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  1. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    ...Willoughby   Using RUBY as a selection marker The creators of RUBY highlight its use in crop plants under... is difficult for new members of the lab or collaborators unfamiliar with these mutant plants. Using RUBY...promoter with self-cleaving 2A site linkages and a terminator. Image from He, Y., Zhang, T., Sun, H. et al....
  2. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    ...Neurobiology has been working on genetically encoded indicators of calcium and other small molecules since the...imaging for beginners Griesbeck says his calcium indicators can be used in mouse, Drosophila, C. elegans,...his team is now applying it to improve upon an indicator they developed and published in 2010 for visualizing...
  3. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...culture and include a counter, lab timer, dilution calculator, and a couple of other nice features. This app...sequence for your enzyme of interest. Lastly, the Tm calculator helps you set up an optimal PCR depending on ...apps: Findings Lab Notebook Cell Culture Split Calculator by DRDP Restriction Enzyme Tool by Promega Material...
  4. Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish

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    ...to create gene deletions of important unknown regulatory regions in Pseudomonas and Klebsiella spp. The...Ibadan, Nigeriaunder supervision of Dr. Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Gloria Otito...Candidate working under the supervision of Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi at the University of Ibadan. She works ...
  5. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    ...15-30 minute break. The method is named for the tomato or “Pomodoro” kitchen timer that the technique’...student.   The Pomodoro timer is literally a tomato! Image from Gerlos.   Tools for checking grammar...with others which makes it easier to work with collaborators. Zotero is a desktop based program that’s compatible...
  6. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...histidine kinase that phosphorylates a response regulator (RR). TCS-induced responses are varied; one outcome...conditions, the chromophore activates the response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of...spread across three plasmids, with the response regulator encoded in the genome. To make the system less...
  7. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...identified other advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins and high targeting efficiency, both ...WYL domain-containing proteins may be broader regulators of Cas13d activity. This property makes WYL proteins...REPAIR Get tips for using Cas9 Transcriptional Activators Learn about Cas13a (C2c2) Characterization Resources...
  8. A Deep Dive into BioBuilder

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    ...effectively contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days in the classroom... or small, receive the BioBuilder textbook, a laboratory kit, and support during the academic year from...state-of-the-art lab embedded in LabCentral’s community of innovators that opened in August 2017.  This flexible teaching...
  9. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    ...of stakeholders from industrial and commercial operators, government agencies, active researchers, as well...understanding of the societal ramifications of laboratory science, and how it may best be leveraged for...re always delighted to engage with potential collaborators and interested audiences. Please visit our team...
  10. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    ...sponsored the capital construction of our new BL2+ laboratory and the infrastructure capabilities to produce...our generous, sharing depositors. Over 3,000 laboratories are sharing plasmids (with 16 labs currently...helping thousands of sharing scientists from laboratories all over the world. With this reach and exposure...
  11. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ...in Huntsville explains it, a major goal in his laboratory is to understand the function of the non-coding...effort to track down every last one of those gene regulatory proteins and the places in the genome where they... that, but the system is so flexible. Other investigators can easily adapt these vectors for use with ...
  12. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...containing the RNA pol III promoter, gRNA and pol III terminator. These relatively large cassettes (considering...Size is also a factor; the pol lll promoter and terminator need be encoded only once, and each <200 bp tRNA-gRNA...deletions of other regions, such as noncoding RNAs or regulatory elements, to examine their function. Bacteria...
  13. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    ...reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to track bioelectric states...channelrhodopsin used as a sensitive fluorescent voltage indicator with near-complete desensitization in continuous...Use of genetically encoded, light-gated ion translocators to control tumorigenesis." Oncotarget 7.15 (...
  14. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    ...(Shaner et al, 2008). Obligate dimers (such as dTomato) that promote interactions between the FPs interfere...CytERM-mKOkappa, CytERM-mTurquoise2, and CytERM-dTomato. When using and interpreting the results of the...proteins. Fusions of CytERM with mTurquoise2 and dTomato, which are established monomeric and dimerizing...
  15. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    ... Laboratory management software is not a requisite for a functioning lab, but it is for a scaleable lab...about what steps are most likely to fail. Our laboratory manager would definitely be interested to see...this case, the physical considerations of the laboratory make object composition a smarter choice than...
  16. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    ...Library, deposited by Carrie Bhang, a research investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis...ClonTracer Since starting her new role as an investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis...Addgene community! Carrie Bhang is a research investigator in In Vivo Pharmacology at Novartis Oncology...
  17. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    ...the field. 3. Highlight your network and your collaborators It’s a good idea to move around to different...Networking for Scientists Series 4. Become a science communicator More and more fellowship applications are asking...on your grant application to your peers and collaborators can also help you get some critical insight ...
  18. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...They play important roles in many cellular and regulatory processes, but much of their functionality is...effects can be minimized by disrupting lncRNA regulatory elements that are crucial for transcription and..., on the other hand, recruits transcriptional activators such as VP64, SAM, or SunTag to specific ncRNA...
  19. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...with a terminator. A simple TU could be comprised of just three parts: promoter, gene, and terminator.   ...this category also includes promoters, UTRs, terminators, etc. Once selected, individual units can be ...
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