...Finding research papers is not particularly hard. There are millions of them. The real challenge is finding... relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox will highlight four tools...will become the default PubMed search option in early 2020 and eventually replace the existing version...Learn why scientists should be on Twitter Read our Early Career Research Toolbox blog posts on free tools...

...statistics on what percent of scientists and engineers regularly use the platform, why scientists are using the...

...paragraphs with many hard-to-read sentences.  Grammarly Grammarly is a lot like spell check, but since it’s...Docs, social media, etc.). The free version of Grammarly also offers basic writing suggestions, like alternative...organizing papers, check out this related blog post: Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers...

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...We’re excited to welcome Karen Katz, Esq and Carl Paratore, MBA, CPA to the Addgene Board of Directors... through my work on the audit committee. I’m particularly curious to see how that progresses in 2019 and...BioBuilder and Brookline Interactive. Learn more about Carl Paratore, MBA, CPA Mr. Paratore serves as the General...governance processes. Prior to Tufts Health Plan, Carl worked at both MetLife & Ernst & Young, LLP, auditing...Information Systems Audit and Control Association. Lastly, Carl also serves on the Board of Advisors and Audit Committee...

...fight the cancer.  Beyond early modifications to standard treatments and early detection, mesothelioma ...the US. Therefore, mesothelioma doesn’t receive nearly as much research funding from the government as...delivered intravenously. New treatment options: Early detection, immunotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors...improve the life expectancy of mesothelioma patients: early detection and immunotherapy.  It has long been known... mesothelioma patients is to catch the disease earlier. New techniques are currently being tested in clinical... clinical trials to detect mesothelioma earlier than ever. From breath tests to blood tests, researchers...can come up with new ways to discover the cancer earlier, in particular before it starts to spread beyond...

...studying synaptic connections and physiology is particularly challenging as they are great in number, generally...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101330 Split-wrmScarlet, a fluorescent proteins system for Caenorhabditis... elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet is a new split red FP that is three times brighter...Calico Life Sciences. Like many split FPs, split-wrmScarlet is composed of two FP fragments that are not ... engineered C. elegans cell lines to express wrmScarlet1-10 unattached to any other cellular protein. ...with a ssODN template to introduce the small wrmScarlet11 which is less than 60 nt in length to tag the...distinct localizations. Figure 2: Split-wrmScarlet labeling proteins with different subcellular ...

...: Ace-mScarlet is a fusion between the voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin Ace2N and mScarlet. Ace2N... change across the membrane of cardiac cells. Similarly, neuronal signaling is carried out by action potentials...fluorescent protein (FP). This class of GEVI was the earliest developed voltage sensor with a genetic component...for ion transport, not fluorescence, they are not nearly as bright as the other GEVI systems that use engineered...Ace2N quenches a proportion of mScarlet's emission via FRET.  Image from Beck et al, 2019 under CC BY 4.0...genetic component, and a small molecule component. Early versions of these sensors contained a FP that localized...quenching of the fluor via FRET. This system is particularly powerful for in vivo imaging especially since...

...characterized: mScarlet (fluorescent lifetime of 3.9 ns, quantum yield of 0.70), mScarlet-I with T74I (...compared to mScarlet, fluorescent lifetime of 3.1 ns, quantum yield of 0.54) and mScarlet-H with M164H...compared to mScarlet, fluorescent lifetime of 1.3 ns, quantum yield of 0.20). All three mScarlet variants...New bright monomeric red fluorescent protein - mScarlet! The Dorus Gadella lab has recently developed ...synthetic red fluorescent protein variant they call mScarlet. Bindels et al used a combination of deliberate...protein fusions. The Gadella lab has deposited all mScarlet constructs with Addgene. Bindels DS, et al. Nat...Methods. 2017. PubMed PMID: 27869816 Listen to our mScarlet Podcast Segment    Photocleavable protein PhoCl...

...protein (mScarlet) with either a seven or eight amino acid linker between them. The Ace-mScarlet voltage...results in higher quenching of mScarlet emission. Figure 2: Ace-mScarlet is a fusion between the voltage-sensitive...inhibitory rhodopsin Ace2N and mScarlet. Ace2N quenches a proportion of mScarlet's emission via FRET. Image ...created two plasmids containing a red-shifted Ace-mScarlet, a fusion of a voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin...blue-light-sensitive channelrhodopsins. Find the Ace-mScarlet voltage indicator plasmids at Addgene! Beck et...

...genome consists of “early” (E) and “late” genes, and the transition between early and late infection (... AdV transfer plasmid with the E1 and E3 (Early 1 and Early 3) genes deleted. These genes’ functions are... (and therefore between early and late gene transcription) is demarcated by viral genome replication (... (Harrach, 2014). Given that the early genes encode proteins essential to initiating the whole process...only the transgene will be expressed, since the early genes are absent, and the late genes (and their ... knob domain, and hexon), as well as other intracellularly-exposed proteins and downstream cellular events...

