...more advantageous for your search. Timesaving Tip #3: Note that protein databases available are unlikely...such as full plasmid sequences provided by the laboratories that deposit their plasmids with us or other...mismatches and gaps in the alignment. If you are curious about the differences in the blastn programs, check out...Inside Look at NGS Plasmid Quality Control Learn about our Snapgene-powered plasmid maps. Resources on...

...PMID: 24552514. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3929550. 3. Kaati, Gunnar, Lars O. Bygren, and Soren Edvinsson... the histone protein of interest (in the figure above, H3 at K9 or K27). Joined to this by a flexible ... in Your Experiments Post Read Other Blog Posts about Fluorescent Proteins  ...

...PMID: 25357182. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4289409. 3. Rouet, Romain, et al. "Receptor-Mediated Delivery...scientists to make genomic alterations, bringing about a revolution in genome engineering, with new techniques...available by both the Jacob Corn and Alex Schier laboratories. Delivering Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins  An...delivery of RNPs is electroporation (A in the figure above), which generates pores in the cell membrane, allowing...as lipid-mediated transfection (B in the figure above), are in the early stages of development. David ...proteins harboring receptor ligands (C in the figure above), which result in the internalization of Cas9-gRNA...show promise for in vivo studies, little is known about the immunogenicity and stability of the Cas9 protein...

...important is letting people know it’s happening. Aim for 3-4 weeks advance notice for the first meeting so that...think about. Choosing a topic and gauging interest The first thing to do if you’ve thought about starting... discussions. Beyond the excitement of learning about new cutting edge science, researchers of all varieties...help stay current on new and emerging work by collaboratively discussing recent publications in a specific...up. At Addgene, we wanted to think more closely about the wealth of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data...the paper.  Before the first journal club, think about the meeting itself A journal club should aim to ...published science. They also serve as a way to learn about work outside of one's own field in a structured ...

...Amplifying genetic logic gates." Science. 340, 599-603 (3 May 2013). Vivek Mutalik et al. "Precise and reliable...Foundation's Linda Kahl explains the Addgene collaboration this way: "Addgene is one of the leaders in ... our core values." Addgene spoke with Endy more about the BIOFAB and BIL gates plasmid kits, the Biobricks...reference to George Boole who in 1854 was thinking about logic and analyzing human language and observed ... freely available? Endy: When we start thinking about languages, humans have two types of languages: one...does; it's free to use and that tends to be true about most successful human-to-human languages. Who owns...signals. Let's say I wanted to detect every primary metabolite in a cell. The only way to do that at scale right...

... of “Do-It-Yourself Science” described in Chapter 3, and of course the rapidly changing world of genome...have been written about CRISPR alone, and Zimmer himself has written entire books about optogenetics. Defining... been thinking about a long time. For the scientists who like to learn everything about one specific topic...wisely makes no such attempt. He is transparent about his own biases--many of which will be shared by ... a massive, expensive project that required collaboration from scientists around the world. The paper ...As a scientist who enjoys learning a little bit about many different things (part of the reason Addgene...

...the IPD of a cation channel, such as the serotonin 3 receptor, will promote depolarization in neurons. ...posts Read blog posts about neuroscience Resources on addgene.org Learn more about chemogenetics in our...as a DREADD agonist due to its ability to be metabolized into clozapine (CLZ). While some scientists argue...

...2013 Mar 19;110(12):E1152-61 Pubmed PMID 23487772. 3. Etessami R, Conzelmann KK, Fadai-Ghotbi B, Natelson...connected to the neck. Shortly after, we learned about organs and the jobs they perform. This became foundational...part of the answer to many biological questions about the brain. To address this, molecular tools to map...

...quantitative real-time PCR. J Microbiol Methods. 2006 Jun;65(3):476-87. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.09.007. Epub 2005...controls must be run in triplicate.  The nice thing about qPCR is that since it measures relative quantification...number, albeit within a range of RQ values as noted above.   In both applications, results can be affected...

...Bachle and Ina Ersing Seeding Labs and Addgene collaborate to provide scientific resources, equipment, and...discovery, and synthetic biology. Read on to learn more about the five awardees and their promising research projects... to the Addgene blog for updates and future collaborations. Many thanks to all of the awardees, all who...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn More About the Addgene-Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant Check Out...Expression Systems Synthetic Biology Resources Learn about Global Plasmid Distribution ...

