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...potential human helpers of SARS-CoV-2 (especially the ones that are druggable) is a key step in our strategy...as a control. For easier portability, all viral genes are flanked by EcoRI and BamHI restriction sites...study - so you might want to be careful with these clones (and help us figure out what is going on there!...

...treat AD using CRISPR/Cas9. They are targeting the genes responsible for both early onset and late onset ...diseases In 2013, a team led by Jinsong Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that mice with a dominant...efficiency. In 2022, despite the increasing effectiveness of CRISPR/Cas9, scientists are still looking...

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...IF-ICC worked well for identification of the correct clones, it was determined that for some constructs more...more than 90% of the colony PCR validated clones unexpectedly failed to produce functional R-mAbs. It was...were created. This greatly limited the number of clones that needed to be screened through functional assays...

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...due to their propensity to integrate into proto-oncogenes and disrupt their expression (Robinson, 1982)....biological research, you might have an idea which ones could be helpful to you. Interested in learning ...Therapies in the New Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001...

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...Nme) (Pawluk et al., 2016). While Streptococcus pyogenes Cas9 (SpyCas9) is the most used and well studied... Selection marker while engineering viruses Acr genes can be used as positive selectable markers in engineering...viruses. For example, an Acr gene was used to replace genes in the difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus...

...achieved using lentiviral backbones expressing blasticidin or puromycin resistance genes.  It’s that simple...Vogelstein B (1983) Hypomethylation distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts...

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