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  1. Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource

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    ...recombinant affinity reagents. Addgene is looking forward to working with the community to create a fully ...plasmid and viral services. The first step will be working with the community to build a resource of plasmids... well validated collection. I’m thrilled to be working with Addgene to bring this resource to life,” says...10.1038/520295b Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B,...
  2. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    ...lab. A common strategy to determine the binding kinetics of a purified protein involves immobilization ...moiety, which forms dimers, may influence binding kinetics of the target ligand. Another important consideration...-glutathione. Biotin-based immobilization for kinetic analysis Proteolytic removal of the fusion protein...protein could provide a more relevant kinetic analysis, but the trick is to utilize a second immobilization...outlined here provides a basis to determine binding kinetics using a multitude of methods including surface...
  3. Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc

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    ...researching, but I decided I needed a new challenge. Looking for sales and marketing jobs Like most choices ... researchers. Many biotechnology companies are looking for PhD or Master’s level scientists who have knowledge...business-like elements. At this point you may be asking yourself, "Why would you switch the focus of your...the employer was not such that he/she would be looking at where I had published, who I had published with...scientific and marketing knowledge. For most PhDs looking at careers outside of academia, sales and marketing...
  4. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    ... accountability that is one major advantage of working with a mentor.The responsibility of arranging meetings...that need work or growth. Here are some ideas for making your meetings productive: Discuss logistics if...reach all the goals you set, but the process of working on them is where growth happens. Mentors bring ... day. If I skip, I get a bunch of text messages asking me, “What happened? Where are you?” My gym posse...Develop coaching skills Encourage your creative thinking Enhance leadership skills Support inclusion, diversity...
  5. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    ...Professor at University of Barcelona. The challenge: Making courses on genetic manipulation more hands on While...meeting with some other professors, I went home thinking about how to solve this problem. I didn’t want...your strategy. I realized that similar types of thinking go into developing gene therapy strategies for...noting any gaps in their knowledge. Practically speaking the format I decided on was to have two teams ...skills like team building, collaborative critical thinking, and communication among others. They additionally...
  6. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ...much of the primary data one might require when making such a decision remains spread across literature...With thousands of scientists routinely using and thinking about FPs, it would be great to have a centralized...building advanced multi-parametric search queries.  Looking for a bright, monomeric FP published in the last...suggestions. If you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for, the Table of Fluorescent Protein Properties...that set of proteins.  For computer-savvy users looking to incorporate FPbase data in their own projects...
  7. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...monitoring the first round of translation or by tracking the translation of a single mRNA over time. Both...translation. Single molecule continuous translation tracking TRICK allows you to see the first round of translation...translation, but it doesn’t allow continued tracking of a given mRNA because NLS-PCP-GFP is removed by ...first ribosome that translates the mRNA. To permit tracking over time, Yan et al. devised a system that labels...keeps it in a single field of view for constant tracking. You can then directly monitor multiple rounds...
  8. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    ...important part of being a “good scientific citizen” and making sure you do what you can to help your fellow researchers...consistent way so other researchers can use them, to making sure that methods and protocols are available and... can be published. To a scientist, all of this checking and formatting can feel like yet another hurdle...for being transparent in their communication or making their data and reagents readily available. What...confident that everyone’s enthusiasm for actually making it happen would increase dramatically. I’m not ...
  9. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ...requested dozens of times in 2 weeks. This is a striking example of the contributions that scientists are...to shared materials, and then pay it forward by making the new materials they develop available to the...has been able to rapidly propagate this strain, making it available to scientists around the world. This...research by removing logistic hurdles to continue making materials available rapidly to scientists (Nature...Yuen K-Y (2020) Comparative tropism, replication kinetics, and cell damage profiling of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV...
  10. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ...culture towards a more generous and rewarding way of making science.   How we started Crowdfight-COVID19...as a collaborative platform to help researchers working on COVID-19. Its origins trace back to March 2020...-19, an online platform to connect researchers working on COVID-19 with scientists of all areas who volunteered...idea behind the platform was simple: any person working on COVID-19 could file a request on our website...We are a community of researchers who believe in making science less of an individual effort and more of...
  11. Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish

