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TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m....the less acknowledged perks of scientific and technical training is that these educational paths prepare...Foundation study showed that 57% of PhDs in US Biomedical workforce will NOT go into “traditional” academic...but there is more flexibility with the academic calendar Academic researchers must be extreme self-starters...
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Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m....with people, nurturing networks, as much as with technical knowledge. I leverage a breadth of knowledge to...I am constantly teaching – often explaining a technical piece of research to others outside that specialty...punctuation can be wildly funny as well as financially critical. Those who work on the publishing side of science... -
Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 22, 2023, 1 p.m....the host university does not hire or pay them (typically). A visiting scientist is distinct from equipment...the scientist to the new institute where their typical workdays will be carried out until the end of the...one) to communicate your plan as well. Making logistical and funding arrangements Visiting scientist positions... -
Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... and 15/17 morphologically aligned. Documentation of the network that initiates biological reprogramming...10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.026 Joung J. et al., Genome-scale CRISPR Cas-9 knockout and transcriptional activation... -
Hot Plasmids - January 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m....30667360; PMCID: PMC6377228. Hyperfolder YFP- a chemically stable tool for microscopy by: Susanna Stroik...many of these applications have lagged. Fixation, chemical staining, and light exposure can negatively affect...Find YFP plasmids here! Campbell, B.C., et al. Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy... -
Virtual Science Conference Coming Up? Three Addgenies Share Their Experience
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m....virtual conferences may have apps or interactive calendars that you can use to help plan your conference ...one session to another,” Bachle says. “Now, the physical location didn’t matter. I didn’t have to consider...conference is over on the website or in the app. Technical difficulties? Attending a conference virtually... -
The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m....particle to infect a cell, it has to come into physical contact with that cell. Since there is a limited... by an anterograde AAV was shown to drop off drastically with lower titers. As you can see in figure 2...AAV-mediated gene expression in a target cell. Practical considerations If you have high quality AAV, you... -
Addgene Depositors Get More Citations
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m....Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Biochemical Research Methods. We also pulled the big interdisciplinary...the papers with plasmids deposited at Addgene – typically about four times as many as papers without plasmids... of publication. Table 1 provides an example calculation of the weights. Table 1: Journal Weighting Example... -
Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2017, 1:01 p.m.... to a method of physically joining multiple fragments of DNA to create a synthetically designed DNA sequence...one single-stranded oligo, instead of the more typical two oligos, is more cost effective and eliminates... -
Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2017, 1:11 p.m....it’s now easy to monitor protein expression, localization, and protein-protein interactions. Beyond these...known to bind to the HMO of interest. Fatima specifically proposes using this sensor to detect HMOs found...Fatima's recent publication on her HMO work in Cell Chemical Biology! Additional Resources on the Addgene ... -
What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2019, 2:18 p.m....for actually making it happen would increase dramatically. I’m not sure what the best approach to doing...at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. She joined Elsevier after her postdoctoral studies...primary research and review journals across life and physical science, and editorial contribution to the strategic... -
Clear and Accessible Writing
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.... reader accessing the information? This can be physical or digital. For instance, you would present information...most helpful to use a lot of jargon and have a technical, detailed approach. Other times, it is more helpful...thought it would be most helpful to highlight the technical details of collecting the purified AAV–that the... -
Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are an important biological tool that allow scientists to express a gene ...with biorender.com. ITR structure WT ITRs are symmetrical 145-nucleotide sequences that flank the ends ...serotypes vary in their gene transfer efficiency. Our practical knowledge of ITRs is still limited, but this area... -
AAV Q&A with Tim Miles
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Tim Miles, PhD, Director of the CLOVER Center at CalTech? If so, you may have submitted a question that ...Have you or others been able to successfully systemically transduce and then retransduce a model organism...as multiple sclerosis? A: Basic science and preclinical researchers have used the flexibility of AAV ... -
Antibodies 101: Isotypes
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2021, 1:15 p.m....chain constant regions result in several unique physical characteristics of these five isotypes, such as...their heavy chain constant domains. These are typically numbered, i.e. IgG1, IgG2, etc. Let’s dive in ...different constant domain gene. This process is called isotype switching and results in the B cell expressing... -
Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m....early sets of SARS-CoV-2 materials, it will not scale well to the several thousand plasmids from Ginkgo...the samples, the rest will be put into a status we call “Archived.” This status allows us to store plasmids...and we’re glad to be able to do so during this critical time. Visit our COVID-19 Plasmids and Resources... -
Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m...., a powerful open-source search engine that can scale to search millions of web resources and handle millions..., partial words, phrases, partial phrases, or numerical identifiers. We also combine the different terms...PI labs and institutions. There are many more technical details that make our new search engine unique... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.... light-mediated? The researchers split the proteolytically active light chain of BoNT/B into two fragments...rely heavily on fluorescent protein genes. These optical reporters have limited deep-tissue performance,...the field. Arlene Sharpe’s group at the Harvard Medical School developed a solution: CHIME, a CRISPR-Cas9... -
Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 19, 2019, 1:36 p.m....as help our students succeed whether that be academically or on the employment front. Paratore: I work...& Morning. Karen was a founding member of Mass Medical Angels, a venture mentor at MIT and served on the... the Greater Boston Food Bank and participates locally in Read To A Child's "Lunchtime Reading Program... -
Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m....North Carolina, Connie Cepko’s lab from Harvard Medical School, and Jonathan Ting’s lab from the Allen ...educational materials, and provides viral vector technical service (details about virus production protocols...word out about this new resource and providing fantastically useful educational content on viral vectors....