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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...What is an aptamer? Nearly 30 years ago, two independent groups, led by Jack Szostak and Larry Gold, ... Assays that require recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune...
  2. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ... 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...
  3. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...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...
  4. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...the introduction of this mutation can be any site early in the coding region of the gene of interest. This...Repressing target genes using dCas9-based repressors Early experiments using dCas9 in bacteria demonstrated...
  5. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ... to keep up with the latest tools. In Addgene’s early days, we would ‘spot-check’ critical regions of ...us to keep pace with our current need to analyze nearly 300 sequences each week. Our internal software ...
  6. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    ...CRISPR Cas variant that can also cleave dsDNA similarly to Cas9 (Zetsche et al., 2015 ). Cas12a however...DETECTR. How does DETECTR work? DETECTR works similarly to SHERLOCK. Cas12a is targeted to a specific ...
  7. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...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,...
  8. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    ...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...
  9. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    ... 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 ...
  10. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ... 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...
  11. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ... 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...
  12. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...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...
  13. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...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...
  14. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...cars become more technologically advanced leaving earlier versions obsolete, the techniques we use in lab...researchers at a time when sequencing was still in the early days of development. Today, researchers use both...
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