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  1. Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database

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    ...groups, such as their vaccine production, SARS-CoV-2 research, or adenovirus packaging cell lines dataset...-Line Knowledge Resource. J Biomol Tech. 2018; 29(2): 25-38.... of interest. You can filter CLASTR results by minimal number of markers and similarity score match. This...allele search preferences to help you identify proximal lines you care about. If you have cell lines without...
  2. ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights

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    ...literature? Very often the data of interest are in 1 or 2 figures from one paper and then another figure in ...ReFigure by creating ReFigures and answering this 2 minute survey! You can also find ReFigure on Twitter...occurs infrequently and rarely makes it into the small selection of data found in full-length publications...experimental results but, obviously, this is not optimal. What if you could save the figures of interest...
  3. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    ...Epub 2016 May 2. PubMed PMID: 27136078. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Swarts, Daan...were unable to show TtAgo-mediated cleavage in mammalian cells, likely due to high temperature requirements...cleave plasmid and genomic DNA in a variety of mammalian cell lines, with an efficiency similar to that...sequence can greatly affect editing efficiency. Smaller size At only 887 amino acids in length, NgAgo is... feature is advantageous if you’re working with small capacity viral vectors such as AAV. Base removal...guides. While this fidelity would prevent other small nuclear DNAs from binding NgAgo, it might make it...
  4. Summer SciComm: Science Storytelling

