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  1. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ...Ligases Small, varies Various Few Complicated Non-natural amino acids 1 Various Many Complicated...HaloTag is actually HaloTag7, and recent specialized variants run up to HaloTag11. HaloTag is now the most popular...any cloning at all! As mentioned above, several variants of these tags have been developed over the years...

  2. SciComm with the Experts at Science in the News Part 2

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    ... Amy Gilson from Science in the News (SITN) at Harvard University. There are tons of ways you can get ...podcast, the SITN team brings in scientists from a variety of fields as well as students from the ed school...Amy Gilson. Vini Mani is a graduate student at Harvard University, former Co-director of Science in the...     Amy Gilson recently received her PhD from Harvard University, is a former Co-director of Science ...

  3. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    ... sensor. This sensor was engineered from a GFP variant and a DA receptor such that GFP fluoresces when...when the receptor is bound by DA. Two variants of the sensor, dLight1.1 and dLight1.2, exhibit high (submicromolar...GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy: a GFP variant bound to a DA receptor, such that the GFP fluoresces...detection and measurement of neurotransmitters in various species and while exhibiting complex behaviors....

  4. Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene

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    ...my PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University and entered a new role here at Addgene... to people. When I started my graduate work at Harvard, I recognized that I would ultimately want to go...the Science in the News Blog, a blog made by the Harvard graduate student group, Science in the News. While... keep content coming also keeps me on top of a variety of fields thereby broadening my knowledge. In addition...

  5. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...Interest (YGOI) in a controlled environment under various conditions. The first thing you'll need to decide...protein can be released from the resin and used for various binding or folding assays. Yeast vectors There ...large collection of yeast expression vectors with various markers and promoters. If you need to visualize... downstream effects.  And many more! We have a variety of other types of vectors for most applications...

  6. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    ...impractical to catalog every variant of a feature. Instead, we identified common variants, and then crafted a ...threshold. This issue is addressed by adding more variants to the database. Another limitation is that by...augment the database with new fluorescent protein variants. The future of DNA feature identification What...

  7. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    ...should they decide to produce virus on their own.Harvard researcher Connie Cepko has been helping us with...viral preps are available now? There are a wide variety of tools already available from Addgene as ready-to-use...system. The first two can serve as controls in a variety of experiments, while rtTA can be used to activate...beginning our AAV viral services with these tools. A variety of chemogenetic tools from Bryan Roth’s lab are...

  8. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    ...typically have a wide range of input quantities. This variation is problematic for conventional NGS library prep...range (1ng – 100ng) are normalized to two-fold variation above and below mean read count per sample, and...and the amount of information per read does not vary by DNA input amount. plexWell™ + Addgene = high quality...Boston University, and did postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and the University of Toronto. He...

  9. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    ...fused a different fluorescent protein to various Cas9 variants, SpCas9, NmCas9, and St1Cas9. These fusions...them. Thus, it has been widely adapted for a wide variety of applications: base editing, CRISPR activation... and results were consistent with copy number variation (CNV) analysis of the U2OS cells.   Figure...

  10. Predicting Adverse Reactions to Monoclonal Antibody Drugs

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    ...immune reaction to the treatment. These responses vary depending on the person. However, in silico and ... antigen, pre-existing conditions, etc. that can vary widely between recipients.   In vitro prediction...of the human lymphatic system. PBMCs consist of various immune cells, and can be used as a whole or can...microscopic in-vitro models can be built that contain various components of the immune system. Figure...

  11. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    ... are mTagBFP2, EGFP or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an infrared fluorescent...In mammalian cells, one of the improved folding variants of EGFP like mEmerald or Clover is probably best...measurements. Here, EGFP outperforms the improved folding variants, presumably due to the lower growth temperature...fellow at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University.       ...

  12. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...expression (Zhou et al., 2017). The most common variant is an 11 bp deletion in the B or C domain of one... ITR sequences from different AAV serotypes that vary in their RBE and T-shaped hairpin loop sequences...non-AAV2 ITRs can be used to drive gene expression at varying capacities. AAV vectors containing the AAV2 ITRs...different combinations of ITR and capsid serotypes vary in their gene transfer efficiency. Our practical...

  13. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    ...well-characterized. During this time, we’ve also created a variety of educational resources in an effort to make scientific...created a normalization mechanism to “collapse” variations and synonyms of the same term that appear in ...promoter “Syn”, that, when selected, will match variations present in the data such as synapsin, hsyn synapsin...synapsin, hSynap. Matching We capture multiple variations of the same information in our search indices...

  14. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...the best advice is to try a couple of promising variants to check how they perform under your experimental... a fluorescent protein (fusion) there is huge variation in the fluorescence intensities of individual ... plasmid uptake by cells. To correct for this variation, a reference fluorescent protein that is expressed... from Addgene. Another way to dodge cellular variation observed in mammalian cells is to tag an endogenous...

  16. Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur

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    ...and industry vary drastically, he reassures that one can learn it by reading a broad variety of materials...entrepreneurs must clearly communicate their idea at various levels of complexity and abstraction and convince...funding, foundations, and investors are examples of various sources of funding. Always ask for money. Moreover...

  17. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    ...see. To solve this issue, researchers conjugate various labels to antibodies that produce detectable signals...are great for multiplexing and can be used in a variety of assay types. Be sure to check the spectral properties...Peroxidase (HRP) and Alkaline Phosphatase (AP). Various substrates for each of these enzymes allow you ... methods for antibody conjugation can be quite variable from antibody to antibody or batch to batch. For...

  19. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    ...address these issues independently; for example, Harvard’s Therapeutics Graduate Program has a compulsory...Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. She recently launched a survey “Identifying...Associate at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He has continually promoted the cause...David T. Riglar! David T Riglar is a postdoc at Harvard Medical School. In the lab, he uses synthetic biology...

  20. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    ...universities typically requires funding from a variety of government and academic institutions. New graduate...grant writing, volunteered to take the lead on various applications throughout my graduate career, and... towards my PhD project. Grant writing offers various skill building opportunities that graduate students...readers why and how your innovation will address a variety of challenges and impact the field - its encouraged...
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