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  1. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...combinations of promoters, terminators, solubility and purification tags, connectors, cDNAs, and more to find...site-specific recombinases, regulatory elements, developmental regulators, and lots of viral components...workhorse yeast — K. phaffii (formerly known as Pichia pastoris). If your goal is protein isolation, then the ...kit has a focus on infrastructure with shuttle vectors, several delivery systems which can be engineered...engineered into the TUs, and even viral gene silencing vectors. The Plant Parts III kit has a focus on transformation... examine the effects of different promoters, terminators, enhancers, and cross-cassette interactions in...effects of protein degradation on chimeric antigen receptor signaling (Kim et al., 2024). The EMMA Toolkit...
  2. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ...chair of the postdoctoral engagement committee and active member of the university's Postdoctoral Association...science on April 22, 2017. While experiments (and editors) can move slowly, news about possible broad changes...in the veracity of its work. Alina Chan is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard Medical School working...dabbles in science policy, public outreach, and restorative justice.  Follow her on twitter @sung_vanessa...health depends on it. Deanna McLafferty is an editorial assistant and activist. Washington, DC, USA 38.9072...to join the public conversation and to tell the stories behind our research.  That's why I marched for ...Michigan, where programs like the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative are at risk of major cuts and where...
  3. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    ...about being an editor - that I learned on the job. The day-to-day work of a science editor In my role as...sorts of different editors. Do you like science journalism? Take a look at our news editors. A fondness for...at our multimedia producer and online editor. And, the copyeditors deal with things like word choice, punctuation...contributed by guest writer Pamela J. Hines PhD, Senior Editor at Science Magazine. Although we only walk one ...be like? Then I spotted an opening for being an editor at Science magazine. That one I just could not ...as an editor at Science, my various interests come together as useful and productive, forming a different...science journalists, or policy makers. The term editor covers a wide variety of careers and jobs. At Science...
  4. Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab

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    ...might not be a big factor for you. Know who's boss You sign on to a lab for the mentoring only to find out...choose a mentor that sees you only as a paper making machine. Choose one that is a true mentor, supporting...rotation was with a mid-sized lab with an experienced mentor. The lab was very, very quiet. Every time I asked...some of these questions in the sections below. Mentoring relationships can help identify your priorities...not worked for you in the past. For all of the factors I touch on below, the first question to ask yourself...“which ones matter to me?”  and hone in on the factors that will make the most difference for your success...? Will a postdoc or lab manager be your actual mentor? Is there a chance the supervisor will be moving...
  5. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...him a more effective motivator (“be like Tony Robbins!” he encourages faculty mentors.)  Collaboration Maximizes...technical and pedagogical resources, offers mentoring for instructors, and provides opportunities for students...in a year-long biochemistry laboratory : Part II – research-based laboratory – a semester-long research...becoming just the fifth repeat Nobel Prize winner in history. Interestingly, he also adds to the disproportionately...this trend as evidence that the best teachers and mentors pass on more than just technical knowledge, shaping...responsibilities left him with limited time for one-on-one mentoring. His solution? Bringing his research into the ...work identifying new genes required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance in planarians in Developmental...
  6. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    ...has a great team of moderators who facilitated scheduling, filtered out inflammatory questions, and even...and the moderators were on top of any comments that were at all trollish. Kudos to the moderators for keeping...trigger phrase these days). Redditors ask serious questions What the moderators did not delete or suppress...incredibly important to find good mentors and incentivize good mentorship: AMA mechanics: Be prepared! The...Addgene Executive director, Joanne Kamens, recently participated in a Reddit AMA (short for “Ask Me Anything...lists of forums on particular topics. Volunteer moderators set the rules for these forums and try to keep...careers, women in STEM, work-life negotiation, and mentorship, we decided to have her participate in an AMA...
  7. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...empty control vector would be Plasmid A sans shRNA, or backbone Y alone. The empty vector control allows... In this context, the empty vector control shows any effect of the vector/backbone itself on gene expression...hypothesis: proper controls! For every experiment, an investigator needs a standard against which the results can...variable you are testing and not some other unintended factor. Control plasmids are used to minimize any effects...planning your experiment includes determining what factors need to be controlled for in order to eliminate...replicate controls.  Transfection controls: empty vector and internal control A transfection control measures...any effects of the transfection itself (i.e., the vector used in transfection, transfection reagent, or ...
  8. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ...few inventory items offered domestically, but by the end of 2016, we expanded our viral inventory to 25... is a dual-vector system, meaning it is typically used in conjunction with a second vector that delivers...constructs (i.e., using a dual-vector system as opposed to a single-vector system) has several benefits.... lentiCas9-Blast Most of Addgene’s lentiviral inventory is based on CRISPR tools, though we do provide...LentiCas9-blast LentiCas9-blast is a Cas9 expression vector developed by Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute...such as lentiGuide-Puro. The alternative single-vector systems typically express Cas9 and a gRNA from ...compared to separate transductions with a single-vector system). Tips for using this plasmid Cas9 expression...
  9. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    ... Set up a table of contents in the top directory: A directory is a file system in the computer and is...experiment its own directory: In addition to output files, this is also where you can store any power point...in C++ and Java Command line history: Tracking command line history by recording all commands entered...analysis like a wet lab experiment I use the text editor TextWrangler to record the following, which are...name for a folder. For instance, your Desktop directory contains the folders and files that you see on...on your desktop. The location of your master directory or folder for all of your analyses is up to you...README.txt document is invaluable. In the top directory of every experiment, immediately write a text ...
  10. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...employing optogenetic regulators to initiate the event being monitored. Optogenetic regulators respond to specific...fluorescent protein (acceptor) in the pair. The higher the emission from the acceptor, the more powerful...and NanoLuc® Luciferase are available from the repository. We encourage people to go to Addgene to get ...furimazine by Promega’s Chemistry group is a good story (1). From a deep sea shrimp to a compact powerhouse...applications of the Enhanced Nano-Lanterns including monitoring multiple cellular events such as the dynamics...initiation wavelengths, excitation of the optogenetic regulator leads to spurious activation of the FRET sensor...still transfer energy to the fluorescent protein acceptor. NLuc is an excellent BRET donor due to its bright...
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