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  1. FastCloning: A Newer, Simpler Cloning Technique

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    Nov. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...believed that the exonuclease activity of the polymerase generates sticky ends in the PCR reactions. These ...amplification of a recombinant DNA without sequence alteration. Molecular cloning techniques are some of the...its advantages, most scientists still encounter several struggles with these techniques: unwanted mutations... excessive PCR cycles or low fidelity Taq DNA polymerase, the construction of specific sequences for base...any subsequent steps. Using high fidelity DNA polymerases, I have never had any mutations introduced into...efficiency is highest when using high fidelity DNA polymerases like phusion. An 18-cycle PCR leads to the most...
  2. Viral Genome Sequencing - A One Stop Shop for AAV Identity and Serotype Confirmation

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    April 23, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...address this, several years ago we partnered with Seqwell to establish a next-generation sequencing (NGS... by Single-stranded Virus Next-generation Sequencing. Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids 4:e260 . https...of the VGS process and use cases in Human Gene Therapy. Existing methods for AAV quality control Historically...Viral Genomes in Academic Settings. Human Gene Therapy Methods 30:195–205 . https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb...Consistency Evaluation of AAV Preparations. Molecular Therapy 25:1375–1386 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymthe.2017.04.001...
  3. Scientific Peer-review: Providing Critical and Kind Feedback and Advocating for Open Science

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    Aug. 8, 2019, 1:19 p.m.
    ...language is ... The general representation of data is... The figures are ... In general, I think that this...the study to be replicated or omission from the literature. I think that delivering constructive critique...studying plant development and abiotic stress tolerance, I have been peer-reviewing journal submissions... detailed. I prefer to do it on another day - preferably the following morning - as usually deadlines ...language in the first (and clunky) version of my general comments and adjust them if my opinion changed ..., increasing the impact of the work, and as a collateral benefit, increasing the impact of the specific...
  4. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    Dec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
    ...thoroughly answered by experts in human-computer interaction (HCI), and we have adhered rigorously to HCI ...qualities is an ongoing process that involves iterative refinements in response to customer feedback. ..., and then crafted a detection algorithm that tolerates occasional mismatches or indels. Empirical tests...effort to be rigorous, we dug into the original literature, some of it decades old, to provide reliable ...to the database. Another limitation is that by tolerating mismatches, our algorithm could annotate a feature...to newly sequenced strains through our mismatch tolerant detection algorithm and thereby speed up the annotation...the idea stage through all of its post-launch iterations.     Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog...
  5. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...of proteins, and can be a readout for protein interaction studies such as immunoprecipitation and pull-... be assessed from a single western.  There are several variations of the protein transfer step including...wet, semi-dry, and dry but all follow the same general principle where the gel and membrane are “sandwiched... antibody should you use? You will likely find several different antibody options targeting your protein...example, in immunoprecipitation (IP) the antibody interacts with a protein in its native state while a western...are typically conjugated to an enzyme, such as horseradish peroxidase (HRP), that emits light upon reacting... cellular assays. They can determine protein interactions following immunoprecipitation and are a common...
  6. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    April 28, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...writing for a general audience. The tool highlights jargon terms or words rarely used in general writing in...university student.   The Pomodoro timer is literally a tomato! Image from Gerlos.   Tools for checking...desired formatting style. This tool is great for generating citations for a few papers at a time. Mendeley...version that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.  Zotero  Zotero is also another free ...Can Grad School podcast episode 2 "Organizing Literature" : I found out about Zotero here Dear Grad Student...blog: Tips for writing scientific manuscripts: literature searching, reading, and organizing Tips for writing...
  7. Virtual Science Conference Coming Up? Three Addgenies Share Their Experience

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    June 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...at once, virtual conferences may have apps or interactive calendars that you can use to help plan your ...highly voted questions,” says Zhang. “Usually the moderator starts by asking the speaker the highly upvoted...the Q&A in the chat box. Presenting? Make it interactive! As a presenter, it can be difficult to keep ...Workshop, Abitua and the other organizers found several avenues to keep the audience engaged. They first...Reproducibility for Everyone Workshop included this interactive activity during their session. Image from Reproducibility...Reproducibility for Everyone.  While this type of interaction might not work when you are giving a research...important to keep your video on and look into the camera to make it seem more like you’re connecting with...
  8. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    Dec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
    ...Wondering how you can develop more transferable skills? See Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training... it different from a CV? Get familiar with the general format of a resume and the different presentation...advantage over other candidates. Write about your transferable skills Some of the skills you developed might...have presented in some public lectures? These transferable skills could be meaningful for your potential...undergraduates use these services, but some of the general knowledge about preparing a good resume, writing...Columbia, Student Services - includes videos on general resume writing, as well as additional videos with...
  9. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...fluorescent channels on the microscope. With the proliferation of fluorescent proteins in recent years, there...the latest fluorescent proteins, I maintain an interactive graph and table of the best fluorescent proteins...TagRFP to give a brighter signal than mCherry. In general, filter sets designed for Rhodamine / Cy3 will ... of the improved folding variants of EGFP like mEmerald or Clover is probably best; mNeonGreen is an even...variants, presumably due to the lower growth temperature. This also suggests, however, that there is no...want the brightest signal, you may need to try several proteins in your system of interest. Finally, in...set of proteins the green and red proteins are generally the most detectable and so should be used to tag...
  10. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    May 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...20, 2021. By Will Arnold and Shreya Vedantam Accelerating research by improving the availability of materials...pandemic in which scientists race to find vaccines, therapeutics, and other treatments to stem the spread of ...plasmids to help academic and industrial labs accelerate research and to help find a faster solution to...SARS-CoV-2 materials, it will not scale well to the several thousand plasmids from Ginkgo. To balance the need...time consuming, costly, and laborious QC for all several thousand plasmids at once. Any samples that are... any scientists who requested the plasmid. By leveraging our core strengths of intensive screening and...balance by modifying certain processes in both core operations. As it has been in much of the world, we have...
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