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  1. Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur

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    ...may begin to prove the technology. This transition takes around 1 – 2 years. The product is the measure...community. As a result, I have occasionally pondered translating my research into a startup company. However, ...school and turn it into a biotech company. Transitioning an idea from academia to a startup Mike Koeris... biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from the bench and became all about finding...stages in the startup". To gain insight into "the random-walk" of a budding startup, I asked Mike to outline...into it.” Have any other helpful tips to help transition a project from academia to a biotech startup ...

  2. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    ... UK team members before they log off for the day. 1:45 PM--Write final report. Work on a final report ...alone. A few years ago when I started my career transition from bench science to software product management...explaining more of her role, which eventually led me to transfer to her team and begin my product management (PM...science backgrounds, most did not. It was my job to translate complex lab operations workflows into a format... help improve their work. Then, I distill and translate that valuable information back to the rest of ...science companies, try to find internships with translatable skills: working with data, working with people...

  3. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    ...non-canonical amino acid at the site of interest (figure 1). While the codon used is often one of the three stop...factors can negatively impact both translation and fidelity of translation, leading to system-wide effects... incorporation of an unnatural amino acid in translation (Noren et al., 1989). In the late nineties, this...non-interacting with) the cells’ own natural translation machinery; these are often incorporated into ...

  4. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    ...medRxiv.org) in the past few years.   Figure 1: Stand aside, CERN — it's a new age of accelerating...conference poster or talk, or submitting patent or grant applications; to informal settings like lab meetings..., and increase their impact. Open access and transparency Another major benefit of preprints is their ... of listing “Submitted” articles in their CV or grant applications. A number of organizations (such as...be prone to biases or errors, with a lack of transparency in most review processes. Preprints and their...

  5. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...in Streptomyces (Cobb et al., 2015). pCRISPomyces-1 includes Cas9, a tracrRNA, and a CRISPR array, while... four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins forming the QCascade DNA-targeting...modify a given gene. CRISPR-tranposons By combining CRISPR editing and transposons, the Sternberg and Zhang...developed CRISPR-transposons. The Sternberg lab's system called INTEGRATE (Insertion of Transposable Elements ... CAST (CRISPR-associated Transposase) both enable gRNA-directed transposition. INTEGRATE consists of four...multi-spacer CRISPR array, CRISPR-transposons can be multiplexed. Transcriptional repression (CRISPRi) in bacteria...proteins involved in the activation of transcription including transcription factors, phage proteins, and RNAP...

  6. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    ...first of only three such databases, EENdb (published 1 Jan 2013, no longer available), is a simple catalogue...follow him on Twitter @CMacPhD.          References  1. Ghorbal, Mehdi, et al. "Genome editing in the human...should we use all tools as some kind of a meta/Frankenstein app? Or perhaps there is a clear winner, is ...enthusiasts, take a look at sgRNAcas9. Top tools for transferring CRISPR technology to a new organism: For obvious...

  7. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ... genes with a single viral vector.   Fig. 1: Schematic of multiplex gene editing with DAP array..., lengthy genetic payloads and insufficient transcription on the array have limited the scalability and...

  8. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ...regarding what makes this group of researchers special: 1. Stem cell scientists care deeply about ethics Ethics...that stem cell scientists are so focused on translational research is encouraging. Patients are key to...

  9. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

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    ...region: IgM, IgD, IgG, IgE, and IgA.    Figure 1: Diagram of an antibody labeled with Fc, Fab, heavy...that helps attack extracellular pathogens.  Transportation of antibodies to places they can’t reach on...region, can be bound by special receptors that transport antibodies through cells and into different body...tears, saliva, mucus) where it protects mucosal membranes. This isotype is most commonly a dimer with a ...

  10. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    ...give these stabilized promoters a try. References 1. Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and...number during the transition to stationary phase, Segall-Shapiro et al. placed a trans-acting RepA protein...plasmids modified from pSC101 with copy numbers ranging from 3-100 per cell, a stabilized promoter buffered...

  11. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ...speed: base editing before Cas lets go Figure 1: David Liu gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene...induces the DNA base change without a DNA double-strand break. But base editors aren’t perfect. They may...References Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR (2017) Programmable base ...

  12. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ...accessible to practically everyone.     Fig. 1: Open source hardware builds   Since I started...next few years, with the goal of creating more transparent and reproducible science in the long run (Hohlbein...2020) Hongquan Li, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Ethan Li, Pranav Vyas, Nibha Akireddy, Chew Chai, Manu Prakash, ...

