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  1. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    ...digest/ligate methods and picking the right one can save you time if you’re working at speed or money if budget...you can explore to maximize the use of both when making plasmids. Use repositories Repositories such as...free. Plasmids ship out 2-3 days after ordering, making it a toss-up as to whether it’s faster to order...experiment. Make your work “high-throughput” Instead of making one plasmid at a time, try constructing several...
  2. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    ... unique cutting features and evolved PAM sites, making Cas9 an adaptable choice for many genome engineering...same mechanism as traditional spCas9. If you are looking to modify RNA, Cas9 just won’t cut it – literally...editing. Fast facts – PAM requirement: protospacer flanking sequence – A, U, or C. Best for: targeting single...use. Fast facts – PAM requirement: protospacer flanking sequence – none. Best for: targeting single stranded...single base pair edits, these enzymes are worth taking a look at. Choosing the right Cas can really put...
  3. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ...on everything, including your skin. Here are some general tips for working with RNA, even if you are using...basics of isolating RNA without a kit. Tips for working with RNA (whether you are using a kit or not) Although..., 2006).  View our protocol for RNA extraction! Making the simple protocol even more foolproof (still ...still without a kit!) As mentioned above, working with RNA requires keeping your samples cold until homogenization...
  4. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    ... it’s monumentally difficult without software. Tracking lab procedures also gives you access to hard data...repeated. We also now have a good interface to begin tracking analytics data for lab procedures. With this data...are distinct from their contents. You should be tracking both, you should easily be able to move contents...less time getting up and running and more time working on interesting biotechnology code.There are valid...reasons to choose a non-Python stack, but if you're working with scientists it's unlikely they will have exposure...
  5. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    ... There are currently 17 sites around the USA undertaking BEST programs, including local schools in Boston...contributing to the NIH’s Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group. Along with her participation in this panel...Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC3787295. 6. Marder, Eve. "Looking out for future scientists." eLife 3 (2014): e04901...PMC4185419. 7. NIH 2012. Biomedical research workforce working group report. http://acd.od.nih.gov/biomedical_...in Science in Our Career Posts! Get Advice on Networking at Scientific Meetings from Addgene Executive...
  6. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...edit and homology to the genomic DNA locus. After nicking by Cas9, the homologous pegRNA sequence hybridizes..., as it can edit near to or far from PAM sites, making it less constrained by PAM availability than other...previously used when they developed base editing. By nicking the non-edited strand, they can cause the cell ...efficiencies 2-3-fold. However, the process of double nicking increases indel formation slightly. Designing the...the edited strand, as in the PE3b system, guides nicking of the unedited strand only after editing has occurred... ✓ ✓ ✓   ✓ Second sgRNA to guide nicking of the unedited strand Favor the edited strand...
  7. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...include a lot more. Font size: Making your poster readable While we are talking about font, remember this:...important to reflect on these impressions when thinking about crafting your own poster. What sets a scientific...that it will display your data most prominently, making it the star of your presentation. Portrait. This...presented some standard formatting guidelines for making a scientific poster, you shouldn’t hesitate to ...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...understand the risks of the specific virus you’re working with before you work with it. This will help you...required in BSL-1 and required in BSL-2 labs. When working with lentivirus, many organizations require or ...can quickly be removed and disposed of without risking exposure. You can request disposable gowns from...researchers choose to wear eye protection when they are working in a biosafety cabinet, even if it is not required...used for BSL-2 waste, and of course, if you are working with a substance in a biosafety cabinet, it needs...
  9. Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization

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    ...with the NPA where I gained invaluable experience working on and later chairing the Advocacy Committee. I... I’m now furthering my leadership experience working at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology...website. By volunteering, you can gain experience working with other people mostly online and on monthly ...resulted in actionable tasks and I made a point of sticking to deadlines and performing the work I agreed ...members changed, I had to learn how to develop new working relationships with these individuals who often ...
  10. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    ... months have in store for us. If you’re thinking about making the switch from academia to entrepreneurship...entrepreneurs. To make things more interesting, we are working in a new technical discipline that nobody understands...few jobs available. So, we spent a lot of time talking about what we could do to make ourselves marketable...marketable to the wider world and occasionally thinking about how we could bypass the establishment hiring...
