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  1. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    ...Of course, you’ll need to align all these images once taken. To do so, you will need to include a marker...beautiful images? Multiplex IF may be just what you need! How does it work? There are several ways to achieve... in one step. As with standard IF, you will need to start with a fixed sample. Depending on the sample...sample protocol.)  Simultaneous IF Depending on your needs, your sample, and targets, you might decide to do...) is more flexible and efficient, since you only need a few fluorescent secondaries on hand in the lab...species, isotype specificity, and dye meets your needs and budget, or you can make your own. For example... polyclonal) Goat anti-Rabbit IgG   If you need more signal, another strategy is to use a biotinylated...

  2. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...often offer higher allelic specificity, due to the need for the target:probe/primer bonds to be more stable...ll want to predict this value using BLAST, you’ll need to experimentally verify once you’ve received the...Validation Once designed, your primer and probe set needs to be validated and your reaction optimized. You...treatments may affect the assay. It’s unusual to need to adjust amounts of reagents in your chemistry,...the bench As a highly sensitive technique, qPCR needs a steady pair of hands to produce reliable and reproducible...rapid-cycle machine such as a LightCycler, you’ll likely need to re-optimize protocols for that machine. (Teo,...from understanding how the analyses work - you do need to make sure the assumptions in your dataset match...

  3. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ..., you should get feedback from those who attended. You may even seek, or get feedback from those who didn...current or enjoy that discussion. Luckily, one needn't worry if they choose to move away from academic...data, software repositories, or other information needed by someone to critically discuss the paper.  Before...meeting, now what? After the first meeting solicit feedback. To ensure that the journal club is useful for...attend. For example, we got a good bit of early feedback from those who wanted, but were unable to attend...find a time that accommodates more people. The feedback could be solicited via multiple avenues including...there are a few things you can point to. Does the feedback you receive include the sense that people learned...

  4. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ...probably don’t need it to express your protein of interest. However, you do still need a species-compatible...In fast-growing populations of cells, the vector needs to replicate alongside its host, or it will be lost... DNA replication begins, so a bacterial plasmid needs a compatible ori that will be recognized by its ...the host cell’s genome, so no special sequence is needed to retain the vector as cells divide. In transient...transient transfection may be sufficient for your needs even without a compatible replication site. Regardless... contexts. For a vector to persist in... You need... Bacteria a compatible ori Yeast an ...plasmid is delivered to your target cells, you still need to select for the cells that contain it. Antibiotic...

  5. Plasmids 101: TOPO Cloning

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    ...the steps needed for TOPO cloning: 1. Create Your PCR Product: Design standard primers (no need to add unique...organized and prepare everything you need for the next step before proceeding. Pre-warming your antibiotic-containing...results in the production of blue colonies that do not need to be picked and sequenced for potential positive...Do not add 5’ phosphates to your PCR primers; you need that free hydroxyl group! You may want to include...all unpaired 3’ ends in your PCR product. If you need to decrease error rate, please use one of these ...room temperature, it is not recommended that you exceed the 5 minute time limit (lower transformation efficiencies...reported with longer incubation); however, you may need to incubate for 20-30 minutes if your PCR product...

  6. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    ...accept feedback and adapt their mentoring styles to the mentee’s personality and professional needs at any... science as well as the developmental needs and resources needed to pursue them, increased their network...undergraduate and graduate studies. Students also need more access to reputable, organized networks connecting...international experts and students. In response to such needs, the International Mentorship Program (IMP) USA-... successful example. For evidence of this, you needn’t look any further than testimonials from the students...Program work? IMP Pilot Program 2015-2015 Scholars need strong proactive mentors who have relevant expertise...group of individuals with technical and career path needs, and came from the universities mentioned above....

