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  1. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    ...easy to work with Grows extremely fast (doubling time of ~ 2 hours) Amenable to genetic manipulation ... K. phaffii’s genome has been sequenced for some time, clearing the greatest hurdle for genome engineering...cerevisiae and S. pombe - aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and for good reason! However, there are other...
  2. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

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    ...it required only about 15 minutes of my hands on time and a total of about 3 hours. It was robust, capable...to learn something new without spending a lot of time developing and making space for the techniques ourselves... ourselves. As you probably have limited time and space in your own lab, you should give similar workshops...
  3. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ... gRNA library, and we thought it would be a good time to talk about the amplification and verification...in the library. Bacterial growth must also be optimized to maintain library diversity. If the various ...seemingly straightforward – you need to count how many times each of the library components is found in the read...
  4. Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**

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    ...transparent, so it’s easy to watch development in real time.  In both cases, dL5** was tagged with mCerulean3...They found that KillerRed required longer exposure times (5 minutes vs 10 seconds) to achieve the same level...experienced minor bleaching after longer exposure times. Additionally, KillerRed requires mitochondrial ...
  5. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...emails, chats, pictures, and apps. Throughout my time as a graduate student, I have relied more and more...requires cell culture and include a counter, lab timer, dilution calculator, and a couple of other nice... Lastly, the Tm calculator helps you set up an optimal PCR depending on the primer sequence and the NEB...
  6. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ... was to be revisited at meetings when sufficient time, additional public fora for data review, and more...consensus guidelines, but there was never a specific timeline for this plan—or any action to follow it. And ... 2018 saga of “what’s happening in genetics this time?” She lives with her partner (in business and life...
  7. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    ...Group (QCRG) to do just this.  In under a month’s time, we’ve published an article on BioRxiv describing...!) Attacking coronavirus, one FedEx package at a time Since the publication of our paper, our group has...fulfillment manually in a shared spreadsheet and it takes time away from our research. For all these reasons, the...
  8. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    ...as the relatively low cost and quick turn-around time of Sanger sequencing have historically matched the...The cost of these normalization steps, measured in time and consumables, can be daunting for large numbers... have worked with Addgene to develop a highly optimized bioinformatics pipeline that will return high-...
  9. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ... DAP array, short for “drive-and-process.” To optimize DAP use, they developed a generalizable method...sequences must be avoided, different tRNAs with optimized 5’ leader sequences can be used together in DAP... Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real Time Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility ...
  10. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...iGluSnFR and SF-iGluSnFR have made it clear that it’s time to update our iGluSnFR post! Here, we look at the...generations of iGluSnFR had limitations: they were not optimal for experiments requiring high signal to noise ...Tools References Marvin, Jonathan S., et al. “An optimized fluorescent probe for visualizing glutamate neurotransmission...
  11. Addgene Welcomes John Doench to the Advisory Board

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    ...microbiology class my sophomore year and it was the first time that I was in a lab class where we had an assignment... me away….  I have to come here, I need to spend time here, this is an incredible place.” Doench has spent...CRISPR, just the results are so much cleaner. The time frame from doing your primary screen to knowing ...
  12. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    ...graduate student using viral vectors for the first time and learning how to purify AAV.  Second, you’ll ... team, working together to share information. Sometimes it is most helpful to use a lot of jargon and ...and have a technical, detailed approach. Other times, it is more helpful to use plain language and focus...
  13. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ... where image processing algorithms for analyzing time-lapse images, quantitatively evaluating antibody...download the software for use, or they can modify and optimize the code, find and fix security-critical bugs,...the world don't have to start from scratch every time to pursue their scientific curiosity but can literally...
  14. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    ... negative selection in plasmid cloning.  But oftentimes, a selection strategy is not enough on its own...sequencing primers in our Molecular Biology Reference. Sometimes common  primers can't provide all of the information...plasmid. Please note that NGS verification is more time-intensive than Sanger sequencing or the other techniques...
  15. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...appropriate ligand to activate the G proteins. It is estimated that there are approximately 950 different human...signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli. Ligand dissociation from the GPCR allows for binding...learn about GPCR signaling, researchers in the meantime have developed GPCRs for chemogenetic studies ...
  16. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    ...tend to ask similar questions, thus devoting some time to writing a solid personal statement will pay dividends...with your personal statement, while you make the ultimate case: why you? 7. Strength in numbers Encourage...clinch every opportunity for themselves. This is ultimately the wrong approach. It is very likely you know...
  17. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ...It’s time to choose your own protein purification adventure. You want to purify your favorite protein...After binding YFP to the column, you wash several times to remove non-specific proteins, and then elute ...light switch could control a signaling pathway. Ultimately, development of more OptoNBs would allow for ...
  18. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ... the zinc finger nucleases. Unfortunately, it is time consuming and difficult for investigators without...genetically modified cells in less than a month's time. Addgene: What are the implications of this kit ...flexibility in terms of the target site. Also, any time you create double-strand breaks, there is a possibility...
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