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TypeBlog Post...science, dating back several hundred years, with historical ties to psychology and philosophy (the mind-body...in a certain type of behavior (for a review see Stoica et al., 2013). Vector delivery may also be achieved...service for their behavioral studies. References Stoica L, Ahmed SS, Gao G, Sena-Esteves M. Gene transfer...
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Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door
TypeBlog Post... In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer science communication programs... and money to a full-time graduate course, UWE Bristol offers an intensive 4-day Masterclass in science...or upload your data to Zooniverse. The Natural History Museum has downloadable resources to enable you... -
Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015
TypeBlog Post...so many scientists who were potential Addgene requestors and depositors. China is in one of the top 10...good job of seeing tRNAs because they contain “hard stop” mutations. New techniques used by the Lowe lab ...can view public circRNA datasets and download the custom python scripts needed to discover circRNAs in RNA-seq... -
Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization
TypeBlog Post...Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and then Boston University (institutions where I’ve worked as a...became interim Chair automatically as it was an understood expectation of any Vice-Chair. Following an official...Juliet Moncaster is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine and is the former... -
Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025
TypeBlog Post...human genes and are recommended for use in immunohistochemistry (Figure 5). Anti-MAPT [AT8] specifically...Addgene Antibody Data Hub. Figure 5: Immunohistochemistry with Addgene's Anti-APP [6E10-A5] recombinant..., Wang, W. (2024). Anti-APP [6E10-A5] in Immunohistochemistry (Human). Addgene Report, doi: https://doi.org... -
Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV
TypeBlog Post...course, you will want to make sure that your final stocks only contain rAAV. To minimize contamination, use...preparation. rAAVs Now your AAV virions are ready to store or use. They are quite stable and will withstand...Londono, L., Arjona, K., Parianos, M., Truong, V., Rostonics, E., Hernandez, A., Boye, S. L., Boye, S. E., ... -
Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog Post...spectral flow and can be thought of as a series of histograms flipped onto its side and compressed into a heat...for rare cellular markers, beads can sometimes distort the fluorescent signature upon antibody binding...: Secondary AntibodiesAntibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog Post...methods. First, its modular design allows for customization with strain-specific promoters, antibiotic resistance...species where its modular nature allows for the customization of guides, promoters, selection markers, and...(2005): 443. PubMed PMID: 15908923. Johnson, Christopher M., and Alan D. Grossman. "Integrative and conjugative... -
Starter guide to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) part 1: A renaissance in regenerative medicine
TypeBlog Post... inner cell mass (ICM) of a 5-6 day old human blastocyst [6]. They are isolated mostly from abnormal and...PMCID: PMC2752493. 4. Bongso, A. and M. Richards, History and perspective of stem cell research. Best Pract...Derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from human blastocysts. N Engl J Med, 2004. 350(13): p. 1353-6. PubMed... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog Post...approach gives me a bit of flexibility since I can store the cell lysates at -80 °C for up to 6 months before... completed in one long day, or the virus can be stored at 4 °C and buffer exchanged the next day. Refer... comments below! Special thanks for Dr. Dan Stone and Harshana de Silva Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog Post....io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we began sharing ...management and you want the works: organizing reagent storage and inventory, managing orders, tracking students... scientists workflow in mind and can offer a one-stop solution to your lab's organization and management... -
Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
TypeBlog Post...biology also falls within this section. The GFP story has its own Franklin in Doug Prasher, who originally...describes the detection of gravitational waves--a story I was much less familiar with as a biologist--as... feel slightly dated by next week. A stepping stone When I discussed The State of Science with the five... -
SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools
TypeBlog Post...for a scientist. I think that establishing this history helped demonstrate that a) I was a real person ...which demonstrated to the students that scientific history was very much in the making. One of the exciting... in an exciting, tumultuous time in scientific history. Whatever your reasons, let us know how it goes... -
Tips for arabidopsis transformation
TypeBlog Post...using and whether you are inoculating from a frozen stock or a colony from an LB plate. In my hands, a 5 mL...culture can be used for colony PCR and glycerol stocks. Dip/drip plants more than once: Dip your plants...University. She studies cell fate maintenance in the stomatal lineage and has made countless transgenic plants... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog Post... Commons license. Histograms For analysis of a single marker, a histogram showing frequency of events... “true” signal. Figure 8: A series of histograms from Alyamani et al., 2018, showing number of... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog Post...frustrating it can be to get a “bad batch”); Customizable sensitivity and detection - since they frequently...changes after target binding, aptamers are highly customizable in terms of how they actually “report” as biosensors...a higher melting temperature than its Spinach ancestors, and has a lower magnesium dependence. Though ... -
Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem
TypeBlog Post...like the cold or flu) Overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming Lengthy courses of treatment with antibiotics...those bacteria that are partially resistant. If you stop a treatment early, you may be un-wittingly selecting...used in the clinical laboratory. What can we do to stop the emergence of antibiotic resistance? The problem... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog Post...college I studied development and evolution of histone genes in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the spiny...Discovering ways to culture, propagate, transform, store, and share all of these new organisms continues ...promiscuous and the gene that is responsible is understood. It’s possible to actually silence this gene ... -
Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
TypeBlog Post...vaguely resemble a bagpipe and historically, bagpipes were made using the stomachs of different animals. Check...originated from. Let’s take a look at some of the stories behind the names. We also have many plasmids in... -
To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question
TypeBlog Post...different codons that encode 20 amino acids and three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can be ...codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example of codon usage among different... References Athey J, Alexaki A, Osipova E, Rostovtsev A, Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V... -
The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment
TypeBlog Post... clinical application in under a decade is an astounding feat of public investment and collaborative scientific...effective treatment. And base editing advances won’t stop here. By coincidence, KJ’s genetic sequence was ...., Correia, B. E., … Kleinstiver, B. P. (2025). Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog Post...at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), a Boston-based, nonprofit protein research institute, partnered...will also work in immunoprecipitation and immunohistochemistry. Table 1: IPI antibodies Antibody ...integrin antibodies comes from IPI’s work with the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard-based lab of Tim... -
Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook
TypeBlog Post...to capture ideas, write down certain notes or brainstorm, but we have to admit that paper-based record... and included hundreds of researchers. The full story is available here. Our questions focused on researchers...all types of data, which enables researchers to store everything in one place. From pictures to excel ... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog Post...a room, but still have control over focus, zoom, stop/start record, and allow me to see an image. Remote...control some basic functions, including starting and stopping recording). Test: It was unbelievable how well...the beating heart of Addgene. It’s why we exist, storing plasmids, and distributing them to labs that need... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog Post...modification with fatty acyl chains. For instance, myristoylation requires an N-terminal consensus sequence (...variants and check the functionality of the fusion (Mastop, 2018). Summary GFP is an all-round useful genetically...21619590. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3129320. 18. Mastop, Marieke, et al. "A FRET-based biosensor for measuring... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog Post...2006): 703-9. PubMed PMID: 16582903. Potter, Christopher J., et al. “The Q system: a repressible binary...from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling...s41598-022-07852-7 De Boer, Herman A., Lisa K. Comstock & Mark Vasser. “The tac promoter: a functional... -
Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models
TypeBlog Post...the recombined product, you’d microinject into blastocysts to be implanted in pseudopregnant female mice...s a guide that directs cleavage right before the stop codon! Figure 3: How to design a C-terminal...guide would be selected, since it cleaves at the stop codon TAG. Design your repair template with ... -
Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting
TypeBlog Post... in your specific experimental context (Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than...and references References Aydin S (2015) A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory...://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(81)90281-5 Pillai-Kastoori L, Heaton S, Shiflett SD, Roberts AC, Solache ... -
Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins
TypeBlog Post...and whose structures are just beginning to be understood. Therefore, in addition to their utility in the... strain that you can use for long-term library storage. After overnight growth, scrape up, pool and extract...during one of these steps is also a convenient stopping (ie. going home and eating and sleeping) point... -
Finding Your Perfect Job After University
TypeBlog Post...adapt. By the end of my three months, I fully understood why parasitology roles in the field require experience... available at a small science non-profit doing customer service (recruitment agencies often don’t tell...I was also surprised to learn that I enjoy the customer service side of my job. Because of my background...