  7. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    ...allowing repair to take place before DNA replication. Indeed, they observed that 41/42 embryos were non-mosaic... at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through NHEJ rather than HDR. Figure 1:...: Homology-directed repair in targeted zygotes proceeds from the maternal allele rather than the supplied... characterization studies, the edited embryos proceeded to the blastocyst stage at similar rates to untreated...surrounding CRISPR-based therapy is the level of testing needed to define whether off-target editing or mosaicism...not possible with IVF, as most of the cells are needed for proper development. Ma et al.’s experiments...experiments showed a 3% mosaic rate, and this rate would need to be much, much lower before clinical applications...

  8. Kwabena Duedu on Public Health, Biofuels, and Doing Science in Ghana

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    ...Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant. For this grant, we’re working with fellow nonprofit, Seeding Labs, ...scientist's molecular biology needs and why Kwabena applied for the Addgene, Seeding Labs plasmid grant. 7:12...research. Kwabena came across the plasmid grant in Seeding Lab’s Newsletter and recently visited Cambridge... chose to go back to Ghana after his PhD and the need to de-mystify molecular biology. 25:51 - 30:56 :...Ghana. He is a recent recipient of the Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid grant and is working on a variety ... on Synthetic Biology Learn about the Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant Read about Plasmid Grant Recipient...

  9. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ... receives a pooled library from Addgene, they’ll need to amplify the sample for further downstream applications...work as well.   Defining your library First, you’ll need to collect specific information about your library...will help decide what transformation efficiency you need to achieve. Most pooled library protocols aim for... between 30x and 200x coverage, meaning that you need 30 to 200 times as many colonies as individual plasmids... amounts After deciding on a cell type, you will need to determine how much DNA and how many cells to ...transformation(s). The amount of competent cells you need total and per transformation may vary depending ...correlates with the size of the library, but generally needs to be determined experimentally. For larger libraries...

  10. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    ...both want this time and what your needs actually are: Maybe you only need 15 minutes of the two hour time... and by offering advice on areas where you might need some help. Today in our transferable skills guide...conference?) and with my lab mates on which lab jobs needed to be done (Who is responsible for making the running...person’s request? Your colleague is if someone can feed their cells this weekend - why? Do they have an ...important to you and why? What are their expectations/needs and how are they different from mine? What equipment...next week (after her deadline) to help you. Her feedback on your manuscript is more important to you than...can initially feel more difficult because of the need to be thoughtful about what is most important to...

  11. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ...seems to fall into place. When the balance tips, we need to look to for support and ideas to manage our stress...will be under control.” Think again. Maybe you’ll need to care for an elderly family member, want to train...side, if you are not happy at work, you probably need to find a new job. If you are miserable at home ... run and so will your work. Nobody wins, and you need to make a change. #2 Thou shalt sometimes put work...your family and friends to know you care, but they need to know that you have an important life too. They...exception is that men cannot actually give birth and breastfeed. Keeping this always at the forefront will go...who may wish to tell you so – towel corners do not need to match up exactly when you fold them. The same...

  12. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...labeling specificity needed and when is it not? What are the proper controls needed to pressure-test your...important. Donor labeling and the need for specificity Donor fluorophores need to go to the right place. Mis-targeted... How large is it? What parts of it move when you feed it substrate or add an essential cofactor? How many...like a Fedex delivery. Your fluorophore package needs to go to the proper mailbox (i.e., a binding site...your molecular city). However, the acceptor doesn’t need to go to the same exact location as the donor. As...undergo FRET. If this nonspecific labeling far exceeds properly targeted donor/acceptor pairs, then any...Table). However, proper control experiments are needed to establish the dynamic range of your assay. These...

  13. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...organisms. Methods for genetic manipulation still need to be developed for each organism, but researchers...syriaca and Asclepias curassavica (Gerog Jander) Milkweed plants are known to many as the only Monarch butterfly... to treat heart disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is...Their nests are open so you can see them and even feed them RNA to do silencing in the wild. They also ...proteins. This lab has created an automated tank for feeding and maintenance that had the audience gasping. ...biologically. They have economic importance as harmful weeds. The parasitic fusion is such that the two plants...speech. Finches must learn early, use auditory feedback to learn, babble as baby birds, and have dialects...

