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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... I asked participants to read short abstracts comparing the mortality rates between two controversial ...and biased. As a result, the control abstract comparing two fictional medical issues – chronic and acute...community. I brought along printed copies of studies comparing the filtration efficacy of different materials...
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Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2021, 2:15 p.m....writing and this recent article published in PLOS Computational Biology (Frassl et al., 2018): “Science is increasingly...collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper. PLoS Comput Biol 14:e1006508 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi...Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration. PLoS Comput Biol 3:e44 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi... -
What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2019, 2:18 p.m.... It doesn’t have to be this way. We can never completely eliminate the risk that a minor variation in ...Press. She trained originally in cell biology, completing her PhD at the MRC LMB in Cambridge UK and then... Vice President. Her current responsibilities encompass overall leadership of the Cell Press editorial... -
R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....sources. While the importance of understanding these complex processes can’t be overstated, we can also learn...degradation under a variety of conditions. They are composed of 4 proteins encoded in a single operon and were... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m....experience using image analysis software. If you use computer programs to predict protein structures, then you... you might know a thing or two about computer modeling. Make sure to focus on these skills. The only exception... into a communications role instead after she completed her MSc in Experimental Medicine. She is the Community... -
Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m....than a day. Diagnostic restriction digests are comprised of 2 separate steps: 1) incubating your DNA with... construct. Consider buffer and temperature compatibility when digesting with more than one enzyme. Consult...will allow you to approximate the DNA mass of comparably intense samples of similar size. Run the gel ... -
Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 19, 2019, 1:36 p.m....Paratore onto the Board of Directors brings complementary experience and insight to the now 10 member ... I was interested in what she shared about the company and what the goals were and so I decided to join...time on research. What do you hope Addgene will accomplish in the near future? Katz: I’m excited that Addgene... -
Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m....service supporters We would like to thank the companies who supported this project with funding. Alnylam...donations. That seed money was used to build a completely self-supporting service so that Addgene is not...distribution, this project involved every Addgenie in the company. Our Finance, Business and Legal teams had to pave... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....that use reverse transcriptase to synthesize complementary DNA copies of their genome upon infecting a ...gamma-retrovirus are so closely related, their required components are very similar. While plasmids containing virus-specific...between the two systems, other, more general, viral components such as a heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m....nature, extra safety measures, like replication incompetent viral particles, are required. We will be covering...infect both non-dividing and dividing cells. They accomplish this through nuclear localization signals which... immunodeficiency virus type 1 preintegration complexes.” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 89 (1992) 6580... -
Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 28, 2020, 2:35 p.m....However, one of the many proteins which are not compatible with regular mesophilic systems are the psychrophilic...chaperones protein resulted in higher levels of growth compared to the E. coli strain expressing the empty vector... Medal in the Undergrad category at the iGEM Competition 2019. He has an active interest in scientific... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m....to start a more formal mentoring program at my company, but there weren't enough senior people willing... such as pre-reads, videos or exercises to be completed in preparation for the meeting or to be read or... and help each other practice meeting people – compete for fastest to set up a coffee date or most cards... -
Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.... light sensitive and have enhanced conductance compared to current channelrhodopsins. Their new channelrhodopsins...neurons do not express as many copies of the ChRs as compared to direct injection. This lower multiplicity of...better suited for systemic delivery with PHP.eB compared to the existing ChR2(H134R). In the second experiment... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....or tissue collection method, so biotechnology companies have marketed several products that help to further... RNAzol®, QIAzol® and sold by many different companies). TRIzol® is an all-in-one acid-guanidinium-phenol... is the carryover of DNA that can potentially complicate results of a downstream application such as quantitative... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.... was also between 1013 - 1014 vg/kg, a dosage comparable to those currently used in human gene therapy...fluorescent voltage indicators, however, fall short compared to GFP-based sensors in terms of response and ...precision of gene expression and reduces toxicity as compared to previous Cre/lox or drug-induced Cre systems... -
Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m....validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR and demonstrated that it can also detect...without fixation or preparation, and deliver CRISPR components for gene disruption or CRISPRi. While designed...bacteriophage shell protein or a bacterial microcompartment protein. The expression of this fusion is ... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m....proteins within a system. This can be pretty complicated given that a single cell has tens of thousands...strategy a single protein can be isolated from a complex mix using affinity chromatography against an amino...then eluted using a high imidazole buffer that outcompetes the interaction between the protein of interest... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....is guided by an RNA molecule, the gRNA, to a complementary site in the genome where it will proceed to ...that Cas14 also indiscriminately cleaves non-complementary ssDNA when engaged by its target sequence. Why...Cas7-11 Cas7-11 is a naturally occurring RNase composed of the fusion of several Cas7 and Cas11 domains... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.... had been collecting data and documenting the compliance of universities with the FLSA in our online resource... salary raising as the only viable option for compliance. However, 10 days prior to the implementation...opportunity of the lapsed mandate (or are being compelled at the state level, in the case of some public... -
Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m....Stanford University. Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten...cost at this early stage of research is minimal compared to that of human clinical trials. And, as Janine...studies that draw from a body of research that is incomplete (because sex was not analyzed) may harm humans...