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TypeBlog Post...about it. Building a diverse team with different talents and expertise Fortunately, the eLife ambassadors... had previous experience organizing open access events and grassroots efforts. After thoughtful conversations...Twitter (@repro4everyone), or email the team. Acknowledgements One of the highlights of 2018 for me was to...
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Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist
TypeBlog Post...It’s also a great way to keep track of past accomplishments. Follow all the rules of good resume writing...writing. Include examples of concrete accomplishments in both the technical and “plus skills” areas. Include...’s news and updates. Share your own good ideas, events and favorite resources. Respect the network and... -
Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog Post...understand mechanisms and, eventually, develop treatments, we need tools to specifically edit methylation...original methylated strand is diluted to undetectable amounts: ergo, DNA demethylation! With optimization, this...Genome-wide tracking of dCas9-methyltransferase footprints. Nat Commun 9, 597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467... -
Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...result to a reference sequence to confirm backbone elements. Confirming the gene/insert by aligning to NCBI...origin of replication or other common backbone elements. Since we’ve successfully grown the plasmid in... about our sequencing results in the Depositor Comments section at the bottom of the plasmid page. Viral... -
A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More
TypeBlog Post...introduction, methods, results, conclusions, and acknowledgements sections. Some other additions you might wish...present at your poster at all times, so other participants can identify you. You may also wish to make ...the introduction, methods, conclusions, and acknowledgements sections are inserted. The advantage of this... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
TypeBlog Post...of the mutations engineered into each of their parents. Here’s how to cross mice, using a simple example... all of your desired alleles to conduct your experiments. You should also maintain your parental strains...contain a mix of genetic material from each of the parents. If both of the mutations that you are trying to... -
Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door
TypeBlog Post...Take the DIY approach and start a blog. Stellar talents like Ed Yong jumpstarted their science writing ...AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, which places science students for 10 busy weeks at media outlets like National...MIT’s OpenCourseware for course materials and assignments. 9) Citizen science projects Lastly, if you'... -
Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody
TypeBlog Post...scientists, I have spent hours sifting through comments and papers to find the most reliable (and cost-effective...of animals), and wrong application (different experiments/conditions can change binding ability – i.e.,...produced in large “copies.” This homogeneity circumvents the batch-to-batch variability found in polyclonal... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog Post...Messina et al, 2016). We quickly assembled a team of students, postdocs and professors to move the project forward... member of the team to accomplish so that many elements of the project were able to move forward quickly...of Zika Virus Using Programmable Biomolecular Components." Cell (2016). PubMed PMID: 27160350. Find Plasmids... -
How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion
TypeBlog Post...discussions are becoming a ubiquitous format for events and sessions in scientific conferences. They can...a table. It adds a formality and distance that prevents interaction with each other and the audience. ... inviting interesting friends and colleagues to events for this purpose. If possible, make sure the panelists... -
Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3
TypeBlog Post...difficult to ensure comparable expression of all components of Cascade for maximum efficiency of the process...During DNA repair, there is a chance that the two breakpoints will repair without the section between the two... mentioned issues with expressing all Cascade components can make Cas9 easier to work with than Cas3. ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021
TypeBlog Post... antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases Nanocompartments for yeast bioproduction pathways The CRISPR...with previous research, which required protein compartments to co-localize multiple enzymes in a reaction...expressing GCaMP6f with this promoter. Image calcium transients in PV interneurons with AAV-S5E2-GCaMP6f are ... -
When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
TypeBlog Post...to be inert, to not produce artifacts in your experiments. Considerable effort has gone into making FPs...biosensors were made with CFP and YFP, cyan and yellow variants of EGFP equally capable of dimerizing as EGFP....for Your Needs Get Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments Additional Resources on Addgene.org Browse ... -
Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...find more detailed information about the plasmid contents? The middle section of our plasmid pages contain...information you'll need to use the plasmid in your experiments: Backbone: The starting vector that the depositing...from Addgene!). It also contains links to any agreements under which the plasmid is distributed. All ... -
An Introduction to Adenovirus
TypeBlog Post...virus, we will see that they are very central determinants of how AdVs behave, and in fact, of how adenoviral...present in the HEK293T cell line used (which have fragments of the AdV genome in them, including the E1 region...intracellularly-exposed proteins and downstream cellular events, all recruit strong innate and adaptive immune ... -
The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data
TypeBlog Post...exception to this effect -- meticulously designed experiments in labs around the world were put on hold indefinitely...the likelihood in our Poisson process into two components: 𝜃x(t) and 𝜓z(t). 𝜃x(t) describes the exponential...corresponding factor 𝜙z if t is during event z. The "events" we considered for our model were weekends, Christmas... -
Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System
TypeBlog Post...CRISPR affinity purification in situ of regulatory elements (CAPTURE) (Liu et al., 2017). This system utilizes...techniques, this method also has great potential for improvements and adaptations that can provide an increased..."Efficient sequence‐specific isolation of DNA fragments and chromatin by in vitro enCh IP technology using... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post... that introduced an ancestry bias into their experiments instead of a true correlation. It turned out...five-team response to address this issue, but it still points to a far larger and more complex problem endemic...contributes to false negatives in CRISPR-based experiments with varying burden across ancestries. Sean A... -
New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
TypeBlog Post...silencing required addition of chromatic-opening agents to boost expression to appreciable levels. We wanted...expression and robustness without chromatin-opening agents. It ended up being very straightforward to engineer...for improved purity and contrast. For in vivo experiments, simply induce injected engineered cells via ... -
How to Write a Scientific Review Article
TypeBlog Post...remember where you read particular studies or experiments. Later, you can easily convert the citation style...much you can get done between office hours and experiments. A comment about citing: I wasn’t sure if I should... be revolutionary, but you could include a few comments on where you think the field is going or what ...