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Dear sahar khairy ramadan , You did not specify which IGF-1 you need, but you can search for the sequence by a number of ways: -Google IGF-1 and Uniprot here you will get some hits. -Better is to go to Uniprot and search for hits once typing IGF-1 and select the IGF-1 you’re looking for. https://www.uniprot.org/ There you will see (scroll down a bit) the so-called FASTA form of the sequence. Several programs are out there to convert this sequence back to three letter code form, see for example: https://www.bioline.com/us/media/calculator/01_17.html

The use and debate about the Beall's list is still alive and kicking. See a nice overview with enough nuance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beall's_List In my experience the work of Mr. Beall caused awareness for this threat and though certainly not flawless it can be used to make up your own mind on whether a particular journal or publisher is trustful enough to send your work to.

Chitosan can be dissolved in acidic solvents. Examples of methods are: 1. Chitosan can be dissolve in a mixture of 0.1M Acetic acid and 0.2M NaCl (at Room temp., stirring for 12 Hours). 2. Chitosan can be dissolved in 0.1M acetic acid (at 60 oC, stirring for 5 hours). See attached file for more examples and details. Romanazzietal.2009Phytopathology.pdf

Nowadays more and more scientist create profiles at various databases/search engines. Think about: Google Scholar profile (once active and public you simple click on the underlined name and you get a complete list of publications, at least those present in Google Scholar). ORCID ID is a non-proprietary alphanumeric code that uniquely identify scientific contributions to the appropriate author (nowadays more and a prerequisite when submitting a manuscript to a journal). Researchgate profile. A large number of scientist upload there work here and make it accessible to either the members (by request) or public (this service is often used to present other than official papers as well such as conference posters, preprints, data, methods etc.). I am afraid that this will only count for currently still active researchers. If you want to get a full overview of let’s say Albert Einstein than this is easy but a less famous person will require a lot of effort by searching the web, asking former co-workers, reading some of the work you can find and look for self-citations linking to work you didn’t find earlier and so on.

This ‘journal’ is published by Heighten Science Publications Corporation (HSPC) which is according to Jeffrey Beall’s list a predatory publisher. In other words indeed a journal to avoid. Questions can be asked about the ethics and quality (checks) of this publisher and one might wonder who want to get linked to such a journal as an author. See: https://beallslist.weebly.com/ For those who want to know more about predatory journals and publishers. Have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing

It is important to realize that lecithin is a confusing name. Lecithin is often refer to the chemically more correct name phosphatidylcholine in fields like biochemistry. In food science it is often more the name for the (water-)extract obtained from for example sunflower seeds and in that case you talk about a mixture of (phospho)lipids. Liquid lecithin is presumably liquid because it contains so-called glycophospholipids. These lipids contain more unsaturated acyl chains and behave more "oily" and cause the extract to be a liquid. Furthermore liquid lecithin contains more free fatty acids while lecithin powders contain a lower percent fat. Presumable because of the higher content of unsaturated fatty acid acyl chains the liquid is more healthy, but relating one aspect of food (it all depends on quantity, frequency, life style and so on) to health is extremely difficult.

In my experience (at least in fields like chemistry, physics, life sciences in general) it is common that PhD students assist/coach master students. Obviously without a guarantee but the objective is that this piece of research performed by a master student leads to publishable results that ultimately should lead to a publication either solely based on these results or as part of a collection of results by other group members. It is nothing but ethical to mention the master student if he/she contributed to the publication even if the master student is already long gone. So it comes with the job so to speak that there is possible chance for publication and as said by others it depends on your future plans (research related position or not) whether it is of any use for your job changes. Having a clear 'proof' that you've done something usefull that resulted in a publication is I feel by it selve already a nice thing.