...Marketer Software Developer Learn Science Communication Skill from a Student Group Like Science in the...regular travel be required or will you stay in one location? How long is the commute? Will the job require...online job websites to see what requirements or qualifications are needed for the role, as this will give ...your research, it’s time to start sending out applications. Check out our other career posts for more specifics...careers and to find advice on crafting the perfect application. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn...

...ll be talking about the ins and outs of this classification system, including its history, biology, and...repeatable phenomenon, Gram began using it as a classification system. Eventually, any bacteria that retained...permeable to different classes of antibiotics. The classification system is also useful in a laboratory setting...bacteria type. The gram positive and negative classification system is incredibly helpful in visualizing...stepping into a lab.   Anna Kamens is a science communication summer intern at Addgene and a rising third-...

...-guide RNAs – but it also allows you to skip purification steps and end-repair steps with well-designed...that the region of homology doesn’t have to be located at the absolute end of a fragment. This means that...fragment sequences and the polymerase used in the amplification. This tool allows instant updates as fragments...transforma­­­tion or as a PCR template. Some of the applications of the NEBuilder HiFi DNA Assembly Mix include...the limitations associated with otherwise more complicated assembly approaches, and opens the door for new...

...transcription, or DNA repair, or replication, or any number of CRISPR applications and thought “OK, but how does...pages containing lists of plasmids from the indicated publications. You can request all of these plasmids ...below pull up lists of plasmids containing the indicated gene, and you can subscribe to these pages to ...

...for pre-clinical and clinical applications of dCasRx. The identification of Type VI Cas13d enzymes is ...RspCas13d. RspWYL1 also increased EsCas13d activity, indicating that WYL domain-containing proteins may be broader...even when guides were tiled across a target RNA, indicating that this enzyme does not cleave at a predictable...target essentially any RNA in a cell. Since catalytically dead dCasRx maintains its RNA-binding properties...

...resulting in a fluorescent signal. Since their first publication in 2012, the Nagai laboratory has assembled a...multicolored nano-lanterns for use in various applications, including optogenetics, biosensors, and fusion...sensitivity and faster imaging compared to previous publications. They also developed calcium, cAMP, and ATP ...furimazine. In addition to the previously described applications, the enhanced signal of eNL allows their use...characterizing Nano-lanterns and eNL for many different applications. For long-term imaging, especially where photobleaching...

... our knowledge. Disease Applications Q13: Does AAV have potential applications in diseases which may be...Did you catch our April AAV webinar with Tim Miles, PhD, Director of the CLOVER Center at CalTech? If...1x1014 vg/ml.. As evident in our repository, this application is an outlier for PHP.eB (1x1011 - 1x1012 vg/...CRISPR tools is an exciting area for future AAV application to epigenetic editing. This area is discussed...

...of the biosensors used in research are very sophisticated, but at their core they can all be boiled down...ready-to-use. While biosensors span the gamut of applications within chemistry, biology, and physics, in this...sensors can be targeted to different cellular locations or tissues depending on the biology you are studying...different factors, in different or the same cellular location, all at once! Small molecules What type of small...Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation: Engineering and Applications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 2019 Oct...

...cohesive team environment. Neglecting communication skillsClear communication is the backbone of effective management...management. Miscommunication often arises when managers fail to set expectations or provide timely feedback...firsthand when it took me some time to adapt to the communication style of a new, junior team member who had values...and leveraging tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or DISC assessments can help you navigate team...

... these stromal cell modifications, stromal cells are also constantly communicating with a tumor, proving... was contributed by Bárbara Pinho, a science communicator at the Portuguese science museum "Fábrica Centro...Proficient in transportation, exosomes are tools of communication and provide malignancy to the microenvironment... Pinho! Bárbara Pinho is currently a science communicator at the Portuguese science museum "Fábrica Centro...

