... for a new generation of ABEs), consists of 3 components:  a deaminase (TadA, originally from E.coli,... or Cas nickase)  a guide RNA that targets the complex of TadA and dCas to the genomic DNA of interest...effect of removing the wild-type TadA from the complex the researchers developed a second set: The ABE8...resulted altogether in 40 new ABE8 variants. When comparing on-target DNA editing efficiency in a human cell...found that the smaller version, ABE8.x-m, showed comparable editing behavior to ABE8.x-d. Overall, ABE8s ...showed a median increase of 1.94x editing activity compared to ABE7.10. Depending on the position in the protospacer...line while reducing indel frequency more than 90% compared to ABE7.10. Choosing Cas9 proteins to increase...

...projects in introductory labs. Genome projects use computational methods to identify genes by their similarities...abnormalities due to the deletion (i.e. the plasmid complements the deletion). If the phenotype is corrected,..., well-studied and inexpensive. In addition, a complete set of well-annotated deletion strains is available... the absence of methionine (i.e. the plasmid complements the deletion). Find the Plasmids Here Plasmid...blotting in other experiments (Figure 2).   Complementation reveals conservation of function Students have...Addgene, to successfully analyze Met protein complementation. In the procedure diagrammed in Figure 3, students...promoter controls MET/Met gene expression, complementation should only occur when galactose replaces glucose...

...your product’s web page, or in the company’s FAQs? A lot of companies and organizations selling biological...answering help emails and phone calls, I feel compelled to share my years of accumulated wisdom so that...information, but it’s not in the best interest of any company to hide information about their products from you...which case, you should probably stop using that company). Frequently asked question pages on website are...customers (and I expect this is the case at most companies). Always go back to the source. Although many...experience: Make sure you’re contacting the correct company. This might seem like a no-brainer, but it happens...please share the data. Maybe not all, but many bio companies have real scientists answering their technical...

... human body is made up of organs, cells comprise compartments and structures, called organelles. Take ... the subcellular localization and composition of cellular complexes are important steps in understanding...that the fusion protein localizes properly by comparing the signal from the fusion itself to the wild-...and potentially which other proteins it forms complexes with. These “colocalization” studies give insights...within the same subcellular structure or protein complex. By coexpressing both the marker protein and the...possible to determine the location of proteins within complex structures. In order to interpret colocalization...quantifiable results and statistics that can be used to compare between different experimental setups. A colocalization...

...contains a composite of GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, and PDB sequences and may be the most comprehensive for searching... Tool (BLAST) provided by NCBI. BLAST helps us compare the sequencing results of the plasmids in our repository...deletions, or insertions. We use blastp or blastx to compare our sequencing results to protein sequences to ...page, the first decision to make is whether to compare a Sanger sequencing result to a single known reference...BLAST search to perform and will save you time compared to other types of BLAST searches. If you do not...megablast, but can return longer alignments to compare with your sequencing trace file. Unlike megablast...consistently run our blastx searches with the “Low complexity regions” filter unchecked so that these regions...

... most successful computer languages are free to use. Of the 15 most popular computer programming languages...engineered DNA systems capable of storing data and computing inside living cells. He's also a co-founder of...digital genetic switches that enable cellular computing. These logic gates built from transcriptors are...BPA) Plasmid Collection along with a BIOFAB kit comprised of well-characterized bacterial transcription .... What the BioBricks Foundation is seeking to accomplish is to make the engineering of biology much easier...carefully engineered to support reliable functional composition. In other words, these parts can be used over...logic shows up in mechanical systems, plumbing, computers, and now through BIL gates we've implemented them...

... as the building block of our understanding of complex biological processes. Many tools exist to perturb...silencing,” of any gene that contains sequence complementary to the dsRNA (Wilson and Doudna, 2013). RNAi... translation, or chromatin modifications of complementary gene sequences (Figure 1). As a result, gene...unmodified dsRNA elicits immunogenic reactions that complicate the effectiveness and interpretation of RNAi.... of interfering RNAs.   RNAi vs. CRISPR: Complementary techniques It is fair to say that CRISPR has...Stainier, 2020). Additionally, a study that directly compared CRISPR to RNAi in the context of a high throughput...data generated from both methods did a more comprehensive gene list emerge that accurately reflected the...