...human cell lines. Nucleic Acids Research. 2014;43(3):e17. doi:10.1093/nar/gku1198... to devise an experiment that can tell you more about its function.  Resources and references Resources...

... covered. Happy voltage sensing!   Figure 3: Components of the types of voltage indicators reviewed...especially essential. If you want to learn more about how viruses can be used for chemigenetics, biosensors...

...European ancestry.  Understanding the impact Fig. 3: Histograms indicating the frequency (x-axis) which...dependencies associated with each ancestry group. Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens...

...school. The transition has been a bit rough for her (3 weeks in and there's a big office vs. lab culture ...scientist anymore. Being a scientist is not about what you do--it’s about how you think. I have not worked at ...10 years, but when people ask me about my job, I have no qualms about saying “I’m a scientist.”    What...installment of the Addgene career guide, we’ll think about what causes this culture shock and how to overcome...counterpoints to some of the causes of culture shock above, but after polling some Addgene colleagues, we’ve...This is probably because you don't have to worry about experiments taking longer than expected or dealing... hour days at the lab, I encourage you to think about how much of that time you’re actually spending doing...

...use this ID to name the corresponding Excel sheet.3. Be specific  - When assigning a physical location...is the Laboratory Operations Manager at Addgene.  In addition to helping with daily laboratory operations...through barcoded tubes that are scanned into our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), a database...available for distribution!    Check Out How We Think about Developing Lab Management Software    The plasmid's...the correct sample. Tracking samples - it's all about location, location, location There are many different...of these samples have the 2D barcodes mentioned above. These barcodes identify what type of sample is ...every barcode on every tube contains information about that tube’s appropriate location. The barcode also...

...is spent trying to raise the alpha isoform of GSK-3 to the same (deserved) stature as the beta isoform...fraction (<1%) of authors have asked for advice about the scope of the policy. End of story? Not quite...the data policy was raised by researchers worried about the effort to make the underlying data easily available...making data available, but there remains concern about the extra work this may entail.  So if access to...be archived? Simplifying data access Some of the above mentioned issues could be mitigated by on-line services...him on Twitter @jwoodgett.     More Discussions About Data Sharing: PLOS Data Sharing Policy Discussion...Scholarly Kitchen) Read more Addgene blog posts about scientific sharing ...

...Strong yeast expression promoter from glyceraldehyde 3-phosphage dehydrogenase Constitutive  Very strong,...Promoter of the arabinose metabolic operon Inducible by arabinose and repressed catabolite repression in the ...Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Learn about Mammalian Vectors Read about Reporter Gene like Luciferase and...and operators (response elements). Promoters are about 100 to 1000 base pairs long and found upstream of...this list is a great place to start, the tables above do not delve into the tissue or development-specific...

...Magnetogenetic Ion Channels. Biophysical Journal, 116(3), 454–468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2019.01.003...our tissues unimpeded. Andrew and Maria dreamed about the possibilities of a magnetoresponsive fluorescent...of improved response. Then, just when Andrew was about to suggest she deprioritize the project, Maria’s...with a strong commitment to exploration and collaboration. Andrew is a physicist with a background in ...potential applications.  Andrew is a frequent collaborator and is happy to give advice and support for ...interested in working on these questions or collaborating, the York Lab is eager to hear from you. Find...

...acceptable. Aims should be mechanistic, doable by 1-3 people in 1-5 years, and contribute to resolving the...a single grant. Either way, think realistically about the time and resources required to feasibly accomplish...interrupted frequently by committee members. As mentioned above, plan to give your 10 minute overview and address... list of common questions, check out this eBook about applying for faculty positions. You need to practice...program. You should be proud of it and be excited about getting the opportunity to realize your vision. ...blog posts Resources on Addgene.org Learn more about careers at Addgene Watch our career videos ...

...100th birthday, as your mom will never forgive you… #3 Honor the work day and keep it holy Keep a regular...on the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood.   Work...worry less about how they will handle an emergency and this will make you much more confident about their ...