...aggregates. This property can be tolerated in some applications (e.g. labeling of cells or tracking promotor...promotor activity), but it is problematic in applications in which the fluorescent protein is used as an inert...During the experiment, the solution is diluted, complicating the interpretation. Because of this, these methods...aware that the fluorescent proteins reported in publications are only characterized under a limited number...build a valuable resource with tools and data that indicate the performance of (a set of) fluorescent proteins...

...seizures, and other symptoms as discussed in this educational video. “SLC6A8 belongs to a large family of solute.... “This proof of concept study will help in identification of new targets that could greatly enhance our...professor and assistant dean of biomedical science education at McGill University.  These protein-receptor ...58 individuals with GNB1 disorder since the identification of this disease in 2016. The lab aims to “expand...pathways using biosensors as well. “The Addgene catalog would allow us to enhance our biosensor repository...

...of DNA that can potentially complicate results of a downstream application such as quantitative PCR to...easier. Recently, we published a blog on DNA purification without a kit that outlined several reasons ...take care whenever doing any type of DNA or RNA purification to avoid contamination, take extra care when..., that isn’t the case for RNA extraction and purification. There is one simple method that works, and ...

...experiments. Recombinant AAVs (rAAVs) The primary application of AAV is delivery of genetic cargo to a host...numerical designations, separated by a slash, that indicate the ITR and serotype, respectively. For example...transduced gene is episomal and does not divide and replicate in the same way the host DNA does. Because of ... since you don’t have to wait for the host to replicate the DNA before expression. Now that you’ve got... S., et al. “Various AAV Serotypes and Their Applications in Gene Therapy: An Overview.” Cells, 12(5),...

...thus allowing repair to take place before DNA replication. Indeed, they observed that 41/42 embryos were... embryos carried indels at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded through NHEJ rather than...attributable to CRISPR editing. Conclusions & implications One striking feature of this paper is the failure... need to be much, much lower before clinical applications could be considered. It is important to consider...experiments are needed before we can consider clinical applications for germline editing. Although this paper represents...

...including RNPs for indel formation via NHEJ, precise modification with Homology Directed Repair (HDR), CRISPR ...potential to be used for other types of CRISPR applications. Let’s take a look at the key components of ... which means they are non-infectious and non-replicative. Nanoblades are produced by transfecting the ...incubating Nanoblade particles with polybrene, a cationic polymer. Polybrene has long been used to increase...with Cas9-sgRNA ribonucleoproteins." Nature communications 10.1 (2019): 45. PubMed PMID: 30604748. PubMed...

...techniques that can be used to introduce genetic modifications into mouse embryos. But once you generate a ...techniques are each useful for introducing one modification into the mouse genome, they are not commonly...parental mice In order to ensure that your genetic modification will be passed along to all of the offspring...environment and will harbor similar epigenetic modifications. Special breeding cases Whether your mouse colony...the mutations that you are trying to cross are located on homologous chromosomes in the parental generation...

...stimuli. Cre recombinase catalyzes the recombination of DNA sequences located between two loxP sites. ...in research can fall under one of two broad classifications: inbred or outbred. Inbred strains share a ...Knockout mice Knockout mice have undergone genetic modification that alters or eliminates the expression of ...can be used to invert a segment of DNA or to translocate a piece of DNA from one region of the genome ...

...methods for identifying PPIs, such as affinity purification mass spectrometry (AP-MS), lack the ability ...the validation of a binary PPI as well as the identification of additional interacting factors. Problems...detect weak and/or transient PPIs. Many PPI identification techniques rely on protein interactors to stay... AP-MS. This requirement often prevents the identification of weak and/or transient interacting proteins...spatiotemporally defined protein complexes. Nature communications. PubMed PMID: 28585547. PubMed Central PMCID...

...2021.   The potential tools fall into two categories: probes and editors. A probe array may consist...and should be varied as it can have important implications for the fusion protein effectivity), and a fluorescent...to visualize DNA, an editor targets DNA (via catalytically inactive dCas9) to modify chromatin. A fluorescent...both spatiotemporal protein degradation and quantification of this depletion using imaging-based measurements...BioTag, which can be used in protein affinity purification studies.    Duong et al., Genetics 2021. https...