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  1. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
    ...not just "research and publications” What are the skills you developed through your research? Don't simply... from the research itself, but from what was necessary in order for you to do your research. For example... your publications, academic performances, and research experiences, you now have merely two pages to ...simply write about the research you did. Emphasize the skills. If you studied astronomy or bioinformatics...on these skills. The only exception is when the research topic you have done is closely related to the ...are applying for, in which case talk about your research, as an understanding of the topic will give you...How about facilitating a collaboration between research groups? Perhaps you had some supervisory experience...
  2. Kwabena Duedu on Public Health, Biofuels, and Doing Science in Ghana

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 20, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Duedu, a researcher at the University of Health and Allied Sciences in Ghana. He’s done research at a number...distribute plasmids to researchers in developing regions and thereby accelerate their research. Kwabena came across...learning and doing research at Novartis. Listen to learn how Kwabena plans to use his research experiences as...molecular biology research programs. 30:57 - 40:16 : Kwabena's public health research, the HEAD outreach...work in Ghana - Building a bioresource to attract research funding. Using current resources to develop microbiology...about dietary health. 40:17 - 44:14 : Microbiome research - working with bacterial communities both on the...down and talk with us.  Kwabena Duedu, PhD is a researcher at the University of Health and Allied Sciences...
  3. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...)” — Jim Woodgett, biomedical researcher at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, posting about Addgene...for the research community once more. Our ready-to-use viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting...pcDNA-p160MBP, while the first request for a kit came on March 9, 2005. It took almost six years to reach our first...molecularbiology.   Oh, to be young again! Addgenie Marcy (now our Sr. Director of Production) pie-fully celebrating...10 year anniversary.   Expanding our work In March 2015, Addgene reached the 500,000 plasmids distributed...launched the Blue Flame Award, which recognizes researchers who have at least one plasmid deposited at Addgene...-19 pandemic, and Addgene pivoted to support researchers combatting the virus. Our COVID-19 collection...
  4. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...scientist, perhaps the most important part of your research is communicating the results of the work. Yes,...other: from formal mechanisms like publishing a research article, presenting a conference poster or talk...drafted. Preprints were one of the key routes for researchers to share information about the emerging SARS-... recognition for their efforts, inspire future research, and increase their impact. Open Access and Transparency...process among a few individuals.  Early-career researchers especially enjoy the ability to post a preprint...and other modes of scientific communication. Researchers often post a preprint at the same time as, or...communication needs. The most often-cited reasons researchers might not post a preprint are reluctance to share...
  5. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    Blog Post
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    April 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...and its 8-bp barcode, respectively. Once cloned into the storage vector, the pooled, barcoded gRNA library...The CombiGEM platform provides a means to create barcoded gRNA libraries that can be used to combinatorially...restriction digestion and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral plasmids containing one or more gRNAs...quantitatively analyzed by sequencing its set of barcodes. CombiGEM is highly flexible and can accommodate...thus be tailored to address the users’ specific research questions. CombiGEM has been successfully applied...Thanks to the tremendous efforts made by various research teams to build and constantly improve gRNA libraries...! Figure 1: Strategy for assembling the barcoded gRNA library pool. (Adapted from Wong et al., ...
  6. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...doing your research in a group or facility that is a world leader in your chosen area of research (either... this already!” But, you do need to be able to research and write your application, then give it to someone...application is rushed (whether the idea isn’t properly researched / developed or the application is full of typos...important things reviewers will be looking for in your research proposal are originality and relevance. When reading...? This can sometimes be tricky, as most of our research builds on ideas and findings from our own or other...because it is the best place in the world for your research to rapidly progress. Need Help Building Your Scientific... asking for a 200-300 word explanation of your research for non-scientists. Most fellowships are funded...
  7. Phage Directory: From Phage Therapy to a Repository of Phage Information

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 10, 2019, 2:38 p.m.
    ... the search of phages for therapy Phage Directory started out as a directory of phage researchers and ... Zheng also saw the need to archive phage reagents. If a phage researcher retires, it's likely that the...whirlwind three days in November 2017. #Phage researchers! I am working with a team to get Burkholderia...be sent out to the directory earlier, but the researchers in the directory are volunteering their time ...information was very fragmented. A particular phage researcher may only know how to prepare phage for one application...another or they may have only used phage in basic research but not therapeutically: not all labs in Phage...the phages are lost if they are not archived. “It’s very sad because it’s years of work,” Sacher says....
  8. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...scientific research would be very competitive, and so I applied for a summer role as a Research Scientist...network around the world. The research project was hard; I was researching the epidemiology of breast cancer...perfect job. Summer work experience in cancer research After graduating with a 2:1 BSc in Molecular Biology...Scientist at the Institute of Cancer Research in Sutton, located on the edge of London to gain relevant experience... experiments like PCR and running gels, but in research you also experience a lot of failure and problem...and problem solving scientists experience during research. Working abroad in rural Africa Once this position...every item I tested was constantly tracked with barcodes and spreadsheets. It was great to be in the lab...
  9. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...published data by biomedical researchers and ready access to stably archived large-scale datasets by computational... of interest using a simple keyword search. For example, searching the term "breast cancer" returns 40...screens and whether that data is useful for your research. Fortunately, there’s a growing open repository...than 45 publications, beginning with the seminal research articles that demonstrated the feasibility and...data files, BioGRID ORCS makes it possible for researchers to query all public CRISPR results for any gene...screen results available to the entire biomedical research community, but also allows cross-interrogation...its PubMed identifier, which can also be used to search the entire CRISPR database for particular screens...
  10. What the HEK?

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    Blog Post
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    April 18, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...of the older cell lines in the research community, many cellular research tools have been optimized specifically...the cost of production. Research applications There are two areas of research where HEK cells may be particularly...utilized to transduce cell lines for basic science research all the way up to the production of clinical viral... candidate cell line model for cancer-specific research. Membrane receptors and ion channels are often...expression of native channels.  No matter what your research question, HEK-293 is known for reproducible results...seamless transition of biological tools to other researchers using the cell line. What the HEK is wrong with...culture. This can affect factors that could skew research results (gene expression, growth rates, etc.)....
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