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  1. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...permanent residence “green card” process is a necessary and often overlooked part of career development...residence. The recently established case Matter of Dhanasar provides the three-prong test that US Immigration...related to the foreign national’s field.” (Matter of Dhanasar) In your application you must be able to show ... the top people in your field. No employer is necessary and no job offer is needed for this category. ...found in skin cancer and your continued work is necessary to create therapeutics to cure the cancer. Authorship...
  2. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ... experts, and instead convene the necessary groups for the necessary discussions and actions now.  Many...safe to manipulate an embryo—even if it’s not necessarily via CRISPR/Cas9. This leaves us with the second...whether or not we will stop shuffling our feet on necessary actions to review and decide on the future of ...
  3. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...to share them with you, we realized our 20th anniversary was about all the amazing years behind us, as...Research Institute, posting about Addgene’s 20th anniversary on Twitter. In the beginning Let’s take a quick...Production) pie-fully celebrating Addgene's 10 year anniversary.   Expanding our work In March 2015, Addgene...beyond! Which brings us to 2024, Addgene’s 20th anniversary and the year our repository grew to over 150,...
  4. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...the minigenome contains all cis-acting signals necessary to direct minigenome replication and reporter ...vectors) because they do not encode all of the necessary viral proteins. Minigenome systems have been developed...standpoint, a plasmid with all four genes and necessary control elements for each would be relatively ...transfected into cells. All of these components are necessary to efficiently reconstitute a functional viral...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...a deep understanding of retroviral biology is necessary in order to use the vectors correctly. A solid.... The nucleic acid of the Bryan strain of Rous sarcoma virus: purification of the virus and isolation ... G. M., & Temin, H. M. (1974). Infectious rous sarcoma virus and reticuloendotheliosis virus DNAs. Journal...M. (1973). RNA-directed DNA polymerase of Rous sarcoma virus: Initiation of synthesis with 70 S viral ...
  6. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...pause during elongation which may actually be necessary for proper protein folding (Stadler and Fire, ...synonymous mutation can be harmful (Sauna and Kimchi-Sarfaty, 2011).  Overall, codon optimization may not always...Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2017) A new and updated resource for codon usage.../doi.org/10.1093/nar/28.1.292 Sauna ZE, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2011) Understanding the contribution of synonymous...
  7. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ...Illumina MiSeq sequencer enabled us to perform the necessary sequencing on-site, but now we were presented ...meant that we already had a clear idea of the necessary steps to perform:      Fig. 2: Quick-stepping...internal software infrastructure; however, it is not necessary to use containers with Nextflow. For each of the... in a cloud environment. Given the throughput necessary to keep up with our sequencing instrument (hundreds...
  8. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...voltage indicators: QuasAr1 and QuasAr2 (quality superior to Arch). Both QuasAr1 and QuasAr2 possess mutations...DNA-guided optogenetic tools; however, targeting the necessary light-activated protein domains to the appropriate...kinetics. By combining both the voltage indicator, QuasAr, and actuator, CheRiff, in the bicistronic Optopatch...Arch indicator (pJMK004), as well as the CheRiff, QuasAr, and Optopatch vectors available to the scientific...
  9. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    ...contributed by guest bloggers and IMP organizers Rosario F. Godino, Rocío López-Diego, & Zafira Castano ...and all over the world, she thought that it was necessary to develop a single platform to connect talented...students experienced great improvements, not necessarily quantifiable, but always significant. Doubts,... her on twitter @zcastan or on linkedln.       Rosario Fernandez-Godino is a Postdoctoral Researcher at...
  10. Kit Free RNA Extraction

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    ...Sodium Citrate, pH 7.0 0.5% (wt/vol) N-laurosylsarcosine (Sarkosyl) 0.1 M 2-mercaptoethanol TRIzol® or similar...
  11. Management for Scientists: Giving Feedback

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    ...truthfully and in clear terms. It isn’t necessary to be cruel, but is necessary to be direct and clear. There is... too long, a small correction can become an unnecessarily big issue for you and for the employee. Make...
  12. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...increase the utility of CRISPR/Cas9, it will be necessary to improve its multiplexing capacity. Multiplexing..., the modification of multiple genes is often necessary. Guide RNAs (gRNAs) are commonly packaged in 400...bacteria), and only a few elements of tRNAs are necessary for recognition and cleavage. This sequence flexibility...
  13. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    ...what constitutes the “appropriate” codon is not necessarily obvious. You might think, “Nonsense! I should... above, not every region of a protein should necessarily be translated rapidly to produce a protein that...optimize a gene with one of these tools, it doesn’t necessarily mean the gene is going to express well. If you...
  14. Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist

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    ...training behind you (and largely only that is necessary), there are opportunities to work for biotechnology...their technical support, and a PhD is not always necessary. The job description and the candidate requirements...empathetic, and tactful. Occasionally it can also be necessary to take the lead and be assertive. You develop...
  15. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ...BioRender template. Since DnaA binding is necessary to initiate replication, controlling the amount...for the host, as no additional components are necessary. Iterons are not the only tool to stringently ...differ in the specialized proteins or sequences necessary for initiation or the mechanisms that regulate...
  16. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...abundance, and thus difficult to purify in quantities necessary for study. Moreover, the ability to isolate purified...strain for pSer-incorporation The second component necessary for phosphoserine incorporation is a modified ...interest as possible, some optimization will be necessary. To begin, one should optimize protein production...
  17. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...plant-specific changes to CRISPR components are necessary to enable genome editing in plant cells.   This...modifications to commonly used CRISPR plasmids are necessary to use the CRISPR system in plant cells. Like ...Ti "helper" plasmid, which contains Vir genes necessary for T-DNA processing and insertion into the plant...
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