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...composed of actin and myosin which interact with each other to generate forces that cause cells and muscles...signalling pathway, which is a key regulator of all bilateral animal development. SHH plays a key role in proper...into the right and left hemisphere. Addgene has several plasmids that contain SHH, you can find them all...that are necessary for myosin activity and thus interaction with actin in nonmuscle systems in the fly. Spaghetti...other hand, is important in the formation of the visceral mesoderm which differentiates into the muscles...Embryos that lack bagpipe have severely disrupted visceral mesoderm and subsequently the gut does not form...is required for specification of the heart and visceral muscles in Drosophila." Development118.3 (1993...

...directly into at least one and preferably more than one of these five general purpose repositories. RSpace...own pros and cons. All ELNs have the virtue of liberating data from paper into an electronic environment...data out of the ELN; and (2) facilitate inter-operability with other research tools and infrastructure ...of Edinburgh, the University of Goettingen, and several other large research institutions. The following...repositories Over the past decade or so a number of general purpose repositories have been launched and are... associated with publications into one of five general purpose open source data repositories: Dataverse...one foot on the other side of the pond through interacting with colleagues in Edinburgh. You can follow ...

...what online tools people generally like to use to share ideas – with the general goal of seeing if and how...their disciplines. Included in the article is an interactive chart where you can see the yearly interdisciplinarity...abstracts identified. The journal Cell had the largest average view count per video abstract at 2,947 views. The...Gastroenterology (1,046 views) rounded out the top four average video abstract view counts.” For researchers looking...offers a low-barrier opportunity for researchers to leverage the video medium to communicate their research...their contribution. It offers a 5-step process and several examples for creating effective research videos... botanist and oceanographer who has a blog and several videos on sharing your research through video. ...

... are several factors that may prevent your gene from being up-regulated. For instance, generally, the ...known functions has the potential to be used in therapeutics, as it can increase gene expression at certain...be used to map molecular pathways and genetic interactions. Additionally, large scale CRISPR-based screens...Cas9 cutting activity, off target effects are generally not regarded as being a large problem for Cas9...driving aberrant transcription. That being said, we generally pick guides by putting the promoter of the gene...innovative technologies. To date his group has develop several popular CRISPR-based tools for altering DNA sequence..., Garnett MJ (2019) Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens. Nature 568...

...them remain uncharacterized. This represents a considerable barrier to furthering research and developing...Cancer Center tackled this problem by developing a moderate throughput functional genomic platform to annotate...over 1,000 mutations, and the group has deposited several hundred plasmids from this study with Addgene. ...research team identified 1,049 perturbations in several genes spanning 33 cancer types. The types of mutations...indels (Ng et al., 2018). From this data, they generated lentiviral constructs using the High-Throughput...cell lines and any mutations that that confer proliferation advantages will be revealed in the absence of...is important for the development of targeted therapeutic interventions for cancer. This screening platform...

... gene expression in yeast Megan McClean’s lab generated an optogenetic toolkit that controls repression...frequency of genome-wide off-target DNA editing. Using several rapid and cost-effective screening methods, David...with reduced Cas9-independent deamination. They generated these editors using the BE4max architecture. The...reported in this study have ~10-100-fold lower average Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing, ~5–50-...off-target DNA editing, and maintain ~50–90% of average on-target DNA-editing levels relative to BE4max...division, and cellular differentiation, but it takes several weeks to delete or deplete individual genes. Michael...depending on transgene design and delivery. They generated hPSC lines with AAVS1-integrated, inducible, and...

... visualize their activity. In 2019, the first generation of norepinephrine sensors was developed, named...norepinephrine (Feng et al., 2019). But this first generation of tools had limited sensitivity and speed and... models of nLightG (left) and nLightR (right) generated using ColabFold (Mirdita et al., 2022). B, Representative...Speed One of the major advantages of this next generation of norepinephrine sensors is their speed. nLightG...GRABNE were more sensitive than nLightR, both generating a measurable signal after electrical stimulation...test point, ten pulses. This is in line with the general findings that red fluorescent proteins tend to ...improvements. In particular, they’re focused on generating variants with improved affinity and dynamic range...

...process, I’ve provided guidance and mentoring to several people that found my insights helpful. All went...of candidates either get no interviews, or get several interviews but no job offers, is a failure to clearly...understand your proposal to give you proper consideration. 3. Present an easy to follow seminar See item...techniques. You DO need to be prepared to know the literature of your field and all of the caveats and alternatives...human health. Failure to do so is implicated in several human diseases. Proper patterning of cells and ...that we can manipulate to study pathology and therapies." This is only the first few minutes of the...incorporated example documents. This part has generated a lot of positive feedback. Many of these documents...

...such a modular platform could accelerate the development of genetic therapies even further. In the meantime...successfully treated with a CRISPR gene editing therapy personalized to his genetic mutation. “Baby KJ”...hospitals, universities, private companies, and federal regulators. But the speed is impressive on a larger... ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its effectiveness varied depending on the ...coincidence, KJ’s genetic sequence was able to tolerate bystander edits—unintended changes to nearby target... Lam, D. K., Rees, H. A., Solá-Esteves, N. M., Barrera, L. A., Born, D. A., Edwards, A., Gehrke, J. M....adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application. Nature Biotechnology, 38(7), 892...

...believed that the exonuclease activity of the polymerase generates sticky ends in the PCR reactions. These ...amplification of a recombinant DNA without sequence alteration. Molecular cloning techniques are some of the...its advantages, most scientists still encounter several struggles with these techniques: unwanted mutations... excessive PCR cycles or low fidelity Taq DNA polymerase, the construction of specific sequences for base...any subsequent steps. Using high fidelity DNA polymerases, I have never had any mutations introduced into...efficiency is highest when using high fidelity DNA polymerases like phusion. An 18-cycle PCR leads to the most...

