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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....calculators These links can help you calculate how much insert and backbone you need for different types of cloning...method. You can select from five different insert:backbone ratios. In-Fusion cloning molar ratio calculators...IHC. FPbase: A data repository for fluorescent proteins and their properties. Expasy: Bioinformatics ...
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Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 21, 2023, 2:15 p.m....were excited when Amos Bairoch from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics reached out to us to tell us...surprising, and important, findings being shared. For instance, recently Cellosaurus received a report that HT...out the Cellosaurus FAQ! References Lorsch JR, Collins FS, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Cell biology. Fixing... -
Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m....activation to behaviors. Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The...by working with organisms with light accessible brains, such as zebrafish larvae. Mouse studies, however...permanent intracranial implant to be surgically installed to allow for light delivery. Chemogenetics poses... -
What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 4, 2020, 1:22 p.m....favoring the separation of the two helixes. Low pH instead results in the breakage of the ester bonds responsible...the gene endA. Nowadays, the most common E. coli strains used for plasmid amplification are endA negative...mutated to neutralize the nuclease activity. For strains that still carry this gene, there are usually extra... -
Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m....is expressed. In cells where the stop cassette remains, the effector is not expressed and the cells are...leads to gene constructs where the stop cassette remains following recombination. This strategy results ... Aliyah Weinstein... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m....systems. As a part of this effort, members of the Rawlins Lab have compiled a new toolkit for performing ...SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive fluorophore (LSSmOrange) as an internal control...in tobacco protoplasts, the enzymatic biosensor retains its catalytic activity. As SLs are also known ... -
Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2017, 12:40 p.m....bacteria. Until recently the only available Cas9 proteins were isolated from mesophilic (medium heat loving... as Streptococcus pyogene’s SpCas9. These Cas9 proteins don’t work well at high temperatures, so to use...when incubated in diluted human plasma. GeoCas9 remains active after being incubated in up to 30% human... -
Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2015, 8:37 p.m.... I spend much less time wrangling bacteria and instead help Addgene fulfill its mission of helping scientists...mean abandoning it or running away screaming, but instead can involve walking alongside it and giving it ...graduate training. PhDs have many roles to play inside, on the outskirts, and entirely outside of academia... -
Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m....use two antibodies - one against your target of interest and a second against the first antibody. When.... (C) A third solution is to use Fab fragments against the sample species to block the binding sites on... -
Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 5, 2020, 2:15 p.m....this is a much-needed community resource. Instead of painstakingly searching for experimental details in ...serotype, promoter, or tool type and each entry contains an image along with key experimental details (... -
Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 21, 2014, 3:15 p.m.... to carry out a yeast-2-hybrid library screen; instead I thought they would focus on “Has this person ...the Harvard Business Review or some Chartered Institute of Marketing reviews, I would have struggled. ...interviewed for 1 hour so having a broad enough insight was going to help me push both my scientific and... -
Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2018, 2:30 p.m....was robust, capable of generating a wide range of insert sizes and also produced high yields of quality ... an NEB drawstring backpack and a double wall insulated glass to take home with us. Tips to to get the...being overwhelmed by all the new information, and instead allow me to pay attention and answer my key questions... -
Cultivating Community Science at BosLab
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2017, 1:35 p.m.... became our bacterial transformation guru and instructor for our intro to biohacking courses. Our members...initiated a soil microbiome project. This project was inspired by previous city-wide genomic studies and our ...DIY bio If you’re not in the Boston area but are inspired to get involved, check out the local groups page... -
How Dry Ice Affects Viral Vector Sample pH & How to Avoid It
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.... of cell culture medium, which is buffered and contains the pH indicator phenol red. We froze samples ...der Geer P, Manning MC, Fitchmun MI. Protein instability following transport or storage on dry ice. Nat...10(4):278-9. PubMed PMID: 23538862. 2. Potter M, Lins B, Mietzsch M, Heilbronn R, Van Vliet K, Chipman... -
Components of CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2016, 5 p.m....DSB) Cas9 and its variants have two endonuclease domains: the n-terminal RuvC-like nuclease domain and the...conformational change that positions the nuclease domains to cleave opposite strands of the target DNA. Thus...refer to this RNA complex as the “gRNA”. The gRNA contains both the 20 nucleotide target sequence to direct... -
Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2021, 1:15 p.m....platform to help researchers working on COVID-19. Its origins trace back to March 2020, when the first coronavirus...use this potential to make a difference not just against COVID-19, but also in other areas of scientific...Hernández-Sánchez is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL... -
Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m....system less bulky and easier to use with other strains of E. coli, Schmidl et al. condensed the system...ensures that they can be used with many types of proteins, including Cas9 and dCas9-transcription factors... optimal. These tools are compatible with many strains of E. coli, as well as with other plasmid-based... -
Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m....available from your institution, your department, and online. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) offers... to an end and your next professional adventure begins. While many career pathways exist for scientists... -
CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 25, 2024, 2:15 p.m....Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute. What is CasPEDIA? CasPEDIA is an online, searchable...structure junky who just wants to learn about Cas domains. CasPEDIA either directly has this information ... More resources from the Innovative Genomics Institute CRISPRpedia IGI’s digital resources in... -
Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 19, 2018, 1:12 p.m....succeed in communicating. Even the most rigorous, insightful, and novel scientific research will be wasted...research proposal is the perfect fit to their institutional focus and that you're better equipped than anyone...with ComSciCon, find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instragram, or send an email to [email protected]. Many...