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  1. Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key

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    ...bandwidth to become an expert) the end result is high quality and the entire process is completed more... What types of issues do you want to know about right away? Provide adequate support. The manager must...

  3. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ...is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses challenging. This cytotoxicity... Bähr M. Human synapsin 1 gene promoter confers highly neuron-specific long-term transgene expression ...

  4. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    ...and their functions are more intuitive than you might think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into...polymerase II promoter and terminator regions and are slightly different in sequence. Both LTRs do share common...

  5. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    ...proteins of interest such as actinin. When tension is high vs. low in the cell the donor and acceptor of a ...on changes to the structure of actinin in low vs. high tension. These systems are powerful tools to measure...

  6. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...middle) and extends from the 3' end of the nick (right), occasionally introducing mutations (red nucleotide...EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while increasing the standard...

  8. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    ...however, they are different viruses and thus use slightly different isoforms of these packaging components...research to reduce promoter interference and/or drive high expression of a transgene from an internal promoter...

  9. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ... and Andrew Hempstead. What do smell, taste and sight have in common, besides being one of the five senses...Chemogenetics is similar to optogenetics but instead of light, these genetically modified receptors are activated...

  12. dTAG - You're it!

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    ...mouse models. The dTAG system The dTAG system pairs highly selective small molecule FKBP12F36V degraders (...observed little to no toxicity with dTAG-13 at doses as high as 20 µM (see Figures 3 and 5 in Nabet et al., Nature...

  13. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...amino acids. The use of radioactive materials is highly regulated, requires designated work areas and come...passionate about communicating science to all audiences. Right now, she is a science instructor at The Innovation...

  14. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ....7 kb. Co-infection rates for AAVs are generally high enough for this approach to work, although it’s ...time. Though the time delay until expression is highly dependent on the serotype and target tissue, two...

  15. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...microenvironments and what encircles a disease is highly prone to affect it. While tumors may be the stars...surroundings and being shaped by them. Another set of highly influential microenvironment cells are Cancer-Associated...

  16. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting high quality reagents, and we realized we could use the...Addgene’s support, could fill a community need for high-quality service, open data, and increased reproducibility...

  17. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    ... often post a preprint at the same time as, or slightly before, submitting the manuscript to a journal...needs. The most often-cited reasons researchers might not post a preprint are reluctance to share their...

  20. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...are a multitude of known AAV serotypes that have slight variations in their viral capsids. Novel forms ...AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the human population. These pre-existing...

  21. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    ...1948 as a variation of the more commonly observed light emission by fluorescence. The widespread use of ...distances that are too miniscule for conventional light microscopy. Don't FRET - Use these FRET resources...

  22. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...of large-scale assembly useful, you may ask? You might be surprised by how multi-purpose it can be. Let... Plant Parts Kit Resources on the Addgene blog High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD Interview...

  23. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ... is biotin-conjugated, streptavidin (which has a high affinity for binding biotin), is conjugated to the...interest. The optical density (OD) - the measure of light absorbed by a solution - of these wells is plotted...

  24. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ...for these RNA sequences (3 nM), however, was quite high and above what would be expected in patient samples...daunting. It took a true team effort and many late nights, not unlike most research, but the urgent need ...

  25. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...fold (Davis et al., 2002). However, polybrene is highly sensitive to freeze-thaw cycles and should be stored...resistance marker expression following transfection, higher-level expression after approximately 72 hours is...

  26. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...expression can change as well. The more frequently and tightly bound DNA is to histones, the more compacted it...occurs at CpG islands (regions of the DNA with a high frequency of C and G nucleotides). The conversion...

  28. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    ...my experience the best set-up is panelists in a slight semi-circle (so they can see each other) on comfortable...redirect the conversation. The person you cut off might be miffed but the other 200 audience members will...

  30. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    ...think I need. Unlike lentivirus, AAV requires a higher number of viral particles for efficient gene transfer...only harvest the cell pellet. My yield would be higher if I used PEG precipitation, but for my experiments...
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