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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m....difficult for individual labs to complete. The nanobody based RANbody platform from the Sanes Lab overcomes this...
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Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2018, 3:20 p.m....got a full time position with a Washington D.C.-based communications consulting firm, Palladian Partners... -
Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.... at present. Another issue surrounding CRISPR-based therapy is the level of testing needed to define... -
A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m....distinguished. The UCLA Library offers some Powerpoint based templates with different column numbers for a good... -
Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m....with BioRender.com. To make channelrhodopsin-based optogenetics minimally-invasive, Frances Arnold’... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....and RNAProtect® from Qiagen, are ammonium sulfate-based solutions that work by inhibiting RNase activity... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m....provide recombinant antibodies, another plasmid-based product that, with Addgene’s support, could fill... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m....and optimization of a real-time quantitative PCR-based method for the titration of AAV-2 vector stocks.... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....beyond generating frameshift mutations or single base pair edits, these enzymes are worth taking a look...Cas3 DNA digestion can proceed up to multiple kilobases, but only in one direction. Cas3 is thus not helpful... -
GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m....Gγ). G proteins are divided into four subtypes, based on their Gα subunit: Gαs, Gαi/o, Gαq/11, and Gα12... -
Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m....having effects on various biological disciplines, the base technology itself is constantly improving. Cas9 ... -
Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m....References 1.Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “A nanobody-based system using fluorescent proteins as scaffolds for... -
Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m....recent models of C. elegans molecular biology are based on the standard worm genome. While C. elegans are... -
Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2015, 3:54 p.m....search engine and sign up for Google Scholar alerts. Based on keywords that you provide, Google Scholar will... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m....Fluorescence fLuctuation INcrease by Contact (FLINC)-based biosensors measure fluctuations of TagRFP-T fluorescence... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....The Sternberg lab in 2016 created cGAL, a GAL-4 based bipartite expression system that can regulate gene... is curated and added to other databases including wormbase and flybase. microPublication is run and maintained...pages and curated databases for scientists including Wormbook, Wormatlas and Wormbase. And scientists have...institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically for C. elegans. This database provides detailed information...coding mRNAs, and annotations extracted from other databases (Mangone et al., 2008). OpenWorm OpenWorm is ...published there as well. Worm Development Dynamics Database (WDDD) The WDDD aims to acquire quantitative data...Koji, et al. "WDDD: worm developmental dynamics database." Nucleic acids research 41.D1 (2012): D732-D737... -
Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m....used to restrict expression to a single cell type based on the overlap in cell types both promoters expressed...Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel recently took a different approach to enhance specificity...targeting the same cell class in humans (R=0.67). A database of the microscopy images of all AAVs that reproducibly... -
The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m....side of the optogenetics coin is materials science-based. Light is delivered to your opsin through a small... -
How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m....a final list of questions for the actual event, based on these interviews. The idea is to ask questions... -
Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m....you can extract practically every single reliable base pair from your results. This option is not as fast...sequence databases from the dropdown menu. Typically, we use the default nucleotide database “Nucleotide...plasmids with us or other entries in NCBI’s numerous databases. As our repository has grown over the years (we... explanation of the different BLAST programs, databases, and elements of the BLAST search pages. At Addgene...known reference sequence or to a BLAST sequence database. If you know the expected nucleotide sequence,...identity between your sequence and the reference/database sequence is ≥ 95%. [Our QC process would be trouble-free...blastx checks all six possible frames against the database. Another benefit is that a frameshift mutation... -
Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.... target cell surface receptors (Callaway 2008). Based on this, cell type specificity of the starter cell... -
Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....to help you learn more about fly biology and fly-based experimental systems. Some resources will direct...book for newbies on how to work with flies. Flybase.org is absolutely essential. You can look up information...many fly stocks that are available to everyone. Flybase lists what stocks are available at Bloomington,... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m....PMID: 27381852. Choi, Kyoung-Hee, et al. "A Tn7-based broad-range bacterial cloning and expression system... -
Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m....vector delivery is often used, the CRISPR approach based on HDR has the advantage of being a potentially ... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m....populations. Figure 2: Compensation example based on experimental sample. Flow plots showing a sample... -
Plasmids 101: Degron Tags
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m....in-frame to the protein of interest for plasmid-based expression systems. Degron tags are one of many ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m....clozapine-N-oxide, clozapine, and compound 21 in DREADD-based chemogenetics in mice. Scientific Reports 9: https... -
Of Myc and Men
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m....Antibodies Plasmids 101: Peptide Tagging Plasmid-based Recombinant Antibody Resources on Addgene.org ... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....neutralized by pre-existing antibodies against AAV9-based vectors (and vice versa), enabling repeat dosing... -
Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m....Voltage Sensitive Domain (VSD) GEVIs Simply put, VSD-based sensors consist of a VSD fused to a single fluorescent... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m....journal clubs have become popular, including those based on Twitter. At my former academic department, we... -
Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m....acceptor for fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy-based Förster resonance energy transfer (FLIM-FRET) in... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m....manager: Unlike academia, promotions in industry are based on people’s ability to manage others and work as... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m....find themselves plagued by troubleshooting a virus-based experiment at one point or another. After amplifying... -
Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m....the Plasmid Map: We auto-generate a plasmid map based off of the plasmid sequence and feature information... create their new plasmid. The Addgene Vector Database has more information about common vector backbones... -
Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m....Hopefully we will have new tools for plant science based around those technologies in the near future. Science... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m....amino acids. This is possible because there are 4 bases (A, T, C, and G) and 3 positions in each codon. ... at all in E. coli (you can find a variety of databases showing various organisms’ codon preferences online... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m....together a really great solution that covered all the bases. You may have also used your writing skills to convey... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2017, 2 p.m....you do? What follows are just a few suggestions based on what I have found to be especially beneficial... -
AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m....CREATE method? CREATE stands for Cre Recombinase-based AAV Targeted Evolution. In this technique, a pool... -
New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m....application to neuroscience research. What is CRISPR-based activation? To summarize, CRISPRa uses a nuclease-dead... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m....desk jobs “alternative careers.” Realistically, based on the numbers of PhDs and available positions alone... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....over the other BiFC is a convenient, fluorescence-based method for directly visualizing PPIs in cells. The... -
Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m....could be harnessed or enhanced for future MagLOV-based tools, just as light-induced conformational changes... -
Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m....simplicity we will discuss the more common enzyme-based reporter methods. For enzymatic signal detection... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Lentiviral Vectors for Delivery of Gene-Editing Systems Based on CRISPR/Cas: Current State and Perspectives. Viruses... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....followed by sequencing and further data analysis. Based on Figure 31.5.2 from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov... -
CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m....Learn about Non-Homologous End Joining Learn about Base Editing Read 3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for... -
Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m....appropriately credited, broadening the knowledge base of AAV vector performance in various brain regions... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....community obtained high-quality data for our DNA-based reagents. Not only do we extract as much information...we routinely wrote Python scripts, queried our database with SQL or Django, and executed code in Jupyter...