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  1. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    ...they wrote the job description. You check off all the boxes - you have the desired degree, you have mastered... gaps in scientists' transferrable skills. In describing the limitations of the study, the authors noted...over email. Examine your current and past job descriptions. Scan through all the things for which you are...
  2. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...that’s suitable for PCR amplification using pre-designed primers. By using this library to infect an animal...isolate DNA from the infected animal and use the pre-designed primers to determine which version(s) of the capsid... (figure 4f) of the tTA inducer virus, but the desired sparsity of labeling is achieved with lose doses...Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants for widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature biotechnology...
  3. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...transfecting cells with a plasmid, such as PX459, which encodes Cas9 and contains a site for inserting a custom...targeted approach using RNPs has recently been described in vitro, with the hope of eventually using this...expertise. Final thoughts The Cas9-gRNA RNP method provides scientists with an additional means to deliver...other CRISPR delivery techniques Find tips on gRNA design Resources on Addgene.org Browse all CRISPR plasmids...
  4. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...those seen when using a plasmid backbone that was designed specifically for transient expression (find some...expression of viral constructs is a useful tool as it provides a means to quickly check that a construct is functional...3rd-generation transfer plasmids have a chimeric 5'LTR that includes a CMV or RSV promoter as well as a portion of ...those three genes plus tat. The envelope plasmid provides a heterologous envelope for pseudotyping and is...
  5. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...The hardest part of any revolutionary discovery, including CRISPR, is turning potential into impact. ...two pieces: a single protein, computationally described as a fusion of four Cas7 proteins and a putative...RNA editing methods — streamlining experimental design and its potential for clinical applications. Specifically...high-fidelity rate. Both Cas7-11 and PASTE open up multitudes of possibilities at the bench and potentially...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...pseudotyping allows these viruses to infect neurons. Besides altering the host tropism of your virus, there ...neurons. However, VSV-G’s broad tropism can be undesired for in vivo studies since there’s the potential...VSV-G is also toxic at high concentrations as described above and is inactivated by the complement system...proteins that can be used for specific purposes as described previously (Table 1, Gutierrez-Guerrero, et al...
  7. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    .... After months, or years, of grueling effort to design, fund, and conduct a research project, the vast...provide more than enough time for researchers to describe their science, and for viewers to decide if reading...is of interest. In his research, Scott Spicer concludes that “… the emergence of the video abstract genre...websites). WeShareScience is a social platform that provides links to the videos, keeping the copyright and...
  8. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    ...client might need help with the intricate task of designing a strategic vision for a portfolio of candidate...content-rich, easy-to-understand set of PowerPoint slides. What are some of the more challenging parts of...enjoy the challenges of healthcare consulting for decades, others go on to work with commercial teams at ...nature of the job and the ways to prepare for it. Besides those conversations, reading online healthcare ...
  9. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ... meliloti, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, R. capsulatus, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, Salmonella spp., Serratia...Brevibacterium methylicum, Caulobacter crescentus, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, Erwinia carotovora, E. chrysanthemi...meliloti, R. leguminosarum by. viciae, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Salmonella typhimurium, Vibrio cholerae, Xanthomonas...
  10. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...whichever guides are closest to the transcription start site (TSS). We recommend targeting the guides to a ... you should also be ready to test three or four guides directed towards that gene as there can be a large...transcription. That being said, we generally pick guides by putting the promoter of the gene into a gRNA...
  11. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...the time of manuscript submission. The rationale includes increasing the ability of reviewers (and, once...issue by requiring ever more condensed methods descriptions, legends and limiting numbers of figures such...could be mitigated by on-line services such as SlideShare, Figshare and Dataverse. Just as Addgene helps... raise the alpha isoform of GSK-3 to the same (deserved) stature as the beta isoform. Follow him on Twitter...
  12. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    ...pathological developments (Vieira et al., 2019) Besides their ability to regenerate, the axolotl has several...scientific history, highly characterized genome, and widespread utilization, Arabidopsis has made significant...Arabidopsis genome project marked the beginning of widespread Arabidopsis genetics research development. Arabidopsis...allows for easy cloning of constructs specifically designed for use in Arabidopsis. There are also important...
  13. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...Applying for a Faculty Position: the View from Both Sides," are summarized below. Check Out Erik Snapp's ...You want people to focus on you and your ideas. Slides will be     distracting. What is the big question...feedback. Many of these documents are too vaguely described in other sources of guidance or the document examples...single malt whiskies, but I remember the days of modest postdoc salaries all too well. If there's a group...
  14. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...same fluorescent markers, Brainbow 3.1 and 3.2 (described in the same publication) are unique because by...addition to the XFP in the construct, dBrainbow includes small epitopes fused to each XFP. Secondary antibodies...introduced using a plasmid construct called Zebrabow-GateDest containing an RFP, CFP, and YFP downstream of ...cell type. The Confetti mouse was first used to describe the self-renewal of cells in the intestinal crypt...
  15. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    ...blot: we meet again. So useful, yet so finicky to design and optimize. Today we’ll cover the normalization...normalization can amplify other errors in experimental design and gel quantification. Figure 3: In a perfect...final blot. Quantifying the entire lane of protein provides a loading control that can be used for normalization...Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting Technical Design of a Western Blot Troubleshooting and Optimizing...
  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...cofactor binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered to bind...homology domains can be used to detect specific phosphoinositides (Varnai and Balla, 2008) (Figure 2). RNA production...Péter, and Tamas Balla. "Live cell imaging of phosphoinositides with expressed inositide binding protein domains...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...expression to specific tissues and cell types. If desired, spatiotemporal control of transgene expression...systemic AAVs to find commonly used vector cargo designs and administration doses. Note: If capsid immunogenicity... Table 1 gives a brief overview of published descriptions of commonly used or emerging capsids. Selected..., B.E., Gradinaru V. Systemic AAV vectors for widespread and targeted gene delivery in rodents. Nature...Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants for widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature Biotechnology... prioritization for cell type-specific enhancer design. eLife,11, e69571. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife...
  18. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...above 600 nm. LumiFluors Schaub, F.X., et al. (3) designed two imaging probes. One consists of NLuc fused...Reporters. The LumiFluor reporter constructs were designed to be packaged into a retrovirus for infection...BRET probe for imaging. These authors set out to design a better fluorescent protein that could be co-imaged...acceptor, the more powerful the FRET signal. In well-designed FRET-based biosensors, the intensity of the FRET...
  19. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ...every item I tested was constantly tracked with barcodes and spreadsheets. It was great to be in the lab...industry positions. There were, however, some downsides to working in a large commercial company. In my...aspects of the company and gave me the freedom to design new projects and grow in the role. I understand... job different every day. I love the freedom to design and develop my own projects, but working remotely...
  20. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...to be present and recognizable by your antibody despite the manipulation. Additionally, not all sample ...large deletion that removes the entire exon that codes for the epitope recognized by your antibody. You...specific, then you expect that the bulk of the peptides identified to be from the target protein. This...tuned for ready-to-use antibodies from Addgene Designing a recombinant validation experiment? Find plasmids...
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