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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....What is an aptamer? Nearly 30 years ago, two independent groups, led by Jack Szostak and Larry Gold, ... Assays that require recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune...
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CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m....the introduction of this mutation can be any site early in the coding region of the gene of interest. This...Repressing target genes using dCas9-based repressors Early experiments using dCas9 in bacteria demonstrated... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... to keep up with the latest tools. In Addgene’s early days, we would ‘spot-check’ critical regions of ...us to keep pace with our current need to analyze nearly 300 sequences each week. Our internal software ... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m....easier to find materials and learn about them. As early as 2007, we began grouping similar tools together...12 guides available on our website, which are regularly used by scientists around the world. Collectively... -
Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m....major effect on scientists within academia, most particularly postdocs working in the U.S., whose current ...thing. Reliance on a cheap trainee workforce has clearly not been a sustainable approach to biomedical research... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... is still a problem today. It is now known that nearly 500 cell lines suffer from contamination with HeLa...out on low passage cells and this means you can regularly discard the cells you are working with because... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....American Type Culture Collection and freeze as many early passage vials as possible. One problem that often...can make this assumption incorrect. One of the earliest steps in lentiviral transduction is the interaction... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... determine this is to examine expression of the early response gene c-fos. For example, using Chr2 stimulation...and a lot of room for error, optogenetics is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Like every other advanced... -
Hot Plasmids Spring 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... Janelia, are now available! Building on their earlier Voltron indicators (a fusion of Ace2N and HaloTag...Neurodegeneration Research Collection. This page is regularly updated with useful materials for research into... -
Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....article is an interactive chart where you can see the yearly interdisciplinarity index of research for single...and case study." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2.2 (2014): 2. Additional Resources... -
Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m....between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...related species from which they were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian,... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m....the use of bright red fluorescent proteins (e.g. mScarlet) or infrared fluorescent proteins (Chernov et ...interfere with the function of the protein. This is clearly the case when proteins undergo post-translational... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m....vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system...is composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m....how much time you can possibly handle doing a particularly annoying task and then dedicating that much ...dinner plans at 6 pm, you had better get started early enough to finish everything you need to do by 6 ... -
Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m....conducted a large scale sequencing and concluded that nearly all disease-linked human genes have counterparts...the most popular model amphibians in science with early research providing insight into some of the most... -
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m....distancing. With countries like South Korea, one of the earlier epicenters of the outbreak ultimately flattening... is a one-pot, one-temperature reaction, and is nearly single-molecule sensitive. In the case of HIV-1... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m....animals only permits visualization of two colors. Similarly, Flybow adapts Brainbow 2.0 for use in Drosophila...PMID: 21205846. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3082469. Tarlow, Branden D., Milton J. Finegold, and Markus Grompe... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 5, 2017, 1:58 p.m.... undergoing two rounds of gene-editing enables scarless introduction of an intended mutation while taking...4. Kwart, Dylan, et al. "Precise and efficient scarless genome editing in stem cells using CORRECT." Nature... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m....other videos. For starters, I hadn’t anticipated nearly every webcam recording only 1280x720 resolution... to labs that need them. The lab re-opened very early in the pandemic with some incredibly strict safety... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m....BioRender.com. This kind of normalization is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but proceed with caution! Loading...chain (blue) to infer or calculate things about earlier ones. In practice, multiple sources of error (red...