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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 9, 2017, 2 p.m.... your technical knowledge and judgement. For particularly tricky cases, team discussions can often lead...doing a lot of science communication, and is particularly excited to hear about novel developments in ...
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Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... Figure 4: Reporters in Gene On include a mScarlet reporter, luciferase reporter, and neomycin resistance...translation of an array of different reporters including mScarlet-I, luciferase, antibiotic resistance markers, ... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2020, 1 p.m....CRISPR Cas variant that can also cleave dsDNA similarly to Cas9 (Zetsche et al., 2015 ). Cas12a however...DETECTR. How does DETECTR work? DETECTR works similarly to SHERLOCK. Cas12a is targeted to a specific ... -
Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2020, 2:15 p.m....conferences should strive to provide support to early career scientists, students, and those from historically...Juliet Johnston, Kat Milligan-Myhre, Kim Dill-McFarland, Lisa Gorski, Mark O. Martin, Maureen Berg, Michael... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....and I met scientists from 21 different labs who clearly also share this wonder of the organism. It’s...songs like humans learn speech. Finches must learn early, use auditory feedback to learn, babble as baby ... -
Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 2, 2019, 1:44 p.m....segmentation during embryogenesis. Typically, regularly spaced denticles (bristles) outline the segments... of cookie monster mutant flies are filled with early mitotic cells as well as necrotic or dead cells ... -
Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....article is an interactive chart where you can see the yearly interdisciplinarity index of research for single...and case study." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2.2 (2014): 2. Additional Resources... -
Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m....major effect on scientists within academia, most particularly postdocs working in the U.S., whose current ...thing. Reliance on a cheap trainee workforce has clearly not been a sustainable approach to biomedical research... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... is still a problem today. It is now known that nearly 500 cell lines suffer from contamination with HeLa...out on low passage cells and this means you can regularly discard the cells you are working with because... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....American Type Culture Collection and freeze as many early passage vials as possible. One problem that often...can make this assumption incorrect. One of the earliest steps in lentiviral transduction is the interaction... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... determine this is to examine expression of the early response gene c-fos. For example, using Chr2 stimulation...and a lot of room for error, optogenetics is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Like every other advanced... -
Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m....between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...related species from which they were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian,... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m....BioRender.com. This kind of normalization is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but proceed with caution! Loading...chain (blue) to infer or calculate things about earlier ones. In practice, multiple sources of error (red... -
Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m....while requiring a lower concentration of sample — nearly ten times less protein. While the addition of LEAs...Methyltransferase (CHARM), with several advantages over the earlier system. Rather than overexpressing an exogenous... -
Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 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 ... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 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... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 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... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 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... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 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 ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 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 ...