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TypeBlog Post...culture towards a more generous and rewarding way of making science. How we started Crowdfight-COVID19...as a collaborative platform to help researchers working on COVID-19. Its origins trace back to March 2020...-19, an online platform to connect researchers working on COVID-19 with scientists of all areas who volunteered...idea behind the platform was simple: any person working on COVID-19 could file a request on our website...We are a community of researchers who believe in making science less of an individual effort and more of...
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What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science
TypeBlog Post...important part of being a “good scientific citizen” and making sure you do what you can to help your fellow researchers...consistent way so other researchers can use them, to making sure that methods and protocols are available and... can be published. To a scientist, all of this checking and formatting can feel like yet another hurdle...for being transparent in their communication or making their data and reagents readily available. What...confident that everyone’s enthusiasm for actually making it happen would increase dramatically. I’m not ... -
"Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach
TypeBlog Post...Professor at University of Barcelona. The challenge: Making courses on genetic manipulation more hands on While...meeting with some other professors, I went home thinking about how to solve this problem. I didn’t want...your strategy. I realized that similar types of thinking go into developing gene therapy strategies for...noting any gaps in their knowledge. Practically speaking the format I decided on was to have two teams ...skills like team building, collaborative critical thinking, and communication among others. They additionally... -
FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database
TypeBlog Post...much of the primary data one might require when making such a decision remains spread across literature...With thousands of scientists routinely using and thinking about FPs, it would be great to have a centralized...building advanced multi-parametric search queries. Looking for a bright, monomeric FP published in the last...suggestions. If you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for, the Table of Fluorescent Protein Properties...that set of proteins. For computer-savvy users looking to incorporate FPbase data in their own projects... -
Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic
TypeBlog Post...requested dozens of times in 2 weeks. This is a striking example of the contributions that scientists are...to shared materials, and then pay it forward by making the new materials they develop available to the...has been able to rapidly propagate this strain, making it available to scientists around the world. This...research by removing logistic hurdles to continue making materials available rapidly to scientists (Nature...Yuen K-Y (2020) Comparative tropism, replication kinetics, and cell damage profiling of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV... -
Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
TypeBlog Post...monitoring the first round of translation or by tracking the translation of a single mRNA over time. Both...translation. Single molecule continuous translation tracking TRICK allows you to see the first round of translation...translation, but it doesn’t allow continued tracking of a given mRNA because NLS-PCP-GFP is removed by ...first ribosome that translates the mRNA. To permit tracking over time, Yan et al. devised a system that labels...keeps it in a single field of view for constant tracking. You can then directly monitor multiple rounds... -
Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish
TypeBlog Post... Otito Izu is a PhD Candidate working under the supervision of Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi at the University...University of Ibadan, Nigeriaunder supervision of Dr. Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria...research related to space medicine. Now he aims on tracking pollution in rivers by employing synthetic biology...be able to support diverse groups of scientists working in a wide range of research fields and geographical... -
Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit
TypeBlog Post...something is working for you, then there is no reason to change it. But what if a kit isn’t working for you...ethanol, or endotoxins. The most common method for checking both quantity and quality of your plasmid prep...spectrophotometry. Achieving the highest-quality DNA requires taking care at each step, but some purification kits make...secret that labs produce a lot of waste. If you are looking to reduce your lab’s environmental impact, check... and yes those purification columns we’ve been talking about!) are a significant source of waste in laboratories... -
How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene
TypeBlog Post... account, you can begin the deposit process by clicking "Submit Online Deposit" (for online submission... menu: Figure 1: Begin the deposit process by clicking "Submit Online Deposit" or "Download Deposit Spreadsheet... Figure 4: Add plasmids to the article by clicking “Add Plasmid to this Article” (left) and entering...button and jump around to the different pages by clicking on the appropriate boxes at the top of the page...the plasmid to copy from the drop-down menu and clicking the white "Copy" button. *Note: The "Copy" button...Submit Deposit" button to complete the data entry. Clicking the "Submit Deposit" button will allow you to ... -
How Addgene Creates Content
TypeBlog Post...channel just for asking people if they can write or review things and another for asking specific science...depositors and customers are asking. So how can you get involved? Keep asking your burning questions and...review to catch those pesky typos, and hit publish. Making content is an iterative process. We are constantly...