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  1. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...wells with an experimental sample allows for detecting one protein from the sample. A direct ELISA has many...require scientists to detect proteins in their samples. One technique that relies heavily on antibodies...principle of an ELISA is that any antigen within a sample adheres to the well (either directly or by binding...antibodies coating the wells to capture antigen from a sample, whereas antigen is bound directly to the wells...protein you are interested in detecting in your sample. When an ELISA kit is ordered, the wells are typically...already coated with the antibody. Then, you add your sample to the wells, and the antibodies bind to your protein...
  2. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ..., N. and Hamilton, D. 1981. PubMed PMID: 6276558. 2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells...two loxP sites, which can be located either on the same or on separate pieces of DNA. Both 13bp repeat sequences... sites: Inversion: If the loxP sites are on the same DNA strand and are in opposite orientations, recombination... reversed.   Deletion: If the sites face in the same direction, the sequence between the loxP sites is...sites undergo recombination with other sites of the same type, but are not cross-compatible. Using different...
  3. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...articles, such as: Sander JD & Joung JK, Nature Biotech, 2 March 2014. Or browse the articles related to the ... similar to using a single chimeric gRNA. At the same time, the off-target effects are reduced because...
  4. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...closer to the clinic (Tsai and Joung 2016). Table 2: Unbiased Genotyping Options Technique Detection...PMID: 23792628. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3773023. 2. Vouillot, Léna, Aurore Thélie, and Nicolas Pollet...investigator can be relatively certain that their samples don’t have off-target mutations if they remain ...
  5. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    ...perceived climate change risks. Nature Climate Change, 2(10), 732-735. doi:10.1038/nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (...fitting that I’ve ended up (again) dispelling the same myths and misconceptions fifteen years later. What..., peer-reviewed study. The second group read the same abstract but with the names reversed, meaning that...
  6. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    ...small, helpful changes are endless.    Fig. 2: Blugene moves reagents from left to right as they...running it unchanged over and over again, and the same goes for your workflow. Next time you make a mistake... to match your plate layout can help you track samples as you add them. Moving your reagents from your...
  7. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ...156–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2 Chomczynski P, Sacchi N (2006) The single-step method...tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and work quickly to mitigate RNA degradation...180°C for at least 4 hours.   If your final RNA sample(s) are resuspended in water or TE buffer, store...requires a lot of time and depending on how many samples you may have, access to one or more large, expensive...thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform. In this method, samples are still homogenized and lysed in a guanidinium... above, working with RNA requires keeping your samples cold until homogenization and cell lysis. This ... market to choose from) on your resuspended RNA sample will help ensure DNA contamination is not an issue...
  8. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    ... tabular HTML formatted output. Surprisingly only 2 tools provide FASTA output. A few notable tools allow...Nature biotechnology(2014). PubMed PMID: 24880488. 2. Hsu, Patrick D., et al. "DNA targeting specificity...that the CRISPR system was involved. Today, that same laboratory enjoys a successful edit rate of over...later it became quite clear that others thought the same. Since January 2013 there have been 33 CRISPR software...knowledge from laboratories employing CRISPR on the same organism could be used as a proxy for this last ...
  9. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...closely mimicking the future application. In figure 2 we provide an example of the comparison of the practical...that are related to the imaging strategy and the sample. Practical brightness A protein with a high intrinsic... a reference protein that is translated from the same open-reading frame and separated from the protein...brightness for a set of fluorescent proteins (with the same reference protein) under identical conditions, a...
  10. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

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    ...IgM, IgD, and IgG are deleted.     Figure 2: Isotype switching requires DNA recombination of the...of antibodies, although not all isotypes have the same ability to activate each of these functions: Recruitment...appropriate isotype control. An isotype control has the same constant heavy chain domain as your primary antibody...results in the B cell expressing an antibody with the same variable domain but a different heavy-chain constant...
  11. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    ...company culture.  It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking at...reason you can’t then ask that same question in your next interview. The same goes for answers interviewers...interview questions. Story telling shares many of the same elements as a STAR answer: a setting, a conflict...pay attention. Your interviewers will not have the same experiences as you, so set them up for success by...and your interviewers. You’re probably all in the same boat, but there are a few things you can do to make...
  12. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ...non-specific binding in our IHC condition.   Fig. 2: Schematic of the goldilocks antibody selection process...compare different clones of the same target to see if the results are the same/similar, emphasizing the antibody...your sample to. For example, we use our negative control to compare exposure times of our samples. A prominent...confirming it will produce the same results even to a different sample. Finally, as a lab we discuss the...Baker, 2015), causing a huge waste of precious samples, time, and funds – up to US$350 million in 2015...noise. We then compare the negative control to a sample with the primary included to confirm that the signal...antibody and not from the background noise. If the sample images similarly to the negative control, that ...
  13. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    ...delivering an AAV construct expressing channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a blue light sensitive cation channel, fused...interact during various behaviors. Either tissue samples were harvested after the behavior, or the animals...
  14. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

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    ...JS, Legube G, Miller KM Genes Dev. 2015 Jan 15;29(2):197-211. DNA Cross-Bridging Shapes a Single Nucleus...Single Nucleus from a Set of Mitotic Chromosomes. Samwer M, Schneider MWG, Hoefler R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude...Nucleus from a Set of Mitotic Chromosomes. Samwer M, Schneider MWG, Hoefler R, Schmalhorst PS, Jude JG, Zuber...
  15. Plasmids 101: Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)

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    ..., but at a lower efficiency (~20%). Figure 2: Schematic of multicomponent assembly with SLIC. Multiple...allows both insert and vector to be digested in the same tube. Alternatively, SLIC can also work directly...using multiple fragments that share homology in the same reaction. In these cases, the use of another cloning...
  16. Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates

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    ...with abundance whenever possible.      Fig 2: Try to inversely pair fluorophore strength with protein... the antibodies time-sensitive, using precious samples, or being compared to other data in a manner that...signaling molecule, that all need to be detected in the same assay. This is one of the most complex subjects ...
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