...graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants to join unions. The topic of unionization continues...of Howell Communications Philip Brenner, PhD - Assistant Professor of Sociology. University of Massachusetts...PhD - Biotechnology Communications Specialist at AsisChem Inc. and Social Media Content Specialist at Thermo...

...gene networks for the detection of antibiotic resistance and strain-specific diagnostics for the Ebola...Pardee and Alexander Green! Keith Pardee is an Assistant professor in the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy...the environment.     Alexander A. Green is an Assistant professor at the Biodesign Center for Molecular...

...silencing of self-genes. Dr. Mello presented a hypothesis that these pathways are involved in RNA based...address the growing clinical problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria. See the picture to the left for his ... vectors are engineered to replace the drug resistantance genes in the bacteria thus making the bacteria...

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...refers to the second step of this process: the synthesis of proteins from mRNA and the addition of post-translational...Overall the general strategy for protein expression consists of transfecting cells with your DNA template of...the infected host cell is eventually lysed. Cell lysis halts protein production, but there are non-lytic...

...-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis similar to those achieved by isogenic AdVs encoding...Elsevier, pp 39–67 Ding Q, Strong A, Patel KM, Ng S-L, Gosis BS, Regan SN, Cowan CA, Rader DJ, Musunuru K (2014...CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease complexes induces targeted mutagenesis in a diverse array of human cells. Sci Rep 4:...

...results you need.  Whichever method you choose, resist the temptation to over interpret your results: .... PMID: 15833050. Ma L, Chung WK. Quantitative analysis of copy number variants based on real-time LightCycler...amplification of Plasmodium falciparum multidrug resistance-1 gene (pfmdr1). J Parasitol. 2011 Oct;97(5):...

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...able to study many cellular processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission/fusion, nuclear import, ...several groups have designed modular toolkits to assist with tagging genomic loci in other model systems...including mammalian cells. CRISPaint (CRISPR-assisted insertion tagging), developed by the Hornung Lab...

...cloning rings to isolate colonies of antibiotic-resistant cells; during the time required to grease, place... below) is simple: After obtaining antibiotic-resistant colonies, use a Sharpie to circle 12-48 individual...specific wells from the 48-well plate for further analysis. To assess CRISPR/Cas9 knockout efficacy, we have...

...knowledge of protein structure and saturation mutagenesis. mK-GO matures from green to red, and the FT ...absorption spectra). Subach et al’s directed mutagenesis also produced the three separate timers shown...Age-dependent preferential dense-core vesicle exocytosis in neuroendocrine cells revealed by newly developed...

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...the detection of rare sequences and single cell analysis. It is also being used in the detection of microbes... al. "Detection of circulating Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific DNA by droplet digital PCR for vaccine...vaccine evaluation in challenged monkeys and TB diagnosis." Emerging microbes & infections 7.1 (2018): 1...

...adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (e.g. using mariner...Insertion of Transposable Elements by Guide RNA-Assisted Targeting) by the Sternberg group, and CAST (CRISPR-associated...SE, Sternberg SH, Fernández IS (2020) Structural basis of DNA targeting by a transposon-encoded CRISPR–...

...BiFC in your cellular system. BiFC competition analysis can be used in lieu of negative controls (Kerppola...Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) Analysis of Protein Interactions in Live Cells. Cold Spring...Kim Y, Jung JP, Pack C-G, Huh W-K (2018) Global analysis of protein homomerization in Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

...the flanks of each ligation product, which is the basis for the repeatability of the method. Note that the... 4. Josse J, Kaiser AD, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. VIII. Frequencies of...Swartz MN, Trautner TA, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid. XI. Further studies ...

...non-dividing cells. The first lentiviral vector system consisted of three plasmids: the packaging, envelope, and...other reporters, and they showed that expression persisted for at least thirty days. Although adeno-associated...integrate into the genome, they could promote oncogenesis by altering local gene expression. Self-inactivating...

...minigenome, the viral polymerase initiates RNA synthesis at the 3’ end of the minigenome to produce the...These products can be detected by Northern blot analysis. In addition, the polymerase will use the minigenome...mRNA can be detected directly by Northern blot analysis or RT-PCR. Uses of the minigenome system Minigenome...

...tracrRNA, crRNA guides are only ~42 nt long. Direct synthesis of these crRNAs should be significantly cheaper...rates, determined using sophisticated genome-wide analysis. At many of its computationally predicted off-...at Addgene. 3. Kim, Daesik, et al. Genome-wide analysis reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in...

...immunoprecipitation (locus-specific ChIP). These methods consist of insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation (iChIP...on development of technologies for biochemical analysis of genome functions such as transcription and ...technologies. The locus-specific ChIP technologies consisting of iChIP and enChIP are recent examples. We also...