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TypeBlog Post... Protocol Exchange Website: http://www.nature.com/protocolexchange/ Nature Protocol Exchange (NPE) is ...your favorite protocols for future reference. The exchange currently boasts over 2,500 protocols covering...
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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
TypeBlog Post...increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines (Bangera & Brownell, 2014; Duboue et al., 2022), as they... now connects MDH-focused CUREs at 50 schools, ranging from R1 institutions to community colleges, and...instructors, and provides opportunities for students to exchange ideas and results with peers and faculty at other...classroom. References and Resources References Bangera, G., Brownell, S. 2014. Course-based undergraduate... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog Post...10 closely related yeast strains. Adaptation to changing conditions - Organisms often need to express genes...conditions. With varied codon usage, an organism can change which proteins are highly expressed and which are...idea and has been used successfully in the past (Angov et al., 2008), but there are still many more features...bodies and is folding properly. References 1. Angov, Evelina, et al. "Heterologous protein expression... -
Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone
TypeBlog Post...General Meeting seven other times I had subsequently changed fields and my cohort of friends and colleagues ...in Atlanta, GA, in 2018. A lot of my experiences rang true with theirs. It was at this dinner and the...Singletons logo. Image: James et al., 2020. Help me stranger - Finding mentors for the meeting Just like analysis... cells regulate gene expression in response to changes in cell density. At the mixer, they meet other ... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog Post...experience will be a little different. Some of these changes you may enjoy immediately and some of them may ... just take some getting used to. Just remember: change is good. You can experience a real onboarding...re also getting the opportunity to learn their “language”, and in doing so you may discover that your career...eventually. If you approach that transition dreading the change, the adjustment period will be that much longer... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog Post... has a temperature optimum of 37 °C (Buchholz, Angrand, and Stewart 1998). FLPe’s performance was further... single cell with all its synapses and how it rearranges these synapses in the living brain over time ...Channelrhodopsin-2 to Multiple Cell Types for Imaging and Long-Range Circuit Mapping.” Journal of Neuroscience 28(28)...Central PMCID: PMC2593125. 2. Buchholz, F, P O Angrand, and A. Francis Stewart. 1998. “Improved Properties... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
TypeBlog Post...DNA 5' TTN Specific DSB in target DNA with 5' overhangs Cas13a (C2c2) 2x HEPN crRNA RNA 3' A, U, or... Cas13a targeting with a single crRNA The Feng Zhang lab used Cas13a from Leptotrichia shahii (LshCas13a...and cleavage through a series of conformational changes in the Cas13a molecule. Like Cas9, Cas13a tolerates...Ladha et al., 2020). Cas13a in mammalian cells The Zhang lab made the exciting discovery that some Cas13a... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog Post... often weren’t easily accessible, due to a wide range of logistical barriers. Addgene worked to identify...availability vs accessibility issue was found in a less tangible form: knowledge and information about the materials...is achieved through interconnected incremental changes. It was only after creating a plasmid repository...learned about the importance of smaller, systemic changes, like using alt-text, captions, and inclusive design... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog Post...you to track a cell line’s age and monitor any changes. Your tracking system could be as simple as a piece... stocks to work from. The future Attitudes are changing but yet more is needed to convince people of some... to carry our independent quality control for a range of testing, from animal doping to forensics, DNA...Delivery Systems for Mammalian Cells Learn about the Dangers of Using GFP for Protein Localization Resources... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog Post...reduce off-target effects of gene therapy, Feng Zhang’s lab has developed a system called DIRECTED (Delivery...Design). This modular approach combines an interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to...where the fusion and targeting components are interchangeable. Image from Strebinger et al., 2023, reused...be tethered on the viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. DIRECTED is compatible... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog Post...skipped or whether selecting colonies and performing Sanger sequencing will suffice…and the answer is no. Due...screening - An excellent protocol paper by the Feng Zhang lab describing construction, lentiviral production...CRISPR/Cas Systems Forum- Moderated by the Feng Zhang lab, this is a useful place to ask experimental ...Abudayyeh OO, Platt RJ, Brigham MD, Sanjana NE, Zhang F. Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog Post... Today in our transferable skills guide: Time Mangement for Scientists. Back when I used to do mammalian...immediate deadline - even the best of friends get hangry at some point. My cells, on the other hand, could...terrible handwriting, is copied below): Read new Zhang Lab Paper Find plasmids similar to those in the ...while I may have found splitting cells boring, hanging out in the tissue culture room also gave me time... -
Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene
TypeBlog Post...institution, you can order plasmids covering a wide range of fields from Addgene. What you might not know ... Academy of Sciences 113.9 (2016): 2388-2393. Huang, Shijie, Xuechen Zhu, and Charles E. Melançon III...et al 2015[2]). The proteins encoded in this set range in size from 4 to 156 kDa, enabling the user to ...5373-5383. Walkiewicz, Katarzyna, et al. "Small changes in enzyme function can lead to surprisingly large... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog Post...that certain polymerases such as Taq generate A-overhangs (a feature used in TA-cloning). Such non-complementary...near the 5’-end) and that also generates 4 bp overhangs. You can then use the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase...polymerase I to generate blunt ends from these overhangs and ligate these blunt ends together in a standard...Xia, Yongzhen, et al. "New insights into the QuikChangeTM process guide the use of Phusion DNA polymerase... -
Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
TypeBlog Post...caused by splicing defects, including ataxia telangiectasia, congenital disorder of glycosylation, and ...RM, Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D, Gersbach CA. In vivo genome editing improves...Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ. In vivo...Shalem O, Wu X, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Sharp PA, Zhang F. In vivo genome editing using Staphylococcus aureus... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog Post...References Hao, Y., Yan, J., Fraser, C., Jiang, A., Anuganti, M., Zhang, R., Lloyd, K., Jardine, J., Coppola...reagents, researchers can measure this conformational change to investigate the role of specific integrins in...reagents to study the difference in cell morphology changes induced by integrins binding the RGD motif compared... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog Post...added, it binds tTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning...added, it binds cTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning...acid to Drosophila cells. Work by Wei et al. from Kang Shen’s lab has also shown that the Q system is also.... Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling gene expression with the Q repressible... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog Post...training in a globalized world where individuals can exchange ideas, network, collaborate, and innovate internationally...challenge. On top of that, in the midst of a rapidly changing, globalized environment re-emerging from international... University of Valencia): “IMP showed me a wide range of professional opportunities that are outside of... this conference, mentors and mentees met and exchanged impressions of the IMP experience. Conference ... -
RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite
TypeBlog Post...-biophys-083012-130404 Zhang N, Zhang D, Chen SL, Gong B-Q, Guo Y, Xu L, Zhang X-N, Li J-F (2018) Engineering...flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Li et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2018) and the model bryophyte Physcomitrium... -
Finding Your Science Policy Path
TypeBlog Post...variety of backgrounds with technical expertise that ranges from astronomy to bioethics to chemical engineering...disease area. Depending on the organization, these changes to policy could shift how society interacts with...or essays. Note: the answer to this question may change over time and that’s perfectly normal! Action ...what parts of your current job you want to keep or change and can inform your move into science policy. Read...