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TypeBlog Post... work responsibilities, we make team building activities a priority and have organized many events over...right in your breakroom. 5. Throw some physical activity into the mix It’s easy to sit around and just ...fast! Spread word of your plans by email, gong, evite, posters, megaphone, or your company’s intranet....
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Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog Post...and selection for targets can be done largely in vitro; Easy and reproducible commercial synthesis (those... can be to get a “bad batch”); Customizable sensitivity and detection - since they frequently undergo...Experiments Learn more about GFP Controlling Protein Activity with GFP Resources at Addgene.org Find the Spinach... -
Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...networks involved in directly controlling muscle activity and coordinating movement, several additional ...develops an enhanced propensity for movement and activity called locomotor sensitization. This enhanced ... investigated this further and showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog Post...to become a research scientist. I recently was invited to attend the first Principal Investigator meeting... students. You can see why I was excited to be invited to attend. My job is to ensure that, in general...hard to raise because they beat on each other in captivity. Sticklebacks demonstrate unusual parallel adaptation... -
Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
TypeBlog Post...editing has quickly become a popular system for in vitro and germline genome editing, but in vivo gene editing... (SaCas9, 1053 amino acids) displayed cleavage activity in mammalian cells. SaCas9 produced indels at ...SaCas9 did not display higher levels of off-target activity than SpCas9, confirming its suitability for in... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog Post...limitations and enable impressive editing efficiencies in vitro and in vivo. Incorporating reverse transcriptase... vectors, CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications. Figure 2: Modular features...to record and quantify the dynamics of promoter activity in single cells. Find iPAK4 plasmids here! Lin... -
CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors
TypeBlog Post...considerable A → G editing activity at most sites, in addition to A → C and A → T activity. To drive selective...introduce T → C and T → G edits, though with limited selectivity between those outcomes, with an average efficiency... -
Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping
TypeBlog Post... the virus and is less affected. Altering sensitivity to serum. Different pseudotyped viruses are differentially...studies since there’s the potential for off-target infectivity as it can bind and transduce many cell types ...body, making it a great tool to study neuronal connectivity. However, because of rabies virus’s toxicity... -
AAV Titers: Where Do They Come From And What Do They Mean?
TypeBlog Post... et al. "Near-perfect infectivity of wild-type AAV as benchmark for infectivity of recombinant AAV vectors...of 50:1 (Zeltner et al., 2010). The specific infectivity of viral preparations is defined by the ratio... -
Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences
TypeBlog Post...consulting firms can be involved in many similar activities depending on the expertise of the senior leadership...of schedules can take on employee morale and productivity, and many have mechanisms in place to prevent...those who understand that these challenges are an inevitable part of the profession, and that they can be ... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog Post...most as cancer cells are amenable to culture in vitro. Virologists too have benefited from the ability...have plenty of maintained freezer stocks. It is vital that the Master and Working stocks of cell lines...Thermofisher Guidelines for Maintaining Cultured Cells Invitrogen Cell Culture Basics Guide Abcam Cell Culture ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog Post...fluorescent proteins can be accurately determined in vitro by measuring the fluorescence intensity of purified...substantial size of GFP may interfere with the activity or the localization of the fusion protein. Also...Peptide-tags for site-specific protein labelling in vitro and in vivo." Molecular BioSystems 12.6 (2016): ... -
March for Science
TypeBlog Post... by reality – a government cannot declare that gravity change direction and make things fly up when we... believe climate change is mostly due to human activity while much less of the general public agrees (...Democratic values and their role in maximizing the objectivity of science. Scientific American: Scientists ... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog Post... quantify the effect of mTOR inhibition on the activity of RNA Polymerase III. Red and orange fluorescent...then identified through microfluidic-assisted in vitro compartmentalisation for their high binding affinity...Katherine Deigan, et al. "Structural basis for activity of highly efficient RNA mimics of green fluorescent... -
CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit
TypeBlog Post...designed solely for restriction enzyme sensitivity or resistivity, and thus be a marker for edited cells... Fig. 3: Restriction enzyme screening for resistivity to digestion, indicating targeted edits. ... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog Post...with 5’->3’ polymerase activity (for amplification), 3’->5’ exonuclease activity (increases amplification...amplification fidelity), and no 5’->3’ exonuclease activity (which could potentially truncate the template). Importantly... -
Validated gRNA Sequences
TypeCollection...sequence and your genomic target may reduce the gRNA activity. Know your target. Which species or variant of... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog Post...well in a rat or non-human primate. Likewise, in vitro efficacy doesn’t always translate to in vivo efficacy...chemogenetic tools, where modification of cellular activity outside of your experiment site or circuit can...measuring expression over a period of weeks (in vitro) or months (in vivo). Selective promoters Selective... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork
TypeBlog Post... So never mind how much better your work and productivity will be if you’re part of a team - it will just...That’s a subtle but important distinction. If I invite someone to be on a project team, I try to make ...next team works better. In fact, don’t wait to be invited onto a team. Make one yourself. Instead of thinking... -
Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software
TypeBlog Post... the known pathway that were essential for the activity of different ligands. Such knowledge could be ...effects. Typically the phenotype would be studied in vitro, but there is enormous potential in performing in...G., et al. "Optimized sgRNA design to maximize activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9...