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  1. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...interactions in living cells using a microscope. Historically, molecular interactions were detected by indirect...brightness of a fluorophore pair, donor:acceptor stoichiometry, and cross-talk between the two fluorophore ...has five-fold less brightness than YFP. The stoichiometry of donor:acceptor is difficult to address especially... Transfer    Interesting Articles About FRET: Piston DW, Kremers GJ. Fluorescent protein FRET: the good...

  2. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...key to fitting large genes into AAV First, some history. In 2008, the Auricchio lab decided to solve the..., the partial genomes complement each other to restore the full-expression cassette. AAV’s natural ability...truncated protein. This can be avoided by excluding a stop codon from donor A in any of the reading frames ...the gRNA target site so that transcripts undergo nonstop decay (Frischmeyer et al., 2002). How to pick ...

  3. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...multiple exons that, when deleted through NHEJ, will restore the dystrophin reading frame. gRNAs bind in intronic... blot, at <10% of the wild-type level. Muscle histology is improved, with vastly reduced inflammation ...this result, Nelson et al. find that dystrophin restoration is maintained for at least six months. Future..., Olson EN. Postnatal genome editing partially restores dystrophin expression in a mouse model of muscular...

  4. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ... translation-blocking STOP cassette immediately following the promoter. The STOP cassette includes a mutant...OFP (orange), is expressed when Cre is absent; stochastic Cre excision results in one of three recombinations...anemone mKate2.) They then successfully generated custom antibodies to each of these proteins and confirmed...

  5. A Control for All Seasons

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    Oct. 5, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Stephen M., et al. “Controls for Immunohistochemistry.” Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, vol. ...Controls for Immunocytochemistry.” Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, vol. 59, no. 1, SAGE Publications...and Practicalities of Immunoblotting and Immunohistochemistry: A Guide for Submission to the British Journal...

  6. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    Nov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...MasScience, ECUSA, IMFAHE and Bostonadas. Follow her on twitter @Bostonadas.         Rocío López-Diego MD...relationship for the mentee, where (s)he feels truly understood and supported, and can more fully identify with...University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, the Salk ...

  7. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    Oct. 8, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Cell lines and reagents Examine your cell line stock for mycoplasma contamination before use. Make sure...using expired products or reagents that have been stored for a longer time. Use fresh media as much as possible...for prevention. Prepare a small quantity of media stock that would be used for the experiment, preventing...line to another. Multiple cell lines should not be stored in a single incubator since it increases the risk...

  8. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    June 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...undergraduate years. We each have a unique “origin story,” but taking the first step into the world of academic... to find out what a “postdoc” is, and that “PI” stood for principal investigator. In basic science (as...after earning a doctorate Considered a "stepping stone" position to become a professor, or other scientific...the value in finding mentors wherever I go. This story by Dr. Erika Moore in Science Careers discusses ...

  9. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...into inserting a fluorophore-tagged amino acid at a stop codon (often amber i.e. UAG) engineered into a desired...suppression competes with natural chain termination at stop codons, expression levels of these tagged proteins...Research department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. His interests include developing novel fluorescent...British anti-Lewisite (dimercaprol): an amazing history." Annals of emergency medicine 41.3 (2003): 378...

  10. Addgene’s New Way to Help You Share Science

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    Nov. 14, 2013, 4:10 p.m.
    ...in grad school was that scientists have amazing stories to share. I spend a lot of time telling scientists...for genome editing? Know a professor with a great story to tell? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected] on Twitter and Facebook. We’ll track down the story, get the inside scoop, and keep you informed.   ...

  11. Kwabena Duedu on Public Health, Biofuels, and Doing Science in Ghana

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    Dec. 20, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...cellulosic biomass to useful products under Professor Christopher E. French. Dr. Duedu was recently awarded plasmids...plasmid grant. 7:12 - 7:11 : Kwabena's work in Christopher E. French's Lab at the University of Edinburgh...opportunities in Ghana. 46:35 - end : Kwabena's time in Boston - Developing microbiome expertise. Many thanks...

