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TypeBlog Post...Institute today, where he helps researchers in a variety of fields develop RNAi screens to answer their ...more about cancer biology in Ed Harlow’s group at Harvard Medical School and then applied to work at the ...Genetic Perturbation Platform and encompasses a variety of technologies to functionally investigate the...
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Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab
TypeBlog Post...London), Dr. Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School) , and Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking...and writer.” Connie Cepko was surprised by the variety of skill sets she needed to acquire as a professor... -
Finding and Joining Your Dream Lab
TypeBlog Post...London), Dr. Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School), and Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking...throughout the year since hiring opportunities arise at various times. If the timing and interests align for both... -
Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems
TypeBlog Post...mammalian expression vectors containing various spike protein variants are also available. Plasmids are continually... Various Addgenies... -
Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
TypeBlog Post...pressure to select for variants of interest, though. A selection can take the form of varied temperature, nutrient...help determine which is right for you. Screen variations Forward and reverse screens Forward and reverse... -
Hot Plasmids - May 2022
TypeBlog Post...continuation of that work, they have found at least two variants that display increased neuronal expression in ...side effects, by allowing the user to select for variants that infect the CNS while selecting against those...subclones within a single well reduced well-to-well variability, while the readout was able to be deconvoluted... -
Building and Validating Recombinant Antibodies: A Case Study
TypeBlog Post...degenerate primer set to amplify IgG variable light (VL) and variable heavy (VH) chain sequences. Fusion...thoroughly validated. The creativity in employing a variety of cloning techniques and troubleshooting methodologies... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog Post... there!), think of ways you could change your variables - your approach, your workflow, or your physical...prevent the mistake, just like you would change variables to fix a failed experiment. For example, I used...to reduce the chances of making an error. Try a variety of things, including (and maybe especially) suggestions... -
Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog Post...scale by screening diverse libraries of genetic variants. Several methods for generating mutant libraries...provides a new approach for generating novel genetic variants in bacteria. Read on to learn about the key components... other three bases, which limits the level of variation that can be introduced. Diversification is... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics
TypeBlog Post...model, ubi:zebrabow. In this system, cells express various fluorescent proteins controlled by Cre recombination... that recombine independently and results in a variety of colors depending on the combination of fluorescent... Various Addgenies... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog Post...editing in both bacteria and human cells using various delivery methods, including plasmid, ribonucleoprotein...efficiency of prime editing to correct mutations in a variety of target genes and cell types. Their Nature Biotechnology... Various Addgenies... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog Post...Filip Tomaska and Tim Hanson, are characterizing variants of iGluSnFR3 in vivo and have used it to detect...these cells and the functional contribution to a variety of behaviors related to addiction and pain. Once...biosensors He Tian (goes by “Tian”) is a postdoc at Harvard University where she engineers genetically encoded... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)
TypeBlog Post...from countless rounds of optimization. Dozens of variants exist with unique cutting features and evolved...engineering endeavors. For more information on Cas9 variants, check out our blog post on choosing a Cas9 enzyme... detection tool for rare, often hard to detect variants such as single nucleotide polymorphisms. Fast... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog Post... application. Consider also that there may be variations within an application. Take immunohistochemistry...might find that while the website highlights a variation of your application, a publication successfully...this is the case, you can narrow them down in a variety of ways. First, review the citations. An antibody... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...RNA-protein interactions. To address this need, the Khavari lab at Stanford created the RNA-protein interaction...disease. RaPID can also be used to test how RNA variants associated with human disease affect protein binding...Siprashvili, Z., Palmer, T.D., Carette, J.E., & Khavari, P.A. (2018). RNA–protein interaction detection... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog Post...tens of thousands of proteins functioning in a variety of ways. How do scientists focus on the activity...acid sequence, or tag, on the protein. While a variety of methods can be used to successfully isolate ...tools for studying proteins and are used for a variety of assays in the lab (for a refresher see Antibodies... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog Post... is explained in more detail here. There are a variety of methods that can be used to measure your fluorescent...filtration (Chudakov et al, 2007). We have developed a variety of plasmids that can be used in the OSER assay ... Of course, you want the ‘latest and greatest’ variants with the best properties for your research. But... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog Post...different fluorescence imaging strategies use widely varying amounts of excitation power (Shaner et al, 2008... An example of a photostability measurement of various cyan fluorescent proteins is depicted in figure...higher excitation power, the photostability of the variants is comparable (lower panel of figure 1). To avoid... -
Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
TypeBlog Post...for oxidizing environments to photoconvertible variants, it seems like GFP is always learning new things...lab researcher Jonathan Tang wanted to express a variety of proteins in single cell types in the mouse, ...proteins with a modular structure, constructing split variants should be relatively straightforward, but it is... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...noticeable influence on the outcome and cause variability in the testing group. For example, if an experimenter...distracted) from the ones tested at the beginning. Variability source Standardization parameters Animal Strain...This time window between injection and testing will vary depending on whether it is an overexpression gene...