Anish's Insight

  Tania, a PhD student is conducting experiment on chickpea plants to check a specific gene expression level upon providing phosphorous deficiency stress. She is repeating this experiment for the third time and she could not reach to a conclusion yet, as her data shows specific pattern of gene expression difference among the control and stressed (she got higher expression in the stressed plants) but there is no statistical significance in this difference which is making her data scientifically invalid. Most of the researcher may have faced similar kind of problem during experiment. This happens mostly when the sample size or sample number is low due to low number of biological replicates, which is also called experimental replicates. The number of sample sets you are taking during an experiment is called replicates, which indicates for how many samples you are conducting the same experiment? In biological research, these replicates are called 'biological replicates'. For th...

  How to be frugal by choice? Being frugal is important for everybody who do not want to make their future life complex with financial problems. Here, some practical ways are pointed out to establish a frugal but enjoyable life which may be helpful to the research scholars depending on fellowships with break to achieve a financial stability. 1. Try not eat outside restaurants or cafés for more than once or twice in a month. Make a budget for that which is reasonable for you. If you have cocktail parties in pubs on every weekend on a regular basis then you will end up with negative balance in your bank account within a few months. 2. Do not be conscious about branded stuffs. Brands are for business and mostly for unnecessary luxury. Probably you do not need branded cloths or shoes or gadgets. Actually, no-body cares about what you are wearing. Find out generic stuffs of good quality which will be budget friendly and economic for you. 3. Try to go for economic but quality entertainme...