...noticed Holly Bik live-tweeting about topics I needed to know more about. I caught up with her outside ...me for coffee and spent an hour with me talking about the tools I could use, and some experimental hurdles...other folks at the meeting. I didn’t know anything about these people at the time, but I met some very accomplished... my mind because we’d had discussions in my lab about whether or not to keep DNA sequencing singletons...singletons out, and there is healthy debate online about this (our lab keeps singletons). I felt like anyone...scientific conferences Read our ECR Toolbox blog post about using social media as a scientist ...

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...Reddit AMA  Few of us spend much time thinking about conserving resources in the labs. Disposable plastic...Dudnik, Founder of Seeding Labs, tells the story about working as a student in a rice lab in the Ivory ...didn’t feel the need to reuse plasticware or think about conserving reagents and buffers.  However, I had...environmentally conscious friends who had me thinking about energy conservation even before it was a popular...Turns out, one could make a lifetime supply for about $10 US dollars worth of glass powder pruchased from...So, I designed my own gel box (see illustration above) and bribed the guys in the hospital machine shop...

... Delivery Methods Learn about Mouse Work on Exercise and Depression Read About Brainbow Resources on ...success is not always guaranteed. To learn more about this process check out our Mouse Modeling blog posts...by CRISPR. The sequence started clean and then, about 100 bps into the run, it got “dirty”, with multiple...makes use of 3 components, a guide RNA (gRNA) of about 125 nt that specifies the target, the Cas9 endonuclease...by Southern blot. From the efficiency discussed above extends 4 major advantages of CRISPR mouse editing...targeting. It also costs less. With CRISPR, it may cost about $5,000 to generate founder mice, while with conventional...

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