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  1. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...revealed that cell lines from individuals of African descent have approximately 20% more single nucleotide polymorphisms...are more common in individuals of African descent.Correcting the bias  While their thorough analysis uncovered...

  2. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...region In 2013, the Hodaka Fujii Laboratory first described a method to purify a specific genomic region using...plasmid. Experimental use Since the initial report describing CRISPR-mediated purification of a specific genomic...

  3. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...targeted approach using RNPs has recently been described in vitro, with the hope of eventually using this...is required, such as when a Cas9 fusion to a fluorescent protein is used to label nucleic acid targets...

  4. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    ...variations, including many that use auxotrophic rescue genes as reporters and some that repress instead...gene fusions for analyzing gene expression in Escherichia coli and yeast. Methods Enzymol. 1983;100:293...

  5. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...VSV-G is also toxic at high concentrations as described above and is inactivated by the complement system...proteins that can be used for specific purposes as described previously (Table 1, Gutierrez-Guerrero, et al...

  6. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    ...calendar invite over to the r/Science team with a description of our AMA and Joanne’s preferred time to start...receive via email. The cool features are too many to describe here, but I have over 2,000 notes which Evernote...

  8. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    ...quantitative reporters and use a substrate to produce bioluminescence. Luciferases usually have shorter mRNA and ...tNOS & pSB166 - pL2_pSB90_tMAS::rLUC-I::pMAS. Fluorescent proteins (FP, e.g. GFP) can be used in many ways...

  10. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ...plasma membrane. In previous publications, they described tools to control formation of lamellipodia and... unnatural head groups for applications like fluorescent labeling via click chemistry.    Figure 4: SuperPLD...

  11. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...feedback. Many of these documents are too vaguely described in other sources of guidance or the document examples...in the Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. ...

  12. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ..., and ultraviolet light. In this post, we will describe the mechanism of homology directed repair, one...generally preferred for large insertions such as fluorescent proteins or selection cassettes. This class of...

  13. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    ...listeners to be thinking “What happens next?”  Describe how you pushed to a solution or overcame obstacles...term, but are worried that this might sound condescending, consider explaining the term on a slide but...

  14. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...specific substrate. The emitted light, or chemiluminescence, is detected on x-ray film or with specific..., Shiflett SD, Roberts AC, Solache A, Schutz-Geschwender AR (2019) Antibody validation for Western blot...

  15. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    ...In 2005, Boyden et al. described the first light-activated tool for controlling neuronal activity, channelrhodopsin...Nagel, G., & Deisseroth, K. (2005). Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural...

  16. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...identify possible gene function. In this post, I will describe a useful and cost-effective method that our lab...and probe with live cells The following is a description of a technique published by Simpson, Sacher, ...

  20. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...in practice integration can occur. Okita et al describes a protocol for generating iPSCs by plasmid transfection...transduction, such as the polyarginine peptide described in Zhou et al and Kim et al. This is considered...
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