...decided to pack it in. I had just started month 8 of my 3 year Post-Doctoral contract at the University of Cambridge...this job specifically looked for a researcher with 3 years+ of cancer research experience, a PhD or a Master...for Dummies”. The fastest way to learn something about marketing would be to start reading a broad simple...introduction to the financial world. It teaches you about selling products which is an important part of the...Seán on twitter @Macfhearraigh.    Read more posts about Scientific Career Development ...

...Escherichia coli and Agrobacterium tumefaciens. 3 Biotech, 13(3), 91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-023-03507...plasmid RK2. Molecular & General Genetics: MGG, 152(3), 129–135. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268809  Prior...plasmids may have high copy numbers and reduced metabolic load (Meyer 2009). Figure 1: Idealized ...

...at the 5′ or 3′ end of the sgRNA (i.e. TOP1 or TOP2 constructs; see Supplementary Note 3 in the article...Polstein LR & Gersbach CA, Nat Chem Biol 2015 Mar;11(3):198-200. SunTag system for single molecule imaging...protein (NLS-PCP-GFP) a RFP protein that binds to the 3’ UTR of the reporter mRNA via an MS2 coat protein ..., (2) tamoxifen-inducible CreERT2 gene deletion, (3) simultaneous expression of cDNAs and shRNAs with ...8 constitutive promoters, 2 includible promoters, 3 polyA terminators and various pieces for inducible... 2012, Adam Cohen's lab presented Archaerhodopsin 3 (Arch) as a new rhodopsin based voltage indicator ...shorten the half-life of both the luciferase mRNA (3’UTR AUUUA [5 consecutive]) and protein (C-terminal...

...without investing time and labour on reagent preparation in the lab. Figure 3: csRNP-assisted epitope tagging...-in for 96 different genes in a single go (Figure 3). We were able to tag >30 genes/plate in the first...we could tag >60 transcription factors in a short (3-week) time window; this was possible because reagents...PMID: 29638216. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5947990. 3. Jarvik JW, Telmer CA. 1998. Epitope tagging. Annu...ChIP-seq methods provide a wealth of information about how protein networks work in cells. A major bottleneck...two-part cr/tracrRNAs for CRISPR experiments (in collaboration with Integrated DNA Technologies, USA). These...first crRNA we designed for ~250 genes, we have had about 30% tagging success, although many of these genes...

...to supply it with another plasmid.   Figure 3: Comparison of Multiplex Strategies including Standard...For example, if you were to develop an array using 3 distinct spacer-repeats, you could easily create 7...a subsequent curing protocol that requires only 2-3 hours incubation. Kondo Lab multiplexed base editing...PMC4231726. Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 3. Sakuma, Tetsushi, et al. “Multiplex genome engineering...multiplexing options, but also check out our blog post about multiplexing with Cpf1.   Figure 1: Multiplexing...assembly.  Unlike some of the plasmids described above, this vector does not contain Cas9, so you’ll need...similar to the Csy4 polycistronic system described above, except that they use an endogenous nuclease system...

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...some impressive videos of these interactions (Ref 3). You can find useful tips on in vivo imaging in our...Research 9.12 (2016): 895-905. PubMed PMID: 27913448. 3. Cai, En, et al. "Visualizing dynamic microvillar ...Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity and learn more about “... recent findings in basic immunology, cancer-immune...curing cancer in cross-disciplinary projects and collaborations. Summarized by Professor Michael Karin from...This was followed by a talk from Professor Karin about alcohol and obesity as driving factors for chronic...got a chance to talk with Dr. Friedmann-Morvinski about tools used to analyse the tumor microenvironment...community, contact [email protected] to find out more about our free deposit and distribution service! References...

...-lantern emitted yellow-green light and exhibited 3-5 fold increased brightness over previous BRET probes... single-cell and whole-body imaging.” Nat Commun. 3 (2012): 1262. PMID: 23232392 PMCID: PMC3535334 Find...Since their first publication in 2012, the Nagai laboratory has assembled a collection of multicolored nano-lanterns...Nano-lanterns, Takai et al. continuously imaged cells for about 4 hours! The latest enhanced Nano-lanterns (eNL)... Nano-lanterns and your experiments The Nagai laboratory has a done a wonderful job characterizing Nano-lanterns...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn about Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins Check Out ...

...chloro-3-indolyl-β-D-galacto-pyranoside) into galactose and an insoluble blue pigment (4-chloro-3-brom-...antibiotic selection here at Plasmids 101, we can talk about an even more specific method of screening your cloning... plasmid is a great start when cloning, but how about being able to choose those that contain plasmid ... a widely used method to do just that! (To read about other screening strategies, check out our screening... called α-complementation. The system described above was put to practical use in the following way. Scientists...

...abundant incorporation of cysteine in their proteomes (3). This led to the eventual discovery of a naturally...which can be specifically recognized by the Sep-tRNA. 3. An expression plasmid encoding the ORF to be expressed...PMID: 25514926. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4383998. 3. Li, Tong, et al. "Cysteinyl‐tRNA formation: the last... one of the MEK1 phosphomimetic residues in the above study with phosphoserine (to create a pSer/phosphomimetic...non-phospho species on PhosTag gels as described above. Reagents and protocols Sep-OTSλ plasmid - Addgene...interested in the intersection of cell signaling, metabolism, and the mighty mitochondrion. You can follow...Blog Verify Your Constructs with Colony PCR Read about Tags for Protein Purification Resources on Addgene.org...

...tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes of that tumor. In Figure 3 you can see how I gated out my lymphocyte population...look for them on the FSC-A/SSC-A plot. Figure 3: (A) With the acquisition voltage (not shown) used...gates while some like to make looser ones (Figure 3). A more “liberal” gate in the beginning should not...lymphocytes in a mouse tumor sample You made it! So much about the theoretical background. Let’s dive into the ...often choose a looser gate here. I am not worried about including irrelevant events in my analysis, as these...population, acquired from the previous gating pipeline, about 53% of my cells are dendritic cells and ~13% are...ve covered in this blog post. First, you learned about the types of scattering that occur when a cell is...

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...Figure 3 shows a histogram for a yes-no dot plot, like the one shown in Figure 1.  Figure 3: An example...interest. Created with biorender.com. The plot above is for a smeary expression and is quite different.... Additionally, you can gate off the histograms above, allowing you to visualize your data as a dot plot...

...the core of a Shine-Delgarno sequence found at the 3’ end of the leader sequence. Using a variety of GFP...create custom RNA binding proteins in as little as 3 days. Abil et al., 2014 show that you can fuse custom...customized sequence specificities." Nature communications 3 (2012): 1147. Cooke, Amy, et al. "Targeted translational...PUF Assembly Kit Below you’ll find information about what these kits contain, how they can be used, and...encoded sensors enable real-time observation of metabolite production." Proceedings of the National Academy...

...resulted in a roughly 6-fold increase in expression [3, Figure 2]. Note how expression increases exponentially...PMID: 18500252. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2574934. 3. Zingg, Brian, et al. "AAV-mediated anterograde transsynaptic...diluting - if you end up concentrating your AAV above your desired titer and want to dilute it, err on...

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...Knife, Genesis 34, 1–15 (2002).PubMed PMID: 12324939. 3. S. E. McGuire, G. Roman, R. L. Davis, Gene expression...Versatile Toolkit for Gene Expression in Drosophila, 3, 1–10 (2015). PubMed PMID: 21356876. 5. J. Chow, Z... use the Gal4/UAS system, and you can read more about them in review articles (2–4). You can also take...