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  1. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    May 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m.
    ...researchers do these things with nefarious goals in mind. Indeed, it’s not always obvious that we’re doing things...reagents with the confidence that they aren’t simply doing an experiment wrong. However, even simple procedures...researchers to share data thereby enabling you to do modified analyses on published data if you need to...confirms their hypotheses even if most other scientists do not. These scientists with positive results have ...biases and goals from effecting our experiments. How do we engender better experimental design? The summation...transparent about the reasons we alter these designs if we do so. The most extreme version of this (and possibly...
  2. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    Oct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...wages, overtime tracking? What are institutions doing? Institutions are now preparing to comply with the...postdocs resource on what institutions are actually doing (using the list of 340 institutions with postdocs...institutions that have not yet announced what they are doing, however, may face greater challenges. Current salary...most of) MIT and the University of Colorado are doing, and are checking with Yale that they are raising...institutions they're thinking about applying to, are doing - for example, your benefits may be changing. Please...of time and a lot of work - but they were able to do so on their own terms. They must feel very relieved...
  3. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    Aug. 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... consider the order of your narrative. Scientists do this all the time, you just need to figure out how... deliver a great public presentation if you are doing it for the first time? Practice talks also help ...sakes, label all graphs and data professionally). Do remember the fine points of visual aids. Here’s a...say you will get back to them with an answer, and do so if you can. 9. Resist the urge to say everything...of talk length, and then I cut a few more slides. Do not run over your time—the audience’s attention will.... One good topic or story is all you need, if you do it well.  Resist the urge to show all or even a lot...
  4. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... hear you saying “We know this already!” But, you do need to be able to research and write your application...money so you need to make it clear that you will be doing your research in a group or facility that is a world...it would be helpful for them to know what we are doing and why. I always ask kindly friends and family ...to my area, a line about the research I will be doing, and a line about what I hope to discover. This ... you get some critical insight into what you're doing wrong. All this helps to improve your application...
  5. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ... blastp searches do not filter low complexity regions by default, meaning that you do not have to remember...compared to other types of BLAST searches. If you do not know the exact reference sequence for your result...truncations. A primary advantage of blastx is that you do not have to decide on a reading frame for your sequencing...pairwise_sequence_alignment_psa Happy BLASTing! Do you have any tips for using BLAST to confirm your...
  6. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    Nov. 11, 2020, 2:23 p.m.
    ...proteins, respectively. A plasmid's copy number has to do with the balance between positive and negative regulation...showing the standard features of a plasmid. So, how do you choose? Addgene Senior Scientist Marcy Patrick...have only one plasmid type in your cells at a time? Do you want to make a lot of your plasmid? Is the gene...for optimal results always pick a single colony and do not subculture directly from glycerol stocks, agar...
  7. Cultivating Community Science at BosLab

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    Nov. 2, 2017, 1:35 p.m.
    ...identify ourselves as part of a network of independent Do-it-Yourself (DIY) biology laboratories working towards...involvement and provide all our members the opportunity to do molecular biology, we’ve developed community projects...publish protocols so that anyone can engineer yeast to do similar things. The focus is to make yeast engineering... few yeast plasmids from Addgene and are eager to do our first yeast transformations! Dennis Oleksyuk,...
  8. Science Career Options

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    Feb. 23, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...leaving academia, but don’t quite know what you do want to do or even what careers are available to scientists... Science in the News Don't stumble into a career, do your research Once you have identified possible careers... part of team? Will you be coordinating projects? Do you need computer programming skills? Other things...
  9. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    Dec. 20, 2018, 1:15 p.m.
    ... is not far enough along, scientifically, to be doing in humans; We have not had a broad, public conversation...reproduction, the relevant document for the question of “how do we move forward” is the June 2012 report on the ethics...ethically fraught rapidly emerging technology. We could do this for CRISPR/Cas9 – or any other germline editing...adequately proven to be reasonably safe and effective. We do that through a standardized process of good research...
  10. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    March 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...given sequence. You want to choose enzymes that: Do not cut within your insert Are in the desired location...(usually in the Multiple Cloning Site (MCS)), but do not cut elsewhere on the plasmid Bonus: It is helpful...GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC-3'. Many restriction enzymes do not cut DNA efficiently at the end of a linear piece...any 6 bases, but you should ensure that the bases do not result in the formation of a hairpin structure...
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