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  1. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ...creativity and expertise of the group and yet never hesitated to reach out to the greater research community...portions of the Zika virus genome with Addgene to facilitate rapid sharing of these tools with the Zika virus...and the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. His group carries out research in synthetic...
  2. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    ... the NIH, started off with the first keynote presentation. He talked about the impact of the Human Genome...seeing tRNAs because they contain “hard stop” mutations. New techniques used by the Lowe lab have allowed...species for genome engineering. The final keynote presentation was by Nobel Laureate Thomas Steitz of Yale....
  3. 7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors

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    ...difficult person: 1) Understand your supervisor’s expectations Every supervisor has their own management style...frequently. The easiest way to meet your supervisor’s expectations is to ask upfront: “How frequently would you... details of your work. Describe the problem by stating the facts and explain how it is interfering with...
  4. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    ...genetically modified organisms, and GMOs have a bad reputation. The public is can be fearful of this technology...ended up applying to a business accelerator freely stating that we had an idea, knew how to build it, but ...in 2004, she accepted a commission in the United States Air Force. She left active duty to pursue a degree...
  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ... clearly As a manager you need to clearly state expectations and goals. Yours and your team’s success ... schedule a meeting to discuss the work, set expectations, answer any questions, and (most importantly...
  6. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ... of many cellular mechanisms, there are some limitations to working with FPs. Overexpression of fluorescently...of normal protein function, and ultimately misinterpretation of the protein’s cellular role. One way to...However, CRISPR protein tagging does have its limitations, especially when trying to perform high-throughput...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...like adenovirus (Ad) or herpes simplex virus to facilitate efficient replication. The most common production...immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Grimm et al., 1999), quantitative PCR (qPCR) (Aurnhammer et al., 2012), droplet...what Addgene uses, check out our ddPCR for AAV quantitation blog post.  We generally do not recommend using...
  8. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    ...our requestors. However, we can again see quick adaptation and steady use of all types of libraries, once...categorized by year of deposit. Outlines show a representative proportion of CRISPR plasmids requested, categorized...total of 23,006 times, including 14,677 unique citations.  CRISPR is a story that centers around the impact...
  9. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...proteins that can be easily modified in order to facilitate its entry into the target cells (Beatty et al...tissues with Cas9 and a gRNA designed to target a mutated gene. In a Scientific Reports paper introducing... (2016) Viral vectors for gene therapy: Current state and clinical perspectives. Biochemistry Moscow 81...
  10. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    ...this process accounts for a percentage of the mutations seen with TALENs and CRISPR. MMEJ is active during...using much smaller regions of homology, which facilitates easier cloning. An overview of PITCh. ...possibilities MMEJ can enable. References 1. Sakuma, Tatsushi, et al. (2016).  “MMEJ-assisted gene knock-in ...
  11. MXS Chaining

