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TypeBlog Post... temporal activation of a transgene. Figure 2: FLEX Cre-Lox system. WPRE The Woodchuck Hepatitis...sequencing conditions which can read through this challenging sequence. Transgene The transgene is the gene...
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RUBY-Red Siliques
TypeBlog Post...make it easier to study these mutants. Fig. 2: (A) Betacyanin is produced from tyrosine by the activity... positive plants, but screening these can be challenging and requires specialized equipment. Reporters... -
Extracurricular Activities for a Strong Science Career Path
TypeBlog Post... sets Taking the time to identify and research 2 – 3 potential professions will highlight which skills.... No brainer! Engaging audiences from across the hall, fields, and other professions increases your chances... -
Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
TypeBlog Post...particularly new. Chapter 2, “The Professional Scientist,” addresses the challenges of succeeding in science...funding, bioethics in the age of CRISPR, and the challenges of science becoming increasingly politicized....ramifications. Readers unfamiliar with academia’s challenges with publication and funding may be dismayed ...The three chapters in this section describe the challenges of trusting science in a “fake news and post-...describes the author’s thoughts on science’s biggest challenges over the coming years. It is arguably the most...the book? It doesn’t need to. The problems and challenges described in The State of Science have not changed...may be the introduction they need to grasp the challenges you face in your career. Acknowledgements: ... -
Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy
TypeBlog Post...Nobody wins, and you need to make a change. #2 Thou shalt sometimes put work ahead of life Sometimes, ... making it all work – most of the time. #1 Thou shalt find enjoyment in your work If you are happy at ...and with attention to those around you #4 Thou shalt not bear the burden alone You, alone, are not solely...absolutely equally, which means you only have one-half of the guilt. You can handle that, right? Big tip...get enmeshed in a serious relationship. #5 Thou shalt not sweat the small stuff The house can be messy...yourself; you will make progress over time. #6 Thou shalt throw money at the problem If you can, pay someone...to relax and be with friends and family. #7 Thou shalt create community to help Involve family. If you ... -
CRISPR in the Clinic
TypeBlog Post... Cure for HIV/AIDS. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 13;24(2):1563. doi: 10.3390/ijms24021563 Resources on Addgene.org...Disease (SCD) and Transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TBT), both of which affect hemoglobin. Most ... enzymes target several strains of E. coli and lethally chop their genomes into many, many pieces. Locus...technology is rapidly evolving, and many of the challenges with therapies involve patient safety, effectiveness... -
Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags
TypeBlog Post...is the most charged, with 5 negatively charged and 2 positively charged amino acids. FLAG tag has been ...doesn’t come with a high background can be a huge challenge. Epitope tags eliminate the need for target-specific... -
HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
TypeBlog Post...structure-based framework engineering. Methods, 34(2), 184–199. PubMed PMID: 15312672. Inbar, D., Hochman...fluorescent proteins and tags including mCherry, HaloTag and SNAP-tag for multi-color imaging. Find the ... -
Three Tips for Preventing Viral Plasmid Recombination in Your Samples
TypeBlog Post...extraction protocol for more details. Figure 2: An uncut plasmid is expected to form 3 bands: nicked...without affecting mRNA translation efficiency or half-life. RNA 25:507–518. https://doi.org/10.1261/rna... -
Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc
TypeBlog Post... and whether I would be able to carry out a yeast-2-hybrid library screen; instead I thought they would...was researching, but I decided I needed a new challenge. Looking for sales and marketing jobs Like most... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog Post... remember that a resume is typically no more than 2 pages long. Write your resume for the job posting ... one, one of the biggest changes (and perhaps challenges) is the need to present yourself using a resume... -
How to Prepare for an Industry Interview
TypeBlog Post...company culture. It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking at...research project. In total, the interviews lasted from half to all of the day. This whole process may seem ...carefully. And even if you don’t have technical challenges, your interviewers might. You’ll probably still... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog Post... vivo and in vitro applications. Figure 2: Modular features of DIRECTED particles where the ...externally-timed bands of color with HaloTag-iPAK4 by applying different HaloTag dyes and showed they could record...local proteome, but some applications have been challenging or inaccessible. The Ting lab recently made two.... B) HEK cell with an iPAK4 fiber labeled with HaloTag-iPAK4. Scale bar 10 µm. C) Images of iPAK4 fibers...fibers in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. HaloTag dyes are switched from yellow to red at 0 h and back... -
Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship
TypeBlog Post...interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development... 35. Academic Press, 2015. PubMed PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of... of certain tumors. However, antibody stability, half-life, tumor penetration, inadequate concentration... -
Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies
TypeBlog Post...establishing the dynamic range of your FRET assay (Figure 2). These labeling methods are freely interchangeable...PMID: 20161833. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2802762. 2. Dumas, Anaëlle, et al. "Designing logical codon reassignment–Expanding...FRET distance measurements (for an example see Mahalingam et al., 2014). Many thanks to our guest blogger... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog Post...integrates into the trnS-leu2 locus. Figure 2: Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A ...which creates a challenge when studying them since their complete knockdown is lethal. Incomplete or titratable... to lab-adapted bacteria because it has been challenging to introduce CRISPRi machinery into diverse bacteria... -
Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?
TypeBlog Post...system (by measuring the fluorescence intensity); and 2) to visualize the localization of the FP (fused to...be split into two halves, which are non-fluorescent on their own. If the two halves are in close proximity...determine the proximity of two proteins fused to the halves of the split FP. This technique is also is also... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog Post...unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4... tool by splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein ...With the split system, only cells that have both halves of cGAL can drive expression of your gene of interest... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2020
TypeBlog Post...products have distinct localizations. Figure 2: Split-wrmScarlet labeling proteins with different...synaptic connections and physiology is particularly challenging as they are great in number, generally very small...H2B-FT-red is long lasting and was shown to have a half life of 84 hours in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts... -
7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors
TypeBlog Post...out for help so you can get the support you need. 2) Prepare an agenda for every meeting Supervisors are... of your supervisor’s management style, bring challenges to his or her attention as soon as you can. It...mutually beneficial solutions. If you package your challenges with your supervisor into learning opportunities...