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  1. How to Lead a Great Meeting

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    ...participants, clarification - new and useful information, and invigoration - a renewed energy for continuing.... This keeps our all-company meetings short, informative, and pleasant. Email: Sometimes, the right ...Before long, you will be running collaborative, informative, energizing meetings all your own. Additional...
  2. Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key

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    ...You can’t delegate the giving of feedback or performance review. You can’t delegate tasks assigned to ... take on all tasks that involve confidential information. No matter who you delegate to, or what tasks...ensure successful results.  Can you provide the information and resources needed for the assignment? Setting...
  3. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ...uncut DNA (lane 2) shows 3 possible plasmid conformations, with relaxed and nicked marked with asterisks...make it easier for you to obtain a useful and informative diagnostic restriction digest. For your digest...fact that the circular DNA takes on several conformations the most abundant being: supercoiled, relaxed...
  4. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    ... to work with, time consuming, and minimally informative. In this blog post, we’ll introduce digital PCR...target DNA. Conventional thermal cycling is then performed to amplify the target using PCR. Instead of tracking...design such assays, in addition to testing their performance (2). Remember that although digital PCR is a ...
  5. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    ...and expressing new shRNA sequences. For more information, see the Addgene’s pLKO.1 protocol. Pro-tip: ...trademarked Tet-On(R) sold by Clontech. For additional information, see the manual provided by the Weiderschain ...vector encodes both SpCas9 and your gRNA. It’s the former version of our sixth most popular plasmid pSpCas9...
  6. Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study

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    ...variable heavy (VH) chain sequences. Fusion PCR was performed to create an amplicon that  was cloned into a ...frequency within functional light chain sequences. By performing a BciVI digest of the PCR products prior to cloning...improving access to useful research materials and information. References and Resources Additional Resources...
  7. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    ...therefore will require crosslinking, which uses formaldehyde or UV light to create strong but reversible ...actively interacting with, reducing background information. Your options for this step are sonication, which... with a PCR purification kit or with a phenol-chloroform extraction.    Fig. 1: Schematic overview...
  8. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    ... genes, researchers at the Genetic Pertubation Platform at the Broad Institute have expanded the genetic...-based method for screens. Cas12a’s ability to perform multiplex editing within a single expression cassette...used to create a genome-wide library capable of performing similarly to Cas9 screens in a compacted library...
  9. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    ... still in its infancy. A long timeline from transformation to testing and a lack of well-characterized...s made even more difficult by the fact that transformation methods have also been patented. In order to.... We will also be working with open source, transformation technologies like those pioneered by Ewen Mullins...
  10. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...relevant host biomarkers. The lab validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR...Gilliamella apicoli. The plasmids could also be transformed into Alphaproteobacteira, Betaproteobacteria,... al. "A low-cost paper-based synthetic biology platform for analyzing gut microbiota and host biomarkers...
  11. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    ...as “sample,” “material,” “item,” and “format” all received formal definitions in our lexicon. We created...container, when applicable Any other relevant information Prescribing an official name to all of our plates...
  12. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...immunogen. A different type of purification can be performed to isolate antibodies only recognizing your protein...steps keep the cost low compared to other antibody formats. This low barrier to entry makes polyclonal antibodies... detect a protein in low abundance or whose conformational state may change. If your protein might become...
  13. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...very interesting talk by Prof. Erin M Schuman, a former Caltech researcher, now Director at the Max Planck... from them at the MPI in Frankfurt am Main and perform similar experiments. Visualizing newly synthesized...provides both quantitative and spatio-temporal information about the turnover of specific endogenous proteins...
  14. Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody

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    ...background papers you could get your hands on, formulated a hypothesis, and planned out your key experiments...so look at epitope target, source, and other information to make sure you’re not trying to choose between...Antibody-based assays are complex and antibodies may perform differently in different samples and experimental...
  15. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    ...antibody. Perform a second series of wash steps. Activate the signaling molecule and perform the assay...sample with the primary (unconjugated) antibody. Perform a series of wash steps to remove any unbound or...
  16. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ... to support sharing of CRISPR constructs and information across the globe.  “Read the Addgene guide: https...barrier for depositors and requestors alike. We transformed this process by aligning institutions with standardized...the Neuroscience AntiBody Open Resource (NABOR) platform, supported by an NIH BRAIN Initiative. We also...
  17. To Each HIS Own

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    ...methods where binding relies on a specific protein conformation, the polyhistidine-metal ion interaction is ...this one developed by Dr. James Trimmer’s lab, to perform assays that they otherwise would not be able to...polyhistidine tags. For more antibody-related information, sign up to receive alerts for antibody posts...
  18. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ...gene in frame with an MCS. E. coli that were transformed with the empty vectors expressed the ccdB gene...applications. While these two strains ultimately perform the same function, there is some evidence that ...that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the specific plasmids being used. ...
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