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  1. Editor's Choice, October 2016

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    Nov. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages Our most popular blog post this month shares incredibly important information...enacted labor laws will likely increase postdoc earnings in the U.S. This increase, while overdue in my opinion...considering a postdoc. In “Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages,” Future of Research executive director...variety of downstream effects including possibly decreasing the number of postdocs various academic institutions...Science Communication Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages I hope you all have a great November...
  2. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...experiment. Here, we will provide an overview of how to create and use a standard curve and provide some general... I make the standards for a standard curve? You create a standard curve by serially diluting a known control...mix the samples well by vortexing or inversion. Created with BioRender.com.   When choosing a standard... vortexing between each step of the series. To increase the accuracy of the curve, avoid pipetting small...value. How do I plot and use a standard curve? To create a standard curve, you graph the measured response...wider span of concentrations but suffers from decreased specificity, especially as it approaches the minimum... all of the samples in the assay, as this will increase the accuracy of the data. For assays involving...
  3. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    Nov. 6, 2018, 1:12 p.m.
    ...transdifferentiated in vivo to pancreatic β-like-cells with the expression of pancreatic and duodenal homoeobox... [13]:  Germ cells [14] Hepatocytes [15] Pancreatic β-cells [16] Intestinal tissue [17] Lung epithelial...rare in mammals, an example is observed in the pancreas when excess β-cell damage results in the transdifferentiation...cell types such as fibroblasts, hepatocytes, and pancreatic exocrine cells have been successfully transdifferentiated...differentiation of human ES cells and iPS cells into mature pancreatic insulin-producing cells. Cell Res, 2009. 19(4.... 38. Thorel, F., et al., Conversion of adult pancreatic alpha-cells to beta-cells after extreme beta-...PubMed PMID: 3690668. 40. Ferber, S., et al., Pancreatic and duodenal homeobox gene 1 induces expression...
  4. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED can increase on-target ...reprogram delivery vehicles like lentiviral vectors, CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications.... The Ting lab recently made two deposits that increase the utility of this technique.  By engineering... O’Neill The Cohen lab and colleagues recently created a system for recording the transcriptional history...resembling a “ticker tape” recording. The authors created externally-timed bands of color with HaloTag-iPAK4...thin sections of tissue, the Wu Lab is working to create a three-dimensional atlas of protein expression...-95 [K28/43R] (70 µm mounted sagittal section). Credit: Zhuhao Wu, Weill Cornell Medicine.  Interested...
  5. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    Aug. 5, 2014, 6:51 p.m.
    ...Jim Woodgett. Public Library of Science (PLOS) created a stir earlier this year when it announced its ...manuscript submission. The rationale includes increasing the ability of reviewers (and, once published...some cases, typically consortia involving genomic screens, the data stream is so prolific that raw information...require access to each individual video. To PLOS’s credit, the organization subsequently clarified what the...and this alone is a reasonable motivation for increasing both data accessibility and methodological detail...Minimally, raw but sufficiently annotated data used to create charts and tables in the paper are in scope. For... up new opportunities for research as well as increasing transparency. Thank you to our guest blogger...
  6. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    March 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... to each to make the library usable for pooled screens. Applications of the cancer pathways ORFs kit Wood...and his colleagues developed the kit for use in screening for pathways that drive resistance to drugs in...the only way to use the kit. “You could use it to screen for pathways that confer any phenotype of interest...drug resistance,” he said. “It could [be used to screen for] morphological features, migration, or survival...use our libraries to do things - sometimes drug screens and sometimes totally different experiments we ...Tracing Read How CRISPR Can Be Used in Genome-Wide Screening Browse 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015 ... cancer screening...
  7. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    May 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Creating great educational science videos is tough. Is the content accurate? Are we conveying complex...people in tight locations. Conference rooms for on-screen presenters! Labs and benches! Everything was out...videos. It’s really nice to have a scientist on-screen, somebody who really knows the protocol and can...would be to use an iPad to shoot.  Build: Jennifer created a mobile camera area that included iPad and her...where I could focus on camera and audio, and the on-screen talent could just focus on their interview or performance...re-opened very early in the pandemic with some incredibly strict safety protocols to keep Addgenies safe...camera) would remain masked, it freed us up to be creative.  Test: Our first official shoot went off with...
  8. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...developing zebrafish pancreas. They first tagged these cells using plasmids. Then using HOTcre, a method that...of quiescent and proliferative pancreatic β-cells identified by HOTcre mediated labeling." Proceedings...these systems check out Gerald Rubin’s lab who created a set of modular vectors that can be used to optimally...unicellular organisms, they can also be used to easily screen multiple therapeutic compounds in one experiment...embryos with DNA or RNA to edit their genomes or to create transgenic animals. Zebrafish are an ideal model...β-cells that originate in different regions of the pancreas and produce different levels of insulin (Hesselson...
  9. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Symptoms of AIDS include rapid weight loss and an increased risk of infection, including both common infections...ART-treated patients lack plasma HIV-1, they are at increased risk for other chronic diseases, including dementia...disorders, nerve damage, and cardiac disease. This increased disease risk is attributed to latent HIV reservoirs... used histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to increase transcription of the integrated HIV-1 genome. ... enhancer region near the NF-KB binding sites increased activation of HIV promoter-luciferase constructs...microglial line, treatment with CRISPR/Cas9 SAM increased the percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, ...cell. ZFNs and CRISPR/Cas9 have also been used to create mutations in genes essential to HIV-1 replication...
  10. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    Dec. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...resulting in decreased BRET2 signal. With increased concentration of drug, the BRET2 signal decreases. ...leads to downstream effects.  Bryan Roth’s lab created a collection of plasmids called TRUPATH to interrogate...the complex will disassociate, resulting in a decreased GFP2 emission. The activation state can be measured...showing the effectiveness of using TRUPATH as a screening technique. Lastly, the activity of both antagonists...plasmids are available as a collection, facilitating screening across the transducerome, to gain a more complete...
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