...hundred years ago. Since then, medical technology has changed a lot, but viruses have stuck around. Vaccine...been approved by the FDA, and this mode of delivery has a lot of clinical promise moving forward. What viruses...acid-based vaccines. These vectors provide several advantages over traditional vaccines, including 1) cellular...

...in the messaging stream. Unfortunately, LinkedIn has spam profiles and trolls. People don’t like to connect...easy favor for people in your network. If someone has connected with me, I consider them fair game for ...many academic scientists are starting to see the advantages of using social networking to start, build, and...

...Professor Goedhart is very active on Twitter and has helped us update many of our educational resources...creation of improved fluorescent proteins through mutagenesis. Chapter 6 - The future of FRET and fluorescent...

...   In conclusion, the MUCICAT system has the following advantages: Fast and site-specific multicopy chromosomal...editing systems in bacteria. Our pCas/pTargetF system has been one of the most popular genomic editing systems...the newly generated pEcCas/pEcgRNA system.   Advantages of the pEcCas/pEcgRNA system Compared with the...

...target is known to be absent naturally or in which it has been knocked-out/knocked-down. “No primary”, pre-... reliable in the future.  We hope that this post has shed some light on immunofluorescence. The technique...fluorophores to visualize multiple targets at once. An advantage of multiplexing is that you can ask how multiple...choose can make or break your experiment, so take advantage of all the available resources and give yourself...

...served by a one-sample test as the standard value has no variation that needs to be accounted for. ANOVA...multiple range test, and several others. Each test has different likelihoods of returning false positives...to a single group. Dunnett’s is more powerful and has a lower error rate than the multiple comparison tests...dependent variables worked synergistically, antagonistically, were additive, etc.). ANCOVA and MANCOVA...

...would not end up in a life sciences career but life has a way of making unexpected decisions. As someone ... I was able to express my visions for what my Instagram posts would look like. While working remotely ...continuing Addgene’s Meet an Addgenie Series on Instagram. I interviewed fellow Addgenies about their role... Some of recent Meet an Addgenie posts on Instagram! From this project, I observed what it was ...

...Minamimoto’s lab known as deschloroclozapine (DCZ) has been developed to meet these requirements. TL;DR..., both techniques offer researchers different advantages and limitations.  The four main factors in which...allow for light delivery. Chemogenetics poses the advantage of being less invasive and more flexible as it...controlled EndogenousNot easily controlled Unique advantages Mapping the brainDissecting circuits Studying...

...might be more successful. “Shock and kill” has the advantage of killing cells infected with HIV-1 to deplete...tough job! Kamel Khalili’s lab at Temple University has demonstrated two potential strategies for CRISPR-... treatment with CRISPR/Cas9 SAM increased the percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, measured via HIV...

...characterization of over 1,000 mutations, and the group has deposited several hundred plasmids from this study...lentiviral constructs using the High-Throughput Mutagenesis and Molecular Barcoding (HiTMMoB) technique (... any mutations that that confer proliferation advantages will be revealed in the absence of growth factor...

...fact, they’ve been following a set of clues that has led them to their biggest discovery yet: Addgene ...submit your name suggestions here or by using the hashtag #AntibodyMakesThree on Twitter. As with Blugene...

...multiple sites in cultured human cells. While it has not yet been demonstrated, they say the vectors are...in June. “The multiplexity is one of the most advantageous properties of CRISPR/Cas9 compared to ZFNs and...

...transsynaptic spread is useful for neuronal tracing, it has two practical limitations. First, these high levels...projection neurons). Research into these phenomenon has shown that the RABV G protein is necessary and sufficient...monosynaptically from these cells. These modifications take advantage of the fact that RABV is an enveloped virus. In...

... disrupting ribosome-mRNA complexes. Recent work has adapted this technique to monitor local translation...contains 24 copies of SunTag, a synthetic scaffold that can recruit GFP fused to the SunTag-specific antibody...Imaging by Coat protein Knock-off) instead takes advantage of the ribosome’s movement. When the ribosome ...indicating translational repression. During later stages, single RFP-labeled osk and Oskar protein were ...scFv. Each time the reporter is translated, the SunTag sites on the nascent polypeptide recruit scFV-GFP..., as the authors of these papers did. Since the SunTag-based system tethers mRNAs to the plasma membrane...Additional Resources the Addgene Blog Learn More about SunTag Catch up on Your GFP Background Choose the Brightest...

... AAV quality control Historically, AAV vector QC has been sparse including only titration of AAV particles... used SMRT sequencing, TA-based ligation and tagmentation-based methods for AAV genome sequencing (Tai...self-complementary AAVs and the TA-based ligation and tagmentation preparation approaches described previously ...single-stranded and both TA-based ligation and tagmentation require a double-stranded template.  Using viral...the mix to serve as effective substrates for tagmentation-based library preparation procedures. This finding...packaging plasmids. We decided to use this to our advantage by designing a Python script that looks for pre-defined...

...native organism.” This is possibly a better idea and has been used successfully in the past (Angov et al.,...functionally analyze the protein produced to ensure that it has folded properly. You may be able to avoid getting...normally found at low abundance in E. coli. The advantage of producing additional tRNAs is that you can ...

...requires. Using the (Last name, Year) format also has the benefit of exposing you to relevant researchers...just gotta do it." At the end of the day, someone has to write the article and that someone is going to...retreat to the woods for months at a time, so take advantage of whatever time you have. If you’re like me, ...

...combining the function of both editors into one? This has been done by fusing the adenine and cytosine editing...deaminases with a Cas9 nickase (Zhang et al., 2020). It has increased CBE activity and reduced RNA off-targeting...engineering and directed evolution of the TadA domain has yielded base editors that are equally efficient at...which uses a different mechanism than base editing, has allowed scientists to replace entire sequences of...properties of the individual Cas9. They also mutagenized the cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor...

...leadership. Perhaps one of your advisors or mentors has urged you to work on developing your “leadership ...just have to know it when you see it? “The Three Stages of Your Career: Doer, Manager, Leader” by Charlotte...importance of these very different roles. At any stage in our careers we may be in a cycle of doing, managing...

...in state machine technology? Biological research has produced a massive amount of information regarding...two-input gene regulation programs. The software has two components - a database of pre-compiled register...reporter-based) each come with their advantages and disadvantages. Sanger sequencing is simple and the...