  11. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...broken down into different types, with Cas3 systems making up type I, the most abundant type in the Class ...consistent expression can still be a challenge. A multitasking Cas Most Cas effectors have one job — Cas see...away at both the non-target and target strands by making cuts every so often. Cutting both strands ensures...carried out much like the name implies — after nicking, Cas3 reels in the non-target strand of DNA much... for Cas3’s biggest trick. Cas3 likes to bluff, making you into think it’s more powerful than it is. The...
  12. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    ...a bench scientist would looking at a genome by eye. We came up with a ranking formula that does just this...In the rest of this article, we'll explain the thinking behind the tool, its key features, how it works...information from Crispresso plus a summary per batch. Ranking guides for HDR in-depth In other tools, guides ... engineer with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, working on assignment at the Biohub in San Francisco. Before...
  13. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    ...You’ve spent days and weeks thinking of an amazing project. You’ve written your protocols, designed your...enzymes laying around the lab. If not, you’ll be looking at about $50-$60 per enzyme. Once you’ve got a ... of the restriction enzymes and overall you’re looking at a price of a few dollars per reaction for traditional...relatively new to the cloning game, however, or simply looking for a more streamlined approach, you might want...inserts: There are some cloning methods that make working with multiple inserts a breeze. Among them are ...
  14. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ... they become confluent, taking both early- and late-arising clones, and making sure we always maintain...densities - adding to the expense of dilution cloning. Taking a page from bacterial cloning, we reasoned that...cloning rings. A picture of a 60 mm dish ready for picking is shown in figure 1.   Find Additional Useful ...firmer 2% agarose gel solution discussed above for picking. Many thanks to our guest blogger Iris Lindberg...
  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    ...Additional opportunities: Tracking intracellular pathogens In addition to tracking the location of proteins...University of Queensland) to observe membrane trafficking events in vivo. Locate your protein and see who...your images using subjective judgement by simply “looking at them”. Modern cameras and image analysis software...limited by the wavelength of light and, practically speaking, for common lab microscopes the detection limit...
  16. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...alleles. Although CRISPR is very good at making knockouts, knocking in large sections of DNA can be more ...negative selection marker like the HSV thymidine kinase (HSV-tk) is included just outside one of the homology...” the resistance gene through the insertion of flanking LoxP sequences, you can remove the gene through...described in the preceding sections are simple ways of knocking out a non-essential gene of interest. However,...
  17. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...Despite these grim statistics, new strategies for attacking cancer are yielding promising results in the laboratory...universally-dividing behavior of cancer cells, attacking the cellular machinery necessary for division....in the field of cancer research has focused on picking apart the complex cellular pathways involved in...found across all TCGA tumor samples is represented, making the results of any such study as clinically relevant...Addgene's cancer collection pages Scientists are making progress. New resources and technologies become...
  18. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    ...co-founder of the BioBricks Foundation, an organization working to advance biological engineering openly so as ...thing at a time. What the BioBricks Foundation is seeking to accomplish is to make the engineering of biology...is in reference to George Boole who in 1854 was thinking about logic and analyzing human language and observed... be made freely available? Endy: When we start thinking about languages, humans have two types of languages...really plugging into the "stuff sector" if you will, making chemicals and materials, and we anticipate plugging...
  19. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...using the application correctly is imperative. Picking your chemistry  The two most common qPCR chemistries...thermodynamic and experimental parameters (neighbor stacking energies, loop entropy effects, cation concentrations...type (such as here, here, or here).  If you’re working with samples that have not been documented in the... plateau stage after exponential amplification, making it difficult to properly analyze your data.  To...experiment! The model assumes the amplification kinetics of the target and control genes are fairly equal... e-book on applying MIQE guidelines! With these kinds of resources, you will soon become a qPCR master...
  20. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...to have 50–80 bp of homology arms on each side flanking the change you'd like to introduce. We use Ultramer...plasmid donor, with two homology arms on each side flanking your desired insertion or mutation. Each arm is...choosing target sites that span the knock-in gene. For making mutations, one good way is to mutate the PAM 'NGG...Matoba, S., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, F. (2013). Double nicking by RNA-Guided CRISPR CAS9 for enhanced genome editing...cells differing exclusively at two early onset Parkinson Point mutations. Cell, 146(2), 318–331. https:...
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