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  1. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...and Dr. Paul Stoffels from J&J. The panel was moderated by a non-scientist from Bloomberg news. Given ...who shared first authorship on their seminal, cooperative paper in Science.  Interestingly, this project...finding they have been able to use CRISPR/Cas9 to generate mice with genes knocked out in the insulin signaling..., open academic exploration in this area will accelerate the launch of clinical applications. During ...
  2. London Calling - Addgene’s New Europe Office in London

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    ... brand new Europe office located in London and operated in collaboration with LGC Standards. And now you... VII. During my years in research, I developed several new plasmids, including: plasmids to study the ...and shared by others to develop an anti-tumour therapy using antibodies targeting dendritic cells. These...sharing those ideas with others. This love of interacting with people and talking about science makes her...
  3. Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ

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    ...receptor ACVR1. ACVR1 triggers appropriate bone regeneration in healthy patients. However, the R206H mutation...including Activin A. A commercially developed therapeutic antibody that binds Activin A and interferes ...interferes with inappropriate activin-ACVR1 interactions prevents FOP bone growth in mouse models. As this biologic...experience is in both vaccine subunit design and therapeutic biologic design (ADCs) along with pre-clinical...
  4. Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs

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    ...the the University of Cambridge and within the general public. The society organises talks by prominent...graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and the general public. Chemical Society in University College ...studying to earn a PhD. The society encourages interactions between undergraduates and PhD students so that...develop a range of talks for both students and the general public, career events, and networking meetups. ...
  5. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    ...behaviors. Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The opsin ChETA...body. Administering the drug once can result in several hours of neuronal excitation or inhibition. This...sustained activation period is beneficial for use in therapeutic or behavioral applications where drawn out effects... by Designer Drugs): Chemogenetic Tools with Therapeutic Utility. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology...
  6. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    ...of time, especially at room temperature or at 4°C. Storing DNA: temperature and longevity You should consider...molecular biology like restriction enzymes and polymerases. In the situation where you need to use plasmid...Plasmid DNA can be stable at 4°C or even room temperature for a short period, and there are indications...
  7. Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags

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    ...blot and immunofluorescence. GST  Glutathione S-Transferase (GST) is a 26 kDa tag which can be isolated with...Purification of His fusion proteins from E. coli is generally more straightforward and of a higher purity than...washing. Nonetheless, this tag can be purified with several different resin types and is a fairly small tag...and other qualities of each tag class, they are generally best suited for their primary application. Ready...
  8. Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database

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    ...cell line collections websites and catalogues Literature searches utilizing Google Scholar alerts and ...feature to know if your lines may be especially vulnerable can be very informative. Spoiler alert: HeLa ...information on the known features and relevant literature, or to decide which line is best for your experiments...Josef Reischig.  Contributing to Cellosaurus Generated a new cell? Or finding errors in the available...
  9. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    ...escape reflex. These traits, coupled with short generation times and high fecundity, make zebrafish ideal...lights (Baier et al., 2009).  Zebrafish behaviors Several behavioral assays can be done on zebrafish at 5...neurons that trigger the CPG (central pattern generator) (Wyart et al., 2009). The CPG is a neural circuit...circuit involved in locomotion that generates periodic motor commands for rhythmic movements like spontaneous...
  10. Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?

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    ...included in organizational decision-making. It is imperative that employees are thanked for their work by ...but it is worth it. This requires a focus on deliverables. It does not mean a manager must allow his team...enough of a jerk to make the rest of the team miserable.   A good manager keeps these factors in mind...decisions, but that should not be the common mode of operating.  Managing scientists I should add a few special...
  11. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    ... concept that these clustered repeat sequences operated as a safeguard against bacteriophages did not ... bacterial genome. Cas genes, which code for polymerases, nucleases, and helicases, were also disrupted...proteins then express and process the CRISPR loci to generate RNA, which guide a Cas nuclease to the specified...learned to circumvent the CRISPR/Cas defense by generating a single point mutation in the PAM sequence, ...
  12. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...publications—the pressure to produce is the same You get to interact with scientists just like you What is different...structures are common Small integrated teams, little hierarchy Real diversity and acceptance can be an issue...requirements for hiring more common Likelier to hire on general talent and not specific skills <- Can move between...where you want to go will help you focus on the transferable skills that you will need to get there. Additional...
  13. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    ...study which can be accessed here at bioRxiv. AAV2 interacts with the packaging cell's cell membrane When packaging...blocked following sucrose treatment. Moreover, several reports have shown that cells treated with sucrose...    Despite observing a positive effect on our overall yield, we were unable to demonstrate that these...-associated virus manufacturing." Human gene therapy21.10 (2010): 1251-1257. PMID: 20649475. PubMed Central...
  14. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...developed in David Liu’s lab in 2019, has added considerably more precision and flexibility to the CRISPR... repair favoring the edited strand. The first iteration of prime editor simply fused the wild-type Moloney...pairs for prime editing. Since PAM sites occur on average every ~8 base pairs on either DNA strand, many ...by double strand breaks has been widely used to generate precise changes. However, the efficiency of Cas9...system PE2, which had prime editing efficiencies on average 2.3- to 5.1-fold (though up to 45-fold) higher ...
  15. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...cell survival or proliferation, an additional challenge is that only partial or ephemeral knockdown will...from the manufacturer and/or in the published literature. Note that the antibody being published doesn... used in combination with other approaches. If several cell lines express the target at different levels...contains information about the labeling pattern of several cell lines using these two antibodies. This is ...
  16. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...depending on the primer sequence and the NEB polymerase used. Overall, while much of the information in the ...helpful, but does make it easy to skim the manual. Overall, it’s a great tool for someone starting cell culture... it had a codon list for each amino acid, but, overall AMINO can be beneficial for new researchers or ...
  17. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ...distances. For instance, how much force can be generated by conformational changes in proteins? How can...can be addressed using R bodies: simple, force-generating protein machines that can extend and retract ... might be able to endow cells with new ways to interact mechanically with their environment.   Jessica...
  18. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    ...behind Gram’s crystal violet stain and the ion interactions that cause the stain retention in gram positive...When the negatively charged iodine is added, it interacts with the CV+, creating a complex within the peptidoglycan...trapping the large dye complex created by the interaction of CV+ and I- in the thick multilayered membrane...can be used in medical settings to determine the general type of bacteria present in an infection. This ...
  19. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    ...Integration. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy. 2008;16(7):1189-1199...gene expression in a target cell. Practical considerations If you have high quality AAV, you can address...be to prepare them for the arduous process of generating viral particles. Limit tube transfer - the fewer...
  20. Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**

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    ...residues. Compared to MG, MG-2I has increased ROS generation when bound by the dL5** FAP.  The iodine-modifications...cells.  He et al also show that MG-2I-dL5** only generates small amounts of non-specific ROS when exposed... red fluorescent photosensitizer protein that generates ROS when illuminated with green light. They found...inactivation/cell ablation while having limited collateral damage to bystander cells. Are you ready to use...
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