...database describing nearly 145,000 cell lines. Cellosaurus Cellosaurus seeks to identify and describe all ...authors of the paper in which the cell line was described. Using Cellosaurus Cellosaurus is searchable by...Cellosaurus received a report that HT-55, which was described as a colon cancer cell line, is actually a rectal...

... the parts of CRISPR. The bacterial chromosome encodes a tracrRNA (in some systems including Cas9), Cas...DNA sequences. In laboratory settings, an sgRNA includes the crRNA and tracrRNA sequences in a “single-... sequences in the CRISPR array that will become guides for future targeted degradation. Before integration...biology of Cas9. Want a simpler guide to keep at your desk? We’ve got a CRISPR cheat sheet for that! Resources...

...a job search website like Indeed. Do the job descriptions sound interesting? Is the work something you... types of jobs people with master's have Job descriptions often fail to capture all of the responsibilities...responsibilities of a role, so it helps to see how people describe their actual work. To do this, try looking at ...and industry, often means moving from the lab to a desk, although there’s often technical career tracks ...

...vast collection of empty backbones that have been designed, tested, and published by academic scientists....find the vector that fits your experiments, I've described below some of the most frequently requested vectors...protein with a specific resin (e.g. 6xHis containing pDEST-HisMBP). After purification the protein can be released...vectors. Consider your applications and experimental design. You can create a new strain with a disrupted gene...

...errors in the design of cloning strategies set experiments back days or even weeks. Primer design was done ... alleviate these problems through good software design. But what makes software good? Fortunately, that...we dug into the original literature, some of it decades old, to provide reliable feature annotations. Even...

... What are epitope tags? Epitope tags are short peptides introduced at the N or C terminus of a protein...purification or detection of the tagged protein. These peptides consist of as little as 8 or as many as several...need monoclonal GFP antibodies or guidance on designing a GFP tag Addgene has you covered!   Potential...Protein folding issues, steric hindrances, and destabilization can be brought about by the tag so it’s important...

...resources to provide them to their students. My desire to create a set of low-cost, easy-to-use educational...protein – you first need the DNA sequence that encodes it. That DNA sequence then needs to be incorporated...one is as cheap as 10 cents, making activities designed with FD-CF reactions affordable to many schools...students. In our BioBits kit for example, we’ve designed FD-CF experiments that result in outputs that ...

...emission at 560nm. Shortly after the initial article describing the cloning of firefly luciferase was published...the plasmid, which is then introduced into the desired mammalian, plant or bacterial cells. Expression...stop codon, which is then transfected into the desired cells. A hybrid mRNA transcript containing luciferase...expression and more complex cell treatments can be designed to further explore the pathway. Which luciferase...

...brain. The cause of this neuron death is unknown. Despite the idiopathic (having no specific known cause)...scientific community at low cost, with rapid delivery. Includes antibodies, viral vectors, animal models, purified...

...Harvard University. In my previous two posts, I’ve described the fundamentals of how to work with Drosophila...Drosophila as an experimental model organism. I then described the Gal4/UAS system used by geneticists to study....e. there won’t be positioning effects). When designing experiments where you want to express multiple...wondering, “How do I know which of my flies have the desired integration?” Not to worry! In flies, phenotypic...

...New work from Konermann et al. and Yan et al. describes new Cas13d enzymes that average only 2.8 kb in...Like other Cas13 enzymes, the Cas13d orthologs described in these papers can independently process their... high targeting efficiency, both of which are described below. Yan et al.: WYL-domain-containing accessory...produced very similar cleavage products even when guides were tiled across a target RNA, indicating that...

...Addgene provides the scientific community? Katz: The most important resource that Addgene provides is an...is continuing to look at providing other things besides plasmids to the scientific community through Addgene...exciting about the open science movement is that it provides interesting and unique challenges for intellectual...

...’s social media toolbox. Besides advice for using Twitter, this post provides suggestions for using LinkedIn...use Twitter as a scientist. While this post is designed with beginners in mind, there’s some great reminders...sheet from Science Media Savvy This tip sheet provides advice for tweeting and blogging as a scientist...

...target specific mRNA transcripts for degradation. Despite how easy these experiments are to physically set...to prevent the incorporation of non-specific nucleotides into the dsRNA leading to increased RNAi efficiency... Lab’s recent Nature Biotechnology paper, they describe TurboID and miniTurbo, which utilize non-toxic...switch to be expressed. In this case, the gene encodes the LacZ𝛼 protein. Once expressed, LacZ𝛼 complexes...

...trillion connections (synapses.)  In this post we’ll describe the AAV retrograde serotype (AAVrg) and how it... this can cause challenges for the experimental design as these vectors can exhibit spurious expression...efficiency can have a major impact on experimental design and interpretation of results. Take extra care ...References 1. Tervo, D. Gowanlock R., et al. "A designer AAV variant permits efficient retrograde access...

...but can be minimized with high powered research designs. Unanticipated discoveries Finally, there are good...rates, should be reported as a new discovery that deserves confirmation with new data and a new, preregistered...Guidelines; preregistration to increase clarity in study design and analysis; removing publication bias with Registered...Science, Dr. Mellor worked with citizen scientists to design and implement authentic scientific research and...

...purification is now a reality thanks to OptoNBs. Recently designed by the Toettcher Lab, OptoNBs are photoswitchable... put AsLOV2 because here it was less likely to destroy the nanobody’s function than if inserted into the...blue-light induced binding. The lab used this general design scheme to generate two more OptoNBs, one against...exciting because using light to control signaling provides greater spatiotemporal resolution than pharmacological...

... NEB's Resource describing Dam and Dcm Methylases Discovery of DpnI Review describing dam-/dcm- E. coli...mutagenesis. During this process, incorporation of a desired mutation into your plasmid of interest by PCR generates...only the non-mutated and methylated template is destroyed leaving behind a pool of mutated plasmids which...

...cleaved precisely as predicted with no addition of nucleotides to the 5’ spacers. The 3’ ends were modified ...advantage over other methods that favor certain nucleotides at the 5’ end. PTG construct schematics. Scissors...the plasmids made by Xie et. al are specifically designed for plant expression, PTGs will likely be adaptable...worries, I've summarized the three strategies described in this post in the graphic below - including ...

... for over 10 years. Many successful scientists describe having a “posse” of mentors as one key to their...Ellen Daniell. In “Every Other Thursday,” Daniell describes a group of 7 women scientists who met every other...increases the diversity of input and perspectives Provides a good mechanism for accountability that makes...leadership and communication skills. The leader also provides materials such as pre-reads, videos or exercises...