...you feel about dissecting a cat?' And I’m like, 'Well, I’m here so let’s do it!'" Working as a subject...inside. We do a lot of interactives and videos, as well, to supplement the hands-on [aspect of the labs]...interviewed, ‘I write science. I edit science. And I do it well.’” Stay tuned for the next feature in this series...

...precise mechanistic details of the process are not well understood, it is believed that the exonuclease ...properly. Directly transform chemically competent cells with the digested mixture. There is no need for ...purification before transformation. After transforming cells, you should perform colony PCR with vector specific...

...paired with patient partners so that they can help tell their stories. I was paired with a six-year-old ...similar age. When he came to visit us and watch fellow Run4Rare team members complete the Boston Marathon... scientific community know, treatments that work well in animal models do not always work as efficiently...

... a range of different scientific disciplines, as well as social and networking events. Imperial Synthetic... networking opportunities for society members as well as arranging collaborations and conferences for ...believe it’s very important to develop a network of fellow scientists that you can grow with, learn from, ...

...'t all career skills leaderhsip skills when done well? Do you just have to know it when you see it? “The...Managers must ensure that their teams are working well together and collaborating effectively with other...the doing. Many science managers or leaders will tell you how much they miss the hands-on bench work. ...

...will have opportunities to work on Emotional Intelligence or to hone delegation skills, for example. So...their managers. You can’t just think it, you have to tell them. A good manager learns that her success and...dissatisfaction, the work can get done, and get done well. The rest of the blogs in this series will address...

...the world.  Nina Dudnik, Founder of Seeding Labs, tells the story about working as a student in a rice lab...I was in graduate school in the 80’s, my lab was well funded and we didn’t feel the need to reuse plasticware...recently shared our protocol for making competent cells to save time and money. My other stingy science ...

...Consider reading Toxic Academic Mentors by @drmellivora, an excellent blog post about workplace bullying featured...the first place. The good news There are many excellent mentors out there. With some good pre-work you...

...Academic Solos to Industrial Symphonies, an article well worth reading on this topic, the authors state, ...colleagues and friends why he would give up,“an excellent—some say “cushy”—tenured faculty position for ...especially good at self-promoting—No one is going to tell you to pick up the pace Constant worry about grants...

...the number of added biotins per molecule cannot be well-controlled. The lack of site selectivity typically...successfully used this plasmid to biotinylate the extracellular domain of the erythropoietin receptor and subsequently... Eye Institute and is particularly interested in cell signaling.     Additional Resources on the Addgene...

...fully open and available to industry requestors as well. This is a time when we need as much open science...accelerates and enhances productive collaborations as well as provides visibility for grant-driven research...scientists worldwide with Addgene’s traditional excellence through whatever lies ahead this year. We can...

... road, science communication graduates are often well-equipped. Many institutions are sincerely interested...carried over and allowed to percolate within a new intellectual environment. Over time, this interest came to...risk-taking behavior among collision sport athletes, as well as the ethical and health policy implications arising...

...scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and a Visiting Professor at the Lab for ...Classifying genes as natural or synthetic But how can you tell if a gene is synthetic or natural? The answer to...distantly related organism, the gene may not express well because of these different codon usage biases. But...

...unhealthy, difficult-to-inject unc-119(ed3) animals, as well as a second injection step to remove the selection... promoter, creating a loss-of-function allele as well as a promoter-FP fusion for the gene of interest...systems may prove effective in other species or in cell culture. In addition to CRISPR/Cas9 applications...

...academic institutions.  What is the UBMTA, you ask? Well, organizations used to negotiate individual MTAs...materials are widely varied with many properties, having well-understood standardized terms makes it a lot easier...MTA most plasmids at Addgene are shared under, is well-understood and accepted by the majority of research...

...modern biological research.  Any microscopist will tell you that selection of a fluorescent probe (be it...  There are many online guides – including an excellent series of posts by Joachim Goedhart on the Addgene...Associate at Harvard Medical School. He manages the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility, specializing in advanced...

...processes in the Addgene lab. In this post, I’ll tell you a little bit about what I learned from a New...newly created libraries were analysed to see how well the kit worked. As NEB hoped, we found that regardless...day was Julie from Novartis who was working with cell culture and who was extremely helpful since she ...

...is something that absorbance based methods can’t tell you and you don’t need a spectrophotometer or a ...concentrations. Many commercial DNA ladders will tell you the concentration of each band in the ladder...Unlike absorbance based methods, this method doesn’t tell you about contaminating proteins or chaotropic salts...

... and Cell use  Research Resource identifiers (RRIDs) which are supported by SciCrunch. Other well known...Uniform Resource Identifiers (CURIEs) combined with well-established prefix resolution services such as Identifiers.org...

...both the approximate size of the vector backbone as well as the predicted size of the insert. You can search...buffer will make sure your sample settles in the gel well and the dyes provide a visual reference point so...Bonus: knowing how much DNA you have loaded in each well will allow you to approximate the DNA mass of comparably...

...text for the example image. We’ll wait!  Done? Excellent! We asked our workshop participants to do the ...heard of alt text before, they all came up with excellent alt text for their practice image. We know; we...text descriptions, and we’d love to hear yours as well.  More importantly, you can use these four steps...

... to frequently asked questions. We also want to tell you about things you didn’t know you wanted to know...previously written Antibody 101 blog posts were used, as well as consults with microscopy and flow cytometry experts...involved? Keep asking your burning questions and tell us what you want to know more about! You can also...

...this has worked well for the early sets of SARS-CoV-2 materials, it will not scale well to the several ...modification may not be easily expressed in non-mammalian cells. Yeast expression plasmids The yeast expression ...

... a result, the materials in our catalog are very well-characterized. During this time, we’ve also created...improved menus we launched earlier in the year, as well as our redesigned homepage and our new search tool...suggestions provide shortcuts to specific catalog items as well as related items (for example, a kit that contains...

... really starting from the beginning. Luckily, a fellow graduate student and a data analyst in our lab ...dig in to the computation, but they will serve you well as you perform analysis after analysis after analysis...However, these notes take up a lot of space and don’t tell you why you did something or what the result was...

...Successful Women Scientists” by Ellen Daniell. In “Every Other Thursday,” Daniell describes a group of 7 women...

...force to control protein expression in mammalian cells: easy to use biological tools are abundant! In this...tried-and-true protein expression control tools as well as explore some new innovations. Whether you want...tag prior to introduction of the construct into cells. However, if you would like tunable control of an...

...produce results, not scientists”  These comments are well correlated with published data. For example, in ...following panel members: Jonathan Dinman, Chair of the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department at University...24733905. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC4000813. 2. McDowell, Gary S., et al. "Shaping the Future of Research...

...enters in the middle of the action. If the paper is well-written, the abstract should give you a sense of... a few different ways to automate the process as well. Sign up for eTOC (electronic table of contents)...searching and sorting your own digital library as well as some integration with internet-wide literature...

... PAM constraints just won’t cut it anymore. Say hello to PAM-free and PAM-flexible nucleases! In this ... for off-targets, secondary structures, etc., as well as the presence of a Protospacer Adjacent Motif ...Precise and efficient scarless genome editing in stem cells using CORRECT. Nat Protoc 12, 329–354 (2017). DOI...