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  1. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...necessarily expecting a perfect match - we will often find a few mismatches in the origin of replication ...sequencing, we feel confident that these few minor mismatches usually don’t affect the function of the plasmid.... We also confirm that the species of the gene matches the data associated with the plasmid.     Confirming...
  2. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...bases. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is less efficient at identifying these “bubbles” of mismatched bases, enhancing...efficiently targets single-base mismatches (left), but “bubbles” of 3 or more mismatched bases can often evade ...
  3. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...scientific poster apart? First, a good poster should catch the audience’s eye and draw people in. That can ...may choose to display it as rows. It can be more catchy because it is generally less common and will stand...advantage of being different and potentially more catchy, but it can be trickier to make figures fit nicely...relevant to the work you are presenting. The latter is catchy, but beware. A distracting background or clashing...
  4. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    ...interest. Every batch of AAV requires its own MOI optimization to account for batch-to-batch variability....Ultracentrifugation Protocol for more details. Pro tips Watch this AAV purification video! It didn’t exist when...
  5. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ...any discrepancies in Sanger sequences, such as mismatches, deletions, or insertions. We use blastp or blastx... the species that your sequencing result should match, enter the common or scientific name into the Organism...smaller word size and lower scoring penalties for mismatches and gaps in the alignment. If you are curious...Sanger sequencing result and noted any potential mismatches or gaps in the nucleotide sequence, you can run...
  6. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    ...NatureJobs: Interviews: The All-Important Job Talk. 1. Watch other people give great talks We are not talking...are those in the Young Scientist Seminar Series. Watch how these speakers talk without looking at their...entertaining science lab, career, and policy content. Watch Joanne give her "Not" Networking 101 Talk 2. Tailor...of saying “so” and “um” a lot. I hate it when I watch myself speak, but others tell me that I keep the...
  7. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...either side of the desired mutation (usually 1-3 mismatched bases) is sufficient for your primers to successfully...protocol. Be sure to adjust the extension time to match the size of your template. Amplification of GC-rich...only DNA that is methylated at the adenosine of the GATC recognition site. Transformation: After the PCR ...transform your PCR products into will efficiently patch up the DNA. The resistance marker from the parental...
  8. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...fragments. As a fun way to start, I highly recommend watching this entertaining video created by our friends...want next to it, so this doesn’t allow for mix and match of many different fragments. One way around this...homology regions, which allows for the mixing and matching of parts. Gibson assembly meets CRISPR Gibson... Cas9-Assisted Targeting of CHromosome segments CATCH enables one-step targeted cloning of large gene ...
  9. Save Time and Money by Making Your Own Competent Cells

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    ...least a year when stored at -80oC.   For each new batch of competent cells, don’t forget to do a negative...the number of colonies obtained using your fresh batch of competent cells with those obtained using commercially...commercially available cells or previous batches of homemade competent cells to ensure good efficiency....
  10. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...optimized until the multiplexed and individual values match across the board. If the samples or sample conditions...need to make sure the assumptions in your dataset match the assumptions in your analysis method. ΔΔCT/CQ...’re not sure if your amplification efficiencies match, you’ll need to run a validation assay in which ...favorite (...er, whichever one uses assumptions that match your data set, that is.) Yuan, 2006 has a good overview...
  11. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    ...team in the UK is five hours ahead, so I’m always catching up in the morning! 9:00 AM--Technical implementation... team to discuss automated protocols. 12:00 PM--Catch up. Finish any communications with my UK team members...out. 4:00 PM--Respond to customer help tickets. Catch up on customer help tickets, and respond when I ...
  12. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    ...networker (or if you just aren’t doing it at all yet) watch my webinar, “Not Networking 101-Building Relationships... the country with groups who are piloting this. Watch for my upcoming mentoring post in which I describe...naturally out of friendships or work interactions. Watch for the people that are already teaching you and...
  13. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    ...through the QC pipeline to resolve any issues.  Catching and addressing QC issues Addgene’s QC team has...discrepancies can be caught prior to distribution. Catching these errors prevents future experimental issues...shifts, missing elements, and nucleotide indels or mismatches in significant plasmid elements. Which differences...
  14. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ... “copies.” This homogeneity circumvents the batch-to-batch variability found in polyclonal antibodies,...to non-target proteins), variability (separate batches can perform differently – happens when the antibody...
  15. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies

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    ...still virgins. Females begin mating ~6 hours after hatching into their adult phase. It is important to clear...before the progeny begin eclosion, the process of hatching from their pupal case (~9 days after setting up...genetic cross). You can tell when pupae are ready to hatch the next day because the pupae will develop a visible...
  16. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ...does not require a PFS, and it is sensitive to mismatches in target RNA from bases 12-26 of a 30 nt target...edit an adenine if the template has a cytosine mismatch at that position. PspCas13b-ADAR2DD(E488Q) displayed... targeted nucleotide. Introduction of guanine-mismatches in the guide across from these off-target edits...
  17. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...designed to have a perfect match to the reference genome – even single mismatches within a CRISPR guide can...for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’ genomes, and...
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