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  1. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ... complexity of the device increases, as does the price. With this increased complexity comes the need ...adapted and combined with creativity and feedback from the community to create state-of-the-art devices...via workshops, seminars, or hackathons greatly increases accessibility. Through this approach, the Planktoscope...Madagascar. Platforms that allow for on-going creativity with the construction plans. Appropriate open-source...sources within the next few years, with the goal of creating more transparent and reproducible science in the... in science brings stronger networking across laboratory and disciplinary boundaries and can allow for...
  2. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    ...you can be incredibly frustrating. Clarifying the words —> decreasing frustration —> increasing the happiness...in meetings and 2) creating a pictorial guide for our engineers (Fig. 2). Creating this guide was relatively... an engineer that you want the LIMS software to create a barcode for your plate, you will get in trouble... a lot on context. New people in the lab or collaborators will not have the context you do, which means...happening. Our solution for this problem was the creation of an Addgene lexicon. The base lexicon was and...received formal definitions in our lexicon. We created documents and presentations, gave real life examples... field or technology in a consistent way. Just creating a lexicon was not enough. We also had to enforce...
  3. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    ...targeted via RNAi. Recently the Vellai lab has created an improved RNAi vector that leads to significantly...non-specific nucleotides into the dsRNA leading to increased RNAi efficiency. Find the T444T plasmid here...can take as long as several days. In 2015, the laboratory of long-time Addgene depositor Alice Ting used...used yeast display-based directed evolution to create APEX2. They have now applied the same directed evolution...the biotin ligase from which BioID was derived, creating a pair of enzymes that overcome both the speed...BioID, which only functions optimally at 37℃. The increased efficiency of TurboID and miniTurbo makes PL a...include protein stability, small molecule binding screens, peptide arrays, and phage display selections. ...
  4. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    ...to select against CRISPR positive plants, but screening these can be challenging and requires specialized...Willoughby.   Using RUBY as a selection marker The creators of RUBY highlight its use in crop plants under... is difficult for new members of the lab or collaborators unfamiliar with these mutant plants. Using RUBY...as positive selection of transformed plants to decrease the routine usage of antibiotics which may contribute...
  5. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ...specific markers. The Screening Criteria While choosing which antibodies to screen, we kept in mind our...We therefore use both rAb and mAB in our screening. To screen the antibodies, we have developed a criterion...and his lab members (like me!) are dedicated to creating a public and accessible database for low-cost,...high-quality antibodies for IHC. Working with collaborators and support from the Brain Research Through ...Initiative Cell Census Network, the Wu lab will be screening over 3,000 antibodies for use in mice and human...batch-to-batch variability found in polyclonal antibodies, creating a potentially unlimited supply of identical antibodies...antibodies; Addgene collaborates with these companies to create and provide general availability of their recombinant...
  6. Virtual Science Conference Coming Up? Three Addgenies Share Their Experience

