... prototype to gain any real traction.  This can carry a heavy price tag, especially if you're working ... not value your potential contribution to the healthcare landscape.  You will find an extra layer of difficulty...name (P-H-D).  Finally, having spent your entire career in science, you are likely lacking the necessary...milabinc.com       Additional Resources Find more career posts on the Addgene blog Read our recent post ...

...mentors and, perhaps, asked someone to support your career development as your mentor. How do you make the...that you can reap rewards in the form of reaching career development goals. Check out Joanne's Reddit AMA...together and chatting with another person about their career path is a great start to a mentoring relationship...actionable steps (e.g. Meet 10 PhDs with interesting careers, find a summer internship, etc.). It is helpful...

...Schwiesow A leading cause of death worldwide, cardiovascular disease is driven by atherogenic lipoproteins...been shown to have a strong correlation with cardiovascular disease and indirect measurement of ApoB-LPs...concentration, Steven Farber and colleagues at the Carnegie Institute for Science have developed the LipoGlo...to aid in the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Find the LipoGlo plasmids at Addgene...

... of researchers special: 1. Stem cell scientists care deeply about ethics Ethics must play a prominent...at scientific conferences. In my nearly 20-year career in science, I have never attended a scientific ...Researcher Darrell Kotton 2. Stem cell scientists care about patients As any grad student who has spent...alone takes nearly a year. Addgene depositor Juan Carlos Izpsua Belmonte said it took the joint effort of...

... a lab that will be a good fit for you and your career ambitions. First, how does one stand out amongst...interview process. What if I want a non-academic career path?  If you are considering this, make sure to...will want in year 6. Have lab alumni taken diverse career paths? Ask other lab members how the advisor treats...inquiries. If you know you would like to head for a career in pharma or biotech, this is one case where the...

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... continue to shape the sector throughout their careers (McDowell et al, F1000Research, 2014; Dolan, F100Research...established, as they embark on or continue their careers in science-related fields. In particular, two recent... students in areas such as teaching salaries, healthcare access, and benefits; however, this may come ...Affairs at ASBMB Adam Fagen, PhD - Director, Early Career Scientist Segment at AAAS Marnie Gelbart, PhD -...

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...your LinkedIn and your resume and prepare business cards. You might not consider being a student or postdoc...postdoc a “business,” but having business cards is a good way to share your information quickly. During the...meet ten new people each day. Exchange business cards. When you’re done networking for the day (or whenever...have a small break), write down some notes on the card so you remember who they are and what you’ve talked...

...ICEBs1) system. ICEBs1 carries the genes needed for conjugation, but can also carry cargo genes, like Mobile-CRISPRi...from the labs of Jason Peters, Oren Rosenberg, and Carol Gross provides a streamlined suite of tools for ...

... homologous recombination events: The plasmid carrying the desired genetic modification integrates into...ShadowR is used as a FRET acceptor to mRuby2 or mScarlet. Image: Murakoshi et al., 2019. ShadowR is ... a FRET acceptor in combination with mRuby2 or mScarlet as the donor in HeLa cells.   Find ShadowR for... New Suite of Allelic-Exchange Vectors for the Scarless Modification of Proteobacterial Genomes. Applied...

...how the cargo — in this case, the CRISPR components — are expressed. Unlike lentivirus, cargo delivered... vivo, in vitro, ex vivo CRISPR screens can be carried out using a few different methods — in vivo, in...outside a host cell’s genome. In this state, AAV cargo can be stably expressed in non-dividing cells for...

...While CRISPR is certainly not the first means to carry out so-called “forward genetic screening experiments...are your cells derived from? Currently, Addgene carries CRISPR libraries that target mouse, human, fly,...genetic modification are you trying to make? Addgene carries CRISPR libraries for gene knockout, activation,...or a specific class of genes? Addgene currently carries several genome-wide CRISPR libraries and a selection...

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...and Sota Hiraga found that if a mini-F plasmid carried a specific 700 bp segment of DNA, the plasmid was... without plasmid addiction systems. For example, Cara Morin and James Kaper used the hok/sok system to...be used over prolonged periods. Using a plasmid carrying the hok/sok toxin-antitoxin system, they were ...223.1 (1992): 41-54. PubMed PMID: 1370544. Morin, Cara E., and James B. Kaper. "Use of stabilized luciferase-expressing...

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..., if you know what you need. Most often, early career scientists aren’t trained to have these types of... and not on the financial aspects. Money often carries an emotional weight. Therefore, too much focus ... a pathology microtome/cryostat, then making a careful decision on the condition and availability of the...XpDesignsMGNT        Additional Resources Find other career posts on the Addgene Blog! Learn more about Experimental...

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...2007): 1740-1743. PubMed PMID: 17882145. 2. Zincarelli, Carmela, et al. "Analysis of AAV serotypes 1–9 mediated...make AAVs useful for a wide variety of experiments, care still needs to be taken when selecting which particular...22418061. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3381869. 7. McCarty, D. M., Paul E. Monahan, and Richard J. Samulski...

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... like Cas9. The Cascade complex doesn’t usually carry out the function of the specific CRISPR type but...is not known, but it’s suspected that they don’t carry out the same types of adaptive immune functions ...can hijack machinery from other CRISPR systems to carry out various functions. Class 2 Class 2 CRISPR systems....2021.671522 Yan, W. X., Hunnewell, P., Alfonse, L. E., Carte, J. M., Keston-Smith, E., Sothiselvam, S., Garrity...

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