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  1. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    ...delivering shRNA or miRNA. The ever expanding CRISPR field makes wide use of retroviral delivery systems, especially... recombination events and is widely used in the field of mouse transgenics. Experimental uses include:... most recent developments in the genome editing field. Lentiviral Plasmid Kit Multiple Lentiviral Expression...
  2. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ...plasmids all have a PR-T4 vector backbone, which is a modified version of L440. This vector is versatile in that...using synthetically made RNA (riboprobes) with modified nucleotides (for example, Digoxigenin-labelled... to purify the dsRNA from bacteria and mix the purified dsRNA with liver paste, and feed the mixture to...
  3. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    ...technical and transferable skills that make you qualified for the position. Highlight the outcomes or deliverables...required to give a job talk for a remote interview. Fielding questions can be hard during this talk since you... have made it to the interview if you weren’t qualified for the position. So prepare for the interview...
  4. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...the need for open science and collaboration. The field already has comprehensive reference pages and curated... resources and tools. That message was fully exemplified in Cori Bargmann’s keynote speech and in the ...elegans (Zhang et al., 2015). In this system a modified TIR-1 protein can degrade degron-tagged proteins...
  5. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...Lacy In 2022, Atsushi Miyawaki and colleagues identified a highly bright and stable fluorescent protein...lab generated a series of StayGold mutants and identified a triple mutant, Y187F, R144I and T155Q, which...brains.  Systemic gene delivery capsids previously identified in rodents have not been widely successful in...
  6. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ... has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field and the greater scientific community. In 2014, we...organoids. This work, and many others, pushed the field forward to where it is today. Below we will review...of using the patient’s own cells that have been modified ex vivo, previously edited healthy donor cells...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ... Chemogenetics has become a popular tool in the field as it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating...target activation by ligands. PSAMs themselves are modified ligand binding domains. When coupled to the ion...for clinical use. Varenicline has been further modified to create ultrapotent PSEMS (uPSEMs) that have...
  8. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...both Cre and FLP recombinases.   Figure 1 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): Basic... turn off one gene and activate another. In the field of mouse genetics, FLEx is currently being used ...targeted neuronal population.    Figure 2 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): In the...
  9. CRISPR Library Amplification

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    ...transformation and basic knowledge of the library being amplified. Please see our protocol on Bacterial Transformation... change in representation compared to the pre-amplified stock. A last option is to perform a gel extraction...extraction of either the original sample or the amplified sample, followed by reamplification of the DNA,...
  10. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    ...Figure 1). Briefly, packaged DNA is extracted from purified, DNase-treated AAV and submitted for NGS. Raw ...cases, the source of the contamination can be identified, and we will discard any AAV prep we suspect ...plasmid. Our recombination software looks for and quantifies the presence of recombinants in recombinase-dependent...
  11. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...off-target sites. Long-range chromatin interactions identified with the multiplexed CAPTURE 2.0 largely replicated...replicated interactions previously identified with the original CAPTURE method. Both CAPTURE methods outperformed...both the number of unique chromatin interactions identified and the level of on-target enrichment. 2. Determining...
  12. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    ...expressed, one-copy ‘housekeeping’ gene), and quantified relative to a 'normal' sample with known copy...reference sequence and the gene of interest to be amplified in the same reaction. Taqman’s increased sensitivity...to confirm negative samples and, if unexpected, verified by running the product on a gel. And only ddPCR...
  13. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    ...presentation with people inside and outside your field. Your colleagues, lab mates, and PI can provide ...technical presentation, but those outside of your field can point out places where you gloss over essential...to be well-read on the recent literature in your field. Take your time: We often get so nervous when asked...
  14. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...12 different capsids, or serotypes, have been identified in nature, while many more have been engineered...tissues. Created with BioRender.com. Beyond the identified serotypes, AAV also has psuedotypes. Psuedotyping...., Corey, D. P., Aryee, M. J., Joung, J. K., Breakefield, X. O., Maguire, C. A., & György, B. (2019). ...
  15. Of Myc and Men

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    ...Evan, et al. 1985). Myc was one of the earliest identified oncogenes and was a target of intense research...hoped that their new monoclonals would help the field explore Myc’s role in cell proliferation and tumorigenesis...and Pelham learned of these new antibodies and identified Myc1-9E10 and its target peptide as a suitable...
  16. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    ...gRNA is defined by the user, and it can be easily modified to target Cas9 to virtually any genomic locus,.... Figure 2: The CRISPR library must be amplified (A) to be used to generate lentivirus (B). Cas9... Mutant cells are screened (D) and "hits" are identified using next-generation sequencing (E). Considerations...
  17. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ..., you can learn more about how nanobodies are identified in this review. If you just want to use the nanobodies...cleaved by the bdNEDP1 protease, thus releasing purified nanobodies from the column. bdNEDP1 protease can... using plasmid pDG02583. Label the Nanobodies: Purified nanobodies are then tagged with a fluorescent ...
  18. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...relationship between the genetic dependencies they identified and their associated ancestries. While there ...there were some exciting relationships identified, 48% were found to be artificial, so that didn't seem a ... they found that for approximately 40% of the identified genes, the genes were not expressed at all. This...
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