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  1. Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations

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    April 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
    ...careers. External collaborations are becoming increasingly important as more complex approaches to scientific...seminar to connect the imaging community and to create a platform for discussions and potential collaborations...postdoctoral work there are loads of opportunities to create communities, platforms, and to be a part of projects...your ideas and don’t be afraid to make something concrete happen. You may have more willing collaborators...make sure to share them with a short note - this creates a thoughtful way of interacting and is much more...

  2. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Dicer chops off the loop of hairpin structures to create a mature siRNA duplex. Fun fact! Endogenous miRNA...production starts with transcription of the miRNA to create pri-miRNA, which is then processed by a complex...shRNA and miRNA processing and silencing pathways. Created on BioRender.com.   Expressing shRNAs using...Highlighted blue regions show flanking genomic sequence. Created on BioRender.com. When it comes to the backbone...expression of specific mRNAs. shRNAs are a quick way to create stable knockdown cells lines, and you can usually...

  3. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    May 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... used for a variety of research purposes, like creating stable cell lines, delivering CRISPR/Cas9 to cells...vector with an integrase-deficient viral vector. Created with BioRender.com. What are integrase-deficient... episomal forms of non-integrating transgenes. Created with BioRender.com; adapted from Banasik and McCray...regions of the genome (Schröder et al., 2002), thus increasing the risk for insertional mutagenesis. This integration...remember: You can never trust a lentivirus with secrets... Because they tend to insert themselves into ...

  4. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
    ... ligase The Roux Lab in 2016 optimized BioID to create BioID2, a smaller and improved promiscuous biotin...was its low sensitivity. Sensitivity could be increased with higher expression levels but for many fusion...until they identified a mutant with significantly increased sensitivity that did not affect the function or...miniTurbo were developed in the Ting Lab in 2018 to increase the speed of proximity labeling by promiscuous... BASU exhibits 1,000 fold faster kinetics and increases the signal to noise ratio 30-fold compared to ...

  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    April 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m.
    ...fluorescent protein can be truncated to increase the FRET efficiency. Creating fusions at the N- and C- termini...double the size of the protein. In addition, it increases avidity because it doubles the number of binding...non-aliphatic amino acids. However, long linkers increase the chance that a fusion protein is cleaved by...Sheridan, Douglas L., et al. "A new way to rapidly create functional, fluorescent fusion proteins: random...

  6. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...for quantitative imaging, Ming Hammond’s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach...was cloned into bacterial expression vectors to create a library. Bacteria were transformed, and then ...for in vivo studies. Dimerization of Broccoli increases its fluorescence by about 1.8-fold, and may be...for greater contact with its RNA aptamer. This increased interaction between Corn and its small molecule... to TO1-biotin. Two of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango, and all are photostable...

  7. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... optimized Cas9 variants have been created in an effort to increase translation in a particular plant ... the development of disease-resistant crops to increase agricultural yield (Wang et al., 2016; Wang et... the intervening region into the plant genome. Created with BioRender.com. In recent years, deaminase-mediated...Addgene carries several useful CRISPR toolkits for creating plant expression plasmids, including plant CRISPR...

  8. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...highly recommend watching this entertaining video created by our friends on the Cambridge 2010 iGEM team ...of homology at their ends, which are typically created by PCR. Then, the fragments are incubated together... homology between neighboring fragments can be created via PCR amplification with primers that contain...typically fairly high, so there is usually no need to screen a large amount of colonies. Excluding the time ...advantages that Gibson assembly does not such as increased efficiency, shorter incubation times, or the ability...

  9. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...from Aschauer et al., 2013, Figure 1. Used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Within the nervous...can become methylated over time, resulting in decreased expression (Damdindorj et al., 2014; Nieuwenhuis...from Griffin et al., 2019, Figure 4. Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License....vice versa. The total volume needed, however, increases with the size of the region you want to cover ... effects (e.g. recombinase-dependent vectors) increases with the amount of virus you add, so it is strongly...

