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TypeBlog Post...resting state and its calcium-bound state, which was achieved by lowering the basal fluorescence of the sensor...inhibiting neurons. Minimally-tagged DREADD AAV from the Richie lab are especially useful for studies in non-human...
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Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
TypeBlog Post...translated RNAs appear red. To enable this color switching, TRICK requires the following components: a GFP... specificity and resolution of this system are achieved by using multiple copies of the PP7 and MS2 coat... -
Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits
TypeBlog Post...complicated (and again, expensive) the different machines are, and how many regulations are in place to ... on the Addgene Blog Find planarian tools for teaching developmental biology Use the pathways over time... -
"Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach
TypeBlog Post...courses on genetic manipulation more hands on While teaching courses about gene therapy and genetic manipulation... on the Addgene Blog Find planarian tools for teaching developmental biology Learn how BioBuilder can... -
K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog Post...pharmaceutical companies is K. phaffii (formerly known as pichia). What is this new-fangled yeast? It’s actually...specifically glycosylation. The native glycosylation machinery of K. phaffii lacks certain terminal mannose glycopeptides... -
Cultivating Community Science at BosLab
TypeBlog Post...was very popular. People kept asking if we were teaching classes at the lab, so in December 2015 we held...wants to share his knowledge with the community by teaching a DIY plant engineering workshop. Community projects... -
Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog Post...free interaction and brainstorming. This could be achieved by asking each presenter to come up with a scientific...Google Docs and Sheets during Zoom lab meetings to chip in ideas and take minutes that can be accessed by... -
The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays
TypeBlog Post...dropped a bombshell report. A scientist working in China was using CRISPR/Cas9 in an attempt to create gene-edited...claim has yet to be independently verified, the watching world erupted in controversy. Briefly, there are... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog Post...you volunteer to do science outreach and teach children about science? Or perhaps you have presented in...specifically to assist graduate students in job searching. Start your career planning early, start now Don't... -
Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
TypeBlog Post... 3) produces bands at 6kb and 1.2kb (red box), matching the backbone and insert, respectively. The results...however, you may need to run the gel for longer to achieve good separation of larger DNA fragments. I hope... -
Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors
TypeBlog Post...cells. Positive selection in mammalian cells To achieve stable transfection, there should be a selective...required for efficient selection. This is usually achieved by performing a "kill curve" (basically growing... -
Hot Plasmids - February 2022
TypeBlog Post...tool for labeling. Here, Liu et al. engineer a chimeric single chain variable fragment (scFv), grafting... which also provides a useful yet low-pressure teaching opportunity for lab members or students new to... -
Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates
TypeBlog Post... which is then read by a detector panel in the machine. Fluorophores are light sensitive, so antibodies...idea to make sure that laser is available in your machine before you make your purchase. Picking a single... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog Post...lysogenic. Lytic phages hijack the bacterial hosts machinery to make more viral particles. Eventually the cell.... 7th edition (2000). Meibom, Karin L., et al. "Chitin induces natural competence in Vibrio cholerae."... -
GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible
TypeBlog Post...non-interacting with) the cells’ own natural translation machinery; these are often incorporated into the cells via...of Phosphoserine into Recombinant Proteins in Escherichia coli. 12(21). https://doi.org/10.21769/BioProtoc... -
Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?
TypeBlog Post...approaches. However, with each new technical achievement, the complexity of the device increases, as does...with the community are particularly successful. Machine-learning denoising of raw data (CARE), segmentation... -
REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods
TypeBlog Post...recombineering, bacteria express phage recombination machinery, which facilitates easy genetic modification by...electrocompetent cells in which the phage recombination machinery is induced using L-arabinose. These cells can ... -
Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens
TypeBlog Post... Those two things, in my opinion, had not been achieved.” That is, until now. Enter the SAM pooled library...demonstrated in a paper in Cell that they could typically achieve 90-99% knockdown with minimal off-target effects... -
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog Post...approximately the length of your average PhD to achieve!) Each field has its own framework: a particular...images, and links to pay attention to. If you’re watching a video, you now have moving images, noises and... -
Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...When you’re searching for an antibody to use in your next experiment, you’ll probably notice a lot of...regions of the protein may be masked by crosslinking (ChIP) or fixation (IHC). Because of their increased sensitivity... -
Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
TypeBlog Post... making fluorescent protein fusions, check out Joachim Goedhart’s article on the Addgene blog: Fluorescent...Galvan A, Raper J, Hu X, Paré J, Bonaventura J, Richie CT, Michaelides M, Mueller SAL, Roseboom PH, Oler... -
Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies
TypeBlog Post...(MAGIC). With MAGIC, scientists introduce an Escherichia coli donor strain into the microbiome to deliver...segregates into one cell during cell division. To achieve the agglomeration of fluorescent proteins into ... -
Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing
TypeBlog Post... a moment and honor all of the success we have achieved and the opportunities we have for the future. ...successful candidates from internal referrals. Our long reaching reputation helps us hire great people from farther... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...DNA-protein interactions or to analyze chromatin states (CHIP-seq, FAIRE-seq, Cut & Run) and to detect protein-protein...pulldown of a protein of interest, much like using ChIP for studying protein and DNA interactions. Unfortunately... -
Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools
TypeBlog Post...including difficult-to-manipulate primary cells, achieving knockdown within 1-2 hr of reagent delivery. TRIM-Away... gene expression regimes that cannot be easily achieved with classical gene overexpression and knockout... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog Post... of its biggest advantages. Specificity can be achieved using specialized promoters, Flp or Cre dependent...expression AAVs have to infect cells, hijack host cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand of DNA before ... -
Antibodies 101: Conjugation
TypeBlog Post...to your antibody. This chemical coupling can be achieved through several different mechanisms. Most take...10.1016/j.it.2012.02.010 Dennler P, Fischer E, Schibli R (2015) Antibody Conjugates: From Heterogeneous... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog Post...the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan - initially cancelled their plans, but have since...plans and budgets working around issues such as childcare using money from their increased salaries. In ... -
Working with Nuclear Receptors
TypeBlog Post...Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and Editor-In-Chief of the Open Access MEDLINE-indexed journal Nuclear...of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Editor-In-Chief of the Open Access MEDLINE-indexed journal Nuclear... -
5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students
TypeBlog Post...While some of the statements may be slightly far reaching, remember that you are writing a proposal to test...secondary milestones to meet along the way to achieving each aim. A funded proposal typically lists the...