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  1. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...transcripts. I remember when small RNA was just something we ran off the bottom of the gel so it wouldn’...thought. High throughput transcriptome sequencing methods including work done by the ENCODE project consortium...
  2. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...bioinformatics pipeline. It’s possible that we’ll find something interesting and contribute it back to the kittybiome...printer, a laser cutter, woodworking tools, and a metalshop. After two summers in Silicon Valley as a student...
  3. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    June 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m.
    ...on any challenge and quickly become experts in something, even if that thing is opening a pizza joint. ...analyze what we want out of our careers: to build something new and beautiful, to engage with the public in...
  4. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...from contaminants using a variety of purification methods. Deciding which expression system to use depends...transiently or through stable cell lines. Both methods produce high protein yields if transfection is ...
  5. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... in place to protect us from rogue cells when something does go awry. The process of programmed cell death...the circulatory or lymph systems to spread, or metastasize. Many cancerous cells will die trying, as the...
  6. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

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    March 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...degron tags can offer over other protein control methods and compare the commonly available types of degron...protein post-translationally, unlike many other methods. Secondly, these tags can be used to manipulate...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...these electrical events! Voltage indicators are voltmeters for cells! In this blog we will review how these... described systems. Several adaptations of this method have been to tag, cage, uncage, and trap the chemical...
  8. PhD Applications After COVID

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    Jan. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...speaking, the PhD application process tends to go something like this:   However, as simply as it seems laid...program. An email to a potential PI should go something like this: Introduce yourself, brief educational...
  9. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    Aug. 29, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...down the question you were trying to answer, the method you used, the main result, and the fundamental ...you’ve already set yourself up for success. But sometimes, attendees can get sucked in to thirty-minute-...
  10. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ...it at the time, but gene therapy had fallen - plummeted really -  from grace 2 years prior with the death...muscular atrophy, neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic diseases are also underway and reported results...
  11. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... absorbance of both is then measured on a spectrophotometer and concentration versus absorbance is plotted...relationship is non-linear and you should use a different method of analysis. Different fields and assays have varying...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    July 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...developed into lentiviral vectors. Lentiviruses are sometimes referred to as “complex retroviruses ” (Cullen...viruses and transduction by vectors (which we sometimes still call “infection” as a shorthand, although...
  13. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    Feb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks” (Brian,...are often associated with rote memorization of metabolic pathways (precisely the type of exercise Einstein...
  14. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    Dec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...step (Moreno-Mateos, et al., Nat Com). Another method used to prime a Cas break for HR is to fuse an ...jbc.TM118.000372 Yang, H., Ren, S., Yu, S., Pan, H., et al. Methods favoring homology-directed repair choice in response...
  15. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ...journal club. This can be a challengingly vague metric but there are a few things you can point to. Does...receive include the sense that people learned something new? Did the meeting begin and end on time? Did...
  16. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    Oct. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...barcoded tube (see next section) and every time something is removed from this tube, the barcode on the ...digit barcode and then assigned to a location in a metal freezer rack that contains five levels that can ...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS): This is a type of flow cytometry that separates mixtures of cells into distinct... populations in drug screens, to visualize micrometastases in nude mice in cancer studies, act as a reporter...
  18. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ..., or pretty much anyone applying the scientific method to a question. Videos from any discipline are welcome...the University of Maine, about her research on plummeting embryo survival rates. Video on We Share Science...
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