...easily started and easily credited. And nothing stops these one-time favors from becoming starting points... rewarding way of making science.   How we started Crowdfight-COVID19 Crowdfight was born as a collaborative... all over the world had signed up, and soon we started receiving dozens of requests every day.    ...suitability and availability; 3) Make the contact to start a direct collaboration between researcher and expert...are undergraduates or PhD students who are just starting their journey into science. Others are experienced...Crowdfight is also open to other topics.  In this new stage of the project we are focusing on what we call “...-and-error. A recommendation for the correct statistical test can save a retraction. Today, collaborations...

...causes instability: CoIE1 encodes a determinant essential for plasmid monomerization and stability. Cell...Multimeric plasmids are also considered to be less stable and more prone to being lost in bacterial cells... of multimer present in your sample. In these instances, please note that the supercoiled dimer band can...1981). E. coli strains such as DH5α, HB101, NEB Stable, Stbl3, etc., are recA- mutant strains, and therefore...the transformed bacterial culture into the late stationary phase. Growing the culture at a lower temperature...R, Walther W, Michel ML, Schmeer M. Long-term stability study and topology analysis of plasmid DNA by ...direction are the secrets of multicopy plasmid stability. Mol Microbiol. 1998 Sep;29(5):1137-45. doi: 10.1046...

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...sample into the appropriate stab culture Grow the stab culture Ship the stab culture to the proper location... track the location, quality, growth, and legal status of thousands of plasmids a day, like we do at Addgene...some require going back two steps, some require starting over entirely, and our software needs to handle...corresponding entry in your database. Enjoy your happy lab staff. Barcoded materials make everyone's life easier... tricky procedure failed and one of your techs started over with a new tube. In the first example we’... valid technical reasons to choose a non-Python stack, but if you're working with scientists it's unlikely...

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...immunogenic proteins generated Stable integration into host genome and stable expression of the transgene... generations of lentiviral vectors have been established so far, with safety increasing in each generation...stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) that improves the stability and broadens the cellular tropism of the viral... In this case, your gene is repressed in steady state and is expressed when Dox is added to the culture...particles expressing proto-oncogenes or oncogenes for instance should be manipulated with care. See the NIH’s...well. Quickly after transfection (4-8h), cells start releasing viral particles into the culture supernatant...found very effective for T cells transduction for instance. I hope you will find this information useful...

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... embryonic stem cell stage using one of several techniques. The longest standing technique is the injection...Mice are a common model organism used to understand mammalian traits and genetically engineered mouse... to create engineered mouse models at embryonic stages, and the pros and cons of different genome editing...experiments. Inbred mice are particularly useful for understanding a specific effect related to an experimental...positive selection marker such as an antibiotic resistance gene is also included to select for successfully...which is then implanted into a female animal for gestation. Nucleases that induce double-stranded DNA breaks...which is then implanted into a female mouse for gestation. All three can introduce multiple base pair deletions...

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...The day has arrived; you’ve painstakingly cared for your packaging cell line, prepped your DNA, transfected...to move ahead with your infection and make your stable cell line. While we’ve all experienced the pressure...transductions should not be rushed into. Before you start any transduction, you should always titer your virus...components such as LTRs, gag, WPRE, antibiotic resistance-genes, or the transgene itself. Many researchers...are used as it eliminates the need for antibody staining. Check Out Our In-Depth Fluoresence Titering Protocol...Another popular approach utilizes the antibiotic resistance genes carried on transfer plasmids. Target cells... one copy integrates, selecting by antibiotic-resistance or single cell sorting based on expression of...

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...because it has the advantage of starting out with a larger initial starting library size (up to 1012 members...challenging when trying to develop antibodies against unstable targets like membrane proteins that may unfold...This selection platform was designed so that any standard lab can quickly select for sybodies targeting ...To find an optimally binding sybody, you want to start out with a large and diverse pool of sybodies that...al., 2018). Find the Sybody Generation Toolbox! Starting with libraries and a biotinylated (for purification...et al., 2018. Ribosome display The Seeger lab starts with a “pre-enrichment” selection step using ribosome...Zimmermann et al., 2020). This step of the protocol starts out with anti-Myc antibodies bound to an ELISA ...