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...et al. "The intestinal stem cell markers Bmi1 and Lgr5 identify two functionally distinct populations....Stochastic multicolor labeling is a popular technique in neuroscience and developmental biology. This... persistently fluorescent during development. Stochastic multicolor labeling systems, many based on Brainbow...for improving the level of detail possible for stochastic multicolor labeling of the brain. Labeling Drosophila... Cre recombinase can be used alongside common, existing tools for fly research that use Flp recombination... to describe the self-renewal of cells in the intestinal crypt, and since then has become a powerful tool... researchers who developed Tetbow. Conclusion Stochastic multicolor cell labeling systems allow single...

...Harvard Business Review article on procrastination recommends testing out how much time you can possibly...conceptual chunks: prioritization, planning, and procrastination. Time management through prioritiziation Every...option. Even if the full experiment fails, you’ll still have made small accomplishments each day that should...Eric before doing anything else. Preventing procrastination Even if you’ve done all the prioritizing and...and planning in the world, procrastination can easily prevent you from making progress on a task. For ...few things I’ve found useful to avoid such procrastination: Remove distractions: Probably the easiest...book, “Bored and Brilliant” for learning more fantastic reasons to remove yourself from distractions every...

...listeners to ask questions and record those that were asked. Reflect on the questions and come up with...Google.slides or Powerpoint file right now to capture interesting key results, striking images, creative ideas,... write itself when the time comes. 5. Choose interesting content Talk about something you know a lot about...commercialized, just talking about the possibility is interesting. Check out Joanne's Reddit AMA 6. Practice, practice...everybody loves a great animation. 8. Predict questions, prepare answers Speaking pros always have a few...always better than too long, and ensures time for questions. Don’t be tempted to cover too many things. One...this enough…more is almost never better. 10. Be enthusiastic You don’t have to emote beyond your comfort ...

... to the products of parental plasmid digestion (blue). Digestion with enzyme “B” detects primer multimerization.... Many thanks to our Guest Blogger Kristian Laursen! Kristian Laursen is a researcher at Cornell University...This post was contributed by guest blogger, Kristian Laursen from Cornell University. Site directed mutagenesis...can be used to introduce specific nucleotide substitutions (or deletions) in a tailored manner. The approach...perform alanine scanning mutagenesis or targeted substitution of key residues), and in SNP analysis (to introduce..., the template is removed by DpnI restriction digestion leaving behind only the mutagenized plasmid. Although... bases at the 3’-end interfere with plasmid reconstitution, and consequently Taq polymerases cannot be...

... µL size serotype testing) pAAV-CAG-GFP 50465 AAV8, 9 (20 µL size serotype testing) AAV-hSyn-EGFP ...size serotype testing) pAAV-CAG-GFP 50465 AAV1, 2, 5, rg (20 µL size serotype testing) pAAV-hSyn-EGFP...Our new AAVs include: Control AAVs for serotype testing jGCaMP7c for calcium detection PSAM4 GlyR for chemogenetic...control AAV that scientists can use for serotype testing. These samples are available in various serotypes...encoding GFP. Check out our inventory of serotype testing AAV New control AAVs Plasmid Serotype Name ...This variant exhibits high contrast between its resting state and its calcium-bound state, which was achieved...next 6 months, pending quality control. For an estimate on availability date or to be notified when a ...

...Associate Director of the Cancer Program at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. The notion of cancer precision... many tricks up their sleeves and most patients still don’t benefit from this approach. One central bottleneck...We've developed a new plasmid toolkit, the Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection, that we...have been two huge challenges preventing us from testing this hypothesis: There was no large scale, broadly...cellular pathways). It wasn’t clear whether gene-agnostic bioassays could accurately test for molecular ...variant function and cancer phenotypes. Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collections To overcome...this first challenge, we’ve developed the Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collections, now widely...

