We just tried to find the quantity of curcuminoids in curcuma if it was boiled before being turned into powder compared to not being boiled.
We tried to use the HPLC, but it seems that our samplesclogged the column. So we failed 😅.
For our abstract, we did look at other studies on the supposed benefits of curcuma, but none of them were rigorous enough to say that there is a benefit (for example, one study informed the people being tested if they got curcuma or anotherantiinflammatory medicine, which already biases the results)
We unclogged the column, but since it was clogging it up for each sample and it’s quite damaging to the column, we decided to stop. Our budget was quite tight, since this was a school project.
Magnetar@feddit.de 4 weeks ago
Result?
Binette@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
We just tried to find the quantity of curcuminoids in curcuma if it was boiled before being turned into powder compared to not being boiled.
We tried to use the HPLC, but it seems that our samplesclogged the column. So we failed 😅.
For our abstract, we did look at other studies on the supposed benefits of curcuma, but none of them were rigorous enough to say that there is a benefit (for example, one study informed the people being tested if they got curcuma or anotherantiinflammatory medicine, which already biases the results)
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
did you unclog the column or does lab has to eat up few thousand dollar loss
Binette@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
We unclogged the column, but since it was clogging it up for each sample and it’s quite damaging to the column, we decided to stop. Our budget was quite tight, since this was a school project.