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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m....Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The opsin ChETA, for example...regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches excel at discrete cell or tissue-subregion targeting down to the...
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Sensing Neuronal Dopamine
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m....submicromolar) DA affinity and high-magnitude responses (increases in fluorescence) at low concentrations (e.g., ...The GRABDA dopamine sensor Yulong Li’s lab has created the GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy: ... -
Management for Scientists: Managing vs. Leading
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2015, 4:08 p.m....leader’s job to provide the driving inspiration, to create a productive culture and to correct systemic problems...try operating in a different role? I think the secret sauce can be summed up in one word – initiative... -
Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.... bacteria and a mammalian selection cassette to screen for positive transfected cells. The addition of...your applications and experimental design. You can create a new strain with a disrupted gene by transforming... -
Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m....highlighted back in 2015, where sdAbs were used to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation. ... mouse-derived single-domain antibodies. Image created in BioRender and adapted from Xu, et al., 2021.... -
Plasmid Cloning by PCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m....temperatures, but you may need to increase your primer length and increase the Tm if you are trying to clone... -
Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m....empirical essays had also stirred some of my more creative faculties into motion, such that a desire to once...filmmaking, podcasting, philosophy of science, creative writing, designing and curating exhibitions, animation... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m....different biochemical secondary energy sources to increase protein yields from 36 μg/mL to 266 μg/mL. The...oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this system was used to recreate natural biosynthetic pathways. Biosynthetic pathways... -
5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m....out-of-the-box ideas that might jump start your learning. 1. Create a peer mentoring group We don’t all get the mentoring...that there’s some correct level of intimacy that creates the magic of a safe space. No matter why, now is... -
Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m....into the collection and to start shipping. They created the best safety protocols they could with limited...While many were sympathetic to this need, we're incredibly grateful that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ... -
HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m....fluorescent signals in in vivo imaging: the 10xHA tag increased the fluorescent signal to noise ratio five fold...scaffold and HA-binding regions, the Stasevich lab created a versatile tool that can be used to visualize ... -
Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2018, 1:14 p.m....1989; Ozturk and Palsson, 1991; Oh, 1993) and increased yields in adenoviral (Coroadinha, 2006) and retroviral...AAV production yields had yet to be examined. Increased yields with sucrose supplementation is serotype... -
Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m....This recessive genetic condition leaves patients incredibly sensitive to sunlight and prone to developing... they now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse models carrying different... -
Behind-the-scenes of the Isolation of the Thermostable IgnaviCas9 From a Yellowstone Hot Spring
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2019, 2 p.m....interest without an increase in the number of steps in the protocol. IgnaviCas9’s incredible thermostability... -
Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 6, 2014, 7:12 p.m....her mentoring style. Set goals with a mentor: The secret of accountability To make a mentoring relationship...perspectives Develop coaching skills Encourage your creative thinking Enhance leadership skills Support inclusion... -
Extracurricular Activities for a Strong Science Career Path
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2014, 3:08 p.m....across the hall, fields, and other professions increases your chances of finding a well-suited job. EAs...of qualified scientists entering the workforce increases, EAs allow graduate students and postdocs an opportunity... -
Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2018, 2:30 p.m....easier. NEBNext Ultra FS DNA Library Prep Kit To create a DNA library, one must first fragment a DNA sample...snacks. At the end of the workshop, all our newly created libraries were analysed to see how well the kit... -
Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 19, 2017, 1:20 p.m....two iodine residues. Compared to MG, MG-2I has increased ROS generation when bound by the dL5** FAP. The... KillerRed requires mitochondrial targeting to increase cell ablation efficiency, but dL5** phototoxocity... -
Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 1, 2017, 1:15 p.m....translationally silent. Both of these methods increase our understanding of translation dynamics, but...but they come with a few caveats. In both cases, creating a reporter mRNA requires inserting multiple hairpin... -
The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m....advances in technologies that permit large-scale creation and synthesis (“writing”) of longer pieces of ...samples from several plates are pooled together to create a single library containing fragments carrying ...