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  1. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...until new inflorescences begin to grow. This will also increase the number of inflorescences overall, ...mutant phenotypes. Arabidopsis is amenable to the floral drip or dip transformation method. The general ...transformation, you can cut off the primary inflorescence (the flowering portion of the plant) near the...transformed Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings following floral dip transformation’, Plant Methods. BioMed Central...
  2. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

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    Oct. 9, 2018, 12:21 p.m.
    ...focus and exploration Researchers face a fundamental conflict. Science is about exploration, discovering...will be more competitive for fellowships. If you explore your system more, you will have a better idea of...question or are you simply describing a phenomenon? Exploration can be important, but it is equally important...foods with minimal processing, and low in empty calories will make you feel better and help maintain your...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ...emission spectrum. New fluorescent proteins with new colors Around the same time, researcher Sergey Lukyanov...some types of corals and anemones are vibrantly colored. He hypothesized that GFP-like proteins could be...Discosoma sp. and Katushka/mKate from Entacmaea quadricolor. With his discoveries, another part of the fluorescent... studies in Tsien lab, covered a portion of the color spectrum that GFP and its derivatives did not previously...
  4. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... and treatment of cancer have been extensively explored. Biologists have attempted to study cancer from...ve been studying it and, now, researchers are exploring ways to bolster and modulate our immune defenses...bowel disease is associated with the onset of colorectal cancer. Strategic immune evasion mechanisms -...efficient outcomes, collaborative therapies must be explored. When attacking cancer, multiple immunotherapy...and cancer immunotherapy, and is interested in exploring new avenues in healthcare.   References 1. Vinay...
  5. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    Oct. 31, 2019, 1:06 p.m.
    ...stumble upon. Vampire bacteria Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus is a predatory bacteria that attaches to the...wall and cytoplasmic membrane. Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus will not grown in culture alone and relies ...algae host for reproduction. Snail parasite Leucochloridium is a parasitic worm that infects a snail’s ... the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus." PeerJ 3 (2015): e968. PubMed PMID: 26038723...
  6. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Jan. 2, 2014, 3:44 p.m.
    ...and boost your productivity in 2014. Tip 1: Use color coding, labels, and post-its to make finding your...For binders of protocols and data, consider using color coded binders and tabs (for different experiments...notebooks and go wild with sticky notes and labels. Color code your Post-its and write brief descriptions ... the notebooks, so that you can easily spot the colors and text. Tip 2: Use electronic to-do lists to ...
  7. The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins

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    July 29, 2014, 6:16 p.m.
    ...imaging cell biology, Michael Davidson’s lab at Florida State University has been the go-to place. In 2012... monitor protein-protein interactions through multicolor labeling and FRET. Specialty constructs for biosensing...e.g., EGFP and YFP) to the new and improved fruit colors (e.g., apple, papaya, and tomato) and the photoactivatable...at the mEmerald variants first, followed by the color variants. The mEmerald plasmids offer a comprehensive...
  8. Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi

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    April 25, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
    ...The Scintillon Institute, Allele Biotechnology, Florida State University, Indiana University, and the Karolinska...protein CFP484. Collaborating with scientists from Florida State University, they used a mutagenesis approach... max emission at 509 nm), making it useful in multicolor labeling particularly with fluorophores that ...identification of the molecular determinants of color and applications in fluorescence imaging." BMC biology...
  9. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...another gene controlling eye color) and yellow (a gene affecting the body color of the adult fly). This is...such marker is the white gene, which restores eye color to fly lines where the endogenous white gene is ...anywhere from light yellow to red. The variation in color depends on how transcriptionally active the genomic...
  10. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ... a dye-linked substrate called x-gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-D-galacto-pyranoside) into galactose...galactose and an insoluble blue pigment (4-chloro-3-brom-indigo). So far, so good, but how does this help us...β-galactosidase, and remain the lovely whitish-cream color of standard E. coli. On the other hand, intact β-galactosidase...increases pigment precipitation, enhances the blue color of negative colonies, and allows for better differentiation...
  11. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ...Science. Learn more by visiting the Allen Cell Explorer at allencell.org and the Allen Institute website...please visit the Cell Catalog on the Allen Cell Explorer, where you can also find the certificate of analysis...
  12. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...plasmid with Addgene, hoping to inspire others to explore the phenomenon, improve the tool, and develop new...powerful tool, it was promising enough to keep exploring and to try developing a variant with an enhanced...York Lab operates with a strong commitment to exploration and collaboration. Andrew is a physicist with...inventors and biomedical engineers, join efforts to explore the mechanisms and develop potential applications...
  13. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    Feb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...of a tag or fusion with a reporter enzyme. For multicolor staining, careful consideration must be used ...and/or different IgG subclasses of 1° for multi-color staining Can be expensive Nanobodies   Recombinant...staining with antibodies. Nanobodies also simplify multicolor staining experiments because they don’t require...application to the sample. Staining with this multi-color staining workflow yields similar localization patterns...
  14. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... or greater with good statistical significance (Taylor, 2017). With the right conditions and parameters...):332-7. doi: 10.2144/00292rv02. PMID: 10948434.Taylor SC; Laperriere G;  Germain H. Droplet Digital PCR...2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02217-xTaylor, SC; Nadeau, K; Abbasi, M; Lachance, C; Nguyen,...j.tibtech.2018.12.002.Teo IA; Choi JW;  Morlese J; Taylor G; Shaun S. LightCycler qPCR optimisation for low...
  15. New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR

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    Dec. 12, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...did perform similarly to GRABNE, and having both colors allows for increased options for multiplexing in...Reiner, A., … Patriarchi, T. (2023). Sensitive multicolor indicators for monitoring norepinephrine in vivo...Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?  In Living Color: The Skinny on In Vivo Imaging Tools Resources ...
  16. New Viral Vectors - Fall 2024

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    Oct. 3, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...If the fall colors are inspiring you to paint your cells in equally vivid colors, you'll want to check...serotype AAV-CamKIIa-jGCaMP8s-WPRE AAV5 Biosensors Loren Looger New serotype pAAV-CAG-FLEx-iSeroSnFR AAV9...
  17. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... a powerful tool to modify mammalian cells. Multicolor CRISPR labeling chromosomal loci in genome Thoru... School has recently developed a CRISPR-based multicolor tool enabling the imaging of multiple endogenous...2015. PubMed PMID: 26456817. Nano-lanterns for multicolor luminescence imaging  Fluorescent imaging techniques...colleagues at Osaka University have developed two new color variants of their Nano-lantern technology, first...emission spectra suitable for single cell, multi-color imaging. The Nano-lanterns rely on the principle...monitoring multi-gene expression and adapt it for multi-color calcium sensing (plasmids coming soon!). Takai...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    Aug. 18, 2023, 4:15 p.m.
    ...B978-0-12-800947-5.00004-1 Taylor, M. W. (2014). What Is a Virus? In M. W. Taylor (Ed.), Viruses and Man:...are simple: a genome packaged in a protein shell (Taylor, 2014). They’re so simple that we can’t even decide...
  19. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    .... They’ll put a variety of plasmids to work to explore the effect of various OCRL1 mutations on cell behavior...GFP-ATP1A3, FLAG-ATP1A3, and ATP1B3 plasmids to explore the functional differences among mutations responsible...disease that can cause hearing loss and changes in coloring of the hair, skin, and eyes. The researchers found...
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