... the bioluminescent properties observed in the crystal jellyfish Aequorea victoria (Figure 1) in molecular...the Pacific Ocean, off of the coast of Washington state. Using these samples, he was able to isolate two... time. After Chalfie’s work, scientists really started to take notice of GFP, and began to realize its...resulted in much of our current mechanistic understanding of GFP’s function. His lab described the protein...

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...addition to learning how to be a scientist. Why not stack the deck in your favor? Look for opportunities to... amazing students at Washington University who started the BALSA group, a nonprofit that provides short-term...stick to timelines Be a mentor in a formal program Start something (a journal, a science lunch club, a biotech...by Peggy Klaus Looking for a mentor or want to start a peer mentoring group? "What Makes a Good Mentor...

...cellular milieu. It is, therefore, critical to understand how proteins interact with one another (or with...tagged proteins can be immunoprecipitated using a standard tag-specific antibody (Jarvik and Telmer 1998)...Figure 1). In the first step of optimization, we started off by using custom synthetic two-part cr/tracrRNAs...and then analyzed for tagging efficiency using standard immunocytochemistry (ICC) assays.  Figure 1: ...a crRNA cutting 8-15 bp upstream of your gene’s Start codon will be suitable). For N-terminus tagging,...

...meet everyone but this never happened. I actually started at a later date and worked entirely virtually. ... I was able to express my visions for what my Instagram posts would look like. While working remotely ...continuing Addgene’s Meet an Addgenie Series on Instagram. I interviewed fellow Addgenies about their role... Some of recent Meet an Addgenie posts on Instagram! From this project, I observed what it was ...

...requires a substantial amount of properly folded, relatively pure protein, but getting to this stage is often...Additional tags may be used to improve protein stability and solubility. Determining the best way to express...Ni-NTA resin. MBP improves protein solubility and stability. TRX and signal peptide tags help proteins with...

...Mentee? Q1. What makes a good science mentor? I started a conversation about many of these topics with ... Be?” In this excellent essay Acclimatrix, an assistant professor at a research university in the northeast...trainee had such a dedicated person guiding the start of their career. “I want to be a PI that holds my...necessary power dynamic between advisor and students.” Stay tuned for the answers to the other six mentoring...

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...until now, you’ve always had to call the United States - Cambridge, MA to be exact. Today, that changes...London and operated in collaboration with LGC Standards. And now you’ll be able to call us - Benoit Giquel... Plasmid sharing in Europe: Addgene’s request statistics Since 2004, Addgene has shipped more than 75,...Years of Plasmid Sharing: Interested in more statistics from Addgene's 10 years of plasmid sharing? ...

... If you start poking around on Addgene’s Fluorescent Protein Guide to In Vivo Imaging, you’ll pretty ...allowing higher resolution in samples containing substantial autofluorescence background.” Just last month...genetically-encoded probes by making them brighter, more photostable, smaller, and less toxic to cells. They’d like...answers will be there.     References: Bright and stable near-infrared fluorescent protein for in vivo imaging...

...they also went in search of genes involved in resistance to the cancer drug vemurafenib. Enriched libraries...infection into target cells that have previously been stably transfected for Cas9 expression. The Yusa lab has... screen for genes involved in bacterial toxin resistance, identifying 4 previously unknown genes.  “With... Institute. “This will greatly aid efforts to understand the function of both protein-coding genes as ...

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... in your own lab. Table 1: Comparison Between Standard Restriction Cloning and Fast Cloning Requirement...ligated in vivo. Detailed FastCloning procedure To start the FastCloning process, the insert and vector are...efficiency cloning Now that you have a better understanding of the step by step procedure of FastCloning... 1. Celie, Patrick HN, Annabel HA Parret, and Anastassis Perrakis. "Recombinant cloning strategies for...

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...decision making, and motor control.  What do we understand about Dopamine? DA is produced by specific dopaminergic...dopaminergic neurons in a brain region called the substantia nigra, which is the main source of the body’s...frequency, and this frequency can indicate behavioral state, for example, if someone is awake, agitated, or ...measuring Dopamine In vivo microdialysis The gold standard method of measuring DA and other neurotransmitters...

...observed in the kidneys at a specific developmental stage you could infer that the gene which GFP was monitoring...Development-specific genes – if a gene functions at multiple stages in development, its depletion may result in lethality... the depletion of one another. Under these circumstances, trap methods may be the preferred screening... in fact, they can be activated a considerable distance away from a gene which can make identification...

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...construct. DNA and gRNA are not to scale.   Let’s start with the simplest multiplexing situation: you only...number. First you generate four unique kanamycin-resistant plasmids, each containing a different gRNA target... all but one of your gRNAs into spectinomycin-resistant plasmids pX330S-2 to pX330S-(last gRNA number)...: Comparison of Multiplex Strategies including Standard PolIII-gRNA cassette, Csy4-cleavable cassette,...dicot plants, with a choice of either hygromycin or Basta selection. Yang Lab Single Transcript Multiplexing...