...Biotechnology is no longer just for those working in academia or industry. At BosLab, we identify ourselves...towards enabling everyone to participate in the biotech revolution. Our lab exists in what appears to be...Because we’re conveniently located next to a major Biotech hub, building up our lab was easy. Most of our ...engineer yeast to glow, produce synthetic scents, detect compounds in the environment, and openly publish...Kaczmarczyk is a co-organizer at BosLab, a community biotech laboratory in Somerville MA. Follow her on twitter...

...Silva, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), Peru Julio Ernesto Valdivia Silva is a master of interesting...identifying new drug targets. An early and accurate detection of PZA-resistance is necessary to improve tuberculosis...engineering: glowing bacteria and a fish robot to detect water pollution Dr. Julio Ernesto Valdivia Silva...synthetic biology resources and microfabrication technologies to generate a self renewable sensor, a bacterium...

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... cellular targets Optimized genetic screening technique using Cas12a for multiplexed gene perturbation...s41467-019-10846-1.   Optimized genetic screening technique using Cas12a for multiplexed gene perturbation... To validate this optimized genetic screening technique, researchers identified a synthetic lethal interaction...future genetic screens.   DeWeirdt PC, et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0600-6. The Penn...tags, are optimized for SDS-PAGE gels and can be detected on Western blots via engineered immunoglobulin...

...experimented with adding different proteins to the CGBE architecture. They conducted a CRISPRi screen to identify...forms a chemical crosslink with DNA abasic sites, protecting them from cellular processes that would cause...target-library analysis, and machine learning. Nature Biotechnology, 39(11), 1414–1425. https://doi.org/10.1038/...optimization and ancestral reconstruction. Nature Biotechnology, 36(9), 843–846. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt...targeted DNA transversions in human cells. Nature Biotechnology, 39(1), 41–46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...enable C-to-A and C-to-G base changes. Nature Biotechnology, 39(1), 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...

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...developing assays.  Protocol architecture The basic (very basic!) architecture of the indirect approach is...direct approach isn’t giving you enough signal to detect your protein of interest, it may be time to look...occasion, usually after other signal amplification techniques have been ruled out.  Ease of access Signal amplification...course, this is much easier said than done! Each technique, and sometimes each individual assay, will need...

...K855A) and eSpCas9(1.1), followed by a technique for detecting genome-wide double strand breaks (BLESS...it’s obvious that CRISPR is a ground-breaking technology that’s already had a huge impact on research ...effects on various biological disciplines, the base technology itself is constantly improving. Cas9 variants... "High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects." Nature (2016...

...recombination. What is Cre-lox? The Cre-lox system is a technology that can be used to induce site-specific recombination... lethality. To facilitate the use of Cre-lox technology, transgenic mice have been constructed that express...system is another site-directed recombination technology very conceptually similar to Cre-lox, with flippase...analogous to Cre and loxP, respectively. The FLP-FRT technology can be an effective alternative to Cre-lox, and...have any tips or tricks, or clever cre-dependent techniques?  Let us know in the comments! References 1....

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...cell stage using one of several techniques. The longest standing technique is the injection of a targeting...before working with mouse models, several common techniques used to create engineered mouse models at embryonic...the pros and cons of different genome editing techniques. Inbred and outbred strains Mouse strains used...Cre is expressed.  Several variations of this technology can be used to customize the effects of this ...

...on to find out more about this amazing imaging technique and find further tips for using FRET in your experiments...proteins is not optimal, FRET may not occur or be detected even if the two proteins form a complex. To help...a potential source of error in suboptimal or undetectable FRET, well-characterized FRET reference standards...environment which alters the FRET efficiency. Detecting certain cellular changes with an intermolecular...the concentration or activity of small molecules, detect cellular processes and signaling cascades, quantify...

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...making them ideal for single-molecule fluorescence techniques. After generating a series of single- and double-tagged...be imaged using one- or two-photon microscopy to detect action potentials and subthreshold events, including...difficult with GEVIs. Not only was ASAP5 able to detect mEPSPs, it also enabled imaging of their propagation...protein and a NanoLuc® (Nluc) Luciferase-fused detector that specifically binds to active (GTP-bound) ...functional heterotrimers with endogenous Gβγ, enabling detection of activation triggered by endogenous GPCR. Example...

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...around the globe. Our first story focuses on a technology that has changed virtually all of biology…CRISPR...repository. Other researchers, eager to try this new technology, were quick to request CRISPR plasmids and, in...favorite observations from this data is that CRISPR technology is consistently showing rapid development and...requested through the years, even as more CRISPR technologies become widely used and available. If we look...all of this work helped scientists use CRISPR technology? We think so — and so do our requestors! CRISPR...