... chemistry. Although these multi-component systems can be complicated to implement, they can be highly...Various Few Complicated Non-natural amino acids 1 Various Many Complicated   Applications... outer mitochondrial membrane labeled with SNAP-OMP25 with Atto590-BG (green), imaged with stimulated ...STED) nanoscopy. Scale bar, 2 μm. Inset shows comparison with standard confocal microscopy. Image adapted... assembly-regulating proteins in vitro reveals complex events. a) Micrographs of a fluorescently-labeled...159 aa) are smaller than HaloTag (295 aa) – for comparison, common fluorescent proteins are typically 230...Wissner, R. F., Xi, Z., Allgeyer, E. S., Zhong, S., Thompson, A. D., Lowe, N., Butler, R., Bewersdorf, J., ...

...scientific art competitions where creations can go on display for all to enjoy. The largest competition of this... University’s Annual Art in Science competition. This competition has gained so much public interest for...moonlighting as artists can compete in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition - a 40 year old international...voyage. Previous destructive techniques were incompatible with the need to conserve these unique samples...been featured in Time magazine . Other smaller competitions are now taking place and gathering momentum,...international competition that last year received over 2,000 entries. Do you mix your passion for art and...

... function as a kind of “GPS for the genome” to compute coordinates for genetic elements like protein, ...action at a distance.” Through the marvel of DNA compaction, an enhancer can increase the expression of a...millions of base pairs away. (For details on DNA compaction and the structural proteins that make it possible...appendix DNA is a 3D fractal). Enhancer biology is a complex and dynamic field. We’re going to focus on a tried...details. DNA is a 3D Fractal Figure 2: DNA compaction. Graphics courtesy of beyondthedish (left) and...People are wrong. In reality, cellular DNA is a complex three-dimensional globule of chromatin. Chromatin...tertiary structures (globules) to achieve exquisite compaction—on the order of 700 terabytes per gram—and form...

...them for use in your lab. Structural Comparison Functional Comparison Advantages of Nanobodies How to Use...for a comparison of nanobody, HCab, and traditional IgG antibody structures. Functional comparison Strong...nanobodies and how their structure and function compare to IgG antibodies, as well as how to produce them...Nanobody Toolbox Find Nanobody Plasmids Structural comparison As the name suggests, nanobodies are smaller ...incubated together without forming large oligomeric complexes. Antibodies are also too large to be expressed... antibody incubation. See figure 4A below for comparison of this one-step staining with nanobodies vs ...localization patterns as cells stained for one target (compare nanobodies staining in figure 4A vs 4B). How to...

...derived from the more complex type III-A and III-B systems. Though it was composed of many protein subunits...might be phylogenetically classified as the more complex Class I systems that contain multiple subunits,...evolution, were also working on the project. Using computational observations, Koonin and Makarova found that...the domains into a single protein, shedding the complexity of its ancestors. They classified the system ...system contains two pieces: a single protein, computationally described as a fusion of four Cas7 proteins...significantly reduced amount of off-target toxicity compared to other RNA editing methods — streamlining experimental...mammalian cell lines. However, in those same comparisons, the AbuGoot lab reported no detectable effect...

... advise pharmaceutical companies, biotech start-ups, health insurance companies, and governments on the...the part of the company involved: Research & Development (R&D) teams at pharma companies carry out preclinical... acquisitions of or collaborations with other companies. Medical Affairs groups work on building awareness... patients, shaping discussions with insurance companies about the pricing and coverage of drugs, and developing... teams, reflecting the need for all parts of a company to collaborate whenever it faces an important challenge...investments over the next 3, 5, or 10 years. Complicating these challenges is the fact that they occur...their jobs most, get pleasure from taking up such complex challenges, quickly breaking them up into smaller...

