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  1. 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...resolution Organization Leadership Problem Solving Creativity Data analysis Listening Negotiation Career Planning...
  2. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    May 30, 2019, 12:44 p.m.
    ...analyzed, the Fujii lab also developed another "in vitro" form. In this form, the CRISPR complex, consisting...biotinylated gRNA, were successfully used in this "in vitro" form. Any tag system can be used to isolate genomic... isolation of DNA fragments and chromatin by in vitro enCh IP technology using recombinant CRISPR ribonucleoproteins...
  3. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    Sept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... work responsibilities, we make team building activities a priority and have organized many events over...right in your breakroom. 5. Throw some physical activity into the mix It’s easy to sit around and just ...fast! Spread word of your plans by email, gong, evite, posters, megaphone, or your company’s intranet....
  4. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...limitations and enable impressive editing efficiencies in vitro and in vivo. Incorporating reverse transcriptase... vectors, CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications.   Figure 2: Modular features...to record and quantify the dynamics of promoter activity in single cells. Find iPAK4 plasmids here! Lin...
  5. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...most as cancer cells are amenable to culture in vitro. Virologists too have benefited from the ability...have plenty of maintained freezer stocks. It is vital that the Master and Working stocks of cell lines...Thermofisher Guidelines for Maintaining Cultured Cells Invitrogen Cell Culture Basics Guide Abcam Cell Culture ...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...and selection for targets can be done largely in vitro; Easy and reproducible commercial synthesis (those... can be to get a “bad batch”); Customizable sensitivity and detection - since they frequently undergo...Experiments Learn more about GFP Controlling Protein Activity with GFP Resources at Addgene.org Find the Spinach...
  7. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...considerable A → G editing activity at most sites, in addition to A → C and A → T activity. To drive selective...introduce T → C and T → G edits, though with limited selectivity between those outcomes, with an average efficiency...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ... the virus and is less affected.  Altering sensitivity to serum. Different pseudotyped viruses are differentially...studies since there’s the potential for off-target infectivity as it can bind and transduce many cell types ...body, making it a great tool to study neuronal connectivity. However, because of rabies virus’s toxicity...
  9. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
    ...networks involved in directly controlling muscle activity and coordinating movement, several additional ...develops an enhanced propensity for movement and activity called locomotor sensitization. This enhanced ... investigated this further and showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (...
  10. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...to become a research scientist. I recently was invited to attend the first Principal Investigator meeting... students. You can see why I was excited to be invited to attend. My job is to ensure that, in general...hard to raise because they beat on each other in captivity. Sticklebacks demonstrate unusual parallel adaptation...
  11. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...editing has quickly become a popular system for in vitro and germline genome editing, but in vivo gene editing... (SaCas9, 1053 amino acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced indels at ...SaCas9 did not display higher levels of off-target activity than SpCas9, confirming its suitability for in...
  12. AAV Titers: Where Do They Come From And What Do They Mean?

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    Nov. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.
    ... et al. "Near-perfect infectivity of wild-type AAV as benchmark for infectivity of recombinant AAV vectors...of 50:1 (Zeltner et al., 2010). The specific infectivity of viral preparations is defined by the ratio...
  13. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...consulting firms can be involved in many similar activities depending on the expertise of the senior leadership...of schedules can take on employee morale and productivity, and many have mechanisms in place to prevent...those who understand that these challenges are an inevitable part of the profession, and that they can be ...
  14. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    Nov. 3, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
    ...designed solely for restriction enzyme sensitivity or resistivity, and thus be a marker for edited cells... Fig. 3: Restriction enzyme screening for resistivity to digestion, indicating targeted edits. ...
  15. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...with 5’->3’ polymerase activity (for amplification), 3’->5’ exonuclease activity (increases amplification...amplification fidelity), and no 5’->3’ exonuclease activity (which could potentially truncate the template). Importantly...
  16. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... by reality – a government cannot declare that gravity change direction and make things fly up when we... believe climate change is mostly due to human activity while much less of the general public agrees (...Democratic values and their role in maximizing the objectivity of science.  Scientific American: Scientists ...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...fluorescent proteins can be accurately determined in vitro by measuring the fluorescence intensity of purified...substantial size of GFP may interfere with the activity or the localization of the fusion protein. Also...Peptide-tags for site-specific protein labelling in vitro and in vivo." Molecular BioSystems 12.6 (2016): ...
  18. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ... quantify the effect of mTOR inhibition on the activity of RNA Polymerase III. Red and orange fluorescent...then identified through microfluidic-assisted in vitro compartmentalisation for their high binding affinity...Katherine Deigan, et al. "Structural basis for activity of highly efficient RNA mimics of green fluorescent...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...well in a rat or non-human primate. Likewise, in vitro efficacy doesn’t always translate to in vivo efficacy...chemogenetic tools, where modification of cellular activity outside of your experiment site or circuit can...measuring expression over a period of weeks (in vitro) or months (in vivo).  Selective promoters Selective...
  20. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    Nov. 28, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ... So never mind how much better your work and productivity will be if you’re part of a team - it will just...That’s a subtle but important distinction. If I invite someone to be on a project team, I try to make ...next team works better. In fact, don’t wait to be invited onto a team. Make one yourself. Instead of thinking...
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