... FREE science lab apps that have been educational and great for lab life. These apps prevent you from ...spectrometry app. I digress. When I started learning proper cell culture technique, I tried to find an app that...I came across the Gibco Cell Culture app. Gibco organizes its app into four categories: tools, analytics... Tools app comes in handy when I use protocols that require restriction enzymes or PCR. The app contains...Hence, I’m including this MSDS app. The Chemical Safety Data Sheets app has a search function that allows...of the many apps available to help researchers in the lab. If you have a favorite lab app, please share...by guest blogger Sean D. Stacey. Opinions on the apps discussed in the article are those of the guest ...

...technique published every week! One of the newest applications is a colorful system that uses fluorescently...Thoru Pederson’s lab, brings us one step closer to mapping the 4D nucleome, the organization of the nucleus...activity, catalytically dead Cas9 (dCas9) has many applications, the most well-known being transcriptional activation... 9 and 13. They next turned their attention to mapping pairs of intrachromosomal loci. The technique successfully...authors’ knowledge, this work represents the first mapping of intrachromosomal loci, a major benchmark in ...characterizing the 4D nucleome. Future modifications and applications Ma et al. developed this technique using standard...for this technique. The NIH Common Fund has made mapping the 4D nucleome a specific priority, as researchers...

...previous nosy question! The Application Process Broadly speaking, the PhD application process tends to go something...steps in the application process and usually occurs in the few months leading up to applications opening. ...program. Most applications will recommend that you name two professors in your application that you intend...to continue the application process through a campus visit, a weekend where applications can get to know...strengthen your application and help you decide if a program is a good fit for you. The application process looks...if you’re anything like me, the process of even applying to one of these programs is almost as daunting...be, at times, very overwhelming. As someone who applied to PhD programs in Biology around the United States...

...exhaustive list of all the apps out there, we encourage you to mention any apps you’ve found useful in the... other posts that deserve a second look. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life This very useful post was contributed...provides a brief rundown of Sean’s top five smartphone apps you can use in the lab. Whether you’re tired of ...that chemical in your obscure growth medium, these apps can help make your lab life a bit easier. Since ...

...sure I missed some of your favorite apps. If you know of a software app that I missed, let me know in the... The software can be used with the ZappyLabs Bench Tools mobile app (available for iOS and Android). A...system does not appear to have a way to share your protocols with other groups. What apps do you use to ...publishers, and small start-ups are turning to software apps to solve our need for quicker, more effective updating...more to fit every lab's needs. Plus there are the apps - many to help you access your protocols at the ...comments below and leave your thoughts on how the app works for your lab’s needs. At Addgene, we’ll continue... some of our basic protocols to the protocols.io app so that all of our researchers can easily take those...

...their use in other clinical applications. In the last decade, viral applications in cancer treatment and ...s unpack the myriad number of emerging viral applications and give you some recommendations for putting...putting viruses to work. Viral applications Viruses work by infecting a host cell (the target of viral infection...expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications we discuss, there is more than one type of virus...retrovirus, AAV, etc.). When you’ve decided on an application, our Viruses as Biological Tools blog can help...viruses and pick one for your experiment. Research applications Gene expression control Researchers are always...becoming increasingly popular tools with many applications. These libraries include sgRNAs targeting the...

...have been developed for different scientific applications. These PCR methods all use the same basic PCR...quantified by qPCR. qPCR is used in a variety of applications including gene expression profiling, studying...that fractions the PCR reaction sample into approximately 20,000 droplets. Each droplet contains the material...

...and applications.    Plant applications We outlined many synthetic biology MoClo applications, but...for synthetic biology applications in bacteria or cell-free systems. The approach is particularly useful...- and multi-gene constructs for a variety of applications. MoClo tools can be used in bacterial and cell-free...and the kits Addgene offers to kickstart these applications, no matter what your model organism is. MoClo...this blog, we will highlight some common MoClo applications and kits. Keep in mind that this technology ... it, MoClo might help you achieve it! MoClo applications and specialized tools Synthetic biology in bacteria...effectiveness. Perhaps the most intuitive CRISPR MoClo application is to assemble multiple unique sgRNAs into a ...

...particular application can be found here.  Why CRISPRa? Although cDNA overexpression approaches may still... viral vectors, and high-throughput screening approaches. Here, we’ll highlight these recent advancements...advancements and offer commentary on their application to neuroscience research. What is CRISPR-based activation... a larger packaging capacity than AAV. Such an approach was described recently by the Day Lab, who developed...accessible to neuroscientists, not all neuroscience applications require such optimized tools. This is elegantly... developed a subgenome-scale CRISPRa screening approach in embryonic stem (ES) cells to determine which...study neuronal differentiation, it could also be applied to the differentiation of other CNS cell types,...

...function (Wood, et al). In the microbial world, approximately 50% of predicted genes have unidentified roles...endogenous gene. Each trap uses a slightly different approach (described in detail below), but fundamentally...redundant genes – multiple genes which function in overlapping roles can mask the depletion of one another. ...trap systems lack a promoter and thus require the trapping of an endogenous promoter. The system is composed...enhancer traps lack enhancer elements and require the trapping of endogenous enhancers to stimulate the expression...many more! Check out Addgene’s catalog to find trapping tools for your next experiment! References and...

