...co-incubate it with an “assist peptide” that facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral... in rodents have not been widely successful in primates. The authors used a multispecies approach to generate...endothelial-specific tropism in rodents and broad tropism in primates. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3345. https://doi.org...

...career path long ago. Use your analytical mind to test and discover what career suits you best I began ... make a trophy for the winner. We promoted the contest for about two months, and we got one submission...girl about fossils. After we talked for about ten minutes, she said, “Boy, I love science,” and I realized...

... learn what motivates them (keep in mind that it can be very different from what motivates you!), know...moment while reviewing the results of my Myers-Briggs test:  my undergrads were different people! More specifically...

... (green or blue) within a population of timer indicates the age of the pool: the higher the ratio, the...differentiation revealed by temporal cell labeling." Diabetes 58.8 (2009): 1863-1868. PubMed PMID: 19478145....programmable synthetic lineage-control network that differentiates human IPSCs into glucose-sensitive insulin-...

...AAV8 for kidney cells — can help improve infection rates in your experiment. Figure 2: Visual representation...important to note, however, that while AAV rarely integrates into the genome, CRISPR may increase this rate..., nor is it a global occurrence, as integration sites seem to only occur in the target cells or tissues...

...you’d like to go to. During the conference Take notes during talks. If you have questions during the talk...poster.” Have a notebook handy so you can jot down notes or questions from your poster viewers and trade ...whenever you have a small break), write down some notes on the card so you remember who they are and what...

... the expression system you choose in many ways dictates the best method for introducing those CRISPR components...will want to invest some time in optimizing and testing the efficiency of CRISPR delivery. There are a ... at Addgene that have been published as CRISPR testing tools: Traffic Light Reporter System: Can evaluate...

...endonuclease gene within its own cut site1. In heterozygotes, the endonuclease cuts the wild-type chromosome...Both methods are easy to implement and have been tested in yeast5. Ecological confinement involves performing...area where escaped organisms won't be able to find mates2. For example, ongoing experiments attempting to...

...to spend their days microinjecting fluorescent conjugates into cells. Fortunately, over the last 20 years... cognate protein. In some cases this property eliminates the need for removing excess dye from the sample...refinements to these systems—smaller tags, brighter conjugates, higher fluorogenicity, photoactivation etc.—...

...detection of the product. As an added benefit, replicates are built into the technology. One well (containing...Have a dedicated bench with a dedicated set of pipettes for ddPCR set-up. Prepare the master mix in a ...low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has been ...

...to ~4-10x linearly! This expansion physically separates molecules while maintaining their relative positions...understanding of neuronal synapses, centrosomes, parasites, and more (Bertiaux, et al. 2021; Gambarotto, ...new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria parasites including the conservation of a conoid. PLoS Biology...

...dependencies detected. Given this new information, Misek notes that in theory, if the DepMap analysis had an equal...and references References Germline variation contributes to false negatives in CRISPR-based experiments...Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, Anna Di Rienzo, Agustin Fuentes, Stephanie M. Fullerton et al. Getting genetic ...

...Komagataella phaffii (a.k.a  Pichia pastoris) because it secretes fewer of its own proteins, making the purification... the efficacy of our antibodies through stress testing. An aliquot of our recombinant antibodies is stored...aliquots frozen immediately post-harvest. Stress-tested antibodies that are not equally effective are shipped...

... is received in the lab, although this number fluctuates throughout the year (see graph below). Addgene.... Each plate has numbers and letters to give coordinates, from A1 through H12. Each plate is also barcoded...rack that contains five levels that can hold five plates on each level. This rack is located in one of five...

...iPSC programming spanning from fibroblasts and keratinocytes to peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs...using PBMCs as the source of somatic cells. This translates to only about 16 hiPSC colonies per 100 ml of...22422317. 6. Diecke, S., et al., Recent technological updates and clinical applications of induced pluripotent...

...increase from $23,660 to $47,476 per year, under updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This is... must be above this level, and certain job duty tests must be met. In the Department of Labor’s general...postdocs should be paid according to the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award (NRSA...

...HDR-mediated gene editing is most efficient when target sites are located in close proximity to the region to ...editing than wild-type SpCas9, even when targeting sites that are known to produce off-target editing with...engineering was Cas12a (formerly Cpf1), a nuclease that generates double strand breaks in target genes resulting...

...base-pair mCherry insertion. Editing of these motifs generates lesions that are subject to excision and ssDNA...-Beier et al., 2019. The team put TREE to the test by infecting HEK-293 cells with the BFP variant,...al., 2020. As a proof of concept the Dow lab tested their hypothesis with GFP fluorescence. To do this...

...their best interest to do so, sure, but it also eliminates that feeling of floundering one can have when...case at an office job. I’ve frequently told job candidates over the years that one of the things I enjoy...career options are expanding. As someone who coordinates cross-team projects at Addgene, I find that my...

...describe how each of these kinds of connectivity facilitates reproducibility. Connectivity to other data sources...available for public access, review, and query. Gates Open Research and Wellcome Open Research both accept...Framework, Data Dryad, and Figshare. Any ELN that facilitates reproducibility has to make it easy to export...