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TypeBlog Post...Marker B. Created with biorender.com. The goal of flow cytometry is to use increasingly more stringent...populations that are B+ and one population that is B-. Created with biorender.com. If it’s hard to conceptualize...imagining (or drawing) a quadrant over the dot plot. Created with biorender.com. Of course, this is quite...al., 2017 to identify mDCs and pDCs. Used under Creative Commons license. In the third plot, anti-CD14...visualize the different populations. Used under Creative Commons license. Pro tip! Subtypes of immune...the percentage of cells in each gate. Used under Creative Commons license. Contour plots FACS data...data from Jhunjhunwala et al., 2015. Used under Creative Commons license. Histograms For analysis...
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CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide
TypeBlog Post...in therapeutics, as it can increase gene expression at certain loci to create changes in phenotypes. For... storm. While Cas9 has been most widely used to create specific edits in DNA, there has also been significant...inducible upon environmental triggers. This is done by creating a split dCas9 protein that can reassemble when...the best uses for Cas9 activators is in genetic screening. gRNAs targeting every gene in the human genome...interactions. Additionally, large scale CRISPR-based screens can be used to gain insight into protein structure...focused advancing scientific discovery through the creation of innovative technologies. To date his group ...of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens. Nature 568:511–516 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair
TypeBlog Post...nuclease domains, researchers created the CRISPR nickase. Nickases create a single-strand rather than a...generated by the nickases; D10A creates 5’ overhangs and H840A creates 3’ overhangs in a PAM-out design...Conversely, the H840A mutation in the HNH domain creates a non-target strand-cleaving nickase. Instead of...strands bluntly with WT Cas9 and one gRNA, you can create a staggered cut using a Cas9 nickase and two gRNAs...other? The gRNAs must target different strands to create a DSB, but this can be accomplished with either...an individual gRNA with WT Cas9, repair levels decrease rapidly 10 bp from the cut site. So if you can... you can’t obtain high HDR efficiency. Nickases create a staggered cut - could this system mediate repair... -
Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux
TypeBlog Post...autophagosomes with lysosomes leads to an increase in yellow puncta but a decrease in red puncta. Find the mRFP-...RFP ratio: a decrease in GFP fluorescence relative to RFP fluorescence suggests an increase in autophagic...flux, while an increase in GFP fluorescence relative to RFP fluorescence suggests a decrease in autophagic...yeast or the lysosome in mammalian cells. This decrease in pH quenches SEP but not DsRed, leading to emission...Therefore, the formation of autophagosomes leads to an increase of yellow puncta (GFF positive/RFP positive), ...fusion of an autophagosome with a lysosome. An increase in autophagy leads to more yellow and red puncta... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog Post... rounds of screening. Created with Biorender.com. Some phage display libraries screen antibody genes...serine with dispersed hydrophilic residues for increased solubility (Monnier et al., 2013). The linker ...expression systems. scFvs are also small enough to be screened for with in vitro display methods such as phage...applications where longer retention times often increase therapeutic efficacy (Ahmed et al., 2012). How...and VH sequences. Phage display also allows for screening scFv generated from the B cell antibody genes ...the ways antibodies are. scFvs are even used to screen for new antibodies. To do this, antibody variable...variable domain sequences are expressed as scFvs and screened with in vitro assays to select for strong binders... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog Post... are isolated from the resulting colonies, and screened for the desired modification. Finally, the positive...final circular plasmid product pictured here. B) Screening of recovered plasmids for the mutation of interest...multimerization (purple) which is evident by an increase in the size of the lower band (portion of the ...mutation). Similar results can be obtained with PCR screening using the primers specified by the arrowheads ... vastly facilitates the subsequent process of screening for succesfully mutated clones. Forward and reverse...Template A high purity plasmid prep significantly increases the success rate of site directed mutagenesis....secondary structures of the DNA template, and may also decrease the annealing temp of the primers. Because you... -
Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2