  13. Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody

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    ...doesn't work for your application.      Fig. 1: Antibody Selection Flow Chart    What does validated...-independent assays such as mRNA data from transcriptomics; independent antibody strategies that compare...validation does not mean that the antibody is guaranteed to work. Antibody-based assays are complex and...

  14. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...many of which are available in rAAVs!   Figure 1: Diagram of AAV components      Cargo capacity...therapies and in vivo laboratory experiments ranging from transient gene expression in a particular cell type... Figure 2: DNA rescue and transduction of a conventional single-stranded AAV (ssAAV) and a self-complementary...genome conversion in the transduced cell nucleus, the single-to-double stranded conversion of the DNA goes...structure can readily fold into transcriptionally active double-stranded form through intra-molecular annealing...Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a single stranded, Parvoviridae DNA virus, packaged in a non-enveloped...hijack host cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand of DNA before expression of their cargo can begin...

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

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    ...internalization of two different receptors- angiotensin II type 1 receptor and the β2 adrenoceptor. GPCRs in chemogenetics...different ligands, including hormones, neurotransmitters, photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling...seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, due to the seven alpha helices that transverse the cellular...cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways...fusion to a receptor-transcription factor fusion. TEV protease cleave the transcription factor from the receptor...initiating signaling pathways in inflammation, and neurotransmission. These receptors can be activated by an array...cellular membrane. The receptor recognizes the appropriate ligand to activate the G proteins. It is estimated...

  16. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...see how you use them in your research!  References 1.Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “A nanobody-based system... to create a complete transcription factor, activating luciferase transcription. Tang et al. coined this...Connie Cepko’s lab allow researchers to activate transcription or Cre recombinase activity only in the presence...Using nanobodies to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation The project began with a frustration... in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs, GFP linked the two GBPs...this system T-DDOG (Transcriptional Devices Dependent On GFP). In testing the specificity of their system... dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce transcription. Thus, T-DDOGs can be used in combination with...

  17. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ... trafficking of these biosensors.   Figure 1: Schematic of iGluSnFR3 (left). GluSnFR3 in pMinDisplay... from Abhi Aggarwal.   Brandán Pedre Pérez: Redox biosensors Brandán Pedre Pérez is a postdoc at... enable multiplexed imaging of neurotransmitter, calcium, and membrane voltage,” says Tian. Figure...Congratulations to the five winners! Abhi Aggarwal Brandán Pedre Pérez Elizabeth Hubbard Haoyi Qiu He Tian...hippocampal cultured neurons, imaged 14 days post-transfection, excited at 505 nm (right). Scalebar represents...hydropersulfide-propagating enzymes 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MPST) which catalyzes the desulfuration of...an enzyme-bound hydropersulfide that is then transferred to thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides...

  18. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ... Science Find the SEND plasmids    Figure 1: SEND combines an endogenous Gag homolog, cargo RNA...Cas9 fused to the reverse transcriptase (RT), which induces two double-strand breaks and deletes the intervening...They further develop a version of SEND for gene transfer with pseudotyped viral particles, expanding options...enzyme from the Liu lab to target opposite DNA strands and specify a large intervening deletion. Not only...deletions and introduce epitope tags and RNA transcription start sites. The lab further demonstrated that...uses paired pegRNAs targeting complementary DNA strands to program large genomic deletions with or without...PEDAR is capable of correcting larger genomic rearrangements as demonstrated in a mouse model of tyrosinemia...

  19. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...for RaPID is an RNA motif of interest. See figure 1 below for details on the key components of RaPID. ...and IREB2, which post-transcriptionally regulate iron metabolism pathway transcripts. By using RaPID, Ramanathan... include both scrambled RNA motifs and cells transfected with BirA* protein alone (i.e. no RNA bait). ...changes in RC2H1 protein expression and post-transcriptional regulation of SM1v1-containing RNAs could play...often trick host proteins into binding their untranslated regions (UTRs) to aid in the viral life cycle...IRE) RNA motif of the ferritin light chain RNA transcript. IRE motifs are bound by IRE binding proteins...

  20. Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist

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    ...best tips beyond the basics to get you started. 1) Be visible and open to connections This is a site... Also, many people on LinkedIn don’t appreciate random requests without a personal message and they may...trolls. People don’t like to connect with complete strangers as it borders on my first rule of networking--...a useful way to build or use a network. Total strangers can’t really help or refer you. Do not ask people... lot about requesting connections to complete strangers for informational interviews. Many have had success...considered intrusive and it’s still connecting with a stranger so is highly discouraged. You should be using ...
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