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  1. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    ...on a stochastic search algorithm rather than pre-designed sets, so identical searches can return multiple...particularly for high-complexity reactions? The researchers over at New England Biolabs® thought otherwise...design (DAD) to build out three tools to help researchers design high-fidelity Golden Gate Assemblies and...three tools developed, outlined below, allow for researchers to select large sets (with overhangs that violate...You can define the number of fragments, and the “search windows” you’d like the tool to use to identify... can exclude specific sequences or set a narrow search window for a site—or sites—that must be used. Each...necessarily require cycling. The Pros and Cons Researchers used the tools above to complete a 52-piece assembly...
  2. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ... most commonly used research tools in scientists’ pockets. They allow researchers to identify and isolate...an antibody that will be essential to your new research project, but unsure which one will mark your target...bind to the target). Unreliable antibodies cause research that cannot be reproduced and projects that cannot... with collaborators and support from the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies...Dr. Wu please contact us here! Ava Shipman is a research assistant in lab of Zhuhao Wu at the Icahn School...Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research. Nature 518, 27–29 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038...The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research. PLoS Biol 13(6): e1002165. https://doi.org/10.1371...
  3. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    ...students work closely with local researchers to learn about their research while creating physical models...graphics packages were soon developed that allowed researchers to create stunning, interactive images of their... only wonder what I am talking about. How do researchers use physical models of protein structure? We ...been creating physical models of proteins for researchers for the past fifteen years. On those occasions...following sequence of events plays itself out: The researcher breaks eye-contact with any other human in the... and to create custom models of proteins for researchers. Modeling CRISPR We were excited when Jacob Corn...strand. And this is why we love working with researchers on a model. The little knowledge that we have...
  4. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    ...plasmid from our search page (check out this video for a walkthrough of the ways you can search our website...trail at the top of any plasmid page gives the hierarchy of web pages the plasmid page is nested in. You...website). A quicker way to find this plasmid through search is... The Addgene plasmid number: This is the unique...know the catalog number of the plasmid you are searching for, this is the quickest and easiest way to find...than 50; and blue, more than 100 times! When you search for plasmids on our website, one of the available...see if the plasmid would be useful for their own research, and helps requestors use the plasmid in their...citations for Addgene plasmids you have used in your research! Sequence information: Depositors may provide ...
  5. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...longer than we’ve been studying it and, now, researchers are exploring ways to bolster and modulate our...protein blocking. Other molecular targets under research include TIM-3, LAG-3, STAT-3, EGFR, CD20 and CD73...to activate them are a few methodologies being researched. Apoptotic and necroptotic tumor cells have also...engineering have played a huge role. For instance, researchers are genetically altering tumor cells and immune... treatments enter the clinic, physicians and researchers are learning much about how treatment regimens... made more effective. Some important factors researchers are beginning to focus on include: Cell heterogeneity... important questions in this exciting field of research. One of the most important: How will cancers evolve...
  6. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...acids research 21.15 (1993): 3601. PubMed PMID: 8346047. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC331480. 3. García-Nafría... post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...cloning protocol In Vivo Assembly (IVA) cloning (Garcia-Nafria et al., 2016) uses the bacterial recombination...thanks to our guest bloggers Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology...Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral researcher in neurophysiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...synaptic transmission and plasticity.     Javier García-Nafría is an investigator scientist at the MRC ...    Follow them on Twitter @jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria.  References 1. Jones, Douglas H., and Bruce...
  7. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...immunotherapy, but this research is still in the pre-clinical/early clinical stages. Researchers are also working...vector history and components In the early 1990s, researchers developed viral vector systems based on retroviruses...other difficult-to-transfect cells. Lentiviral barcoding libraries have been used for complex applications...response, it should come as no surprise that researchers are interested in developing these vectors for...vectors have become standard in gene therapy. Researchers have also developed integrase-deficient lentiviral...come a long way since the 1990s, both in terms of research impact and safety. Many of Addgene’s most requested...Virus Biosafety Find Lentiviral Vectors for Your Research  ...
  8. Download Science-Themed Zoom Backgrounds from Addgene

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    ... preps for COVID-19 research, pooled CRISPR lentiirus libraries, pooled barcoding libraries, and more.... you’re working with AAV or lentivirus in your research, you might want to use one of our virus backgrounds... virus background.           Maybe your viral research has taken you in the direction of COVID-19. We...find plasmid tools to accelerate your COVID-19 research.  Download the red COVID-19 background.       ...Here, you can browse plasmids by field, organism, research technique, and more. Download the green DNA background...whether you use molecular biology tools in your research or not! And learn more about the variety of careers...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    ...students and researchers who do take the initiative to develop themselves, resources are often scarce and difficult... A recent survey of PhDs found that many researchers feel that they lack formal training in a variety...out to fill this gap by both highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working... is clearly a good idea to be diligent in your research, remember that you will not be a graduate student...have a well-groomed LinkedIn page. Here you can search for jobs, post your CV, and, most importantly, ... can be critical to a focused and effective job search. As with any online forum, there is an etiquette... someone a lot older than you are; try using ResearchGate to see where other graduate students and post-docs...
  10. How to Be an Excellent Trainee