  12. Make a Splash: Notions of Scientific Impact Are Evolving

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    Dec. 5, 2014, 2:54 p.m.
    ... online access on scientific impact Partly, the story has to do with online accessibility. It is now about... recently reported that the most cited work in history is a 1951 description of an assay to determine ...of scientific publications. Ventures like Impact Story seek to find ways to capture scholarly work that...

  13. Fueled by Coffee at #SfN14

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    Nov. 18, 2014, 7:15 p.m.
    ...Research) – and an Addgene depositing scientist – stop by our booth to say hi! Zhang was awarded one of... to help their labs save time and resources by storing and distributing their plasmids with the scientific...our booth, I will have more updates coming soon. Stop by booth #3431 if you’re at #SfN14 and meet our ...

  14. A Conference By Postdocs For Postdocs: Future of Research

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    Sept. 2, 2014, 3:05 p.m.
    ...endeavor October 2-3, 2014 Boston University Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, Boston, MA Register on Eventbrite...reading this article - you should join Dr. Bourne in Boston on October 2nd when he will be the keynote speaker...

  15. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    Nov. 21, 2013, 3:56 p.m.
    ... entered Feng Zhang’s lab at MIT, the use of customizable DNA-binding domains based on transcription-activator-like...expression via epigenetics with the addition of histone modifiers. “We want to allow people to prove the...476 (22 August 2013).   , with the addition of histone modifiers, ...

  16. Management for Scientists: Seeking Feedback

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    Jan. 8, 2015, 2:34 p.m.
    ... By Walking Around" – don't hide in your office. Stop by instead of emailing.    Demonstrate you are ...clarify the situation; C = confirm that you have understood the speaker accurately. Thank employees who volunteer...by feedback. If you don't do this, employees will stop providing feedback pretty quickly.   This is the...

  17. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    June 19, 2015, 3:08 p.m.
    ...coli: purifying from Bacillus subtilis and Pichia pastoris pCri also includes plasmids designed for protein...bacterium Bacillus subtilis and the yeast Pichia pastoris. The improved secretory capacities of these microbes...producing difficult-to-fold proteins. In addition, P. pastoris has the capacity to glycosylate proteins and may...

  18. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Jan. 2, 2014, 3:44 p.m.
    ... can edit the documents and track the revision history. Now you’ll be able to make updates to protocols...consider moving your paper spreadsheets for reagent storage locations, such as the list used to organize your...samples. Once you've taken some time to get organized, stop back and let us know what worked for you. Share ...

  19. Working 9-5: an Addgene Co-op

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    June 2, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...was immediately interested in applying. This had stood out to me because it gave me a full description ...clear that Addgene wanted to ensure applicants understood what the expectations were for the intended position...make sure people feel connected.    As I became accustomed to the routine, I realized that the “9-5” was...

  20. Future of Research Conference - Remarkable Opening Session

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    Oct. 7, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...postdoc-driven Future of Research Conference at Boston University last week.  This fantastic city-wide... supporters from all of the research centers in Boston.  I was relieved because it finally feels to me...program.  His strongest comments were about the astounding lack of reproducibility being recognized in published...

  21. Tips for Improving Your Next Manuscript

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    Nov. 22, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...should be able to tell your story for you and they should also be easily understood and consistent in design...Writing and Publishing Institute. Writing is the cornerstone of any scientist’s career. We use writing to ...

  22. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    Dec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
    ...sequences from a shared database of custom common features. Second, customers have asked for a way to annotate... involves iterative refinements in response to customer feedback. An example of this approach is SnapGene...

  23. Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi

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    April 25, 2019, 3:01 p.m.
    ...protein (LanYFP) from the marine invertebrate Branchiostoma lanceolatum in 2012. Using structural modeling...applications from traditional imaging to FRET and stochastic single-molecule super resolution imaging. mNeonGreen...monomeric green fluorescent protein derived from Branchiostoma lanceolatum." Nature methods 10.5 (2013): 407...

