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  1. The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It

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    Jan. 30, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...representative images, measuring the main outcomes in several different ways, and other questionable research... tested with a new experiment; and hypothesis generation, in which data are investigated to look for unexpected...trends or differences between groups. Hypothesis generation is critical for advancement, but we are too often...using hypothesis testing statistical tools that generate a p-value.  As an example, if you hypothesize ...clear distinction between hypothesis testing and generation, can be sure that results will be reported regardless...
  2. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    Nov. 21, 2019, 1:53 p.m.
    ...within and outside your field, and any number of interactions with professionals from other backgrounds at...simple, but they could in fact be interpreted in several different ways depending on the team. When Tony... from completing 2-3 large projects a year, on average, to completing 8-10 projects per year. Happier ...resources on the Addgene blog Read about other transferable skills Find all of our science career related...
  3. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...using CRISPR for generating mouse models Although CRISPR is incredibly useful for generating mutations by ...that efficient, often takes more than a year to generate a mouse model, and its success is not always guaranteed...mouse genome engineering From the very start, generating mouse models using CRISPR is easier than more...example, we often screen only 15-25 mice when generating knockout models with CRISPR and find that many...knock in with a donor oligonucleotide, we aim to generate 50 to 100 mice and are usually successful in deriving... process is much quicker. It takes 3 months to generate founder mice using CRISPR, as compared with 8 ...less. With CRISPR, it may cost about $5,000 to generate founder mice, while with conventional gene targeting...
  4. Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training

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    June 3, 2014, 2:14 p.m.
    ... in a nonacademic direction, there are many “transferable” skills you have developed in addition to learning...your favor? Look for opportunities to practice transferable skills in ways that will also enhance your science... concrete things you can do to develop those transferable skills while you are also learning to be an ... transferable skills...
  5. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    April 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ... mouse model generation easi-er! Generating mice before CRISPR The process of generating knock-in mice...unsuccessful. CRISPR made the overall process of mouse model generation simpler, as described in an earlier...Gurumurthy and Ohtsuka groups have obtained an average knock-in efficiency of 30-60%. This is much more...earlier post on generating CRISPR mouse models. For simple knockout alleles or point mutations, the 8-...conventional gene targeting (A), you must first generate your desired mutation in mouse ES cells, select...template. Figure 2: Overview of ivTRT to generate an ssDNA repair template. Although effective... most projects requiring only 40-60 zygotes to generate a correctly edited founder. Figure 6: Diagram...
  6. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic gene, finding...effective. Challenges for AAV gene therapy Although AAV-based gene therapies are promising, scientists are ...can interfere with virus-cell interactions and seriously hinder gene therapy outcomes. Anti-AAV antibodies...robust therapeutic outcomes. In contrast to other gene delivery tools that are under consideration, recent...Howe, and A. J. Thrasher. "Gene therapy progress and prospects: gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency...guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold great promise for improving or...thought to be incurable. Rapid advances in next generation sequencing technologies have allowed scientists...
  7. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    May 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...proteins’ interaction brings the pieces of the FP back together (Figure 1). This method is generally known...Split-TurboID for protein interactions (Alice Ting Lab 2020) Split-horseradish peroxidase (Alice Ting Lab...techniques are available to assess protein-protein interactions. One popular approach is to fuse a protein of...a qualitative or quantitative readout of the interaction in vivo or in vitro, and can be used for measuring...begin? Have no fear, Addgene is here to help!  General Design Figure 1: Two proteins are fused ...) and FP(1–10) fragments. When Protein A and B interact, the FP fragments can assemble the full structure...yield large (1–10) and small (11) fragments. In several cases an FP(1–10) fragment may be compatible with...
  8. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... the important interactions. It’s also important to determine if the human interactors we found in our... that can be targeted (hopefully by existing therapeutics that are safe, effective, and already FDA-approved...describing a comprehensive SARS-CoV-2 virus-human interaction network in which we expressed 26 of the 29 SARS-CoV...proteins to fish for human “prey” proteins that interact with the virus. As a result, we identified 332...332 human proteins that the virus interacts with in cells. Because viruses rely on the help of human proteins...druggable) is a key step in our strategy to throw a therapeutic monkeywrench into the virus’ hijacking of human...the beginning of understanding how SARS-CoV-2 interacts with human proteins. For example, we used HEK293T...
  9. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    Jan. 28, 2020, 2:35 p.m.
    ...next-door microbes which grow optimally in moderate temperatures (usually defined between a fairly nippy ... take bacteria out of their optimally suited temperature ranges and make them grow better at suboptimal...bitter cold.  Since our objective is to induce tolerance towards cold, we decided to focus on a special...cold-loving) bacteria. These bacteria inhabit cold temperature locales and psychrophilic enzymes help them survive... pH ranges, crushing pressures, near-melting temperatures, tons of radiation, or freezing cold conditions...materials degrade at a much slower rate under cold temperatures, and frigid conditions decrease the potential...minute quantity can significantly reduce the operational time for a given process. These are extremely...
  10. Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing

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    May 5, 2015, 3:54 p.m.
    ...intense, but it is a general good practice to keep up with the scientific literature a little bit at a time.... Searching for literature My go-to search engines for finding scientific literature are Google Scholar...the literature until you have all of the information you need. Reading primary research literature The...with the literature There are a few ways to make sure you are keeping up with the literature in your field...you daily updates with relevant literature. Organizing the literature As a scientist, you will begin to...require numerous other references to scientific literature to substantiate the facts upon which it builds...means you have to become familiar with a body of literature related to the topic. Finding reliable references...
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