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    ... (1) the struggle between two opposing forces or (2) the result of competing desires or (3) the presence... an introduction, and a resolution.   Fig. 2: The structure of a story - not just for fiction! ...or other affected people, man/animal vs nature, anthropomorphized animals, or even seemingly unrelated ...Summer SciComm Series! We hope you've enjoyed this small glimpse into the world of science communication ...these pieces aren't always appropriate for your formal scientific communications, they are fantastic fodder...
  5. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    ...presented in a series of quick (10 minute) or very quick (2 minute) talks so we got to hear from everyone. Addgene...evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and on at least 2 separate continents. Mimulus (Andrea Sweigart) Monkeyflowers...Organisms, Part 1 Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2 ...manipulate the organism they study (unless if you count normal human interaction for all of us studying human ...gene function and phenotypes in diverse plants, animals, microbes, viruses, and fungi for which these methods...Creating a productive, new scientific community is no small task. The EDGE program solicitation requires funded...materials. Many groups publicized workshops on their organismal systems for scientists and educational programs...
  6. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ...under phase contrast starting day 2 after transfection.     Fig: 2: Expressing mARGAna in MDA-MB-231...engineering a cell line, cotransfect the mARG cassettes 2:1 (A:N-V) with PiggyBac transposase and outgrow the...greyscale.   ARG expression in mammalian cells The first-generation mammalian ARGs (mARGs) enabled ultrasound... focused on bacterial ARGs and Tom focused on mammalian ARGs. ARG expression in bacteria The first-generation...ultrasound visualization of in situ mammalian gene expression in deep tissue. However, not unlike the first-generation...second-generation mARGs with higher expression, a smaller genetic footprint, and nonlinear acoustic scattering...flos-aquae gas vesicle gene cluster because of its small size and its ability to produce gas vesicles with...
  7. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ...research experiences to undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing... by western blotting in other experiments (Figure 2).   Complementation reveals conservation of function...Biology Education: A Call to Action, Washington, DC. 2. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology...of the plasmid corrects any known phenotypic abnormalities due to the deletion (i.e. the plasmid complements...
  8. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    ...our deposit spreadsheet to complete Step 1. Steps 2 and 3 are usually very easy — our tech transfer team...columns are shown in red in the spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down...Filling out and sending the deposit spreadsheet Figure 2: Example of the deposit spreadsheet showing the first... plasmid is intended to be used. Choose from: mammalian expression, bacterial expression, lentiviral, ...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...resistance to the herbicide chlorsulfuron (Homo line 2) or wild type (WT), two weeks after herbicide was ... CLIPf tag and a C-terminal SNAPf tag; see Figure 2), the authors developed a cost-effective expression... when associated with microtubules. Figure 2: CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET... SNAPf-, CLIPf-, and CLAP-tagged proteins for mammalian cell expression. These plasmids will be useful...expresses all the components of the biosensor in optimal proportions from a vector backbone that allows ...
  10. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ... qPCR is that the results can vary by a factor of 2. This means that if you set up two identical assays...amplitude measured for each droplet in each well (Figure 2). A clean ddPCR should have a clear separation between...as low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has ...properly, it is unstable and may only work for a small number of qPCR runs before a new one is needed. ...and the droplet generation oil are moved through small channels to create a water-in-oil emulsion containing...
  11. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    ...experiment using smFPs and standard neuronal tracers. 2. Visualization of neuronal sub-cellular structures...similar proteins. For example, N-cadherin (cadherin-2) is a postsynaptic cell adhesion protein that plays...PMID: 25915120. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4573404. 2. Shepherd, G.M. (2004). In "The synaptic organization...entirely. The other advantage is that these tags are small (8-12 amino acids) and neither disturb POI folding...toxic for the cells and affects the labeling of small structures like neurites. Like epitope tags, low...
  12. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    ...is unique compared to the rest of the genome and (2) the sequence is located just upstream of a Protospacer...pyogenes Cas9 variants with varying PAM sequences, 2) the use of Cas9 homologs derived from species other...Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi.... is even smaller than SaCas9 and is also compatible with AAV delivery. NmCas9, another small ortholog,...variants are capable of cleaving genomic DNA in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos, and they can be used...Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9) is about 1 kilobase smaller than SpCas9, so it can be packaged into adeno-associated...has been adapted for targeted RNA cleavage in mammalian cells. The REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable...
  13. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ... environmental sustainability in mind (Table 2). Table 2: Sustainability features highlighted in plasmid...debris”; and then clean-up the plasmid DNA (Figure 2). For most kits, the steps for lysing cells and removing...together — no mixing and matching!   Figure 2: Plasmid isolation workflows are similar across kits...Bacterial transformation protocols require such small amounts of DNA (often on the picogram scale) that...complete a cloning experiment with a relatively small amount of DNA (in the nanograms to micrograms scale...high quantity) – Depending on the experiment, mammalian cell transfections can require quite large amounts.... Aside from the more obvious swaps like using smaller bottles or recycled cardboard packaging, there ...
  14. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ... than control, 3; same as control (Cetn1/sgRNA1), 2; darker than control, 1; very dark). Brighter fluorescence...you can hold off on genotyping until the pups are 2-4 weeks old and use the ear tag method (creating different...PMID: 24253446. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3875854. 2. Mashiko, Daisuke, et al. "Generation of mutant mice... has expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers are now using ...Now that you’ve validated your gRNAs for use in mammalian cells, it’s time to use them in mouse embryos....method was developed as the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in mammalian cells was being explored and it allowed control...that we’ll learn much more from our favourite mammalian model organisms in the near future.  Many thanks...
  15. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    ... characteristics of select AAV serotypes in Table 2 from the paper. Delivery of AAV into the brain can...routes for neuroscience see Table 1 from the paper. 2. Manipulate your cell of interest: Cell-type specific...expression can be also achieved in nontransgenic animals by using cis regulatory elements such as promoters...
  16. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    ...one injection step! The entire protocol takes about 2-3 weeks but requires less than eight hours worth of...for C. elegans genome modification. Figure 2: Schematic from Dickinson et al. (2015) illustrating...of unhealthy, difficult-to-inject unc-119(ed3) animals, as well as a second injection step to remove the...select for candidate knock-ins. These candidate animals can then be further screened based on their Roller...the SEC and after 5-6 days of growth, wild-type animals that have undergone SEC excision are screened based...based on the loss of the Roller phenotype. These animals contain a fluorescent protein fusion for the targeted... 7 genes in parallel; when they injected 60-80 animals per gene, they obtained the desired insertions ...
  17. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    ...to plasmid loss (Diaz et al., 2015).  Figure 2: The partitioning problem. For low copy plasmids...of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2) (Ebersbach et al., 2005). However, more recent studies...Plasmids. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62(2): 434–464. Pubmed PMID: 9618448 Diaz R, Rech J, Bouet...where one plasmid outcompetes the other, usually a smaller, higher copy plasmid can more effectively titrate...Environmental Plasmids blog). Scientists have designed small, high copy incompatible plasmids that lead to asymmetrical...2012) Bacterial plasmid partition machinery: a minimalist approach to survival. Current Opinion in Structural...
  18. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence

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    ...into the several steps outlined below and in Figure 2. For a deeper dive into the steps and techniques, ...mounting sample on slides, and confocal   Figure 2: High-level overview of an indirect immunofluorescence...recognize the species of your primary antibody and 2) is conjugated to a fluorophore that suits your experiment...Good fixation maintains sample morphology with minimal impact to the target epitope. There are multiple...Sample Preparation This step can involve multiple smaller steps that all help to ensure that antibodies can...Sample Preparation, this step can involve multiple smaller steps, but the aim is to preserve sample integrity...
  19. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ... Figure 2: Ironing boards. Good as a WFH desk, and as a video control center.   Cycle 2: Zooming ...ironing board, giving it the perfect height (Fig. 2). We recorded video using a simple, external video...deliver the best possible videos for free. We’re a small operation, so sometimes it can be a big challenge...premium, so I had to figure out a solution for that. Normally, shots require me to get in close proximity to...good once. Even when things return to relative normalcy, I’ll be incorporating that mobile monitor stand...
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