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

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    Nov. 8, 2018, 3:47 p.m.
    ...says. Percent sequence identity was a different story - the team found that the percent sequence identity...Addgene as a large data set. Alec A. K. Nielsen & Christopher A. Voigt also recently published a tool (trained...PMCID: PMC6200774.   2. Nielsen, Alec AK, and Christopher A. Voigt. "Deep learning to predict the lab-of-origin...

  25. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sequence of a mCherry fluorescent protein followed by a stop codon and the coding sequence for a green fluorescent...success of the change in expression of GFP, for the stop codon should have changed from “TGA” to “TGG.”  ...acceptor and donor sites, and introducing premature stop codons.    New from the viral service By Jason...

  26. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    Nov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...of Dr. Elke Mühlberger and Dr. Rachel Fearns at Boston University School of Medicine, this post describes..., and a modified gRNA to direct a variety of customizable functions to your DNA sequence of interest. ... how the Casilio system works and how you can customize it for your experimental needs. Note: Casilio ...

  27. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    Dec. 20, 2018, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to argue otherwise). To be sure, throughout the history of medical research, there have always been people...CRISPR/Cas9 research” but whether or not we will stop shuffling our feet on necessary actions to review...the future of genome editing technology. We must stop punting decisions on scientific, ethical, regulatory...

  28. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...quick turn-around time of Sanger sequencing have historically matched the needs of most molecular biology ...displayed at the individual read level, and because custom primers or "primer-walking" reactions are completely...problems. He received his PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University, and did postdoctoral work at Harvard...

  29. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...enormous lattice of identical subunits. A brief history of R bodies R bodies have been studied for many...recombinant E. coli on paramecia. European Journal of Protistology 48, 290–296 (2012). PubMed PMID: 22356923. 3... Polka, J. K. & Silver, P. A. A Tunable Protein Piston That Breaks Membranes to Release Encapsulated Cargo...

  30. Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon

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    July 19, 2018, 1:12 p.m.
    ...them.   When you think about it, virtually every milestone in a scientist's career is mediated by some kind...flagship workshop.  Our 2018 workshop took place in Boston - you can revisit the activities of our attendees...careers in science communication The strength of story telling Science communication: 9 strategies to get...

  31. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...RNA-editing Cas13 enzymes have taken the CRISPR world by storm. Like RNA interference, these enzymes can knock ...from this paper are available at Addgene. Yan, Winston X., et al. “Cas13d Is a Compact RNA-Targeting Type...Plasmids Check out our CRISPR Guide Read our CRISPR History  ...

  32. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    Dec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ... addition, there was an entire story-telling session organized by Story Collider and which featured a ...the different parts of the brain stimulated by stories. In retrospect, I should have expected this given...

  33. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    Sept. 15, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...design a custom primer. Because Sanger sequencing can usually sequence just 1 kb of DNA, custom primers...All_in_one_CRISPR/Cas9_LacZ, a CRISPR gRNA plasmid from Lynne Postovit’s lab. It contains an ampicillin resistance marker...

  34. Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    Feb. 19, 2019, 1:36 p.m.
    ...Addgene has developed in terms of the collection, storage, and distribution of the plasmids and their ability... Michigan, Ann Arbor and obtained her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she was on law ... of Advisors and Audit Committee at the Greater Boston Food Bank and participates locally in Read To A...

  35. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    June 15, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...technology or as a therapeutic.  A (very) brief history GCE came onto the synthetic biology scene in 1989.... While the codon used is often one of the three stop codons ­– most commonly the UAG codon – in some ... V. W. (2021). Genetic Code Expansion: A Brief History and Perspective. Biochemistry, 60(46), 3455–3469...

