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  1. Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies

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    ...region may be changed.   Chimeric antibodies can help A chimeric antibody is made by changing an antibody...will react with the same secondary. If you were to change one of the antibody’s isotypes, however, you could...
  2. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...nice to have, not a need to have Must be ready to change projects frequently with little notice or choice...someone else who can do better, no grant writing Job changes can happen regularly (every 4-6 years is common... create interpersonal issues (one bad apple can change entire culture) Specific requirements for hiring...
  3. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    ...References 1. Gao, Feng, Xiao Z. Shen, Feng Jiang, Yongqiang Wu & Chunyu Han. “DNA-guided genome editing...expressed from a plasmid or in vitro transcribed, and changes in gRNA secondary structure can affect editing ...
  4. Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup

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    ...devotion to seeing your ideas become something tangible.  When you think of entrepreneurship in the 21st...company’s development  Don’t be afraid to email strangers asking to meet. I have cold emailed hundreds of...including Harvard/MIT faculty, venture capital and angel investors, and business development heads at major...
  5. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    ...past the chatting stage you will rarely make any change in your skill sets or activate the helpful accountability...of working with a mentor.The responsibility of arranging meetings and setting the direction in a mentoring...for Choosing a Good Mentor", and more! Check Out Angela Depace's Talk on "Precision and Plasticity in Mentoring...
  6. 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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    ... these proteins will be tested. Investigating changes in neuronal activity after ischemic brain injury... Tsakanova to image cortical neurons and study changes in neural activity after ischemic brain injury.... diverse groups of scientists working in a wide range of research fields and geographical locations. In...
  7. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    ...and numeracy on perceived climate change risks. Nature Climate Change, 2(10), 732-735. doi:10.1038/nclimate1547... “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little tricks our minds perform to avoid...
  8. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    ...This guest post was contributed by Ally Huang is a 4th year PhD student at MIT. While I had always enjoyed...make learning biology more fun – bit by bit. Ally Huang is a 4th year PhD student at MIT in Biological Engineering... can email her at [email protected].   References 1. Huang, Ally, et al. "BioBits™ Explorer: A modular synthetic...
  9. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ... tremendously complicated entities with a large range of characteristics (color, brightness, photostability...FPbase.org FPbase is a project written in Python & Django, using a popular database management system (PostgreSQL...users to see when a given page has unmoderated changes and to view previous versions.  Currently, all ...
  10. Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition

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    ...to explore this role, how to seek out such an arrangement, and how to operate once in that position. What... plan as well. Making logistical and funding arrangements Visiting scientist positions take commitment...structured visiting program, you will have to make arrangements on your own. This will include, but is not limited...
  11. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    ...MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor Feng Zhang’s original 2013 gene editing paper on CRISPR/Cas ...In addition to publishing in Science, Professor Zhang deposited the associated plasmids with Addgene. ...School of Management. His research focuses on a range of topics including biotech and research tools, ...
  12. Science Career Options

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    ...can feel lost. Use this post to explore the wide range of careers available to scientists and open your...carry out in-depth research is applicable to a wide range of industries and is a highly desirable quality ...SAS, HTML, Matlab etc) are highly desirable in a range of roles, including: Science Reporter Technical...
  13. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...protein (mCyRFP1). Derived from cyan-excitable organge fluorescent protein (CyOFP1), some of the exciting...recombination. Find PhoCl plasmids at Addgene. Zhang W, et al. Nature Methods. 2017. PubMed PMID: 28288123... also provided a detailed protocol at Protocol Exchange. Plasmid maps can be found at Addgene and in Figure...flame depositor David Liu’s lab increase both the range and specificity of base editing. Kim et al. used...
  14. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    ...microbial SSAPs. Image from Wang, et al, 2022.  Find dCas9-SSAP plasmids here! Wang et al. Nat Cell Biol....target. Across all loci tested, error rates overall ranged from 0.3% to 10%, in comparison to the 62-90% error...
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