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  1. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...lentiviral vector system. Viral vectors have been increasingly popular in fundamental and applied research ...replicate. However, Mother Nature found a way to re-create a functional virus. Indeed, by testing several ...the packaging plasmid forming a vector that could create replication competent virus. Even though this system...non-dividing cells and so researchers set out to create a better, safer system. Unlike the MoMLV, lentiviruses...vectors have been established so far, with safety increasing in each generation. The 1st generation of lentiviral...first one and can be used routinely in a research laboratory. The risk of generating RCL is low but extra ...protocols suggest adding sucrose to the supernatant to create a gradient of density that favours virus precipitation...
  2. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

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    ... strategically to increase your rate of productive results and thereby help decrease the time to your ... to achieve your intended next career stage and create a timeline for achieving these goals. Planning ...ways to consolidate or present your data. You can create more detailed or functional models or more helpful...manuscript reviews, etc. You'll also meet future collaborators and get access to unpublished information and...mentor, manage, communicate, and teach The dirty secret about becoming a group leader is that people are... His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins in the Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization...
  3. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...my partner Mike and I split the work, shared the credit, and we both won accolades that would launch our..., the Senior Scientist who coordinates all kit creation and quality control efforts with depositors; .... We worked with Andrew, the team’s founder, to create a mission statement in the first few meetings and...it alone. The help of fellow lab members and collaborators will not only get your paper out the door much...becoming part of a team is a really good way of creating and strengthening those social bonds. So never...communication options. Addgene, along with an increasing number of academic labs, uses Slack constantly...
  4. Finding Your Science Policy Path

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    ...Each path to science policy is unique and this creates a rich and diverse workforce. Out of all the career...QUESTION. Science policy is the work you do to creatively connect seemingly disparate individuals and ideas...also happen at the state and local level. The big secret about science policy that I didn’t learn until ...bring researchers to Congress to advocate for increased science funding and other issues. Whether you ...example proposals and consider applying for their accelerator for some hands-on guidance.   Check out my webinar... field where you have no specific scientific credentials.  But before you even apply to that first science...
  5. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    ... to screen for positive clones in most cases, and restriction enzyme digest can be used to screen plasmids...strand was degraded. Beta: Beta protects the ssDNA created by Exo and promotes its annealing to a complementary...recombination frequency between 0.1% to 1%, and can be increased to as high as 25-50% by designing oligos that ...recombination than dsDNA substrates, so you should screen more clones when using dsDNA. Have you used the...currently a research scientist in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington. She...
  6. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    ...with Addgene by year. (C) Cumulative number of laboratories that have deposited CRISPR plasmids by year....17,560 CRISPR plasmids. That’s almost a ninety-fold increase in size! From this collection, we’ve shared almost...
  7. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    ...were having a positive experience, I was still incredibly nervous about leaving academia. A lot of academics...time working on something extremely risky or exploratory. Getting a job afterwards: Fairly or unfairly...
  8. Tips to Make the Most of a Scientific Conference

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    ...questions. If you or your lab identifies a potential collaborator from the meeting, reach out to them, pointing...Twitter in real life. If there is not a tweep up, create one yourself. Pick a time (ex: lunch, happy hour...
  9. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    ...addition, there is a drop in image brightness with increasing depth caused by light scattering and absorption...protein (GFP) (6).   The Dodt and Frank Bradke laboratories later developed the 3DISCO (3-dimensional imaging...
  10. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...IWGAV five proposed antibody validation pillars. Created with BioRender.com.     Orthogonal Strategies...knock-down expression of your target or CRISPR/Cas9 to create mutations that essentially eliminate expression...opposite of the Genetic strategy and looks for increased antibody signal in samples that have had the target... target protein expression experimentally increased. The simplest version would be to use cells that do...may not be the most accessible option for many laboratories. Additionally, it can be difficult to distinguish...
  11. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...environment? If these are pressing issues in your laboratory, then FRET experiments are a viable biophysical... drug discovery by big pharma (i.e. HTRF and LanthaScreen) (Degorce et al., 2009), measuring intracellular...are critical in setting up a FRET-based assay or screen (the Addgene blog has an excellent primer on FRET... biomolecules each containing multiple binding crevices that can nonspecifically soak up your fluorophore...donors (Fig. 1). Scores of FP variants have been created, thereby enabling a broad spectrum of donor fluorescence...strategies. FRET experimental design lends itself to creativity and innovation, valuable commodities in any NIH...
  12. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...proteins, use a higher percentage of acrylamide to increase migration resistance and improve separation. For...enhance resolution. In this setup, gels have an increasing range of acrylamide content from top to bottom...history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory experience with peptide/protein analyses using...
  13. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...public. Find out more at www.projbridge.com. Walnut Creek, CA, USA 37.9101°N 122.0652°W – Steph Hays When...microbial interactions, and science education. Photo cred Alina Chan. Seattle, Washington, USA 47.6062°N 122.3321...others come out who feel the same.  I was also incredibly impressed with how well organized the march was...was, as well as the friendly atmosphere that was created by the many thousands of science professionals ...Scientific Instrument Maker at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Vancouver, BC Canada 49.2827°N 123.1207°W – ...
  14. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    ...researchers and PIs, science librarians and data curators, IT managers, the commercialization office, the...’t support reproducibility as not all ELNs are created equal. Many thanks to our guest blogger, Rory ...
  15. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ...kit size, it may be tempting to try increasing your input to increase your output. But, exceeding a kit’...their relative qualities and quantities. Image created in BioRender.com. Transformation Grade DNA...that you are left with pure plasmid DNA. Image created in BioRender.com. For the clean-up stage, plasmid...kit.   Do you want eco-friendly options? It’s no secret that labs produce a lot of waste. If you are looking...about!) are a significant source of waste in laboratories. To help combat this, some manufacturers have...
  16. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...collection includes 26 unique antibodies that bind discrete subunits or particular subunit pairs. Some of ...events and training courses on technologies and laboratory techniques related to antibody discovery. You...
  17. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ...researchers saw an 11-fold increase in mRNA levels after 2 hr and a 400-fold increase after 30 hr. The system...(CIB1) proteins. The goal of both groups was to create a system that would use light to turn on and off...domain to each of the Cas9 fragments, the authors created a photoactive Cas9 tool, as shown in the figure...binding and cleavage. This technique was applied to create photoswitchable spCas9, dCas9, and S. aureus Cas9...Gilgenast TG, Gong W, Beagan JA, Raj A, Phillips-Cremins JE (2019) LADL: light-activated dynamic looping...Richter F, Fonfara I, Bouazza B, Schumacher CH, Bratovič M, Charpentier E, Möglich A (2013) Engineering...
  18. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ..., while REC includes most of the bridge helix. Created with BioRender.com.   Cas9 has two major lobes...guide RNA, dark blue; DNA, gray; PAM site, yellow. Created with BioRender.com.   The exact conformational...conformational changes that make Cas9 such a valuable laboratory tool are still an area of active research. New...
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