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  1. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Making Scientific Graphics

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    ...professional-grade design software, like Adobe Illustrator, and I didn’t want to pay for these programs ... Vectr is like a pared down version of Adobe Illustrator. There’s both a web and a desktop version of ...Inkscape Inkscape is the most similar to Adobe Illustrator out of the three options for drawing your own...20,000 icons is designed by professional medical illustrators with input from life scientists. It’s easy to...medical images organized into four main categories: anatomy and the human body, cellular biology, medical specialities...

  2. Arf GTPase Family

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    ...ARF family plasmids. ARF family members include regulatory GTPases, GEFs, and GAPs....References The ARF (ADP-ribosylation factor) family of regulatory GTPases have long been characterized as members..., 2016). Though best known for their roles as regulators of membrane traffic, they also play critical ...

  3. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...pAAV-Syn-FLEX-rc [Archon1-KGC-GFP-ER2] pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2 CAG-... also be used in conjunction with optogenetic activators and inhibitors that respond to blue light. We...fluorescent-tagged molecular tool.   Find pAAV-FLEX-tdTomato, pAAV-GFAP104-mCherry, pAAV-mDlx-NLS-mRuby2, CAG-NLS-GFP... pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry 59462  AAV2  pAAV-CAG-tdTomato (codon diversified) 37825  AAV8*, AAV9*  pAAV-CAG-GFP...Also coming in our new 20 ul trial size! Voltage indicators Plasmid Serotype Name 119036  AAV1  pAAV-hsyn-flex-Voltron-ST...

  5. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ..., the researchers did not have access to a P3 laboratory (BSL-3), a high-security facility needed to perform...  Figure 2: When a researcher needs a collaborator for a specific task, Crowdfight will: 1) Find...researchers, such as postdocs and principal investigators. They also come from many different scientific...website. Once curated by our in-house team of collaborators, the requests were forwarded to our volunteer...Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and one of the coordinators at Crowdfight. She is currently based in Spain...

  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    ...effect of mutations of these regulatory elements on gene expression. The regulatory element (wild-type or mutant...gene, such as luciferase, usually serves as an indicator of transcription within cells, where detection... most often used to investigate the effect of regulatory elements, such as promoters, enhancers and untranslated...can then be used to quantify the effect of the regulatory element. Depending on the specific luciferase...

  7. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...generation of human hepatocyte-like cells from induced pluripotent stem cells. Hepatology, 2010. 51(1): p....of these cell types [13]:  Germ cells [14] Hepatocytes [15] Pancreatic β-cells [16] Intestinal tissue... intermediate pluripotent state is not always obligatory in cell conversion processes [35]. Rather than...transdifferentiation. Multiple cell types such as fibroblasts, hepatocytes, and pancreatic exocrine cells have been successfully..., A.E., et al., Directed differentiation of hematopoietic precursors and functional osteoclasts from human...

  8. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...her then was this: Can you engineer CRISPR-Cas9 activators that work well enough on any gene that they could...which they call CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an engineered protein complex for...information from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like...Konermann recognized as an ideal spot to fuse the activators instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With ...repressing or inducing individual transcripts. The activator (CRISPRa) sgRNA library uses the sunCas9 system...

  9. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...human pluripotent stem cells: a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) kit consisting ...Cell Stem Cell paper, for example, we generated hepatocytes to examine the effect of a gene on cholesterol...Addgene: Tell me about the history. How had investigators done this kind of work before? Musunuru: In ...Unfortunately, it is time consuming and difficult for investigators without a lot of expertise to create zinc finger...and puts it in the hands of pretty much all investigators. Our kit makes it extremely simple to design...

  10. Neurodegeneration Plasmid Collection

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    ... 58112 tdTomato-MAPTau-C-10 MAPT tdTomato CMV Parkinson's, FTD Michael Davidson 58113 tdTomato-MAPTau-...TARDBP GFP CMV ALS Zuoshang Xu 28205 wtTDP43tdTOMATOHA TARDBP HA, tdTomato CAG ALS Zuoshang Xu 28206 TDP43 ...ataxia Richard Possemato 102971 pLKO.1P shFXN_2 FXN Friedreich ataxia Richard Possemato 102975 pLKO.1P...pSLIK-NFLAG-hFUS FUS Flag, His TRE ALS Zissimos Mourelatos 51146 DsRed-p150 217-548 DCTN1 CMV ALS Trina ...tdTomato-MAPTau-N-10 MAPT tdTomato CMV Parkinson's, FTD Michael Davidson 58259 pBabe-Neuroserpin SERPINI1 Dementia Joan....1P shSOD1 SOD1 ALS Richard Possemato 103913 HTRA2_PDZ_1 HTRA2 GST tac Parkinson's Sachdev Sidhu 104448...James Trimmer 182922 hSOD1-FLAG SOD1 CMV ALS Philip Eaton 183984 huntingtin:TOC031-A07:C246751 HTT Flag CMV...

