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  1. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...indicating primer dimers. (c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits (respectively): Zuzanna K...details for reproducibility’s sake!   Fig. 2: Setting up triplicates in multiple configurations...used method is the Standard Curve method. See Table 2, (adapted from Wong, 2018) for a comparison of different...Statistically defined log-linear phase   Table 2: A comparison of different qPCR analysis methods. ... for RNA quantitation. Biotechniques. 2000 Aug;29(2):332-7. doi: 10.2144/00292rv02. PMID: 10948434.Taylor...Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 28, Issue 19, 1 October 2000, Pages 3752–3761, https://doi.org/10.1093/...
  2. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    Feb. 2, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...and scholarships in different subject areas!    2. Resume and cover letter know-how  Tailor your resume...4. Letters of recommendation wisdom  Reach out to 2-3 individuals in your professional circle to vouch...Pierre! Roodolph (Roo) P. St Pierre is currently a doctoral candidate in the Chemical Biology Program at Harvard...
  3. Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux

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    Sept. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...is funded have been well documented over the past 2 years (Alberts et al, PNAS 2014; Taylor, eLife, 2016...PMID: 24733905. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC4000813. 2. Taylor, Justin Q., et al. “Avoiding a lost generation...working group (National Academy of Sciences. “The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited” 2014 Appendix B p93-95...
  4. Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using the FITS Approach

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    May 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...efficient knockout (KO) of genes in immune cells; (2) is not immunogenic, a necessity for in vivo studies... Find FITS plasmids here! Marty LaFleur is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arlene Sharpe’s laboratory at Harvard...
  5. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...expressed as a fusion with your favorite protein and (2) a synthetic fluorophore-contianing “ligand” that ...cell 58.4 (2015): 644-659. PubMed PMID: 26000849. 2. Grimm, Jonathan B., et al. "A general method to improve... tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine)– Nonnatural amino acids can be ...
  6. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...diffusion test or Kirby-Bauer susceptibility test (Figure 2), and requires at least 18-24 hours to obtain results...." London: Wellcome Trust & HM Government (2016). 2. CDC Information Pages on Antibiotics 3. WHO Antimicrobial...www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1uDYSfINA. When you go to the doctor, it will very likely take time to determine if ...
  7. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development... 35. Academic Press, 2015. PubMed PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of...contributed by guest blogger Subhadra Jayaraman, a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University Cancer is one...Subhadra Jayaraman! Subhadra Jayaraman is currently a doctoral candidate at Binghamton University. She works ...
  8. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    Sept. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... that all look exactly alike.      Figure 2: Reagent gradient. Here, the lanes are lightly marked...guide. The gel is then removed from the membrane (2) and the membrane is cut so each lane is its own piece...in the bands, you may want to consult Tables 1 and 2 in our Technical Design of a Western Blot post to ...the antibody’s dynamic range. Specifically, the 1:2, 1:1, and No dilution samples all have approximately...conditions are 4 °C overnight or room temperature for 1–2 hours, there is some evidence that antibodies may ...resources with examples, like BioRad’s Western Blot Doctor page, or robust discussions, like ResearchGate’...
  9. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Information Science and Technology 60.4 (2009): 858-862. 2. Van Noorden, Richard. "Interdisciplinary research...Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2.2 (2014): 2. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog 6 Tools...Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin for the Timing of Nocturnal Courtship Vocalization. The video summarizes the...
  10. Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

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    Nov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
    ...information gathered by Postdoctoral Associations around Boston - From Panel Session 2: Defining the Postdoc...research community to develop a plan to make postdoctoral pay/benefits commensurate with work training...a postdoc as “An individual who has received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) and is engaged in a temporary... staff scientists. This results in a glut of postdoctoral trainees who, even though they are aware that...become actionable. Additional Resources The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited. PubMed PMID: 25590106....
  11. Editor's Choice, September 2016

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    Oct. 7, 2016, 4 p.m.
    ... of my favorite molecular biology tool, P1 phage. 2) The post describes an ingenious but simple technique...deposited plasmids on this trip. Here’s to hoping that October is even more awesome than September! Tyler J. Ford...
  12. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...citizens enter into in order to protect their rights (2). Less formally, governments are the organizations...science education and literacy that this changes.  2) Lumping all scientists (and consequently their results...active research scientists (scientists who hold a doctorate degree, are currently working full-time, and have...
  13. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    Jan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
    ...), 1668. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09656-2 More resources on the Addgene blog CRISPR101: Validating... X-CHIME plasmids here!   Marty LaFleur is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arlene Sharpe’s laboratory at Harvard...
  14. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...double strand break), increasing editing efficiencies 2-3-fold. However, the process of double nicking increases... editing as efficient as possible. Figure 2: Decision tree for selecting a PE6 variant. PE = prime...using paired prime editing. Nature Biotechnology, 40(2), 218–226. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01025...post was originally written by Jennifer Tsang in October 2019 and updated by Emily P. Bentley in December...
  15. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    March 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
    ...work. Nobody wins, and you need to make a change. #2 Thou shalt sometimes put work ahead of life Sometimes...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...
  16. Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More

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    Aug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m.
    ...externally fertilized, transparent progeny (Figure 2). These features give it a leg up (or a fin up?) over... 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 ...
  17. Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc

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    Aug. 21, 2014, 3:15 p.m.
    ... and whether I would be able to carry out a yeast-2-hybrid library screen; instead I thought they would.... I had just started month 8 of my 3 year Post-Doctoral contract at the University of Cambridge and knew...
  18. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...from a single Illumina MiSeq® run. As shown in Fig. 2, below, differences in input concentration across ...Bioinformatics from Boston University, and did postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School and the University...
  19. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
    ...two visible blue or magenta chromoproteins (Figure 2) (Liljeruhm et al., 2018). This system is a nice confirmation...This post was contributed by Jacob Lazarus, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. There’s an astounding...is now an attending physician. He performs post-doctoral research in the lab of Matthew Waldor at Harvard...
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