... A recent survey of PhDs found that many researchers feel that they lack formal training in a variety...out to fill this gap by both highlighting that researchers do learn MANY transferable skills while working... variety of ways to manage my time. As a busy researcher, you’ve probably already started coming up with...hope you’ll find this post useful. After a bit of research and thinking about my own processes, I’ve broken...

...Originally written by Marcy Patrick and Mary Gearing on Mar 12, 2015; updated by Christina Mork, Jul ...site-specific knock-in tool that can be harnessed by researchers for many applications. Your favorite Cas enzyme...generally low; to increase the frequency of edits, researchers have designed self-cleaving plasmids that liberate...repair pathway choice. Shrivastav M, et al Cell Research (2008). PubMed. Mechanisms of DNA double-strand...

...variety of organisms.  While much of current CRISPR research focuses on its potential applications for human...engineering tools that are available to academic researchers through Addgene. CRISPR components for plant ...promoter and gRNA scaffold sequence and allow researchers to insert targeting oligos with minimal cloning... hand at CRISPR. References Belhaj K, Chaparro-Garcia A, Kamoun S, Nekrasov V (2013) Plant genome editing...

...products that resulted from their research, “aha” moments, and future research directions. Don’t worry if your...this file over the years and a talk about your research or work will write itself when the time comes....ask about how many people use plasmids in their research and then see how many of them have requested from...

...blue light-activated cation channel, from the archaebacteria Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. When exposed to ...combination with retinal) variations designed to give researchers flexibility in using optogenetic tools in their...concentration gradient, and of activation inhibitory (ArCH) proton pump passing ions against the concentration...proteins activate their signaling pathways allowing researchers greater control over when and where to activate...

...increasing affordability and accessibility, more researchers have been utilizing full plasmid sequencing services...sequencing that Addgene uses.) However, when some researchers received the sequencing results for their plasmids...numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to determine plasmid features that ...monomeric plasmid compared to DH5α. However, more research is needed to determine which recA- strains are...

...effectiveness and interpretation of RNAi. Fortunately, researchers studying plants and other organisms lacking this...concatenated. hpRNA has been extensively used in plant research and many different constructs are available to...and is a popular RNAi trigger in the mammalian research community. Fortunately, many tools for shRNA in...fluorescence readout of RNAi activity. As a plant researcher, the traditional hpRNA and visual screening method...

...how and where you pursue it. It can manifest via research and data gathering, regulatory efforts, policy...fellowships have a strong focus on early career researchers who have decided to transition out of academia... host “Hill Days” where they train and bring researchers to Congress to advocate for increased science...incentivizing the real-world impacts of health services research. She is particularly interested in driving scientific...

...135. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21018.1 Munoz-Lopez M, Garcia-Perez J (2010) DNA Transposons...different transposon systems adapted for use as research tools: Sleeping beauty, PiggyBac, and Tol2.  Sleeping...encode reporter genes, mutagenic cassettes, or barcodes. When transposons are delivered to cells or a ...

... design of these constructs, allowing novice researchers to quickly and easily start genome editing (Schwartz...donors in cultured Drosophila cells. Nucleic Acids Research 42:e89–e89 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku289...CRISPR-targeted homologous recombination. Nucleic Acids Research 41:e193–e193 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkt805...Tzur YB, Friedland AE, Nadarajan S, Church GM, Calarco JA, Colaiácovo MP (2013) Heritable Custom Genomic...