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  1. Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly

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    Sept. 6, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
    ...assembly. What makes it so forgiving, is the incorporation of a 3’-5’ exonuclease in the reaction mixture...assembly approaches, and opens the door for new opportunities in the field.  Gibson Assembly® is a registered...

  2. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    Aug. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...encodes it. That DNA sequence then needs to be incorporated into a host cell (through a process called transformation...FD-CF reactions affordable to many schools. Most importantly, experiments for FD-CF reactions can be fun and...

  3. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    June 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Gerald Schwank, first author of the cystic fibrosis report. “This is a big advantage over induced pluripotent...and many others. “Those off-target effects are important,” she said. “We also really need to get a handle...

  6. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    Nov. 7, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
    ... of being honest and straightforward, it’s an important part of being a “good scientific citizen” and ...Press journals, including Cell Metabolism, Cell Reports and Joule. In September 2017 she moved away from...

  8. Components of CRISPR/Cas9

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    Feb. 2, 2016, 5 p.m.
    ... combined with the tracrRNA forms the scaffold portion of a gRNA and the “spacer region” forms the target...

  9. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    Dec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
    ...the right candidate for the job. How can you incorporate the skills developed during graduate school into...whether to stay in academia or not, it is even more important to start early. Think about your plan for the ...

  10. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    May 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...binding. Suzuki et al. also envision eNLs as good reporter genes for endogenous protein fusions created using... substrate is required for imaging, and it is important to verify that this substrate does not alter cellular...

  12. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    March 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...detection limits of about 5% mutant targets have been reported for mismatch nuclease assays (2, 6, 7). Ability...nuclease assays are completely “blind” to this very important difference (Figure 3). If you are interested...

  13. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    Dec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...from the mol bio side you’re sure to have many opportunities to learn about and develop technologies that...FRET-based biosensing technique can be applied to an important neuronal signalling pathway - if you’ve got a ...

  14. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists

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    Dec. 11, 2018, 12:46 p.m.
    ...NPR, articles in magazines like Fast Company, opportunities to speak at conferences, and offers for postdoc...can fit into a researcher’s work day. It’s also important to remember that it’s not the amount of time you...

  15. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    Feb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...reader would glean from the image itself.  As we incorporated alt text into our work, we began to realize ..., and we’d love to hear yours as well.  More importantly, you can use these four steps for any type of...

  16. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    Feb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... provides a useful yet low-pressure teaching opportunity for lab members or students new to protein expression...induce high levels of gene activation for both reporter and endogenous genes. It is highly specific in...

  17. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications we discuss... plasmids can induce gene-specific silencing temporarily, long-term, and even inducibly depending on the...

  18. How Addgene Creates Content

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    Nov. 17, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...conversations, conferences, and questions our scientific support staff receives – in fact, the blog originally started... post (email [email protected].) We are here to support and advance the scientific community, and we can...

  19. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...aging. For both a screen and a selection, it is important to clearly define what type of factor you are ...whole genome), they knock down gene expression temporarily. RNAi libraries are especially useful if you ...

  20. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    Feb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ... cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways...which can then activate expression of a luciferase reporter in the nucleus. The Roth lab showed that this ...

  21. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    June 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m.
    ...sequence flexibility indicates that gRNAs could be incorporated into these constructs without compromising cleavage...slightly higher mutation rates than they’d previously reported in protoplasts (15% and 9% of target sites.) How...

  22. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    April 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
    ...process involve repairing chromosomal DSBs. It is important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways...chance of causing a frameshift mutation. Of some importance, the deletion can be less heterogeneous when ...

  23. Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors

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    Feb. 25, 2014, 7:11 p.m.
    ...): These are considered low copy vectors and incorporate part of an ARS along with part of a centromere...nutrient, the host cells will die unless they have incorporated the plasmid carrying the required gene.  The...

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

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...plasmids have been introduced by transfection or electroporation. All you do to create a protein that binds ...where particular variants or mutations have been reported in people, we can use this kit to knock in those...

  26. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    Aug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m.
    ...interacting proteins, which results in poor spatiotemporal resolution for in vivo work. APEX2, a faster...identify highly biotinylated background proteins reported by other research groups that performed BirA*-...

  27. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...combinatorial libraries, and high specificity has been reported for a number of targets. Due to their size and...ain't broke, don't fix it!  That being said, it's important to know all your options when planning and running...

  28. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...for IgG subtypes from different animals so it’s important to choose the reagent that works for your species...sure the staining you are seeing is real. It’s important to include a negative control using serum from...

  29. To Each HIS Own

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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...tended to be very large and often required the incorporation of a cleavage site and a post-purification cleavage...very pure sample. Because binding strength is proportional to the length of the tag, with longer tags you...

  30. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...biology known as bioelectricity is revealing the important role of bioelectrical signaling mediated by ion-channels...technologies are now available for fluorescent reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators...

  33. Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?

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    Jan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
    ...Thesis (who has also blogged for us) offers a free report on her website called “Secrets to Success in Graduate...be helpful having a coach that can offer extra support for issues of diversity in science.  A great person...

  34. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ...lines can be found in the Cell Catalog on our data portal. The plasmids should be functional in many different...and the donor plasmid into the cells we use electroporation, a technique that briefly destabilizes the ...

  35. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...Perturbation Platform, to produce their shRNA library to support functional investigations of the mammalian genome...together with expression of fluorescent or enzymatic reporters for cellular assays and animal imaging studies...

  37. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...grown in high concentrations of IL-3 show a high proportion of blue fluorescence, indicating cell proliferation...they could not proliferate. Eastman et al. Cell Reports 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107804...

  40. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    Aug. 9, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...antibodies for IHC. Working with collaborators and support from the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative...recombinant antibodies are a newer technology, it is important to show through qualitative data that they are...
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