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  1. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ... bound by QCascade (Fig. 1B). The process also creates a 5-bp target-site duplication (TSD), a hallmark...Transform plasmid(s) into cells and plate overnight Screen colonies phenotypically or by PCR/sequencing ...doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1709035114 Rubin BE, Diamond S, Cress BF, Crits-Christoph A,  He C , Xu M, Zhou Z, Smock...science.abb2920 Vo PLH, Ronda C, Klompe SE, Chen EE, Acree C, Wang HH, Sternberg SH (2020) CRISPR RNA-guided...
  2. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...new inflorescences begin to grow. This will also increase the number of inflorescences overall, which may...them again.  This won’t hurt them, and it will increase the chances of tDNA integration. Selecting Arabidopsis... seeds too densely during selection: this will increase background growth of non-transformants and make...Gateway Binary Vectors: High-Performance Vectors for Creation of Fusion Constructs in Transgenic Analysis of...
  3. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...assembly decreases as the cloning complexity increases. The efficiency of recombination is increased with ... minimize false positive colonies. We routinely screen just two colonies for simple cloning procedures...
  4. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...teamwork, communication, writing, management, and creativity; I have developed these skills through school...not just “do the job”. When they ask about your creativity, your potential manager wants to hear a specific... job market, it is the transferable skills that create a full package and add an extra shine to your work...resolution Organization Leadership Problem Solving Creativity Data analysis Listening Negotiation Career Planning...
  5. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ...more about this!). I’ve assembled a series of screenshots to highlight changes to both the design and functionality...NeuroMab Collection for details). The following screenshots show the range of different terms we can use ...the primary investigator where the plasmid was created can narrow your search results to exactly what ...experiment, and want to see if someone has already created and deposited it with Addgene. Combining search...
  6. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...purpose of MXS chaining MXS-chaining was designed to create plasmids for fluorescence imaging or flow cytometry...cells. Four individual expression constructs were created, each containing a unique fluorescent protein with...) and the four constructs were then combined to create a single polycistronic 15 kb insert. The final ...construction of plasmids with many components. The creators of the MXS-chaining method have used the technique...
  7. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...written portion of the grant application. They have increased their demand for stronger budgets with clear budget..., the amount of grant funds available and the increasing regulatory process for grants has fostered the... your own Professional Development Strategy to increase your competencies and skills in the grants profession...Management and Evaluation and/or earning the GPC credential from the Grant Professional Certification Institute...
  8. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...other epitope tags – which when doubled or tripled increase the tag size quickly – modifying the length a ...tag is not enough. What if you need one tag to increase solubility and one tag for purification? Or you...don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification (TAP) once...protease itself, with various mutations used to increase its stability activity, can be readily purified...
  9. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ... sequences Restriction sites Sequences prone to create secondary structures in RNA transcripts Effects...factors on their own. Luckily, many researchers have created codon optimization algorithms and DNA synthesis...abundance tRNAs in your expression host and thereby increase their abundance. For example, the commercial Rosetta...system for many different genes without having to create new constructs. However, due to problems such as...
  10. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...s clinical and commercial future, and yet are incredibly difficult to find solutions to. There are many...on them in a timely fashion while allowing for creative solutions to emerge. They enjoy the fact that ...home and at the office. Consulting firms are increasingly aware of the toll that long working hours and...career paths available to MDs and PhDs, and an increasing recognition of the value graduates bring to these...
  11. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    July 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m.
    ...inefficient, and often not reproducible. Prior to creating transgenic cultures or plants, our transient expression... expression method enables us to quickly screen and investigate transcription factor candidates and the...with the MoClo system you can easily and quickly create customized vectors. For more information on MoClo...transient leaf transformations are a great help in screening candidate genes and speeding up research. Certainly...
  12. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ... table below lists plasmids that can be used to create your choice of fluorescent fusion protein with ...quenching and the fluorescence of the donor is increased. This method is straightforward and quantitative...days and good “gigs” ahead...No offense to BRET, CRET and other RET techniques which have never outclassed... BRET= Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer CRET= Chemiluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer    ...
  13. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...most unique model organisms, recognized for its incredible regeneration abilities. The axolotl has the ability..., 2019). To study regeneration scientists have created molecular biology tools to generate transgenic ...Xenopus genes and a tool-kit from the Hamdoun Lab to create fluorescent fusions in a multitude of organisms...Xing, X.-H. (2018). Pooled CRISPR interference screening enables genome-scale functional genomics study...
  14. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...complex can bind to your biotinylated antibody. This creates a large meshwork of biotin-avidin complexes bound...label a protein of interest with biotin by simply creating a fusion in which AviTag is added to either the...or polypeptides to a solid substrate (Holden and Cremer, 2003). References 1. Chapman-Smith, A., & Cronan...588–600. PubMed PMID: 2388593 7. Holden, M. A., & Cremer, P. S. “Light activated patterning of dye-labeled...
  15. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... optimized Cas9 variants have been created in an effort to increase translation in a particular plant ... the development of disease-resistant crops to increase agricultural yield (Wang et al., 2016; Wang et...Addgene carries several useful CRISPR toolkits for creating plant expression plasmids, including plant CRISPR...
  16. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...21–26). Increased scientific funding (17). Federal funding for science has been decreasing for the last... government and, consequently, politics. More concretely, scientists gather information about reality ...institutions, while many also seek to honor and credit women, immigrants, and minorities who have had ...
  17. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... an organization gets, and creating new avenues of communication can create as many problems as it can...guidance X and Y might be able to work together to create solution C. And if a conflict resolver does their...have learned that by working together, they can create unique solutions that benefit themselves and their...
  18. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...phosphoserine (Sep)-tRNA synthetase enabled researchers to create an orthogonal translation system (OTS) for the ...residues in the above study with phosphoserine (to create a pSer/phosphomimetic dual mutant) elevated kinase... as an alternative to phosphomimetic mutation. Creating phosphoserine-incorporated proteins The generation... This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation mutant for a residue...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    June 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Experimental output is measured and quantified. Created with BioRender.com.   Optogenetic tools Types...passing ions against the concentration gradient. Created with BioRender.com.   Opto-G-protein coupled...the binding pocket and activates the receptor. Created with BioRender.com.   Controlling secondary...LOV domain allowing the pathway to be activated. Created with BioRender.com.   Important considerations...
  20. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...differences. If you are performing CRISPR library screens, the same principle holds true - the higher the...lower the likelihood of an off-target artifact. Increasing the N in your experiment is the only way to effectively...effectively control for off-targets and significantly decrease the probability of artifacts. Off-target controls...Rabinowitz R, Offen D. Single-Base Resolution: Increasing the Specificity of the CRISPR-Cas System in Gene...
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