies: 1
Views: 259

FLU/time to FLU/mg/min

With the fluorometric enzyme Assay how to convert the FLU/min (obtained as FlU/min slope for every concentration of substrate; serial dilutions of substrate at concentrations 200 uM to 50 uM), into to RFU/mg/min of enzyme, that is nessesary to obtain the rate of reaction for the enzyme. Enz. ...

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by dalin
Sat Nov 03, 2012 10:38 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: FLU/time to FLU/mg/min
Replies: 6
Views: 674

Real time PCR

... as good as Qubit (different measurements) but I believe Qubit is more accurate. By the way how do you prepare your std curve exactly? How many dilutions do you make? What kin of cycler do you use?

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by bravebeaker
Fri Oct 19, 2012 6:26 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Real time PCR
Replies: 4
Views: 1524

solutions containing different concentrations of oxaloacetat

... the absorbance spectra of potential substrates and products as the following: OAA stock is 8 mM Malate stock is 8 mM NADH stock is 1 mM we made dilutions of these with water as shown below: Dilution of 1:2 OAA: 500 μL water + 500 μL OAA malate: 500 μL water + 500 μL malate NADH: 500 μL water ...

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by ladwer
Sun Oct 07, 2012 2:38 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: solutions containing different concentrations of oxaloacetat
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