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  1. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... HR carefully because sometimes companies have relaxed dress codes for interviews. You can also ask HR... know up front how you plan to take questions.  Relax!  You wouldn’t have made it to the interview if ...position. So prepare for the interview, but then relax.  Additional resources on the Addgene blog: Tips...
  2. Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux

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    Sept. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...embark on or continue their careers in science-related fields. In particular, two recent events have the...note is a ruling in August by the National Labor Relations Board to allow graduate students who work as teaching...university and alterations to the student-university relationship, along with, of course, union dues. Time will...
  3. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...restriction enzyme and ligase based cloning is a relatively inexpensive way to get the job done, provided...because the T4 polymerase needed for this method is relatively inexpensive and can be obtained for about $70... or purify DNA fragments from gels. If you’re relatively new to the cloning game, however, or simply looking...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...protein, it's important to validate its function relative to the untagged, wild-type protein. You may, for...the protein of interest and then analyzing the relative colocalization of their fluorescent signals and...One should also be aware of additional problems related to the properties of FPs themselves. These can ...
  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...of protein concentration. Calibration curves correlating this ratio to the total expression time can therefore... situation where one wants to understand the relationship between the age of a cell, protein, or cellular...nascent tissues and the formation of limbs are correlated with changes in gene expression. In a developing...
  6. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cases arise and millions of people die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics...Ras researchers, one of the most exciting and relatively new resources is the RAS Pathway Clone Collection... initiative to curate our collection of cancer-related plasmids such that each is linked to a known major...
  7. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    Sept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...employees. The teambuilding culture helps us build relationships and thereby work better together.I realize I...encourage everyone to make an effort to build relationships with their colleagues. It can be easy to get...done everything from kayaking, to field day, to relay triathlons, to 5Ks. Many of these examples we’ve...
  8. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ... Thus far Plasmids 101 has covered GFP and its related fluorescent proteins, which are sometimes used ...crystallizing it or testing its function. Small ubiquitin-related modifier (SUMO) can help with folding and stabilization...and purification An affinity tag, generally a relatively small sequence of amino acids, is basically a...
  9. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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    Sept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m.
    ...and bacterial transformation. And more plasmid-related educational resources can be found in our Plasmids...creating and editing Wikipedia pages, OWW will be relatively easy for you to begin using. For the novice, ...the repository. These protocols show up on the related plasmid pages and can help scientists use these...
  10. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...common fluorescent proteins and their mutations relative to wildtype GFP. Although not listed here, many...spectrum are not GFP derivatives, but are instead related to the dsRed protein isolated from Discosoma sp... fluorophores Fluorescent Protein Mutations Relative to Wildtype GFP EGFP F64L; S65T EYFP S65G;...
  11. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...they want to understand the ultrastructural relationships that influence everything from cell division...physically separates molecules while maintaining their relative positions, allowing you to resolve individual ...accessible imaging equipment, ExM protocols utilize relatively inexpensive reagents and are readily adoptable...
  12. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ... added on a regular basis, so the ecosystem of related tools is always growing. Beyond the ability to ...understand and/or attempt to reproduce research relating to data deposited into a repository access to ...can be viewed – and conceivably additional work relating to reproducing the original research can be documented...
  13. AAV Titers: Where do they come from and what do they mean?

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    Nov. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.
    ...the ratio of genome-containing viral particles relative to the total number of viral capsids (which can...vectors consist of full particles (white arrowhead) relative to empty particles (black arrowhead). Scale bar...absolute titer values may not be as important as the relative titer values. Finally, because physical titer ...
  14. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... expand as Rett scientists deposit their MECP2-related plasmid tools with Addgene and share additional...Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 mutations and phenotype-genotype correlations. Am J Med Genet 97:147–152 . https://doi.org...Determines the Clinical Course of Rett Syndrome and Related Disorders. Cell 152:984–996 . https://doi.org/10.1016...
  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...Also, in cases where the protein of interest is relatively small, adding GFP may alter diffusion rates. ...Although bioluminescent probes are usually dim relative to fluorescent probes, recent engineering efforts... that the N- and C-terminus of GFP itself are relatively close, thereby minimizing the disruption of the...
  16. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...can do and, in this way, science has always been related to government and, consequently, politics. More...Inclusion of data informing policy specifically related to the following subjects: Climate change Vaccines...Healthcare Science education To make scientists relatable (17, 20). This is an effort to show the general...
  17. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    April 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...    Figure 4: (A) Using the proportional relationship between FSC-H and FSC-A we can gate on single...displaying your events. You are free to choose any size-related parameter, such as FSC-H, FSC-A, SSC-H, SSC-A, ...Figure 6: (A) A flow plot showing two stains in relation to each other. Using a quadrant gate, I can divide...
  18. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ... model organism for scientists as they have a relatively short generation time for mammals - the time ...that are laid externally. Fruit flies are also relatively straightforward to manipulate genetically. Scientists... zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome." Nature496.7446 (2013):...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    April 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m.
    ... design and engineering of fusion proteins is relatively straightforward. However, generating a fusion...fluorescent protein. Thus, scientist began using relatively long linkers between the protein of interest ...C-terminal residues of the fluorescent protein are relatively close together (figure 1). Where should the fluorescent...
  20. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...post-translational modifications, quantify protein levels relative to standards, detect the cellular location of ...thickness of the band provides information about the relative abundance of the protein in the sample. More protein...molecular biology protocols Browse other articles related to antibodies Resources on Addgene.org Find written...
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