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Advice for things you can do to develop transferable skills while you are also learning to be an excellent scientist.

Tips to help you save time when using the the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) provided by NCBI to compare sequence results.

Tips to consider when publishing a scientific manuscript, including what type of journal to publish in, peer review, and helpful dos and don'ts.

Tips to help you choose which fluorescent protein to use in your experiments.

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) and its derivatives can be used experimentally as fusion tags, biosensors, reporters, and more.

Ten ways to begin sharing your science with your community, from talking to writing to tweeting.

Interested in how other labs celebrate accomplishments and have fun outside the lab? We've interviewed 3 PIs to learn about how their labs celebrate.

New fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based calcium biosensors and FRET-based sensors for the intracellular imaging of transition metal ions.

Addgene explains what a material transfer agreement is, how it can benefit you and your academic institution, and how Addgene makes MTAs easy.

Advice on starting a lab from three PIs who have successfully built their own academic labs.

Addgene answers questions about lentiviral plasmids, including 2nd vs 3rd generation transfer vectors, packaging plasmids, biosafety concerns, and more.

Tips for how to choose a research project in a life science lab.

Tips for being more environmentally friendly in a life science research lab.

Advice for scientists choosing a lab, including interviews with Principal Investigators and important factors to consider in your decision.

The next post in the Plasmids 101 series focuses on the promoter region, the element responsible for initiating the transcription of your insert into RNA.

The first in a series of blog posts in which PIs give advice about achieving success in academia, choosing you research topic, and more.

In vivo imaging is used to study individual plasmids or protein-protein interactions in organs and whole mammals.

Read about how mammalian plasmids differ from their bacterial counterparts, including how replication occurs and whether selection is necessary for transfected cells.

Ten tips to help scientists negotiate their work/life balance from Joanne Kamens, Addgene's Executive Director.

Dr. Le Cong, first author on a seminal CRISPR article from Dr. Feng Zhang's lab, answers FAQs about the genome editing technology.