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  1. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    Sept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... elaborately pranking each other, dressing in costume, and holding competitions (ranging from cook-offs...orderly and timely fashion. 9. Ask for help My grandma used the old adage “many hands make light work”..., evite, posters, megaphone, or your company’s intranet. Don’t forget about the power of simple word of...
  2. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ... package stays in transit for a certain number of days and tracking average transit time for each courier... often weren’t easily accessible, due to a wide range of logistical barriers. Addgene worked to identify...Protocols Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Bacterial Transformation How to Design a Primer Creating Bacterial Glycerol...
  3. How to Write a Scientific Review Article

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    Feb. 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...popular papers, but looked for papers from a wide range of authors. Just start writing When I first started...drafts of the manuscript. This is the time to transform the document into something cohesive-- change ...Thompson, and Thomas D. Gilmore. "Histone acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases in B-and T-cell ...Tips for Improving Your Next Manuscript 6 Tips for Grant Writing Resources on Addgene.org Check out Our...
  4. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...sequencing or restriction digest! Then, you can transform or transfect the cells that you want to use for your... reactions are performed, the next step is to transform competent E. coli cells and select the positive...Cloning Technology: Advantages and Drawbacks. Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley...
  5. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...that emerged from intensive engagement with a wide range of people at the University of Wisconsin in 2011...reproducibility an ELN should have integrations with a broad range of relevant generic and science-specific tools. ... however, in some cases it would be possible to grant those wanting to understand and/or attempt to reproduce...Massachusetts, and feels privileged to be part of the vibrant life sciences research and commercialization community...
  6. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    Dec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ... protein of interest, such as a sample transiently transfected or stably infected with the protein of ...downregulated, examine a protein’s stability or post-translational modifications, or study how a target protein...experiments using a tagged protein may not be translatable to the endogenous system and will need to be...
  7. AAV Titers: Where Do They Come From And What Do They Mean?

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    Nov. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.
    ...particles that can transduce cells. Infectious titers are typically quantified by cell transduction assays. Wild-type....qPCR...Digital droplet PCR...DNA dot blot...Transduction assay...SDS-PAGE...Electron microscopy… Any ...titer of a viral vector stock can vary based on transduction target and can also be altered by freeze-thaw...
  8. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...pharmaceutical companies, biotech start-ups, health insurance companies, and governments on the most effective...physicians and patients, shaping discussions with insurance companies about the pricing and coverage of drugs...therapeutic approach brings to patients, doctors, and insurance providers, and is crucial to how our clients’ ...When I was first considering preparing for and transitioning to a career in healthcare consulting, I found...
  9. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    July 10, 2018, 1:08 p.m.
    ...types of ELNs are available on the market today, ranging from general note taking tools, to more scientific....e. main priorities of different ELN features, ranging from whether respondents saw them as not important...requires time and knowledge. In a recent article, we translated our knowledge of electronic lab notebooks into...information. If an employee leaves the institution, the transition is smooth as all data is organized within an ...
  10. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    Oct. 5, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...dDetermined as effective NIR fluorescence in transiently transfected live HeLa cells with no supply of exogenous...lamps are the best for working in this spectral range. You can also check that no filters and/or cold ...and after normalization to fluorescence of co-transfected EGFP. e Originally reported as a monomer16, IFP2.0...
  11. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    May 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...looking, I found an inexpensive HDMI transmitter that could transmit a signal between a wall. There was ... things first was getting that wireless HDMI transmitter/receiver, to beam the camera’s image to my remote...then set up a monitor connected to the wireless transmitter and an iPad in the office next door (connected...
  12. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    Dec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.
    ... avidin, proximity labelling can capture weak/transient protein interactions as well as be used for both...proximity labeling by promiscuous biotin ligases (Branon et al., 2018). BioID and BioID2 can take hours ...2019). This technique relies on an S. auerus transpeptidase sortase A variant (mgSrtA), which is capable...motif, give these methods a try.  References:  Branon, Tess C., et al. "Efficient proximity labeling ...
  13. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...While this may effectively serve as a transfection or transduction control, a different gRNA would have..., you’ll want to select a Cas enzyme with low tolerance for mismatches within the gRNA sequence. ...near each other, this will result in a DNA double strand break (DSB), the event required for frameshift ...
  14. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    June 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...investigator. In basic science (as opposed to translational, biomedical, or applied sciences), people conduct...don’t tell us everything there is to know is a strange and exciting revelation. Science in any field can...investigator (PI) Runs the lab Writes a lot of grants Varying degrees of engagement with what happens...1-2 years) Often a gap-year position taken to transition to the next career stage (ex: grad school, med...
  15. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...levels to generate anything from individual transcription units (TUs) used to express your favorite gene-of-interest...service (Lee et al., 2015). This kit offers a broad range of parts, including copy number machinery, chromosomal...vectors. The Plant Parts III kit has a focus on transformation and genome engineering. This is a specialized...used successfully for protein localization and transport studies in HEK cells, recombinant protein purification...
  16. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    July 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... modified cells are transferred into an animal and the behavior of the transferred cells is followed. ...generating a massive amount of descriptive transcriptomics data. Custom CRISPR screens designed to target...pathway with many receptors, signaling molecules, transcription factors, and ligands. The presenter then showed...
  17. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques is Best for Me?

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    Oct. 10, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
    ...Although white light is entering your hand, only orange/red light can be seen exiting through the tissue...detector such as a scientific CMOS camera. If plasma membrane dynamics are the main focus of the experiment,...Reversible Saturable Optical Linear Fluorescence Transitions (RESOLFT/STED) also excel on these types of samples...when acquiring multiple images over a large axial range. 2-photon imaging, which restricts excitation and...
  18. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    May 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Michigan State University 9:36-10:29 : Kingdom's transition back to Malawi and Lilongwe University of Agriculture...-14:53 : Kingdom's current projects producing transgenic crops 14:54-23:44 : Follow up Kingdom's PhD projects... transgenic crops...
  19. Our New Antibody Mascot is....

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    Feb. 24, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...choices), we'll be in touch with you soon with some brand-new Addgene swag!   Last month, we introduced you...out to you and received a plethora of options, ranging from Affie to Yncredibody. After an agonizing week...their new friend…  Fig. 1: Meet...well, frankly, we're not sure yet!   This as-yet–unnamed ...
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