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  1. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    April 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
    ...for more complicated plasmids, like those that contain synthesized regions that have no publicly available...often find a few mismatches in the origin of replication or other common backbone elements. Since we’ve...chicken beta actin promoter, and rabbit beta-globin splice acceptor, contains sequence that is over 80% GC...
  2. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    Aug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...prevent the formation of replication competent lentivirus (RCL). Replication competence can arise from...end-users, size of the transgene, and downstream applications should all be considered when choosing the correct... as resources available, cost and downstream applications. For example, while the PEG precipitation method...
  3. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ... in situ hybridization experiments. A recent publication [1] from the Sánchez lab describes the plasmids...the deposit) are described in the Sánchez lab publication [1] so that the students performing these experiments...Phagocata gracillis, the process is a little more complicated. These strains are more picky eaters and refuse...easily investigate in planarians. References 1. Alice Accorsi, Monique M. Williams, Eric J. Ross, Sofia...
  4. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    May 22, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ... become very different due to a whole genome duplication and extensive rearrangements in the S. cerevisiae...overexpression vector. This plasmid contains origins of replication and selectable markers that allow students to...functional MET genes to grow.) Students then use replica plating to determine if expression of MET/Met genes...undergraduate courses and in communicating science to the public. You can find out more about Clare at the Biology...
  5. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ... feeling of conflict many of us associate with negotiating (check out more about conflict resolution)....examples of negotiation have been: A job offer conflicts with a pre-planned vacation I’m looking forward...blog More from the transferable skills guide: Conflict Resolution Time management Managing a team Leadership...
  6. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ... as a helicase. Following recruitment by Cascade, Cas3 nicks the non-target strand. The helicase domain...After these initial steps, Cas3 can perform its helicase and nuclease functions simultaneously, by continuously...Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications with the type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome...
  7. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ... original CAPTURE and CAPTURE 2.0 methods.   Applications of CAPTURE 2.0 CAPTURE 2.0’s increased rate ...identified with the multiplexed CAPTURE 2.0 largely replicated interactions previously identified with the original... of chromatin interaction networks  A second application for CAPTURE 2.0 is the construction of spatial...temporal changes in chromatin interactions A third application for CAPTURE 2.0 is detection of temporal changes...
  8. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    Nov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m.
    ...setting—especially if job applications require teaching experience or high numbers of publications, which may take...people involved is staggering. The process is complicated. If you’re interested in the drug discovery process... proprietary compounds or information. Where publication is expected, the process is similar to academia...
  9. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
    ...T4 DNA ligase. Inserts, either precloned or in amplicon form (shown above) are flanked by BsaI sites in...efficiency measurements using similarly sized Lambda amplicon inserts to control for any suppression of background...Kucera is a Principal Development Scientist of Applications & Product Development focusing on DNA cloning...Optimization of Golden Gate assembly through application of ligation sequence-dependent fidelity and bias...
  10. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... millions of people die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics, new...non-cancerous cells, such as those within hair follicles and lining the digestive system, causing discomfort...any of these genes through several different applications such as fluorescent protein fusion studies and...of interest to their laboratory. A single mouse click on a gene of interest will direct the investigator...
  11. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ... in learning more about any one of them, please click on the links throughout the text or see the “Additional...cloning. Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC) could also be a great choice, because the T4 polymerase...The ligation-independent methods like Gibson and SLIC are also quite efficient; although efficiency often...some of the homology based methods, like Gibson or SLIC, since one can pool the components and define their...
  12. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...with an abundance of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this...experiment or evaluating ExM images in a new publication.         Why Expansion Microscopy?  Traditional...Tissue expansion is not compatible with in vivo applications and there’s just not much to be done about that...are typically easier to expand than mouse brain slices, which are easier to expand than, say, a C. elegans...
  13. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ... and have been adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (... The process also creates a 5-bp target-site duplication (TSD), a hallmark characteristic of the Tn7-family...at one or multiple desired genomic loci. Many applications of these systems have already been demonstrated..., 2020), to multi-copy genomic integration of metabolic cassettes (Zhang et al. 2020); however, the technology...
  14. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests ...14%). Spikes in plasmid requests correspond to publications of popular papers. Figure 1: Plasmid requests...effects fairly well. However, we observed one complication in the China data – there is a period of 1 month...fundamental scientific discovery and high-impact applications.       Alvin Hsu is a graduate student at Harvard...
  15. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...early I’m fortunate to live in a town with a good public school system that has made strong efforts in the...simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated and I would quickly lose their interest. I won...opinion, it was more important to communicate the applications of CRISPR over the details of how it worked....examples I used in my presentation had only become public in the previous two weeks, which demonstrated to...
  16. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...describe this technology and some of its potential applications? Fujii: We generated a series of retroviral ...the peer-review system of journals and grant applications, for example. However, at the same time, it'.... So, young researchers need to publish good publications in a short period of time and may need to do...available. Visit Hodaka Fujii lab's Addgene page and click the "Subscribe to Alerts" link in the Addgene Alerts...
  17. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    Jan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...it down until you have something tangible and applicable to your situation.   Thinking Outside the Box...give people more work. Identify your enemies In Felicia Day’s book Embrace your Weird, Day identifies nine...for your idea. Our product team has implemented a policy of never rejecting an idea simply because it's ...innovative group. Our entire company benefits from their policy! Perfectionism When we reach for perfection, our...
  18. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...hour. Find the SHERLOCK plasmids at Addgene! Applications of the SHERLOCK detection system The Zhang lab...portability. This method can be used for an array of applications including clinical diagnostics (e.g. pathogen...patient samples. Find the DETECTR plasmids here! Applications of DETECTR in diagnostics DETECTR allows for...an array of molecular and clinical diagnostic applications. The company Mammoth Biosciences has been started...
  19. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    Oct. 20, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...have real conversations with other scientists. Click Here to Visit Joanne’s AMA I've heard of Reddit,...Anything” was appealing, but also scary. I do a lot of public speaking where I enjoy communicating face to face...posters (this advice included leaving out the term “implicit bias” which is apparently a troll trigger phrase...recommend taking every opportunity you get to speak publically about your work (you can find my tips for a perfect...
  20. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Institute, Public Domain, National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia user Aimecie~commonswiki, Public Domain...let alone the human cost. Here are just a few publications which have since been retracted due to cell ...profiles are available for all the major cell lines on public databases. Image attributions (from top to bottom...
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