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TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2016, 3:30 p.m....collaboration - a sense of dialogue and community among participants, clarification - new and useful information,...our all-company meetings short, informative, and pleasant. Email: Sometimes, the right meeting is no meeting...Meetings are for talking, not reading: Send around relevant documents, like proposals to review or project...discussions can happen “off-line” with just one or two relevant people. How often do you need to meet? Use trial...
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Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m....commonly a plasmid and can infer genetic advantages such as antibiotic resistance. Bacterial conjugation...primary mechanism by which bacteria have gained antibiotic resistance and virulence. Scientists have studied...integration site. The integrated phage remains dormant until it is triggered to enter the lytic cycle.... -
A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m....into my role, I realized that actually, I didn’t want to go to grad school. But, I didn’t know what else...great fit for my skillset and interests. As such, I want to be able to share more about this nontraditional...order to keep everything running smoothly, you’ll want to be really organized. Often, product managers ...behind a common vision. Use your network to your advantage As the profession gains more traction in the... -
Hot Plasmids - May 2022
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m....continuation of that work, they have found at least two variants that display increased neuronal expression in ...expression in the liver after systemic delivery. Importantly, this is true in both mice and nonhuman primates...side effects, by allowing the user to select for variants that infect the CNS while selecting against those... knock-in long sequences with reduced risks of unwanted mutations in mammalian cells. Long sequences traditionally... -
AAV Q&A with Tim Miles
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... a standard curve and somewhat more reliable quantitation. Differences in sample treatment across methods...e.g. first at 2 months, then at 4 months? Or do antibodies become a prohibitive problem? A: Re-administration...for AAV due to the development of neutralizing antibodies in animal models. All of our engineered AAV are...Xinhong Chen, and Miggy Chuapoco, and to all our participants for their time and excellent questions. ... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....you're trapped in a pattern of small errors that significantly impacts your experiments. What do you do when... a failed experiment. For example, I used to constantly underestimate time needed to prep for an experiment...During really stressful days, I would even take advantage of incubation periods to have another short "quiet...maybe especially) suggestions you are initially resistant to. Just like any other experimental approach,... -
Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 12, 2018, 11:40 a.m....have that you really want, please let us know! And if you study chromatin and want to start sharing your...daily basis, the lists below provide a snapshot of relevant resources and a good jumping off point. The following...that histone genes frequently have many different variant names, not all of which can be listed here. If ... -
A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m....and indicate why other neuroscience newbies might want to get into the field. Find Optogenetics Plasmids...There were, of course, many companies selling antibodies, microscopes, and dissection tools, but there...FRET-based biosensing technique can be applied to an important neuronal signalling pathway - if you’ve got a ...neuroscientist looking to get into the field, this is a fantastic time to do it! Additional Resources on the Addgene... -
A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m....students and teachers in the U.S. and beyond. “I want to learn more about Synthetic Biology. Can you tell...breathalyzer to pesticide breakdown, production of fire-resistant housing insulation, and cleaning up salt runoff...preparing local (Massachusetts), economically disadvantaged students for paid summer internships. A summer...Mary Tamer is a Boston-based writer, editor, and consultant whose work is focused on education and education... -
GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m....including hormones, neurotransmitters, photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling cascades. So ... cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways...in peroxidase-catalyzed proximity labeling to quantifiably measure GPCR agonist response in vivo (Paek ...learn about GPCR signaling, researchers in the meantime have developed GPCRs for chemogenetic studies ... -
15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m....enlarge) As we look ahead to the things to come, we wanted to take a look back at some of the contributions...expresses Cas9 from Streptococcus pyogenes with an invariant sgRNA scaffold and cloning sites for inserting... from the Trono lab contains the rev gene. It’s meant to be used with pMDLg/pRRE and the envelope expressing...Cas9, this plasmid expresses Cas9n (a D10A nickase mutant) to nick, rather than cleave DNA. Find pSpCas9n... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m....Wyatt and Dale Ramsden, UNC at Chapel Hill. One advantage to using the CRISPR/Cas system for genome engineering...process involve repairing chromosomal DSBs. It is important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways... and how these pathways work, as this could be relevant when planning your experiment. Here, we’ll discuss...Yan et al., 2020). NHEJ can also be engaged by variants of the canonical Cas9 approach. A pair of CRISPR... -
How to Make Friends and Meet People at a Scientific Conference
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 7, 2014, 1:58 p.m....these people you meet will review your papers or grants in the future, and don’t be surprised to know that...personally Scientists in your field will know about grants and projects that might help your work Tenure can...they have to give you theirs! Think about how you want to introduce yourself and what you do. You can probably...night poker games at Gordon Conferences). You don’t want to be so exhausted that you can’t get a lot from... -
CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m....depending if you want to use wildtype cas9 or double nickase). For example, if you want to target two genomic...et al. (2013) Science paper. For example, if you want to use double nickase, you could express two spacers...the two plasmids together into your cells. If you want to use double nickase, you need to have four spacers...refer to Cong et al. (2013) for more details. One important note is that this ‘split RNA’ design is not as... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 30, 2021, 2:15 p.m....in my more recent positions outside of the lab. Granted, I currently work on the Scientific Support Team...thesis as it is for helping your team reach an important milestone at work. While I was in graduate school...work through it. Ask yourself if you missed any important details. Or challenge yourself to think of more...that this skillset is a part of your toolkit is important. Paired with your other skills, both technical... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m....newest CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. If you want to read more content related to CRISPR technology...making it well suited for AAV packaging. Most importantly, this CasMINI system was shown to be effective... the cellular MMR machinery is disrupted via a dominant negative mutation in MLH1 (PE4 = PE2+MLH1dn and...improve gene editing performance at therapeutically relevant gene targets and expand the application to the... -
The time and cost required to make a plasmid
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m....doing interesting and relevant work in your field! However, there’s no guarantee you’ll get a response...to make plasmids that already exist, and we significantly reduce costs of producing plasmids with high-throughput...always faster to order from us!) Ask the PI If you want a plasmid for free, you can always reach out to ... -
The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m....biomedical workforce. Quotes taken directly from participants (summarized in 2) touched upon many problems...better solution would be to reduce the number of entrants into PhD programs to more closely reflect the ...Labor Market. On this topic it is clear that many important questions, areas for informed discussion, debate...Among other involvements, he helped to establish grants through the Sloan foundation for postdoc-related... -
Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 7, 2018, 12:31 p.m....cells are incubated and after several days the supernatant is collected, filtered, and titered. A major ...number of harvests will all impact the titer. Importantly, optimized conditions for one transfer plasmid...generally a good place to start. If you don’t anticipate that you will need large volumes of lentivirus...producing lentivirus, it is time to titer. One important consideration when titering a lentivirus is the... -
Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 22, 2018, 1:38 p.m....undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing suitable projects. In...because the S. cerevisiae deletion strains are ∆ura3 mutants and cannot grow without uracil supplementation ... Students who participate in the course show significant gains in both content knowledge and research ...PMCID: PMC4012490. 4. Hoffman, C.S., Wood, V., & Fantes, P.A. An ancient yeast for young geneticists: A...