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    ... Otito Izu is a PhD Candidate working under the supervision of Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi at the University...University of Ibadan, Nigeriaunder supervision of Dr. Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria...research related to space medicine. Now he aims on tracking pollution in rivers by employing synthetic biology...be able to support diverse groups of scientists working in a wide range of research fields and geographical...
  12. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ...something is working for you, then there is no reason to change it. But what if a kit isn’t working for you...ethanol, or endotoxins. The most common method for checking both quantity and quality of your plasmid prep...spectrophotometry. Achieving the highest-quality DNA requires taking care at each step, but some purification kits make...secret that labs produce a lot of waste. If you are looking to reduce your lab’s environmental impact, check... and yes those purification columns we’ve been talking about!) are a significant source of waste in laboratories...
  13. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    ... account, you can begin the deposit process by clicking "Submit Online Deposit" (for online submission... menu: Figure 1: Begin the deposit process by clicking "Submit Online Deposit" or "Download Deposit Spreadsheet...  Figure 4: Add plasmids to the article by clicking “Add Plasmid to this Article” (left) and entering...button and jump around to the different pages by clicking on the appropriate boxes at the top of the page...the plasmid to copy from the drop-down menu and clicking the white "Copy" button. *Note: The "Copy" button...Submit Deposit" button to complete the data entry. Clicking the "Submit Deposit" button will allow you to ...
  14. From Lab Bench to Leadership: Transitioning into Management as a PhD

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    ...responsibilities. After my second postdoc, I realized that working in the wet lab wasn’t the right path for me. I ...style of a new, junior team member who had values, working styles, and skills that were quite different from...from them. I started at my previous company by taking on responsibilities such as mentoring a junior ...Beyond Academia: Stories and Strategies for PhDs Making the Leap to Industry." He successfully transitioned...Resources  Resources for aspiring managers Books: The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo Radical Candor by Kim...
  15. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ...toolbox openUC2 are trying to overcome this hurdle by taking these limitations into account in the development...software (left) vs. open hardware (right).    Taking this all together, the essential ingredients of...newly developed techniques are the key enablers for making assemblies open-source. The sharing of digital ...produced quickly with the printer, act here as a kind of "teleporter," since a part developed in Germany...way of communicating in science brings stronger networking across laboratory and disciplinary boundaries...
  16. How Addgene Creates Content

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    ...channel just for asking people if they can write or review things and another for asking specific science...depositors and customers are asking. So how can you get involved? Keep asking your burning questions and...review to catch those pesky typos, and hit publish. Making content is an iterative process. We are constantly...
  17. Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates

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    ...can leave them at room temperature when you’re working with them, but avoid freeze-thaw cycles, as they...bind to amine groups present in some conjugates, blocking the conjugation reaction. Many commercial antibodies...for your ELISA and Western, I’d highly recommend sticking with what works.  To balance this out, however...in your machine before you make your purchase. Picking a single fluorophore for an experiment is easy,...accurate read and reduce needed compensation.    Working with antibodies can get a bit complicated, but ...
  18. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists

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    ... in Your Working Day" video from Science Media Savvy At this point, you might be be thinking social media...first blog post out of boredom. I had just started working in a new lab and I was the only person in the lab...first post so I signed up to write a second. While working on this post, I was offered and accepted a position...on the Addgene blog Read about online social networking for scientists Learn why scientists should be...
  19. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    ...protein AraC binds O and I1 sites upstream of pBad, blocking transcription. The addition of arabinose causes... cAMP and represses pBad, decreasing promoter leakiness.   Other examples of chemically induced promoters... be compatible with your experimental system. Leakiness If you’re expressing a gene that may be toxic,...inducible promoters are also known for their low leakiness. Inducibility level How much do you want to induce... inducible promoters can vary a lot. If you’re looking for high inducibility, the Tet-On system may be...
  20. Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics

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    ... the mice to increase their nose-poking behavior. Strong nose-poking behavior is exactly what was seen...a channelrhodopsin, such as cell localization, kinetics, and spectral properties, must be optimized simultaneously...photocurrent strength, wavelength sensitivity, and off-kinetics.   This model was then used to predict which channelrhodopsins...photocurrent amplitude, wavelength sensitivity, and off-kinetics correlated with the model’s predictions.  Three...
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