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  1. Polymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications

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    ...practice in molecular biology and can be used in a multitude of scientific techniques such as molecular cloning... region of interest  Molecular Cloning Site-directed mutagenesis Molecular Diagnostics qPCR ...Protocol: How to Design a primer  Molecular Biology Reference Molecular Cloning Techniques ... chain reaction? If you have ever worked in a molecular biology laboratory you have likely done a polymerase...cloning or molecular diagnostics.       Steps of PCR The beauty of PCR is that it can amplify DNA using...quantity. End point PCR is most commonly used in molecular cloning, sequencing, and genotyping. It’s extremely...simply PCR, is used for an array of different molecular biology techniques and experiments. End point ...
  2. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    ...whole tissue (15).  CLARITY is also compatible with LSFM, a method termed COLM (clarity-optimized light-sheet...seen some major advances in light microscopy, particularly related to the neurosciences.  These developments...transparent are enabling microscopes to visualize the cellular architecture of whole tissues in 3D with unprecedented... tract or CST traversing pons and medulla, bp= basilar pons, NST nucleus of the solitary tract.  The arrows...light using a different objective lens oriented perpendicular to the plane of illumination (i.e. light sheet...multiple-view reconstruction (5). In order to image large tissue such as cleared rodent brain, the Ultramicroscope...was developed using a stereomicroscope to capture large field-of-views (6). For more comprehensive reviews...
  3. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ...some downsides to working in a large commercial company. In my particular situation, communication between...can sometimes go unnoticed at large organizations. Another downside to large commercial companies which ...cancer research After graduating with a 2:1 BSc in Molecular Biology (roughly a B average in the American system... a type of pediatric kidney cancer. This was particularly interesting as I had just completed my thesis...I changed jobs. I highly recommend taking on a similar position in your field of interest before you dive...apply to study a Master of Science (MSc) in Human Molecular Genetics to give me an edge over other graduates...samples in the lab, but I really struggled with the large scale data analysis, as this is increasingly reliant...
  4. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    ...partitioning machinery away from a larger, low copy plasmid and the larger, low copy plasmid is more likely...plasmids at Addgene Read our Molecular Biology Reference References  del Solar G, Giraldo R, Ruiz-Echevarría...Replication and Control of Circular Bacterial Plasmids. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62(2): ...replication and blocking replication machinery (del Solar, 1998). As the copy number of the plasmid increases... replication in plasmids that contain them (del Solar et al., 1998). There are two models for iteron-based...machinery when plasmid copy number is high (del Solar et al., 1998).  In cases of compatible plasmids,...plasmids, incompatibility due to partitioning is similar to incompatibility due to having the same replication...
  5. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ...involve cellular dysregulation) is the mitochondria. These organelles have their own circular genomes ...been clinically exploited for antiviral purposes similar to that of vaccines. If you know the sequence of... Fig. 1: Exogenous sources of dsRNA Cellular sources of dsRNA Transposable elements such as...While these molecules are clearly associated with cellular damage and dysfunction, it is unclear what the...result of bidirectional transcription of their circularized DNA. These dsRNAs are typically contained within... acid hybrids are always around. R-loops are particularly enriched in highly transcribed regions and repetitive...described above play distinct roles in promoting cellular processes and functions, but they also have a ...
  6. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ...Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Website. Many thanks to our guest blogger, Clare O'Connor! Clare O'Connor...biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics at Boston College. She is particularly interested in...This post was contributed by guest blogger Clare O'Connor an Associate Professor at Boston College. National...computational methods to identify genes by their similarities to genes in other species, but these studies...gene function wide open. What if two seemingly similar proteins have acquired divergent functions due ...strains are available. Then, staff or students clone similar sequences from a less-well studied organism into...confident that the gene from the test species has a similar function to the gene in the reference species. ...
  7. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ...steps for lysing cells and removing cellular debris look very similar. However, keep in mind that kit components... model, or overall throughput needed. Large constructs – Large plasmids, cosmids, or BACs, can be tricky...from bacterial cultures is a core protocol in molecular biology. And while kit-free plasmid purification...quality preps, while other applications require large amounts of high quality DNA. Figure 1 illustrates... mammalian cell transfections can require quite large amounts of DNA (easily in the micrograms scale and...your plasmid; separate plasmid DNA from unwanted cellular “debris”; and then clean-up the plasmid DNA (Figure... Figure 2: Plasmid isolation workflows are similar across kits. Lyse your bacteria to release the ...
  8. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...on a particular DNA-sequence configuration (state) based on the identity and order of a particular set ...mutations, and environmental conditions drive certain cellular behaviors, but little is known about the order... may be used to better understand and engineer cellular processes that are influenced by temporally ordered...input to an RSM drives expression of a distinct large serine recombinase that recognizes its own attB ...reactions are irreversible. Once expression of a particular recombinase is triggered, its effects on the ...registers will likely not be homogenous for one state, regular PCR may not be very informative – each primer pair...fraction of registers that are amplified by a particular primer pair. Then, by leveraging qPCR data from...
  9. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...from the cellular debris. There are several popular DNA vectors that can be used to produce large amounts...The central dogma in molecular biology is DNA→RNA→Protein. To synthesize a particular protein DNA must first... post-translational modifications Learn more molecular biology in our Plasmids 101 eBook! Researchers...functions. Proteins can also be purified for use in molecular biology research (eg. polymerases and other enzymes...expression systems can be scaled up for production of large amounts of protein. Some drawbacks of insect cell...insect cells require demanding culture conditions similar to mammalian expression systems. Bacterial expression... answer. E. coli is definitely one of the most popular hosts for protein expression with several strains...
  10. MXS Chaining

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    ...one example, modular constructs generated with MXS-chaining were used to label subcellular structures in...assembling these modular types of constructs, and different methods are suited for particular downstream applications...enzyme-based). Well suited for the modular assembly of highly similar or repetitive sequences. Intermediate...structure and protein localization, as well as cellular processes like gene expression and cell migration...the fluorophore, and thus enabled labeling of particular structures (Table 1). Each construct was flanked...detection of each fluorophore at the respective subcellular structure (Figure 1). Here, MXS Chaining gave...kb insert. Table 1: MXS Constructs for Labeling Cellular Structures Construct Fluorophore Excitation...
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