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  1. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...An estimated 320,000 viruses can infect mammals. Even more abundant are the Earth’s estimated 1031 bacteriophages...by resuspension of the collected particles in a smaller volume. Always remove packaging cell debris before...strategy to estimate unknown viral diversity in mammals." MBio 4.5 (2013): e00598-13. PubMed PMID: 24003179...events during integration of transfected DNA into normal human cells."Nucleic acids research 18.9 (1990)...
  2. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...homology-directed repair. Both Cpf1 and its guide RNAs are smaller than their SpCas9 counterparts, so they will be...in length, respectively, larger than SaCas9 but smaller than SpCas9. These nucleases should fit well into...the newly described non-CRISPR protein NgAgo is smaller than any of these options (2.7 kb with 24 nt guides...efficiency of two Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on ...
  3. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...types of RNA: Polymerase I is responsible for ribosomal RNA, Polymerase II is responsible for mRNA and...seems to couple termination with polyadenlyation. Mammalian expression plasmids are primarily used to create...create mRNA and the commonly used mammalian terminators (SV40, hGH, BGH, and rbGlob) include the sequence...commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17554393   Use of mammalian poly(A) signals in combination with certain viral...
  4. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    ...hundreds of stalls selling a myriad of items, only a small number of which I could identify. There were dozens...fragments of these transcripts. I remember when small RNA was just something we ran off the bottom of ... replication. He too mentioned how “surprising” small RNAs can be and posited that “we underestimate living...covalently closed RNAs seem to be conserved in mammals, expressed in neurons, and are especially abundant...
  5. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...paternal or maternal copy of the gene is expressed in normal individuals (in a parent-of-origin-specific manner...because too much or too little gene product disrupts normal function. Angelman syndrome is characterized by...both cases, the other copy of the chromosome is normally imprinted and silenced, and so the syndromes are...supply influenced cardiovascular mortality of the female grandchildren." BMC genetics15.1 (2014): 12. PubMed...
  6. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ...interactions, a restriction enzyme digest cuts DNA into smaller pieces, and proximity ligation creates chimeric...complexes are cross-linked, DNA is digested into smaller pieces. Sticky ends created are then ligated together...physically located. DNA is then sheared into pieces small enough to be pulled down via streptavidin IP. Biotinylated... sequence that is recognized by biotin ligases normally expressed in eukaryotic cells. Using this tag ...
  7. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ...time (Figure 1). See the paper for more details on small differences between mGold2s and mGold2t depending...CRISPR has become a household name, the search for smaller genome editors is heating up and TnpB has found... an omega RNA, or ωRNA) (Figure 2), but TnpB is small enough to be carried by viral vectors (~400 amino...introduced heritable genome edits in a single step with minimal off-target effects. With this proof-of-concept,...
  8. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes with minimal effort. The versatility of Cas effectors allows... the host genome. AAV instead relies mainly on episomal expression. Episomes are circular pieces of DNA... pool for downstream NGS and means you can use smaller volumes of your library for each experiment. Additional...to use variants of Cas9, like split Cas9, or a smaller Cas9 ortholog like SaCas9. You could even venture...
  9. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...Matsuoka et al., 2023), but these effects were very small or were possible only in non-biological conditions...slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was passed over the sample (Frank Hayward...license. They did more experiments to see if any small molecules act as a cofactor (among others, flavins...clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian cells, or in purified form, and didn’t need any...
  10. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    .... optimized the PITCh-gRNA for minimal off-target binding in mammalian genomes as assessed by CRISPR design... of alternative end-joining, requires only very small homology regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it...similar to HDR, but it is accomplished using much smaller regions of homology, which facilitates easier cloning...
  11. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...strongly biased towards T-RL, where the R end is proximal to the target site (Klompe et al., 2019, Vo et...pSPIN), which offer simple transformations for smaller cargos, and the ability to easily cure cells of...something called target immunity, whereby multiple proximal insertions with the same transposon exhibit reduced... R, Jiang Y, Yang J, Yang S (2020) Multicopy Chromosomal Integration Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases...
  12. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...uncertainty estimates for each parameter, we added log-normal noise to each of the terms which make up our distribution...of the product of a Poisson and multivariate log-normal likelihoods. Effects of weekends, winter break... effects. Values are the inferred percentage of normal activity (the average rate of unique PIs/labs placing...lockdown), request activity appears to return to normal. The model fit these two discrete phases with an...
  13. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    ... columns, it’s bound to glass syringe filters. Normally DNA does not bind silica or glass, but the addition... Starting material: plant, microbe, blood, or mammalian cells or tissue Product: total nucleic acids While...purify DNA and RNA from plants, microbes, blood or mammalian cells in 30 seconds or less without using a pipette...(2017). Nucleic acid purification from plants, animals and microbes in under 30 seconds. PLoS biology....
  14. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...beta-lactamase is excreted. Satellite colonies are small colonies of bacteria which do not contain the plasmid... its associated resistance gene. They can grow proximal to a colony that does contain the plasmid that...other plasmids must carry both a bacterial and a mammalian antibiotic selection gene. However, it does require...Pros: Widely available, cost-effective, confers mammalian resistance to G418. Con: Slow transformation ...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ...contact with every day (Prussin et al., 2015), only a small fraction typically cause disease. The gamma-retroviruses...most cases, interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses...structure of a wild-type viral particle — and of the normal, replicative life cycle — can help you understand...express. In the case of a natural virus, this new chromosomal locus is considered “proviral DNA” (Rowe et al...
  16. What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry

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    ...accuracy    In many cases, small amounts of contaminants in your sample will have minimal impact on downstream... spectra across this range of wavelengths with maximal absorption at 260 nm (Figure 1A). Thanks to the...RNA (and vice-versa). Both RNA and DNA absorb maximally at 260 nm, so distinguishing between the two can...
  17. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...standard in their bicinchoninic acid assay (BCA) to normalize samples before running a western blot. Standard...increase the accuracy of the curve, avoid pipetting small volumes (< 2 µL) or volumes too large for a standard...with a higher concentration of standard or make smaller dilutions.        As mentioned above, it is a good...individual %CVs for each point on the curve. ‌The smaller the %CV, the more accurate the curve. Though it...
  18. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...produced from this plasmid pool are injected into an animal with cell-type-specific Cre, the polyA sequence...pre-designed primers. By using this library to infect an animal expressing Cre in a cell type of interest, a scientist...scientist can isolate DNA from the infected animal and use the pre-designed primers to determine which...about using AAV as a tool for gene expression in mammals. Subscribe to Viral Vector Blog Posts Additional...
  19. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    ...dominant homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway in mammalian cells, but a less frequent DNA repair mechanism...suggestions. Disable the other repair mechanisms Mammalian cells have 2 primary repair mechanisms besides... HDR events compete with NHEJ-mediated edits of small insertions and deletions.   Start your knock-in...advances in CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knock-ins in mammalian cells. J Biotechnol., 16(4): 387-390 (2020). 10.1016...
  20. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ... experiments. False positives can occur even in small scale experiments, although these can often be accounted...target proteins in heterologous systems (e.g. mammalian proteins in S. cerevisiae). While this may ...alternative fungi (C. albicans, pC2HB) (7) and mammalian cells. If the problem is that your proteins are...for detecting protein-protein interactions in mammalian cells based on protein splicing. Anal Chem. 2001...
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