...Pinnelli M, Ansari R, Harper S, Jackson DA, McRae R, Pooley R, Wilkinson P, van der Meer D, Dow D, Buser-Doepner...of TSS for best results but up to 400 bp works reasonably well.  Best of luck on your experiments!  Many...Housden BE, Perrimon N, Collins JJ, Church G (2016) Comparison of Cas9 activators in multiple species. Nat Methods...doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3871 Gilbert LA, Horlbeck MA, Adamson B, Villalta JE, Chen Y, Whitehead EH, Guimaraes...

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...favorably to other methods. In a head-to-head comparison with Cas9, Cas9 modified 9/12 known off-targets... C., Rees, H. A., Packer, M. S., Badran, A. H., Bryson, D. I., & Liu, D. R. (2017). Programmable base ...doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3803 Koblan, L. W., Doman, J. L., Wilson, C., Levy, J. M., Tay, T., Newby, G. A., Maianti... Bohnuud, T., Fernandez, T. P., Gehrke, J. M., Grayson, P., Lee, K. D., Ortega, M. A., Sawyer, C., Schwaegerle..., Lapinaite, A., Newby, G. A., Thuronyi, B. W., Wilson, C., Koblan, L. W., Zeng, J., Bauer, D. E., Doudna...Levy, J. M., Yeh, W.-H., Zheng, C., Newby, G. A., Wilson, C., Bhaumik, M., Shubina-Oleinik, O., Holt, J....

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...many stages of synthesis and degradation. For this reason it is virtually impossible to determine specific...parameter to consider is the contrast ratio- a comparison of PA-FP brightness before and after photoactivation...extraordinary molecular detail.   References 1.Patterson, George H., and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz. ..., Samuel T., Thanu PK Girirajan, and Michael D. Mason. "Ultra-high resolution imaging by fluorescence ...Photoactivatable FPs in Empty Backbones in the Michael Davidson Collection Find Photoactivatable FPs for Single...

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... ask a lot of questions. Personality and style conflicts are a common reason for scientists to change ...budgeting, equipment acquisition, public speaking and personnel management?  If you are thinking about a non-academic... you can help it. Observe as much as you can in person. Rotate in the lab, if possible. Attend a lab meeting...

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