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  1. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    ...- These fragments are produced by proteolytic digestion that retains an antibody’s disulfide bonds within...resulting product is a mini-Y with both Fab regions still attached to one another. Size: ~110 kDa. Fab' - ...- These fragments are produced by proteolytic digestion above the hinge-region, which results in two independent...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...target tissue, two weeks is the standard ballpark estimation. Once expressed, viral cargo is usually quite...a Postdoctoral Fellow in Connie Cepko’s Lab investigating neuronal circuits of the retina using viral ...12349826. Xiong, Wenjun, and Constance Cepko. "Distinct expression patterns of AAV8 vectors with broadly...
  3. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    ... to make a plasmid. Doench’s lab in the Broad Institute has created hundreds of thousands of plasmids,...also a great way to get to know people doing interesting and relevant work in your field! However, there...my ability to tell. But even from these rough estimates, it’s clear that community engagement with and...
  4. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...tet-off turns off constitutively expressed proteins while tet-on turns on constitutively silenced proteins...know what the job requirements are. Here are the questions you should be asking. What kind of control? On...
  5. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    ...initiates single stranded DNA degradation. Cas3 DNA digestion can proceed up to multiple kilobases, but only...that it generates staggered breaks, also known as sticky ends. Cas12a cleavage results in 5 bp overhangs...efficient, multiplexable RNA knockdown. Cas13 has also stirred up interest for its potential as a viral therapeutic...
  6. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    ... admittedly, somewhat meaningless) practice of listing “Submitted” articles in their CV or grant applications...directly alongside the preprint while the work is still in progress or awaiting a final publication in a...Motivations, concerns and selection biases when posting preprints: a survey of bioRxiv authors. bioRxiv...
  7. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    ...this though) about the fact that containers are distinct from their contents. You should be tracking both...tray or a freezer. Some are disposable, like a plastic tube. Talk with your lab team about how they would...getting up and running and more time working on interesting biotechnology code.There are valid technical ...
  8. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    ...one-pot reactions with straightforward restriction digestion and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral...pool of lentiviral plasmids. Multiple rounds of digestion and ligation result in plasmid libraries containing...tailored to address the users’ specific research questions. CombiGEM has been successfully applied to functionally...
  9. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    ...option in early 2020 and eventually replace the existing version of PubMed.  Key features This new version... for getting a quick summary of papers before investing the time to read them. Organizations: Accounts...AI-backed literature search developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar ...
  10. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...You’ve done great research and made interesting discoveries. You’ve analyzed the data and generated beautiful...should be easily navigable and efficient; your questions, data, and conclusions should be clearly identified...spacing between them so that they are easily distinguished. The UCLA Library offers some Powerpoint based...
  11. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ... be used for the development of vaccines and diagnostics (Hsieh et al., 2020). As the virus spreads around...also deposited plasmids for producing COVID-19 diagnostic enzymes. Plasmids in this toolkit include ones...starting point for SARS-CoV-2 researchers to investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene...
  12. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...highlighted new tools but also included time for questions and a group discussion on the best strategies ... the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically for C.... to activation sequences upstream of genes to stimulate expression (Wang et al., 2016). In 2018, the lab...
  13. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...include Swiss Webster and Harlan (Hsd) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Swiss. Genetically engineered...injection of a targeting vector alone, some challenges still exist. Nucleases may cause off-target effects on...the transgene in specific cells or under certain stimuli. Cre recombinase catalyzes the recombination of...
  14. Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More

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    ...you can make big changes in your career path and still find comfort and happiness there. Read all of the...part of why they work at Addgene. I posed this question to all nine of my interviewees. Fabienne Furt,...people.” My absolute favorite response to this question came from Lucy Hammer, our Financial Operations...
  15. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...Repair of CFTR by CRISPR/Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem ...adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis (Schwank et al). They were able to demonstrate...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ... instead that it is noninvasive and has longer-lasting effects. Building your chemogenetic system To set...they retain their intracellular interactions and still set off the same pathways, giving rise to the same... create ultrapotent PSEMS (uPSEMs) that have drastically increased potency. Download our chemogenetics...
  17. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    ...of expertise, equipment, or excellence of the institution). Likewise, if you’re staying in the same lab... applying for smaller grants from within your institute or a private funding body. Success breeds success...proof-of-principal study were very helpful in assisting me with applications for much larger fellowships...
  18. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...paternal grandmothers who experienced famine while still in their mother's womb passed on a trait to their...grandchildren; in this study,epigenetic changes were statistically significantly associated with reduced life-span...hybridization, methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion, DNA adenine methyltransferase identification,...
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