...projects spanning from the identification of plant compounds and insecticidal proteins to the development of... reside within living plants and that produce compounds with various antimicrobial activities (1). She... newly identified proteins and enzymes. These compounds will later get tested for their potential agricultural...alternative source of essential omega-3 fatty acids complementing vegetable oil, a somewhat poor natural source...

...t guarantee a publication. There is an art to composing manuscripts and the ASM Scientific Writing and...writer, I was unsure if I should possibly take a composition class in the English Department. He suggested... coming to the writing workshop in D.C. had to compose and submit a manuscript that they were working ...portion of the paper will be generated. After you complete a publication quality figure, produce the figure...

...synthetize all compounds needed for growth, or auxotrophy, the inability to synthesize a compound needed to...an essential amino acid), and a plasmid that complements the auxotrophy (i.e., synthesizes the critical...yeast prototrophy kit containing 23 plasmids to complement auxotrophy. Negative selection: Cells that have...

...Until recently, there were no completely genetic tools that would allow researchers to label just a fraction...Sparse Predictive Activity through Recombinase Competition (SPARC), a genetic tool that allows for the labeling...PhiC31 irreversibly recombines one of the two competing attP sites to drive expression of either a stop...is placed downstream of the rest of the SPARC components and expression is controlled by the upstream ...

...some extra guidance to understand the specific components that make up a plasmid and why each is important...Drives transcription of the target gene. Vital component for expression vectors: determines which cell ...clone into. Regardless, once the cloning steps are complete, the vector containing the newly inserted gene...used in research or for therapeutics Addgene has compiled various educational resources to facilitate plasmid...

... had to get used to the workspaces, as well as complete the lab safety and cybersecurity training before...project is a major project given to each intern to complete and present on.    Figure 1: Addgene's...size should be a max of 500 bp (preferably). I compiled a list of three options from the Addgene catalog...Toj-Villagran is a rising senior in high school who just completed their summer internship at Addgene. They plan ...

... to complete a six month work experience called a co-op to receive a degree. Northeastern compiles a list...Thankfully, my managers set aside time for me to complete an online social media certification on social...petting dogs, and winning the office Just Dance competition.    Special thanks to my manager, Sr. Marketing...

...CRISPR screen data are also available via comprehensive pre-compiled downloads and via a full-featured REST... to stably archived large-scale datasets by computational biologists. Figure 1: The BioGRID Open... from humans and other species. By accurately compiling genome-wide datasets, which are often obscured...

...The technique relies on the basic ability of complementary basepairs adenine (A) and thymine (T) to hybridize...deoxyadenosine (A) at the 3' ends of PCR products. The complimentary “T” in the pair comes from a topoisomerase I-linearized...overnight. 4. Transform TOPO Cloning Reaction into Competent Cells: You can use your standard lab protocol ...transforming your reaction into chemically or electro-competent E. coli - excess salt causes arcing during electroporation...

...platform that allows us to provide scientists with complete plasmid sequences. After launching our viral service...present SMRT sequencing only works for self-complementary AAVs and the TA-based ligation and tagmentation...molecules in the DNA extract associate with complementary strands, enough double-stranded species exist...adeno-associated virus particles containing complementary polynucleotide chains. J Virol 9(2): 394-396...