... the planning section below, it’s important to dedicate specific amounts of time to specific tasks beforehand...activities that are needed to accomplish these goals. Practically speaking, this means I write everything in a ...down? It’s more viscerally appealing for me to physically cross things out (it just feels good) and I remember...instance, if I don’t have draft blog post ready for publication for tomorrow, I’d better upload that post from...handle doing a particularly annoying task and then dedicating that much time to it each day. Once you get over...Student Community Learn about Careers in Science Communication Resources at Addgene.org Check out Careers...

... minus sign (-) as is typically standard; just having the gene listed indicates it is non-functional. ...that carried out the labor-intensive process of replicating your new plasmid: the Escherichia coli bacteria...conjugation. Genes listed on F´ are wild-type unless indicated otherwise fhuA (formerly tonA) ferric hydroxamate...vectors. Used by Addgene for pooled library amplification. F' mcrA Δ(mcrBC-hsdRMS-mrr) recA1 endA1 gyrA96... Most Popular Plasmids 101 Posts: Origin of Replication The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Mammalian Vectors...

...Vincent and Niroshi Senaratne, from the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard University...and Genomics at Harvard Medical School, and is currently a fellow in clinical genetics at the University...the Program in Genetics and Genomics at Harvard Medical School. He studies developmental gene regulation...

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... Howarth’s lab at the University of Oxford is dedicated to generating new tools to manipulate biology ...able to grab on to proteins irreversibly in a genetically encoded way. SpyTag is nice and small, just 13... if there are forces acting on them. For the application we were looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating...out the cell capture system.) Cancer and other applications Addgene: What does this technology mean in the...this tool? Howarth: Polyproteins are useful for mechanical study of proteins by atomic force microscopy ...

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