...DNA. Finally, in 1953, Franklin along with James Watson and Francis Crick resolved the DNA double helix...engineering itself is attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson who used it in his 1951 novel Dragon’s Island...movies. Rampage (2018), starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, calls out CRISPR as the genetic engineering experiment...Davis JR, Sousa AA, Koblan LW, Levy JM, Chen PJ, Wilson C, Newby GA, Raguram A, Liu DR (2019) Search-and-replace...Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR (2018) Publisher Correction: Programmable...:3870–3879 . https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkf495 Watson JD, Crick FHC (2003) Reprint: Molecular Structure...

...and Hoess, 1984; Van Duyne, 2001; Christenson Wick and Krook-Magnuson, 2018). Optogenetic FLEx vectors ...PubMed PMID: 11340053. Wick, Zoé Christenson, and Esther Krook-Magnuson. "Specificity, versatility, and...Nature 351.6326 (1991): 489. Hirsch, Matthew L., Sonya J. Wolf, and R. J. Samulski. "Delivering transgenic...PMCID: PMC5111696. Towne, Chris, and Kimberly R. Thompson. "Overview on research and clinical applications...

...technological change happens really fast,” Thompson says. To do this, Thompson reached out to MIT labs in the Synthetic... classification This inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science...query coverage) that could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a...Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes...

...proteins without changing excitation wavelength (Salomonnson et al. 2012). They can also be excited efficiently...emission intensities from fluorescent proteins (Salomonnson et al. 2012). Finally, it is worthwhile to test...18718768. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2569002. 3. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Macrophage and T cell dynamics during...18261937. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2390753. 4. Egen, Jackson G., et al. "Intravital imaging reveals limited ...21527931. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4772972. 11. Salomonnson, Emma, et al. "Cell-based and in vivo spectral...Wolfgang Weninger. "Dendritic cell behaviour in vivo: lessons learned from intravital two-photon microscopy."...

...favourable ratings to the abstracts that affirmed their personal beliefs even though all three texts were otherwise...were exhibiting a phenomenon called “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little...little tricks our minds perform to avoid cognitive dissonance (Kunda, 1990). More specifically, they were engaging...sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to show that ...nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (1990). The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological bulletin, 108(3), 480. More resources...

...essential for the structure of paraspeckles. Clemson CM, Hutchinson JN, Sara SA, Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess...your favorite biological phenomenon, there’s a reasonable good chance that Addgene can help. Though it ...Fox Elaine Fuchs Kai Ge Robert Kingston Thoru Pederson Phil Sharp Julie Ahringer Alexander Stark Bas..., especially Karen Reddy (@theReddyLab), Thoru Pederson, Joanna Wysocka, Kerstin Bystricky, Ben Martin...

...effectively contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days...student engagement and joy, rather than a perfect lesson plan or outstanding test scores.  As a result, ...are provided with synthetic biology lab kits and lesson plans adapted from her own MIT curriculum. Drawing...investigate together. Teachers decide which BioBuilder lessons to teach, and how — some choose to run full semester-long...semester-long classes, some pick and choose a few lessons to include each year; others use BioBuilder as ...

..., and substitutions - at the same efficiency as Gibson Assembly and GeneArt cloning - but at a much lower...digested and ligated into an appropriate vector. Gibson Assembly, GeneArt Cloning, and SLIC can all be ...When REPLACR-mutagenesis goes head-to-head with Gibson assembly and GeneArt cloning, the results are favorable...hands!     REPLACR-Mutagenesis Megaprimer PCR Gibson Assembly GeneArt Cloning Types of Mutations Insertions...Made Competent Cells Required Yes No No No Comparison of REPLACR-mutagenesis with other common methods...

...Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to see their online personas. Some have online coaching tools that can be very...remotely (by phone, Skype or Google Hangout) but in-person coaching is nice if you can get it.  Because I ...this offers the option of matching with the best person in the group for your needs. Beth Schachter of ... Michelle Capes at Adeptify Me. While based in Madison, Wisconsin she also works remotely and has experience...support for issues of diversity in science.  A great person to contact is Twitter’s @DrQualls. Marquita Qualls...

