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  1. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...continuous outflow of phage, increasing stringency and promoting survival of only the broadest-targeting variants..., also has a strict editing window about 15 nt upstream of the PAM. Even if there’s a PAM near your insertion...
  2. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ...are binary gateway vectors and can be used for promoter swapping and generating N and C terminally tagged...healthy plants: Your plants should show no signs of stress, such as anthocyanin production, or disease, such...When your T1 is on soil and has recovered from the stress of selection you can clip a leaf and extract genomic...
  3. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...toxicity. AAV vectors can be equipped with strong promoters for high and neuron-specific transgene expression...AAV2-retro vectors with a variety of transgene/promoter combinations. Check out our retrograde AAV blog...forming a neuronal loop which is activated and strengthened during memory formation and memory retrieval..., causes neurotoxicity, and is lethal if left untreated (for review see Dietzschold et al., 2008). Herpes...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3275419. Maday, S., Twelvetrees, A.E., Moughamian, A.J., and Holzbaur, E.L.F....Roberts, T. F., Hisey, E., Tanaka, M., Kearney, M., Chattree, G., Yang, C. F., Shah, N.M., and Mooney, R. (...
  4. Zhang Lab's CRISPR Frequently Asked Questions

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    ...sequence into a backbone that uses the human U6 promoter to drive expression, is it necessary to add a ... the start of my target sequence? The human U6 promoter prefers a 'G' at the transcription start site ...of the crRNA) is also expressed from a separate promoter. In the pre-processing form, the crRNA contains...will they also be targeted? The Cas9 cuts 3-4bp upstream of the PAM sequence. There can be some off-target...suggestions? The Zhang lab recommends using the Epicentre QuickExtract solution to perform this step to ...
  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ...skills guide: managing a team. You’ve just been promoted, congratulations! You’re now a manager with your...motivates you!), know their unique skills and strengths (you will likely have reports with different levels...
  6. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...while also broadening access to experiences that promote professional success (many of my students include...1977; Ma et al., 2020). Many have interpreted this trend as evidence that the best teachers and mentors pass...
  7. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    ...be these skills that get you your next job or promotion. Also, don’t wait until you’re out of the lab ...question today, because I sometimes wish for a stretch of time that doesn’t involve critical thinking....
  8. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...enough to prevent confluency but high enough to promote cell growth. Overgrown cultures stimulate quiescence... yeast, fungi, or bacteria, mycoplasma can be extremely hard to detect with levels reaching 108 cells ...Daily medium exchanges help alleviate cellular stresses associated with pH changes and resource consumption...particles you harvest. Studies have demonstrated that extreme changes in osmotic pressure and pH can destabilize...labs try to use freshly collected lentivirus for downstream applications. While this ensures that the highest...23179822. 5. Segura, M.M., Kamen, A., Garnier, A. “Downstream processing of oncoretroviral and lentiviral gene...
  9. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...beneficial for many systems. How the EDGE Program promotes scientific sharing The EDGE Program is designed...to study life’s innovations from anywhere in the tree of life.” Accepted proposals were required to present... arose in different branches of the evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and on at least 2 separate continents...especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate...Joshua Rosenthal) The Hawaiian bobtail squid has an extreme number of nerve cells and an unusually high level...
  10. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    ...interest. A low primer-to-template ratio is used to promote annealing of one primer to each template. The PCR...restriction site, but nick opposite strands of DNA. Treating the plasmid with ExoIII and ExoI then fully degrades...by Wrenbeck et al but it’s likely that longer stretches of sequence could be used. However, a practical...assessing protein function on a massive scale." Trends in Biotechnology 29.9 (2011): 435-42. PubMed PMID...
  11. Zebrafish Plasmid Collection

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    ...plasmids with four promoters, six fluorophores, and empty vectors designed to streamline the production of...Zebrafish Society (IZFS) - An organization that promotes and advocates for zebrafish research in the international...
  12. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ...from a replicating adenovirus using native viral promoters. Mol Ther, 7(4), 526–534. https:/doi.org/10.1016...as other intracellularly-exposed proteins and downstream cellular events, all recruit strong innate and...
  13. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    ...help them navigate the scientific enterprise and promote their voices in driving changes in science. Follow...that salaries may even double. The University of Notre Dame sets no minimum, stating that while they recommend...
  14. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ... in mapping of regulatory elements (to mutate promoters/enhancers in reporter constructs), in functional...introduced anywhere in the plasmid (albeit at extremely low frequency), and these could interfere with...
  15. CRISPR Plasmids - RNA Targeting

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    ..., and plants. Mammalian ID Plasmid Gene/Insert Promoter Selectable Marker PI Publication Bacterial ID ...spacer sequence and contain a PAM sequence just downstream of the sequence to be cleaved. This non-specific...
  16. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...When you go on interviews or are looking for a promotion, have some solid examples of times when you have...natural inclination for this skill that you could strengthen. The right set of transferable skills, coupled...other just for the sake of disagreeing. It can be extremely toxic in a lab or work environment if left unchecked...conflict resolution is likely not one of your strengths. Empathizing with people, especially people with...conflicts within a given organization, it can help tremendously to have as much context as possible. When I ...recognize that conflict resolution may never be a strength for you. But if you are a problem solver, and ...
  17. CRISPR Guide

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    ...are often used to change an amino acid, turn a promoter on/off, or add small protein tags. Precise Modifications... editors include several fused components that promote the intended repair pathway or inhibit unwanted... converting cytidine to uridine. However, they promote the base excision repair pathway, which fully removes...improved PE2/PE3 to inhibit mismatch repair to promote desired edit epegRNA - addition of a structured...while activation and repression libraries target promoter or enhancer regions. As each library is unique...transcriptional repressors or activators and targeting promoter regions. You might sometimes see these referred...the methylation state of cytosines in a gene’s promoter or by inducing histone acetylation or demethylation...
  18. CRISPR Plasmids - gRNAs

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    ... or repression experiments use targets within promoters. Do you have gRNAs you'd like to add to the Addgene...wild-type SpCas9 must be used with targets that are upstream of a 5' NGG 3' PAM sequence. Which CRISPR application...
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