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  1. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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    ....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...
  2. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...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...
  3. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...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...
  4. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ...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...
  5. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ... Commons license.  Histograms  For analysis of a single marker, a histogram showing frequency of events... “true” signal.  Figure 8: A series of histograms from Alyamani et al., 2018, showing number of...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...frustrating it can be to get a “bad batch”); Customizable sensitivity and detection - since they frequently...changes after target binding, aptamers are highly customizable in terms of how they actually “report” as biosensors...a higher melting temperature than its Spinach ancestors, and has a lower magnesium dependence. Though ...
  7. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...college I studied development and evolution of histone genes in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the spiny...Discovering ways to culture, propagate, transform, store, and share all of these new organisms continues ...promiscuous and the gene that is responsible is understood. It’s possible to actually silence this gene ...
  8. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ...like the cold or flu) Overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming Lengthy courses of treatment with antibiotics...those bacteria that are partially resistant. If you stop a treatment early, you may be un-wittingly selecting...used in the clinical laboratory. What can we do to stop the emergence of antibiotic resistance?  The problem...
  9. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...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...
  10. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ... clinical application in under a decade is an astounding feat of public investment and collaborative scientific...effective treatment. And base editing advances won’t stop here. By coincidence, KJ’s genetic sequence was ...., Correia, B. E., … Kleinstiver, B. P. (2025). Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants via scalable engineering...
  11. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ...a room, but still have control over focus, zoom, stop/start record, and allow me to see an image.  Remote...control some basic functions, including starting and stopping recording).  Test: It was unbelievable how well...the beating heart of Addgene. It’s why we exist, storing plasmids, and distributing them to labs that need...
  12. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ...at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), a Boston-based, nonprofit protein research institute, partnered...will also work in immunoprecipitation and immunohistochemistry. Table 1: IPI antibodies  Antibody ...integrin antibodies comes from IPI’s work with the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard-based lab of Tim...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...modification with fatty acyl chains. For instance, myristoylation requires an N-terminal consensus sequence (...variants and check the functionality of the fusion (Mastop, 2018). Summary GFP is an all-round useful genetically...21619590. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3129320.  18. Mastop, Marieke, et al. "A FRET-based biosensor for measuring...
  14. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    ...to capture ideas, write down certain notes or brainstorm, but we have to admit that paper-based record... and included hundreds of researchers. The full story is available here. Our questions focused on researchers...all types of data, which enables researchers to store everything in one place. From pictures to excel ...
  15. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...site. Recipient cells express DsRed within a lox-STOP-lox sequence, followed by the EGFP, and the TEV ...translocates to the nuclease, and excises the DsRed-STOP to trigger expression of EGFP. Figure 2:... MitoTRACER plasmids here! Borcherding, N., & Brestoff, J. R. (2023). The power and potential of mitochondria...
  16. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ... in your specific experimental context (Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than...and references References Aydin S (2015) A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory...://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(81)90281-5 Pillai-Kastoori L, Heaton S, Shiflett SD, Roberts AC, Solache ...
  17. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...the recombined product, you’d microinject into blastocysts to be implanted in pseudopregnant female mice...s a guide that directs cleavage right before the stop codon!  Figure 3: How to design a C-terminal...guide would be selected, since it cleaves at the stop codon TAG. Design your repair template with ...
  18. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...and whose structures are just beginning to be understood. Therefore, in addition to their utility in the... strain that you can use for long-term library storage. After overnight growth, scrape up, pool and extract...during one of these steps is also a convenient stopping (ie. going home and eating and sleeping) point...
  19. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...2006): 703-9. PubMed PMID: 16582903. Potter, Christopher J., et al. “The Q system: a repressible binary...from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling...s41598-022-07852-7 De Boer, Herman A., Lisa K. Comstock & Mark Vasser. “The tac promoter: a functional...
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