...genetic tools. Mobile-CRISPRi from the labs of Jason Peters, Oren Rosenberg, and Carol Gross provides...Mobile-CRISPRi is introduced using the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system has two parts: a plasmid ...Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A Tn7 transposon containing the CRISPRi components and a plasmid...methods 2.6 (2005): 443. PubMed PMID: 15908923. Johnson, Christopher M., and Alan D. Grossman. "Integrative...4.2 (2019): 212. PubMed PMID: 30675034. Peters, Jason M., et al. "Enabling genetic analysis of diverse...

... to put to rest a common misconception. I find personal bias often unintentionally plays a big role in...varied in how they prefer to consume information. Personally, I would much rather read the instructions than... accessible via web searches; likewise, most in-person events and venues will have a solid understanding...Primarily useful for data-focused stories. In-person lectures, presentations, etc… Low (except for ...  Rachel Leeson...

... Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...This post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...receptor function.     Follow them on Twitter @jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria.  References 1. Jones, Douglas...PMCID: PMC331480. 3. García-Nafría, Javier, Jake F. Watson, and Ingo H. Greger. "IVA cloning: a single-tube...

...libraries that do just that (Doench et al., 2016, Sanson et al., 2018). These libraries utilize optimized...additional transcription factors to the targeted region (Sanson et al., 2018) . This tracrRNA was combined with...selected per gene and divided into two sets, A and B. Sanson et al. demonstrated that the Calabrese library ... more hits than the SAM library approach in a comparison study screening for vemurafenib resistance in...: 25494202. PubMed Centra PMCID: MC4420636.  5. Sanson, Kendall R., et al. "Up, down, and out: next generation...

...Kostick, K., Torgerson, L., Muñoz, K. A., Hsu, R., Kalwani, L., Sierra-Mercado, D., Robinson, J. O., Outram... rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy, 25(5), 392–400. https...00981-0 Wright, J. F., Le, T., Prado, J., Bahr-Davidson, J., Smith, P. H., Zhen, Z., Sommer, J. M., Pierce... Jason Nasse...

...As a person with many roles and responsibilities, I have to think a lot about how to balance those roles...your community’s schools, here are a few tips and lessons I’ve picked up from my recent experiences. STEM...history helped demonstrate that a) I was a real person who used to be a middle schooler himself and b)...back and trying again next year. There are many reasons why you might want to reach out to your school ...tumultuous time in scientific history. Whatever your reasons, let us know how it goes! Acknowledgements: I...

...CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson & Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional ...rescue the neurological defects of Rett syndrome (Tillotson et al., 2017). Advancing gene therapies for Rett...Supplement/S51.002.abstract Sinnamon JR, Kim SY, Fisk JR, Song Z, Nakai H, Jeng S, McWeeney SK, Mandel G (2020)... . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2017.04.006 Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J...398–401 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24058 Tillotson R, Bird A (2020) The Molecular Basis of MeCP2 ...

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...know your collaborators from other institutions personally on conference calls and make sure to maintain...collaborating with people outside my lab’s department, I personally felt that I had to overcome some hesitation to...the hard part: maintaining these relationships. Personally, I find this to be the most challenging and time-intensive...maintain a relationship - many of them involve personal meetings and common interest so naturally this...sharing. LinkedIn or ResearchGate allow you to send personal updates as messages and keep you up-to-date on...

...are addressed with ddPCR technology (Hindson et al., 2011, Hindson et al., 2013), which has been shown ...2011): 8604-8610.4. Hindson CM, Chevillet JR, Briggs HA, Gallichotte EN, Ruf IK, Hindson BJ, Vessella RL,... therapy 6.7 (1999). PubMed PMID: 10455443. 3. Hindson, Benjamin J., et al. "High-throughput droplet digital...

...organisms have different codon usage biases? The reasons for varied codon preferences among organisms aren...aren’t completely understood, but some possible reasons include: Metabolic pressures - it takes cellular...recognize codons found in highly expressed genes (Emilsson and Kurland, 1990). Controlling gene expression...15678157. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1299251. 3. Emilsson, Valur, and Charles G. Kurland. "Growth rate dependence... 2265611. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC552224. 4. Gustafsson, Claes, Sridhar Govindarajan, and Jeremy Minshull...