... blog. CRISPR-based genome engineering has revolutionized the gene editing field by making experimental...considerably easier, faster, and more efficient than previous methods. Still, generating reliable results from...

...pCXLE episomal vector toolkit It has been shown previously that suppression of TP53 enhances iPSC generation...peripheral blood, a huge improvement from the previously reported efforts. The pCXLE episomal system thus...

... you will not be a graduate student or postdoc forever, and you need to be thinking about what comes next... development center, if one exists. Get online! Review company and institution career pages. Make yourself...

...takes on cases requiring in-depth analysis, data review, in-house testing etc. Technical support roles ...too commercial or “sales-y”. The work includes reviewing customer data sets, troubleshooting protocols,...

...additional regulatory elements. Feng Zhang's group previously packaged Cas9 and multiple gRNAs into separate...gRNAs into one AAV, Cas9 must be made smaller. Previous attempts to “shrink” Cas9 include the use of St1Cas9...

...require a PAM, and RNA targeting is potentially reversible since there is no genomic edit. Some Cas13 enzymes...KW, Yoon S, Kim J-S (2016) Genome-wide analysis reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells...

...Bacterial Plasmids. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62(2): 434–464. Pubmed PMID: 9618448 Diaz R, Rech...RP (1987) Plasmid incompatibility. Microbiology Reviews. 1987;51(4):381–395. Pubmed PMID: 3325793 Schumacher...

...the questions.  After the code is written, it is reviewed by at least one other developer. This is another...point of collaboration for us. I enjoy doing code reviews because it’s like a little peek into the mind of...

...beyond Drosophila melanogaster or Saccharomyces cerevisiae (both fine research organisms) -  perhaps you... (Virginia Weis) Sea anemone Aiptasia - algae Breviolum minutum symbionts are important models for solutions...

...The hardest part of any revolutionary discovery, including CRISPR, is turning potential into impact. ...involves insertion of landing sites via Cas9-directed reverse transcriptases, followed bylanding site recognition...

...also called apurinic or apyrimidinic sites and abbreviated as AP sites. A collaborative team from the David...conversion by engineered glycosylase. National Science Review, 10(8), nwad143. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad143...

...company you currently use. You can also find many previously validated gRNAs at Addgene. In vitro screening... and stuff ups). This is a huge improvement on previous mouse work, which could take 8 months or more....

...subcultured at densities that are low enough to prevent confluency but high enough to promote cell growth...Incidence, sources, effects, detection, elimination, prevention.” Cytotechnology 39.2 (2002). 75-90. Pubmed PMID...

...seizures or some other unwanted phenomenon or it could reveal something fascinating. Behavior is based primarily...behavioral test might be contextual fear conditioning (reviewed in [4]). Contextual fear conditioning is a behavioral...

... time, allow them to mix and recheck the pH to prevent over or undershooting the desired pH. Allow the...mix well. Gently aspirate the media out of the previously seeded 10 cm plate. Slowly pipette the transfection...images; right panels: GFP channel images. Last reviewed on: August 2, 2023...

...Nalgene, 565-0010 (for viral preps, if prep was not previously filtered) Microcentrifuge tubes, Neptune 3745...mL polybrene: Dilution Volume of Lentivirus or Previous Dilution (μL) Volume of DMEM Complete Containing...colonies are visible in the higher dilutions. Last reviewed on: August 31, 2023...

...encoded tag and exogenously added components. For a review see Lotze et al. (2016). To date, small probes ... tools engineered from phytochromes." Chemical reviews 117.9 (2017): 6423-6446. PubMed PMID: 28401765....

...CRISPR editing CRISPR, of course, has started a revolution in gene editing. However, while CRISPR is remarkably...CRISPR-based approaches is described in several recent reviews (Howes and Schofield, 2015; Moser and Hirsch, 2016...

...the 3’ splice acceptor of the transgene to help prevent the accumulation of such truncated proteins. Examples...1439 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1153 Odom GL, Gregorevic P, Allen JM, Chamberlain JS (2011) Gene Therapy...

...co-opted toward that aim (i.e. sacB). Importantly, to prevent activation of toxins before the second crossover... in 5 days. Counter-selection with sacB has revolutionized allelic exchange. Even now, only half our lab...