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  1. Embracing Serendipity: A Crucial Element in the PhD Journey

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    ...breakthroughs often occur when the unexpected infiltrates the realm of focused exploration. Here, we delve...your project's potential. Widening your search creates fertile ground for serendipitous encounters that...beneficial to carry a notebook at all times (or use the notes app on your phone) to capture fleeting thoughts ...
  2. FastCloning: A Newer, Simpler Cloning Technique

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    ...sensitive restriction enzyme DpnI to remove the templates. Digestion products are then transformed directly...that the exonuclease activity of the polymerase generates sticky ends in the PCR reactions. These sticky...time to completely digest the template DNA. Note—templates must have been isolated from methylation competent...
  3. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...carry in the target cell. These vectors allow you to test the function of Your Gene Of Interest (YGOI) in ...collection of empty backbones that have been designed, tested, and published by academic scientists. To help ...a mutated strain or a mutated version of YGOI to test the different phenotypes of the specific mutations...
  4. The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born

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    ... can’t safely recycle these materials either.  Test tubes aren’t cheap everywhere Lab supplies and equipment...thrifty streak.  One of the most accessed blogs on BitesizeBio is the protocol for making your own Taq polymerase...I got good at this despite the fact that my lab mates thought this was hilarious.  Birth of the baby gel...
  5. Choosing a Good Mentor for Scientists

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    ...labs have websites listing alumi and it is easy to use publication records, university websites, ResearchGate... lunch or beer) and in 1:1 conversations. This creates a level of familiarity and confidentiality to ensure...
  6. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    ...shown that cells treated with sucrose or other osmolytes to induce hypertonicity display enhanced monoclonal...impaired endocytosis. In parallel assays designed to test the endocytosis of a fluorescent dye and transduction...host of other AAV serotypes; it will be exciting to test this approach with different capsids. Most importantly...
  7. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...avoid off target photostimulation of axons and dendrites on neighboring neurons. We have also packaged ... AAV in smaller aliquots of 20 ul for serotype testing to help you pick the best AAV for your experiment...control plasmids in new serotypes. See our Serotype Testing AAV inventory for the entire collection! Plasmid...
  8. Single-cell tracking of lineage and identity with CellTag

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    ...cell type that can differentiate into hepatic or intestinal cell types. MEFs were reprogrammed into iEPs ...least day 13. However, distinct transcriptional states were seen as early as day 6. All together these...in a competitive transplant assay in the mouse intestine, demonstrating its utility in long-term tracking...
  9. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    ...is mind-boggling. Unlike a mountain – with many routes up and only one destination – a career in the sciences...molecular pathways, I found myself curious about other routes – In terms of both types and topics of work. A ...rare organisms so I found it hard to stick to vertebrates alone.  And a longstanding inclination to be ...
  10. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    ...building that someone from a different company had tested positive for COVID-19 (it turned out to be an unfounded...operations until our normal work resumed. Addgene distributes and fulfills requests for scientists doing almost...type of biomedical science research. Our work accelerates and enhances productive collaborations as well...
  11. Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm

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    ...scicomm group project on the Leith river. Photo courtesy of Leonardo Ramos.  I enrolled into a summer...industry. Along this road, science communication graduates are often well-equipped. Many institutions are...explores risk-taking behavior among collision sport athletes, as well as the ethical and health policy implications...
  12. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    ...Avidin and its derivatives have four biotin-binding sites per molecule so, theoretically, saturated avidin...were unable to cleave TEV within the protein we tested, it may be possible with other fusion proteins ...bacteria significantly enhance protein folding (tested using real science). Make a stock solution of 2.5...
  13. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    ...of heredity were thought of as everything from parasites, to symbionts, to genes and the labels applied... the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110.39 (2013): 15521–15529. PMC. PubMed... the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 70.11 (1973): 3240–3244. PubMed PMID...
  14. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Guide

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    ...available inside of the small AAV capsid and directly correlates to the size of the DNA removed from the viral... transfer plasmids may have limited restriction sites or may only be compatible with certain cloning methods...is crucial for efficient AAV replication as it activates the necessary cellular machinery to produce large...Random integration of rAAV genomes in non-homologous sites of the host genome can occur, although at a low ...a slash (e.g. AAV2/5), where the first number indicates the serotype of the genome and the second number...specific cell types of interest has been to create and test capsid libraries with random mutations or insertions... PNS (e.g. AAV-PHP.S) in rodents and non-human primates. Read our blog post on systemic capsids for more...
  15. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    ...the selected card on the board game. They had 35 minutes to develop a strategy and build a transfer plasmid... manipulate human stem cells. Then they had 10 minutes to expose their strategy, justifying each single...lentivirus-based ex-vivo gene therapy’ strategies to undergraduates, however you may use it and modify it for non-commercial...
  16. Celebrate National Book Month with Addgene

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    ... to read a little more this October. Science favorites Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by ...Communications and Marketing Coordinator Non-science favorites  The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson "The... reader of historical fiction (I can personally attest to this!). Following history from the Ice Age to...
  17. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    ...variety of research applications and particularly notes their ability to be precisely spatio-temporally ...down the HMO of interest, the lactose released activates expression of GFP from the lac operon. GFP expression...Light to Control CRISPR Genome Editing Choose the Brightest Fluorescent Protein for Your Experiments Resources...
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