...David Root from the Broad Institute and Alex Chavez from the Wyss Institute were instrumental in helping...School, and Jonathan Ting’s lab from the Allen Institute have supported the AAV initiative from the beginning...at Addgene. Our Board helps keep our focus on assisting scientists and accelerating research and discovery...Team has been developing expertise in answering questions on virus and helping provide educational resources...word out about this new resource and providing fantastically useful educational content on viral vectors....internationally and be ready to provide extensive logistics support for export and shipping on dry ice. The...permission from relevant plasmid depositors and their institutions to distribute viral preps derived from plasmids...

...lead to cystic fibrosis, one of the most prevalent inherited diseases. The authors investigated the role...One common strategy is protein overexpression — boosting levels so interactions aren't missed. But this...knock-ins maintain the native protein context, but they still depend on antibody-based detection or western blotting...binding to its complementary partner LgBiT, reconstitutes a fully functional luciferase enzyme (Figure...HiBiT provides a means to quickly answer research questions before creating knock-ins.  Figure 1: ...these variants of p53 shape chemosensitivity and mechanistic drug responses (Kamio et al., 2025). They designed... to characterize the proteasomal degradation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulators (...

...on-target specificity. Design and testing of SpCas9-HF1 Kleinstiver et al and the Joung Lab similarly ..., researchers from the Zhang lab at the Broad Institute, the Joung lab at Harvard Medical School, and ...activity of the Cas9 nuclease itself. Design and testing of eSpCas9 Looking at the structure of the Cas9... Slaymaker et al. made a variety of alanine substitutions throughout the groove in 32 separate Cas9 mutants...multiple genomic locations in HEK cells. Further testing of two of the mutants, SpCas9(K855A) and eSpCas9...interaction sbetween the non-target strand and Cas9, Kleinstiver et al disrupted interactions between Cas9 and...We hope one of you will be able to answer this question very soon! We look forward to seeing how the research...

...the first time, have lots of questions. To keep up with all these questions, Dr. Le Cong and Dr. Feng ...CRISPR technologies and their applications can be exhausting. A quick search for "CRISPR", short-hand for ...developed a Google Forum to allow scientists to ask questions and get answers on the fly. But just like the ..., to organize the CRISPR forum's most popular questions and answers. Designing your CRISPR genome editing...expression, though it is possible for the plasmid to still express without the G. Because the G is only one...the efficiency will be lower, although this might still be okay if you are introducing a selection marker...insert (gRNA) in pX330/pX335 with BbsI/AgeI double digestion. As a successful insertion will destroy the BbsI...

...list of Fragmid destination vectors currently available. Table 1: Fragmid destination vectors Organism...depicted. (Bottom) Schematic depicting available destination vectors for various delivery methods, along with... with compatible inserts. All destination vectors contain an ampicillin resistance cassette and an origin...components you want, simply assemble them into a destination vector via Golden Gate cloning, perform an exonuclease...sequence for every individual assembly. What destination vectors are available? What you’re building ...Organism Delivery Type Destination Vector Mammalian Lentivirus pRDA_512 (RSV-driven; lentiGuide-based...Mammalian Transposon pRDA_757 (Piggybac; constitutive expression) Mammalian Plasmid pRDA_791...

...students and postdocs broadly – and thus PI’s and institutions in turn. The first is the passing and upcoming...the NIH recommended pay scale – used by many institutions to set postdoc wages. The second event of note...students will pursue this newly available avenue. Interestingly, both of these changes share a common thread...simply being able to categorize all postdocs at institutions, will be challenging. At the same time, there...level, FoR is currently compiling a database of institutional responses to the FLSA ruling. Similarly, from...move in the right direction, the increase notably still does not meet the suggested postdoc salary ($50,...advocating for change: from developing a strategy to distilling a message for the appropriate audience and communicating...

...types of difficult people: Hostile-aggressives, who are usually antagonistic and impolite, Complainers...work with difficult people? Each time I ask this question at my workshops, I get nods from nearly every ...unresponsive clams, who seem to ignore you and your questions, Super-agreeable friendly types, who don’t follow...have time to mentor you, and Micromanagers, who question every detail of your project and work hours. ...example, you might misunderstand your supervisor’s suggestions and take your project in the wrong direction....chance to review what you have discussed and add suggestions if needed. 7) Always follow through on your end...is a difficult person, the above strategies will still be helpful but you will need to be more assertive...

