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TypeBlog Post... Why recombinant antibodies? Animal-based methods for antibody production have several drawbacks....neuroscience research today, but there is a critical unmet need for an open-access, molecularly defined, and...
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Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?
TypeBlog Post...sense ssRNA, or negative sense ssRNA) and varying methods of replication. In fact, an entire classification...single particle creates many copies of itself, sometimes up to millions of new copies, which are released... -
Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...Isotype matters when constraining using the indirect method since a secondary antibody reactive to a certain... not be used for multiplexed indirect staining methods since the secondary antibody used will react to... -
Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science
TypeBlog Post..., peer-review is a touchstone of the scientific method, ensuring that published work meets the accepted...manuscript. As a non-native English speaker, I sometimes miss the sensitivity to judge how aggressive my... -
What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions
TypeBlog Post...surprisingly more rigorous in industrial settings Tight (sometimes impossible) timelines—others are usually waiting...people) -> How can you make a decision about something like this without sufficient data? Starting to... -
Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog Post...limited expression levels of XFPs in the original method, we used the Tetracycline trans-activator system...Improved tools for the Brainbow toolbox." Nature methods 10.6 (2013): 540. PubMed PMID: 23817127. PubMed... -
Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning
TypeBlog Post...Topoisomerase based cloning (TOPO cloning) is a DNA cloning method that does not use restriction enzymes or ligase...to decrease error rate, please use one of these methods to ensure your insert retains the 3' A overhang... -
Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers
TypeBlog Post...sensitive to sunlight and prone to developing metastatic melanomas and other cancers. Joshua Wang (bottom...described in 1971,” McSweeney said. “But, it is still sometimes wrongly diagnosed as a seizure disorder.” In 2012... -
Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup
TypeBlog Post...unwavering devotion to seeing your ideas become something tangible. When you think of entrepreneurship ...heavy price tag, especially if you're working on something other than software. If you are a graduate student... -
Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP
TypeBlog Post...description of the lab’s iTOP protein-only transduction method and its potential applications to CRISPR/Cas9 genome...osmocytosis and propanebetaine) to describe this method of protein transduction. Later studies showed that... -
Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits
TypeBlog Post...in college that I really fell in love with it. Something about being able to actually hold all those seemingly...educational uses. We believe that biology education is something that should be available to everyone, and hope... -
FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database
TypeBlog Post...simplifies the process of building advanced multi-parametric search queries. Looking for a bright, monomeric...emission peak around 600nm? Simply input these parameters and you’ll find matching FP suggestions. If ... -
Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria
TypeBlog Post...Staining. https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/research_methods/microscopy/gramstain.html Smith, A. & Hussey...medicine and more successful experiments. It’s something that all scientists should understand when stepping... -
New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor
TypeBlog Post...visualizing glutamate neurotransmission.” Nature Methods (2013) PubMed PMID: 23314171. PubMed Central PMCID...variants of the glutamate sensor iGluSnFR.” Nature Methods (2018) PubMed PMID: 30377363 Aggarwal, Abhi, et... -
Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition
TypeBlog Post...is because the host lab or institute provides something that you can’t obtain at your current institute...notes, and ask questions if you don’t understand something. Offer to help out wherever you can and don’t ... -
Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools
TypeBlog Post...that elicit the phenotype, and this depends on the method used to introduce the gRNAs into cells. Most CRISPR...does not provide a clear view of either of these metrics (Sniderman et al, 2012; Lawler et al, 2017). In... -
FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis
TypeBlog Post... 2 to 5 hours, a time consistent with previous methods. In zebrafish, the Shu Lab used FlipGFP to track...pattern was consistent with TUNEL staining, a popular method to observe apoptotic cells. Lastly, the Shu Lab... -
Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs
TypeBlog Post...vesicles or microvesicles (approx. 40 - 150 nm diameter) that are secreted from the cellular membrane ...Overexpression of the Tetraspanin CD9." Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development 9 (2018): 278-287. PubMed... -
Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**
TypeBlog Post...near-infrared photosensitizer. Nature Methods,13(3), 263-268. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3735. PubMed PMID: 26808669. PubMed... -
Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
TypeBlog Post...Ribosome profiling Ribosome profiling, a biochemical method developed in 2009, takes a “snapshot” of all of...UTR were translationally silent. Both of these methods increase our understanding of translation dynamics...