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  1. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    Feb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...label your favorite protein! While the target only requires a small epitope tag (FLAG is eight amino acids... is advantageous to Cas9’s larger expression requirements (Figure 1), but Cas12a has generally been underutilized...when encoding multiple guides. While two guides require two arrays for Cas9, two guides can be streamlined...
  2. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    Feb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Passion? A love of learning? No. Or at least not entirely. What truly unites us all is the frustration of... to the day before, which got rid of the issue entirely. In many cases, the answer isn't to work harder...ability to focus, especially on days when I was tired, stressed, or rushing. I would spend the time quietly...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...tropism. Briefly, different envelope plasmids can direct the production of virus with various tropisms.  ...therefore, reduces the number of plasmids that are required in the transfection step of the viral packaging...incompetent? Yes, as with lentiviruses, the genes required for γ-retroviral packaging and transduction are...
  4. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    Jan. 28, 2020, 2:35 p.m.
    ...it like winter tires in different conditions: the more flexible rubber of winter tires give a better grip...recombinant proteins for industrial or research purposes requires stable host cells (the simplest example would ...
  5. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...activity, scientists can use GECIs to watch neurons fire under the microscope. To add another tool to our...developed calcium indicators spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (Figure 1). The GCaMP series (... yellow and red fluorophores, allowing it to be paired with green, yellow, and/or red sensors in multicolor...
  6. How Addgene Creates Content

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    Nov. 17, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...truly believes that sharing speeds science, and our entire mission is to enable that process. Our repository... made most of the Antibody Guide figures. This requires a fair amount of communication between our content...of date as techniques and knowledge changes and require updating or retiring. CRISPR/Cas9, for example,...
  7. To Each HIS Own

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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Much of today's biological research requires a close examination of specific proteins within a system...tags, however, tended to be very large and often required the incorporation of a cleavage site and a post-purification...no cut or dried answer. Successful purification requires the tag to be accessible to the metal ions once...
  8. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    June 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to read a formulaic fiction story that doesn’t require any detailed retention of information or formulation...something verbally. Sometimes a group was just really tired and needed a slower, simpler presentation than I... I had planned; other times students were fired up and enthusiastic and needed a faster presentation with...
  9. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    March 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...RNA, a fast, strong protein denaturant would be required- something that broke down RNases before RNases... effective at isolating total RNA, this method requires a lot of time and depending on how many samples...without a kit!) As mentioned above, working with RNA requires keeping your samples cold until homogenization...
  10. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute

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    Feb. 2, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
    ...because “it kinda sucked to work remotely. I was also tired of the contracting life where you do a little bit... was helping cover social media while the Hutch hired a full-time social media manager. “I usually start...magazine. Getting pulled in all of these different directions is sometimes at odds with the space needed to...
  11. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...sufficient for certain patterning activities of entire tissue types or even organs. In frogs, ectopic ...electrical communication is briefly inhibited in the entire worm during regeneration, the worm creates two ... artificial intelligence," says Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center. The future of this...
  12. Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?

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    July 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...sex, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now requires that sex be included as a biological variable ...variable in all NIH-funded research. Janine Clayton, Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, emphasizes...gender in science and technology and currently directs the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health...
  13. Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control

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    Jan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...with multiple inserts or internal mutations that require more than two sequencing reactions. In the more...to ensure uniformity of the culture. Sequencing directly from the glycerol stock saves us the step of purifying... Each sequencing service will have different requirements for volume and concentration, and not all providers...
  14. Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?

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    Jan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
    ...new job skill? Finish your thesis? Knowing your desired outcomes will help you assess if the coach you ...coach usually will be a clear communicator and make direct suggestions for improvement and change. Work ...relationship has been successful – what are the desired outcomes? Ask openly for clear information on...
  15. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
    ...asymmetry in the core sequence gives the loxP site directionality, and the canonical loxP sequence is ATAACTTCGTATA-GCATACAT-TATACGAAGTTAT...reversed.   Deletion: If the sites face in the same direction, the sequence between the loxP sites is excised...cerevisiae FLP-FRT recombination system is another site-directed recombination technology very conceptually similar...
  16. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Systemic therapies involve CRISPR-Cas delivery directly to the patient. Patient-derived cells can alternatively...the goal of ‘fixing’ mutations or introducing a desired edit, but this particular class of treatments has...inflammatory diseases, blindness, and diabetes. Directions and obstacles for future CRISPR therapies CRISPR...
  17. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...longer incubation times and didn’t necessarily require cycling. The Pros and Cons Researchers used the...select for correctly assembled phage genomes, it required a very stringent selection process and benefited...selection, failed under normal cycling protocols, and required a 48-hour incubation at 37 °C. While the 52-piece...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Targeting Receptor Expression Using chemogenetics requires successfully introducing receptors to target cells... to control ion flux. The system allows you to directly manipulate ion channels. When working with PSAM...Magnus C, Lee P, Bonaventura J, Zemla R, Gomez J, Ramirez M, Hu X, Galvan A, Basu J, Michaelides M, Sternson...
  19. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., comprised of PAS and GAF domains of iRFP713. Requires presence of heme oxygenase for chromophore formation...miRFP709 and miRFP670, pair with common PAS domain. Requires presence of heme oxygenase for chromophore formation...BiFC interaction is typically irreversible and requires some time for chromophore maturation, splitFAST...
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