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  1. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...be better suited for the job. As single domain proteins, they can be expressed in bacteria, making nanobodies...primary antibodies from different IgG subclasses. Instead, you can pre-incubate individual primary antibodies...Learn more about protein tags Read about E. coli strains for protein expression Additional Resources on...
  2. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...concentration of a serially diluted standard is plotted against its OD560 measurements and the trendline y = 0.6561x...the minimum and maximum detection limits of the instrument being used to measure the response. The dynamic... to set yourself up for success!  Study the instruments and specific assays you will be using ahead of...
  3. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...using water-oil emulsion technology. Each droplet contains the ingredients for amplification of the target...experiment. The process to titrate AAV by ddPCR begins with diluting the virus. It is important to note...containing approximately 20,000 droplets. Each droplet contains the material required for a mini amplification...
  4. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    ...credential from the Grant Professional Certification Institute (GPCI). GPCI evaluates a candidate's expertise...through the Grant Professionals Certification Institute, an Approved Trainer by the Grant Professionals... Social Media Strategist through the National Institute of Social Media. Follow Jo on Twitter @JM_Grants...
  5. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ...well-supported, so we could focus on our development instead of building the entire ecosystem Proven performance...throughput necessary to keep up with our sequencing instrument (hundreds of plasmids each week!), we already...process. Similar to our first attempt, we manually inspected the output with a print statement at the end of...
  6. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...love you back A successful lentiviral infection begins with your cells, both your packaging cells and ...However, viruses pseudotyped with other envelope proteins may have a limited number of targets and therefore...Finkelshtein, D., Werman, A., Novick, D., Barak, S., Rubinstein, M. “LDL receptor and its family members serve...
  7. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...Members of the bacterial world produce an assortment toxins to claim territory or kill competing microorganisms...an efficient cloning tool. The plasmid pKSCTMF contains the mazF gene and a gene for Zeocin resistance... James Kaper used the hok/sok system to create strains that can stably express antigens in sufficient ...
  8. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    ... have since adapted it for a host of different proteins and small molecules from a variety of sample types...antibodies and thus are not suitable for low abundance proteins. Because the method uses a single antibody, it... and a series of wash steps removes non-target proteins and molecules from the assay. The user then adds...
  9. Cutting Once Is Harder Than It Sounds: Your Guide to Minimizing Off-Target Effects

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    ...whether a mismatched site will be cut or not. This explains why ‘one-size-fits-all’ solutions to eliminate...However, only the least active variant which still retains on-target activity (highlighted by a bold frame...screen.) Identify the weakest variant that still remains active.   Figure 3: Activity of 9 IFNs...
  10. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    ...for many labs. However, RNA interference (RNAi) remains steadfast in the background, a handy “oldie” as...cleaves the target mRNA or recruits other silencing proteins. Figure 1: Comparison of shRNA and miRNA...RNAi has retreated a bit to the background, it remains a solid option for altering the expression of specific...
  11. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    ... each project and how useful each item is. For instance, if I don’t have draft blog post ready for publication...prevent you from making progress on a task. For instance, even if I had planned my day extensively, my ...that highlights the things you like about it. For instance, while I may have found splitting cells boring...
  12. Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

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    ...his or her chosen career path,” but individual institutions can have many different names for the positions...From Panel Session 2: Defining the Postdoc: An Institutional Perspective. This lack of complete information...Require that postdoc salaries be paid on fellowships instead of grants such that PIs no longer save grant money...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    ... sometimes vary between target species or even strains. Pro tip! Getting a vector into a particular cell...growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1)3 αVβ5 and α5β1 integrins3 Hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGFR)3 Laminin...tropism varies both between species and even between strains of one species, so be sure to check the literature...
  14. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    ... break, or is engineered not to cleave DNA and instead activates/represses gene expression by various ...minimum of 1,000 targeted cells to sequence. In this instance, a 5% off-target frequency is something to keep...-defective lentiviral vectors - which rely on insertion of DNA by the NHEJ pathway during DNA repair of...
  15. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    ...targets, you might decide to do simultaneous IF instead (Figure 1B). To label all your targets in one step...yourself. If you can’t find a suitable antibody against your target protein, consider fusing a protein ...Neumann, E., De Caestecker, M., Gutierrez, D., & Spraggins, J. (2022). Multiplex Immunofluorescence on Fresh...
  16. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ... a summer role as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, located on the edge...and plenty of jobs in science at world renowned institutes. The lab at the University of Queensland required...field don’t really get to do a lot of lab work but instead really need to be comfortable with programming....
  17. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...used GAPDH has noted issues as a reference gene (Higgins, 2000; Ref, Zhu, 2002), though there are cases ...run and the difference in CT values is plotted against the log input concentration for each dilution. ...://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26707-8Suzuki T; Higgins PJ; Crawford DR. Control selection for RNA quantitation...
  18. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...a template. To do so, they used a Cas nickase, instead of dCas9. The resulting editor, BE3, nicks the ...and/or evolved to catalyze cytidine deamination instead of (or in addition to) adenosine deamination (Chen... R. T., Christie, K. A., Whittaker, M. N., & Kleinstiver, B. P. (2020). Unconstrained genome targeting...
  19. Addgene is Stopping Use of X (formerly Twitter)

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    ...Bluesky: @addgene.bsky.social; or @addgene on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We are also exploring...and features that previously made the platform a mainstay of conversation in the scientific community. Addgene...
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