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TypeBlog Post...frogs, mice, and even humans. It binds to a specific set of DNA-binding transcription factors to repress the...
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Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook
TypeBlog Post...team members only, under the specific permissions set for every member of your team. Do you need to make... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog Post...your “gating strategy.” This series of markers are set up sequentially, from broadest to most specific marker...Subtypes of immune cells are often defined by a subset of the markers used to identify them, such as “... -
Tips for Getting a Faculty Position
TypeBlog Post... document examples are not especially helpful. I set out to make something practical and accessible. If... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post... (Cong et al, Mai et al) we were very excited to set up a CRISPR-based editing platform in our lab. Our... -
pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs
TypeBlog Post...in the best-case scenario [7]. In the clinical setting where patient blood samples are limited, such low...by Kusumika (Kushi) Mukherjee, a Postdoc at Massachussetts General Hospital. A little over a decade back...Mukherjee is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital with research interests in ... -
5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication
TypeBlog Post...forums on particular topics. Volunteer moderators set the rules for these forums and try to keep discussions... -
Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
TypeBlog Post...Tempurature: Analyze your expression conditions by setting up a small-scale expression experiment to test ...StrR, TetR) Expression of insoluble proteins Rosetta2 (DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pRARE) Good for “universal... plasmid contains a chloramphenicol resistance cassette for positive selection and a p15A origin of replication... -
Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference
TypeBlog Post...with potentially harmful mutations in therapeutic settings. Silencing of a target gene is achieved through...; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none","font_set":"DEFAULT"},"button_hover_color":{"color":"#0052a9... -
Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...mutagenesis is especially concerning in clinical settings, as evidenced by retroviral gene therapy trials... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution
TypeBlog Post... this skill that you could strengthen. The right set of transferable skills, coupled with your technical...know you are bringing this asset to your job, you can become a valuable asset yourself. Fig... point of view and can’t understand why they’re upset, conflict resolution is likely not one of your strengths... -
Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
TypeBlog Post...PMCID: PMC3748948. Khetrapal, Varnica, et al. "A set of powerful negative selection systems for unmodified...expression of a gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette. This leaves a “scar” in the chromosome, sometimes...vector contains sacB, an chloramphenicol resistance cassette, and the R6K origin of replication to allow replication...pDS132 (Philippe et al., 2004): Replaced the sacB cassette with one of three toxins from the Khetrapal paper...medicine and clinical infectious diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he is now an attending... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog Post... uses Cre to trigger the inversion of two tandem sets of genes aligned head-to-head and the deletion of... same XFP transgene in an adult fly. As a stop cassette is located directly upstream of the fluorescent... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog Post...co-factor, (iii) easy visualization with standard filter sets on a fluorescence microscope, and finally (iv) good... -
Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup
TypeBlog Post...range. With this in mind, Ed Boyden and colleagues set out to engineer a potassium ion biosensor with a ... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog Post...bidirectional USA-Europe professional collaborations, setting up bases and contacts with Spanish laboratories...Universities in USA and Europe (Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, ... -
Using a Light Microscope Protocol
TypeProtocol...microscope stage) Reagents None needed Procedure Set up your microscope by removing any protective cover... -
How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog Post...large pan-cancer CRISPR-Cas9 gene dependency data sets. Nat Commun 10: . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...nuclease-mediated off-target effects.” Further, large-scale datasets of hundreds of genetic screens using genome-wide... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog Post...RNA expression of your gene of interest across a set of human tissues. From this data, you see that there...and (2) large-scale proteomic and transcriptomic datasets already exist. Example: You want to use an antibody... -
Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab
TypeBlog Post...responsibility, repeated reminders of blunders, setting target up to fail, shifting goal posts without ...has no idea who is dating whom Expanding your skillset Scientists are lifelong learners. I believe we...