...institute. A common reason is hands-on training in a technique that only a few labs have expertise in. Visiting...sure you read any relevant literature for the techniques you will be performing to familiarize yourself...help you with your research and teach you new techniques. Show up on time (don’t make your bench mentor...

... for gene editing. They named this new array architecture the DAP array, short for “drive-and-process....payloads. Different from existing multiplex array architectures, including previous tRNA-gRNA arrays, that rely...Comparison of previous representative dual-gRNA architectures with DAP array   Qichen Yuan is a PhD...

...turns 10 years old, it’s easy to forget that this technique isn’t limited to neuroscience. In fact, precise... method for the computational problem of edge detection. Tabor et al. subsequently engineered a second...publication at Addgene. A synthetic genetic edge detection program. Tabor JJ, Salis HM, Simpson ZB, Chevalier...

... and open source software, hardware, wetware, technology development, etc). Second, the potential hire...job satisfaction (especially for scientists and technical people) is linked to engagement and access to ...you would like to head for a career in pharma or biotech, this is one case where the topic of your research...

...visible part behind these changes: the backend technology that powers the new website search. Tackling ... resources, blog posts or reagent items.  The technology behind Addgene’s new search  Like millions of...PI labs and institutions. There are many more technical details that make our new search engine unique...

... sharing, there will always be an interest in protecting intellectual property. Figuring out that balance...year and we have a very dominant presence in the biotech sector in both patent law and general life science...Young, LLP, auditing insurance, finance and high-tech industries. He has earned both an MBA in finance...

...fluorescent molecule. A higher brightness increases the detected signal and therefore high brightness is an important...brightness that does not fold well or cannot be detected in a microscopy setup has zero practical brightness...excitation wavelength, available emission filters, and detector sensitivity) and the biological system (temperature...

...Reversing the orientation of the direct repeat protects the (+) stranded lentivirus RNA from Cpf1-mediated... is one of the latest developments in CRISPR technologies.  It’s a simple and effective method with multiple...CRISPR–Cpf1 Asing a Single crRNA Array." Nature Biotechnology 35.1 (2016): 31-34. Pubmed PMID: 27918548. 2...

...acids in the domain). Yan et al. from Arbor Biotechnologies found that RspCas13d accessory protein RspWYL1...functional in multiple species (read Arbor Biotechnologies' press release about their Cas13d deposit here...Addgene. Learn more about research at Arbor Biotechnologies. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog:...

...features with gamma-retrovirus including genome architecture, host integration, and its association with ...Schambach A. Gammaretroviral vectors: biology, technology and application. Viruses. 2011 Jun;3(6):677-713...An Overview of the Application of Viruses to Biotechnology. Viruses. 2021 Oct 14;13(10):2073. DOI: 10.3390...

...gaps and add to them as techniques evolve. Blog posts get out of date as techniques and knowledge changes... useful information on scientific literature, technical skills, and experiences from thousands of laboratories...

... creativity in employing a variety of cloning techniques and troubleshooting methodologies drew me to ...antibodies are commonly used in research laboratories to detect the different subclasses, but there are also secondary...use of subclass specific secondary antibodies to detect multiple targets with different mAbs in the same...

...biology techniques. What’s all the fuss? Well, ChIP’s complexities come not from the techniques used, but...immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an extremely useful technique that provides insight into protein:DNA interactions...

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...Biomedical Engineering, 2020. PubMed PMID: 31937940. Detection of neural activity using a red fluorescent genetically...encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) are proteins that detect and output the voltage changes in neural activity..., has increasingly been recognized for its biotechnological applications including conversion of CO2 into...

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