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  1. Fostering communication in remote collaborations

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    Blog Post
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    April 21, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...challenge when researchers are communicating across disciplines or doing different tasks. But these challenges...can be exaggerated when communicating across time zones, digitally, and asynchronously. The best way to ...collaborating with remotely. Depending on the willingness of the team to adopt various tools, this may ...collaboration includes scientists working in different time zones, it’s important that everyone can access data and... collaboration. Some things to figure out are timelines for experiments and manuscripts, who is responsible...your recurring meetings and reaching out if any milestones are missed. Spend time in person Presenting...

  2. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m.
    ...thanks to our guest writer, Pamela J. Hines, PhD! Pamela J. Hines is a Senior Editor at Science magazine... post was contributed by guest writer Pamela J. Hines PhD, Senior Editor at Science Magazine. Although...replication and gene transcription during vertebrate embryogenesis. My interests, though, have proven unruly. Instead...journalism? Take a look at our news editors. A fondness for visualization of science? Look at our graphics...French horn, and rhubarb. Follow her on Twitter @Pam_Hines and LinkedIn. Additional Resources on the Addgene...

  3. Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 25, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...graduate student, you are in a system that, quite honestly, does not value your potential contribution to... science, you are likely lacking the necessary business background and/or connections to even begin this...pitch what you hope to build.  Then ask for their honest opinions -- this part might hurt, but if you pitch...made, we considered the feedback and adjusted our business model accordingly until we had a model that was...This will allow you to discuss each project and business decision before making it, to have an internal...faculty, venture capital and angel investors, and business development heads at major companies.  The majority...

  4. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
    ...signaling is likely to have). Anterograde tracing outlines neurons from their cell bodies to the terminals...terminals of their axons; while retrograde tracing outlines neurons in the opposite direction, from the terminals... dynein, while anterograde transport relies on kinesin. Different rates of speed for various forms of ...predominately anterograde tracing, biotinylated dextran amines (Veenman et al., 1992) or fluorescent molecules... achieved by using optogenetically controlled transgenes, in combination with conditional transgenic mice... M., and Schnell, M. (2008). Concepts in the pathogenesis of rabies. Future Virol 3(5), 481–490. PubMed...Ho, A., Nicholas, E., Hirokawa, K.E., Bohn, P., Joines, K.M., Peng, H., Hawrylycz, M.J., Phillips, J.W...

  5. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 15, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...more commonly used backbones and specific primers you can use to confirm your clones. You can also find...screen will help you more easily identify successful clones so you have to weed through fewer colonies after...antibiotic resistance. But what about identifying clones that contain your desired insert? This is where...how you can use restriction digest to screen your clones, but there are many other ways to choose restriction...PCR.   Sanger sequencing Sanger sequencing determines the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA...

  6. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...MSCV (Murine Stem Cell Virus) sequences. Packaging genes (viral Gag-Pol): Gag is a structural precursor protein...tropisms.  Packaging using helper-free packaging cell lines This method utilizes a packaging cell line that ...and/or Env, eliminating the need to deliver these genes in trans by specific plasmids. This method, therefore...standard γ-retroviruses use the Gag, Pol, and Env genes for packaging; however, they are different viruses...replication incompetent? Yes, as with lentiviruses, the genes required for γ-retroviral packaging and transduction...element; sequence that stimulates the expression of transgenes via increased nuclear export. LTR Subcomponents...

  7. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    Blog Post
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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...nucleic acid-based vaccines. These vectors provide several advantages over traditional vaccines, including 1... knock it out, etc. It’s how we understand what genes do! Viruses have several options to allow you to...engineered to introduce frameshift mutations in genes of interest, turning expression off permanently....2007.   Clinical applications Viruses in vaccines helped pave the way for their use in other clinical...The use of viral vectors in vaccine development. Vaccines. 7, 75 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41541...

  8. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    Blog Post
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    March 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...virus will target and fuse with. In nature, this determines which organisms and cells they infect. In the...the fear of random genomic integration causing mutagenesis in the host. Adenoviruses can deliver relatively...Dividing Cells Moderate Immunogenicity Insertional Mutagenesis Possible Lentivirus Infects non-dividing...non-dividing cells Insertional Mutagenesis Possible Adenovirus Remains Episomal (Little Risk of...of Insertional Mutagenesis) High Gene Expression Infects Non-Dividing Cells Large Packaging Capacity (... AAV Remains Episomal (Little Risk of Mutagenesis) Very Low Immunogenicity Infects Non-Dividing...

  9. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...all known genes. This is a perfect example of an unbiased, reverse screen – all known genes are assayed... a biological process. Players can be proteins, genes, enzymes, drugs, or anything else that plays a role...where there is removal of known factors (such as a genes) and the loss of those factors is assessed. The ...similar to CRISPR, but instead of knocking out the genes of interest (or the whole genome), they knock down...especially useful if you are interested in studying genes whose knockout would be lethal to cells and thus...

  10. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    Blog Post
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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...on cell lines susceptible to or dependent on certain media components, and are rescued by genes supplied...colonies (used to complement auxotrophic cell lines), or genes which rescue a lethal phenotype. Resources... transformed plasmid. Such plasmids may contain genes that allow for the use of a particular substrate...list of Bacterial Expression Systems Find Empty Backbones for Your Experiments    ...

