... calcium chloride which permeabilizes the cell membrane so the bacteria can easily uptake your plasmid...an electrical charge to cells, to increase cell membrane permeability and thus transformation efficiency...example are bacteriophages that attach to bacterial membranes and inject their genetic material into the cell... more easily cross the negatively charged cell membrane. Physical methods such as electroporation or microinjection...microinjection actually pokes holes in the cell membrane so DNA can be introduced directly into the cell...electrical pulses to create transient pores in the cell membrane that genetic material can pass through. If you...

...and numerous other reasons. It is important to remember that we, scientists and non-scientists alike, ...spoke in support of science - he's one of the few members of Congress who holds an engineering degree. It...the postdoctoral engagement committee and active member of the university's Postdoctoral Association.  ...career that could simply cease to exist. But then November hit and panic ensued as “alternative facts” became...encourages open discourse with our fellow community members. The March for Science was an important first step...available to people who want to join the dialog and 2) remember that science should not be partisan: everyone ...science communicator, UBC Public Scholar, and a member of the Vancouver SciCATs. Follow her on twitter...

...they cannot cross cell membranes, so they are best used either with plasma membrane proteins (such as GPCRs...fluorescence wavelengths for FRET experiments. However, remember that, if you make an FP fusion, you are inserting... Most importantly, these compounds cross cell membranes, thus enabling FRET measurements in intact cells...Intact Cells Cy3NTAc Poly His  44 35-63 Plasma membrane protein, permeabilized cells  Cy5NTAc 32 25-...Intact Cells Cy3NTAc Poly His  63 50-90 Plasma membrane protein, permeabilized cells  Cy5NTAc 43 34-...Intact Cells Cy3NTAc Poly His  65 52-94 Plasma membrane protein, permeabilized cells  Cy5NTAc 59 47-...

...freely-available DNA-editing software packages to assemble your expected full plasmid sequences (examples...computer or server. This will ensure that future members of your lab can access and use the materials they...during the cloning, sample handling, or sequence assembly steps. All of our incoming plasmids are sequenced...include cloning junctions (where most sequence assembly errors occur), deletions, mutations, in-frame ...the 5’ and 3’ ends to verify that the sequence assembly and identity of the insert are correct. In other...Primer3 to help you design your custom primers. Remember, when designing a sequencing primer, you need ...

...superfamily is comprised of 48 human and 49 murine members. NRs permit the integration and communication of...of endocrine-hormone signaling. The success of members of this group stems in part from their ability ...xenobiotic lipids derived from the diet. Additional members of this family are called orphan receptors because...coregulators exist as multiprotein complexes, a member of a single coactivator complex can serve as a ...status of SRC-3 defines its association with other members of the complex, such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases...multiple cell signaling systems. Activation of membrane receptors and signaling cascades conceivably allows...

... post: Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible...service Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly By Eric Perkins Though it’s easy enough to contemplate...describes an elegant system that allows for the assembly of multiple DNA fragments efficiently and accurately... a “single pot.’   Figure 1: Single-Pot Assembly: a) Graphic depiction of chromatin within a nucleus...enzymes and reader-effector proteins. b) Golden Gate assembly (backbones available at Addgene) with examples...purposes, but the key component of the editing assemblies are sensor-actuators, either transcriptional ...

.... Since makerspaces are generally funded on a membership model - everyone contributes each month - with..., unlike your traditional biology lab, we have members with a wealth of skills to help do science on the...new replacement was not possible, but one of our members took an Arduino microcontroller and a motor controller...too expensive to make it practical - but we have members looking at how to re-use it as a platform for monitoring...fast, but with a wide range of skills among our members we’ve managed to learn a lot and cobble together... Victoria’s first hackerspace which now offers members and the public cheap access to personal manufacturing...

... There is no way around the fact that new team members need to be trained, which may seem like a waste... a seasoned report, there should be questions! Remember that delegating is not just a way to create more...for yourself, but it will help develop your team members by giving them new opportunities. I still need...comfortable with awkward silences but I’ve learned to embrace them after one ended with the person in front of...going to get you what you really want to know. Remember that one on one discussion can be confidential...Protect your team Make you team feel safe. Your team members need to trust you and you need to encourage them...

...kinetics over 14 hours of expression in C. elegans embryos. However, this initial timer was a tetramer with...mammalian cells, in C. elegans, and in Xenopus embryos. Of course, timers may be sensitive to changes ... of vesicle fusion and release from the plasma membrane by fusing various vesicle cargoes to FP timer ...controlling pancreatic differentiation) in mouse embryos (Miyatsuka et al.) Distinguish between models for...fusing Medium-FT to LAMP-2A, a lysosome-associated membrane protein, and following its subcellular localization...with changes in gene expression. In a developing embryo, for example, a researcher could determine whether...