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

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    Dec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m.
    ...assembled a cross-team team, with members from the Customer Service, Data Curation, Outreach, Product, Scientist...particular and our deep understanding of Addgene’s customer’s needs. Categories We created a categorization...of our information in order to more granularly customize the search engine, and a scoping mechanism that...

  37. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    June 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...in C++ and Java Command line history: Tracking command line history by recording all commands entered...addition to output files, this is also where you can store any power point, excel, or other files relevant ...

  38. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    Feb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m.
    ...project, I read the book “Every Other Thursday: Stories and Strategies from Successful Women Scientists... group to be intrinsic to their success. Their stories made it clear to me that, executed correctly, the...renowned Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Boston Chapter and the Massachusetts Association for Women...

  39. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and Christopher A. Voigt. "Engineered promoters enable constant...2. Kittleson, Joshua T., Sherine Cheung, and JChristopher Anderson. "Rapid optimization of gene dosage...Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt Resources on Addgene.org See the synthetic...

  40. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...targeted the following antigens: GFP, RFP,  the histone protein H2A2B, and the actin-binding protein gelsolin...however, compatible with most multi-labeling immunohistochemical protocols where either a directly labeled...RANbodies) as versatile, small, sensitive immunohistochemical reagents. PNAS. PubMed PMID: 29440485. Additional...

  41. Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration

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    Feb. 28, 2019, 1:34 p.m.
    ...well received, and then when the team started brainstorming ideas for the next workshop, they realized that...to practice and teach reproducibility An early milestone for the group was the “reproducibility for everyone... Schwessinger for helpful conversations on the history of the group, lessons learned, and to Sonali Roy...

  42. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ...CRISPR editing in human embryos has been met with a storm of media coverage. But the paper published August... studies, the edited embryos proceeded to the blastocyst stage at similar rates to untreated controls....researchers were able to examine each individual blastomere to determine its genotype. However, this detailed...

  43. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    June 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... by guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop from the Section of Molecular Cytology and Van ...our guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop! Joachim Goedhart is an assistant professor at ...follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   Marieke Mastop is a PhD candidate at the Section of Molecular ...

  44. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...faculty (at time of writing, Brigham And Women's in Boston also just announced that they were reversing their...does not appear to hold. There are institutions in Boston - Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass Eye and ...that are not raising salaries when all others in Boston (some of them literally across the street from ...

  45. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ...six figures. Averaging ten panels each. (For this story, it is important to know that the student presenting... it. When my mind went blank, my options were to stop talking until I could present something coherent... something as simple as telling yourself, “I can stop and check my notes if I need to,” or “It is okay...

  46. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    April 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...indicated below and pool-clone them into the pAWp28 storage vector (Figure 1): Forward oligo: 5’- CACCGNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGTTTGGGTCTTCGAGAAGACCTATTCXXXXXXXXC...bp barcode, respectively. Once cloned into the storage vector, the pooled, barcoded gRNA library is now...backbone pAWp12 (Figure 2). Cloning from the pAWp28 storage vector to the pAWp12 lentiviral vector should retain...

  47. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...part of the recognition sequence, they can be customized to direct assembly of DNA fragments. When designed...utilize the BsaI and BsmBI Type IIS sites such that custom TAL arrays could be constructed quickly and efficiently...Nov 5. PubMed. Efficient design and assembly of custom TALEN and other TAL effector-based constructs for...

  48. Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?

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    Jan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
    ...experiences. Good coaches will have loads of success stories and plenty of people to vouch for them. Trust... of scientists here) I know many coaches in the Boston area. Sarah Cardozo Duncan is a proven coach who...has an outstanding blog and, while her PhD is in History, I think she would be a good match as a coach for...

  50. Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors

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    Aug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
    ...science, dating back several hundred years, with historical ties to psychology and philosophy (the mind-body...in a certain type of behavior (for a review see Stoica et al., 2013). Vector delivery may also be achieved...service for their behavioral studies. References Stoica L, Ahmed SS, Gao G, Sena-Esteves M. Gene transfer...
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