...advocacy skills “bootcamp” for a focused group of participants. More information can be found at http://futureofresearch.org...graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants to join unions. The topic of unionization continues...productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills...of Howell Communications Philip Brenner, PhD - Assistant Professor of Sociology. University of Massachusetts... Developing effective science advocates is an important way to push the balance from challenge to opportunity...

...advocacy non-profits like Phipps Conservatory or the Brilliant Club and share your knowledge at local schools...Student Voice are two examples. Many blogs like Plant Science today, Soapbox Science (hosted by Nature...Science, Media and Communication. In the US, UC Santa Cruz, MIT, UW Madison, and Boston University offer...where you may take a science track. If you don’t want to commit time and money to a full-time graduate...communication. If science journalism is the path you want to follow, check out the distance learning courses...

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...CRISPR activation uses dCas9, a CRISPR protein variant lacking its endonuclease ability, to bind to genes...themselves. SunTag, SAM, and VPR have all shown significant improvements upon the initial dCas9-VP64 method... this method is its construction: it relies on antibody chains, which are relatively large and are not...Performance Generally, VPR is found to have significantly higher activation levels than the initial dCas9...activation levels are similar to that of SunTag. An advantage to this method compared to other notable CRISPR...

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...traveling for campus visits. This is definitely an advantage of surviving in a virtual world over the course...Having notes close to your computer with things you want to highlight in the interview is another way to ...staff have become a new way to allow you to get important information about the campus even if you can’t...and the in-person portion got canceled, taking advantage of virtual meetings can still be a great opportunity...exception. However, using the virtual world to your advantage can strengthen your application and help you decide...

... in high-throughput libraries My labmates and I wanted to find a way to predict the efficiencies of pegRNA...Figure 1). Through this method, we found key determinants of prime editing efficiency such as the length...et al., 2024) have highlighted how chromatin substantially affects prime editing outcomes across many genomic..., A., Kuzmin, I., Raudvere, U., Peterson, H., Liberante, F. G., & Parts, L. (2023). Prediction of prime...efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants. Nature Biotechnology 2023, 1–11. https://doi.org...

...gRNAS1, and pAdSh.U6.gRNAGFP. Gonçalves says that advantages of AdVs include their episomal nature and very...efficient introduction of DNA into therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral ...Disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency (most widely used so far) or for cancer...used, the CRISPR approach based on HDR has the advantage of being a potentially universal treatment (Stephens... could be realized via simple switching of the relevant gRNAs and donor DNA Adenoviral CRISPR/Cas9 genome...

...regulation, but enhancers and chromatin looping play important supporting roles. Enhancers are cis regulatory...ligation creates chimeric circles of DNA that are distant linearly but close together in space. The chromatin...interactions. The chromatin story told by CAPTURE 2.0 is important, but it’s not the only plot line in gene regulation...CRISPR users Learn how to Choose the Best Cas9 Variant for Your Next Experiment Learn More About Designing...Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find Other Cas9 Variants for Purifying Genomic Regions of Interest Here...

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... should not even be the real goal. We are all constantly negotiating our energy and attention. The goal...you’ll need to care for an elderly family member, want to train for a triathlon, finally buy that charming... someone there clapping more often than not. You want your family and friends to know you care, but they...they need to know that you have an important life too. They will respect you if you show respect for your...You can handle that, right? Big tip: this is an important topic to discuss and agree on before you get enmeshed...

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... comments on the AMA process below, but we also wanted to share some thoughts on why we decided to do ...Software for Biology) on Reddit and got some substantial traffic that we thought it would be a good idea...worried about selling yourself and really do just want to get information about yourself and your work ...internet content for scientists in training is abundant, helpful, and sometimes excellent. Finally, as...as I said in the AMA, it’s incredibly important to find good mentors and incentivize good mentorship: ...