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  1. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Product Development

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    Oct. 18, 2017, 1 p.m.
    ... at eScience Labs, an educational company that creates hands-on science lab kits and digital curricula...writing is clear, Caitlin’s career plans weren’t concrete when she finished grad school at the University...their research from the bench to the classroom by creating the outline of a college level course based on...
  2. An Addgene Co-op: The Intersection of Fun, Friendship, and Work

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    June 29, 2023, 7 p.m.
    ...within content and business.  Joining the Addgene crew!  This pattern was consistent: everyone I spoke ...One of the bigger projects I was tasked with was creating and sustaining a biweekly report of our social...coworkers and that trust then translated into this incredible experience.  Of course, I wasn’t presenting to... research on loads of different best practices, create an email strategy, and make the occasional TikTok...
  3. The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors

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    Nov. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... to honor the creativity, passion, and dedication to sharing epitomized by the creators of these plasmids...distribute our plasmids via Addgene. Given the increasing popularity of CRISPR in the plant community, ... to send these small tokens of thanks for the incredible impact our depositors have had on Addgene and...
  4. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    June 30, 2015, 2 p.m.
    ... then degraded by the cell.4.) The transposase creates a double strand break in the DNA and allows the...transposase gains its name from the fact that it was recreated from a defective transposase found in fish. This...transposases. Improvements have been made since then by increasing the consensus between a greater number of extinct...primary cells. In 2009, Zsuzsanna Izsvak’s lab screened many SB tranposase variants for hyperactivity ...
  5. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    Dec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
    ...and Benjamin Glick from SnapGene. SnapGene was created to meet a need. While there were software tools...the DNA molecules they were using. SnapGene was created to alleviate these problems through good software...control elements. Development of this tool required creating a database of common features, and devising rules...the beginning or end of the feature. With the increasing popularity of gene synthesis, many researchers...
  6. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    .... “They took a dividing yeast and did a genetic screen to identify the factors that regulate cell division...Leuven in Belgium. “That’s where I not only got incredibly compelled by wet bench molecular research, but... over the years. “Some of the walls we’ve built create inefficiencies that ultimately make innovation ...science slow,” Vandenberghe says. “The continuous creativity that Addgene takes to find ways to disrupt these...
  7. Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series!

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    June 9, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...who are also students in AP biology classes Creating a podcast about genetics using dog breeds as an...structure, and intent to the messaging - while also creating space for people outside of the primary audience...your team?)  Defining your audience allows you to create common ground and understanding that you can use...Image courtesy of Ron Mader, via Flickr, under the Creative Commons license     ...
  8. Antibody Neutralization Response Against Pseudoviruses Expressing SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variants

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    June 22, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of several SARS-CoV-2 variants coincide with increased vaccination efforts. So, how effective are the...Neutralization levels against spike pseudovirus decreases depending on the variant. The lowest levels of... assay to study SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. “We created a series of spike expressing plasmids which encode...different circulating variants. This allowed us to create pseudoviruses that represent lineages and variants...
  9. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    Nov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...reminds us that, although fluorescent proteins are incredibly useful, chemical fluorophores can still be used...Dangerous Viruses Contributed by guest blogger Tessa Cressy from the labs of Dr. Elke Mühlberger and Dr. Rachel...CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening CombiGEM is a technology that can be used to quickly...barcode small libraries of CRISPR gRNAs to use for screening experiments. Get the full details on how to make...
  10. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...RspWYL1 increases both targeted and collateral RNA degradation by RspCas13d. RspWYL1 also increased EsCas13d...Cas13d, both groups used very general bioinformatic screens that looked for a CRISPR repeat array near a putative... WYL-domain-containing accessory protein WYL1 increases RspCas13d and EsCas13d cleavage activity The majority...
  11. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    May 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sequencing by NGS. Addgene’s QC scientists immediately screen these plasmids to confirm they contain the expected...of plates will have select samples prepared and screened by NGS to spot check the samples, the rest will...are requested by scientists, will immediately be screened by our QC scientists to confirm the plasmids contain...By leveraging our core strengths of intensive screening and the use of high throughput platforms, Addgene...
  12. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    Feb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...product and development teams have worked hard in increasing and improving accessibility on our website.  ... In fact, one of our team goals in 2023 was to increase accessibility to our website through the use of...describe images in online spaces. Alt text is used by screen readers to provide visually impaired visitors with...ultracentrifugation. The viral supernatant migrates through increasingly dense layers until the macromolecule density...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    April 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... preserving cell viability. Library delivery Screening libraries, large collections of biological independent...independent variables, are becoming increasingly popular tools with many applications. These libraries ...library cargo delivered are controllable. For many screening applications, it is essential to deliver a single...being explored as the delivery mechanism for increasingly popular nucleic acid-based vaccines. These vectors...
  14. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    June 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
    ...application of an electrical charge to cells, to increase cell membrane permeability and thus transformation...DNA can be accidentally packaged into the newly created phages. Transfer of this DNA to another cell is...Viruses (AAV). Lentiviral and AAV can be used to create both transient cell lines, where a gene of interest...Electroporation on the other hand uses electrical pulses to create transient pores in the cell membrane that genetic...
  15. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    June 29, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...of Producing Monoclonal Antibodies, 1999). This creates an immortal cell population that will continue ...hybridomas for monoclonal antibody production. Image created with BioRender.com.   The antibody-producing... the genes from the hybridoma into a plasmid to create a recombinant antibody.     Figure 2: Changes...Generation of Hybridomas: Permanent Cell Lines Secreting Monoclonal Antibodies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...
  16. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Welcome to our deep dive series, which aims to increase your understanding and technical proficiency with...temperature drops, single intensity should smoothly increase as the DNA amplicon transitions from single-stranded...finally, drop once more during a final temperature increase. If there is a single amplicon, there should only...c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits (respectively): Zuzanna K. Filutowska; Selma, 2019...can fit in a quick game of Connect Four! Image created in BioRender.   Passive Reference Dyes Whatever...
  17. Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics

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    Nov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...ions flow into the neuron and causes it to fire. Created with BioRender.com. To make channelrhodopsin-based...information about parental channelrhodopsins to create recombinant channelrhodopsin sequences. The model...fiber-optic cable allows blue light to reach the brain. Created with BioRender.com. In the first experiment...neurons in the VTA, this should propel the mice to increase their nose-poking behavior. Strong nose-poking...
  18. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...it, it just reflects how useful the reagents we created are for the community. More than 100 labs worldwide...need for high-quality service, open data, and increased reproducibility of materials. In March 2022, we... supported by an NIH BRAIN Initiative. We also created a growing library of antibody educational resources...York, Calico Life Sciences. Most of all, we’re incredibly thankful for all the scientists who have joined...
  19. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    April 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m.
    ...Voigt: The big promise is orthogonality. You can create an almost limitless number of DNA binding proteins...fundamental. We built a NOR gate because they are used to create any program you can imagine. The Apollo 11 mission...so that genetic designs of that scale could be created. Someone could take on an engineering project including...enough hardware to control hundreds of genes. We’ve created enough regulatory elements, CRISPRs, repressors...
  20. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    Sept. 27, 2017, 1:23 p.m.
    ...of Science Writers How to create a successful science blog  5) Get creative – Bring your knacks into ... live sketches at conferences like @ATJCagan or create agar art with colorful microbes? Try your hand ...Science communication is my way of living out my creative side. My newest, exciting endeavor is starting...
  21. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...suspected a data-driven approach might allow for an increase in the complexity. In 2018, they published a paper...conditions available in DAD tools While DAD made an incredibly complex reaction possible, NEB also optimized...Additionally, this assembly, which used only antibiotic screening for selection, failed under normal cycling protocols...Ultimately, data-driven Golden Gate Assembly greatly increases the potential complexity allowable by a favored...
  22. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...observe the effects. Luckily for us, CRISPR is an incredibly versatile system that can be tweaked to target...pairs long. Using a single guide RNA (sgRNA) to create a double-strand break works well because very small...ncRNA locus (Ho et al. 2012). For large-scale screening, sgRNA libraries are useful for targeting thousands...092902 Liu Y, Cao Z, Wang Y, et al. Genome-wide screening for functional long noncoding RNAs in human cells...
  23. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...OpenWorm OpenWorm is an open source project that is creating the “first virtual organism in a computer.” This...and split cGAL systems The Sternberg lab in 2016 created cGAL, a GAL-4 based bipartite expression system...reagent toolkit and plasmid assembly line for the creation of CRISPR targeting vectors that each contains...2016). Using SapTrap, this CRISPR plasmid can be created in a single tube. You can also find additional ...
  24. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...demonstrated to result in decreased mismatch tolerance and, consequently, increased specificity relative to...more stringent targeting rules that result in a decrease in available target sites. Regulating gene expression...focused advancing scientific discovery through the creation of innovative technologies. To date his group ...
  25. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...methods. While techniques such as  blue-white screening require X-gal, an expensive exogenously-added ...chromoproteins don’t require other substrates for screening. Thus chromoproteins can be used as markers in... used the amilCP and tsPurple chromoproteins to create negative selection markers for allelic exchange...transfer (FLIM-FRET) in living cells (Figure 4). They created ShadowR by modifying the surface of the chromoprotein...
  26. PhD Applications After COVID

