...10.1016/j.cell.2020.12.015 Garcia-Beltran WF, Lam EC, St. Denis K, Nitido AD, Garcia ZH, Hauser BM, Feldman...current vaccines differed depending on the variants (Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021). Antibodies from individuals...the P.1 and B.1.351 variants tested. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission.   The...quantified in terms of luminescence. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission.   Mutations...sera with various pseudotyped virus. Image from Garcia-Beltran et al., 2021 with permission.   Difference...plasmids at Addgene to accelerate ongoing COVID-19 research. “I hope that by sharing the plasmids other scientists...146. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03471-w Garcia-Beltran WF, Lam EC, Astudillo MG, Yang D, Miller...

...Fluorophores In this post, Luke Lavis from Janelia Research Campus reminds us that, although fluorescent proteins.... To learn how you can use minigenomes in your research, check out this post! R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing... post, Jessica Polka, formerly a postdoctoral researcher in the Silver Lab at Harvard University, describes...CombiGEM is a technology that can be used to quickly barcode a set of DNA sequences. In this post, Alan Wong... Lab at MIT) shows how you can use CombiGEM to barcode small libraries of CRISPR gRNAs to use for screening...Genome Editing CRISPR has revolutionized how researchers make knockouts and other types of genome edits...In this post, Chris Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab, describes how you can better...

...database is to browse or search information in more powerful ways, and the advanced search page simplifies the...contributed by guest blogger Talley Lambert, a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School. The need ... most indispensable tools in modern biological research.  Any microscopist will tell you that selection...has been very useful over the years, and when researchers come to us for advice on choosing a protein, ...particular FP; this can be done directly using the search bar on the homepage (and at the top of all pages...the process of building advanced multi-parametric search queries.  Looking for a bright, monomeric FP published...guest blogger Talley Lambert! Talley Lambert is a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School. He manages...

...agreement that states the terms of use for a tangible research material that is shared between two parties. There... for organizations to make policy decisions on research use agreements. The UBMTA, which is the MTA most...well-understood and accepted by the majority of research institutes.  Pro tip! In most academic and nonprofit...Transfer department is responsible for managing research use agreements like MTAs.  Addgene does a lot ...plasmids at Addgene are shared under the UBMTA, researchers additionally have the option of distributing ...which allows the plasmids to be distributed for research use only to industry-based scientists. Some organizations...OpenMTA, which allows plasmids to be used for both research and commercial purposes. It’s important to note...

... results helps other researchers using these plasmids and will give your research more visibility.    ...By Will Arnold and Shreya Vedantam Accelerating research by improving the availability of materials is ...to help academic and industrial labs accelerate research and to help find a faster solution to the COVID...coli and S. cerevisiae expression vectors in late March. The first set of 383 constructs went online just...samples, the rest will be put into a status we call “Archived.” This status allows us to store plasmids and ... is indeed global. Helping scientists speed up research is what we’re here for and we’re glad to be able...Ginkgo Bioworks  Find COVID-19 plasmids for your research Browse the Ginkgo Bioworks COVID-19 Plasmid Collection...

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... most commonly used research tools in scientists’ pockets. They allow researchers to identify and isolate...an antibody that will be essential to your new research project, but unsure which one will mark your target...bind to the target). Unreliable antibodies cause research that cannot be reproduced and projects that cannot... with collaborators and support from the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies...Dr. Wu please contact us here! Ava Shipman is a research assistant in lab of Zhuhao Wu at the Icahn School...Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research. Nature 518, 27–29 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038...The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research. PLoS Biol 13(6): e1002165. https://doi.org/10.1371...

...on a stochastic search algorithm rather than pre-designed sets, so identical searches can return multiple...particularly for high-complexity reactions? The researchers over at New England Biolabs® thought otherwise...design (DAD) to build out three tools to help researchers design high-fidelity Golden Gate Assemblies and...three tools developed, outlined below, allow for researchers to select large sets (with overhangs that violate...You can define the number of fragments, and the “search windows” you’d like the tool to use to identify... can exclude specific sequences or set a narrow search window for a site—or sites—that must be used. Each...necessarily require cycling. The Pros and Cons Researchers used the tools above to complete a 52-piece assembly...