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  1. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ... feeling of conflict many of us associate with negotiating (check out more about conflict resolution)....examples of negotiation have been: A job offer conflicts with a pre-planned vacation I’m looking forward...blog More from the transferable skills guide: Conflict Resolution Time management Managing a team Leadership...
  2. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ... original CAPTURE and CAPTURE 2.0 methods.   Applications of CAPTURE 2.0 CAPTURE 2.0’s increased rate ...identified with the multiplexed CAPTURE 2.0 largely replicated interactions previously identified with the original... of chromatin interaction networks  A second application for CAPTURE 2.0 is the construction of spatial...temporal changes in chromatin interactions A third application for CAPTURE 2.0 is detection of temporal changes...
  3. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... millions of people die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics, new...non-cancerous cells, such as those within hair follicles and lining the digestive system, causing discomfort...any of these genes through several different applications such as fluorescent protein fusion studies and...of interest to their laboratory. A single mouse click on a gene of interest will direct the investigator...
  4. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ... and have been adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (... The process also creates a 5-bp target-site duplication (TSD), a hallmark characteristic of the Tn7-family...at one or multiple desired genomic loci. Many applications of these systems have already been demonstrated..., 2020), to multi-copy genomic integration of metabolic cassettes (Zhang et al. 2020); however, the technology...
  5. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...early I’m fortunate to live in a town with a good public school system that has made strong efforts in the...simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated and I would quickly lose their interest. I won...opinion, it was more important to communicate the applications of CRISPR over the details of how it worked....examples I used in my presentation had only become public in the previous two weeks, which demonstrated to...
  6. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...with an abundance of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this...experiment or evaluating ExM images in a new publication.         Why Expansion Microscopy?  Traditional...Tissue expansion is not compatible with in vivo applications and there’s just not much to be done about that...are typically easier to expand than mouse brain slices, which are easier to expand than, say, a C. elegans...
  7. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests ...14%). Spikes in plasmid requests correspond to publications of popular papers. Figure 1: Plasmid requests...effects fairly well. However, we observed one complication in the China data – there is a period of 1 month...fundamental scientific discovery and high-impact applications.       Alvin Hsu is a graduate student at Harvard...
  8. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...describe this technology and some of its potential applications? Fujii: We generated a series of retroviral ...the peer-review system of journals and grant applications, for example. However, at the same time, it'.... So, young researchers need to publish good publications in a short period of time and may need to do...available. Visit Hodaka Fujii lab's Addgene page and click the "Subscribe to Alerts" link in the Addgene Alerts...
  9. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ..., mediates protein trans-splicing, similar to an intron in pre-mRNA splicing. In 2016, Fine et al developed...finding smaller Cas9 orthologs works for some applications, it doesn’t eliminate the need to deliver larger...Brown MT, Deshmukh H, Kemp ML, Bao G (2015) Trans-spliced Cas9 allows cleavage of HBB and CCR5 genes in human...
  10. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...hour. Find the SHERLOCK plasmids at Addgene! Applications of the SHERLOCK detection system The Zhang lab...portability. This method can be used for an array of applications including clinical diagnostics (e.g. pathogen...patient samples. Find the DETECTR plasmids here! Applications of DETECTR in diagnostics DETECTR allows for...an array of molecular and clinical diagnostic applications. The company Mammoth Biosciences has been started...
  11. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    Jan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...it down until you have something tangible and applicable to your situation.   Thinking Outside the Box...give people more work. Identify your enemies In Felicia Day’s book Embrace your Weird, Day identifies nine...for your idea. Our product team has implemented a policy of never rejecting an idea simply because it's ...innovative group. Our entire company benefits from their policy! Perfectionism When we reach for perfection, our...
  12. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    Oct. 20, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...have real conversations with other scientists. Click Here to Visit Joanne’s AMA I've heard of Reddit,...Anything” was appealing, but also scary. I do a lot of public speaking where I enjoy communicating face to face...posters (this advice included leaving out the term “implicit bias” which is apparently a troll trigger phrase...recommend taking every opportunity you get to speak publically about your work (you can find my tips for a perfect...
  13. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Institute, Public Domain, National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia user Aimecie~commonswiki, Public Domain...let alone the human cost. Here are just a few publications which have since been retracted due to cell ...profiles are available for all the major cell lines on public databases. Image attributions (from top to bottom...
  14. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
    ... of a mystical "Force," this quote is equally applicable to many microscopy experiments with fluorescent...How can one ensure that an FP fusion with a non-cytosolic protein functions properly? We suggest starting... non-optimized parental proteins. Our recent publication illustrated the quantitative increase in fluorescent...and Jack Griffith, her research focuses on the replication machinery of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus...
  15. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ...resistance gene and the origin of replication are necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells...chicken beta actin promoter, and rabbit beta-globin splice acceptor. TRE General expression mRNA Tetracycline... General expression Promoter of the arabinose metabolic operon Inducible by arabinose and repressed catabolite...
  16. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ...cell types, and research applications. Labeling neurons with Brainbow The Lichtman group developed the original... Brainbow 3.1 and 3.2 (described in the same publication) are unique because by default, they are not ...level of these XFP is not strong enough for all applications. To resolve this, similar systems have been ...
  17. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    Oct. 5, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...information on NIR FPs, their properties and applications. At the end, there is a Table that summarizes...their enhanced versions named emiRFPs in your applications.  There is a whole set of spectrally distinct... about the characteristics, performance, and applications of near-infrared calcium indicators in this ...of Medicine. Her expertise is development and applications of fluorescent proteins, genetically encoded...
  18. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...approach may also be applicable to a number of rare genetic diseases caused by splicing defects, including...estimated that exon skipping therapies would be applicable to 80% of DMD patients. Long et al., Nelson ...Exon-skipping antisense oligonucleotides to correct missplicing in neurogenetic diseases. Nucleic Acid Ther. ...
  19. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... wanted to inactivate the gene BRAF (a kinase implicated in several human cancers) in A549 cells (a human...need to use FACS (like they did in the original publication). I thought I could see GFP expression with a...expression, but I didn’t. 2. In the original publication they see GFP expression in about 20% of their...an MOI of 0.3, as recommended by the original publication. Pro-Tip: 1. Use multiple gRNAs to target different...
  20. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
    ...Yizhar, and Karl Deisseroth. "The development and application of optogenetics." Annual review of neuroscience...SSharma, Suveena, and Jinfang Zhu. "Immunologic applications of conditional gene modification technology ...Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications of optogenetics." Current protocols in pharmacology... J. Simon, et al. "Silencing neurons: tools, applications, and experimental constraints." Neuron 95.3 ...
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