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  1. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    March 22, 2018, 1:28 p.m.
    ...single channel pipettes. These can speed up any project in which you need to do a lot of aliquoting. Simply...throughput DNA preps and other molecular work if we need it to. This gives us the oppotunity to use the FXP...to in live bacteria. For these shipments, we’ve needed to find a way to purify DNA from many bacterial...Universal Platform and it suits our plasmid prepping needs perfectly. Working with Qiagen, we developed a protocol...and can be easily programmed for a variety of lab needs. Addgene uses it to fill as many vials as it can...amount of agar. There is a tube that goes from the needle to the flask with agar in it. The agar sits on ...program the pipette with how much total sample you need and the volume of the smaller aliquots you’d like...
  2. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...an option to all researchers. Accuracy needed Do you need to call exact copy numbers or just general...partitioned into thousands of reactions, it does not need to be run in triplicates. ddPCR is an extremely ...experiment. You’ll have to consider:  Resources needed Most molecular biology labs and departments will...general trends? How confident do you need to be in your determination to move forward with your experiment... that provides you confidence in the results you need.  Whichever method you choose, resist the temptation...Muhamad, 2011). Ambiguous Taqman or ddPCR results need to be rerun in order to be called accurately, and...likely to find an application that matches your needs. Happy quantifying!  References and Resources More...
  3. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    Jan. 23, 2020, 2:45 p.m.
    ..., we need to research and hopefully find a comparable library if it’s gone stale or we will need to update...flexibility to adapt and easily respond to changing needs of the teams at Addgene. Another advantage of Scrum...while thinking through these steps, we discover we need additional information. It is quite possible that...time efficiently. While writing the code, we may need additional clarification and again we collaborate... buying a bag of flour is not the only thing you need to make a cake. The flavor, shape, and texture of...today that prints labels. These libraries in turn need to stay up to date with their third party libraries... to Modern Greek. Books written in Ancient Greek need to be translated into Modern Greek to be easily ...
  4. How to Be an Excellent Trainee

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    Sept. 26, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... mind helping me with….” vs. “I need help with…now”. Ask for feedback so you can make adjustments. This...information plus your mentor will get you up to speed easier and faster when you’re an active participant...t be afraid to ask your bench mentor if/when you need to double-check a detail! Training follow up After...then plan accordingly in case you have questions or need a little assistance at some point during the procedure... day. In the latter case, you can say “I usually need time to gather my thoughts, but always have questions...learns where you are at and the level of support you need from them, and you can understand the information...are polite, appreciative, and clear about their needs. Remember, your bench mentor’s training time is ...
  5. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...based on its market need and anticipated commercial success. Or the client might need help with the intricate...client may offer a lot of pointed feedback or abruptly change needs and expectations. Such situations ...doing it. I’ll also talk about the skills you’ll need to do well as a healthcare consultant and what you...Medical Affairs, and Commercial teams, reflecting the need for all parts of a company to collaborate whenever...especially challenging. For instance, the client might need to get a large amount of market research done to... fulfilling career solving hard problems or who needs a stepping-stone to many other opportunities. Many...
  6. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...with the simplest multiplexing situation: you only need to express two gRNAs at the same time. One system...scale up the number of gRNAs in your plasmid, you’ll need to use some assembly methods such as Golden Gate...step is necessary to generate all of the overhangs needed for the final ligation step. Plasmids are then ...pX330A-1x6. This customization means you don’t ever need to clone in filler sequences. To build your multiplexing...with the kit. Oligonucleotides specifying the gRNA seed sequence should be compatible with type IIS enzyme...above, this vector does not contain Cas9, so you’ll need to supply it with another plasmid.   Figure...fast protocol, with only 5 hours incubation time needed for a single round of editing, and a subsequent...
  7. IDP and your PI: A Roadmap for Career Planning and Personal Development

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    July 21, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...these meetings is to give honest, constructive feedback, set tangible research and career goals, and celebrate...development through thoughtful planning and honest feedback DePace’s yearly planning meetings revolve around...accomplishments, research/professional goals and feedback. Calendar: Month-by-month look at the next... year, including major project goals and effort needed to complete them. These documents dictate the subject...trainee leads the conversation. As the conversation proceeds through the various sections, the trainee speaks...Supervisors Management for Scientists: Seeking Feedback Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager... feedback...
  8. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ... and by offering advice on areas where you might need some help. Today in our transferable skills guide...something like, “I’ll be there in a few minutes, I just need to split some cells.” Inevitably, this task would...techniques of your own, but if you ever find yourself in need of a few ideas, I hope you’ll find this post useful...the energy to finish any additional work you might need to do. In most cases, I would recommend the second...outset of a task, I outline the activities that are needed to accomplish these goals. Practically speaking... remind myself of the specific activities that I need to work on. Throughout the day, I cross items off...they are accomplished or I add to the list as the need arises.Why do I write things down? It’s more viscerally...
  9. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    Nov. 3, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
    ...target cells and the desired edits. First, you will need to know what the ploidy of your target site is. ...line, so it’s important to verify that you won’t need to screen hundreds of clones looking for your edit...This way you can ensure you aren’t looking for a needle in a haystack before going on to generate and screen...then a single, bulk validation may be enough to proceed with your experimental plan. Validating knockout...generate your knockout? Then you’re in luck! You don’t need to sequence your PCR to visualize an edit. Most ...clones, however, sequence confirmation is still needed to verify the correct sequence was inserted or ... edited cells. As with all other methods, you’ll need to further validate the specific mutations using...
  10. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    Oct. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...classmates! Your mentors don’t need to be more senior or more “important”, they just need to know you well enough...you are more desperate or needy so you can’t wait until you imminently need a job. Start now. Informational... group We don’t all get the mentoring support we need, and most of us could use more mentors to listen...any science career, there will be a time when you need to speak publicly to communicate your work. One ...career options. 5. Write a grant - even if you don’t need one A lot of science in academia and not in academia...
  11. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    Jan. 11, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...may only need to validate on denatured proteins or on live cells. But for others, you may need to validate...well-organized, documented, and easy to find (though we might need to see it to believe it.) As you browse the collection... affect its configuration. You don't necessarily need to know where the epitopes are, just if the available...selected an antibody, or multiple antibodies, you’ll need to validate them for your protein and its configuration...configuration in your assay. For some assays, you may only need to validate for recognizing the protein following...designing your controls in validation, as you may need to test different configurations and conditions ...
  12. Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing

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    Jan. 24, 2019, 2:24 p.m.
    ...Fluorescent proteins are very stable in SeeDB2. However, SeeDB2 is not powerful enough for large brain ...2014), before clearing with SeeDB2. For more information, visit our SeeDB Resources website. We update...proteins were best imaged after tissue clearing with SeeDB2 (Ke et al., 2016, 2018).   How to use Tetbow for... for High-resolution fluorescence imaging using SeeDB2." Bio-Protocol 8 (2018): e3046. Livet, Jean, et...Ultrafast tissue staining with chemical tags." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences111.36 (2014...
  13. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...individual target species. Indeed, in order to use MAGE, the λ Red recombinase enzymes need to be expressed and... easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2016 below... kit Synthetic and basic biologists alike often need to test multiple expression systems before they ...digest and Sanger sequencing, respectively. The speed and simplicity of GMAP allows scientists to easily...native methyl-directed mismatch repair (MMR) system needs to be repressed in the host strain. To address this...variety of new compounds being generated, there is a need for genetic optimization of industrial yeast strains...supplied as annealed synthetic oligos - eliminating the need for PCR or additional molecular cloning steps during...
  14. Plasmids 101: Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)