  10. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...generated by SnapGene software.  Thanks to increasing affordability and accessibility, more researchers...by growing seed stocks at 30°C compared to 42°C. Screen multiple colonies to isolate the monomer Sometimes... 1984; Summers et al., 1993). In these cases, screening multiple bacterial colonies using one of the detection...DNA-forming sequences and WRN deficiency independently increase the frequency of base substitution in human cells... self-control and a sense of direction are the secrets of multicopy plasmid stability. Mol Microbiol. ...

  11. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further increase the complexity...system into a repressible system, Gossen and Bujard created the tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA...bacterial operons. A chimeric transactivator, cTA, was created by fusing CymR to the activation domain VP16. cTA...state, and co-expression of the inducer QF can increase QUAS driven expression by ~3,300-fold in Drosophila...

  12. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    Jan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... is a tumour suppressor. This summer role was incredibly valuable because it was a set duration of only...with the large scale data analysis, as this is increasingly reliant on programming skills which are not ...attempted was more meetings, but this simply seemed to create more bureaucracy. As with any large company (both...detection and diagnosis of different types of pancreatic cancer and highlighting which treatment would... mutations. This is a particular challenge in pancreatic cancer where one drug does not work for all patients...

  13. Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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    Oct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...understanding of how protein folding works and creating biological tools not found in nature. Dr. Baker... Figure 1: Top7 receives the Nobel Prize. Created with BioRender.com. Top7 gets its name from...approximate, two-dimensional map. The Baker Lab wanted to create a new fold that is not present in nature (at least...simply to be stable and novel, the principles that created it have been applied to numerous other protein ...

  14. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    Jan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m.
    ...example) that are used to increase or decrease expression of a gene. Screen: A library of gRNAs with a...cell population. The resulting mutant cells are screened for phenotypes of interest. Limitations of CRISPR...

  15. Congratulations, Deck The Lab winners!

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    Jan. 14, 2021, 1:30 p.m.
    ...annual Deck the Lab competition drew upon the creativity of the community, who delivered impressive science-themed... used an impressive variety of lab materials to create their decorations! Despite all the craziness of...first place in the home edition, the MicrobiGals created glow in the dark petri dish ornaments and microbe...December 23, 2020   In second place, Dr. Anne Madden created a microbe advent tree displaying over 25 archaea...

  16. Finding Your Science Policy Path

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    Sept. 22, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Each path to science policy is unique and this creates a rich and diverse workforce. Out of all the career...QUESTION. Science policy is the work you do to creatively connect seemingly disparate individuals and ideas...also happen at the state and local level. The big secret about science policy that I didn’t learn until ...bring researchers to Congress to advocate for increased science funding and other issues. Whether you ... field where you have no specific scientific credentials.  But before you even apply to that first science...

  17. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    Nov. 28, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ...my partner Mike and I split the work, shared the credit, and we both won accolades that would launch our..., the Senior Scientist who coordinates all kit creation and quality control efforts with depositors; .... We worked with Andrew, the team’s founder, to create a mission statement in the first few meetings and...becoming part of a team is a really good way of creating and strengthening those social bonds. So never...communication options. Addgene, along with an increasing number of academic labs, uses Slack constantly...

  18. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    Dec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m.
    ... to screen for positive clones in most cases, and restriction enzyme digest can be used to screen plasmids...strand was degraded. Beta: Beta protects the ssDNA created by Exo and promotes its annealing to a complementary...recombination frequency between 0.1% to 1%, and can be increased to as high as 25-50% by designing oligos that ...recombination than dsDNA substrates, so you should screen more clones when using dsDNA. Have you used the...

  19. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...be used in concert with in silico prediction to create a more comprehensive list of off-target editing...of DSBs throughout the genome. However, their decreased sensitivity means that the best option moving ...with a focus on the ways science can be used to create a more just and equitable society. Read more at.... Bell, Charles C., et al. "A high-throughput screening strategy for detecting CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutations...Learn to Use Cas9 Activators Perform Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Generate Mouse Models with CRISPR/Cas9...

  20. Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training

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    June 3, 2014, 2:14 p.m.
    ...paths. Check out Joanne's Reddit AMA Here are some concrete things you can do to develop those transferable...Manage a project involving multiple scientists, create and stick to timelines Be a mentor in a formal ...If opportunities don't exist in your department, create them and show your leadership skills too. Teach...are always excellent Technical knowledge and creativity Become a “thought leader,” develop a technical...
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