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TypeBlog Post...of their luciferase assay, they concluded that components in the buffer used for protein purification must...percentages (78-79% after two rounds of transduction.) Compared to CCP transduction, iTOP is at least four times...Astolfo et al. were eager to see if iTOP would be compatible with CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing. Although CRISPR...
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Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc
TypeBlog Post... life science researchers. Many biotechnology companies are looking for PhD or Master’s level scientists...have done?” and “Would their academic experience compliment this sales and marketing role?”. Studying for...entrepreneurial bug and has set up an ELISA kit company on whose website you can find some great information... -
What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science
TypeBlog Post... It doesn’t have to be this way. We can never completely eliminate the risk that a minor variation in ...Press. She trained originally in cell biology, completing her PhD at the MRC LMB in Cambridge UK and then... Vice President. Her current responsibilities encompass overall leadership of the Cell Press editorial... -
Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping
TypeBlog Post...binds to TIR1 of the SCF-TIR1 ubiquitin ligase complex, promoting its interaction with the degron sequence...used ChRs in that they cause a rapid and almost complete desensitization when exposed to continuous bright...snaking through our cells’ nuclei--our chromatin is comprised of thousands of loops. These loops not only provide... -
FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis
TypeBlog Post...responsible for the degradation of over 600 cellular components ultimately leading to cell fragmentation and ...FlipGFP. FlipGFP increases fluorescence 100-fold compared to other reporters (Zhang et al., 2019). How does...and (3) β-strand 11 (β11). Each part contains components and residues that are necessary for fluorescence... -
Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication
TypeBlog Post... I asked participants to read short abstracts comparing the mortality rates between two controversial ...and biased. As a result, the control abstract comparing two fictional medical issues – chronic and acute...community. I brought along printed copies of studies comparing the filtration efficacy of different materials... -
Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog Post...writing and this recent article published in PLOS Computational Biology (Frassl et al., 2018): “Science is increasingly...collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper. PLoS Comput Biol 14:e1006508 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi...Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration. PLoS Comput Biol 3:e44 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi... -
Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly
TypeBlog Post.... Generation of sgRNA libraries, with maximum complexity, is achieved with synthetic oligos with a randomized... genome. Many of these techniques require more complex DNA assemblies and improvements in these methodologies...the limitations associated with otherwise more complicated assembly approaches, and opens the door for new... -
Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors
TypeBlog Post...biosensor with two components - an enzyme that breaks down the HMO of interest into its component simple sugars...learn more about Xin’s work with photoswitchable components of the ERK signaling pathway in our recent blog... -
R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
TypeBlog Post...sources. While the importance of understanding these complex processes can’t be overstated, we can also learn...degradation under a variety of conditions. They are composed of 4 proteins encoded in a single operon and were... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog Post...experience using image analysis software. If you use computer programs to predict protein structures, then you... you might know a thing or two about computer modeling. Make sure to focus on these skills. The only exception... into a communications role instead after she completed her MSc in Experimental Medicine. She is the Community... -
Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
TypeBlog Post...than a day. Diagnostic restriction digests are comprised of 2 separate steps: 1) incubating your DNA with... construct. Consider buffer and temperature compatibility when digesting with more than one enzyme. Consult...will allow you to approximate the DNA mass of comparably intense samples of similar size. Run the gel ... -
OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
TypeBlog Post...needs to emit a different color of light and be compatible with the lasers available in your microscope ...jRGECO1a and jRCaMP1a are widely used as well. To complement these tools, we recently developed a new orange...1030 nm, enabling two-photon imaging without compromising on brightness, ∆F/F0, or signal-to-noise ratio... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog Post...that use reverse transcriptase to synthesize complementary DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a ...gamma-retrovirus are so closely related, their required components are very similar. While plasmids containing virus-specific...between the two systems, other, more general, viral components such as a heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog Post...nature, extra safety measures, like replication incompetent viral particles, are required. We will be covering...infect both non-dividing and dividing cells. They accomplish this through nuclear localization signals which... immunodeficiency virus type 1 preintegration complexes.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89 (1992) 6580... -
Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors
TypeBlog Post...Paratore onto the Board of Directors brings complementary experience and insight to the now 10 member ... I was interested in what she shared about the company and what the goals were and so I decided to join...time on research. What do you hope Addgene will accomplish in the near future? Katz: I’m excited that Addgene... -
Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones
TypeBlog Post...However, one of the many proteins which are not compatible with regular mesophilic systems are the psychrophilic...chaperones protein resulted in higher levels of growth compared to the E. coli strain expressing the empty vector... Medal in the Undergrad category at the iGEM Competition 2019. He has an active interest in scientific... -
Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?
TypeBlog Post...service supporters We would like to thank the companies who supported this project with funding. Alnylam...donations. That seed money was used to build a completely self-supporting service so that Addgene is not...distribution, this project involved every Addgenie in the company. Our Finance, Business and Legal teams had to pave... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog Post...to start a more formal mentoring program at my company, but there weren't enough senior people willing... such as pre-reads, videos or exercises to be completed in preparation for the meeting or to be read or... and help each other practice meeting people – compete for fastest to set up a coffee date or most cards... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog Post...proteins within a system. This can be pretty complicated given that a single cell has tens of thousands...strategy a single protein can be isolated from a complex mix using affinity chromatography against an amino...then eluted using a high imidazole buffer that outcompetes the interaction between the protein of interest...