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  1. How to Write a Scientific Review Article

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    Feb. 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... all the proteins in the class that showed the relative sizes and the conserved domains. This information... maybe you’re researching a topic for which no relevant or recent review exists. Once you pick a topic...format also has the benefit of exposing you to relevant researchers in the field. Finally, you can sound...from start to finish. Find the information that’s relevant to you, note it, and move on. At the beginning...
  2. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and uncertainty in estimating parameters from relatively sparse data from China. An important additional...particular scientific subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426...
  3. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...molecular mechanism, I was careful to keep it relatively simple. I honed the complexity of the talk by...rather “let’s see how we can make this fun activity relate to STEM.” Figure 1 shows the activities we had ...
  4. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ... other Cas effectors can’t, while maintaining relatively high efficiency. These alterations are achieved...inversions and large deletions. Many of these methods rely on Cas9 or a derivative of Cas9, but the ever-expanding...
  5. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    .... Time Viral production in mammalian cells is relatively quick. After transfection, HEK-293T cells start... cells, and its lifecycle ends in cell lysis, releasing the virus to the supernatant. The virus will reach...
  6. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... some people still use amp? Carb is expensive (relative to amp), and for some applications, the benefit...their mode of action and have a very similar relationship as amp and carb (they are interchangeable). ...low rate, there is evidence that zeocin is never entirely detoxified, even when Sh ble is expressed (Trastoy...
  7. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    Blog Post
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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... deliver a large amount of DNA (~8 kb) with a relatively low immune response, it should come as no surprise... co-transfection of these plasmids, 293T cells released transgene-containing lentiviral particles into...
  8. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...and purification An affinity tag, generally a relatively small sequence of amino acids, is basically a... 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...western blots, IP, co-IP, IF, flow -cytometry, but rarely used for purification as elution requires low pH...  0.8 Affinity and Purification Very small size, rarely affects function S-tag KETAAAKFERQHMDS  1.8 Solubility...
  9. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...plasmid is packaged for viral delivery, or the relative expression levels between two or more genes is...the same mRNA. The term "self-cleaving" is not entirely accurate, as these peptides are thought to function... plasmids listed in the table above (and their related plasmids) are designed to have one or more of the...fluorescent reporter for easy detection.5  Just released: Addgene's Plasmids 101 eBook And now for some...
  11. 3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells

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    Sept. 5, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ...In mammalian cells such as stem cells, HDR is relatively rare and DSBs are predominantly repaired by NHEJ... or guide RNA blocking mutations? This depends entirely on the locus you are editing, and if the blocking...experiments with blocking mutations, we still weren’t entirely happy with our editing outcomes and in many cases...mutation were on the same oligo, the intended mutation rarely got in. It seemed that the cell was only using ...characterize this phenomenon and found a general relationship between the distance of a mutation from the ...(and let them cut close).   Figure 2: Relationship between cut site to mutation distance and editing...mutations When thinking further about the distance relationship described above, we realized that, in addition...
  12. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    Oct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...research on these institutions, we can say with relative certainty that just over 40% of current postdocs...Future of Research, we think this is a good thing. Reliance on a cheap trainee workforce has clearly not been... do so on their own terms. They must feel very relieved not to be going through the urgent scramble of...
  13. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    May 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...that’s only good once. Even when things return to relative normalcy, I’ll be incorporating that mobile monitor... live on set, but peering at a 7-inch wireless monitor. Wireless video technology has gotten very impressive...Besides the muffled voices beneath masks, humans rely on mouths to help them hear and read emotional cues... video: So first things first was getting that wireless HDMI transmitter/receiver, to beam the camera’...could work with that.  Focus: Next up, I found a wireless follow focus system. Follow focus systems allow...Monitor: I then set up a monitor connected to the wireless transmitter and an iPad in the office next door...Figure 4: The remote directing setup, complete with wireless video receiver, camera control, and extra hand...
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