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  1. Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017

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    ...but many throughout the world are affected by devastating diseases that affect far fewer people and therefore...provide hope to patients suffering from these devastating afflictions. Elia Di Schiavi - Spinal muscular...Nabavi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Vancouver Prostate Center and is affiliated with the University of...
  2. Who Gives a Tweet? 9 Facts About Scientists on Twitter

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    ...for scientific titles generated from the United States Standard Occupational Classification System  and...they are based on the US Occupational Employment Statistics (OES), but international Twitter users were included...female to male scientific authorship in the United States (0.428). 4. The #1 (re)tweeted domain by scientists...
  3. Spurred by COVID-19, Addgene Bridges Plasmid Sharing Between Academia and Industry

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    ...plasmid sharing during COVID-19 Realizing this limitation, we worked closely with the legal partners and...As infection rates were increasing in the United States, and many universities and Technology Transfer ...Proteins, and plasmids from several labs at Florida State University became openly available. Find plasmids...
  4. Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...its gRNA, facilitating the live study of chromatin dynamics at a particular locus. A limitation of this ..., or how organization may be altered in disease states. dCas9 gets a colorful makeover Even without its...
  5. Future of Research Conference - Remarkable Opening Session

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    ...Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at UNC, called her presentation “Disequilibrium, Disillusion and The Postdoc...pretty much said it all.  She cited the oft quoted statistic that only 15% of current postdocs will be academic...Biology at Harvard Medical School, titled her presentation “How to Train Your PI”.   She focused her talk...
  6. London Calling - Addgene’s New Europe Office in London

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    ...until now, you’ve always had to call the United States - Cambridge, MA to be exact. Today, that changes... Plasmid sharing in Europe: Addgene’s request statistics Since 2004, Addgene has shipped more than 75,...Years of Plasmid Sharing: Interested in more statistics from Addgene's 10 years of plasmid sharing? ...
  7. Tips for Improving Your Next Manuscript

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    ...another email notifying me of my acceptance. I was ecstatic! I was going to become a serious scientific wordsmith...course was breaking up into focus groups with a facilitator. In the focus groups, we were required to critique... D. Stacey is a Ph.D. student at East Tennessee State University. He works with gene expression in Pseudomonas...
  8. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Making Scientific Graphics

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    ...you communicate your science, whether it’s in presentations, manuscripts, or social media. If you want ...usually ok for informal settings like lab meeting presentations. You can download larger images without the ...means the images are probably better suited for presentations and digital articles where it’s easier to give...
  9. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    ...techniques offer researchers different advantages and limitations.  The four main factors in which chemogenetics... The opsin ChETA, for example, is a ChR2 opsin mutated to have faster off kinetics and allow neurons to... once can result in several hours of neuronal excitation or inhibition. This sustained activation period...
  10. An Addgene Summer Internship

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    ...balance and were content. As a worker, there are expectations whether or not you work in the lab. My first...capstone projects during the Summer Intern Poster Presentation.  As someone who had limited experience ..., I worked on my capstone project report and presentation, during the final week at Addgene. This report...
  11. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    ...immunofluorescence. GST  Glutathione S-Transferase (GST) is a 26 kDa tag which can be isolated with glutathione resin. ...fusion protein while it is still bound to the glutathione resin, eliminating the need for an extra clean...
  12. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ... making plasmid maps, but can also analyze and annotate any DNA sequence. SnapGene Viewer: The free SnapGene...donation-based plasmid analysis tool including editing, annotating, creating maps, and more. This tool is maintained...analysis tools Addgene's analyze sequence tool: Annotates features, BLASTs, aligns, digests, and translates...
  13. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ... the endogenous ligand or drug. In the inactive state, the luminescent chimeric protein Gα-Rluc8 and Gγ-GFP2...resulting in a decreased GFP2 emission. The activation state can be measured by a BRET2 ratio, which is the ratio...These plasmids are available as a collection, facilitating screening across the transducerome, to gain ...
  14. Addgene at the ASM Microbe 2016 Conference

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    ...research is improving lives worldwide and the presentation made it clear how important it is for us to ...say we all got very good at applying temporary tattoos on the spot with our trusty spray bottles! We also...early on Saturday morning, John Doench’s opening presentation at the CRISPR screens symposia outlined the ...
  15. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...wild-type version of YGOI to rescue a mutated strain or a mutated version of YGOI to test the different...different phenotypes of the specific mutations. For these purposes Addgene has a large collection of yeast expression...
  16. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    ... Nucleic acid based machines Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo Nathaniel...received by a cell. These so-called recombinase-based state machines could potentially be used to report upon...this post to learn more about recombinase-based state machines and how they function. Adapting Toehold...
  17. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    ...Historically, glutathione-S-transferase (GST) fusion proteins have been immobilized on a reduced glutathione matrix...protein-ligand interaction approaches that of GST-glutathione. Biotin-based immobilization for kinetic analysis...
  18. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...negative regulation and can be manipulated with mutations in the replicon. For example, the pMB1 ori maintains...per cell, while pUC – which differs by only two mutations – will produce as many as 700 copies per cell.... numbers since the bacteria have just reached stationary phase, but the cells have not started to die ...
  19. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    ...calls, how about trying your hand at a video presentation? Most video platforms make it easy to record...get their input as well. Giving a great video presentation is going to be a useful skill for the foreseeable... Science: Where to Search for Funding The Ohio State University; Graduate Student Funding Opportunities...
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