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  1. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    ...sequencing or restriction digest! Then, you can transform or transfect the cells that you want to use for your... reactions are performed, the next step is to transform competent E. coli cells and select the positive...Cloning Technology: Advantages and Drawbacks. Clon Transgen 4:138. doi:10.4172/2168-9849.1000138 2. Hartley...
  2. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    ...pharmaceutical companies, biotech start-ups, health insurance companies, and governments on the most effective...physicians and patients, shaping discussions with insurance companies about the pricing and coverage of drugs...therapeutic approach brings to patients, doctors, and insurance providers, and is crucial to how our clients’ ...When I was first considering preparing for and transitioning to a career in healthcare consulting, I found...
  3. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    ...types of ELNs are available on the market today, ranging from general note taking tools, to more scientific....e. main priorities of different ELN features, ranging from whether respondents saw them as not important...requires time and knowledge. In a recent article, we translated our knowledge of electronic lab notebooks into...information. If an employee leaves the institution, the transition is smooth as all data is organized within an ...
  4. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...dDetermined as effective NIR fluorescence in transiently transfected live HeLa cells with no supply of exogenous...lamps are the best for working in this spectral range. You can also check that no filters and/or cold ...and after normalization to fluorescence of co-transfected EGFP. e Originally reported as a monomer16, IFP2.0...
  5. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ...looking, I found an inexpensive HDMI transmitter that could transmit a signal between a wall. There was ... things first was getting that wireless HDMI transmitter/receiver, to beam the camera’s image to my remote...then set up a monitor connected to the wireless transmitter and an iPad in the office next door (connected...
  6. Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping

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    ... avidin, proximity labelling can capture weak/transient protein interactions as well as be used for both...proximity labeling by promiscuous biotin ligases (Branon et al., 2018). BioID and BioID2 can take hours ...2019). This technique relies on an S. auerus transpeptidase sortase A variant (mgSrtA), which is capable...motif, give these methods a try.  References:  Branon, Tess C., et al. "Efficient proximity labeling ...
  7. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    ...While this may effectively serve as a transfection or transduction control, a different gRNA would have..., you’ll want to select a Cas enzyme with low tolerance for mismatches within the gRNA sequence. ...near each other, this will result in a DNA double strand break (DSB), the event required for frameshift ...
  8. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    ...investigator. In basic science (as opposed to translational, biomedical, or applied sciences), people conduct...don’t tell us everything there is to know is a strange and exciting revelation. Science in any field can...investigator (PI) Runs the lab Writes a lot of grants Varying degrees of engagement with what happens...1-2 years) Often a gap-year position taken to transition to the next career stage (ex: grad school, med...
  9. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques is Best for Me?

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    ...Although white light is entering your hand, only orange/red light can be seen exiting through the tissue...detector such as a scientific CMOS camera. If plasma membrane dynamics are the main focus of the experiment,...Reversible Saturable Optical Linear Fluorescence Transitions (RESOLFT/STED) also excel on these types of samples...when acquiring multiple images over a large axial range. 2-photon imaging, which restricts excitation and...
  10. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...levels to generate anything from individual transcription units (TUs) used to express your favorite gene-of-interest...service (Lee et al., 2015). This kit offers a broad range of parts, including copy number machinery, chromosomal...vectors. The Plant Parts III kit has a focus on transformation and genome engineering. This is a specialized...used successfully for protein localization and transport studies in HEK cells, recombinant protein purification...
  11. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ... modified cells are transferred into an animal and the behavior of the transferred cells is followed. ...generating a massive amount of descriptive transcriptomics data. Custom CRISPR screens designed to target...pathway with many receptors, signaling molecules, transcription factors, and ligands. The presenter then showed...
  12. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    ...Michigan State University 9:36-10:29 : Kingdom's transition back to Malawi and Lilongwe University of Agriculture...-14:53 : Kingdom's current projects producing transgenic crops 14:54-23:44 : Follow up Kingdom's PhD projects... transgenic crops...
  13. Our New Antibody Mascot is....

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    ...choices), we'll be in touch with you soon with some brand-new Addgene swag!   Last month, we introduced you...out to you and received a plethora of options, ranging from Affie to Yncredibody. After an agonizing week...their new friend…  Fig. 1: Meet...well, frankly, we're not sure yet!   This as-yet–unnamed ...
  14. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    ...characterized by single, linear, negative-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes. The virus does all of its damage ... also recently described how the glycoprotein transforms itself to escape vesicles within host cells and...the current Ebola crisis, Science and Science Translational Medicine have made their complete collection...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - May 2019

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    ... strategy to enhance HDR repair using a single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide HDR template covalently attached...Shapiro’s lab. After testing dCas9 fusions with transcriptional repressors, they found that fusing dCas9 to...to an Mxi1 repressor domain repressed transcription of HSP90 an essential C. albicans gene. Read the ...
  16. Making Career Development an Integral Part of the Science Training System

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    ...ample resources and a positive perspective on the transition to a post-academic career. This training was ... inadequate job of supporting science trainee transition into diverse, successful careers.  We’re not ...components of predoctoral and postdoctoral training. A grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences...
  17. What's New in CRISPR - Spring 2019

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    ... °C but preferentially nicks the non-target DNA strand. The lab then found gain-of-function mutations ...mutations that allows it to be repurposed for double strand breaks at target sites. Read the paper in Nature... of stable genomic integration and is easily transferred via conjugation.   Read the paper in Nature...
  18. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    ...ability to direct enzymes – from nucleases to transcription factors – to specific sequences of DNA has become...Biological Engineering in March is fused to a translational repressor. In principle, however, designer PUF...of designer PUF proteins for specific post-transcriptional regulation of endogenous RNA. J Biol Eng. 2014...
  19. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Innovations

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    ... emphasizes Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency. This label scores products by their environmental... but with the right incentives (for example, by grant agencies), we can shift toward a more sustainable...your RMV to the landfill, it’s collected and transferred to the Red2Green processing facility, where it...
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