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  1. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...explore why these assumptions are key to using loading controls accurately. Assumption #1: The loading ...However, it throws both assumptions discussed above into question. Assumption #1: The loading control ...BioRender.com. Researchers often rely on assumptions that their loading controls are independent of...sources of error. It’s important to validate these assumptions for your particular experiment and choice of ...control without your knowledge? If you can’t trust Assumption #1, any change in the normalized intensity of...or an opposite change in your loading control. Assumption #2: The loading control can be accurately quantified...differences in protein abundance. Validating the assumptions for different loading controls So how can you...
  2. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... With Trump in Charge, Climate Change References Purged from Website The Washington Post: Trump administration...reaction to Trump’s plan Science Magazine: NIH, DOE Office of Science face deep cuts in Trump’s first budget...: What Trump’s new travel ban means for science Nature: Meet the scientists affected by Trump’s immigration... of Science) believe GMOs are safe for human consumption in comparison to 37% of the general public (5... education and literacy that this changes.  2) Lumping all scientists (and consequently their results)...EPA to freeze all grants, contracts The Guardian: Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on “...Conway: “I”m not in the job of having evidence’ on Trump’s wiretap claim The Chronicle of Higher Education...
  3. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...normal (bell curve) or skewed (see Fig. 2). Assumptions – characteristics of a data set; the ‘rules’ ...which we have certain information about. The assumptions and requirements that need to be met for a parametric...parametric test are as follows:   Parametric test assumptions: Distribution – Normal Variables – Independent... comparison tests described above. Violated assumptions and statistics Statistical power, the ability...rules’ of that test. All statistical tests have assumptions, many of which have been described in this blog...blog. If your data does not meet the assumptions for the tests described above (normal distribution, equal...does. If you perform a statistical test when assumptions are broken, you run the risk of higher error,...
  4. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... can simply “dump” them by gating on the negative population.     Figure 2: Dump gating labels...cell surface, dump gating is a useful way to get rid of undesired cell populations. Dump gating uses the...primary antibodies, yielding a false positive signal. Dump gating When you are working with heterogeneous cell...interest via FACS using negative selection is called dump gating. Let’s say we want to sort out all CD8+ T...of interest while the rest can be excluded, or “dumped”. From left to right: B cell, CD4+ T cell, dendritic...
  5. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...hyperactive and likes to jump around from one location in the genome to another. This jumping is what caught the...the bacteria’s genome. In humans, if a transposon jumps into a gene, it could be mutagenic and result in...are considered replicative since every time they jump they make a copy of themselves. This increases the...10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090448 Kumar A (2020) Jump around: transposons in and out of the laboratory...138920210790886871 Pray, L. (2008) Transposons: The jumping genes. Nature Education 1(1):204. https://www.nature.com....nature.com/scitable/topicpage/transposons-the-jumping-genes-518/   Sandoval-Villegas N, Nurieva W, Amberger...
  6. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ... channels and pumps in developmental biology.  Examples of some ion-channel and ion-pump encoding genes...This imbalance is maintained by ion channels and pumps in the membrane. An emerging interdisciplinary field...bioelectrical signaling mediated by ion-channels and pumps in developmental biology, regeneration studies, ...University has used Arch (green-light activated proton pump) and ChR2 (blue-light activated cation channel) ...
  7. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... do need to make sure the assumptions in your dataset match the assumptions in your analysis method. ΔΔCT...  You’ll note this melt curve does rely on the assumption that there is a smooth, single-step transition...target and control genes are fairly equal, an assumption that is not always verified before use. If you...Efficacy Calculation Amplification Efficacy Assumptions Standard Curve Yes Standard Curve No...pick your favorite (...er, whichever one uses assumptions that match your data set, that is.) Yuan, 2006...
  8. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Easy Action Items

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    April 22, 2019, 12:26 p.m.
    ...become more aware of our own consumption. Quick ways to reduce energy consumption in the lab Here are a few...habits you can incorporate to reduce your lab consumption and increase your lab sustainability. For my ...you can start doing right away to reduce your consumption in the lab: Turn off your equipment at the end...
  9. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Innovations

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    March 7, 2019, 2:39 p.m.
    ...sustainability, and find ways to further reduce our consumption beyond recycling.     Choosing more sustainable...regulations such as preventing manufacturers from dumping hazardous waste directly into the oceans.As consumers... waste as plastic lumber for things like truck bumpers, plastic adirondack chairs, and synthetic turf....Remember, it was only 50 years ago that we routinely dumped toxic waste into the oceans, a practice which we...
  10. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...miscommunications in the future. Assumptions: Making incorrect assumptions can be a direct cause or consequence...consequence of lapsed communication. Making some assumptions about how something should be communicated is...this latter scenario usually manifests as the assumption “I thought that was X’s job”. It’s certainly ...
  11. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ...content-aware suggestion dropdown list will let you jump directly to the type of information you are looking... the pulldown menu on the search page to quickly jump to different types of items: Did you notice the...specifically designed for this purpose: Still stumped? Ask an Addgenie The newly launched search tool...
  12. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...saturation density, decreased rates of growth, or clumping. To ensure the best possible results for any tissue...stresses associated with pH changes and resource consumption due to the high cell density of the culture. ... different cell types, however, can make this assumption incorrect. One of the earliest steps in lentiviral...
  13. Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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    Oct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Chemistry last week alongside Demis Hassabis and John Jumper! The Baker Lab focuses on designing entirely new...Congratulations to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper! References Kuhlman, B., Dantas, G., Ireton, G...
  14. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    Oct. 31, 2019, 1:06 p.m.
    ...Plasmid pumpkins, team costumes, and spooky science stories. Yes, please! At Addgene, we love finding...addition to the Halloween contest, we’ve also carved pumpkins (yes, Blugene made an appearance there too) and...
  15. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ...will go wrong. The trash removal service slams dumpsters outside the open windows in the middle of your...me remembers any of the incidents above–and the dumpster noises were just last week!  Nerves It’s completely...
  16. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ...well plates, is extremely time- and resource-consumptive, since only wells with one cell can give rise... will die. If the solution is too cold, it will clump prematurely, and not spread out onto the plate. ...
  17. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...public health and environmental science, by the Trump administration are difficulties in dealing with ...specific topic, The State of Science could be a jumping off point to explore future rabbit holes. For the...
  18. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    July 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...development and testing cycle faster due to the ease of jumping back and forth between running the pipeline locally...notebooks using familiar libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and Biopython.  We started at the usual recommended...
  19. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    Aug. 5, 2014, 6:51 p.m.
    ...published, anyone) to detect possible errors in assumptions, use of inappropriate statistical methods, omission...lab) might apply different or novel tools and assumptions to reveal findings that the originator was oblivious...
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