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  1. Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?

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    Dec. 9, 2014, 2:22 p.m.
    ...will have opportunities to work on Emotional Intelligence or to hone delegation skills, for example. So...their managers. You can’t just think it, you have to tell them. A good manager learns that her success and...dissatisfaction, the work can get done, and get done well. The rest of the blogs in this series will address...

  2. The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born

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    April 15, 2014, 3:11 p.m.
    ...the world.  Nina Dudnik, Founder of Seeding Labs, tells the story about working as a student in a rice lab...I was in graduate school in the 80’s, my lab was well funded and we didn’t feel the need to reuse plasticware...recently shared our protocol for making competent cells to save time and money. My other stingy science ...

  3. Choosing a Good Mentor for Scientists

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    Jan. 16, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...Consider reading Toxic Academic Mentors by @drmellivora, an excellent blog post about workplace bullying featured...the first place. The good news There are many excellent mentors out there. With some good pre-work you...

  4. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    Jan. 25, 2018, 2:09 p.m.
    ...the number of added biotins per molecule cannot be well-controlled. The lack of site selectivity typically...successfully used this plasmid to biotinylate the extracellular domain of the erythropoietin receptor and subsequently... Eye Institute and is particularly interested in cell signaling.     Additional Resources on the Addgene...

  5. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    March 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m.
    ...Academic Solos to Industrial Symphonies, an article well worth reading on this topic, the authors state, ...colleagues and friends why he would give up,“an excellent—some say “cushy”—tenured faculty position for ...especially good at self-promoting—No one is going to tell you to pick up the pace Constant worry about grants...

  6. Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation

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    Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
    ...scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and a Visiting Professor at the Lab for ...Classifying genes as natural or synthetic But how can you tell if a gene is synthetic or natural? The answer to...distantly related organism, the gene may not express well because of these different codon usage biases. But...

  7. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    Sept. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...fully open and available to industry requestors as well. This is a time when we need as much open science...accelerates and enhances productive collaborations as well as provides visibility for grant-driven research...scientists worldwide with Addgene’s traditional excellence through whatever lies ahead this year. We can...

  8. Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm

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    July 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... road, science communication graduates are often well-equipped. Many institutions are sincerely interested...carried over and allowed to percolate within a new intellectual environment. Over time, this interest came to...risk-taking behavior among collision sport athletes, as well as the ethical and health policy implications arising...

  9. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    July 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m.
    ...unhealthy, difficult-to-inject unc-119(ed3) animals, as well as a second injection step to remove the selection... promoter, creating a loss-of-function allele as well as a promoter-FP fusion for the gene of interest...systems may prove effective in other species or in cell culture. In addition to CRISPR/Cas9 applications...

  10. The MTA at Addgene

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    July 23, 2024, 2:17 p.m.
    ...academic institutions.  What is the UBMTA, you ask? Well, organizations used to negotiate individual MTAs...materials are widely varied with many properties, having well-understood standardized terms makes it a lot easier...MTA most plasmids at Addgene are shared under, is well-understood and accepted by the majority of research...

  11. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider

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    July 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...is something that absorbance based methods can’t tell you and you don’t need a spectrophotometer or a ...concentrations. Many commercial DNA ladders will tell you the concentration of each band in the ladder...Unlike absorbance based methods, this method doesn’t tell you about contaminating proteins or chaotropic salts...

  12. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

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    Feb. 20, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
    ...processes in the Addgene lab. In this post, I’ll tell you a little bit about what I learned from a New...newly created libraries were analysed to see how well the kit worked. As NEB hoped, we found that regardless...day was Julie from Novartis who was working with cell culture and who was extremely helpful since she ...

  14. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    Blog Post
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    May 16, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...modern biological research.  Any microscopist will tell you that selection of a fluorescent probe (be it...  There are many online guides – including an excellent series of posts by Joachim Goedhart on the Addgene...Associate at Harvard Medical School. He manages the Cell Biology Microscopy Facility, specializing in advanced...

  15. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    Aug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.
    ...both the approximate size of the vector backbone as well as the predicted size of the insert. You can search...buffer will make sure your sample settles in the gel well and the dyes provide a visual reference point so...Bonus: knowing how much DNA you have loaded in each well will allow you to approximate the DNA mass of comparably...

  16. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    Feb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...text for the example image. We’ll wait!  Done? Excellent! We asked our workshop participants to do the ...heard of alt text before, they all came up with excellent alt text for their practice image. We know; we...text descriptions, and we’d love to hear yours as well.  More importantly, you can use these four steps...

  17. How Addgene Creates Content

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    Nov. 17, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... to frequently asked questions. We also want to tell you about things you didn’t know you wanted to know...previously written Antibody 101 blog posts were used, as well as consults with microscopy and flow cytometry experts...involved? Keep asking your burning questions and tell us what you want to know more about! You can also...

  19. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    Dec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m.
    ... a result, the materials in our catalog are very well-characterized. During this time, we’ve also created...improved menus we launched earlier in the year, as well as our redesigned homepage and our new search tool...suggestions provide shortcuts to specific catalog items as well as related items (for example, a kit that contains...

  20. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    June 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... really starting from the beginning. Luckily, a fellow graduate student and a data analyst in our lab ...dig in to the computation, but they will serve you well as you perform analysis after analysis after analysis...However, these notes take up a lot of space and don’t tell you why you did something or what the result was...
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