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  1. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...Scientists are excited by somewhat unusual things. For example, I am not that interested in meeting movie stars...this over 30 minutes, which was fun to watch. A simpler 1 protein - 1 RNA system Drs. Dounda and Charpentier...into one RNA to direct cleavage the result was a simpler 1 protein - 1 RNA system.  Dr. Charpentier advocated...breakthrough. In fact, the panelists agreed that, for example, the technology is already available today to cure...
  2. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...natural transdifferentiation is rare in mammals, an example is observed in the pancreas when excess β-cell ...1987, Davis et al. reported one of the earliest examples of transdifferentiation in vitro where treatment...vitro Both in vitro and in vivo Epigenetic marks Complete removal to convert to iPSCs and re-establishment...in science communication and publishing after completing her postdoctoral training from Massachusetts ...human induced pluripotent stem cells from urine samples. Nat Protoc, 2012. 7(12): p. 2080-9. PubMed PMID...
  3. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...gRNA are not to scale.   Let’s start with the simplest multiplexing situation: you only need to express... and two U6 promoters. To use this plasmid, you simply order oligonucleotides for your chosen gRNA target...number of gRNAs you wish to clone, from 2-7. For example, if you’re expressing 4 gRNAs, you’d use pX330A...using BsaI, and promoter-gRNA fragments are PCR amplified for cloning into one of three Zeamays codon-optimized...especially useful for combinatorial analyses. For example, if you were to develop an array using 3 distinct...
  4. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...give you the reverse sequence, complement sequence, or reverse and complement sequence.  Filter DNA tool:... tools help with that.  DNA sequence reverse complement tool: Enter a DNA sequence and the program will...DAD): This tool designs overhang sets for high complexity Golden Gate Reactions Cloning ligation reaction...
  5. An Addgene Co-op: The Intersection of Fun, Friendship, and Work

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    ...student at Northeastern University, I am required to complete a six month work experience called a co-op to ...Thankfully, my managers set aside time for me to complete an online social media certification on social... data, and I was given a fantastic spreadsheet template to build out a report on. I was able to understand...changes to our social media strategy. We ended up implementing some of these changes and seeing early results...
  6. An Addgene Summer Internship

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    ... had to get used to the workspaces, as well as complete the lab safety and cybersecurity training before...project is a major project given to each intern to complete and present on.    Figure 1: Addgene's...obtain eight clones. We ran digested and undigested samples of the clones on an electrophoresis gel in order...Toj-Villagran is a rising senior in high school who just completed their summer internship at Addgene. They plan ...
  7. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    ...Suitability for in vivo experiments, due to their simple structure    sdAbs in research These advantages...becoming valuable tools for diverse applications. For example, RANbodies can be used as an alternative to conventional...manipulate cellular functions, like in this early example we highlighted back in 2015, where sdAbs were used...around using sdAbs in diagnostic applications. For example, fluorescently and radioactively labeled sdAbs ...
  8. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    ...genetic screens employ various on/off switches to measure the function of a gene. For example, they eliminate...modifying the gene of interest in any way. For example, if green fluorescent protein (GFP) was the reporter...monitors due to transcriptional fusion.   Examples of promoter, enhancer, and gene traps at a genomic...
  9. Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?

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    ...bosses and employers. Availability of superiors for consultation, advice and brainstorming. Employees must ...Intelligence or to hone delegation skills, for example. So aside from a focus on removing obstacles, what...organizational decision-making. It is imperative that employees are thanked for their work by the words and actions...
  10. Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning

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    ...The technique relies on the basic ability of complementary basepairs adenine (A) and thymine (T) to hybridize...insert comes from using Taq polymerase for the amplification step since Taq polymerase leaves a single deoxyadenosine...deoxyadenosine (A) at the 3' ends of PCR products. The complimentary “T” in the pair comes from a topoisomerase I-linearized... add unique restriction sites on the ends) and amplify your sequence of interest with Taq polymerase using...
  11. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    ...career Developmental biology caught me early on: a simple egg is packed with information. I am fascinated...individual diversity to get from gamete to a visibly complex - and unique - adult. My initial research directions...communication professionals who are thinking about, for example, how to use new technologies to reach the right...the world of scholarly publishing. And see for example the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review...
  12. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ... students Collaborations may be less “complicated” - for example, easy to initiate a collaboration without...this topic, the authors state, “Both explicit and implicit aspects of today’s postdoctoral training can directly...every 3-6 years—a short and exciting ride Complicated matrix structures are common Small integrated...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...Viruses are simple: a genome packaged in a protein shell (Taylor, 2014). They’re so simple that we can... even decide if they’re alive or not. Yet these simple, small particles have quite the outsized impact... been genetically modified to either limit or completely eliminate their replicative ability. The remaining...
  14. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ... the collection all the time! We’ll serve up a sampling of some of the most popular and give you a tour...useful for screening for binding properties. For example, several coronavirus libraries have been used to...: Preparing Pooled Libraries Pooled Library Amplifications Resources on Addgene.org Browse all pooled... to Plasmid Pooled Libraries CRISPR Library Amplification Protocol ...
  15. Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!

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    ... detection methods. For example, you can provide location, titer dose (Example: 1E13 GC/mL) and subject...this resource for the community. There are a few simple steps you can take to input your data for sharing...and assessment of your experimental results. For example, if you visualized expression after AAV injection...
  16. The Strength of Story Telling

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    ...research struggles in papers. They recount accomplishments in talks and interviews. They even tell short...Story Telling at work Don’t believe me? Here’s an example of storytelling to answer an informational interview...it worked out for all of us.” This is a classic example of the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) interview...than I’m able to produce. But it’s also a great example of storytelling – you get context, time, cause,...
  17. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    ...repair template plasmid to create fluorescent and 3xFLAG-tag fusion proteins. The repair template and Cas9...The data are clear - the SEC-based system is both simple to use and highly efficient for C. elegans genome...elegans protein. The his-72 locus is shown as an example. Used with permission from the Genetics Society...
  18. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    ...Zalatan JG, et al.'s recent paper, "Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR ... the eukaryotic cell for the execution of many complex cellular behaviors, such as differentiation or ...customizable single guide RNA (sgRNA) that bears complementarity to a 20bp target sequence (Qi et al. 2013)..... (2013). PubMed. Zalatan, J. G. Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR ...
  19. Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc

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    ...reason is that I knew that the mind-set of the employer was not such that he/she would be looking at where...have done?” and “Would their academic experience compliment this sales and marketing role?”. Studying for... out more than necessary for my interview. The simplest place I could think of to start was “Marketing...about marketing would be to start reading a broad simple overview, learn some jargon and key phrases and...
  20. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    ...discussion. The Forced Choice Analysis is a fun example and you can find it in our Mentoring for Scientists...on setting SMART goals using a Development Plan template. A Development Plan or mentoring journal will ...help the Mentee feel a sense of accountability to complete action items and make progress. To illustrate ...with regular accountability checks. Focus on implementation of your goals and respect the time your Mentor...
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