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TypeBlog Post...stressors, including emotional stress or changes in temperature. “The disease was first described in 1971,” ..., it is still sometimes wrongly diagnosed as a seizure disorder.” In 2012, researchers identified the ...Thailand will receive much better health care in the future based on our studies.” Thank you to all the BeHeard...
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Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup
TypeBlog Post...that we aren’t still pitching for feedback. Your venture should continuously evolve and respond to feedback...number of experts, including Harvard/MIT faculty, venture capital and angel investors, and business development...idea has potential to make a difference, then make sure you’re able to answer every possible question related... -
The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell
TypeBlog Post...that are then barcoded for identification. This mixture of barcoded fragments is known as a *library*. ...additional benefit of plexWell™’s sequential tagging procedure, the quantities of library molecules for each ...multiplexed pool. The cost of these normalization steps, measured in time and consumables, can be daunting for large... -
Networking Follow-up: I Met a Person. Now What?
TypeBlog Post...got along well, suggest a coffee chat in the near future. Even just one more meeting (in person or virtually... but I’ll never forget the strawberries. Grand gestures are memorable! Attend events for one organization...defunct (but fun) plug-in called Maps. Figure 1: See a starfish? This is actually a map of Joanne... -
K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog Post...model organism for a few reasons: Affordable to culture and easy to work with Grows extremely fast (doubling...induced by removing methanol from the media. This feature makes the strain tractable for peroxisomal studies... for genome engineering. A unique evolutionary feature of K. phaffii, relative to S. cerevisiae, is that... -
Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection
TypeBlog Post...receiving only 1 TF expression construct. Cells were cultured following a differentiation protocol before performing...so that a single TF was delivered to each cell, future applications could deliver multiple TFs to each...on the Addgene Blog Learn More about Lentivirus Figure out How to Get the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction... -
Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog Post...discuss those ideas and build from those. Figure 1: Virtual lab meeting? No problem! You can still...final screen can also be saved and exported as a picture. I believe that showing something different from...document can be shared and serve as a springboard for future discussion. Collaboration and creativity are pivotal... -
The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays
TypeBlog Post...addition to thorough ethical considerations, in making sure that the research has been adequately proven to ...unethical behavior (it’s hard to argue otherwise). To be sure, throughout the history of medical research, there...on necessary actions to review and decide on the future of genome editing technology. We must stop punting... -
Unique and persistent IDs for improved reproducibility: Addgene now supports RRIDs and compact identifiers for all plasmids
TypeBlog Post...formats. For example, several journals like eLife, Nature, and Cell use Research Resource identifiers (RRIDs...resolvable compact identifier. Addgene works hard to ensure that materials available through our repository...Addgene Blog Read a blog post on Our Citations Feature Check out this post on Scientific Reproducibility... -
With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!
TypeBlog Post... the library, use next-generation sequencing to ensure that the library has retained gRNA representation...produce high titer lentivirus from the library, ensure gRNA representation in the viral prep, infect target... you're interested in studying. You need to make sure your assay is scalable and robust. What you don'... -
Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog Post...they also uniformly stepped back to give a big picture perspective: Dr. Yamanaka talked about his clinical...trial patients with advanced macular degeneration; Laurenz Studer discussed his work with Parkinson's Disease...presenters, it was gratifying to see that Addgene has ensured that plasmid acquisition is not a rate-limiting... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog Post...predict protein structures, then you might know a thing or two about computer modeling. Make sure to focus on...? Or perhaps you have presented in some public lectures? These transferable skills could be meaningful... -
Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging
TypeBlog Post...see the Introduction to Fluorescence Microscopy lecture at iBiology. Commonly used filter sets & relevant...this filter set and have reported brightness measurements. Here, EGFP outperforms the improved folding...variants, presumably due to the lower growth temperature. This also suggests, however, that there is no... -
Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon
TypeBlog Post...results you've measured should change established theory. So, what can you do to ensure that your skills...our website and social channels to apply for our future events. In addition to this annual event, graduate... -
Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
TypeBlog Post...processes directly affected by light. Long-term light exposure can also lead to cellular phototoxicity, and experimental...substrate like coelenterazine is supplied in the culture medium to allow RLuc8 to produce photons. The original...wavelength to specify which FP emission you’ll capture. Since the Nano-lantern system does not use external... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog Post...virulence. Scientists have studied how HGT occurs in nature and have learned how to introduce genetic materials...Transformation, transduction, and conjugation occur in nature as forms of HGT, but transfection is unique to ...material from the environment by bacterial cells. In nature, this genetic material often comes from adjacent... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME
TypeBlog Post...genes for “gas vesicles,” a gas-filled protein structure that water-bound photosynthetic organisms use ... check out this blog post. Bourdeau RW, et al., Nature. 2018. PubMed PMID: 29300010. miRNA reporter vectors... date, containing all 620 sequences of probable mature human miRNAs. Weiss’s collection consists of a... -
Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
TypeBlog Post...additional flexibility in pseudotyping. Figure 1: Genome of a prototypical gamma-retrovirus. ...nucleus through the nuclear pore complex. This feature may be useful for the transduction of terminally...-retroviral plasmids have similar names? The nomenclature of the plasmid backbone is meant to be descriptive... -
Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning
TypeBlog Post...screening blog post for more information. Figure 1: Result of a blue-white screen. Image from Stefan...more about colony PCR in this blog post. Figure 2: The steps of colony PCR. Sanger sequencing...in this case a plasmid. Sequencing is one of the surest ways to know that your insert is what you expect... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog Post...consolidate several steps into one. Soon you’ll figure out what prompts you need to consistently and accurately... accurately run a protocol. Figure 1: Evolution of a Western blot protocol, from a full page ...experimental steps are worth doing, and doing well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly...