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  1. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    Blog Post
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    July 17, 2018, 12:23 p.m.
    ...Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. The challenge: Making courses on genetic manipulation more hands...could be played when and, depending upon who your challenger was, you might have to drastically alter your...

  2. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    Blog Post
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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...seqWell, Inc., our mission is to overcome crucial challenges in NGS by developing technologies that can help...problem in multiplex NGS library preparation. The challenge here is that, as more samples are sequenced simultaneously...

  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    Blog Post
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    June 24, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
    ...cloned from include click beetles (Pyrophorus plagiophthalmus), railroad worm (Phrixothrix hirtus), and a... ATP No Jamaican click beetle(Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus) 544-593 64 Luciferin ATP No Railroad worms...

  4. From Lab Bench to Leadership: Transitioning into Management as a PhD

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...management, the journey can be as exciting as it is challenging. How do you prepare for this shift and navigate...experiences, and practical advice for overcoming challenges. Experimenting with leadership opportunities...

  5. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    Blog Post
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    March 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m.
    ...such as sequencing or qPCR. Yay!  Where’s the challenge in that?  So while this method is certainly long...the sample type and size.) It can be quite the challenge, and take a few rounds of adjustments, to get ...

  6. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...interested in studying genes whose knockout would be lethal to cells and thus not assayable with CRISPR. Another...could culture cells in the drug of interest at a lethal dose for non-manipulated cells and then assay cells...

  7. A Deep Dive into BioBuilder

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...engineering designs and ideas ranged from a biological breathalyzer to pesticide breakdown, production of fire-resistant...of students and teachers. It’s possible to join a half-day workshop for teachers, to schedule a three-day...

  8. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses challenging. This cytotoxicity also causes growth rate variability...):337-47. PubMed PMID: 12595892. 4. Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Zhang F. Improved vectors and genome-wide libraries...

  10. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    Blog Post
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    June 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the power 2-fold does not reduce photobleaching by half. How exactly the photobleaching rate depends on ...described by the t½, which is the time after which half of the initial fluorescence intensity remains. The...

  11. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    Blog Post
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    April 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...2015; Koike-Yusa et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2015; Shalem et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2014), knock down (Gilbert... 26190106. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4559080. 8. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout...

  12. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 6, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...that can impact reproduction include embryonic lethality, a short lifespan, or infertility and can arise... number or expression level effects.  Another challenge that may arise when crossing mice with multiple...

  13. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    Blog Post
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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ... tool by splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein ...With the split system, only cells that have both halves of cGAL can drive expression of your gene of interest...

  15. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...synaptic connections and physiology is particularly challenging as they are great in number, generally very small...H2B-FT-red is long lasting and was shown to have a half life of 84 hours in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts...

  16. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    Blog Post
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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...research project. In total, the interviews lasted from half to all of the day.  This whole process may seem ...carefully. And even if you don’t have technical challenges, your interviewers might.  You’ll probably still...

  19. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m.
    ...particularly hard. There are millions of them. The real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment...topic or that were published by the lab down the hall.  Scientific journals: They publish papers, so naturally...
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