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  2. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    June 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
    ...Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The opsin ChETA, for example...regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches excel at discrete cell or tissue-subregion targeting down to the...

  4. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    July 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
    ...submicromolar) DA affinity and high-magnitude responses (increases in fluorescence) at low concentrations (e.g., ...The GRABDA dopamine sensor Yulong Li’s lab has created the GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy: ...

  6. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    May 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...highlighted back in 2015, where sdAbs were used to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation.  ... mouse-derived single-domain antibodies. Image created in BioRender and adapted from Xu, et al., 2021....

  7. Management for Scientists: Managing vs. Leading

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    March 31, 2015, 4:08 p.m.
    ...leader’s job to provide the driving inspiration, to create a productive culture and to correct systemic problems...try operating in a different role?  I think the secret sauce can be summed up in one word – initiative...

  8. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ... bacteria and a mammalian selection cassette to screen for positive transfected cells. The addition of...your applications and experimental design. You can create a new strain with a disrupted gene by transforming...

  9. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    Sept. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...into the collection and to start shipping. They created the best safety protocols they could with limited...While many were sympathetic to this need, we're incredibly grateful that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ...

  12. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...different biochemical secondary energy sources to increase protein yields from 36 μg/mL to 266 μg/mL. The...oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this system was used to recreate natural biosynthetic pathways. Biosynthetic pathways...

  13. Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm

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    July 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...empirical essays had also stirred some of my more creative faculties into motion, such that a desire to once...filmmaking, podcasting, philosophy of science, creative writing, designing and curating exhibitions, animation...

  14. 5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time

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    Oct. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...out-of-the-box ideas that might jump start your learning. 1. Create a peer mentoring group We don’t all get the mentoring...that there’s some correct level of intimacy that creates the magic of a safe space. No matter why, now is...

  15. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    March 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...temperatures, but you may need to increase your primer length and increase the Tm if you are trying to clone...

  16. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...This recessive genetic condition leaves patients incredibly sensitive to sunlight and prone to developing... they now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse models carrying different...

  17. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    March 6, 2014, 7:12 p.m.
    ...her mentoring style. Set goals with a mentor: The secret of accountability To make a mentoring relationship...perspectives Develop coaching skills Encourage your creative thinking Enhance leadership skills Support inclusion...

  18. Extracurricular Activities for a Strong Science Career Path

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    Jan. 21, 2014, 3:08 p.m.
    ...across the hall, fields, and other professions increases your chances of finding a well-suited job. EAs...of qualified scientists entering the workforce increases, EAs allow graduate students and postdocs an opportunity...

  19. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...advances in technologies that permit large-scale creation and synthesis (“writing”) of longer pieces of ...samples from several plates are pooled together to create a single library containing fragments carrying ...

  20. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

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    Feb. 20, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
    ...easier. NEBNext Ultra FS DNA Library Prep Kit To create a DNA library, one must first fragment a DNA sample...snacks. At the end of the workshop, all our newly created libraries were analysed to see how well the kit...
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