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  1. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    ...easier to identify by comparing peak positions to the base expression. When compared to the control — which... voltage has been adjusted appropriately and compensation performed. Before you read out your plots, you...to make sure you’ve also adjusted voltage and compensated your colors. Here are some good practice tips...population cluster would be shifted to the right in comparison, say somewhere between a 104–105 signal intensity...place your gate based on the dot plot would be complicated.  Figure 2: (A) a smeary dot plot showing...with the baseline suggesting this sample has a comparable expression to the baseline/negative control. ... populations in the histogram plot in Figure 4 compared to the dot plot in Figure 2. Quantification using...
  2. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    ...protein:DNA complexes with antibodies specific to your protein(s) of interest. Once the complex is captured...protein:DNA complexes and finally (5) isolated the DNA from your antibody:protein:DNA complexes. Your DNA... the first step is to ensure your protein:DNA complexes will remain bound to each other until you are ...reversible bonds. This will keep the protein:DNA complexes together until you want to break them. Crosslinking...digestion can preserve more of the protein:DNA complexes. Once you’ve finished fragmenting the DNA, spin...that?  So while this method is certainly long and complex, you may be thinking, well, these are mostly fairly...techniques. What’s all the fuss? Well, ChIP’s complexities come not from the techniques used, but from ...
  3. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    ...that the classroom cannot offer. Furthermore, companies across most industries tend to hire their former...Prior to March 2020, internships were a fiercely competitive endeavor. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students...college, and graduate students. In order to gain a competitive advantage this cycle, consider the advice below...which is the perfect opportunity to paint a comprehensive picture of your academic interests, potential... impress the judges on your ability to tell a compelling narrative that is positive, and forward-looking...counterintuitive since that approach seems to create competition for your own spot. True! But you create a network...sense approaches that will prepare you for the competitive landscape beyond college. They will also serve...
  4. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    ...career at a biotech company, I always assumed I’d work one or two years at the company and then go to grad... the head of software product management at my company was open to meeting with me and explaining more...software product manager helps ensure that the company or software group is building the software tools...Well, I’ll give you an example. At my previous company, Ginkgo Bioworks, our software development team...backgrounds, most did not. It was my job to translate complex lab operations workflows into a format the developers... to solve is clear, but the solution is more complicated. You’ll need to be creative to be able to work...framework If you can’t find internships at science companies, try to find internships with translatable skills...
  5. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...requirement if you work for a private company you must show that your company employs at least 3 full-time people...Within these sectors, you could start your own company, work in a bench research career or a non-bench... to find the perfect job immediately after you complete your Ph.D. or postdoc. Foreign national researchers... need to be aware of the April 1 deadline for companies to submit an application on their behalf.  If ...technology transfer, communications, medical writing, compliance, core facility management, collaboration management...be directed to you specifically. You must also complete the peer review for it to be counted as proof ...your CV and bio sketch whenever you have new accomplishments to add. Obtain copies and translations of documents...
  6. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...challenging for sequences with complex secondary structure. Today, multiple companies offer long single-stranded...ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes of Cas9 protein and the separated guide RNA components (crRNA and tracrRNA...months. With CRISPR (B), you can inject CRISPR components directly into a zygote and obtain a knockout ...maximum Easi-CRISPR efficiency. Easi-CRISPR is compatible with standard microinjection and electroporation...successfully used guides targeting the same or complementary strands, as well as guides facing towards or... simple method for delivery of genome editing components to the germline. In contrast to standard microinjection...placed to mediate electroporation. Ohtsuka et al. compared traditional microinjection and i-GONAD knock-in...
  7. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...engineered ESCs), and chimeric adults mated to produce completely transgenic offspring. Although powerful, this... genome, the CRISPR/Cas system makes use of 3 components, a guide RNA (gRNA) of about 125 nt that specifies...gRNA, Cas9, and donor oligonucleotide or plasmid components are brought together and microinjected into either...eggs. Or, to avoid handling embryos ex vivo, the components can be electroporated into the oviduct of pregnant... major advantages of CRISPR mouse editing when compared to more conventional methods. First, one can work... work with almost any strains of mice, as compared with conventional gene targeting, which is limited ...including 129 and C57BL/6, for which we have germline competent ESC lines. Second, the process is much quicker...
