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  1. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ... approaches. Major restaurant chains including Chipotle and Panera Bread have pledged to eliminate the...bacteria have poor non-homologous end joining machinery, so a CRISPR-induced double-stranded break (DSB...into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance gene and 2) ...
  2. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...and the viral mRNAs are translated) by cellular machinery. NP encapsidates the negative sense, single-stranded.... These mRNAs are translated by cellular host machinery (as viral mRNAs would be in the course of viral...initial titration experiments might be helpful to achieve optimal results. It is important to note that this...
  3. Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

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    ...If you are job searching, you may be wondering if you need to go to the effort of writing a cover letter...relocation plans. They can be skills-based: if you're switching fields, you can use your cover letter to explain...greeting like “Dear Hiring Manager.” Highlight your achievements with specific examples. Instead of saying “I...
  4. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...a synonymous mutation can be harmful (Sauna and Kimchi-Sarfaty, 2011).  Overall, codon optimization may... A, Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2017) A new and updated resource for... https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/28.1.292 Sauna ZE, Kimchi-Sarfaty C (2011) Understanding the contribution...
  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...leading to a positive signal. The same effect can be achieved for a fluorophore that relies on dimerization ...cleavage and an RNA aptamer that bound the compound malachite green (MG) to create a non-protein based visualization...of high throughput assays with microarrays and biochips. Ultimately, there are just some applications ...
  6. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    ...salaries). Postdocs (who are not in a primarily teaching role) come under this ruling, regardless of visa...on higher education, you can see that those in teaching roles (such as adjuncts) and graduate and undergraduate...already have salaries at or above $50,000. Boston Children’s Hospital is the only part of the Harvard group...
  7. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    ...projects. Almost all of my projects, have involved enriching conversations with R&D, Medical Affairs, and Commercial...challenges, quickly breaking them up into smaller achievable tasks, and then executing on them in a timely...situations, and personalities. Teams striving to achieve a lot of great output in a short amount of time...
  8. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...native conditions, the less activation you can achieve using a CRISPRa. Your gene of interest might already...Ewen-Campen B, Chari R, Ter-Ovanesyan D, Haque SJ, Cecchi RJ, Kowal EJK, Buchthal J, Housden BE, Perrimon...Zetsche B, Volz SE, Zhang F (2015) A split-Cas9 architecture for inducible genome editing and transcription...
  9. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...Improvements in our discipline for annotation and archiving of data are likely to improve research. What is...common file types? And how long should data be archived? Simplifying data access Some of the above mentioned...data repositories emerge that allow efficient searching and extraction of information. Looking a little...
  10. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ... in your host organism. Because transcription machinery differs between cell types or organisms, promoters...from beta actin gene Constitutive  Ubiquitous. Chicken version is commonly used in promoter hybrids. ... promoter Constitutive  Contains CMV enhancer, chicken beta actin promoter, and rabbit beta-globin splice...
  11. Hot Plasmids: February 2026

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    ...packaging plasmids at Addgene By Meghan Rego Reliably achieving high yields for your viral vector preps can be... coli strain to use only two, by deleting the machinery that recognizes UAG and deleting all instances... et al., 2013). But the remaining termination machinery has multiple functions, and furthermore, UGA is...
  12. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    ... lab. Some are rabbit immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) chimeric antibodies, and others are rat or mouse IgG2a....reproducible rat or mouse rAbs. The other eight are chimeric antibodies composed of rat or mouse variable regions...antibodies comes from IPI’s work with the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard-based lab of Tim Springer...
  13. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    ...getting dark and wintry with the end of year approaching. We’re always looking for something to brighten...bright fluorescent proteins with different thermal quenching rates (mNeonGreen and tdTomato), they produce ...demonstrates that taking advantage of fluorescence quenching properties is a promising strategy for developing...
  14. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...Matthew J., et al. "Toxic protein expression in Escherichia coli using a rhamnose-based tightly regulated...enables simplified chromosomal gene replacement in Escherichia coli." Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 81.15 (2015)...Recombineering) system for genome editing in Escherichia coli." Scientific reports 5 (2015): 15096. PubMed...
  15. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    ....e. those things that will be most useful for achieving your goals. However, you should have a good mixture... up with too many tasks. If you’re constantly switching between different projects, you might not be able...thinking about when or how long it would take to achieve these goals. I have far too many projects to operate...
  16. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...highlight the specific modifications to CRISPR machinery that allow for the use of CRISPR in plants, and...in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved by placing the gRNA downstream of a plant-specific...Chloroplast-selective gene delivery and expression in planta using chitosan-complexed single-walled carbon nanotube carriers...
  17. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...sequence of the mutated gene the researcher is searching for), then the probe will bind to the sample thereby...generally considered first generation DNA sequencing machines (9). Today, similar technologies, sometimes referred...older technologies nanopore-based DNA sequencing machines are relatively small meaning that DNA sequencing...
  18. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...fragments. As a fun way to start, I highly recommend watching this entertaining video created by our friends...homology regions, which allows for the mixing and matching of parts. Gibson assembly meets CRISPR Gibson... 1. Gibson DG, Young L, Chuang RY, Venter JC, Hutchison CA 3rd, Smith HO. Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules...
  19. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    ...family of GFP proteins in the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae, named bfloGFPs. They went on to characterize...Gateway cloning methods developed by the lab of Joachim Wittbrodt might be just the set of tools that you...-voltage (LOV) sensing domains from algae into chimeric Opto-RTKs. The LOV domains bind flavin cofactors...purifying Cas9? Check out pET-28b-Cas9-His from Alex Schier's lab, designed for expression and purification ...
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