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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m....technological change happens really fast,” Thompson says. To do this, Thompson reached out to MIT labs in the Synthetic... classification This inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science...query coverage) that could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a...Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes...
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Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m....proteins without changing excitation wavelength (Salomonnson et al. 2012). They can also be excited efficiently...emission intensities from fluorescent proteins (Salomonnson et al. 2012). Finally, it is worthwhile to test...18718768. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2569002. 3. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Macrophage and T cell dynamics during...18261937. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2390753. 4. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Intravital imaging reveals limited ...21527931. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4772972. 11. Salomonnson, Emma, et al. "Cell-based and in vivo spectral...Wolfgang Weninger. "Dendritic cell behaviour in vivo: lessons learned from intravital two-photon microscopy."... -
Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m....favourable ratings to the abstracts that affirmed their personal beliefs even though all three texts were otherwise...were exhibiting a phenomenon called “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little...little tricks our minds perform to avoid cognitive dissonance (Kunda, 1990). More specifically, they were engaging...sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to show that ...nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological bulletin, 108(3), 480. More resources... -
Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 12, 2018, 11:40 a.m....essential for the structure of paraspeckles. Clemson CM, Hutchinson JN, Sara SA, Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess...your favorite biological phenomenon, there’s a reasonable good chance that Addgene can help. Though it ...Fox Elaine Fuchs Kai Ge Robert Kingston Thoru Pederson Phil Sharp Julie Ahringer Alexander Stark Bas..., especially Karen Reddy (@theReddyLab), Thoru Pederson, Joanna Wysocka, Kerstin Bystricky, Ben Martin... -
A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m....effectively contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days...student engagement and joy, rather than a perfect lesson plan or outstanding test scores. As a result, ...are provided with synthetic biology lab kits and lesson plans adapted from her own MIT curriculum. Drawing...investigate together. Teachers decide which BioBuilder lessons to teach, and how — some choose to run full semester-long...semester-long classes, some pick and choose a few lessons to include each year; others use BioBuilder as ... -
REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m...., and substitutions - at the same efficiency as Gibson Assembly and GeneArt cloning - but at a much lower...digested and ligated into an appropriate vector. Gibson Assembly, GeneArt Cloning, and SLIC can all be ...When REPLACR-mutagenesis goes head-to-head with Gibson assembly and GeneArt cloning, the results are favorable...hands! REPLACR-Mutagenesis Megaprimer PCR Gibson Assembly GeneArt Cloning Types of Mutations Insertions...Made Competent Cells Required Yes No No No Comparison of REPLACR-mutagenesis with other common methods... -
Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m....Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to see their online personas. Some have online coaching tools that can be very...remotely (by phone, Skype or Google Hangout) but in-person coaching is nice if you can get it. Because I ...this offers the option of matching with the best person in the group for your needs. Beth Schachter of ... Michelle Capes at Adeptify Me. While based in Madison, Wisconsin she also works remotely and has experience...support for issues of diversity in science. A great person to contact is Twitter’s @DrQualls. Marquita Qualls... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m....genetic tools. Mobile-CRISPRi from the labs of Jason Peters, Oren Rosenberg, and Carol Gross provides...Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system has two parts: a plasmid ...Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A Tn7 transposon containing the CRISPRi components and a plasmid...methods 2.6 (2005): 443. PubMed PMID: 15908923. Johnson, Christopher M., and Alan D. Grossman. "Integrative...4.2 (2019): 212. PubMed PMID: 30675034. Peters, Jason M., et al. "Enabling genetic analysis of diverse... -
SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m....As a person with many roles and responsibilities, I have to think a lot about how to balance those roles...your community’s schools, here are a few tips and lessons I’ve picked up from my recent experiences. STEM...history helped demonstrate that a) I was a real person who used to be a middle schooler himself and b)...back and trying again next year. There are many reasons why you might want to reach out to your school ...tumultuous time in scientific history. Whatever your reasons, let us know how it goes! Acknowledgements: I... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.... Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...This post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...receptor function. Follow them on Twitter @jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria. References 1. Jones, Douglas...PMCID: PMC331480. 3. García-Nafría, Javier, Jake F. Watson, and Ingo H. Greger. "IVA cloning: a single-tube...