... control process alone takes nearly a year. Addgene depositor Juan Carlos Izpsua Belmonte said it took...able to attend the 10 Years of iPSCs Symposium earlier this year, I jumped at the chance. Here was an ...pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of forming nearly all cell types in the body from otherwise terminally... prominent role in the scientific endeavor – particularly in fields like stem cell biology where questions...the back burner at scientific conferences. In my nearly 20-year career in science, I have never attended...expensive Dr. Yamanaka explained that it took 50 people nearly 2 years to create the first stem cell line that...

...only 2-3 hours incubation. E. coli and T. citrea scarless editing plasmids Sheng Yang’s lab describes a ...recombineering with CRISPR to create a system for scarless, iterative genome engineering (Jiang et al., 2015...recombinogenic than E. coli, so this system functions more similarly to CRISPR/Cas9 systems adapted for eukaryotes ...expression. The Marraffini lab and Qi lab developed early systems for E. coli; while the Marraffini lab used...Qi et al., 2013). Two important features of this early system are its regulatable nature and its ability...Marraffini lab's CRISPRi/a plasmids In addition to the early work of the Marraffini lab pioneering genome editing...editing using CRISPR in bacteria, they also led early efforts creating tools for CRISPRi and CRISPRa (Bikard...

...remove racial bias from work being done today, is a nearly entirely separate effort from acknowledging its...strongly correlated genetic dependencies that were clearly associated with European or East Asian ancestry...be good targets for therapeutic development, particularly in cancers that are more common in individuals...begin correcting the issue. Working with James McFarland, Jeremie Kalfon, Javad Noorbakhsh, Isabella Boyle...confounding factor when interpreting findings, particularly when researching ancestry groups. And, of course...Adam Brown, John G Doench, David E Root, James McFarland, Rameen Beroukhim, Jesse S Boehm. bioRxiv 2022.11.18.517155...science and society." Science 376, (2022): 250-252. Carlson J, Henn BM, Al-Hindi DR, Ramachandran S. Counter...

...center of her lab (pictured above). DePace holds yearly planning meetings with each trainee to create a...thoughtful planning and honest feedback DePace’s yearly planning meetings revolve around two simple worksheets...tone for the meeting. Another key aspect of the yearly planning meeting is that the trainee leads the ...culture Although they may take some getting used to, yearly planning meetings have tangible benefits for both... to resolve interpersonal conflicts in the lab. Yearly planning meetings may not look the same in every...strategies in the comments section!   References 1. Yearly Planning Meetings: Individualized Development Plans...

...Assembly. Gibson Assembly allows the production of scarless DNA constructs using homologous regions to guide...use of Type IIS restriction enzymes results in scarless assembly. Finally, the NEBuilder® HiFi DNA Assembly...fragment overlap sections, while still creating scarless plasmid inserts.  Want to Learn More about DNA...reset and ligate mismatched overhangs, yielding scarless DNA assembly, and allowing fragments to be taken...used directly in DNA assembly will still yield scarless assemblies. Overview of NEBuilder HiFi DNA assembly...and primer design results in covalently joined, scarless DNA – perfect for transforma­­­tion or as a PCR...

... to realize that there were a lot of words that nearly all Addgene teams used that seemed simple, but ...questions--which were real, not hypothetical--was clearly “no.” When there was room for misinterpretation...list of commonly used (and misused) words that clearly needed an Addgene-specific definition. Words such...setting, where student and postdoc turnover happens regularly and it behooves everyone in the lab to be using..., so we came up with a 3-part strategy: Train: Nearly every new Addgene employee gets “Lexicon Training...Defining words and applying annotation can be particularly useful in academic labs when creating shared...

...lymphoma, and some solid tumors are currently in early-phase clinical trials and have shown promising preliminary...et al). CRISPR engineering of CAR-T cells is particularly promising because of its potential for allogenic... polymorphisms (SNPs) in the TTR gene and is molecularly characterized by misfolding of the TTR protein...construct targeting the diseased allele specifically. Early-stage trials showed a high success rate in clearing...the list above! There are many, many more in the earlier stages of the pipeline, ones that have experienced...therapy, since TTR is primarily made in the liver. Similarly, for cardiovascular disease approaches targeting...

...proteins that had shown magnetic responses: EGFP, mScarlet, and AsLOV2. After several rounds of semi-random...semi-random mutagenesis and screening, the EGFP and mScarlet variants were showing no obvious signs of improved...that MagLOV’s “astonishing” magnetoresponse was clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian... tools, they’re optimistic that MagLOV can be similarly adaptable into future magnetogenetic tools.  Embracing...code, raw data, and more. The team shares results early and often, including works-in-progress still in ...passive impact,” he says, noting that his team regularly shares troubleshooting tips and works with other...