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  1. How to Lead a Great Meeting

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 9, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...participants, clarification - new and useful information, and invigoration - a renewed energy for continuing.... This keeps our all-company meetings short, informative, and pleasant. Email: Sometimes, the right ...Before long, you will be running collaborative, informative, energizing meetings all your own. Additional...

  2. Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 20, 2015, 8:30 p.m.
    ...You can’t delegate the giving of feedback or performance review. You can’t delegate tasks assigned to ... take on all tasks that involve confidential information. No matter who you delegate to, or what tasks...ensure successful results.  Can you provide the information and resources needed for the assignment? Setting...

  3. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.
    ...uncut DNA (lane 2) shows 3 possible plasmid conformations, with relaxed and nicked marked with asterisks...make it easier for you to obtain a useful and informative diagnostic restriction digest. For your digest...fact that the circular DNA takes on several conformations the most abundant being: supercoiled, relaxed...

  4. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    Blog Post
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    March 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... to work with, time consuming, and minimally informative. In this blog post, we’ll introduce digital PCR...target DNA. Conventional thermal cycling is then performed to amplify the target using PCR. Instead of tracking...design such assays, in addition to testing their performance (2). Remember that although digital PCR is a ...

  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    Blog Post
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    July 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...have been identified in the sea pansy (Renilla reniformis), click beetle (Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus),... 562 61 Luciferin ATP No Sea pansy (Renilla reniformis) Natural 481 36 Coelenterazine None No Click...biosensors where BRET reports on the change in conformation of a single protein. Considerations for luciferase...

  6. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    Blog Post
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    April 5, 2022, 1:20 p.m.
    ...variable heavy (VH) chain sequences. Fusion PCR was performed to create an amplicon that  was cloned into a ...frequency within functional light chain sequences. By performing a BciVI digest of the PCR products prior to cloning...improving access to useful research materials and information. References and Resources Additional Resources...

  7. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    Blog Post
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    March 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m.
    ...therefore will require crosslinking, which uses formaldehyde or UV light to create strong but reversible ...actively interacting with, reducing background information. Your options for this step are sonication, which... with a PCR purification kit or with a phenol-chloroform extraction.    Fig. 1: Schematic overview...

  8. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... genes, researchers at the Genetic Pertubation Platform at the Broad Institute have expanded the genetic...-based method for screens. Cas12a’s ability to perform multiplex editing within a single expression cassette...used to create a genome-wide library capable of performing similarly to Cas9 screens in a compacted library...

  9. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...and expressing new shRNA sequences. For more information, see the Addgene’s pLKO.1 protocol. Pro-tip: ...trademarked Tet-On(R) sold by Clontech. For additional information, see the manual provided by the Weiderschain ...vector encodes both SpCas9 and your gRNA. It’s the former version of our sixth most popular plasmid pSpCas9...

  10. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    Blog Post
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    July 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m.
    ... still in its infancy. A long timeline from transformation to testing and a lack of well-characterized...s made even more difficult by the fact that transformation methods have also been patented. In order to.... We will also be working with open source, transformation technologies like those pioneered by Ewen Mullins...

  11. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    Blog Post
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    April 23, 2018, 2 p.m.
    ...control of gene expression, Aranda-Díaz et al transformed yeast with both a GAL4/estradiol controlled transcription...factor. They then induced cultures of these transformants with various concentrations of estradiol and...factors 1 and 2. See Aranda-Díaz et al. for more information. The El-Samad lab predicts that this level of...

  12. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 16, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
    ...very interesting talk by Prof. Erin M Schuman, a former Caltech researcher, now Director at the Max Planck... from them at the MPI in Frankfurt am Main and perform similar experiments. Visualizing newly synthesized...provides both quantitative and spatio-temporal information about the turnover of specific endogenous proteins...

  13. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...gene in frame with an MCS. E. coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene...applications. While these two strains ultimately perform the same function, there is some evidence that ...that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the specific plasmids being used. ...

  14. To Each HIS Own

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    Blog Post
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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...methods where binding relies on a specific protein conformation, the polyhistidine-metal ion interaction is ...this one developed by Dr. James Trimmer’s lab, to perform assays that they otherwise would not be able to...polyhistidine tags. For more antibody-related information, sign up to receive alerts for antibody posts...

  15. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ... to support sharing of CRISPR constructs and information across the globe.  “Read the Addgene guide: https...barrier for depositors and requestors alike. We transformed this process by aligning institutions with standardized...the Neuroscience AntiBody Open Resource (NABOR) platform, supported by an NIH BRAIN Initiative. We also...

  16. Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody

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    Blog Post
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    March 15, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...background papers you could get your hands on, formulated a hypothesis, and planned out your key experiments...so look at epitope target, source, and other information to make sure you’re not trying to choose between...Antibody-based assays are complex and antibodies may perform differently in different samples and experimental...

  17. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 21, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...antibody. Perform a second series of wash steps. Activate the signaling molecule and perform the assay...sample with the primary (unconjugated) antibody. Perform a series of wash steps to remove any unbound or...

  18. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    Blog Post
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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...immunogen. A different type of purification can be performed to isolate antibodies only recognizing your protein...steps keep the cost low compared to other antibody formats. This low barrier to entry makes polyclonal antibodies... detect a protein in low abundance or whose conformational state may change. If your protein might become...

  19. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    Blog Post
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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ...relevant host biomarkers. The lab validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR...Gilliamella apicoli. The plasmids could also be transformed into Alphaproteobacteira, Betaproteobacteria,... al. "A low-cost paper-based synthetic biology platform for analyzing gut microbiota and host biomarkers...

  20. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
    ...the LOV2 domain unfold, disrupting the protein conformation and thus, inhibiting function of Acr. This allows...photoswitchable proteins, which change in protein conformation in response to light, offers a way to spatially...of the photoswitchable cPYP, which changes in conformation in response to blue light (445nm). The discovery...
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