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...pride in facilitating the exchange of not just the physical samples, but also the legal documentation that... Addgene has adopted the terms of the Uniform Biological Material Transfer Agreement (UBMTA) for its material... may not use the material in human subjects or clinical trials Acknowledgement in recipient’s future...have opted into our eMTA system can even sign electronically or choose to auto-approve MTAs. Whatever your...

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... Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School), and Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking the ...the lab with parties in the lab’s common areas, local pubs, and homes. The Church lab also toasts a newly... Improving your work-life balance Balancing the Scale: NSF's Career Life-Balance Initiative Can Scientists...

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...nearly all domains of life repair genomic damage, specifically double strand breaks. Researchers have long ...by direct transformation. A given insert will typically contain both a protein modification sequence and... not only track the abundance, movement, and localization of individual proteins, but also investigate... green, and red FPs that are codon optimized specifically for expression in yeast. These tagging vectors...

...expression of the indicators over white dashed lines. Scale bars, 10 μm (HEK293T), 20 μm (neurons). Figure and...feedback in response to norepinephrine release, and clinically-used drugs targeting these receptors cannot be...nLightR, both generating a measurable signal after electrical stimulation with a single pulse, while nLightR...Cui, G., Lin, D., Du, J., & Li, Y. (2019). A Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Sensor for Rapid and Specific...

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... Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School), and Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) who took the time...choices.” She points out that a PhD teaches analytical and critical thinking skills that are applicable to ...

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...whether a cell line is known to be genetically manipulated, its anatomical origin, if cell line has ever been...Bioinformatics reached out to us to tell us about a resource called Cellosaurus, a growing cell line information database....  For those wanting to access Cellosaurus programatically, their API allows fine grained query and retrieval...

...over a month ago I finished up my PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University and entered...researchers gain doing PhDs (i.e. technical writing, teaching, presenting, analytical thinking, time management...