  8. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    ...ask your interviewers You’re interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you, so come prepared...performance evaluations, professional development, and company culture.  It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 .... This is a chance to highlight your prior accomplishments and demonstrate your science communication ... Connect your prior work or a new idea to the company’s area of expertise. This has potential to make ...consider bringing your own laptop as a backup, if the company will allow it. Before you start your presentation...interview. Expect to be tired once the interview is complete Industry interviews are long! Mine lasted 4.5 ...read emails from HR carefully because sometimes companies have relaxed dress codes for interviews. You can...
  9. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...MiSeq that takes about two days to complete. After the run completes, we begin our assembly process. Again...sufficient quantity for sequencing. This process is completed in a plate format yielding anywhere from two to...Illumina sequencing on our newly donated MiSeq.  For Complete Plasmid Sequencing we perform a 2x251 run on our...annotated Genbank files that are useful for more complicated plasmids, like those that contain synthesized...mutations, truncations, and insertions that could compromise function. When we do find mutations, we check..., NGS for some plasmids will not result in one complete, circular assembly. Most of the time, these plasmids...obtain an NGS result that is useful, but not 100% complete, we will still make this data available as a partial...
  10. Tips for Technical Support Calls

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    ...your product’s web page, or in the company’s FAQs? A lot of companies and organizations selling biological...answering help emails and phone calls, I feel compelled to share my years of accumulated wisdom so that...information, but it’s not in the best interest of any company to hide information about their products from you...which case, you should probably stop using that company). Frequently asked question pages on website are...customers (and I expect this is the case at most companies). Always go back to the source. Although many...experience: Make sure you’re contacting the correct company. This might seem like a no-brainer, but it happens...please share the data. Maybe not all, but many bio companies have real scientists answering their technical...
  11. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...can we compare these methods in specific applications, we may also be able to use these comparisons to enhance...to 9 months in mice [2]). Low Immune Response: Compared to other viral vectors (e.g. Lentivirus, Adenovirus...is possible to use AAV constructs with self-complementing structure (scAAV) (7). As single stranded DNA...mapping of circuits In our lab, we use AAV-DREADD complexes to study neural function. Often the reporter proteins... proteins associated with these complexes are so robustly expressed that anatomical assessments can be...Ready-to-Use Retrograde AAV Preps at Addgene 2) Comparison of genetically engineered receptors (i.e. chemogenetics...neural control. Surprisingly, little research has compared and contrasted optogenetic and chemogenetic receptors...
  12. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...reaction or can be purchased 5’-modified from a company. However, unlike an RNA guide, it cannot be produced...probably while it is being synthesized) can form a complex with an ssDNA guide. Therefore, researchers must...inject cells with in vitro preassembled Cas9/gRNA complexes or with guide RNA- and Cas9-expression plasmids...survey and asked researchers if they had tested and compared NgAgo head-to-head with CRISPR-Cas9. The survey...respondents (transfection method, amount of each component per transfection etc.). Take Pooran's NgAgo Survey...same method used by Gao et al, 2016 (1). View the Complete and Up-to-Date Results of Pooran's NgAgo Survey..., leaving a small amount of active NgAgo/ssDNA complex in the cell. As proposed in the original article...
  13. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ... a Type I-F CRISPR-Cas system. The four major components required for RNA-guided DNA integration are (... (Fig. 1A, top):  A CRISPR RNA (crRNA) comprising a 32 nt spacer sequence specifying the target site....sequences (R and L ends).  Figure 1: (A) Components involved in each type of CRISPR-Transposon system...multiple Cas proteins to form the Cascade targeting complex is a hallmark of Type I CRISPR-Cas systems, in ...nuclease activity. Instead, it forms a novel co-complex with the transposition protein TniQ for targeting... by the system. Guided by the crRNA, QCascade complexes survey the genome and bind target DNA sequences...pairing. Separately, TnsABC forms a transposase complex with the mini-transposon, excises it from the donor...
