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  1. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    May 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...other videos. For starters, I hadn’t anticipated nearly every webcam recording only 1280x720 resolution... to labs that need them. The lab re-opened very early in the pandemic with some incredibly strict safety...

  2. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...conducted a large scale sequencing and concluded that nearly all disease-linked human genes have counterparts...the most popular model amphibians in science with early research providing insight into some of the most...

  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...the use of bright red fluorescent proteins (e.g. mScarlet) or infrared fluorescent proteins (Chernov et ...interfere with the function of the protein. This is clearly the case when proteins undergo post-translational...

  4. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... glycosylation patterns. Surface labeling is particularly useful for classifying and sorting cells by ...Paul Heisig is a Research Associate in the lab of Arlene Sharpe at Harvard Medical School. His projects ...

  5. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... under CC-BY 4.0 license.   Building off their earlier work on Rab11, the team used optogenetic clustering...constructs to the plasma membrane or lysosomes (the earlier article also provided CIB constructs for targeting...

  6. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    Blog Post
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    July 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... interviews but no job offers, is a failure to clearly articulate one's talents and ideas. Some key points... matter how many times I say this, candidates regularly try to convince me that their search committee...

  7. 3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells

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    Sept. 5, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ... undergoing two rounds of gene-editing enables scarless introduction of an intended mutation while taking...4. Kwart, Dylan, et al. "Precise and efficient scarless genome editing in stem cells using CORRECT." Nature...

  8. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
    ...vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system...is composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step ...

  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ...how much time you can possibly handle doing a particularly annoying task and then dedicating that much ...dinner plans at 6 pm, you had better get started early enough to finish everything you need to do by 6 ...

  11. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...into the parental plasmid (or other). This is particularly relevant in cases where a large plasmid with...introduce a point mutation in a large construct. Particularly, if a pair of unique restriction site is located...

  12. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...using the same expression plasmid. This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation...Institute for Research in Madison, Wisconsin. She is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling...

  13. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cars become more technologically advanced leaving earlier versions obsolete, the techniques we use in lab...researchers at a time when sequencing was still in the early days of development. Today, researchers use both...

  14. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...requires a nearby PAM, although these are still early days for this technology, and the user may need ... P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids ...

  15. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...unanticipated sites. While off-target effects are nearly impossible to eliminate, it’s essential to understand...appropriate method for an activator or repressor Cas. Similarly, Cas ChIP-Seq would also identify all DNA binding...

  16. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...different system (Issa et al., 2023). This can be particularly burdensome in the brain where many different...such as chicken-beta-actin or CAG can drive strong early gene expression, but can become methylated over ...

  17. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Blog Post
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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...specific changes into the mouse genome. With these early technologies, a researcher would first introduce... is a molecular biologist with Biogen and is particularly interested in applying CRISPR for mouse genome...

  18. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...to recognize DNA sequences is not ideal. For the early generation gene editors, new amino acid recognition...engineering of novel base editor proteins. She is particularly interested in combining the realms of art and...

  19. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    June 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...waivers. One of the blog posts that helped me quite early on was Christine Liu’s “How to Become a Scientist...on the Addgene blog Check out our resources for early career researchers Get advice for applying for jobs...

  20. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    March 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... does not mean that is all it will bind to - particularly when you start using complex samples such as... the antibody webpages. These outlets can be particularly useful for sharing negative data. Negative data...
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