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  1. 6 Steps to Submitting a Resume That Gets Seen

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    July 9, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the future. Studies show that the majority of job offers arise as a result of existing professional (and...interest, even excitement, in a position. Everyone prefers to hire someone that will be excited to be there...resume should also be customized to highlight different skills and to get the important information in..., you will never get the help that can make a difference. Having your resume forwarded personally gives...
  2. 9 Tips to Achieve Success in Academia

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    April 1, 2014, 5:33 p.m.
    ...eyes to the many different jobs associated with science, especially if the conference is a big multidisciplinary...curious and interdisciplinary.   3. “There are many different ways to succeed – as loner or gregarious;  dictator...leaving academia should present their research at conferences to obtain a “crash-course in all the real life...
  3. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    March 28, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...nomenclature throughout the rest of this blog post, GFP refers to sfGFP-GB1.   Tanenbaum et al. examined the power...SunTag? Tanenbaum et al. performed a variety of different experiments in their paper, and so can you! In...we’ll save that application for another day! References 1. Tanenbaum, Marvin E., et al. “A protein-tagging...Visit Our Fluorescent Protein Guide Page Find Luciferase Plasmids ...
  4. Plasmids 101: Walkthrough of Addgene’s Snapgene-Powered Quality Control Process

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    Feb. 1, 2018, 3:07 p.m.
    ...compare and analyze any differences between our sequence results and the reference sequences. Using Snapgene...features To align NGS sequencing results with reference sequences To design experiments for further plasmid...Additioinal Resources on Addgene.org Molecular Biology Reference Pages Basic Molecular Biology Protocols Diagnostic...
  5. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    July 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...nontarget strand. Protein Cas: Different CRISPR systems involve different proteins, but many of them are...laboratory applications. At Addgene, we sometimes refer to the programmable guide sequence as the spacer...scaffold. gRNA: "Guide RNA" is a general term referring to the RNAs used by Cas proteins, either a crRNA...
  6. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    May 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the discoveries yet to come.      References and resources References Arbabi-Ghahroudi M (2017) Camelid...become appealing candidates for the detection of different cancers (Jin, et al. 2023).  So where do all these...    Figure 2: Genetically modified mice offer an alternative method to producing single-domain...
  7. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    Sept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...general primer design, as well as primer design for different cloning applications. Primer3 and Primer3Plus...calculate how much insert and backbone you need for different types of cloning methods, such as restriction ... any cloning method. You can select from five different insert:backbone ratios. In-Fusion cloning molar...Resources on Addgene.org: Read our Molecular Biology Reference Find molecular biology protocols Browse our protocol...
  8. Five Questions to Ask If You're Deciding Between a Master's or PhD Program

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    Feb. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ....  3. Do you prefer being a generalist? Working on a variety of projects and in different fields of research...along a career path in these two fields looks different however. In industry the career ladder is larger...training can prepare you to present your work at conferences, help with manuscript and grant preparation, ...
  9. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...interest –  try pRS plasmid shuttle vectors. You may prefer the more traditional approach of an autonomously...strain or a mutated version of YGOI to test the different phenotypes of the specific mutations. For these...YGOI on a western blot or under a microscope, we offer a collection of vectors carrying several fusion ..., or knocking down YGOI through RNA-mediated interference (e.g. L4440) and observing the downstream effects...
  10. The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born

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    April 15, 2014, 3:11 p.m.
    ...plasticware or think about conserving reagents and buffers.  However, I had very environmentally conscious...required less agar, less ethidium bromide, less stop buffer and miniscule amounts of plasmid sample.  How satisfying..., I was bothered by the fact that I was wasting buffer running my tiny gels in a normal gel box. It took... small enough to minimize the required area and buffer volume.  So, I designed my own gel box (see illustration...
  11. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    Aug. 8, 2019, 1:19 p.m.
    ...paper is much more detailed. I prefer to do it on another day - preferably the following morning - as usually... if I would have formulated specific comment differently if I would be speaking to a colleague in the ...own research group at Boyce Tompson Institute.  References Baldwin, Melinda. "Credibility, peer review, ...
  12. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    March 26, 2019, 1:40 p.m.
    ...calcium sensors, different iGABASnFR have been developed and are suited for different applications. The... a few versions of these jGCaMP7 sensors with different properties (for example, overall brightness or...on/off kinetics) that makes them suitable for different applications. We recently released a new variant...
  13. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    Oct. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...hiring a scientist. Of course, we have different criteria for different roles but for almost every position...effectively is a valuable skill. There are many different kinds of grants that you can apply for. If you...working on a number of them. Find one to apply to or offer to help with lab grant writing. You may not get ...
  14. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    June 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...each of the gRNAs. The idea was to assign four different barcodes to each of the gRNAs and to embed these...of the recombination sites in the construct to different lengths, the density of cells that are labeled...fusions as a DNA staining dye Article contributed by Jennifer Tsang Figure 4: Double stranded DNA bound...40 mM to 100 mM NaCl but stained evenly in 1x TE buffer. The lab also used tTALE-FP in a single molecule-fluorescence...
  15. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    Jan. 11, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...outside of the cell. The same protein may have different epitopes available if it is being selected out...controls in validation, as you may need to test different configurations and conditions to understand exactly... what a given protein is doing or changing in different conditions. Just remember to keep good records...when you’re building your antibody library! References and Resources More resources on Addgene’s blog...
  16. Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource

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    May 25, 2021, 2:29 p.m.
    ...National Institutes of Health.     References and Resources References Bradbury A, Plückthun A (2015) Reproducibility...). Recombinant antibodies are plasmid-based and offer numerous advantages, including more secure archiving..., Aldred SF, Bestagno M, Burrone O, Maynard J, Ferrara F, Trimmer JS, Görnemann J, Glanville J, Wolf P...
  17. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    Aug. 31, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...this emerging technology! Resources and References References Orguc, S., Sands, J., Sahasrabudhe, A., ...obvious next applications are to expand the tool to different brain-organ axes. Alternatively, the system could...Free Behavior. 2020 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology...
  18. What the HEK?

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    April 18, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Why the HEK not? References and Resources References Shaw G., et al., Preferential transformation of ...for and in HEKs. These systems built around HEKs offer an advantage to use the cell line and we will highlight...
  19. Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths

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    Sept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m.
    ... together as useful and productive, forming a different constellation of interests and skills than what... experimental design and data with authors and referees. And I am constantly teaching – often explaining...Advancement of Science (AAAS), we have all sorts of different editors. Do you like science journalism? Take ...short program to build skills and connections. AAAS offers a summer program that gives graduate students an...
  20. Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup

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    Aug. 25, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...entrepreneur in the health sciences?  Is this a different story altogether? The unfortunate answer is yes...viability question. The miLab you see today is far different than what was originally planned, due in large...the potential contacts your personal network can offer, you are really on your own to build a strategic...you believe your idea has potential to make a difference, then make sure you’re able to answer every possible...
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