... inquiry started when Neil Thompson, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...technological change happens really fast,” Thompson says. To do this, Thompson reached out to MIT labs in the Synthetic...properties (GC content or rare codon percentage) and comparative properties (percent sequence identity and percent...query coverage) that could be determined through comparisons with a reference sequence database. Through a...content between many organisms and DNA synthesis companies often work within a narrow range for GC content...synthetic vs. natural gene are essential and complementary tools in a time where biological engineering...Kunjapur, Aditya M., Philipp Pfingstag, and Neil C. Thompson. "Gene synthesis allows biologists to source genes...

...Table 1: Taking it a Step Further - Big Company v. Small Company Big (e.g. Pharma) Small (e.g. Biotech...advancement in one company, good performers in for the long haul Limited movement in one company, likely will...academic silo to tenured professor.  Non-academia encompasses millions of choices including pharma, tech transfer...options in nonprofit science. No one list can ever encompass them all. We can’t designate non-academic jobs...and teach students Collaborations may be less “complicated” - for example, easy to initiate a collaboration...More sources of training and resources within the company Must find own sources of knowledge often externally...every 3-6 years—a short and exciting ride Complicated matrix structures are common Small integrated...

...when. Compiling the identity and location of a given nucleotide, a researcher (or a simple computer program...in Neuroscience at Harvard University. Just as computers, cell phones, and cars become more technologically... fluorescently labeled probe. If the DNA is complementary to the probe (for example, has the sequence ...be quantified by the strength of the signal in comparison to a control sample. Southern blotting applications...in standard PCR. This allows the researcher to compare different DNA sequences to see which is more abundant...mapping to investigate DNA sequence content by comparing the fragments created by different restriction... sequencing of many samples at once for later comparison. These next-generation sequencing techniques ...

...protein:DNA complexes with antibodies specific to your protein(s) of interest. Once the complex is captured...protein:DNA complexes and finally (5) isolated the DNA from your antibody:protein:DNA complexes. Your DNA... the first step is to ensure your protein:DNA complexes will remain bound to each other until you are ...reversible bonds. This will keep the protein:DNA complexes together until you want to break them. Crosslinking...digestion can preserve more of the protein:DNA complexes. Once you’ve finished fragmenting the DNA, spin...that?  So while this method is certainly long and complex, you may be thinking, well, these are mostly fairly...techniques. What’s all the fuss? Well, ChIP’s complexities come not from the techniques used, but from ...

...easier to identify by comparing peak positions to the base expression. When compared to the control — which... voltage has been adjusted appropriately and compensation performed. Before you read out your plots, you...to make sure you’ve also adjusted voltage and compensated your colors. Here are some good practice tips...population cluster would be shifted to the right in comparison, say somewhere between a 104–105 signal intensity...place your gate based on the dot plot would be complicated.  Figure 2: (A) a smeary dot plot showing...with the baseline suggesting this sample has a comparable expression to the baseline/negative control. ... populations in the histogram plot in Figure 4 compared to the dot plot in Figure 2. Quantification using...

...career at a biotech company, I always assumed I’d work one or two years at the company and then go to grad... the head of software product management at my company was open to meeting with me and explaining more...software product manager helps ensure that the company or software group is building the software tools...Well, I’ll give you an example. At my previous company, Ginkgo Bioworks, our software development team...backgrounds, most did not. It was my job to translate complex lab operations workflows into a format the developers... to solve is clear, but the solution is more complicated. You’ll need to be creative to be able to work...framework If you can’t find internships at science companies, try to find internships with translatable skills...

...protein. Proteins located in membrane-bound subcompartments, like the mitochondria or nucleus, will likely...loading buffers, as most Bradford assays are not compatible with detergents like SDS, while BCA assays are...their differing chemistries. You therefore cannot compare Bis and Tris gels or blots to each other. Once ...protein-based blocker is either degraded or not completely mixed together.   Commercially available chemical-based...lower cost, and smaller size. However, HRP is not compatible with sodium azide, a common microbial agent used...phosphates have a linear reaction rate and are compatible with antimicrobial agents. Chemiluminescence ...chemiluminescence enzymes, they are more likely to be compatible with stripping and probing.   Imaging At the ...