  14. Same Addgene, New Look - Why We Redesigned Our Homepage & Mascot

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    ...front door,’ the homepage is still important. It needs to express value, clearly communicate exactly what...users the ability to quickly access the content they need. All within seconds.  Addgene’s old homepage had...where they desired. It became clear to us that we needed to improve search and navigation, while also updating... to offer, and to help scientists find what they need - whether it's their first or 500th time on addgene.org... story in better ways, we realized that Blugene needed the same thoughtful treatment. Blugene has been...sure our friend matched our core branding. Blugene needs to be friendly, personable, fun, and promote our...your next experiment, that you can find what you need and feel happy and inspired to tackle your next ...

  15. Future of Research Conference - Remarkable Opening Session

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    ...trainee experience and how it feeds into a workforce.  The soft money system needs to be addressed.  We should...awards systems need to be radically overhauled.  Finally, the science publishing system needs to be changed...future in science (see my previous blog on this).  Indeed, that was a primary message delivered by many of...years.  He spoke eloquently and vehemently about the need for change.  Dr. Bourne strongly believes this is...only know about academia and alternate training needs to be provided to take advantage of all the possible...Graham Walker, Professor of Biology at MIT, was the need to pay postdocs more.  What will the future of ...

  16. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ... you'll need to decide when running your experiment, is which vector will best suit your needs? At Addgene...your choice. The first and most important thing you need to know is your expression system or environment... will determine the type of vector that you will need. You will also have to make sure that your plasmid...generating transiently transfected cells, you will not need a mammalian selection cassette (e.g. 1435 pSG5L ... its advantages; however, remember that you will need accessory packaging vectors to generate the virus...vectors with various markers and promoters. If you need to visualize YGOI on a western blot or under a microscope...below and an Addgenie will help you find what you need.   More Plasmid Resources from Addgene: Plasmids...

  17. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    ...Glick from SnapGene. SnapGene was created to meet a need. While there were software tools available to biomedical...center, and make specialized controls available when needed. SnapGene has been engineered to be easy and enjoyable... iterative refinements in response to customer feedback. An example of this approach is SnapGene’s algorithm...that may be used to make fusion genes, detection needs to occur even if one or two codons are missing at...miss a common feature if the sequence differences exceed the threshold. This issue is addressed by adding...useful because it helps us find which common features need to be added to the database – we will work to fill...mismatch tolerant detection algorithm and thereby speed up the annotation process. Many of the best ideas...

  18. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    ...coronavirus-related deposits. Our valiant lab and shipping staff agreed to come in and start getting plasmid deposits into...industry requestors as well. This is a time when we need as much open science sharing as we can get. ...occasionally for capital equipment or resources needed to launch a new service or product. Our daily operations...entirely self-supporting. We hire more staff as we need them to meet demand and to serve the scientific ...the crisis and maintain our workforce for when we need to be working at full capacity to serve the scientific... with demand and keep new projects on track to succeed at the same time. I began approaching science funding...the community. While many were sympathetic to this need, we're incredibly grateful that the Chan Zuckerberg...

  19. Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup

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    ... pitching for feedback.  Your venture should continuously evolve and respond to feedback throughout its...idea, you will rarely succeed in launching a company without partners.  You need a dedicated team that...capital to get off the ground, as you will likely need a functional prototype to gain any real traction...beginning the process of launching a company, you need to determine whether or not your idea is viable....was originally planned, due in large part to the feedback we received from our network.  We started with....  After each pitch we made, we considered the feedback and adjusted our business model accordingly until...

  20. Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition

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    ...would allow you to train and acquire the data you need on the new instrumentation. Bonus reasons Visiting... institute or lab So, you’ve identified a gap or need in your research and decided you want to pursue ...pursue a visiting position. What now? First, you’ll need to find someone who is willing to host you! If there...collaborates with that can fulfill your research needs, that is probably the easiest path. Some institutes...are often great choices if they fit your research needs. What are your options if neither of these situations...familiarize yourself. Identify reagents you will need, any required training, and a priority list of experiments... reasonable, your reagents are onsite before you need them, and you are set up for success. If you are...
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