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TypeBlog Post...major effect on scientists within academia, most particularly postdocs working in the U.S., whose current ...thing. Reliance on a cheap trainee workforce has clearly not been a sustainable approach to biomedical research...
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The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog Post... is still a problem today. It is now known that nearly 500 cell lines suffer from contamination with HeLa...out on low passage cells and this means you can regularly discard the cells you are working with because... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog Post...American Type Culture Collection and freeze as many early passage vials as possible. One problem that often...can make this assumption incorrect. One of the earliest steps in lentiviral transduction is the interaction... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog Post... determine this is to examine expression of the early response gene c-fos. For example, using Chr2 stimulation...and a lot of room for error, optogenetics is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Like every other advanced... -
Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!
TypeBlog Post...between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...related species from which they were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian,... -
Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024
TypeBlog Post...while requiring a lower concentration of sample — nearly ten times less protein. While the addition of LEAs...Methyltransferase (CHARM), with several advantages over the earlier system. Rather than overexpressing an exogenous... -
Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling
TypeBlog Post... glycosylation patterns. Surface labeling is particularly useful for classifying and sorting cells by ...Paul Heisig is a Research Associate in the lab of Arlene Sharpe at Harvard Medical School. His projects ... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog Post...vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system...is composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog Post...how much time you can possibly handle doing a particularly annoying task and then dedicating that much ...dinner plans at 6 pm, you had better get started early enough to finish everything you need to do by 6 ... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog Post...other videos. For starters, I hadn’t anticipated nearly every webcam recording only 1280x720 resolution... to labs that need them. The lab re-opened very early in the pandemic with some incredibly strict safety... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog Post...animals only permits visualization of two colors. Similarly, Flybow adapts Brainbow 2.0 for use in Drosophila...PMID: 21205846. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3082469. Tarlow, Branden D., Milton J. Finegold, and Markus Grompe... -
Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2
TypeBlog Post...conducted a large scale sequencing and concluded that nearly all disease-linked human genes have counterparts...the most popular model amphibians in science with early research providing insight into some of the most... -
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog Post...distancing. With countries like South Korea, one of the earlier epicenters of the outbreak ultimately flattening... is a one-pot, one-temperature reaction, and is nearly single-molecule sensitive. In the case of HIV-1... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog Post...BioRender.com. This kind of normalization is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but proceed with caution! Loading...chain (blue) to infer or calculate things about earlier ones. In practice, multiple sources of error (red... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog Post...the use of bright red fluorescent proteins (e.g. mScarlet) or infrared fluorescent proteins (Chernov et ...interfere with the function of the protein. This is clearly the case when proteins undergo post-translational... -
New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control
TypeBlog Post... under CC-BY 4.0 license. Building off their earlier work on Rab11, the team used optogenetic clustering...constructs to the plasma membrane or lysosomes (the earlier article also provided CIB constructs for targeting... -
Tips for Getting a Faculty Position
TypeBlog Post... interviews but no job offers, is a failure to clearly articulate one's talents and ideas. Some key points... matter how many times I say this, candidates regularly try to convince me that their search committee... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post... undergoing two rounds of gene-editing enables scarless introduction of an intended mutation while taking...4. Kwart, Dylan, et al. "Precise and efficient scarless genome editing in stem cells using CORRECT." Nature... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog Post...into the parental plasmid (or other). This is particularly relevant in cases where a large plasmid with...introduce a point mutation in a large construct. Particularly, if a pair of unique restriction site is located... -
Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation
TypeBlog Post...using the same expression plasmid. This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation...Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin. She is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling...