...editing technology led to the development of many important medical and agricultural products. But it also...Ridley Scott wonder what would happen if these corporations would extrapolate genetic engineering to exploit...which are genetically engineered by a powerful corporation to serve as slaves.  Meganucleases In 1989 the...SciFi is one of the most imaginative and most important genres of literary fiction. It has always served...health sciences, energy, and agriculture, its portrayal in popular fiction has been largely negative. ...

...approaches may become even more powerful following a report that one can use linear repair templates (ie. PCR-derived... 2014). A further development of this approach reported in 2017 uses the direct injection of a CRISPR/...templates (Farboud et al., 2019).   The Mello lab also reported that modifying the 5’ modification of oligos used...mixtures (Doksin et al., 2018). The Mello lab also reported efficient editing using a co-injection marker ... drove work in countless other systems, whereas import of CRISPR technology into C. elegans has been a...

...looking through a paper-based, affordable, and portable microscope called the ‘foldscope’ (Dr. Prakash...itself when looking down a paper thin and very portable microscope. Less fluorescence admittedly, but ...ultrasound to image bacteria in vivo: acoustic reporter genes’ on our blog. Creative approaches to presenting...References 1. Bourdeau, Raymond W., et al. "Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microorganisms...

...responsible for encoding GFP, and, in 1992, he reported its sequence. Soon after that, in 1994, Prasher...he lived! His hunch paid off, and he was able to report new fluorophores like DsRed from Discosoma sp. ...provided by the studies in Tsien lab, covered a portion of the color spectrum that GFP and its derivatives...reach. Nobel Prize for fluorescent proteins The importance of fluorescent proteins was recognized in 2008...

...number of cells needed is lower, and perhaps most important, targeting all genes doesn’t necessarily add value...cytokine known to cause the up-regulation of an important surface protein (e.g. PD-L1 on a cancer cell)....are migratory, and their exact localization is important for their function. Their migration is induced... for West-Nile-virus-induced cell death." Cell reports 12.4 (2015): 673-683. PubMed PMID: 26190106. PubMed...therapeutic targets in acute myeloid leukemia." Cell reports 17.4 (2016): 1193-1205. PubMed PMID: 27760321. ...

...impossible to determine specific protein turnover or temporal expression using standard FP-chimeric proteins...second. The first successful irreversible PA-FP reported was PA-GFP. PA-GFP was derived from Jellyfish ...localization, or leading to protein aggregation. Another important parameter to consider is the contrast ratio- a...intensity, possible excitation lasers) it is also important to optimize your activation protocol for your ...photoactivatable fluorescent proteins Some of the most important applications for PA-FPs involve enhancing optical...

...transduction, cell type specificity, or retrograde transport in neurons. (b) Genetic cargo can be customized...delivery methods include focused ultrasound (FUS), intracorporeal (IC), intracerebroventricular (ICV), intramuscular...specific tissues and cell types. If desired, spatiotemporal control of transgene expression or activity...effective in both mouse strains. It is therefore important to review the literature for use of a capsid in...thank Viviana Gradinaru and Tim Shay for their support and input. Resources and references Recommended... The GPI-Linked Protein LY6A Drives AAV-PHP.B Transport across the Blood-Brain Barrier. Molecular Therapy...expression from mouse to primate neocortex. Cell Reports, 34(13). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108754...

...and PI, it’s easy to miss out on beneficial opportunities or to find oneself unsure of the next steps....planning meetings with each trainee to create a supportive, growth-oriented lab culture. The aim of these...the overall tone of the meeting is almost more important. As DePace says, science is full of “terrible ...postdoc training. On the other side, the PI has an opportunity to check in with lab members, determine how to...

...As previous blogs have noted, plants are an important foundation for life on Earth. Selective breeding...Since transformation efficiency is inversely proportional to size, and many plant scientists want to transfer... corn. For both β-glucuronidase (GUS) and GFP reporters, as well as multiple transient and transgenic ... Agrobacterium and infected plants. Further opportunities with pSiM24 While these properties of pSiM24...

...Zygosaccharomyces bailii) and B3 (from Zygosaccharomyces bisporus.) Reporter constructs equivalent to site-STOP-site-myrRFP...cross-reactivity of these recombinases, each recombinase and reporter construct pair were tested for excision efficiency...cross-reactivity; however, the other recombinase/reporter pairs were inactive, even at very high recombinase...

...hands-on science lab kits and digital curricula to support them. Caitlin’s interview is broken into two parts...lifelong hobby for Caitlin Runne-Janczy. “I wrote reports for fun in fourth grade because I was weird like...hands-on science lab kits and digital curricula that support these kits, is the perfect blend of these two passions...actually stumbled upon, about 6 months in, this opportunity to do scientific editing.” It was for Cactus ...

... Accelerating science and supporting scientists globally are the shared mission of both Seeding Labs ...Improvement of Cowpea, a knowledge database for this important agricultural plant. Her current research focuses...proteins in order to manage insect pests and to support sustainable agriculture. For this project the expression...in Mexico. At Addgene we're happy to be able to support diverse groups of scientists working in a wide ...

...detects. This change then generates a reporter signal. Reporter signals may be electrochemical or light-based...light-based, with luminescent and fluorescent reporters being especially popular. We’ll give you an introduction...glutamate sensor pCMV(MinDis).iGluSnFR. Picking your reporter Don’t forget about the other end of the biosensor...

... end of the online course, we were given the opportunity to sign up for a writing intensive weekend in...met as a group for sessions covering individual portions of the manuscript. Stephen Blanke, Beronda Montgomery.... Practice writing everyday Overall, the most important instruction the classes taught me was to write...type up the materials and methods. Over time that portion of the paper will be generated. After you complete...

...behaving mice to gather the following types of data: Report time-course and concentration of released DA in...optogenetically activated and inhibited neurons in live mice Report modulation of DA signaling during learning and ...moving mice to gather the following types of data: Report endogenous DA release from a single dopaminergic...looming stimulus in vivo in transgenic zebrafish Report DA release in live mice over the course of Pavlovian...

...make sure everyone in the meeting has an equal opportunity to contribute. Using video conferencing tools...scientists working in different time zones, it’s important that everyone can access data and drafts of manuscripts...sure there is a point person responsible for incorporating everyone’s suggestions into a final version ... spent time in each other’s labs. This is an opportunity for the researchers involved to learn techniques...

... development of several fluorescent autophagy reporters now allows for the measurement of autophagic flux...makes Keima useful for monitoring mitophagy. It’s important to remember that because Keima’s fluorescent relies... al. "Rosella: a fluorescent pH-biosensor for reporting vacuolar turnover of cytosol and organelles in...using a single fluorescent biosensor." Scientific reports 5 (2015): 12397. PubMed PMID: 26215030. PubMed ...

...challenging and requires specialized equipment. Reporters for studying gene expression have similar drawbacks...added to the palette. RUBY is a bright red pigment reporter whose expresion is visible to the naked eye in... enzymes and a spontaneous step. (B) RUBY is a reporter consisting of these three enzymes expressed under...References  He, Y., Zhang, T., Sun, H. et al. A reporter for noninvasively monitoring gene expression and...

...transcription.However, this system lacks spatio-temporal regulation, and is difficult to reverse, making...the DNA-binding domain of AraC using a mCherry reporter downstream of a PBAD promoter. While none of the...contains BLADE, the PBAD promoter, and a mCherry reporter downstream of the PBAD promoter. To use this plasmid..., including the popular light-inducible nuclear export system (LEXY) here. Optogenetic plasmids from the...

...reaction Run PCR to amplify your insert DNA. It is important to use a high fidelity polymerase to minimize .... The fidelity of the polymerase becomes more important the longer the expected PCR product is. You should...temperature based on the melting temperature (Tm) of the portion of the primer that hybridizes to the sequence to...used. No matter which polymerase you use, it is important that you sequence the final product. Additional...