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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m....videos. The search function in the manual just highlights what the user searches, which is not very helpful...
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How to Lead a Great Meeting
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2016, 3:30 p.m....next steps (see “action items” below). Get the right people in the room There are few experiences more...informative, and pleasant. Email: Sometimes, the right meeting is no meeting at all. When no discussion... -
Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2015, 8:30 p.m....bandwidth to become an expert) the end result is high quality and the entire process is completed more... What types of issues do you want to know about right away? Provide adequate support. The manager must... -
Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 21, 2019, 1:15 p.m....middle) and extends from the 3' end of the nick (right), occasionally introducing mutations (red nucleotide...EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while increasing the standard... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 11, 2018, 12:46 p.m....you that Twitter is a tool worth using, but you might be wondering how to get started. This blog post ...video from Science Media Savvy At this point, you might be be thinking social media could be useful, but... -
Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....researchers can use to characterize these variants in a high-throughput manner and therefore push us closer to...the function of rare cancer variants and genes: High-throughput Phenotyping of Lung Cancer Somatic Mutations... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m....is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses challenging. This cytotoxicity... Bähr M. Human synapsin 1 gene promoter confers highly neuron-specific long-term transgene expression ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m....however, they are different viruses and thus use slightly different isoforms of these packaging components...research to reduce promoter interference and/or drive high expression of a transgene from an internal promoter... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2023, 1 p.m....and their functions are more intuitive than you might think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into...polymerase II promoter and terminator regions and are slightly different in sequence. Both LTRs do share common... -
Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 6, 2023, 1 p.m....proteins of interest such as actinin. When tension is high vs. low in the cell the donor and acceptor of a ...on changes to the structure of actinin in low vs. high tension. These systems are powerful tools to measure... -
GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.... and Andrew Hempstead. What do smell, taste and sight have in common, besides being one of the five senses...Chemogenetics is similar to optogenetics but instead of light, these genetically modified receptors are activated... -
Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 10, 2014, 7:17 p.m....system that uses synthetic biology to target and light-up bacteria unwanted in food, healthcare settings...failure at all stages in the startup". To gain insight into "the random-walk" of a budding startup, I ... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m....mentoring group Find 5-8 colleagues that you think might be interested and willing to commit to the group...same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not, perhaps a 3 hour breakfast once a ... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....microenvironments and what encircles a disease is highly prone to affect it. While tumors may be the stars...surroundings and being shaped by them. Another set of highly influential microenvironment cells are Cancer-Associated... -
dTAG - You're it!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m....mouse models. The dTAG system The dTAG system pairs highly selective small molecule FKBP12F36V degraders (...observed little to no toxicity with dTAG-13 at doses as high as 20 µM (see Figures 3 and 5 in Nabet et al., Nature... -
Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 16, 2018, 3:20 p.m....amino acids. The use of radioactive materials is highly regulated, requires designated work areas and come...passionate about communicating science to all audiences. Right now, she is a science instructor at The Innovation... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m....viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting high quality reagents, and we realized we could use the...Addgene’s support, could fill a community need for high-quality service, open data, and increased reproducibility... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.....7 kb. Co-infection rates for AAVs are generally high enough for this approach to work, although it’s ...time. Though the time delay until expression is highly dependent on the serotype and target tissue, two... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m....Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) because, at high concentrations (25 mM), Gdm+ binds to and inhibits...disease-linked Arg-mutant proteins in the lab, clinicians might consider prescribing GdnHCl to patients suffering... -
Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 1, 2018, 1:57 p.m....and BioID, any protein that’s within a ~10nm neighborhood of the bait protein will be biotinylated. This...Macneill, S., & Varnaitė, R. (2016). Meet the neighbors: Mapping local protein interactomes by proximity‐dependent... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m....1948 as a variation of the more commonly observed light emission by fluorescence. The widespread use of ...distances that are too miniscule for conventional light microscopy. Don't FRET - Use these FRET resources... -
Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m....are a multitude of known AAV serotypes that have slight variations in their viral capsids. Novel forms ...AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the human population. These pre-existing... -
Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m....of large-scale assembly useful, you may ask? You might be surprised by how multi-purpose it can be. Let... Plant Parts Kit Resources on the Addgene blog High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD Interview... -
Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... is biotin-conjugated, streptavidin (which has a high affinity for binding biotin), is conjugated to the...interest. The optical density (OD) - the measure of light absorbed by a solution - of these wells is plotted... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m....for these RNA sequences (3 nM), however, was quite high and above what would be expected in patient samples...daunting. It took a true team effort and many late nights, not unlike most research, but the urgent need ... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m....fold (Davis et al., 2002). However, polybrene is highly sensitive to freeze-thaw cycles and should be stored...resistance marker expression following transfection, higher-level expression after approximately 72 hours is... -
Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m....expression can change as well. The more frequently and tightly bound DNA is to histones, the more compacted it...occurs at CpG islands (regions of the DNA with a high frequency of C and G nucleotides). The conversion... -
Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m....gradually. I didn’t become Chair of a Committee overnight (however this can be done if you already have ...was involved with postdoctoral issues first at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and... -
How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m....my experience the best set-up is panelists in a slight semi-circle (so they can see each other) on comfortable...redirect the conversation. The person you cut off might be miffed but the other 200 audience members will... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m....think I need. Unlike lentivirus, AAV requires a higher number of viral particles for efficient gene transfer...only harvest the cell pellet. My yield would be higher if I used PEG precipitation, but for my experiments... -
Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m....gene knock-out (left) and targeted DNA knock-in (right) by CRISPR/Cas9. Adenoviral CRISPR vectors (left...left) or CRISPR vectors and donor DNA vectors (right) are transduced to target cells. Within target cells... -
Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m....cluster of enhancers. CAPTURE 2.0’s multiplexing and high resolution allowed the Xu Lab to simultaneously ... chromatin's dynamic role in gene regulation The high resolution and multiplexed chromatin ‘photos’ generated... -
Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2019, 12:44 p.m....purified by streptavidin high-affinity purification. This system is both highly sensitive and specific ... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m....bp, but pay attention to the sequence’s Tm, as a higher Tm give more efficient recombination. We normally... two colonies for simple cloning procedures. Use high fidelity DNA polymerase This will minimize random... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Gamma-retrovirus genome (left) and an HIV lentiviral genome (right.) HIV seems an unlikely candidate for use as...genomes in one retroviral particle: pseudodiploidy and high rate of genetic recombination. Proceedings of the... -
Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m....current period of rapid flux, the chapter might still feel slightly dated by next week. A stepping stone... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m....wanted to think more closely about the wealth of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data we generate and...the aim of the journal club is to begin building a high level understanding across multiple teams or to ... -
Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m....cumbersome to use and lead to lower viral titers due to higher plasmid number. For more information on the key...Lentiviral particles with the VSV-G envelope have high infectivity in a wide range of cell types, so they... -
A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m....professionals identify grant opportunities with the highest likelihood of funding and develop a strategy and... project management, and program evaluation are highly transferable. Use your experience and your passion... -
Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m....around 2010 and found the scheme very nice at first sight in that Addgene takes care of everything including...research to realize their vision. Their progress might be slow, but if they don't stop, they may be able...