...cells. These properties make lentiviral vectors fantastic options for delivering shRNA, CRISPR/Cas9 components...membrane pores) transfection. These techniques are still used and efficiently transfer plasmid DNA efficiently...way to re-create a functional virus. Indeed, by testing several vectors and packaging cell line combinations...vector. Lentiviral vectors Although retroviruses are still in use, considerable efforts have been devoted to...However, in this vector production system, there is still a potential risk for the generation of replication...however improving the safety of these vectors is still an active area of research due to the possibility...Replication-incompetent lentiviruses with human tropism can still infect the researcher and insert into her/his genome...

...KRAS mutations: diagnostic and clinical implications." The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics 12.4 (2010): ...Hendel et al. 2015). Low detection rates mean the investigator can be relatively certain that their samples...off-target mutations are essential data points for investigators looking to definitively link genotype and phenotype...algorithms, their genome-wide search criteria are not exhaustive. Mismatch tolerance settings are often limited...larger mismatches (e.g. six nucleotides) that may still lead to off-target double-stranded breaks (Tsai ...Programmable, can detect DSBs in live cells Not as senstive as other unbiased methods, high background BLESS... multiplexing) Requires large cell population, senstive to time since cell fixing HTGTS Not reported...

...your poster visitors had a great idea or interesting questions worth discussing with your lab. If you made...conference Take notes during talks. If you have questions during the talk, jot them down for the Q&A immediately... went to, I made it a personal goal to ask one question each day (this may be more or less difficult depending...speaker from the conference if you have additional questions. If you or your lab identifies a potential collaborator... want to look through themselves and then ask questions. Practice your presentation for both instances...and say something like “Let me know if you have questions or if you want me to walk you through the poster...a notebook handy so you can jot down notes or questions from your poster viewers and trade contact information...

...healthy and diseased states can also provide interesting insights into disease mechanisms and protein ...interest from its production site to its final destination. As an example, most secreted proteins are produced...pathway to their subcellular or extracellular destination. At the end of their life cycle, proteins may...plasmid collection from Sue Jaspersen (Stowers Institute) and Mark Prescott (Monash University). You can...subcellular structure of interest in the Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection. You can also...analysis software produces quantifiable results and statistics that can be used to compare between different...direct molecular interaction without further investigation. One fluorescent microscopy method commonly ...

...can answer some of the surprisingly technical questions elementary students can ask. It doesn’t just need...some accountants running our math tables!  Be realistic about what you can teach  5-10 year olds in a ...some crowdsourcing on Twitter and got lots of suggestions. Here are just a few resources: Steam Powered...for 8th graders was a little intimidating. Too simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated...  The overarching guideline for all of these questions, and for any topic you might present to middle...talking to 8th graders was the broad range of questions I received. I gave my presentation five times ... it, and trying to answer some of their great questions, was immensely gratifying. I came out of the experience...

...Planning Tips! 1. Take suggestions Some of Addgene’s best events have been at the suggestion of an employee,...imagine, it keeps all of us quite busy. Though there still isn't time for goofing off, the company culture ...Candidates who interview at Addgene frequently ask the question, “What’s your favorite part about working at Addgene... Addgene?” Most Addgenies reply with an enthusiastic, “Our company culture! Addgene is the best place ...animation, but the gist is a common answer to this question.  We truly work in a unique environment where,... familial aspect of Addgene. As our size has drastically increased, it would have been a tight squeeze... it was just beginner’s luck, but I’m feeling optimistic for the next tournament). Minus a little rain...

...no surprise that the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics shows that employment of grant writers is expected...professional. Dr. Cook served as a principal investigator for several research grants. One of the benefits...benefits of being a principal investigator is that you are asked to review grant proposals from others. ...career in the grants profession: 1. Build on your existing skills & passion  Skills such as research, collaboration... development experience and to build upon your existing skills.  2. Find your niche Identify and develop...career goals, identify your niche, and answer questions when you’re negotiating a new job or a new contract...credential from the Grant Professional Certification Institute (GPCI). GPCI evaluates a candidate's expertise...