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    ...highly voted questions,” says Zhang. “Usually the moderator starts by asking the speaker the highly upvoted...to keep the audience engaged through a computer screen. For the Reproducibility for Everyone Workshop,...author of the poster,” he says.Viewing a poster on a screen is challenging, requiring you to zoom in to different...canceled may be disappointing, but there are many creative ways to adapt and take advantage of the new conference...
  7. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ... the stem cell community – a community largely created due to Yamanaka’s seminal work. It didn't take... during his keynote address, appeared almost incredulous that the field has exploded so quickly, citing...the first clinical trial with iPSCs with his collaborator Takahashi in 2014 – just 8 years after the OSKM...explained that it took 50 people nearly 2 years to create the first stem cell line that could be used in ...
  8. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...of Producing Monoclonal Antibodies, 1999). This creates an immortal cell population that will continue ...hybridomas for monoclonal antibody production. Image created with BioRender.com.   The antibody-producing...the antigen-binding sites of the antibody - the paratopes - may change and impact the specificity and avidity... the genes from the hybridoma into a plasmid to create a recombinant antibody.     Figure 2: Changes...Generation of Hybridomas: Permanent Cell Lines Secreting Monoclonal Antibodies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
  9. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ...experiments in the beginning. In most classrooms, the laboratory experience is focused on classical embryology...challenging for amateur scientists. Planarians, wormy creatures commonly found in freshwater ponds, provide a ...promoters to allow for bidirectional transcription to create dsRNA. Students can produce DNA templates via PCR... PCR off of the same plasmid and use these to create riboprobes for in situ hybridization experiments.... as how to perform worm amputations. They also created an online companion resource called “cutting class...within an embryo or tissue. Once the riboprobes are created, the WISH protocol involves preparation of the ...as a result, these cells turn blue. Students can create synthetic riboprobes off of linearized DNA templates...
  10. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    ...these demands? Are there other solutions, such as increasing numbers in Master’s level programs? What would...Maryland College Park, is a strong supporter of increasing the number of postdoctoral scientists at University...counselor, Director of Education for the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and a Senior Research Associate...School. He has continually promoted the cause of increasing data collection about the scientific workforce... Boston 2015 where we hope to begin developing concrete solutions to the problems looming over the academic...School. In the lab, he uses synthetic biology to create tools to better understand human disease.  Outside...
  11. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    ...1989; Ozturk and Palsson, 1991; Oh, 1993) and increased yields in adenoviral (Coroadinha, 2006) and retroviral...AAV production yields had yet to be examined. Increased yields with sucrose supplementation is serotype... approach can be adapted by vector cores and laboratories alike as an easy and inexpensive method to improve...
  12. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    ...out-of-the-box ideas that might jump start your learning. 1. Create a peer mentoring group We don’t all get the mentoring...that there’s some correct level of intimacy that creates the magic of a safe space. No matter why, now is...more details on how to make the most of these exploratory conversations. If you set yourself a goal of ...
  13. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    ...into the collection and to start shipping. They created the best safety protocols they could with limited...While many were sympathetic to this need, we're incredibly grateful that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ...research is accelerating essential research in laboratories all around the world." We thank the Chan Zuckerberg...
  14. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    ...funding and time. While institutions that focus on creative problem solving like the Howard Hughes Medical...plant research, more initiatives are needed to increase the body of knowledge. Organizations like Open...research and effectively carry out their mission of creating new forums and opportunities for open innovation...duty to pursue a degree in a synthetic biology laboratory and received her M.S. from CSU in 2014. Outside...
  15. Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript

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    ... the world of science publishing, and an ever increasing number of journals and publishers to choose from...them needing a subscription to the journal. An increasing number of funding bodies insist that the research...communities. The ARRIVE guidelines for the reporting of laboratory animals during in vivo research and the CARE ...is beneficial for both the referees (as they get credit for their time and effort) and the scientific community...
  16. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...amazing years in front of us. So in our last celebratory moment, we wanted to walk through some of our...it, it just reflects how useful the reagents we created are for the community. More than 100 labs worldwide...need for high-quality service, open data, and increased reproducibility of materials. In March 2022, we... supported by an NIH BRAIN Initiative. We also created a growing library of antibody educational resources...York, Calico Life Sciences. Most of all, we’re incredibly thankful for all the scientists who have joined...
  17. A Conference By Postdocs For Postdocs: Future of Research

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    ...early career scientists taking an active part in creating their own opportunities for career development...in the Netherlands. There are many academic administrators who are finding ways to provide new types of...
  18. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...Factors to consider when creating a pooled library amplification protocol. Created with BioRender.com. ...protocol, the size of the cuvettes your lab’s electroporator uses, etc. The DNA amount can be anywhere from...Re-transformation of the SPLINTR Libraries (PDF, 401 KB) Screening Zhang Lab - Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory...et al. Nat Protoc. 2017 with modifications Screening pCMV-Rep78/68 Scanning Saturation Mutagenesis...Amplification and Sequencing Protocol (DOCX, 32 KB) Screening Rinehart Lab Iterative Synthetically Phosphorylated...-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening, a protocol paper by the Zhang lab, and the Broad...More resources on the Addgene blog Genome-Wide Screening Using CRISPR Preparing Pooled Libraries NGS Quality...
  19. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    ...advances in technologies that permit large-scale creation and synthesis (“writing”) of longer pieces of ...next generation (NGS) sequencing have prevented laboratories from using these methods for routine processes...samples from several plates are pooled together to create a single library containing fragments carrying ...
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