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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m....be excited many times, thereby producing a large number of emitted photons before they are destroyed. ...decreasing the power of the excitation light reduces the number of excitation/emission cycles per unit of time,... are performed in different ways. We describe a number of issues with some of the experimental designs...
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Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m....least twice, and sometimes more depending on the number of features we need to verify. Determining which...is critical for the efficient handling of large numbers of samples. When we grow overnight cultures for...submission instructions. As for the analysis of a large number of sequencing reactions, you can make your life... -
Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 14, 2018, 11:44 a.m....calculate the particle number: OD260 reading x dilution factor x 1.1 x 1012 particles = number of particles per...purified virus should be ~1.3 Quantitative PCR: the number of viral DNA packaged in virions is determined ... -
Tips for Technical Support Calls
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 20, 2016, 2:39 p.m....catalog number, or at least the plasmid name in your initial query. This can reduce the number of messages...questions about an Abcam antibody. Have your catalog number ready. I've attempted to answer several emails ... -
Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.... years (we now have over 60,000 plasmids!), the number of sequencing results we analyze as part of our...sequences (nr)” database as it contains the largest number of protein sequences. Just below the BLAST button...isoforms. In addition to our favorites, there are a number of sequence alignment tools available. Try these... -
Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m....western blot. Standard curves are critical for a number of popular scientific applications, and the quality... is because standard curves vary depending on a number of factors, including the user, equipment, assay...accurately measure. Dynamic range depends on a number of factors, including the dilution series of the... -
The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... requests by date. Parentheses depict the total number of plasmids ordered for each paper. Rough estimation...affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, we compared the number of plasmid orders and new COVID-19 cases for each... our data: We choose to let yx(t) represent the number of unique PIs or labs placing orders for paper ... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.... Our scheduling was in part defined by both the number of participants and the standard academic calendar...logistics Once you decide on the topic, there are a number of administrative and practical decisions to make...scheduling the second and other subsequent meetings. The number of participants, breadth of the discussed topic... -
AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m....were derived from. They also transduced a higher number of neurons overall (GFP+ cells that also stained...doses of virus are used in order to decrease the number of neurons that get labeled, neurons are more likely...tTA), is injected at a high dose to maximize the number of cells that are labeled. Part 2: An AAV expressing... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....implement in practice because FRET depends on a number of hard-to-achieve factors. For example, FRET requires...of BiFC also makes it easier to generate a large number of constructs for high-throughput screening of ...controls may requires that you empirically test a number of mutants to identify those that inhibit BiFC ... -
Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m....sample has a limited number of fluorophores and each fluorophore can emit a limited number of photons before...protein fusions to gene-edited cells can decrease the number of fluorophores, compromising the photon budget... -
Plasmids 101: Protein tags
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m....to overexpress and purify proteins can face any number of technical challenges depending on their protein...might consider junk protein. Though there are a number of chemical and peptide-based proteosome inhibitors...of this cleavage depends on the identity of X. A number of other proteases are available, but scientists... -
Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 11, 2024, 1:15 p.m....proteins. These iterons vary in their sequence and number and can alter the efficiency of replication in ...Regulatory elements within the ori also control copy number and stability, which influence the plasmid’s ability...self-transmissible plasmids may have high copy numbers and reduced metabolic load (Meyer 2009). ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....cells than the number of plasmids in the library. Spinfection If you have a large number of cells to transduce...lentiviral preps are generally aliquoted to reduce the number of freeze-thaw cycles needed when using the virus... -
pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m....clinical trials, as it allows access to a larger number of willing participants. While fibroblasts obtained...vitro for several passages to produce an adequate number of starting cells for reprogramming while PBMCs...List of pCXLE episomal plasmids, their Addgene ID numbers and the reprogramming factors they encode Episomal... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....sharing The EDGE Program is designed to expand the number of systems that can be studied by providing support...Rosenthal) The Hawaiian bobtail squid has an extreme number of nerve cells and an unusually high level of RNA...homologous recombination efficiency to reduce the number of plants you need to grow to get a recombinant... -
Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....journals Current Biology (2,500 views), Journal of Number Theory (1,519 views), and Gastroenterology (1,046...., learn why water freezes) there was a growing number of online research abstracts. With journals in ...Noorden, Richard. "Interdisciplinary research by the numbers." Nature 525.7569 (2015): 306-307. 3. Spicer, Scott... -
5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2016, 2:30 p.m....advised me on how to alter my intro to reduce the number of potentially hostile posters (this advice included...moderators did not delete or suppress were the large number of scientist posters with serious career dilemmas...associated with my LinkedIn profile. There are a number of ways you can build up your own expertise and... -
CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2022, 12:15 p.m....’s wise to quickly assess whether a significant number of cells have been edited. For many experiments...population. You can additionally calculate the minimum number of clones you would have to screen to identify ...occur, allowing you to Sanger sequence a manageable number of the higher probability locations. If you’re ... -
Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m....Unfortunately, even when universities have simple postdoc numbers sorted out there can be gaps in knowledge of demographics...and some that stuck out to me were: Decrease the Number of Postdocs De-incentivize going into PhD programs...services based on what they're spending. Increase the number of science masters programs to prepare scientists...