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...aspects of the work you presented may also be unclear. 2. Make the audience your primary focus When writing... the Communicating Science Conference series for graduate students. I believe that communication is the...skill in science communication over time.  Like most skills, great science communication comes with practice...able to communicate with their colleagues and peers. Scientists also need to be able to communicate to expert...need to communicate with non-scientists, to establish broader impacts for their work in education and policy...with opportunities to practice communicating.  Some fantastic K12 education initiatives like BiteScis (https...careers in science communication The strength of story telling Science communication: 9 strategies to get...

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...highly efficient for C. elegans genome modification. Figure 2: Schematic from Dickinson et al. (2015...one injection step! The entire protocol takes about 2-3 weeks but requires less than eight hours worth of...genomic modifications, is very robust in C. elegans, and the methods for HDR-mediated modification continue...After self-excision, the resulting loxP scar is located in this synthetic intron, and only the fluorescent...permission from the Genetics Society of America. Applications of this system Dickinson et al. have developed...system could be used to make many other genome modifications, including targeted mutations. SEC-based systems... in cell culture. In addition to CRISPR/Cas9 applications, SEC selection could replace other, more restrictive...

...native enzyme, which are summarized in Table 2 below.  Table 2: Properties of native luciferases Organism...Luciferases are a class of enzymes capable of catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms resulting...gene, such as luciferase, usually serves as an indicator of transcription within cells, where detection...photon emission is measured resulting from the catalysis of a chemical reaction requiring luciferin, ATP...Background Lower Higher Post-translational Modification Not Required Required Photobleaching/Phototoxicity...blue light with a peak emission at 480nm upon catalyzing a chemical reaction with the substrate coelenterazine...compatible substrate must be provided for the enzyme to catalyze the light-producing reaction. Many luciferase ...

...phages but to also destroy the phage upon re-exposure (2, 3). More specifically, specialized Cas proteins snip..., accessed 25 November 2013. Author: James Atmos (2). Many CRISPR/Cas moieties carry out these functions...distinct types and subtypes using polythetic classification based on evolutionary similarity (5). Type ...2013 (7, 8). Nine months later, more than 1500 publications describe work to improve the tool’s specificity...various species and describe an assortment of applications. Despite the ubiquity of CRISPR/Cas toolkit,... multiple plasmids used for various platform applications. For more information on CRISPR/Cas, check out...for your research. Do you have a cool idea or application that involves CRISPR/Cas technology? Let us know...

...the reporter mRNA is labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind...PMC2746483 Find ribosome profiling plasmids at Addgene. 2. Halstead, James M., et al. “Translation. An RNA biosensor... While ribosome profiling co-opts the physical location of the ribosome, TRICK (Translating RNA Imaging...development, the osk-TRICK reporter was double labeled, indicating translational repression. During later stages...ribosomes after initiation, to calculate a ribosome translocation rate of ~3.5 codons/second. They also explored...Resources the Addgene Blog Learn More about SunTag Catch up on Your GFP Background Choose the Brightest Fluorescent...

...target sites for editing. PAM sequences can be from 2-6 base pairs in length and follow the DNA sequence... Eric Perkins Mammalian genomic DNA is not just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells’ nuclei...plasmids at Addgene Opperman J et al., Nature Communications, 2019. PubMed PMID: 31346176. Using LADL to...light-activated-dynamic-looping (LADL) system. The group fused dCas9 to a truncated CIB1 protein from Arabidopsis (CIBN), which they...

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...ITR, which can either be “flip” or “flop” (Figure 2). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep...site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013). Figure 2: AAV2 wild type ITR in flip and flop orientation. ... ITRs serve as the origin of replication and are required for replication, packaging, and vector persistence...viral rep (replication) and cap (capsid) proteins, which bind to the ITRs and initiate replication. ITRs are...structures, ITRs are prone to replication errors and disruptive mutations and truncations that can make vector ...binding site for Rep78 and Rep68 to initiate replication and a terminal resolution site that serves as...are noted. Created with biorender.com. ITR modifications and types  Since ITRs are one of the most important...

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...cellular responses in addition to antibody response 2) very high immunogenicity 3) and long-lasting immune...their use in other clinical applications. In the last decade, viral applications in cancer treatment and ...s unpack the myriad number of emerging viral applications and give you some recommendations for putting...putting viruses to work. Viral applications Viruses work by infecting a host cell (the target of viral infection...expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications we discuss, there is more than one type of virus...retrovirus, AAV, etc.). When you’ve decided on an application, our Viruses as Biological Tools blog can help...viruses and pick one for your experiment. Research applications Gene expression control Researchers are always...

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...Desfarges S, Ciuffi A. Viruses. 2010. Jan;2(1):111-30. PubMed . Altering the tropism of lentiviral vectors...Nerhbass U, Montagnier L, Charneau P. Cell. 2000. 101(2): 173-185. PubMed . Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus Posttranscriptional...For safety reasons, transfer plasmids are all replication incompetent and may contain an additional deletion...Interchangeable: usually encodes for VSV-G Safety Safe. Replication incompetent: Uses 3 separate plasmids encoding...encoding various HIV genes. Safer. Replication incompetent and always SIN: Uses 4 plasmids instead of 3 and...comparing the lentivirus HIV and the retrovirus MMLV indicate that the viral integrase plays a role in shaping...lentiviral are: The potential for generation of replication-competent lentivirus The potential for oncogenesis...

...2005 Nov 24;438(7067):441-2. PubMed. Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. A synthetic ...Levskaya A, Voigt CA. J Mol Biol. 2011 Jan 14;405(2):315-24. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.10.038. Epub 2010...consistent, and controllable pulses of light. Complicated patterns of light intensity and wavelength can... also be used to engineer new pathways with sophisticated gene expression controls. Most cell types do...light; these two systems can be coexpressed for sophisticated control of gene expression. An E. coli light-sensitive...; only two plasmids are required per system. Applications of these systems The large dynamic range of ...suitable for various scientific or engineering applications.   References Refactoring and optimization ...