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TypeBlog Post...m going to share what I’ve learned and hopefully make your decision a little easier if an industry postdoc... your goal is to enter academia, it is easier to make that transition from an academic setting—especially...company you choose. If publishing is important to you, make sure that your project will not involve proprietary...
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Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids
TypeBlog Post...Knockout/Knock-in plasmids Gene targeting methods also make it possible to insert, or knock-in, any gene, tag...instead want to create a conditional knockout. To make a conditional knockout, researchers often use the...floxed alleles. Although CRISPR is very good at making knockouts, knocking in large sections of DNA can... -
Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community
TypeBlog Post...Addgene is accelerating this research by helping to make new cancer resources easily accessible to the research...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... -
PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing
TypeBlog Post...about using non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ) to make deletions or homology-directed repair (HDR) to create...very small homology regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it easier to construct targeting vectors. Addgene...downregulated, MMEJ represents another method for making targeted modifications. A recent publication by... -
Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards
TypeBlog Post... does making transgenic organisms with Cas9 risk creating a gene drive? The simplest way to make a gene...Institute and Harvard Medical School. Scientists making transgenic organisms with Cas9 should be aware ... -
Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of making rAbs. Production Recombinant antibody production... because it secretes fewer of its own proteins, making the purification process simpler. Due to its high...Maity et al., 2015). If your antibody is not IgG, make sure to look up the setting for your isotype. Antibody... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post...researchers need to reflect upon before they attempt to make essentialist connections between biology and ancestral...Map (DepMap), a cancer dependency database used to make this information accessible to the research community... at all. This unexpected discovery, which didn’t make sense in any kind of biological framework, suggested... -
Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples
TypeBlog Post...below). Addgene scientists inspect each sample and make sure they have been barcoded with a unique ID number...therefore particular sample is missing so that we can make a new tube from a replicate sample. The transformation...replicate and retain the plasmid. This allows us to make unlimited copies of each plasmid so that we never... -
A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional
TypeBlog Post...You will often hear the term ‘grant writer’, but make no mistake, researching, winning, and effectively...writing. In fact, many grant applications and grant makers have moved away from long written proposal narratives...relationships with foundations and government grantmakers. We keep up-to-date on the changing guidelines... -
Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)
TypeBlog Post... Here you will find some useful tips to help you make your plasmid construction with MoClo a walk in the...units. Created with BioRender.com. Planning makes perfect Our first tip, and arguably the most important...cloning success depends directly on the choices you make during the early stages of the process. Some questions... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog Post...amazing 111 countries (Figure 1)! But while we were making the materials available to many countries, import... to increase accessibility to our repository by making it easier to find materials and learn about them... know we will continue to ask “What can we do to make our materials both available and accessible to scientists... -
Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024
TypeBlog Post...truncated forms that limit its functionality. To make biophysical and structural studies more feasible...simplicity and efficiency of this dual-plasmid approach makes it a valuable resource for advancing our understanding...assembly of the split luciferase is reversible, making PILATeS suitable for live imaging with a time resolution... -
Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
TypeBlog Post...zebrafish embryo develops outside of the mother, making them ideal for studying vertebrate embryogenesis...zebrafish To highlight some of the features that make zebrafish useful, I’ll outline two recent lineage...unprecedented views into cognitive processes like decision making (Kim et al, 2017). “Brainbow” fish lines have been... -
Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone
TypeBlog Post...organizers in their town hall. Iterative improvement - Making Binning Singletons better Our experience running...also helped us find areas for improvement. We will make a greater effort in the future to match people within...Binning Singletons is its own organization, working to make scientific meetings more productive for attendees... -
Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist
TypeBlog Post... bench. Specifically, roles in technical support make excellent use of the skills developed by life science...advantageous to speak multiple languages - that makes communication with customers from around the world...convenient alternative for asking a quick question or making initial contact, but is less suitable for troubleshooting... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog Post...and many of my scientist colleagues have as well. Making the transition from the bench can be jarring for...aren’t a lot of resources out there for scientists making this transition. In this installment of the Addgene...come up with a list of things to consider as you make this transition. Of course, a “desk job” could entail... -
How to Write a Scientific Review Article
TypeBlog Post...well-researched field, you may need to get specific to make sure your article doesn’t turn into a textbook. ... short bursts (even twenty minutes was enough to make some progress). For most researchers, it’s not always... into something cohesive-- change the sentences, make it flow, and start telling the story. Like any editing... -
CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit
TypeBlog Post...target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your genome edits went according to plan. In...sequence was inserted or deleted accordingly. Pro tip: make sure your PCR amplicon isn’t too large so that you...issue, you may need to select an alternative gRNA. Make sure to check out our validated gRNAs to avoid rolling... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog Post...Being smaller means scFvs are easier and cheaper to make because they can be expressed in bacteria, while...with other protein domains, much like lego pieces, makes them better suited than antibodies to be used as...T cell receptors and are expressed on T cells to make CAR T cells. The extracellular scFv portion of the... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog Post...sometimes it can be a big challenge. But ask any filmmaker or videographer and they’ll tell you, a lot of...Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle adapted for video making. Cycle One: The Ironing Board Control Center...: There were still a few adjustments I wanted to make to ensure smooth filming in the future, but we were...