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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m....and a friend. George Church runs his lab fairly similarly to his advisor Wally Gilbert: “Very interdisciplinary...Institute (HHMI) offers some great resources for Early Career Scientists, including their "Making the Right... EMBO Lab Leadership Courses HHMI Resources for Early Career Scientists Science Careers: Running Your ...
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Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2024, 1:50 p.m....antibody companies or check the literature. Pro tip! Early gates, like your live/dead markers or commonly used...isotype controls An isotype sample is prepared very similarly to a FMO sample: you make a sample from a combined...immunotherapies. She is currently a research technician in Arlene Sharpe's lab at Harvard Medical School. More... -
Improved Plasmid Maps Powered by SnapGene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 29, 2017, 1:06 p.m....software. In fact, SnapGene’s feature library includes nearly 3x as many features as could be detected by our...extraneous ORFs that cluttered our old plasmid maps. Clearly Annotated Features, Enzymes, and Primers - The ...start thinking about your next cloning experiment early on. Beyond these simple but powerful display improvements... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....What fixed it was not trying even harder to start earlier, but simply moving all my prep work to the day ...would build a wall of pipette tip boxes when she particularly needed to focus, which was extremely effective... Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research Early Career Researcher Toolbox 8 Tactics for Choosing... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 20, 2023, 4 p.m.... in front of an audience and convey your ideas clearly and strategically is powerful in almost any career...and/or apprehensive. I still get nervous quite regularly, and I've had multiple jobs where all I did was...developed a valuable skill set that will be useful in nearly any other job you may choose to pursue. So take... -
All in a Twist: dsRNA
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m....in dsRNA generation. While these molecules are clearly associated with cellular damage and dysfunction... acid hybrids are always around. R-loops are particularly enriched in highly transcribed regions and repetitive...responses can mount in the absence of infection. Similarly, if endogenously synthesized dsRNA finds its way... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m....the other hand, mScarlet-I shows correct ER labeling, which is good evidence that mScarlet-I acts as a monomer... situation, cellular assays have been proposed. Early efforts tested whether or not FP-tubulin fusion ... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....Centro Ciência Viva" in Aveiro, Portugal. She is particularly interested in science journalism and writing...PMID: 15261139. Barsky, Sanford H., and Nina J. Karlin. "Myoepithelial cells: autocrine and paracrine ...absence of stromal caveolin-1 expression predicts early tumor recurrence and poor clinical outcome in human... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m....institutions doing after the injunction? We are particularly interested in whether institutions planning ...postdocs at other institutions to see if we can similarly convince them to go ahead with raises. What will...salaries. In addition, salary uncertainty may be particularly problematic for two-postdoc households. To better... -
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....that you think are clearly connected, step back and ask yourself, “are these clearly connected because ...you understand why you’re not communicating as clearly as you intended (it happens to us all!) and offer... -
Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... in the final construct, allowing for precise, scarless cloning. The cloning scheme is as follows: the...but Golden Gate assembly can be designed to be scarless. Golden Gate assembly is also less expensive than...Marillonet. Golden Gate and genome engineering In early 2011, the Bogdanove and Voytas groups described ... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m....exacerbated inflammatory response which leads to nearly 25% child mortality. Since glycans play an essential...amino acids more frequently than any other. Indeed, nearly 20% of the single missense mutant alleles that ...human disease change Arg to another amino acid. Clearly, the development of a pharmacological intervention... -
Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 27, 2017, 1:23 p.m....Sainsbury Laboratory. Are you a science student or early career researcher looking to break into science ..., Scientific American or National Geographic. Similarly, media fellowships from the British Science Association... Media Production at Imperial College London. Similarly, the University of Cardiff offers an MSc in Science... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m....identical and all mice of the strain are homozygous at nearly all loci. This reduces variability in genotype ...reproducibility of experiments. Inbred mice are particularly useful for understanding a specific effect related...Examples of outbred strains include Swiss Webster and Harlan (Hsd) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Swiss... -
Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m....the accelerator of a vehicle being stuck down. Similarly, a mutation that turns a tumor suppressor “off...the Gateway Cloning Platform (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) that represents 180 genes from the Ras signaling... 25877186. 4. Prior, Ian A., Paul D. Lewis, and Carla Mattos. "A comprehensive survey of Ras mutations... -
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m....When Karl Barry Sharpless was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he joined an elite club, ... scientists to larger groups of trainees at an earlier point in their careers? A CURE for Biochemistry...protein with easily measured activity, MDH is particularly amenable to in-class labs. Provost ultimately... -
The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m....me). While things were incredibly busy in those early years, the founders knew that company culture and...throwing fun into the mix. Thus, our founders and early employees spent this remaining time by elaborately... you are planning, dangle the carrot (or more popularly- cookies). 3. Do something outside of your ordinary... -
Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 29, 2025, 1:15 p.m....genome editing, CRISPR is a name that resonates with nearly every biologist, academic, and researcher. Among...challenge for efficient delivery into cells, particularly via viral vectors. While viral delivery is a... More elaborate protocols are available in our earlier publications (Karmakar et al., 2024; Karmakar et... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... cell types depending on their serotype, are particularly challenging. Their efficacy in any given system...from 2016–2023. All three generations are regularly requested and a valuable part of our viral vector..., new partnerships, and new platforms, from our early engagement with UPenn to our launch of the redesigned... -
Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m....out. In some fields, a cover letter is vital, particularly in fields where communication and writing are...skills-based ones, may not use them very often. Similarly, entry-level jobs are less likely to require cover...working for that organization or group. This is particularly important for labs and nonprofits, who tend ...