  14. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ...library, as well as GC%, reverse compliment sequences, and more. Output_Compact: A text file that describes...there are also benefits gained by lowering the complexity of the screen. For example, the analysis becomes...a lasting impression on me. The slide showed a complex signaling pathway with many receptors, signaling...used these knockout mice to show exactly which components of the known pathway that were essential for ...be very useful for drug discovery, to dissect a complex signaling pathway, and to identify what part of...response to a particular ligand (such as when a component of a microbe or a cytokine is added to a cell)... rapidly performed by targeting all potential components of a signaling pathway. For example, one could...
  15. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ...function in unrelated host species, even from completely different kingdoms of life. That’s convenient... for researchers who want to do experiments in complex eukaryotic cells, but would prefer to grow, clone...replication begins, so a bacterial plasmid needs a compatible ori that will be recognized by its host’s replication...into plant genomes. Eukaryotes are a bit more complicated. Yeast vectors may contain an autonomously replicating...increase cellular uptake, but this approach requires compatible cell lines that express viral machinery. Alternatively...may be sufficient for your needs even without a compatible replication site. Regardless of the species you...vector to persist in... You need... Bacteria a compatible ori Yeast an autonomously replicating sequence...
  16. Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations

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    ...experts that complement your (scientific) skill set and is therefore very useful for complex projects. It...collaborations are becoming increasingly important as more complex approaches to scientific questions become popular...especially when considering small to mid-sized companies and organizations. Addgene as a nonprofit organization... worked with people outside the department to accomplish a variety of goals. For example, I worked with...provided a crash course in this discipline. Getting companies to come to these types of events can be very tough...First I needed to find the right contacts at the companies and then convince the contacts to give me some...repetition. I learned to look at the event from the company’s perspective, focus on the message and to keep ...
  17. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...with fluorescent proteins (FPs) localized to compartments other than the cytoplasm. That is, unfortunately...positioning of the FP sequence relative to cell compartment targeting sequences, which often have absolute...that FPs are often poorly suited for cellular compartments other than the cytoplasm. Generally, FPs evolved...subcellular environments, including the organelles that compose the secretory pathway, endocytic vesicles, mitochondria.... Many of the resident proteins within these compartments undergo significant post-translational modifications...inter-chain disulfide bonds between FPs blocks Golgi complex-localized fusions from properly exiting the ER ...and spectral characteristics of the moxFPs are comparable to the non-optimized parental proteins. Our recent...
  18. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ...GPCRs (Takeda S et al., 2002) and many downstream complexes involved, it can be difficult for scientists to...in sight (Olsen RHJ et al., 2020). A transducer complex consists of a trimer of three subunits: alpha, ...collectively known as a heterotrimeric G protein. This complex converts a signal received by a GPCR on the cell...is being able to identify specific transducer complexes that are activated in response to a ligand binding...inactive, these subunits are found in a trimeric complex bound to the intracellular surface of the GPCR....Following activation in response to the ligand, the complex will disassociate, resulting in a decreased GFP2...They further used TRUPATH to analyze a panel of compounds across the transducerome on a single GPCR, showing...
  19. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...conformational complexity There are 24 known mammalian integrins, all heterodimers composed of one of 18...are essential cell surface receptors involved in complex signaling pathways and the linkage of intra- and...-integrin toolset IPI’s anti-integrin toolset comprises 26 recombinant antibodies (rAbs) either produced...-mimetic sequences that imitate this motif and compete with both small molecule integrin inhibitors and...their targeted integrin subtype, even when in competition with other similar integrins, as reported by ...demonstrated that anti-integrin αVβ5.9 “essentially completely blocks all adhesion,” inhibiting the function... rAbs. The other eight are chimeric antibodies composed of rat or mouse variable regions fused with rabbit...
  20. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...locations using Cas9 and track the localization of the complex. Broccoli, the other green fluorescent aptamer,...investigate RNA assembly. The split aptamer is composed of a “Top” and “Bottom” portion, each fused to... RNA. Fluorescence is observed when these RNAs complex and the entire aptamer can hybridize and fold. ...uniqueness of the photostability of the Corn-DFHO complex. For dessert (last but not least), the only fruit-named...Other groups have used Mango to study RNA-protein complexes (Panchapakesan et al., 2017) and short non-coding...identified through microfluidic-assisted in vitro compartmentalisation for their high binding affinity to TO1-biotin...of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango, and all are photostable and useful for...
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