...thoroughly answered by experts in human-computer interaction (HCI), and we have adhered rigorously to HCI ...qualities is an ongoing process that involves iterative refinements in response to customer feedback. ..., and then crafted a detection algorithm that tolerates occasional mismatches or indels. Empirical tests...effort to be rigorous, we dug into the original literature, some of it decades old, to provide reliable ...to the database. Another limitation is that by tolerating mismatches, our algorithm could annotate a feature...to newly sequenced strains through our mismatch tolerant detection algorithm and thereby speed up the annotation...the idea stage through all of its post-launch iterations.     Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog...

...address this, several years ago we partnered with Seqwell to establish a next-generation sequencing (NGS... by Single-stranded Virus Next-generation Sequencing. Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids 4:e260 . https...of the VGS process and use cases in Human Gene Therapy. Existing methods for AAV quality control Historically...Viral Genomes in Academic Settings. Human Gene Therapy Methods 30:195–205 . https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb...Consistency Evaluation of AAV Preparations. Molecular Therapy 25:1375–1386 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.04.001...

...language is ... The general representation of data is... The figures are ... In general, I think that this...the study to be replicated or omission from the literature. I think that delivering constructive critique...studying plant development and abiotic stress tolerance, I have been peer-reviewing journal submissions... detailed. I prefer to do it on another day - preferably the following morning - as usually deadlines ...language in the first (and clunky) version of my general comments and adjust them if my opinion changed ..., increasing the impact of the work, and as a collateral benefit, increasing the impact of the specific...

...of proteins, and can be a readout for protein interaction studies such as immunoprecipitation and pull-... be assessed from a single western.  There are several variations of the protein transfer step including...wet, semi-dry, and dry but all follow the same general principle where the gel and membrane are “sandwiched... antibody should you use? You will likely find several different antibody options targeting your protein...example, in immunoprecipitation (IP) the antibody interacts with a protein in its native state while a western...are typically conjugated to an enzyme, such as horseradish peroxidase (HRP), that emits light upon reacting... cellular assays. They can determine protein interactions following immunoprecipitation and are a common...

...at once, virtual conferences may have apps or interactive calendars that you can use to help plan your ...highly voted questions,” says Zhang. “Usually the moderator starts by asking the speaker the highly upvoted...the Q&A in the chat box. Presenting? Make it interactive! As a presenter, it can be difficult to keep ...Workshop, Abitua and the other organizers found several avenues to keep the audience engaged. They first...Reproducibility for Everyone Workshop included this interactive activity during their session. Image from Reproducibility...Reproducibility for Everyone.  While this type of interaction might not work when you are giving a research...important to keep your video on and look into the camera to make it seem more like you’re connecting with...

...writing for a general audience. The tool highlights jargon terms or words rarely used in general writing in...university student.   The Pomodoro timer is literally a tomato! Image from Gerlos.   Tools for checking...desired formatting style. This tool is great for generating citations for a few papers at a time. Mendeley...version that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.  Zotero  Zotero is also another free ...Can Grad School podcast episode 2 "Organizing Literature" : I found out about Zotero here Dear Grad Student...blog: Tips for writing scientific manuscripts: literature searching, reading, and organizing Tips for writing...

...Wondering how you can develop more transferable skills? See Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training... it different from a CV? Get familiar with the general format of a resume and the different presentation...advantage over other candidates. Write about your transferable skills Some of the skills you developed might...have presented in some public lectures? These transferable skills could be meaningful for your potential...undergraduates use these services, but some of the general knowledge about preparing a good resume, writing...Columbia, Student Services - includes videos on general resume writing, as well as additional videos with...

...fluorescent channels on the microscope. With the proliferation of fluorescent proteins in recent years, there...the latest fluorescent proteins, I maintain an interactive graph and table of the best fluorescent proteins...TagRFP to give a brighter signal than mCherry. In general, filter sets designed for Rhodamine / Cy3 will ... of the improved folding variants of EGFP like mEmerald or Clover is probably best; mNeonGreen is an even...variants, presumably due to the lower growth temperature. This also suggests, however, that there is no...want the brightest signal, you may need to try several proteins in your system of interest. Finally, in...set of proteins the green and red proteins are generally the most detectable and so should be used to tag...

...20, 2021. By Will Arnold and Shreya Vedantam Accelerating research by improving the availability of materials...pandemic in which scientists race to find vaccines, therapeutics, and other treatments to stem the spread of ...plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate research and to help find a faster solution to...SARS-CoV-2 materials, it will not scale well to the several thousand plasmids from Ginkgo. To balance the need...time consuming, costly, and laborious QC for all several thousand plasmids at once. Any samples that are... any scientists who requested the plasmid. By leveraging our core strengths of intensive screening and...balance by modifying certain processes in both core operations. As it has been in much of the world, we have...

... Addgene is not dependent on grants. Aiming to operate under a similar model for our Viral Service, we...see the value to the scientific community in accelerating the Viral Service. With their support we are...helps keep our focus on assisting scientists and accelerating research and discovery, while also pushing us...take on this project? Addgene’s mission is to Accelerate research and discovery by improving access to...exposure in the community, we saw the opportunity to leverage our recognition, further fulfilling our mission... methods, performs extensive quality control, generates  educational materials, and provides viral vector...webpage). While the new team took the lead on operationalizing viral production and distribution, this project...