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  1. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    ...not just impact. Cause #3: Poor experimental design It’s easy to get excited about positive results. Not...easier to find information about research tools. BenchSci collates information about antibodies while FPbase...variety of additional resources and information about organizations promoting reproducibility in this ...that make it easier to share in-depth information about reagents, protocols, analysis tools, and more. Being...from a freezer. As you’ll see in Steve Almo’s talk about work at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI... talked to many researchers who have complaints about the unreliability of antibodies. IPI is working ...FPbase curates information about fluorescent proteins so you can best apply these technologies to your own...
  2. Handling Plasmids from Addgene - Purifying Plasmid DNA

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    ... or isopropanol 90% ethanol 70% ethanol TE buffer 3 M Na-acetate (pH 4.8) Protocol: Generalized DNA Purification....5 volumes 95% or 100% ethanol and 1/10 volume of 3 M Na-acetate (pH 4.8). Invert the microfuge tube to... supernatant out of the tube if you are worried about losing the pellet. Dry with vacuum or by inverting...
  3. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...separated by size, (2) transferred to a membrane, and  (3) detected using antibodies.   Figure 1: Overview... the thickness of the band provides information about the relative abundance of the protein in the sample...history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory experience with peptide/protein analyses using...
  4. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...Originally published May 3, 2017 and last updated Sep 24, 2020 This post was contributed by guest blogger...target should be near the TSS but you can worry less about sequence optimality because you generally have fewer...
  5. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    ...figures for scientific publications. PLOS Biology, 19(3), e3001161. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001161...to label the rat brain sample shown in Figure 2A above, Andrews et al. used the following combination of...
  6. Protocol - How to Streak a Plate

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    ... the last section of the plate, to create streak #3. Incubate plate with newly plated bacteria overnight...resistance and your initials. Labeling within a laboratory setting is important for organization, and it...a section of the plate, as shown in the diagram above, to create streak #1. Pro-Tips Hold your tooth pick...
  7. Protocol - How to Perform Sequence Analysis

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    ...Addgene's plasmid information pages recommend 5’ and 3’ sequencing primers. These primers typically anneal...Addgene lists the primers used to obtain each result above the posted sequence in the "View Sequence" link....sequence than expected and wish to contact Addgene about the accuracy of your plasmid, please email help@...
  8. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ...this field, most jobs needed at least 3 months experience working in a developing tropical country. This...really passionate about during my degree. I loved parasitology. However, when I enquired about roles in this...with an overview of my experience and how I felt about the different positions to enable them to decide...
  9. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...and can exhibit recombination levels as high as 1-3%. In light of this finding, we now include guidance...the most common concerns we get here at Addgene about this system is off-target or spurious expression...cells that don’t express Cre or Flp, what can we do about it?  Test the serotype and promoter The first step...
  10. Water Bath Protocol

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    ...if you are using disinfectants as described above in step 3. You will also need to maintain the appropriate... lab! Introduction A water bath is a piece of laboratory equipment that helps bring your materials to ...
  11. Antibody Validation Using the Indirect ELISA Method

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    ...Timeline Day 1: Antigen Coating Day 2: Blocking Day 3: Primary antibody incubation Day 4: Secondary antibody...at room temperature or overnight at 4 °C . Section 3: Primary antibody incubation Carefully remove the ...point. If your unknown sample’s absorbance falls above the range of the standard curve you will need to...
  12. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...Science 6.1 (2015): 50-69. Royal Society of Chemistry. 3. Ermolenko, Dmitri N., et al. "Observation of intersubunit...environment? If these are pressing issues in your laboratory, then FRET experiments are a viable biophysical...to consider these cases separately when talking about the tools that are available. Let’s consider the...that, if you make an FP fusion, you are inserting about 20-25 kDa of protein mass into your protein and ...together The FRET donors and acceptors described above can be paired together to measure a wide range of...of your protein that can lead to novel insights about its biology and its behavior. See the table below...
  13. AAV ddPCR Titration

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    ...Scientific, 10199-452 Ice bucket 96-well freezer blocks (x 3) Reagents Molecular Biology Grade Water, Hyclone, ...20X): 5 µL in 95 µL 1X PCR buffer (1:400) Dilution 3 (20X): 5 µL in 95 µL 1X PCR buffer (1:8,000) Dilution...dilution BSC. Prepare 1X dilution buffer (see recipe above). Save ~25 µL of 1X dilution buffer in a microcentrifuge...
  14. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ... Toolbox for Plants.” ACS Synthetic Biology, vol. 3, no. 11, American Chemical Society (ACS), 20 Feb. ... constructs that compose genetic circuits and metabolic pathways. For many MoClo systems, the individual...interested in recombinant protein purification and metabolic engineering. If instead you want to build genetic...designed for flexibility. The Fragmid kit described above works in both mammalian systems and Drosophila. ... Signaling in CAR T Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 17 Feb. 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1101...Emerging CRISPR Technologies. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 27 Oct. 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1016...
  15. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ... expanded version by Nyla Naim was published Sept 3, 2020.   Scientists around the world have been making...of the genome editing process. Read on to learn about the various light-controlled CRISPR tools available...reaching the amber stop codon, TAG. (To learn more about site-specific incorporation of amino acids using...
  16. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...should be ~60°C (between 50 and 65, with no more than 3 degrees between the two Tms)  Aim for 50-60% GC content... should have a melting temperature 5-10 degrees above the primer and be at least 25 bp away from each ...
  17. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...100bp or 1kb fragments are produced (see figure above). 3 Reasons The PSU Ladders Are Awesome Tools: They...but be sure to let us know if you'd like to write about your plasmids in a future blog post. No time to ...repository. These variants can be used as tools to learn about the influence of structure on an FP’s properties...
  18. Isolating a Monoclonal Cell Population by Limiting Dilution

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    ...stable cell pool were then expanded for an additional 3 weeks under blasticidin selection. Anti-Cas9 Western...approximately 50–60% confluent. For 293T cells this is about 2 × 10 6 cells in a 10 cm dish. Each 10 cm dish ...cell solution into the conditioned medium prepared above to make a new cell solution at a concentration of...
  19. Kit Free RNA Extraction

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    ...hand for 10 seconds. Incubate the sample(s) for 2-3 minutes on ice and centrifuge for 15 minutes at 12,000... working with the volatile reagents in the list above. Procedure Option #1 - Solution D Protocol Before...sure to prepare solution D (see reagent section above for the recipe). If using TRIzol®, jump down to ...
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