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    Sept. 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...polymerize, allowing the slower exonuclease activity to proceed. By including only one type of dNTP in the reaction... can decide exactly how far the T4 exonuclease proceeds: at the first occurrence of the chosen nucleotide...if those overhangs perfectly match up. They just need enough complementary ssDNA to hold the plasmid together...ways. One option, imprecise T4 digestion (no dNTPs needed), allows both insert and vector to be digested ...incomplete PCR — although higher DNA concentrations are needed for this method to be successful. Low DNA concentration...approaches require higher concentrations of insert to succeed. 5′ overhangs are generated in the linearized vector... you can assemble multiple fragments without the need for specific restriction sites or DNA ligase! This...
  15. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    Nov. 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...external stakeholders to learn more about their needs and any problems that they are trying to solve. ...test the solutions with the users, gather more feedback, and start the cycle over again to refine the ...software possible. Similarly, when the developers needed to know information from the lab folks, it was ...with our software or devices, and anything they may need to help improve their work. Then, I distill and ... well as the developers. Lastly, you’re going to need to be a problem-solver. A lot of the time, the problem...clear, but the solution is more complicated. You’ll need to be creative to be able to work with others to...strong relationship-building and influence. You’ll need a large deal of influence and strong relationship-building...
  16. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ...answer the question, you need only to take that step. Repeat that as often as needed until you get to the ...calm: “Excuse me, I seem to have lost my place. I need a minute.” I then pulled out my notebook, opened...presentation will be better if you take time when you need it, rather than trying to push through a state of... deck gets uploaded. Your mic emits screeching feedback. You’re muted on Zoom. Your video conferencing...telling yourself, “I can stop and check my notes if I need to,” or “It is okay if it doesn’t go perfectly,”...group of peers who are there to provide critical feedback, often with a semi-international audience or not...
  17. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    Feb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
    ...it off? Turn it down, but not forever? You don’t need to resort to the force to control protein expression...off, tunable, and/or inducible? How long do you need control? Will temporary control (a few days) be ...interest. CRISPR-Cas9 and a custom gRNA is all you need to generate a frameshift mutation that will permanently...permanently ablate protein expression. If you need the ability to control when you turn off expression ...you would like. Check out our promoter blog if you need help choosing. Viral expression is another mechanism...exogenously introduced proteins, as many of them just need a special promoter or tag prior to introduction ...endogenously expressed protein, then these systems need to be site-specifically knocked in. This can be ...
  18. Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization

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    Aug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... style according to the needs of my committee members. Some members would need much more guidance, direction... scholars should have the skills and techniques needed to facilitate effective teamwork, manage day to...sticking to deadlines and performing the work I agreed upon (just as I would in my laboratory work). Committee...would act more independently and some others would need regular re-direction and alignment with the overall...responsibilities Being a leader in an organization, you need to make sure the organization speaks in “one voice... you can find opportunities around you. You just need to be prepared to take on the challenges and be ...
  19. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...yeast cells. Need more MoClo? Check out Addgene's MoClo Guide! Customizing MoClo for your needs As you probably...read and then come back here once you are up to speed on the basics of the technology. In this blog, we...benefit from a larger library of parts but don’t need to add tags to your proteins, then the CIDAR Kit...a MoClo kit plus the plant-specific parts you‘ll need, including sub-cellular localization signals, plant...It is important to understand your experimental needs before choosing one or more of these kits, as there...specifically for the types of expression and integration needed in mammalian cell types, and comes with a large... to select an available kit that best fits your needs and then modify it as necessary. And remember, if...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    July 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...then need to be purified by density gradient centrifugation (e.g., iodixanol) using a high-speed ultracentrifuge...cells for further processing. What component(s) you need to collect will depend on the serotype, as some ...however, you’ve collected the producer cells, you’ll need to lyse the cells to let the virions out. We recommend...exchange and further concentrate the virions if needed. For more details on the production process, check...produced, harvested, and purified your rAAV, you’ll need to determine the titer of your viral vector solution...).  To choose the optimal titering assay, you’ll need to understand how different titers are measured....
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