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    ...Cellular Structures Construct Fluorophore Excitation/emission maxima Tethering partner Subcellular...genes from organisms with high CpG dinucleotide representation. The specific restriction enzymes used in various... 3. The goal of high throughput cloning is to facilitate the construction of plasmids with many components...
  12. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...nothing’s ever perfect, neither is AAV. Its main limitation is the small size of its DNA cargo - 4.8 kb at...strategies are being optimized to overcome this limitation, with limited success so far. Luckily for patients...an ever-growing number of clinical trials for devastating genetic diseases such as hemophilia, muscular...
  13. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ...attend? What is the expectation on level of critique and detail? Who is/are the facilitator(s) of the journal...papers could be more important.  Any slides, presentations, recordings, and other materials should be made...
  14. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...protein synthesis. The kan resistance gene, NPTII, facilitates phosphorylation of kan, which inactivates it....when not 100% inhibited, meaning it will induce mutations in the host/plasmid DNA during selection if it...good choice for experiments in which off-target mutations are undesirable. Pros: Works across many species...
  15. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ...producer cells where there is E1 and E3 gene complementation. In target cells that are infected by the vector...persistent transgene expression in certain cell types (Tatsis et al., 2007), potentially because some of the ...doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05949-1. PMID: 36996871. Tatsis, N., Fitzgerald, J. C., Reyes-Sandoval, A., Harris-McCoy...
  16. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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    ...the new protocols.io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we...simultaneously allowing scientists to actively comment, annotate, and edit protocols. After my introduction to ...lab-use tablet? The software also makes it easy to annotate protocols, make them public for others to use,...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...acceptor FRET know-how with aptamers, aptabeacons (or aptatags) were born. Aptabeacons can be created in many...general premise is that an aptamer in its unbound state contains a fluorophore and a quencher in close proximity...brighter version of the aptamer, but it still had limitations in vivo. Using a combination of SELEX and fluorescence-activated...
  18. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    .... In vivo, these recombination reactions are facilitated by the recombination of attachment sites from...attL-entry-TOPO vector. TOPO cloning adds short end(s) to facilitate cloning into an attL-containing entry vector.... to 4 DNA fragments, in a specific order and orientation, in one tube, into one Gateway vector to produce...
  19. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    ...inflammation, which can cause mesothelial cells to mutate and ultimately form cancerous tumors.  This process...For example, multiple studies show that certain mutations of the BAP1 gene play a role in susceptibility...individuals, asbestos has not been banned in the United States and many other countries, and it is still imported...
  20. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    ...at the same time increasing interdisciplinary citations in their own work. Of course not all research ...ImpactStory, a website that helps researchers go beyond citation rates to measure the impact of their contribution...Archambault. "The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007." Journal of the American Society for...
  21. Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist

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    ...get there: I had to send the company detailed documentation of my results, answer loads of questions, and...differences in customers’ personalities and their expectations. If you are willing to listen to a customer’...support roles. Examples are Technical Service Representative, Technical Support Specialist, Technical Support...
  22. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ...editors, PE6a–g, that overcome some current prime limitations and enable impressive editing efficiencies in...similar or better efficiency than PEmax, the current state-of-the-art. PE6b was very efficient for short, unstructured...transmission, and plasticity and is a popular marker of excitatory synapses in assays like IHC. In fact, Anti-PSD...
  23. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...maintaining their friendships. I put “neutral” in quotations here because I would not have considered myself...handy: Empathy: If you often find yourself in confrontational situations with others because you simply cannot...competing, or accommodating, if you find yourself gravitating most frequently towards these approaches, you...
  24. Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

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    ...training and experience, better align trainee expectations with job outcomes, and increase diversity in...need to know in order to even assess the current state of research became more clear throughout the various...information publicly available may realign trainee expectations with actual job outcomes and/or disincentivize...
  25. How to Negotiate a Successful Lab Start Up Budget

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    ...research is dependent on a pathology microtome/cryostat, then making a careful decision on the condition...for suggestions to meet each others’ needs and limitations. Everything is negotiable. Try asking for discounts...research, then it’s worth working within their limitations. 3. Always provide value to others This is a ...
  26. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    ...have intricacies that aren’t always mentioned in static written protocols. It is therefore a bit ridiculous...experiments with too few replicates leading to suspect statistical significance (you can read more about this problem...experimental design practices including talking to statisticians when necessary and encouraging interlab peer...
  27. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...across the genome) has been implicated in disease states, and targeting the epigenome may make certain processes... spiroplasma (M. Sss1) (termed MQ1.) The Q147L mutation improves methylation kinetics such that cytosine...transduction. Lysine-specific Demethylase 1 (LSD1) Tatjana Sauka-Spengler's lab has deposited pX330a dCas9...
  28. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    ...galactose3 AAV receptor2 Laminin receptor (LR)3 Putative integrin3 1Wu, Miller, et al., 20062Pillay...for mice in vivo. To target... Try using... Citation CNS AAV1, AAV2, AAV5, AAV8, AAV9, AAVrg Aschauer.... (2006). Α2,3 and α2,6 N-Linked Sialic Acids Facilitate Efficient Binding and Transduction by Adeno-Associated...
  29. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ...of hands-on lab work for a dissertation. I chose to carry out my dissertation research in a lab in California...outcome for a specific combination of genetic mutations. This is a particular challenge in pancreatic ...
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