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TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.... Reddit AMA Perhaps we should start with some examples of a bad panel discussion? You know, the one where... audience members a chance to participate. For example, at a recent event on nonprofit science organizations...
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Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m....whole outlook on the possibilities in life for employment? It never happened – there was never a “moment... – although we didn’t figure out how we would accomplish the color change until a few months later. RevBio... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m....people involved is staggering. The process is complicated. If you’re interested in the drug discovery process...postdocs and do not support or manage them well are simply no longer allowed to have postdocs. In academia... -
Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m....procedure (illustrated in the YouTube video below) is simple: After obtaining antibiotic-resistant colonies,...initially, or using secondary biological screens. For example, for cancer researchers, if growth properties in... -
Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....Compared to humans and mice, flies have a relatively simple genome. They have four chromosomes: the X (and ... dominant phenotypes visible on the flies. For example, second chromosome balancers often have the curly... -
No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....in the form of mRNA for academic research. The template plasmids for generating your own libraries are...the end of the mRNA molecule, forming a ribosome complex consisting of the translated protein (sybody), ... -
The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m....known tropism for your cells of interest — for example, AAV8 for kidney cells — can help improve infection... away from the comfort of Cas9, and opt for a completely different Cas effector, like Cas12a (Cpf1). Even... -
Common Injection Routes in Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m....administered through the tail vein — many researchers will simply refer to these as “tail vein injections.” However...depending on researcher preferences. It sounds complicated but has a pretty low learning curve! Restraint... -
Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m....just by looking at the cells on the plate. For example, if your plasmid contains a gene encoding a blue...after transforming them into your cells, you can simply look for blue colonies to determine which cells... -
Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 25, 2016, 3:30 p.m....attention on social media. I gained a concrete example to use to promote future attempts and learned a...roles of scientists outside of academia One recent example: Don't call me a dropout: Why science needs more... -
Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.... table below lists the four common 2A peptides employed by scientists. 2A cleavage is universal in eukaryotic...reporter cloned in. In these plasmids you would simply clone your gene of interest into the multiple cloning... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m....correct genetic conditions over 25 years ago when completing her PhD and medical training in Ophthalmology... kb cannot be delivered using this vector. For example, although researchers know that Usher Syndrome ... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m....low RNA editing. To increase A->G editing, they employed hyperactive ADAR constructs, like ADAR2DD(E488Q...ADAR will preferentially edit an adenine if the template has a cytosine mismatch at that position. PspCas13b-ADAR2DD... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....editing in squid is possible nonetheless - the first example was of a pigmentation gene. Genus Microtus (Zoe...Donaldson) Voles have fascinating social behavior. For example, two similar species have very different social... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m....light inducible ion channels (plasmid # 20298 for example) have revolutionized Neuroscience. They are the...within neuronal networks in living animals. To accomplish such cell specific manipulations in vivo, FLEx... -
Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.... understand the process, we’ll walk through an example experiment where we might use Gateway cloning to...into destination vectors. The cloning process is simple - no restriction, ligation or gel purification... -
Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m....in mice is possible (Guy et al., 2007). They accomplished this using Cre-Lox mouse models in which the...Cre not only halted the neurological damage but completely reversed it, regardless of age or symptom severity... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.... solve an issue specific to that country. For example, when we began offering temperature-sensitive materials...inclusive design in our digital content. We have implemented proactive measures to find potential barriers... -
How to Be an Excellent Trainee
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2023, 1:15 p.m....experience In research there is a saying that if the sample prep is poor, then the data will be poor. The same...you remember where the equipment, reagents, and samples are. Do: Ask your bench mentor if they have time... -
CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m....relied on deaminase enzymes, either to directly accomplish the base edit or to create the substrate for ...to repair the DNA using the edited strand as a template — in this case, encouraging it to incorporate ...