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  1. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Curriculum Development

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    ...in the educational sphere, it can range from researching an area, to writing an introduction that gives...mitosis and meiosis in biology. Lots of it is researching the different aspects of the subject you're writing... Keown, a staff writer at the non-profit Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. And make sure to subscribe...
  2. Understanding GPCR Signaling Using TRUPATH

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    ...constructing 14 luciferase donor Rluc8-Gα chimeras, four acceptor GFP2-Gγ chimeras, and two untagged Gβ constructs...or drug. In the inactive state, the luminescent chimeric protein Gα-Rluc8 and Gγ-GFP2 will be in close ...
  3. The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born

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    ...turn up the heat when there is a bad Northeastern chill. Check out Joanne's Reddit AMA  Few of us spend... in this country and we are quick to throw out chipped or imperfect equipment.  We can’t safely recycle...illustration above) and bribed the guys in the hospital machine shop with coffee and donuts to cut the pieces of...
  4. Three Tips for Preventing Viral Plasmid Recombination in Your Samples

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    ...instability-prone lentiviral vector plasmid in Escherichia coli Stbl3. 3 Biotech 3:61–70. https://doi.org...lentiviral expression vectors using reduced-genomeEscherichia coli. BioTechniques 43:466–470. https://doi.org...cloning strategy for efficient genome editing in Escherichia coli. Microb Cell Fact 19. https://doi.org/10.1186...
  5. Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags

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    ...including a mouse monoclonal (M2) as well as a chimera (rabbit). Myc The Myc tag is a 10 amino acid peptide...still the most prevalent clone used today! Goat, chicken, mouse, or rabbit? Addgene has you covered with...Addgene’s monoclonal antibodies (mouse, rabbit, and chicken) to this tag! GFP  GFP is more than a peptide –...
  6. Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs

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    ...their structure or their interaction with AAVs (Schiller et al., 2018). Exosomal vesicles secreted from...behind these improvements. What have exosome AAVs achieved so far? Exo-AAVs have improved transduction profiles...PMID: 29296848. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5728288. Schiller, Lara Timantra, et al. "Enhanced Production of...
  7. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ...guides – including an excellent series of posts by Joachim Goedhart on the Addgene blog – outlining various...  Simply input these parameters and you’ll find matching FP suggestions. If you’re not sure exactly what...better way to store and represent within-study photobleaching comparisons.  We very much appreciate feedback...
  8. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ... our purposes? In search of simple biological machines R bodies can repeatedly extend and contract...using R bodies: simple, force-generating protein machines that can extend and retract over many microns ...with a fluorescent protein remain functional. Attaching the fluorescent protein fusions allowed us to ...
  9. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...Refactoring and optimization of light-switchable Escherichia coli two-component systems. Schmidl SR, Sheth... at Addgene. Synthetic biology: engineering Escherichia coli to see light. Levskaya A, Chevalier AA, ...Multichromatic control of gene expression in Escherichia coli. Tabor JJ, Levskaya A, Voigt CA. J Mol Biol...
  10. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ...can be affected by both autofluorescence and photobleaching. Researchers have long been interested in using... cells. As Nano-lanterns are not subject to photobleaching/phototoxicity, they successfully imaged multiple...applications. For long-term imaging, especially where photobleaching and phototoxicity are a concern, these constructs...
  11. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...instead use a preexisting, conserved cellular machinery to process gRNAs. Hijacking tRNA processing to...plants. Yang was intrigued by the tRNA processing machinery present in almost every living organism. Precursor...PTG constructs in rice protoplasts. Compared to matching traditional gRNA-expressing constructs, transcript...
  12. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    ...developing assays.  Protocol architecture The basic (very basic!) architecture of the indirect approach is...method relies on multiple secondary antibodies attaching to a single primary antibody, it is sometimes ...
  13. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    ...what Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his colleagues have achieved, and how the field will move forward from this...circumvent this problem, they co-injected CRISPR machinery with sperm into M phase oocytes, thus allowing...’s important to remember that the study hasn’t achieved any end goal not available with current techniques...
  14. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...GFP. The lab tested the base editors in vivo and achieved therapeutically relevant editing efficiencies ...heart, and skeletal muscle. The dosing required to achieve these efficiencies was also between 1013 - 1014...Ace absorbance increases and results in higher quenching of mScarlet emission. Figure 2: Ace-mScarlet...
  15. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...back into the infants. Almost all patients have achieved persistent immunological reconstitution with a...mutations in the gene RPE65. It is characterized by childhood onset of blindness and was thought to be untreatable...Improvement and decline in vision with gene therapy in childhood blindness." New England Journal of Medicine 372.20...
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