...groups of trainees at an earlier point in their careers? A CURE for Biochemistry Undergraduate biochemistry... then proceed to use those skills to design and carry out their own novel experiments in semester two ...as they increase student interest in scientific career paths while also broadening access to experiences...

... settles in and people get the time recurrently carved out. This notice typically should include the paper...suited for different applications and should be carefully chosen for each group and topic. For example, ...purpose, journal clubs should be well planned and carefully organized. Most importantly, they should be regularly...

...bacterial CRISPR targeting. Phage-derived vectors carry CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) targeting either genomic (blue... integrating into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance...hardest-to-kill bacteria. In using phage-derived vectors to carry CRISPR, we’re turning the tables on the bacteria...

...micro, and cell biology are often more suited for cartoons or graphics for visuals. However, it’s much more...need text to properly contextualize. Graphics/cartoons (no words) Low Visually compelling and flexible...requires both artistic and scientific training. Cartoons may be read as “for children” or may need text...

...high-throughput application is much more straightforward to carry out because it relies on a single BiFC pair. Find...Experiment Much like FRET, BiFC experiments must be carefully optimized to be successful. A BiFC experiment ...construction Fusing FP fragments to your PIPs requires careful selection of FP fragments and, preferably, some...

...Cultures should only be passaged 20-30 times before discarding and thawing a fresh vial. In many labs, the history...Routinely test your cell line for mycoplasma and discard it if the culture has become overly confluent or...ensure high quality and reproducible results always care for your cell lines and virus properly and be consistent...

...generating interesting drug-like compounds especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease....disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird ...system (Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo)  delivers Cas9 RNP to the arthropod germline by...

... a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying on so called “housekeeping proteins.” Fully...approach is so common that we’ve used it for our cartoon gels so far. However, it throws both assumptions...Convenient! Comparison of loading control approaches Cartoons are nice and all, but we’ll leave you with this...

...in vitro translation system. The gene set was carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking...conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein Expression... 48 plasmid adapter library, with each plasmid carrying a unique barcoded Illumina-M13F bridging primer...

...’s which allow researchers to deliver oversized cargo (Hirsch et al., 2010). Today’s blog post will give... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064  Carvalho LS, Turunen HT, Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao...transduction following recombination between AAV vectors carrying parts of a larger gene. Nat Biotechnol 20:697–...

...Puschnik, A. S., Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette, J. E., & Vandenberghe, L. H. (2018). An Alternate... B., Fong, D. M., Mouravlev, A., Young, D., & O’Carroll, S. J. (2019). Astrocyte-selective AAV gene therapy....2014.00076 Nieuwenhuis, B., Haenzi, B., Hilton, S., Carnicer-Lombarte, A., Hobo, B., Verhaagen, J., & Fawcett...

...al., 2009), and at high copy numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to...0092-8674(84)90060-6. PMID: 6323019. Williams JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design... JA, Luke J, Langtry S, Anderson S, Hodgson CP, Carnes AE. Generic plasmid DNA production platform incorporating...

...health sector, phages represent a reservoir of carbohydrate binding proteins waiting to be explored and ...spot this protein directly onto nitrocellulose and carry out the steps from blocking the membrane to probing...bacteriophage-encoded glycan binding proteins and carbohydrates." Current opinion in structural biology 34 (...

...latter would likely be more effective, so long as care is taken in the interpretation of results by requiring...use of CRISPR technology will always depend on careful experimental design, execution, and analysis. ... P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids ...

...lesser than the mean of a control group. If you only care if one group is different in a certain direction...rate by only performing the comparisons you really care about. Family-wise error is the probability of a...Groups with Ordinal Dependent Variables: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. Volume...

...population (Burger, C. 2004, Aschauer, DF. 2013, O’Carroll, SJ. 2021). This is due to differences in the ...Pillay S, Puschnik AS, Nagamine CM, Cheng F, Qiu J, Carette JE, Vandenberghe LH (2018) An Alternate Route for... 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00006 O’Carroll SJ, Cook WH, Young D (2021) AAV Targeting of Glial...

... compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must be taken to assess if proper staining is achieved... such as conjugation with proteins, should be carefully managed. Proper dye-to-protein ratios, or the ... and quenching, which can be mitigated through careful selection and optimization. Fluorescent experiment...

... interpreting your data therefore necessitates careful design of RNAi sequences, confirmation of RNA knockdown...doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48363 Uhlen, M., Bandrowski, A., Carr, S., Edwards, A., Ellenberg, J., Lundberg, E., Rimm...., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, J., Amrani, Y., Duffy, S. M., Bradding, P., &...

...Vectors Available at Addgene: Lab Plasmids Dan Carlson RCIscript-GoldyTALEN, pC-GoldyTALEN Tom Ellis...target cells. The piggybac system has a much larger cargo capacity than lentivirus and is capable of efficiently...there are some drawbacks with this technique. Great care needs to be taken with common S288c strains since...apicomplexan genes remain uncharacterized. Recent studies carried out by Sebastian Lourido and colleagues constitute...

...Listen to Our Segment on mCyRFP1 Hot Plasmid 4: mScarlet - a new, bright, and monmeric red fluorescent ...fluorescent protein.  Listen to Our Segment on mScarlet Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page...

...Codon Guide to Synthetic BiologyAuthor: Niko McCartyAntibodies 101: Conventional vs. Flow Spectrometry Author...Faculty Position Author: Erik Lee SnappSharing is Caring, But How to Distribute Open Hardware? Author: Benedict...

...resources whenever possible.  Image credit: Niko McCarty; adapted from Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, ...reach out to me by email.  About the author Niko McCarty is the editor of Asimov Press and is designing ...

...Chew! Podcast breakdown Intro: Wei Leong Chew's career path and why he chose to go into genome engineering...Chapter 7/Outro: Advice for researchers pursuing careers in academia. Many thanks to our guest, Wei Leong...

...Amsterdam Chapter 2 - Joachim’s Academic and career goals. Career advice for people going into academia: follow...

...about how to navigate through all stages of your career, whether you’re a graduate student, post-doctoral...   Caroline LaManna...

...re selected as a winner, you’ll receive a winter care package from Addgene.  Here are the details:   ...  Caroline LaManna...

... advantage of the customizability, choosing the cargo, serotype, and prep size they need for their experiments...Jordane Dimidschstein New serotype pAAV_hSyn-PdCO-mScarlet-WPRE AAV1 Optogenetics Ofer Yizhar New viral ...

...service with multiple serotypes pAAV_EF1a-DIO-PdCO-mScarlet-ER-miniWPRE AAV1, AAV5 Optogenetics Yizhar New...with multiple serotypes pAAV-CaMKIIa(0.4)-eOPN3-mScarlet-WPRE AAV1, AAV5 Optogenetics Yizhar New viral ...

...sciencedaily #instascience #ladies #research #cardiovascularresearch #parkinsonsdisease A post shared by Ladies...competition. The four winners will receive a holiday care package from Addgene. We hope all of our entrants...

...significant barriers to scientific discovery and career development. They are working with limited resources...with donors to supply surplus lab equipment to carefully-screened research and teaching departments at ...