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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m....centrifugation (lenti) Centrifugation Titration time ~1 day (AAV); ~1 week (lenti) 2–10 days Initial titers Higher...will help you decide which is right for you. Table 1: Mammalian versus insect cells for viral production...the insectspodoptera frugiperda (lepidoptera; noctuidae). In Vitro, 13(4), 213–217. https://doi.org/10.1007...
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Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m....environments such as live cells and tissues (Figure 1). These flexible strategies give you the best of both...majority of in-cell labeling strategies have two parts: (1) a genetically encoded “tag” expressed as a fusion...Follow him on twitter @rhodamine110. References 1. Liu, Zhe, Luke D. Lavis, and Eric Betzig. "Imaging... tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine)– Nonnatural amino acids can be ... -
Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2021, 1:15 p.m....prompted us to create Crowdfight. Figure 1: Crowdfight is a community of scientists who believe...collaborator for a specific task, Crowdfight will: 1) Find an expert with the right skill; 2) Confirm the...IgnacioAmigoH María Hernández-Sánchez is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m....animal will repeatedly nose-poke at the active hole [1, 2]. Place preference/place aversion also models... can be explained primarily in two different ways 1) your hypothesis is wrong or 2) there is some problem...follow him on Twitter @derekpsimonphd. References 1. Stuber, Garret D., et al. "Excitatory transmission...University of Michigan and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Mary Jeanne Kreek at the... -
What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m....occur, but good performers move around easily Table 1: Taking it a Step Further - Big Company v. Small Company...recently, I have been hearing exit survey data from postdoctoral programs in the Boston area that demonstrate...Both explicit and implicit aspects of today’s postdoctoral training can directly interfere with a seamless... -
Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....total dose between 1 x 1011 and 5 x 1011 vg per animal (i.e., 10 and 50 µL of vector at 1 x 1013 vg/mL titer... and 1 x 1012 vg*. Most systemic capsids are easy to produce in high titer, but higher doses (>1 x 1012...before using it in an application. Figure 1: AAV toolkit for targeted gene delivery to the brain...decision tree for selecting a capsid, while Table 1 gives a brief overview of published descriptions of...Capsids page to learn more about that collection. Table 1: Systemic capsid plasmids available from Addgene ...AAV9. At lower viral titers than AAV-PHP.B (e.g., 1 x 1011 vg/mouse), AAV-PHP.eB can transduce a greater...Diverse Brain Cells. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 45(1), 447–469. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-111020... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m....detects samples at clinically relevant concentrations (1-3 fM; 1x106-fold lower than before), and our combined... health, energy, and sustainability. References 1. Pardee, Keith, et al. "Rapid, Low-Cost Detection ... switches for pathogen detection In 2014, as postdoctoral fellows with Jim Collins and Peng Yin at the... -
Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.... to the development of resistance include (Figure 1): Over-prescription of antibiotics (for example, ... communication, and public health. References 1. O'Neill, J. "Tackling drug-resistant infections globally...www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1uDYSfINA. When you go to the doctor, it will very likely take time to determine if ... -
dTAG - You're it!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m....cereblon, leading to rapid target degradation (Figure 1). Plasmids: We generated a series of plasmids that...contributed by guest blogger Behnam Nabet, a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Targeted...studies (Nabet et al.). Behnam Nabet, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. ... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m....single neurons in the living brain Figure 1: Plasmid mix to label neuronal morphology (eYFP) and...genOway press release for more information. References 1. Atasoy, D., Y. Aponte, H. H. Su, and S. M. Sternson...guest blogger, Katrin Michel! Katrin Michel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT and is fascinated by the question... -
Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m....commandments for making it all work – most of the time. #1 Thou shalt find enjoyment in your work If you are ...And, yes, your partner CAN take the kids to the doctor without your help. Your partner is equally responsible...eight-year-old daughter vehemently reminded her doctor that she was allergic to penicillin – I am much... -
Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m....blood test for HMGB1, the high mobility group box 1 protein. Normally localized to the nucleus, if the... for years, or they are exposed even one time. Doctors and researchers don’t entirely understand why some...exposed to asbestos Tests like these will allow doctors not only to detect mesothelioma much earlier, thus... -
Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m.... such a popular model organism? Zebrafish (Figure 1) were initially recognized as a useful vertebrate ... post was contributed by Katherine Rogers, a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich Miescher Lab of ...Max Planck Society. Katherine W. Rogers is a postdoctoral researcher in Patrick Müller’s group at the ... -
March for Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m....education, government, and civilization in general (1). Science and politics? Science is an apolitical process...consequences of a march. Three of these risks include: 1) Lost trust Perhaps the greatest risk is that the ...active research scientists (scientists who hold a doctorate degree, are currently working full-time, and have... -
15 Hot Plasmids from 2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m....SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides! To reduce off-target effects associated...Lower on-target activity than BE3; editing window ~1-2 nt 87438 pET42b-HF-BE3 HF-Cas9 (NGG) Very ... through the expression of transcription factors OCT3/4, SOX2, KLF4, and c-MYC is the established model...Addgene and include a variety of cMYC, KLF4, SOX2 and OCT4 DNA binding domain and transcription activation ... -
Behind-the-scenes of the Isolation of the Thermostable IgnaviCas9 From a Yellowstone Hot Spring
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2019, 2 p.m....could be kept frozen after collection. Figure 1: Paul included a voltmeter on top of the battery box...Thermus aquaticus bacterium – was discovered at Octopus Hot Spring at YNP, and since then, many researchers... -
Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m....breaks (DSBs) or donor DNA templates. Figure 1: An overview of prime editing. Created with BioRender.com...demonstrated ~20-50% efficiency in HEK293T cells with 1-10% indels. Since then, further innovations have continued...Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01227-1 Yan, J., Oyler-Castrillo, P., Ravisankar, P., Ward...post was originally written by Jennifer Tsang in October 2019 and updated by Emily P. Bentley in December... -
Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 21, 2014, 3:15 p.m.... After all I was only going to be interviewed for 1 hour so having a broad enough insight was going to.... I had just started month 8 of my 3 year Post-Doctoral contract at the University of Cambridge and knew... -
The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m....process is explained more fully in the animated Fig. 1 below. Normalization is a fundamental and often understated...Bioinformatics from Boston University, and did postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and the University... -
Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m....regarding what makes this group of researchers special: 1. Stem cell scientists care deeply about ethics Ethics...differentiated cells simply by expressing four proteins Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and cMyc (the so called OSKM factors...