...is rare these days), and a room of 5-30 faculty members. The session lasts up to an hour. You will get ...outcome with some specifics, the search committee member cannot either. Therefore, you need to be able to...idea to bounce your ideas off of senior faculty members who can help you identify overly ambitious goals...you will be interrupted frequently by committee members. As mentioned above, plan to give your 10 minute... possible to do? Research accomplishments are remembered for the problem solved, not for the amount of...faculty positions. You need to practice with faculty members that have served on search committees. If possible...

...pic.twitter.com/rExV3b8Q8u— Michael Früh (@Michelderapfel) December 19, 2022   Congratulations to all our #DeckTheLab...Borris Aldonza (보리스) 🇰🇷🇵🇭 (@PrecursorCell) December 12, 2022          View this post on Instagram... for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2022.  Follow @Addgene, use the hashtag #DeckTheLab...pic.twitter.com/rDaEjxTNZX— Heng Chooi (@YitHengChooi) December 4, 2021   I spent a year hoarding used tip boxes.../X4eKUGnQMe— Alex Dainis, PhD 🧬 (@AlexDainis) December 18, 2017...

...It’s finally December, and here at Addgene HQ in Massachusetts that means it’s time for near-freezing...decorating skills. To join the contest, simply embellish and adorn your lab space or your work from home...pic.twitter.com/OOrwo9feyJ — BTC Institute (@BTCInstitute1) December 23, 2020 Contest 2: Deck the Lab - Home Edition...pic.twitter.com/qDylF8TdHH — Matthijs Dorst (@MattNeuro) December 4, 2020 Here’s how to enter: Post your picture... for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2021. Let us know which contest you are entering...

...an ideal model organisms for embryonic development studies as their embryos are completely transparent...., and produce 50-300 eggs at a time. Zebrafish embryos are also laid and fertilized externally, allowing... them. Scientists can simply inject one-celled embryos with DNA or RNA to edit their genomes or to create...be easily visualized in a living organism from embryonic development to adulthood. This ability to genetically... and integration of transforming sequences." The EMBO journal 10.12 (1991): 3959-3970. PubMed PMID: 1935914...

...accessible to your team members only, under the specific permissions set for every member of your team. Do you...pricing, it is good to know how many of your lab members will use the ELN. If your lab is planning to grow..., notifications, sharing files, assigning team members to certain tasks, etc. How is security and user...to assign specific permissions to different lab members to avoid any issues later on. Do you need external...software solution that makes it much easier for lab members to manage and organize their work at every step...

... Cell Free Protein Expression Kit FREQ Seq PUF Assembly Kit Below you’ll find information about what ...engages the ribosome for translational complex assembly. PhD student Dejan Gagoski used SITS to create...Academy of Sciences 109.52 (2012): 21408-21413. PUF Assembly Kit PUF proteins are composed of repeat segments...The Zhao lab has made this easy with their PUF Assembly Kit. The kit contains all the variant PUF segments...Sequence‐Specific Detection of RNAs in Two Colors."ChemBioChem 17.10 (2016): 895-899. Choudhury, Rajarshi,...15875. See Kendall Morgan’s blog post on the PUF Assembly Kit for some insights on its potential from its...

.... Get the PUF Assembly Kit! Tips and tricks For those interested to try the PUF Assembly Kit out for themselves...tool…designer PUF proteins! A newly available PUF Assembly Kit makes it possible to devise RNA binding proteins...factors (PUF). In a single step, researchers can now assemble designer PUF domains for RNA specificity engineering... Reference Abil Z, Denard CA, Zhao H.  Modular assembly of designer PUF proteins for specific post-transcriptional...

...flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response to visible light...across the axon's membrane: once a certain number of positive ions crosses the cell membrane, a threshold ...rhodopsins enable ions to flow across the axon’s membrane, thereby controlling neural activity (Bernstein...Stoeckenius. "Rhodopsin-like protein from the purple membrane of Halobacterium halobium." Nature new biology...

...also encodes the Assembly-Activating Protein (AAP) and the recently discovered Membrane Associated Accessory... AAV genome and docks with the genome onto an assembled capsid. Then Rep52/40, which also bind the capsid...generate the three VP proteins. The three VP proteins assemble into capsid at a 1:1:10 ratio (VP1:VP2:VP3). There...reading frame (ORF). While AAP promotes virion assembly, the role of MAAP has not been clearly defined...

...apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11) to increase fluorescence...animals. To do this they modified a different self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-9 and GFP10-11) by flipping a...rectify this the Shu lab first improved the self-assembling capability of sfCherry approximately 20 fold ...FlipGFP to study apoptosis in HeLa cells, zebrafish embryos, and Drosophila. They treated HeLa cells expressing...the spatiotemporal dynamics of apoptosis during embryo development. GFP fluorescence increased over time...

...three different membrane-targeting flavors – PDGFR, GPI, and SGZ, to improve neuronal membrane trafficking...segment (PDGFR TMD) that anchors the sensor to the membrane and displays it on the extracellular side. In .... PDGFR is a C-terminal fusion to the PDGFR transmembrane domain in the mammalian expression pMinDisplay...glycosylphostidylinositol anchor. SGZ contains a PDGFR transmembrane domain, followed by a modified form of the cytosolic...