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    ...typically a professor who operates a research group. Within that research group, you will also typically receive... waiting for you, prep for research work has to be done by the researchers themselves.  Be mindful ...more, depending on the mentoring style within the research group). The bench mentor-mentee relationship ...relationship will probably define your experience in the research group more (at least at first) than any other ...Getting the most out of the training experience In research there is a saying that if the sample prep is poor...fulfilling experience; even the grumpiest of researchers can enjoy it at times! What makes it rewarding...
  11. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    ...Initiative being to cure cancer, more funding and research opportunities are being provided to immunotherapy...Therefore, mesothelioma doesn’t receive nearly as much research funding from the government as more common cancers...breast cancer (about 246,000 diagnosed this year). Research efforts in mesothelioma instead rely upon private... they are exposed even one time. Doctors and researchers don’t entirely understand why some people develop..., along with other forms of cancer. Additional research is being done to see what, if any, other genetic...immunotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors New research is also going into two other areas that could ...than ever. From breath tests to blood tests, researchers are hopeful that they can come up with new ways...
  12. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and Medical Research Council (MRC) require authentic...the amount of money wasted in basic oncological research due to contamination are in the tens or hundreds...Resistance and Metastatic Potential in Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, Up-Regulation of pVHL along with Down-Regulation...lines deposited with them and used by different researchers are free of contamination and match their original...perhaps a working cell bank has been made by a research institution (an excellent practice), or maybe ...Warwick University, gaining extensive cell culture research experience through working for a variety of pharmaceutical..., HeLa cells, and cell culture contamination." Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine 133.9 (2009...
  13. A Better Way to Get Customer Support: The Help Center

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    ...ensuring that our services help accelerate your research. We know you don’t have time to be waiting on ...dedicated support team that can help you through any search, ordering, technical, or quality control issues...can browse through our various FAQ categories or search through the entire FAQ collection. You’ll find ... you are on our site. Simply click on the icon, search for answers, and choose a result. By clicking on...feedback. This is Addgene after all, and making your research easier always comes first. Resources on the Addgene... Visit the Help Center Find Plasmids for Your Research Become a Member of the Addgene Community  ... Bryan Archambault...
  14. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ... for their function. With the right research reagents, researchers can measure this conformational change...Innovation (IPI), a Boston-based, nonprofit protein research institute, partnered with Addgene to make our ...therefore interrupt integrin function — providing researchers new tools to identify integrin presence, study...ligand-binding functions, all key to basic biomedical research and drug development. Integrin structure and conformational...elucidating the role of tension, however, the researchers realized they needed specific tools to interpret... working with Addgene to accelerate biomedical research by distributing antibodies developed by IPI. Our...process behind the scenes to the new antibodies and research coming out of the lab.  References and resources...
  15. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...Hopefully you know that, if you’re an academic researcher at a nonprofit institution, you can order plasmids...variety of model systems, thereby opening your research to a variety of experimental opportunities. The... predictable protein expression in bacteria, researchers at the BIOFAB and the Endy Lab created this kit...GFP and RFP fusions as their test genes, the researchers at the BIOFAB showed that expression of many ... purification process by making it easy for a researcher to quickly generate N- and C-terminal epitope.... This strategy allows scientists to construct barcoded, locus-specific libraries compatible with Illumina...adapter library, with each plasmid carrying a unique barcoded Illumina-M13F bridging primer. These bridging ...
  16. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...actuator. In 2012, Adam Cohen's lab presented Archaerhodopsin 3 (Arch) as a new rhodopsin based voltage indicator...domain. Feng Zhang's group utilized the bi-lobed architecture of Cas9 to engineer a series of "split" cas9...Chao, Robert Singer, and Anne Ephrussi allows researchers to observe when and where translation occurs ...unprecedented activation of target genes A group of researchers headed by the Church Lab at the Wyss Institute... Peter Schultz and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute have deposited a pair of plasmids for...potentials. The Cohen lab wished to improve on the Arch indicator and their collaborators in Robert Campbell...five rounds of random mutagenesis on a library of Arch mutants screening for improved brightness. The brightest...
  17. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Product Development

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    ...called “Teaching Your Research.” This course has participants take their research from the bench to the... level course based on their research interests. “So for me, I researched G-proteins at the time. This...program takes what you know about it [your area of research], and teaches you how to design a course, how ...off: “I spent about 6 months just editing and searching for a job and I stumbled upon eScience by luck...happenstance. It was on Indeed or one of the job search sites. It's  a rare trek these days to go in cold...
  18. The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors

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    ...including Addgene, positively affect scientific research. As Maria Castro of University of Michigan says... as the technology disseminates throughout the research community. These popular plasmids are categorized...distributed this year, serves to congratulate researchers who have at least one plasmid deposited at Addgene...generously shared their reagents freely with the research community. Sharing is caring We’re thrilled that...time for our depositors to continue conducting research. Said Blue Flame awardee Sophien Kamoun of the... we’re also proud to help connect scientific researchers from far corners of the world. “It’s easy to ...eliminate geographical restrictions in life science research." Claim Your Award If you have one or more blue...
  19. Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene

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    ... this position because I want to help make the research enterprise work better and because I really like...back on. While doing and presenting undergraduate research at BU, I realized that I’m energized by talking...difficulties behind great discoveries by tackling a research project and getting a PhD myself. To continue ...graduate student group, Science in the News. While research experience is key to my current position, I think...Kentucky where I spent a couple of days talking to researchers about their work, picking up plasmid deposits...ways Addgene can improve in its mission to make research easier. I’m hoping my story demonstrates that ...mine, that help support academia but the skills researchers gain doing PhDs (i.e. technical writing, teaching...
  20. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...capable of at the same time. Barcoding libraries Just as physical barcodes help librarians track individual...individual books, genetic barcodes allow researchers to identify specific cells — as well as their descendants...sequencing the unique DNA barcodes. Figure 1: Schematic of barcoding with a pooled library. Created...from the Samantha Morris lab use a combinatorial barcoding approach to observe clonal dynamics and cell lineage...
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