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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ... using a dCas9 variant as well. Furthermore, they provide a high-fidelity (HF) variant of the BE3 that...Streptomyces  Streptomyces bacteria produce a wide variety of bioactive natural products. To easily explore...of essential and non essential genes in a wide variety of bacteria including in pooled, genome-wide, formats...bacteria. The authors were able to engineer a dCas9 variant fused to bacterial enhancer binding protein required...

  8. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...Cas protein variants may also be useful for targeting ncRNAs. For example, the Cas12a variant can cleave...genomic elements (Hazan and Bester 2021). Other Cas variants Another option is CRISPR/Cas13, which targets ...specifically edit or degrade targeted lncRNAs. The Cas14 variant is a smaller and more versatile option. It can ...

  10. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...or RNA) to target cells has been challenging. A variety of vector delivery technologies have been investigated...vectors great gene delivery tools? There are a variety of key properties that distinguish AAVs as gene...multitude of known AAV serotypes that have slight variations in their viral capsids. Novel forms of AAV capsids...are under consideration, recent advancements in various AAV technologies have vastly improved AAVs’ potential...

  11. Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors

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    ...concentrations in different subcellular compartments can vary greatly. Additionally, the calcium changes you will...between experiments can be more difficult due to variance in sensor expression if you aren’t working with...through FRET sensors, can reduce these unwanted variables. Twitch is a FRET-based calcium reporter derived...advantage: tissue-specific targeting. By employing various AAV serotypes, researchers can precisely direct...

  12. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    ...results. Since polyclonal antibodies contain a variety of clones and thus the potential to bind many different... tend to have a strong signal and to work in a variety of applications. The desired specificity of your...your primary antibody. Manning et al. tested a variety of commercially available secondary antibodies ...factor Biological systems tend to be complex with a variety of proteins interacting. Experiments tend to be...

  13. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...of yeast terminators of varying strength. A discussion of the effects of various terminators in the context...important role in RNA processing and contributes to variability in RNA half-life, and ultimately gene-expression...transcript. The purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but polyadenylation generally...

  14. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    ...such as Novartis, have specific web sites for postdoc listings, so the method of posting varies between...AstraZeneca, you are expected to publish, but this can vary depending on which company you choose. If publishing...postdoc positions, including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, Biogen, Amgen, New England Biolabs, Regeneron...

  15. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...determine the titer of your viral vector solution. A variety of titering methods have been developed to determine...viral particles that can transduce cells, which can vary based on target cells and can be altered by freeze...genome. While ddPCR is superior in precision and variability, qPCR is the more widely used method due to the...Packaging PlasmidParts of the AAV Transfer PlasmidAAV Variables That Matter AAV protocols on addgene.org  AAV ...

  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...proteins (FPs) came into wide use, there were a variety of ways to monitor cell, organelle, and protein...progressively longer blue fluorescence maturation times and varied blue-red maturation times (Table 1). These separate...useful for monitoring cellular events occurring at varied time scales.  Table 1: Monomeric FP Timers and ...and release from the plasma membrane by fusing various vesicle cargoes to FP timer mk-GO (Tsuboi et al...

  17. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    ... and this nuclease-null or “dead” Cas9 (dCas9) variant can then be fused to effector domains such as transcriptional...limitations to a system that relies on two distinct Cas9 variants—nuclease-competent or nuclease-null—in order to...with both the nuclease-positive and nuclease-null variants of Cas9 along with the necessary gRNAs, but it...control which gRNA becomes complexed with which variant of Cas9. To circumvent this problem, previous studies...

  18. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    ...FPs just keeps getting larger with hundreds of variants available. Read on to familiarize yourself with...emission wavelenght range).  By mutating GFP, the variants blue FP (BFP), cyan FP (CFP), and yellow FP (YFP...YFP) were derived. For a breakdown of GFP, it's variants, and their relevant mutations, check out Marcy's...with very comprehensive data sheets on many FP variants Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) ...

  19. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    ...everyone else?  In truth, people are incredibly varied in how they prefer to consume information. Personally...availability to resources (including the internet!) can vary depending on factors like socioeconomic status and...smartphones with low data requirements.  No visuals. Variety of hosting platforms can splinter audience. Primarily...areas of expertise.  Social Media Low to high Variety of options from text to video. Easy to target audiences...

  20. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...used for the production of Fab fragments where variable chains are secreted into the periplasmic space...Embryonic Kidney (HEK) cells and Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. (L'Abbé et al., 2018).  Recombinant...coefficient of IgG is around 1.35, though this can vary depending on the specific amino acid sequence (Maity..., Zhan C, Malm M, Field R, Turner R, Sellick C, Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau V. Small-scale bioreactor...
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