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    Jan. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... you and your goals. Making a List of Schools Creating a list of schools is one of the first steps in...submitting your application. I found this step to be incredibly useful, as it gives a more comprehensive idea...advisor’s research interests which can be helpful in creating your application to that program. An email to ...simply not feasible. Through the virtual systems created and promoted during COVID-19, online meetings with...
  27. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Hayward et al., 2024). The fluorescence intensity decreased whenever the magnet approached the sample (by ... and the team set up a directed evolution and screening experiment with three of the proteins that had...several rounds of semi-random mutagenesis and screening, the EGFP and mScarlet variants were showing no... suggest she deprioritize the project, Maria’s screens of AsLOV2 variants showed some significant gains...
  28. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... we performed high-throughput ‘self-targeting’ screens with oligo libraries where pegRNAs are coupled ...cell contexts. Figure 1: High-throughput screening of pegRNA efficiency and building prediction tools...sequence-based prediction models from self-targeting screens such as PRIDICT/PRIDICT2.0 provide valuable insights...your target. Figure 3: High-throughput screening of the effect of chromatin on prime editing efficiency...
  29. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    Aug. 29, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ... you typically would at a microbiology meeting. Create an outline: Write key bullet points for what you...while seated or with your poster on your computer screen than it is to pretend you’re standing at the session...off as a broken record, remember the outline you created for yourself. Hit the key bullet points and elaborate...will help you to provide an on-topic answer by creating time to organize your thoughts. It’s likely you...
  30. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...templates in somatic cells of adult animals in order to create animal models for particular cancer. That’s exactly...the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center did to create a model of Eml4–Alk-driven lung cancer (Maddalo... Addgene and could be useful to labs wishing to create this kind of animal models. Start using adenoviral...Circ Res 115:488–492 . https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.115.304351 Holkers M, Maggio I, Henriques SFD...
  31. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...Cas9 should be aware of the potential hazards of creating “gene drives” capable of spreading through wild...does making transgenic organisms with Cas9 risk creating a gene drive? The simplest way to make a gene ...appropriate flanking homology into a germline cell can create an RNA-guided gene drive. In principle, this event...Consequently, the best way to avoid accidentally creating a gene drive is also the easiest: don't use a ...
  32. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    Dec. 12, 2013, 3:35 p.m.
    ...White House as a Champion of Change, a program created as part of President Barack Obama's Winning the...DNA. We thought these were so much fun and so incredibly useful that we wanted to make them free to use... the invention of genetic engineering. What's incredible is the bioeconomy is already pretty substantial...product – equal to mining. There is an absolutely incredible hidden story here. The parts we are releasing...
  33. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...purpose of MXS chaining MXS-chaining was designed to create plasmids for fluorescence imaging or flow cytometry...cells. Four individual expression constructs were created, each containing a unique fluorescent protein with...) and the four constructs were then combined to create a single polycistronic 15 kb insert. The final ...construction of plasmids with many components. The creators of the MXS-chaining method have used the technique...
  34. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...teamwork, communication, writing, management, and creativity; I have developed these skills through school...not just “do the job”. When they ask about your creativity, your potential manager wants to hear a specific... job market, it is the transferable skills that create a full package and add an extra shine to your work...resolution Organization Leadership Problem Solving Creativity Data analysis Listening Negotiation Career Planning...
  35. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...new inflorescences begin to grow. This will also increase the number of inflorescences overall, which may...them again.  This won’t hurt them, and it will increase the chances of tDNA integration. Selecting Arabidopsis... seeds too densely during selection: this will increase background growth of non-transformants and make...Gateway Binary Vectors: High-Performance Vectors for Creation of Fusion Constructs in Transgenic Analysis of...
  36. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...assembly decreases as the cloning complexity increases. The efficiency of recombination is increased with ... minimize false positive colonies. We routinely screen just two colonies for simple cloning procedures...
  37. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ... bound by QCascade (Fig. 1B). The process also creates a 5-bp target-site duplication (TSD), a hallmark...Transform plasmid(s) into cells and plate overnight Screen colonies phenotypically or by PCR/sequencing ...doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1709035114 Rubin BE, Diamond S, Cress BF, Crits-Christoph A,  He C , Xu M, Zhou Z, Smock...science.abb2920 Vo PLH, Ronda C, Klompe SE, Chen EE, Acree C, Wang HH, Sternberg SH (2020) CRISPR RNA-guided...
