... as muscular dystrophies, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, across four different types of human cells...(#186715) and hCtRNA_VT (#186716).   Fig. 2: Comparison of previous representative dual-gRNA architectures...The natural CRISPR locus of a bacteria host encodes multiple guide RNAs (gRNAs) on a single array to ...applications, we provide detailed manual and online design examples of using Addgene plasmids hCtRNA_FT (#186715...

...otherwise be difficult to separate out. In Figure 2, you can see that, without the FMO, it would be difficult... from the Ly6C positive population. Figure 2: An FMO gating example. The FMO sample (A) can be ...familiar with the basics of controls in experimental design, you’ll need a few controls specific to flow as...controls like FMO or isotype controls, which we’ll describe a bit later. Single Colors Single color controls...

...series will cover 2 of the 7 mentoring questions I set out to answer. First, I will describe some of the many...101-Building Relationships for Success”. Choose 1-2 tactics to try. One of my favorites is making the ...Watch for my upcoming mentoring post in which I describe how to organize a successful peer mentoring circle...

... you may want to consult Tables 1 and 2 in our Technical Design of a Western Blot post to make sure you... that all look exactly alike.      Figure 2: Reagent gradient. Here, the lanes are lightly marked...guide. The gel is then removed from the membrane (2) and the membrane is cut so each lane is its own piece...the antibody’s dynamic range. Specifically, the 1:2, 1:1, and No dilution samples all have approximately...conditions are 4 °C overnight or room temperature for 1–2 hours, there is some evidence that antibodies may ...right. If you’ve thoughtfully done the technical design of your blot, but are still finding yourself having...your membrane! Membranes look the same from both sides, so it’s quite easy to think lane 1 is‌ lane 8. ...

...parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and the one ɑ-helix, (2) β-strand 10 (β10), and (3) β-strand 11 (β11). Each...activating caspase-3, and detected fluorescence within 2 to 5 hours, a time consistent with previous methods...fluoresce: FlipCherry. FlipCherry provides a proof of concept that the designed used in FlipGFP can be applied...range and high brightness. The Shu Lab from UCSF designed an improved apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which ...prevent binding, the β strands in FlipGFP were redesigned so that they are parallel to each other and thus...fluorogenic reporter toolkit, the Shu Lab also designed a red fluorogenic protease reporter based on superfolder...PMCID: PMC2117903. To, Tsz-Leung, et al. "Rational design of a GFP-based fluorogenic caspase reporter for...

...from a single Illumina MiSeq® run. As shown in Fig. 2, below, differences in input concentration across ...plexWell™ libraries is well suited to large-scale de novo assemblies of short constructs like plasmids...all over the world. The rest of this piece will describe plexWell™ in more detail, and how we are using... containing fragments carrying sample-specific barcodes. Rather than continuing to process 100s to 1000s...

...represent the preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would...medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-448. Pubmed PMID: 25849130. 2. Hata, Aaron N., et al. "Tumor cells can follow distinct...monitored over time by sequencing the barcodes in the population (all barcodes can be amplified using the same...with roughly 73 million semi-random, 30 bp DNA barcodes that are integrated into target cells' genomes...ClonTracer system, lentiviruses containing these barcodes infect the target cell population at low multiplicity...replicate populations, they found that similar barcodes consistently made up the majority of the resistant...resistant populations. In fact, 88% of the barcodes within the resistant populations were shared by at least...

...VP64 fusion; 2. A sgRNA incorporating two MS2 RNA aptamers at the tetraloop and stem-loop 2; 3. The MS2...first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation in mind. “We had not managed...Konermann and her colleagues in Feng Zhang’s lab describe just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9...from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like tapping...instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With that new design in place, Konermann immediately saw an order of...consistency and validation with >80% effectively enriched guides per gene hit, and 100% validation of the top 10...

... to share information about the emerging SARS-CoV-2 virus quickly and openly. By sharing results faster...Open Scientific Communication Ecosystem Fig. 2: The scientific ecosystem, enriched by open access...been common in fields like math and physics for decades (see: arXiv.org), but have been only adopted by...course, preprints don’t replace journals and other modes of scientific communication. Researchers often post...to receive deposits of plasmids that have been described in a preprint. In fact, over 1,500 plasmids in...Depositing plasmids that were used in a preprint provides all the same benefits as sharing those plasmids...resources on the Addgene blog Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series...

...The groups in these programs typically consist of 1-2 mentors and 3-5 mentees who meet together for an 8... together. If you all work at the same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not... for over 10 years. Many successful scientists describe having a “posse” of mentors as one key to their...Ellen Daniell. In “Every Other Thursday,” Daniell describes a group of 7 women scientists who met every other...increases the diversity of input and perspectives Provides a good mechanism for accountability that makes...leadership and communication skills. The leader also provides materials such as pre-reads, videos or exercises...

...nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment, they found the ... cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity of the AAV vector Once ...Science. 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169 2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H...dystrophin transcript. Unfortunately, the oligonucleotides only modestly improve muscle function, and they must...wasting leading to death at around 30 years of age. Despite the amount of research conducted on DMD, there ... over time, stem cell editing would be highly desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR components... for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. gRNAs can be designed to flank a single or multiple exons that, when...

...misplacing your results or losing that lab notebook from 2 years ago. The free subscription to Lab Archives allots...notebooks you’re saving trees! The Earth thanks you. 2. Gibco Cell Culture by Gibco Whenever I start to learn...with NEB enzymes, the app is quite helpful and provides a list of directions including which buffers to...

...immunization until the desired level of antibodies is reached - typically within 2-4 months. After the animal...animal is given additional booster immunizations every 2-3 weeks to increase the antibody titer. The titer ... animal has the desired level of antibodies in its bloodstream, the antibodies are retrieved first by ...species. Pre-adsorbed polyclonal antibodies are designed for experiments where antibodies raised in several...

.... pCRISPomyces-1 includes Cas9, a tracrRNA, and a CRISPR array, while pCRISPomyces-2 contains Cas9 and...pCRISPomyces-2 displays a higher editing efficiency, perhaps due to its condensed design. For both systems...and a subsequent curing protocol that requires only 2-3 hours incubation. E. coli and T. citrea scarless...four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins forming the QCascade DNA-targeting ...Marraffini’s lab took advantage of this lethality to design the first synthetic bacterial CRISPR system in ...gRNA cassette for plasmid curing through "self-destruction" after induction with L-rhamnose and aTet. CRMAGE...scarless editing plasmids Sheng Yang’s lab describes a two-plasmid system that combines recombineering with ...

...and scholarships in different subject areas!    2. Resume and cover letter know-how  Tailor your resume...4. Letters of recommendation wisdom  Reach out to 2-3 individuals in your professional circle to vouch... such as citizenship status, academic year, and grades that serve as automated filters of consideration...and cover letter revised by your network, which includes your friends, family members, and professional...

...per cell increases 4-5 fold (for pUC plasmids) or ~2 fold (for p15a, R6K, and ColE2 plasmids) as cell division...biotechnology 36.4 (2018): 352. PubMed PMID: 29553576. 2. Kittleson, Joshua T., Sherine Cheung, and JChristopher...of copy number (Segall-Shapiro et al., 2018). Designing stabilized promoters To keep gene expression stable...ideally be optimized to promote generation of the desired product while avoiding the accumulation of toxic...

...without leaving behind any accessory DNA sequences [2], [3]. Simply put, the piggyBac™ transposon containing...with a Footprint-Free™ genome edit.   Figure 2: Editing DNA using the piggyBac™ transposon selection...PMID: 26211958. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4663986. 2.  A. M. Singh, V. V Adjan Steffey, T. Yeshi, and D...facilitate the selection of cells containing your desired edit. The selection is marker is then seamlessly...sites is cytotoxic for proliferating cells and provides a simple tool for conditional cell ablation.,”...Zinc-finger nuclease-induced gene repair with oligodeoxynucleotides: wanted and unwanted target locus modifications...

...linear fashion. This implies that reducing the power 2-fold does not reduce photobleaching by half. How exactly...prolonged time). Other illumination strategies, such as 2-photon-excitation, selective plane illumination, TIRF...different ways. We describe a number of issues with some of the experimental designs used to make these...of Amsterdam. The previous post in this series described a practical approach to selecting a bright fluorescent... protein. Photobleaching is the irreversible destruction of a fluorophore under the influence of light...photobleach at some point. For live-cell imaging, it is desirable to have fluorescent proteins that are photostable...photoswitching (Kremers et al, 2009), which usually are undesired properties. In the ideal situation, a fluorescent...

...expression tTA Off Verma 26803 pEnt L1L3 EF1a-tTA-2 Contains Gateway L1L3 sites and EF1α promoter driving...tetracycline, tetracycline binds to tetR. This precludes tTA binding to the tetO sequences and subsequent...and induce your gene of interest. ID Plasmid Description Co-expressed tTA, rtTA, or TetR On or Off PI ...transactivator for your tetraycline system. ID Plasmid Description Element On or off PI 26429 pLenti CMV rtTA3 Blast...

...plasmid kit consists of 20 plasmids encoding 14 alpha, 2 beta, and 4 gamma subunits of the heterotrimeric G...activation via bioluminescence resonance energy transfer 2 (BRET2). Check out our blog post on GPCR signaling...new receptors were termed Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs) (Roth, 2016...What do smell, taste and sight have in common, besides being one of the five senses? GPCRs or G-protein-coupled...photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling cascades.  So let’s break down the name "G-protein coupled...then induce or inhibit intracellular signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli. Ligand...