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TypeBlog Post...experiences. Good coaches will have loads of success stories and plenty of people to vouch for them. Trust... of scientists here) I know many coaches in the Boston area. Sarah Cardozo Duncan is a proven coach who...has an outstanding blog and, while her PhD is in History, I think she would be a good match as a coach for...
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Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...When this interaction occurs, BirA* activity is restored, and nearby proteins are labeled with biotin. ...but labeling ceases when these two bait proteins stop interacting. This feature is particularly useful... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...science, dating back several hundred years, with historical ties to psychology and philosophy (the mind-body...in a certain type of behavior (for a review see Stoica et al., 2013). Vector delivery may also be achieved...service for their behavioral studies. References Stoica L, Ahmed SS, Gao G, Sena-Esteves M. Gene transfer... -
Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
TypeBlog Post...your target protein in each well. The reaction is stopped by the addition of hydrochloric acid (for more ...(TMB). The addition of hydrochloric acid, which stops the reaction, turns the solution yellow. The absorbance...serial dilution of your experimental sample, and/or stopping the HRP-TMB reaction more quickly. Just make sure... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog Post...born before 1985, you might remember going to the store and buying CDs when you wanted to hear a piece of...technology makes it easy for scientists to share, remix, store, and track these essential components of the scientific...useful in perpetuity. Second, plasmids are easy to store and share, making recombinant antibodies the most... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog Post...plasmids at Addgene! Knock-in: Introducing tags or stop signals Once Cas9 generates double-strand breaks...very long ncRNAs is impractical. Instead, tags or stop elements can be inserted to disrupt the transcription... adjacent genes are complex and not yet fully understood, so it is important to carefully select the target... -
Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door
TypeBlog Post... In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer science communication programs... and money to a full-time graduate course, UWE Bristol offers an intensive 4-day Masterclass in science...or upload your data to Zooniverse. The Natural History Museum has downloadable resources to enable you... -
Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015
TypeBlog Post...so many scientists who were potential Addgene requestors and depositors. China is in one of the top 10...good job of seeing tRNAs because they contain “hard stop” mutations. New techniques used by the Lowe lab ...can view public circRNA datasets and download the custom python scripts needed to discover circRNAs in RNA-seq... -
Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization
TypeBlog Post...Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and then Boston University (institutions where I’ve worked as a...became interim Chair automatically as it was an understood expectation of any Vice-Chair. Following an official...Juliet Moncaster is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine and is the former... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog Post...methods. First, its modular design allows for customization with strain-specific promoters, antibiotic resistance...species where its modular nature allows for the customization of guides, promoters, selection markers, and...(2005): 443. PubMed PMID: 15908923. Johnson, Christopher M., and Alan D. Grossman. "Integrative and conjugative... -
Starter guide to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) part 1: A renaissance in regenerative medicine
TypeBlog Post... inner cell mass (ICM) of a 5-6 day old human blastocyst [6]. They are isolated mostly from abnormal and...PMCID: PMC2752493. 4. Bongso, A. and M. Richards, History and perspective of stem cell research. Best Pract...Derivation of embryonic stem-cell lines from human blastocysts. N Engl J Med, 2004. 350(13): p. 1353-6. PubMed... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog Post...approach gives me a bit of flexibility since I can store the cell lysates at -80 °C for up to 6 months before... completed in one long day, or the virus can be stored at 4 °C and buffer exchanged the next day. Refer... comments below! Special thanks for Dr. Dan Stone and Harshana de Silva Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson... -
Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025
TypeBlog Post...human genes and are recommended for use in immunohistochemistry (Figure 5). Anti-MAPT [AT8] specifically...Addgene Antibody Data Hub. Figure 5: Immunohistochemistry with Addgene's Anti-APP [6E10-A5] recombinant..., Wang, W. (2024). Anti-APP [6E10-A5] in Immunohistochemistry (Human). Addgene Report, doi: https://doi.org... -
Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV
TypeBlog Post...course, you will want to make sure that your final stocks only contain rAAV. To minimize contamination, use...preparation. rAAVs Now your AAV virions are ready to store or use. They are quite stable and will withstand...Londono, L., Arjona, K., Parianos, M., Truong, V., Rostonics, E., Hernandez, A., Boye, S. L., Boye, S. E., ... -
Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog Post...spectral flow and can be thought of as a series of histograms flipped onto its side and compressed into a heat...for rare cellular markers, beads can sometimes distort the fluorescent signature upon antibody binding...: Secondary AntibodiesAntibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's... -
Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
TypeBlog Post...biology also falls within this section. The GFP story has its own Franklin in Doug Prasher, who originally...describes the detection of gravitational waves--a story I was much less familiar with as a biologist--as... feel slightly dated by next week. A stepping stone When I discussed The State of Science with the five... -
SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools
TypeBlog Post...for a scientist. I think that establishing this history helped demonstrate that a) I was a real person ...which demonstrated to the students that scientific history was very much in the making. One of the exciting... in an exciting, tumultuous time in scientific history. Whatever your reasons, let us know how it goes... -
Tips for arabidopsis transformation
TypeBlog Post...using and whether you are inoculating from a frozen stock or a colony from an LB plate. In my hands, a 5 mL...culture can be used for colony PCR and glycerol stocks. Dip/drip plants more than once: Dip your plants...University. She studies cell fate maintenance in the stomatal lineage and has made countless transgenic plants... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog Post....io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we began sharing ...management and you want the works: organizing reagent storage and inventory, managing orders, tracking students... scientists workflow in mind and can offer a one-stop solution to your lab's organization and management... -
To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question
TypeBlog Post...different codons that encode 20 amino acids and three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can be ...codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example of codon usage among different... References Athey J, Alexaki A, Osipova E, Rostovtsev A, Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V...