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  1. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    ...transitioned between different lab groups without having a formal interview process. Industry interviews, however...structured. I met with several individual and/or small groups, usually starting with the hiring manager...

  4. Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids

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    ...environmental plasmids, are all around us! A plasmid is a small piece of DNA that can replicate independently from... genetic parasites. Cryptic plasmids tend to be small and poorly studied, but some researchers have suggested...

  5. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    ...you. Once you input a sequence, SplitSet finds optimal fusion sites to split it into multiple fragments...antibiotic screening for selection, failed under normal cycling protocols, and required a 48-hour incubation...

  6. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ... it with an “assist peptide” that facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral sgRNA...editing frequency (nearly 100% in some cases) and minimal toxicity, including in clinically-relevant lines...

  7. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...persistent immunological reconstitution with a normally functioning T cell repertoire (1). In this example...icosahedral, non-enveloped virus that carries a small, approximately 4.7 kb single stranded genome. AAV...

  8. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    ...'t do it unless you can do it well" – even the smallest program. I don't mean have fancy food or a fantastic... put your panelists behind a table. It adds a formality and distance that prevents interaction with each...

  10. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    ...survey found that many researchers feel they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At...easily work on this transferable skill without any formal training or coursework. First, you have to develop...

  12. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ... SNAPf-, CLIPf-, and CLAP-tagged proteins for mammalian cell expression. These plasmids will be useful...expresses all the components of the biosensor in optimal proportions from a vector backbone that allows ...

  13. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...dose (TCID50) (Zen et al., 2004).  To choose the optimal titering assay, you’ll need to understand how different...Levites, Y., … Golde, T. E. (2020). Utilizing minimally purified secreted rAAV for rapid and cost-effective...

  14. Of Myc and Men

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    ...five amino acids, meaning the tag could be quite small. However, substance P has an amide group added to...larger than the substance P peptide, but still quite small. However, unlike the substance P tag, they found...

  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...their versatile timer could be used in vitro, in mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. ... timers should therefore find use in studies of animal development where events like the patterning of...

  17. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...pCMMP-MCS-IRES-Puro IRES Retroviral pEF1a-IRES-Neo IRES Mammalian MSCV-IRES-Luciferase IRES Retroviral pWPI ...pWPI IRES Lentiviral AmCyan-P2A-mCherry P2A Mammalian pC5Kan-P2A P2A Insect pUltra P2A and T2A Lentiviral...

  18. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...can be used. The Fujii lab demonstrated this in mammalian cells by expressing dCas9 with an N-terminal 3xFLAG...expression of IGF2, a characteristic of many human malignancies. Additionally, the Tapscott Lab identified regulators...

  19. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...higher Tm give more efficient recombination. We normally use a Tm between 47-55 °C for the homologous region...be very helpful to confirm primer design.  Use minimal template DNA Use 1 ng of PCR template DNA to minimize...

  20. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    ...amount and type of information you want to convey. Small tidbits and fast/fun facts are easy and engaging... be oversaturated. Transition from academic to informal writing can difficult.  Photography Medium...

  22. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ...parties, and the company at large, by polling and informal communications we made a decision to try out a...the other hand if the journal club occurs with a small technical team (single lab or team), a deep technical...

  23. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...properly, it is unstable and may only work for a small number of qPCR runs before a new one is needed. ...and the droplet generation oil are moved through small channels to create a water-in-oil emulsion containing...

  24. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...answer to the space problem. Instead of imaging smaller, what if we just made the sample bigger? In ExM...provides new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria parasites including the conservation of a conoid...

  26. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ...antimicrobial must reach essentially every cell or else small pools of antibiotic resistant cells could repopulate... systems used in both papers are analogous to mammalian viral vectors in that the vectors are replication-deficient...

  28. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    ...specifically to allow scientists to evaluate how small changes in vector administration can influence AAV...doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2019.105 Rumachik, N. G., Malaker, S. A., Poweleit, N., Maynard, L. H., Adams, C....
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