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  1. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
    ...He has recently developed a third-generation intensiometric glutamate sensing fluorescent reporter (iGluSnFR3...biosensors or biosensors that detect new redox metabolites are vital for researchers to better understand...withdrawal before they occur.  First, she used a genetic method to tag neurons activated by opioid withdrawal with... opioid withdrawal, providing insight into new methods for treating patients in recovery from opioid use...is in progress, she has validated the dual virus method to study CR neurons which are depicted here. (A...biosensors based on their dynamic properties. Her method takes a pooled library of mutant sensors expressed...engineer many types of biosensors.   This screening method allowed Tian to optimize a red‑shifted archaerhodopsin‑derived...

  2. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...Aveiro, Portugal. If cancer was a musician, then metastasize is touring. But you know what a touring musician...divided into 3 phases: initiation, progression, and metastasis. The microenvironment’s physiology is deeply ...the tumor. How do microenvironment enzymes and metabolic reprograming influence tumors development? Being... vice versa, let’s take a look at cancer cell metabolism. Cancer cells promote oxidative stress leading...altered fibroblasts and promote the development and metastasis of tumors through inciting inflammation. Speaking...of cells affect tumor progression, enzymes and metabolism reprogramming aren’t the whole story. It’s essential...Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis." Nature 527.7578 (2015): 329. PubMed PMID: 26524530...

  3. A Primer on Optogenetics: Introduction and Opsin Delivery

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    Sept. 10, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...of microbial opsins. Nature methods. 2012;9(2):159-72. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1808. PMID: 22179551; PMCID:...run it? And, most importantly, what are the methodological and experimental limitations and considerations...considerations you may not find in the materials and methods sections of optogenetics papers. Optogenetics...Delivering your opsin  The standard opsin delivery method is local injection of an adeno-associated viral...may need to adjust coordinates based on your own method of identifying bregma but it is best to spend the...stimulation. Testing opsin expression  Regardless of the method of expression of your opsin gene, it is essential...dissection of neural circuitry function. Nature methods. 2011;8(9):745-52. PMID: 21985008; PMCID: PMC3191888...

  4. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m.
    ...topic.  Meta Meta is a literature discovery platform developed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Meta is ...number of manuscripts that cite the background, methods, or results section is also displayed. Saving ...interest. You can also just follow feeds curated by Meta. Feeds automatically update as papers are published...number of times a paper is shared online, or its altmetric score, is also displayed in your feed. By clicking...whole.   Saving papers Papers are easily saved to a Meta library. The library will suggest additional papers...

  5. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    Aug. 9, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
    ...neuronal tracing methods Traditional tracing compounds either produce a colorimetric product or are fluorescent...technology, new methods have been developed to study neuronal connectivity. These methods are less neurotoxic...neuroscience methods such as electrophysiological recordings. The origins of these methods are naturally...inserted electrodes) may be applied, but these methods can have a negative impact on cellular health. ...versus Intradiaphragmatic Injection. J Neurosci Methods 241, 137–145. PubMed PMID: 25555356. PubMed Central...for single- and double-label studies. J Neurosci Methods 55, 65–78. PubMed PMID: 1381034. Watakabe, A., ...

  6. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...as the method is dependent on number of samples rather than number of cycles.  Choosing a method  As with...real-time PCR. J Microbiol Methods. 2006 Jun;65(3):476-87. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2005.09.007. Epub 2005 Oct...confidence in the results you need.  Whichever method you choose, resist the temptation to over interpret...Copy Number Variation with Droplet Digital PCR. Methods Mol Biol. 2018;1768:143-160. doi: 10.1007/978-1...quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction methods for the determination of amplification of Plasmodium...

  7. Twelve Amazing Guest Blog Contributors!

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    Nov. 26, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...shared his flow cytometry expertise in three posts. An Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry, Designing...shared her flow cytometry expertise in two posts. Flow Compensation and Flow Cytometry Controls Priyamvada... guide to understanding your flow data. Flow Cytometry Readouts Toj, a summer intern who shared their...validation expertise. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry Rob Hurt, whose expertise and suggestions were...

  8. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...scientists are no exception to this effect -- meticulously designed experiments in labs around the world...modification also eases the interpretation of the parameters we infer, since scientific productivity is better... model to give uncertainty estimates for each parameter, we added log-normal noise to each of the terms...gave us the maximum likelihood estimates of each parameter. We approximated the data likelihood with multivariate...dates impacted by each effect. The inferred parameters suggest that COVID-19 induced a 2x–5x reduction...the instability and uncertainty in estimating parameters from relatively sparse data from China. An important... uses applied machine learning and statistical methods for fundamental scientific discovery and high-impact...

  9. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ...-mutant rabies virus. Nat Methods 4:47–49 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth999 Wickersham IR, Lyon DC, Barnard...by nonspecific complement mechanisms in serum. Sometimes this is due to the cells that the viral vectors...Scientists have been using similar pseudotyping methods with other viruses in a BSL-2 lab instead of a ...the upregulation of LDLR expression using other methods.  In terms of preparation, VSV-G is stable and ...given brain region (Mazarakis et al., 2001).  This method can also allow scientists to trace a neuron’s projections...Vectors: One Vector, Many Guises. Human Gene Therapy Methods 28:291–301 . https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2017.084...

  10. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    Jan. 23, 2020, 2:45 p.m.
    ...genders, educational, and professional backgrounds. Sometimes this can lead to wildly different ideas of how...our work.  Agile at Addgene We follow an agile methodology of software development called Scrum. The Scrum...during checkout. Demo details for this would be something along the lines of showing that the checkout takes... decide how to best approach it in our code.  Sometimes while thinking through these steps, we discover...more in-depth knowledge of one area, and when something urgent comes up, that person is the first in line...In some parts of our code, we might be calling something a sample and in other places, we might be calling...clean, reusable code when working on a feature, sometimes we have to take short cuts or add a band-aid to...