...options, you’re likely to find an application that matches your needs. Happy quantifying!  References and...blog post, we're going to focus on PCR-based applications (qPCR and ddPCR.) qPCR Quantitative/real-time...range of RQ values as noted above.   In both applications, results can be affected by DNA quality and ...as positive or negative for each reaction, math happens (this time, Poisson statistics), and the readout... triplicates. ddPCR is an extremely accurate application, even in areas of the genome that are difficult...experiments, a number of factors will determine which approach is right for your experiment. You’ll have to consider...QuantificationPolymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications Resources on Addgene.org Protocol: Polymerase...

...The Framework for In vivo T cell Screens (FITS) approach (Milling and Markson et al., 2024), developed ...compatible with single gene KO and pooled screening approaches; (4) encodes a Thy1.1 selectable marker to facilitate... et al., 2024.   Proof of concept The FITS approach was used to optimize conditions for a screen that...

...cas9 gene and single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) with appropriate flanking homology into a germline cell can create...RNA-guided gene drive. In principle, this event could happen even if there isn't any homology available. Consequently...local biosafety officer should be familiar with appropriate measures. Barriers should be a component of all...eventual release should consider building an appropriate immunizing reversal drive at the same time to...species in question), why not use them whenever applicable?Against this, consider the cost of an accidental...An accidental release could delay real-world applications against scourges such as malaria and dengue .... Disclaimer: Recommendations concerning the appropriate degree of confinement are those of the author...

...explore alternate approaches. Being a “lazy” geneticist, I developed a co-selection approach relying on repair...with unprecedented ease. These new C. elegans approaches rapidly enrich for editing events without the...phenotypes (unc-119) (Dickinson et al., 2013). These approaches allowed effective recovery of knock-ins, but ...Including Cre-mediated marker excision, it takes approximately 3-4 weeks to obtain a homozygous, outcrossed...several manuscripts published in Genetics detailed approaches in which selection for an editing event that ...and knock-ins at other genomic loci. The first approach – co-CRISPR from Craig Mello’s lab – used inactivation...animals with particular visible phenotypes. These approaches may become even more powerful following a report...

...protein for your application. Selecting the best fluorescent protein for a specific application can seem like...under conditions that best mimic the intended application. The three key properties for live cell imaging...theoretical brightness. The theoretical brightness often appears in tables with fluorescent protein properties and...experimental set up. The practical brightness takes all application specific parameters into account, including the... picture of what can be expected in a 'real' application than the theoretical brightness. Consequently...brightness in a system closely mimicking the future application. In figure 2 we provide an example of the comparison...

... the app. Technical difficulties? Attending a conference virtually means getting to know the app or virtual...conferences with multiple sessions happening at once, virtual conferences may have apps or interactive calendars...was able to get in touch with the author. “In the app, you can write a message to the author of the poster...there may be a “place” for networking within the app. For example, the NeuroSymposium had virtual tables... puts butterflies in your stomach, the virtual approach might be less stressful. For both conferences,...Having an on-site conference canceled may be disappointing, but there are many creative ways to adapt and...

...There are approximately 2-4 million proteins per cubic micron in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells...based affinity purification and mass spectrometry approaches. Recently however, scientists have developed ...miniturbo Split-BioID: A conditional proteomics approach to monitor protein-protein interactions Split-... PMC3308701. Rhee, Hyun-Woo, et al. "Proteomic mapping of mitochondria in living cells via spatially restricted..., et al. "Split-BioID a conditional proteomics approach to monitor the composition of spatiotemporally...proximity-based labeling methods for interactome mapping. F1000Research, 8.  ...

...can run multiple apps at a time and can install new apps from a constantly growing app collection. It is... early smart phone with only one word processing app—revolutionary and the first of its kind but lacking... like a smartphone that can now run several more apps. The expanded functions of this “CRISPR 2.0” include...care for some Mendelian diseases.  The early applications of CRISPR/Cas9 Nonetheless, as powerful as CRISPR-Cas9...lab and as promising as it may be for clinical applications, it was initially limited to a couple of functions...addgene.org); at least one sgRNA-PBS (single-guide RNAs appended to one or more copies of Pumilio binding sites...pAC1392     pAC1404 pAC1411       Example applications of Casilio Using Casilio it is possible to recruit...

...for your needs 5 great apps for lab life  Sharing your lab protocols using apps to save you time and track...sign-in required.)  DailyCalcs Science Calculator app for iPhone Reagent and Data Repositories These links...paste into other applications Primer design tools Many of the above-listed plasmid mapping tools have built-in...Primer design. Plasmid mapping. DNA sequence analysis. We all have our favorite tools for tackling these...molecular biology tools all in one place. Plasmid mapping These tools are for viewing, editing or making ...the paid version provides more tools for plasmid mapping and design (Figure 1). Benchling: While you might... desktop-based software for plasmid design and mapping. ApE (A plasmid Editor): A free, donation-based...