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TypeBlog Post...viral envelope, which fuses with the target cell’s membrane, allowing the viral particle access into the cell...inside the nucleus, without the need for envelope disassembly. Both lenti and retro viruses can accommodate...of murine leukemia virus DNA depends on mitosis.” EMBO J. 12 (1993) 2099-2108. PubMed PMID: 8491198. PubMed...
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Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers
TypeBlog Post...adjunct faculty member) have together been working toward this goal for years as members of the ENCyclopedia...the second plasmid can be done in one day in one assembly reaction. This second plasmid saves you a couple... -
Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur
TypeBlog Post...and names, swapped leadership, and grown to 25 members. What is Sample6? Sample6 is an enrichment-free...technologies, effectively communicating the advantages embodied, and driving the enterprise value of Sample6. ...Read On! Synthetic Biology & the Importance of Assembly Standards Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's ... -
Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology
TypeBlog Post...Biology (Howarth, 2025). Figure 1: Modular assembly tools, alongside criteria for Click Biology. Created...systems. What are the possibilities for modular assembly using the reactive groups naturally present in... steps. Beyond the lab, these systems can also assemble vaccines, target gene therapy vectors, or lock... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog Post... indirect (secondary) methods. In those cases, remember that a secondary should be used when signal amplification...price point, shipping time, or other factors. Just remember that these are secondary considerations to validation...validated using one or more of the proposed pillars. Remember, validation does not mean that the antibody is... -
Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing
TypeBlog Post... grow. We are hiring again and getting ready to embark on new exciting projects. Right now we don’t .... We are making an impact. {% video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False, type='scriptV4', hide_playlist..._playlist=True, viral_sharing=False, embed_button=False, width='1280', height='720', player_id='7039679868... -
Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
TypeBlog Post... that determine membrane expression and plasma membrane localization of transmembrane proteins, like rhodopsins... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog Post...found at Addgene! Figure 1: Strategy for assembling the barcoded gRNA library pool. (Adapted from...barcoded gRNA library is now ready for CombiGEM-based assembly into the CombiGEM lentiviral vector backbone pAWp12...your experiments. Figure 2: Strategy for assembling barcoded combinatorial gRNA libraries. (Adapted... -
Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...Protein A and B interact, the FP fragments can assemble the full structure of the fluorescent protein,...Split superpositive GFP Split-superpositive GFP reassembly is a fast, efficient, and robust method for detecting...behavior of the split FP in your system of interest. Remember that the FP fragments themselves can sometimes... -
How to Prepare for an Industry Interview
TypeBlog Post...While this method seems simple, I found it hard to remember to describe all four parts of a STAR answer once...Writing a rough outline of these stories helped me remember them for the interview. Prepare a list of questions...then thank them once the interview is complete. Remember, your interviewers took time out of their day ... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog Post... stimulation. CRY2clust enables faster assembly and disassembly dynamics, higher sensitivity to light,... protein kinase A (PKA) activity at the plasma membrane in living cells using a construct in which TagRFP-T... -
A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More
TypeBlog Post...poster readable While we are talking about font, remember this: bigger is better! Your poster should be ...poster more navigable. Choose your content wisely Remember that less is more! Posters should not look like...easily read. Similarly, be cognizant of audience members that are color-blind; avoiding red and green is... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog Post...electrostatic forces between these two negatively-charged membranes (Davis et al., 2002). Polybrene is one such cationic... thawed more than once. Fibronectin is another membrane-interacting protein that can be used to enhance...receptor-independent virus adsorption on target cell membranes." Biophysical chemistry 97.2 (2002): 159-172. ... -
PhD Applications After COVID
TypeBlog Post...always a good idea to introduce yourself to a few members of your desired department during the application... Different platforms have different quirks, so remember to practice on the program you’ll be using for... be difficult. However, an online meeting with members of your desired program will allow for you to have... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021
TypeBlog Post...VP2C fusion protein anchors to VP1, which self-assembles into a compartment encapsulating the protein of...contains a series of vectors and DNA modules for assembly of CRISPR/Cas9 constructs. zCas9i is a high efficiency...2A-Synaptophysin-mRuby from Liqun Luo’s lab expresses membrane tethered GFP to enhance axonal labeling and synaptophysin-tagged... -
Plasmids 101: Protein Expression
TypeBlog Post...In cell-free expression systems, proteins are assembled in vitro using purified components of the transcription...Cell-free expression systems are ideal for fast assembly of more than one protein in one reaction. A major...advantage of these systems system is their ability to assemble proteins with labelled or modified amino acids... -
CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments
TypeBlog Post...designing primers, and running analyses. New team members have taken up to a month to design a single 96-...began building CrispyCrunch in July 2018 and in November, we began using it internally. Guiding principles...biopython, bwa, samtools, bowtie, UCSC genome browser, Ensembl, and others. It builds on existing popular web ... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog Post...it may benefit you to work as a team with other members of your lab, a lot of the “soft skills” required... In an academic environment, surrounded by lab members who are all working on related topics, scientific...will be part of a team in industry with most team members giving oral presentations, you will also have to... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog Post...Jorgensen Lab recently developed a modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR genomic...SapTrap offers scientists a convenient one tube assembly reaction to generate high-throughput targeting...templates. A final ligation reaction correctly assembles the final targeting vector (Fig. 1, Step 4), and... -
Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids
TypeBlog Post... (nr/nt)” as it contains a composite of GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, and PDB sequences and may be the most comprehensive...regions by default, meaning that you do not have to remember to adjust any blastp algorithm parameters. We ...http://www.expasy.org/genomics/sequence_alignment EMBL-EBI - http://www.ebi.ac.uk/services http://www....