...youngster. His parents, Kristi and Rico, had to keep him from running too much as any jarring of his body could...further impairs the patient. When I first met AJ and his family, he did not seem much different than my second... able to run around and play like the other kids his age. A potential FOP cure But, there is HOPE. FOP...working at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. His work experience is in both vaccine subunit design... along with pre-clinical analytical development. His areas of expertise include early stage drug discovery...

...was also a trained biologist. This is apparent in his work The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) where he explores...attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson who used it in his 1951 novel Dragon’s Island. In 1976, the world’s ...wrong. The plot of the movie involves The Rock and his super giant albino gorilla fighting off a monstrous...more blog posts about CRISPR Learn more about the history of CRISPR Read about other genome editing methods...

...up to be one of the best of the best students in his home country. He was selected as one of 600 scholars...of science in Horticulutre Biotechnology, he did his PhD in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology...Labs, for lab equipment that will help accelerate his research. Listen to learn more about Dr. Kwapata’...Kingdom's research 28:08-END : Kingdom's Thoughts on his time in Boston and Outro We'd like to thank Dr. ...

...about his clinical trial patients with advanced macular degeneration; Laurenz Studer discussed his work...Shinya Yamanaka celebrate the tenth anniversary of his landmark Cell paper showing that it was possible ...been looking forward to seeing how the sharing of his OSKM factors have affected the stem cell community...as "life changing". Dr. Yamanaka himself, during his keynote address, appeared almost incredulous that... citing the first clinical trial with iPSCs with his collaborator Takahashi in 2014 – just 8 years after...

...State University has been the go-to place. In 2012, his National High Magnetic Field Lab worked with an impressive... all those collaborations over the years, he and his colleagues built a Molecular Expressions collection...Davidson told the Tallahassee Democrat in a story about his life’s work and the stage IV lung cancer that has...has now prompted him to deposit the tools he and his team created with the research community at large,...to promote the great work of Michael Davidson and his colleagues." Acknowledgments Thank you to Michael...

...received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and his Master of...co-founder of Addgene and received his PhD in Computer Science from MIT. His research focused on computer systems...

...Rett, who tried to raise awareness and published his observations in a German medical journal. Decades...to Rett Syndrome, this blog post describes the history of Rett Syndrome research, the role of the MECP2...

...current mechanistic understanding of GFP’s function. His lab described the protein’s structure and also discovered...local pet shop aquariums in Moscow where he lived! His hunch paid off, and he was able to report new fluorophores... Katushka/mKate from Entacmaea quadricolor. With his discoveries, another part of the fluorescent protein...

...bacteriophages. He decided to quit his "safety net" at the VC firm and devoted 100% of his energy and effort into ...co-founder of a biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from the bench and became...VP. Mike was fortunate enough to be able to spend his last 6 months in graduate school focusing on concept...self-sustainable. Within a year from this decision, Mike and his co-founders raised $6 million. The biggest challenge...money, the team grew, and Mike stepped down from his CEO position and became first COO, then moved on ...

...for any extrachromsomal hereditary determinant”. His proposal, however, was basically ignored. A separate...Learn more about the history of plasmids and cloning: CSHL Meeting: Plasmids: History & Biology The Joshua... history of plasmids...

...Packer - science writer  When Hans was finishing up his PhD in Molecular Neuroscience at the University of... like a lot of newly minted PhD’s: not sure what his next step should be. He debated taking a position... on the job. It keeps it interesting.” And while his official title may be science writer, writing is ...is just the one of the skills Hans uses for his job. “I am really more of a multimedia science communicator...started working on them shortly after joining IDT when his boss was looking for someone to take over hosting...

...sharing. Listen to learn more about Darrell, his research, and his focus on open science. Listen to the interview...Darrell strives to promote open source biology in his own lab, at the Center for Regenerative Medicine,...Center for Regenerative Medicine. Darrell describes his career goals and what drives him as a praticing physician...

...  Erik Snapp just released version 3.4 of his eBook, How to Get a Faculty Position. This edition has ...Snapp, who is always looking for ways to improve his eBook, adds: "If you have any questions, comments...email me at [email protected]." You can find his original blog post below! --Ed.  Eight years ago...formula to guarantee a reader the faculty job of his/her dreams. There are too many moving parts in the...luck with your search!   Erik Lee Snapp received his PhD in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology from...from Oregon Health Sciences University, did his postdoctoral fellowship with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz...Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory...

...further with his new company, Science with Tom. In this podcast, we learn more about Tom and pick his brain ...and communicate science. Learn more about Tom on his youtube channel and at sciencewithtom.com.   Special...Rosalind Franklin vs. Watson & Crick - Science History Rap Battle A great example of science story telling...and their importance in understanding biological history. 4. Please Don't Kill My Hive Beautifully filmed...

...affinity tag is the polyhistidine (His) tag. Small and unlikely to affect function, His-tagged proteins can...using a Ni2+ column. Like other affinity tags, a His tag can be fused to either the N- or C-terminus of...for purification as elution requires low pH poly His HHHHHH  0.8 Affinity and Purification Very small ...which they can be added to a purification scheme, His tags are frequently combined with other tags for ...Vectors from the Berkeley QB3 MacroLab Eric thanks his wife, Annette Sievers, Ph.D., for her tips and guidance... signaling peptide (Bio), flanked by hexahistidine motifs (6xHis) MBP Large Protein  40 Solubility and...the tag size quickly – modifying the length a polyhistidine tract does not greatly alter the size of the...

...number of institutions in Ghana and most recently got his PhD in cell and molecular biology at the University...Novartis. Listen to learn how Kwabena plans to use his research experiences as well as plasmids from Addgene...50 : Why Kwabena chose to go back to Ghana after his PhD and the need to de-mystify molecular biology....

... work in DNA repair informed his decision to work with CRISPR during his postdoc 12:01 - 13:21 : The Wyss...Work with Cas9 Activators Michael Koeris Explains His Path from Grad Student to Entrepeneur Find Resources...

...pAAV_hsyn_NES-his-CaMPARI2-WPRE-SV40 Biosensor Eric Schreiter AV-1-PV4704 101064-AAV1 pAAV_hsyn_NES-his-CaMPARI2... Schreiter AV-1-PV4705 101061-AAV1 pAAV_hsyn_NES-his-CaMPARI2-F391W-WPRE-SV40 Biosensor Eric Schreiter...

...As MIT's Ed Boyden explains it, his goal is "to understand the brain at a level of abstraction that enables... fix it when things go awry. To reach that goal, his group develops tools to tinker with brain circuits... article published in Nature Methods, Boyden and his team describe the discovery of a light-sensitive ...optogenetics advance, the big questions that motivate his interest in neuroengineering, and some of the optogenetic...who may not be experts, can you give me a brief history of optogenetics? How long has this idea been around...