TypeBlog Post...14 and 21 to create GEmCherry2. The Denham lab made several other small changes creating 2 other versions...Cas9 activity assays. Recently scientists have created CRISPR fluorescent reporter assays to quantify ...CRISPR/Cas-stimulated HDR activity) The Madison lab created SRIRACCHA in 2017 to enrich and identify desired...H2B-GFP. This visual read out allows for easy screening of different gRNAs by simply changing the gRNA...plasmid that contains Cas9. The Madison lab also created an inducible SRIRACCHA system (iSRIRACCHA) where... H2B-GFP expressing cells exhibited a 2-4 fold increase in the number of endogenous indel edits when compared... sites and activity (Knudsen et al., 2018). To create GEmCherry2, the Denham lab first incorporated an... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog Post... the injunction. While much of this decrease is due to an increase in the number of universities’ whose...postdocs who were expecting a salary increase have had that increase cancelled. Rounding out the remainder...payment for working more than 40 hours per week increasing from $23,660 to $47,476 per year. This post discusses... of postdocs who weren’t going to get a salary increase prior to the injunction still won’t after the ...issues such as childcare using money from their increased salaries. In addition, salary uncertainty may ... costs of living would get much better salary increases that those in less densely populated areas. This...Gary's Previous Article: Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages Read about the Advocating for Science... -
Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning
TypeBlog Post... of interest. Although efficiency may decrease with an increased number of fragments, or the ligation ... cleave outside of their recognition sequence, creating four base flanking overhangs. Since these overhangs... fragments, these problems can be overcome by screening a higher number of potential clones. Golden Gate...the ordered assembly of multiple DNA fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed...This cloning strategy not only makes it easy to create a single gRNA-expressing plasmid, but it can also...fragment: PCR-based amplification can be used to create silent point mutations at internal recognition ...Whether you are using the Golden Gate method to create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids... -
Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques
TypeBlog Post...challenging for amateur scientists. Planarians, wormy creatures commonly found in freshwater ponds, provide a ...promoters to allow for bidirectional transcription to create dsRNA. Students can produce DNA templates via PCR... PCR off of the same plasmid and use these to create riboprobes for in situ hybridization experiments.... as how to perform worm amputations. They also created an online companion resource called “cutting class...within an embryo or tissue. Once the riboprobes are created, the WISH protocol involves preparation of the ...as a result, these cells turn blue. Students can create synthetic riboprobes off of linearized DNA templates...from their organism of interest, use the RNA to create a complementary DNA (cDNA), and then use PCR and... -
3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9
TypeBlog Post...protein in your hand? At 3D Molecular Designs, we create physical models of proteins using 3D printing technology... real”. We sometimes forget that the models we create are around 30 million times larger than the real...were soon developed that allowed researchers to create stunning, interactive images of their proteins....physical models of protein structure? We have been creating physical models of proteins for researchers for...educators and students use molecular models? We created the Center for BioMolecular Modeling (CBM) in 1999... 1999 with the expressed purpose of creating physical models of proteins and other molecular structures...researchers to learn about their research while creating physical models of proteins that are being investigated... -
Microbes: Look, Listen, and Tell
TypeBlog Post...in vivo: acoustic reporter genes’ on our blog. Creative approaches to presenting the microbial world ...bacteria in the lab, I was excited to learn about creative approaches to visualize bacteria in an educational...educational setting. The Symposium on ‘Creative Approaches to Presenting the Microbial World’ showcased complex... comics (Dr. Sanja Saftic) to educational gifs created by the Amoeba Sisters. Here’s one example of how...lactose-around-we-can-make-some-enzymes-for The take home message was that being creative and telling a story makes scientific topics both... fascinating to see the living art designed by creative minds with a (I assume) very steady hand. By connecting...connecting art and science, a fascinating interface is created that produces loads of inspiration for the current... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog Post...genome-wide screens, introducing bias into all work based on these and any other CRISPR screens using the..., race. Many researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic...targets and related biomarkers . Data from such screens are often uploaded to the Cancer Dependency Map...Boehm labs pulled data from more than 1000 CRISPR screens in DepMap to see if they could identify the ancestry... American, Africa, or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations...about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either European or East Asian ancestry, ...actually reference? The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match... -
Typing CRISPR Systems
