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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2017, 1:35 p.m....initiated a soil microbiome project. This project was inspired by previous city-wide genomic studies and our ...DIY bio If you’re not in the Boston area but are inspired to get involved, check out the local groups page...
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Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m....Hideyuki Okano presented ground-breaking work on spinal cord injuries; Jessica Young shared research on..., a half-brother who is a quadriplegic due to a spinal cord injury, and numerous family friends who had... -
Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....transduction in catecholamine pathways from the spinal cord (Wang, 2018, Metcalfe, 2022) and substantia...that are physically blocked, such as those in the spinal cord. Now that you understand this new tool, go... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m....institutions in Boston - Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary and Beth Israel - ...the postdoctoral population which keeps growing despite a lack of available academic positions. Many... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.... In frogs, ectopic expression of ion channels, despite having an otherwise normal genomic background, ...Subsequent cutting results in a two-headed worm, despite the fact that it’s genetically wild type (Oveido... -
Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2019, 1:34 p.m....science or even to discuss potential solutions. Despite all the talk, not much was being done to address...meeting by the collaborators who could participate. Despite the group not having a public website, all the ... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m....creates a painful sensation. The dorsal horn of the spinal cord is the first site of sensory input from our... the dual virus expression in CR neurons of the spinal cord. Created with BioRender.com. Image from Haoyi... -
Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m...., some adenovirus strains are known to cause respiratory diseases in humans, earning this virus a BSL-... can be used for extra security. Finally, when spinning down lentivirus, you’ll need to use centrifuge... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....for your next experiments, they will also likely inspire further-improved versions. Thanks to Christophe...Leterrier, whose FocalPlanes piece on mStayGold inspired and informed this section. Find mStayGold plasmids... -
Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m....postdoctoral issues first at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and then Boston University...communication and learning to work with people despite the distance improved my verbal and written communication... -
Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m....the picture had a broken controller and would not spin. It was going to cost far more than it was worth...microcontroller and a motor controller and made it spin again! We’ve also learned to be resourceful and... -
Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m....doing this with very little money. So when did inspiration strike us so hard that we upended our lives and...in fact, our color changing flower project was inspired by a Facebook comment. In our day job, we worked... -
Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m....) using a high-speed ultracentrifuge. During the spin, the virions will form a band due to their high ... https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2010.107 Zen, Z., Espinoza, Y., Bleu, T., Sommer, J. M., & Wright, J. F. ... -
Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m....die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics, new strategies for attacking...cancers, especially those of the pancreas and colon. Despite the prevalence of Ras mutations in a variety of... -
When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m....Snapp. Stop using EGFP/GFP for fusion proteins! Despite multiple studies in high profile journal articles...localized to the endoplasmic reticulum, the normally spiderweb-like pattern of tubules can be grossly distorted... -
Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.... Patron: I started my Twitter account recently inspired by an academic in literature who gave a talk to...female scientists whose tweets I find really inspirational. They share experiences, articles about women... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m....follow in the footsteps of Luxturna™. However, despite promising results in preclinical studies some potential...diseases such as hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, neurodegenerative diseases and... -
INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m....human therapeutics (e.g. using Sleeping Beauty). Despite their diverse utility, DNA transposons have been...can also be combined in single-plasmid INTEGRATE (pSPIN), which offer simple transformations for smaller... -
Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....now available. In this post, we’ll review the inspiration behind ExM, how it works, and some of the limitations...improve label density (Mikhaylova, et al. 2015). Despite these limitations, ExM is a valuable tool, especially... -
CRISPR Antimicrobials
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....beta-lactam resistant population to the antibiotic, despite this resistance gene being encoded by a high-copy... system to target virulent S. aureus, a common hospital-borne infection. Two rounds of phagemid treatment...