  11. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    Aug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering parameters via a library-on-library approach. Nat Methods 12:823–826 . https://doi.org...transcriptional programming. Nat Methods 12:326–328 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3312 Chavez A, Tuttle M, ... in multiple species. Nat Methods 13:563–567 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3871 Gilbert LA, Horlbeck.../doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3473 Chavez A, Scheiman J, Vora S, Pruitt BW, Tuttle M, P R Iyer E, Lin S, Kiani...

  12. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...settings: The sense of being the first to discover something. The thrill of having an experiment yield clear...if I was asked that question today, because I sometimes wish for a stretch of time that doesn’t involve...mentally challenging than lab work at times.” Sometimes a desk job is defined as sitting down at a computer... between tubes, look through microscopes, and sometimes you even wear a lab coat! These are the things...is that I’ve never been bored. There is always something to do and there is no thumb twiddling. But you...time to come to realize that meetings were not something that took me away from my work. The meetings often...share their knowledge with the community (and sometimes conduct their own independent research!). There...

  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...target metabolite creates an aptamer that will only bind to DFHBI in the presence of that metabolite (Fig... led by Jack Szostak and Larry Gold, developed methods for selecting and amplifying RNA sequences that...including proteins, peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells (even pathogenic bacteria). That...to incorporate their target molecule, such as a metal ion, or fold to incorporate themselves into a larger...difficult-to-study RNA-modifying enzymes, such as the RNA demethylases FTO and ALKBH5. Their ease of production have...2. Baker, Monya. “RNA imaging in situ”. Nature Methods 9, 787–790 (2012). 3. Filonov, Gregory S., et al...

  14. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...isolated from a methylation competent bacterial strain (e.g. DH5α which is dam+). Methylation deficient bacterial...and Daniel R. Marshak. "Dimethyl sulfoxide-mediated primer Tm reduction: a method for analyzing the role...template. The parent template is removed using a methylation-dependent endonuclease (i.e. DpnI), and bacteria... of the primers. Because you will be using a methylation-dependent enzyme (DpnI) to eliminate the parent...is unique in that it cleaves only DNA that is methylated at the adenosine of the GATC recognition site...

  15. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...fluorescently labeled probes. Colorimetric and luminescence based detection methods are also commonly used. ...with fluorescently labeled ones allowing for fluorometric-based detection. This increased sequencing speed...sequencing machines (9). Today, similar technologies, sometimes referred to as sequence DNA as it synthesized ...fluorescently labeled nucleotides are incorporated, a method called pyrosequencing. The drive for faster, higher...typically rely on Sanger sequencing but instead use methods like pyrosequencing that are parallelized to sequence...of sequencing should bring efficient, low cost methods for sequencing large amounts of DNA quickly and...

  16. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...proteins from gels to diazobenzyloxymethyl-paper and detection with antisera: a method for studying antibody...western blot, or western, is one of the simplest methods to detect the presence or absence of a protein ...proteins typically do not transfer as well using this method.  Finally, commercially available dry blotting ...antibody, consider reviewing the materials and methods sections of those publications.  Finally, always...quantification of a protein, consider using an alternative method such as an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA...modifications such as phosphorylation, acetylation, methylation and ubiquitination. For example, to test if a...

  17. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    June 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...microbial opsins. Nature Methods, 9(2), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1808 References Abreu, N...microbial opsins. Nature Methods, 9(2), 159–172. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1808 Nagel, G., Szellas,...multiple intra-cellular signaling cascades. Optical methods for controlling GPCR activation have been developed... than is achieved by traditional pharmacologic methods. A number of strategies have been developed for...mechanisms that are often cell-type specific. If it is something you’re considering for your experiment, note that...

  18. Single-cell tracking of lineage and identity with CellTag

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    May 9, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...gene, Mettl7a1, whose expression helped coax cells towards successful iEP reprogramming. MettI7a1 encodes...encodes an uncharacterized putative methyltransferase. Adding Mettl7a1 to the standard Foxa1-Hnf4α retroviral...CellTag CellTagging is a lentiviral based tagging method that labels cells with heritable barcodes. Barcodes...reprogramming and direct reprogramming Explore different methods for delivery of reprogramming factors for generating...

  19. In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins

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    Jan. 25, 2018, 2:09 p.m.
    ...the trick is to utilize a second immobilization method. One possibility is covalent modification of the...a similar function as GST in that it provides a method to express a foreign protein in bacteria and subsequently...determine binding kinetics using a multitude of methods including surface plasmon resonance (Biacore, GE... GE Life Sciences) or bio-layer interferometry (Octet, Pall ForteBio). Tips for using pMal-T-Avi-His/BirA...commercially available. Factor Xa loves calcium, but metal-chelate matrices, not so much. Maybe a calcium-independent...that have been biotinylated using less efficient methods. Many thanks to our guest blogger Jon Backstrom...

  20. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    March 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...validation of antibodies. Nat Methods 13:823–827. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3995  ...antibody-dependent approach. Antibody-independent methods may include analysis of transcriptomic or proteomic... between the levels of target detected in both methods. These approaches have relatively low sensitivity...be concerned that your antibody is binding to something unexpected. This approach has high specificity...epitopes of this protein.   You perform flow cytometry using both antibodies, as well as a third unrelated...sample using the antibody and then uses mass spectrometry to identify the captured proteins. If the antibody...
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