TypeBlog Post...breaks caused by Cas12 create short 3’ overhangs, which leads to slightly increased efficiency when conducting...type to subtype to variant (shown in italics). Created with BioRender.com. Class 1 versus class ...underutilized compared to Class 2. Class 1 Despite their incredible abundance, Class 1 CRISPR systems are less popular...Cascade. As you might imagine, this is handy for creating large genomic deletions. Type I systems are also...with Cas3 (pink). Complex shown is from type I-E. Created with BioRender.com. Type III Type III is ...most engineered Cas enzyme, with adaptations for increased fidelity, activation/repression, high precision...CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, representing type II-A. Created with BioRender.com. Type V Type V uses Cas12... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog Post... progress on the NSF “G to P grand challenge.” Creating a productive, new scientific community is no small...in particular, that they all share the plasmids created under this programs via Addgene. New organisms ... organisms) - perhaps you’ll choose to study Crepidula atrasolea or Prochlorococcus with your next project...crisis. I like how they are using protocols.io to create a protocol community! Asclepias syriaca and Asclepias...used to study aspects of cognition. Spiralians - Crepidula atrasolea (Jonathan Henry) This black footed slipper...can express fluorescent proteins. This lab has created an automated tank for feeding and maintenance that...real bottleneck. New gif for #MolluscMonday: #Crepidula atrasolea juvenile, light microscope with polarizing... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog Post...and Carrot, and further means to increase aptamer stability and decrease background in vivo. The nature ...enrichment (SELEX), some 1010 oligonucleotides could be screened for their affinity to a wide range of non-nucleotide... visualization techniques. In addition, their incredible versatility opens aptamers for use in many entirely...aptabeacons (or aptatags) were born. Aptabeacons can be created in many different ways, but the general premise...that bound the compound malachite green (MG) to create a non-protein based visualization technique. Ultimately... knowledge of the nature of GFP fluorescence to create an improved fluorescent aptamer system. Knowing... RNA aptamer that would bind the fluorogen and increase its fluorescence, essentially mimicking GFP. ... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog Post... we grew. As the number of deposited plasmids increased, the accompanying sequencing data collection and...bioinformatics workflow management system As novices to creating a robust data pipeline that would be reliable ...community of Nextflow supporters existed who had created a shared resource of pipelines for genomic data... with others without any complicated setup. We created, tested, and debugged each of our pipeline steps...running the pipeline locally and in the cloud. Creating a bioinformatics workflow in Nextflow Establishing...scripting language that can be executed on Linux, we created our first process by simply copying and pasting...was working as expected, we moved forward with creating the next process and linking the output from the... -
New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
TypeBlog Post...vesicles with nonlinear contrast. Increasing expression and decreasing genetic footprint We took a cue ...heterologously by bacteria inside the body. So we screened gas vesicles gene clusters from a diverse set ...expression heterogeneity required single cell screening to isolate a clonal cell line capable of producing... expression to appreciable levels. We wanted to create second-generation mARGs with higher expression,...reduced the number of copies of gvpA needed to increase expression. We were able to express Anabaena ...expression leads to greater amount of gas vesicles and increased ultrasound contrast. In all the cell lines we ...their tracking with ultrasound imaging (Fig. 2d). Creating a cell line can be a time-intensive endeavor. ... -
Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning
TypeBlog Post...reactions. The BP reaction creates an attL-flanked entry clone. The LR reaction creates an expression clone ...reactions. Recombination of attP and attB sites creates attL and attR sites. Gateway vectors contain...Gateway plasmids. Figure 3: Method A to create an entry clone: recombination of an attB-flanked...attL-containing entry vector. Figure 4: Method B to create an entry clone: TOPO cloning the insert into an...attL-containing entry vector. Figure 5: Method C to create an entry clone: Restriction cloning the inset into...vector will recombine with the attL-entry clone to create the expression clone. Figure 6: Generating...between the entry clone and destination vector creates two products: the desires expression clone and ... -
Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling
TypeBlog Post...as a stepwise decrease in signal strength in a flow plot. d = days post treatment. Created using biorender.com...binding and (b) antibody host species interactions. Created using biorender.com. Another way of indirect...1b). As above, the advantage of this system is increased flexibility for panel design. Another perk is ...can be bound by several secondary antibodies, increasing the fluorescence signal intensity. However, you...cell, CD4+ T cell, dendritic cell, CD8+ T cell. Created using biorender.com. Intracellular labeling...cytosolic proteins, as well as proteins of the secretory pathway. Those can include cytokines and chemokines...bind to their targets in the cytosol and nucleus. Created using biorender.com. Dye stains Dye stains...