...improved anti-cancer immunosurveillance and reduced tumor mass. Methods to study autophagy can be found here...analysed a model of hepatocellular carcinoma, a cancer which can develop from a state of chronic hepatitis ...impressive videos of these interactions (Ref 3). You can find useful tips on in vivo imaging in our Fluorescent...Blog Read Additional Cancer Blog Posts Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Cancer and the Immune System...progressing cancers. It was inspiring to participate in the 2017 Cell Symposium on Cancer, Inflammation... findings in basic immunology, cancer-immune cell interactions, cancer immunotherapy, as well as new approaches...problem with cancer research is that it is too fragmented and focused ... to understand cancer and defeat...

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...membrane so the bacteria can easily uptake your plasmid of interest. Scientists can also use electroporation...infected bacterium can either exist as transient extrachromosomal DNA, like a plasmid, or it can integrate into...lines. This can be done with lentiviral and Adeno Associated Viruses (AAV). Lentiviral and AAV can be used...scientific research. There are multiple ways foreign DNA can be introduced into cells including transformation...material often comes from adjacent lysed bacteria and can include plasmid DNA or fragmented DNA released into...bacteria are naturally competent to take up DNA, they can be made competent through chemical manipulation in...bacterium uptakes a plasmid, the genes on the plasmid can give them different phenotypes. For example, this...

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...cells: antibodies can bind to proteins on the cell surface, or the cell membrane can be permeabilized ...natural part of the immune system and a tool that can be used for a variety of research applications. Within... immune system is referred to as an antigen. You can learn more about antibodies in our Antibodies 101...Once a protein is targeted with an antibody, you can visualize the protein via fluorescence or chemiluminescence...research setting, antibodies of different isotypes can be used together in the same experiment because the...this, it may contain many epitopes that antibodies can recognize. Imagine you’re doing a word search puzzle...But, there are actually many ways that antibodies can be produced for research purposes, some of which ...

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...key transferable skill that can help you get more of what you want and can also strengthen your relationships...negotiating with my PI on how to spend my grant money (Can I attend this conference?) and with my lab mates ...going on vacation (New York City or Hawaii?). So how can you approach improving this transferable skill? Negotiation...approach to negotiation is the most straightforward, it can mean that everyone leaves disappointed (we’ve all...problem-solving exercise? Asking questions like the below can help you understand the perspective of all persons... person’s request? Your colleague is if someone can feed their cells this weekend - why? Do they have...Someone has to be the first author but another author can present the work at the next big conference - Is ...

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...instance, how much force can be generated by conformational changes in proteins? How can information propagate... R bodies can repeatedly extend and contract in response to changing pH, and they can rupture E. coli...questions can be addressed using R bodies: simple, force-generating protein machines that can extend and...both wild type and mutant R bodies can be found at Addgene here. What can R bodies do for you? R bodies are...understanding these complex processes can’t be overstated, we can also learn a lot from Nature’s simpler...

...Papers can be saved to a Semantic Scholar library. You can add hashtags to library entries, which can help...You can also set up alerts for new publications from a particular author. Saving papers Papers can be ...1996, but is getting an update! The latest version can be found here. The new PubMed will become the default...paper-finding-machine. There are four general types of accounts you can follow: Scientists: Following other scientists helps...they support. Monitoring these types of accounts can help you find papers related to a particular topic...papers, so naturally they tweet about papers too. You can follow journals related to your field of research...technically a way to save papers on Twitter, but you can bookmark a tweet in order to easily access it later...

... parts can be assembled into TUs is key to understanding MoClo. By a similar principle, TUs can be further...many parts can be assembled into many combinations. Even with current technologies, it can be extremely...pair with it can be queried by testing any number in the Level 2 assembly. These pathways can require a ... particular cloning technique. Though rarer, you can find MoClo that relies on Gibson and other non-Golden...cloning methods. MoClo’s organization schema MoClo can be broken down into three hierarchical levels: individual...terminators, etc. Once selected, individual units can be combined into… Transcription units (TUs), which...composed of multiple parts transcribed together. They can express one or more gene(s), and typically begin ...

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...titer of a viral vector stock can vary based on transduction target and can also be altered by freeze-thaw... (which can include empty capsids that are devoid of a viral genome). Empty viral capsids can be formed...Different primers can have different annealing efficiencies (Wang et al., 2013). Although you can optimize your...exact same PCR twice can give titer measurements that vary up to two-fold. How can we get more reliable... us information on three important factors. What can AAV titers tell you? Physical titer: the concentration...titer: the concentration of viral particles that can transduce cells. Infectious titers are typically ... after negative staining. Empty vector particles can be identified after negative staining and appear ...

...information can be entered using our online form or by using a downloadable spreadsheet. Either choice can be ...pre-publication plasmids so they can be available when the paper is published. Plasmids can be linked to a peer-reviewed... Strain Addgene can distribute your bacterial strains if they: are E. coli that can be used under BSL1...utilize your plasmids (these can be protocols, GenBank files, etc). We can accept sequence files in any...plasmid cannot be propagated in DH5α. For plasmids with highly repetitive sequences (which can be prone...process. After you have logged in to your account, you can begin the deposit process by clicking "Submit Online... download the .xls file. For the online form you can submit "Published plasmids" or "Unpublished or pre-publication...

...Antibiotic resistance can be scary to think about, but we can all do our part to learn all we can, and minimize...ways in which bacteria can become resistant to antibacterial drugs. Resistance can be intrinsic, meaning...infection before they can test for resistance. Growing and isolating the infecting bacteria can take 24 hours ... for millennia. What we can do, however, is fight smarter, not harder. We can utilize tactics like rotating... is important to note that the term ‘antibiotic’ can also be used to describe anti-parasitic drugs and...to this class of antibiotic. Acquired resistance can be the result of one bacterium sharing genes with...methods of ‘horizontal gene transfer’. Resistance can also arise from random mutations in the genetic sequence...

...standard curve can be used to determine the amount of starting material in your sample.  qPCR can also be used...concentration, unlike qPCR where results can vary across replicates. ddPCR can be used to quantify DNA sequences...an in vitro method in which a small amount of DNA can be copied many many times in a short time period.... and essential practice in molecular biology and can be used in a multitude of scientific techniques such...    Steps of PCR The beauty of PCR is that it can amplify DNA using only a short list of reagents and... polymerase is thus a heat resistant enzyme that can withstand changes in temperature. Taq was first identified...denaturing) and cooling (annealing) steps Taq polymerase can copy DNA between the primers using the dNTPs.  Let...