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TypeBlog Post...used to stay up past my bedtime, poring over my grandparents’ medical textbooks by torchlight under the covers... “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little tricks our minds perform to avoid...difference between airborne and aerosolised droplet transmission and how different fabrics and mask designs could...
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K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog Post..., K. phaffii is exceptionally good for post-translational modification of recombinant protein products...proteins. Peroxisome studies Peroxisomes are small, membrane-bound organelles essential for sequestering certain...non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) to perform DNA double strand break repair instead of homologous recombination... -
With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!
TypeBlog Post...ready-to-use lentivirus from Addgene, you’ll also receive transfer plasmid DNA that you can use along with lentiviral...Addgene Blog Get the Most from Your Lentiviral Transdution Using Virus in Your Research: A Primer for Beginners...Beginners 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions Additional Resources on Addgene.org Visit the... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing
TypeBlog Post... out and onto the screen and transform your work into a paper or a grant. Here’s a list of tools and resources...in red, words with a medium frequency of use in orange, and common words with high frequency of use in... -
New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020
TypeBlog Post...expression, researchers often need to determine these transduction patterns empirically for their own experiments...AAV2 pOTTC1032 - pAAV EF1a Nuc-flox(mCherry)-EGFP Brandon Harvey 50457 AAV2 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP Bryan Roth...system takes advantage of the extensive supply of transgenic reporter lines that supply a variety of GFP expression... -
Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems
TypeBlog Post..., spike proteins, envelope small proteins, and membrane proteins. Although all viral components are available...glycoproteins and other proteins that require post-translational modification may not be easily expressed in ...sequencing as a first pass QC. The lab team manually transforms, innoculates, and performs DNA minipreps for ... -
Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between
TypeBlog Post... Figure 2: (A) a smeary dot plot showing a range of antibody readouts. (B) A gate on the smeary dot...histogram plot for a smeary antibody readout. The orange peis the baseline expression of the protein of ...yes-no histogram plot shown previously. Here, the orange peak is a baseline expression of a protein while... -
Antibodies 101: ChIP
TypeBlog Post...Fragmenting The next step is break the DNA into random, small pieces of roughly equal size, typically ...enzymatic digestion. Sonication provides a truly random digestion, but is harsher and requires more optimization...your protein of interest is a low abundance transcription factor or cofactor. In such cases, the gentler... -
Antibodies 101: Isotypes
TypeBlog Post...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 ... -
How to Make Friends and Meet People at a Scientific Conference
TypeBlog Post...these people you meet will review your papers or grants in the future, and don’t be surprised to know that...personally Scientists in your field will know about grants and projects that might help your work Tenure can...just a meeting, but having lunch twice turns a stranger into a friendly colleague. Recommended Reading... -
Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors
TypeBlog Post...and animals. Unlike bacteria, yeast can post-translationally modify proteins yet they still share many of... genetic system, and a highly versatile DNA transformation system.Unlike most other microorganisms, yeast...plasmids oftentimes utilize an ARS to aid in high transformation efficiency; however, this region does not necessarily... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog Post...meeting at both the Fox Chase Cancer Center and Brandeis University. 5 easy steps to forming your own peer... of people who are all interested in making a transition. Schedule your first meeting and get organized... your successes and support each other as you transition to the next stage in your careers! Stay in touch... -
Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number
TypeBlog Post...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... -
dTAG - You're it!
TypeBlog Post...example, IZKF1 and IZKF3 are cell-type specific transcription factors with important roles in Multiple Myeloma... (Nabet et al., Erb et al., Huang et al.), transcriptional and epigenomic profiling studies (Nabet et ...Featured molecules: dTAG-7 and dTAG-13 Erb et al. Transcription control by the ENL YEATS domain in acute leukemia... -
Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
TypeBlog Post...the embryos underwent repair not from the single-stranded oligonucleotide (ssODN) template supplied by Ma...maternal allele rather than the supplied single-stranded oligonucleotide (ssODN) template. Embryos also...off-target effects, but this advantage likely won’t transfer to all genes we’d like to target. In addition,... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog Post...not by Cranfill et al (2016)). Moreover, good performance in the OSER assay is not a guarantee that using...fluorescent proteins when protein tagging is the goal (Cranfill et al, 2016; Constantini et al, 2012). The localization... -
Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond
TypeBlog Post... 3’ end. This repeat region associates with the trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA) which interacts with... important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications. One of the most common of these...targeting experiments allows you to visualize transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog Post...Part of that work meant facilitating the Material Transfer Agreement process, which was a major barrier for... for depositors and requestors alike. We transformed this process by aligning institutions with standardized...Addgene. I think resources like this are why my brand of neuroscience has exploded. Because we have a ... -
Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning
TypeBlog Post...poison, locking up DNA gyrase with broken double stranded DNA and ultimately causing cell death. ccdA, another...gene in frame with an MCS. E. coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene... that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the specific plasmids being used... -
Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...Interactions Difficult to detect weak and/or transient PPIs. Many PPI identification techniques rely ...often prevents the identification of weak and/or transient interacting proteins. No spatiotemporal control...BioID, is also useful for identifying weak and/or transient protein-protein interactions since the biotin ...