By Susanna Stroik
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As an undergraduate student at Northeastern University, I am required to complete a six month work experience called a co-op to receive a degree. Northeastern compiles a list of hundreds of different jobs for students to apply to, and after a grueling two months of job hunting ...
In 2005, Boyden et al. described the first light-activated tool for controlling neuronal activity, channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), a blue light-activated cation channel, from the archaebacteria Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. When exposed to blue light, this channel activates neuronal ...
Viruses have become a regular part of basic biological research as well as clinical therapy. These biological tools are useful because they’re derived from viruses that can infect people, cells, and animals. Some of these viruses are completely inert, but others can cause ...
Expansion Microscopy (ExM) promises an easier, more accessible way to image biological features previously only visible via techniques like super-resolution microscopy or electron microscopy. Since its introduction in 2015 by the Boyden Lab, ExM has been steadily growing in ...
If you study proteins, you’re probably quite interested in the canonical 20 amino acids. But in your quest to learn more about your protein of interest, you may find the available amino acids a bit…limiting. It may be time, then, to look towards genetic code expansion (GCE): ...
Addgene is excited to announce the launch of our partnership with the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI). Together, we’ll be working to provide researchers with a collection of IPI’s well-validated and ready-to-use recombinant antibodies. The first collection, a set of ...
IBEX is a highly multiplexed tissue imaging method that uses iterative staining and chemical bleaching to allow for high-resolution imaging without degrading the tissue (Radtke et al., 2020, 2022). I do mean highly multiplexed: you can image over 65 different parameters using ...
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