  11. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ...Schmidt, a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. Are you a science student or early career researcher...in education advocacy non-profits like Phipps Conservatory or the Brilliant Club and share your knowledge... photo competition. Or nominate yourself as an educator for a short, animated TED-Ed lesson. 6) Network... pros Where do you meet like-minded science communicators? Attend the annual flagship meetings of AAAS...bananas as a Marie Curie Fellow at The Sainsbury Laboratory. She is passionate about science communications...

  12. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    .... The first was a new class of programmable riboregulators, called toehold switches, which allow for the...allowed gene circuits to be deployed out of the laboratory in a cell-free and biosafe format that was stable...circuit-based sensors to be used outside of the laboratory. The detection threshold for these RNA sequences...the technology through product development, the regulatory process, and manufacturing so that we can get...., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4 (2014): 925-939...

  13. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ...specific genes. Many years ago, people in the laboratory became frustrated with using glass cloning rings...sterile truncated pipet tips. Indeed, an experienced operator can pick 48 clones from a 10 cm dish in 15- 20...YouTube video. Before returning the plate to the incubator, additional growth medium is added to about halfway...two 48-well plates of clones) which enables investigators to identify specific clones with desirable properties...Iris Lindberg is a professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Maryland Medical School in...

  14. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ...targeted tdTomato and pre-synaptic targeted synaptophysin tagged eGFP. AAV phSyn1(S)-FLEX-tdTomato-T2A-SypEGFP-WPRE...deployed around the world to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus...ready-to-use viral preps with more on the way. S5E2 regulatory element containing vectors developed in the Jordane...Flp-dependent DREADDs viral vectors. Both inhibitory and excitatory DREADDS from the Gether lab are now available...

  15. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ...is Head of Synthetic Biology at the Sainsbury Laboratory, where she often feels more like an engineer ...the toolkit. We have included a wider range of terminators than are commonly used as we have tested them...system. The paper also gives quantitative data for regulatory elements, which has not been available for plants...easy to express genes in, which makes it a good laboratory workhorse. Tips & tricks Addgene: Do you have...start. They might want to use our promoters and terminators, but then they aren’t sure how to convert their...

  16. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...in a year-long biochemistry laboratory : Part II – research-based laboratory – a semester-long research...confidence in their research capabilities and laboratory and critical thinking skills (Knutson et al.,...improvisation and the latter making him a more effective motivator (“be like Tony Robbins!” he encourages faculty...research-based learning in a year-long biochemistry laboratory: Part I – guided inquiry – purification and characterization...

  17. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...upregulate an alternative pathway or induce other compensatory mechanisms. How can protein function be dissected...protein in Rosetta E. coli. New Lentiviral CRISPR activator and repressor plasmids from Scot Wolfe's lab. .... These include Tet-inducible CRISPR activators and repressor plasmids. (Kearns et al., Development. 2014...basic parts (promoters, UTRs, coding sequences, terminators, etc) into individual Level 0 plasmids, or choose...unit (Ex: a promoter, 5’UTR, coding region, and terminator). Next, up to six Level 1 modules can be similarly...in optimizing TALEN assembly and activity? The laboratory of Takashi Yamamoto has created a complete TALEN...of the gene of interest, C-terminal tag, plant terminator, and plant resistance cassette) in pUC19 based...

  18. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ... are successful base editors in rice, tomato, wheat, and potato. Target-AID and rAPOBEC based CBEs are... HDR methods for rice crop improvement in the laboratory of Yinong Yang at PSU.   References 1. Komor,...Zenpei, et al. "Targeted base editing in rice and tomato using a CRISPR-Cas9 cytidine deaminase fusion."...The CRISPR-Cas Revolution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2018). Additional resources on the Addgene blog...

  19. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ...the cytoplasm. That is, unfortunately, some investigators realize too late that they have missed the impact...environment where it will localize [4]. Most investigators are surprised to learn that FPs are often poorly...overestimation of fusion protein activity. We encourage investigators to characterize FP-fusion proteins functionally...Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology. His interests include the...Medicine. Her doctoral research was conducted in the laboratory of Erik Lee Snapp and focused on optimizing fluorescent...