  11. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...number of genes involved in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We are knocking out genes that have...mutant versions of 15 different disease-associated genes. Addgene spoke to Musunuru about how the new kit...kit is quite useful in generating the mutant cell lines that one needs to do disease modeling in stem cells...several mutations in the same gene or in multiple genes, all of which seem to contribute to a particular...iPS) cells from patients and try to compare those lines, they may all have the mutations but they will also...

  12. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    Blog Post
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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...producing landslide after landslide, only adding more stones to the field. Fortunately, our bodies have been... (Th) cells. These cells produce inflammatory cytokines - interleukin (IL)-12 and interferon gamma (IFNγ... promotes the production of VEGF to increase angiogenesis around the tumor. This in turn regulates the...cancer. Surgical removal causes increases in tumor cytokines like TGFβ and IL-6. However, when strengthened...response. Antibodies targeting the tumor-augmenting cytokines produced in the tumor microenvironment TGFβ, IL...necroptotic tumor cells have also been tested as vaccines and therapeutics. Their uptake by DCs is increased...marker blockade and suppression of tumor-aiding cytokines, for example, will more broadly activate the immune...

  13. dTAG - You're it!

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    Blog Post
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    June 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
    ...experiments. Test dTAG molecule toxicity in new cell lines Treat parental cells (or cells expressing a control...FKBP12F36V-fusion chimera of interest. In the cell lines we have evaluated to date, we observed little to...FKBP12F36V fusion chimera degradation. In the cell lines we have evaluated to date, we have not observed ...was employed to evaluate degradation of ENL. Cell lines were engineered to express ENL-FKBP12F36V and endogenous... employed to evaluate degradation of MELK. Cell lines were engineered to express FKBP12F36V-MELK and endogenous...was employed to evaluate degradation of YY1. Cell lines were engineered to express YY1-FKBP12F36V using ...

  14. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...are tumor microenvironments made of?  A tumor’s genesis is divided into 3 phases: initiation, progression...active regions, microenvironments shape a tumor’s evasiveness, evolution, and response to treatment. Some microenvironment...transport miRNA from drug-resistant cells to sensitive ones. Though this process is not fully understood, a ...formation by inhibiting cell growth, invasion, and angiogenesis (Allinen et al., 2004). In fact, Sanford H. ...influence tumor microenvironments: immunology and angiogenesis (Witz et al., 2009). Then, scientists began ...Fernando Schmitt. "Microenvironment in breast tumorigenesis: Friend or foe?." Histology and histopathology...

  15. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    Blog Post
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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...either through a chromogenic or chemiluminescent reaction. Chemiluminescence, which is light produced by ...the primary amine groups from lysines, sulfhydryl groups from cysteines, or carbohydrates from glycosylation... found throughout the antibody. 2) Endogenous cysteines, such as those that make up the disulfide bonds...antibody (Mueller, et al., 1988). If some of those lysines are in the antigen binding region or even just ...

  16. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...So how can you use CRISPR to introduce large FP genes into C. elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet... fluoresce. The team engineered C. elegans cell lines to express wrmScarlet1-10 unattached to any other... validated this tool by targeting six different genes whose protein products have distinct localizations... library that targets human glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular glycosylation...deletes human alternative cassette exons and disrupts genes with alternative exons. Get the library from Addgene... format! The library inhibits over 18,000 human genes. Find the lentiviral preps at Addgene hSyn1-SIO-stGtACR1...

  17. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    Blog Post
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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...into ‘split-vector systems’ by separating viral genes and transgene expression across several plasmids...that allow functional screening of thousands of genes in genome-wide experiments. Gamma-retroviral vs...direct the cellular RNAi machinery to silence target genes. This empty MuLV vector from the Weinberg lab enables...find more lentiviral expression vectors (empty backbones) here. Cloning and expressing new shRNA sequences...lentiviral backbone from the Zhang lab expressing S. pyogenes Cas9 and a gRNA cassette. It can be used to produce...studies. The ability to simultaneously alter multiple genes via infection with a single ecotropic or amphotropic...

  18. Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 1, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...stripping to remove, so start with the weaker binding ones first to preserve your sample. Pro tip! Because ...reprobing works best with western blots that use chemiluminescent or fluorescent detection, like horseradish...protein retention. Following this step, most PVDF membranes recommend re-wetting with methanol before rinsing...the membrane you are using. Dry nitrocellulose membranes are brittle, so proceed with caution. Unlike PVDF...your own stripping solution using a recipe like the ones shared by Bio-Techne, ThermoFisher, or Millipore...remains, whether that involves adding fresh chemiluminescent substrate or imaging your fluorescent probe...

  19. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... to, ones targeting muscular dystrophy, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases, blindness, and ... cancer treatment by traditional gene therapy pipelines (viral), and researchers are currently working...many more in the earlier stages of the pipeline, ones that have experienced hiccups (either clinically...challenges with therapies involve patient safety, effectiveness, and delivery. Patient safety is important for...concerning when using a systemic approach. Regarding effectiveness, if the editing frequency isn’t high enough ...

  20. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...expression yielded editing of 80–90% in human cell lines and primary cells. Although cell entry of a Cas9...minimal toxicity, including in clinically-relevant lines such as CAR-T cells. Plus, this method is fast! ...break up the dimerization without losing that brightness and stability. Here’s a quick overview of these...variants:   Figure 2: Inner mitochondrial membranes imaged with structured illumination microscopy.... This variant has similar photostability and brightness compared to the original, though its maturation...versions. Thanks to Christophe Leterrier, whose FocalPlanes piece on mStayGold inspired and informed this...
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