  38. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ...more about this!). I’ve assembled a series of screenshots to highlight changes to both the design and functionality...NeuroMab Collection for details). The following screenshots show the range of different terms we can use ...the primary investigator where the plasmid was created can narrow your search results to exactly what ...experiment, and want to see if someone has already created and deposited it with Addgene. Combining search...
  39. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...written portion of the grant application. They have increased their demand for stronger budgets with clear budget..., the amount of grant funds available and the increasing regulatory process for grants has fostered the... your own Professional Development Strategy to increase your competencies and skills in the grants profession...Management and Evaluation and/or earning the GPC credential from the Grant Professional Certification Institute...
  40. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...other epitope tags – which when doubled or tripled increase the tag size quickly – modifying the length a ...tag is not enough. What if you need one tag to increase solubility and one tag for purification? Or you...don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification (TAP) once...protease itself, with various mutations used to increase its stability activity, can be readily purified...
  41. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    July 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m.
    ...inefficient, and often not reproducible. Prior to creating transgenic cultures or plants, our transient expression... expression method enables us to quickly screen and investigate transcription factor candidates and the...with the MoClo system you can easily and quickly create customized vectors. For more information on MoClo...transient leaf transformations are a great help in screening candidate genes and speeding up research. Certainly...
  42. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ... sequences Restriction sites Sequences prone to create secondary structures in RNA transcripts Effects...factors on their own. Luckily, many researchers have created codon optimization algorithms and DNA synthesis...abundance tRNAs in your expression host and thereby increase their abundance. For example, the commercial Rosetta...system for many different genes without having to create new constructs. However, due to problems such as...
  43. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...s clinical and commercial future, and yet are incredibly difficult to find solutions to. There are many...on them in a timely fashion while allowing for creative solutions to emerge. They enjoy the fact that ...home and at the office. Consulting firms are increasingly aware of the toll that long working hours and...career paths available to MDs and PhDs, and an increasing recognition of the value graduates bring to these...
  44. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ... table below lists plasmids that can be used to create your choice of fluorescent fusion protein with ...quenching and the fluorescence of the donor is increased. This method is straightforward and quantitative...days and good “gigs” ahead...No offense to BRET, CRET and other RET techniques which have never outclassed... BRET= Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer CRET= Chemiluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer    ...
  45. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...21–26). Increased scientific funding (17). Federal funding for science has been decreasing for the last... government and, consequently, politics. More concretely, scientists gather information about reality ...institutions, while many also seek to honor and credit women, immigrants, and minorities who have had ...
  46. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...most unique model organisms, recognized for its incredible regeneration abilities. The axolotl has the ability..., 2019). To study regeneration scientists have created molecular biology tools to generate transgenic ...Xenopus genes and a tool-kit from the Hamdoun Lab to create fluorescent fusions in a multitude of organisms...Xing, X.-H. (2018). Pooled CRISPR interference screening enables genome-scale functional genomics study...
  47. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... an organization gets, and creating new avenues of communication can create as many problems as it can...guidance X and Y might be able to work together to create solution C. And if a conflict resolver does their...have learned that by working together, they can create unique solutions that benefit themselves and their...
  48. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...complex can bind to your biotinylated antibody. This creates a large meshwork of biotin-avidin complexes bound...label a protein of interest with biotin by simply creating a fusion in which AviTag is added to either the...or polypeptides to a solid substrate (Holden and Cremer, 2003). References 1. Chapman-Smith, A., & Cronan...588–600. PubMed PMID: 2388593 7. Holden, M. A., & Cremer, P. S. “Light activated patterning of dye-labeled...
  49. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...phosphoserine (Sep)-tRNA synthetase enabled researchers to create an orthogonal translation system (OTS) for the ...residues in the above study with phosphoserine (to create a pSer/phosphomimetic dual mutant) elevated kinase... as an alternative to phosphomimetic mutation. Creating phosphoserine-incorporated proteins The generation... This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation mutant for a residue...
  50. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...differences. If you are performing CRISPR library screens, the same principle holds true - the higher the...lower the likelihood of an off-target artifact. Increasing the N in your experiment is the only way to effectively...effectively control for off-targets and significantly decrease the probability of artifacts. Off-target controls...Rabinowitz R, Offen D. Single-Base Resolution: Increasing the Specificity of the CRISPR-Cas System in Gene...
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