  20. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...blocker isolated from a designed repeat protein combinatorial library by in vivo functional screen." Scientific...production of a downstream peptide, the transcription terminators in this series are just the tool you need. The...this portion of the BIOFAB Plasmid Set contain terminators of varying strengths centered within GFP/RFP ...characterized in Cambray et al., 2013. These terminators can be used to precisely tune your polycistronic...Kit for some insights on its potential from its creators. We hope you’ll find these kits useful in your...

  21. How to Negotiate a Successful Lab Start Up Budget

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    ...list from your current P.I., lab manager, or administrator containing all of the materials that you’ve ...financial values. All too often, we see early investigators making unnecessary short term sacrifices that...solutions to reach your goals. For example, a junior investigator turned down a faculty position because none ...Happy Sciencing, Damien   Damien Wilpitz is a laboratory research management consultant and coach in Boston...research scientists create productive and manageable laboratory environments. His business skills enhance his...

  22. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    ...construct (about 8 in Brainbow-1.0 mice.) The combinatorial effect of multiple, independent recombination...woodchuck hepatitis virus post-transcriptional regulatory element (WPRE), commonly used to increase transgene...plasmids References: Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous... Lgr5 stem cells. Snippert HJ, van der Flier LG, Sato T, van Es JH, van den Born M, Kroon-Veenboer C, ...PubMed. Multiplex cell and lineage tracking with combinatorial labels. Loulier K, Barry R, Mahou P, Le Franc...

  23. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ... a variety of species, including the standard laboratory mouse. It’s also made targeted insertions relatively... Figure 6: Diagram of ovary and oviduct anatomy with the equipment used for i-GONAD. A micropipette...  Many thanks to Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, Masato Ohtsuka, and Rolen M. Quadros for assistance with...Rolen M. Quadros, Channabasavaiah B Gurumurthy, and Masato Ohtsuka. “Easi-CRISPR for creating knock-in and...10.1038/nprot.2017.153 PubMed PMID: 29266098 Ohtsuka, Masato, et al. i-GONAD: a robust method for in situ germline...

  24. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    ...light within a specific range of wavelengths. Excitatory channels allow positively charged ions such as...combine excitation and inhibition by using both excitatory and inhibitory channels activated at different... the opsin.      Figure 2: Diagram of excitatory (ChR2) activation by light showing ions flowing... a single pathway to activate various protein regulators at different points in the pathway. Photoswitches...., Shane, J. C., McKnight, D. J., Yoshizawa, S., Kato, H. E., Ganguli, S., & Deisseroth, K. (2019). Cortical...

  25. Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using the FITS Approach

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    ...in immune cells have identified many putative regulators of immunity. However, in vitro screens cannot...responses to cancer. The screen recovered known regulators, such as Ptpn2, Pdcd1, and Zc3h12a, demonstrating...Moreover, the screen identified putative novel regulators of CD8+ T cell responses in tumors, demonstrating...LaFleur is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arlene Sharpe’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School and is interested in...

  26. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

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    ...establish your own lab and get an independent investigator grant (e.g. an R01 from the NIH, in the United...can be found during conversations with senior investigators. Discussions can reveal mutual scientific interests...makes time for you, as needed, this is a strong indicator that this person cares about your science and ...manuscript reviews, etc. You'll also meet future collaborators and get access to unpublished information and...Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, and now serves as the Director...

  27. Plan Your Experiment

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    ...without permanently modifying the genome dCas9-activator (such as dCas9-VP64) gRNA(s) targeting promoter...promoter elements of target gene Many different activators exist, including the multi-plasmid SAM system. Select...activate or repress a target gene using dCas9-activators or dCas9-repressors, gRNAs should be targeted...

  28. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...customized to control transgene expression. Gene regulatory elements [promoters and enhancers, miRNA target...Abbreviations: AAV, adeno-associated virus; GRE, gene regulatory element; NHP, non-human primate. Many of...broad):  enhanced coverage for inhibitory versus excitatory neurons Mice, rats Yes (LY6A) Chan et al...AAV.CAP-B10 CNS: balanced coverage of inhibitory and excitatory neurons Mice, marmosets Unknown Brown et... frequently been used for screening candidate regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters for ... its tropism is relatively more biased toward excitatory neurons than AAV-PHP.eB (Fig. 4c, Jang et al....., … Tasic, B. (2021). Enhancer viruses for combinatorial cell-subclass-specific labeling. Neuron,109(...

  29. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ... availability of this strain from The Jackson Laboratory. Originally developed and characterized by Stanley...mouse strain is regaining popularity. The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit research institution, has been able...clinical manifestations, transmissibility, and laboratory studies of COVID-19: an observational study. ...of K18-hACE2 Mice Infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. JVI 81:813–821 . https:...
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