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TypeBlog Post... provides a useful yet low-pressure teaching opportunity for lab members or students new to protein expression...induce high levels of gene activation for both reporter and endogenous genes. It is highly specific in...
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GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
TypeBlog Post... cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways...which can then activate expression of a luciferase reporter in the nucleus. The Roth lab showed that this ... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists
TypeBlog Post...NPR, articles in magazines like Fast Company, opportunities to speak at conferences, and offers for postdoc...can fit into a researcher’s work day. It’s also important to remember that it’s not the amount of time you... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications
TypeBlog Post...the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications we discuss... plasmids can induce gene-specific silencing temporarily, long-term, and even inducibly depending on the... -
Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
TypeBlog Post...binding. Suzuki et al. also envision eNLs as good reporter genes for endogenous protein fusions created using... substrate is required for imaging, and it is important to verify that this substrate does not alter cellular... -
Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog Post... information on each cancer clinical sequencing report includes rare variants that haven’t been characterized...MAPK1/ERK2 Missense Mutants. Brenan L et al. Cell Reports, 2016. PubMed PMID: 27760319. PubMed Central PMCID... -
Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR
TypeBlog Post...detection limits of about 5% mutant targets have been reported for mismatch nuclease assays (2, 6, 7). Ability...nuclease assays are completely “blind” to this very important difference (Figure 3). If you are interested... -
A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017
TypeBlog Post...from the mol bio side you’re sure to have many opportunities to learn about and develop technologies that...FRET-based biosensing technique can be applied to an important neuronal signalling pathway - if you’ve got a ... -
Clear and Accessible Writing
TypeBlog Post...reader would glean from the image itself. As we incorporated alt text into our work, we began to realize ..., and we’d love to hear yours as well. More importantly, you can use these four steps for any type of... -
How Addgene Creates Content
TypeBlog Post...conversations, conferences, and questions our scientific support staff receives – in fact, the blog originally started... post (email [email protected].) We are here to support and advance the scientific community, and we can... -
Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
TypeBlog Post...aging. For both a screen and a selection, it is important to clearly define what type of factor you are ...whole genome), they knock down gene expression temporarily. RNAi libraries are especially useful if you ... -
Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs
TypeBlog Post...sequence flexibility indicates that gRNAs could be incorporated into these constructs without compromising cleavage...slightly higher mutation rates than they’d previously reported in protoplasts (15% and 9% of target sites.) How... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog Post...process involve repairing chromosomal DSBs. It is important to know that cells possess two major repair pathways...chance of causing a frameshift mutation. Of some importance, the deletion can be less heterogeneous when ... -
Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors
TypeBlog Post...): These are considered low copy vectors and incorporate part of an ARS along with part of a centromere...nutrient, the host cells will die unless they have incorporated the plasmid carrying the required gene. The... -
Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
TypeBlog Post...plasmids have been introduced by transfection or electroporation. All you do to create a protein that binds ...where particular variants or mutations have been reported in people, we can use this kit to knock in those... -
Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents
TypeBlog Post...combinatorial libraries, and high specificity has been reported for a number of targets. Due to their size and...ain't broke, don't fix it! That being said, it's important to know all your options when planning and running... -
Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...for IgG subtypes from different animals so it’s important to choose the reagent that works for your species...sure the staining you are seeing is real. It’s important to include a negative control using serum from... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog Post...biology known as bioelectricity is revealing the important role of bioelectrical signaling mediated by ion-channels...technologies are now available for fluorescent reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators... -
Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number
TypeBlog Post...promoters that are always on, stabilized promoters incorporate feedback loops such as the incoherent feedforward...buffered against the effects of copy number on reporter gene expression. On the other hand, using a constitutive... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...interacting proteins, which results in poor spatiotemporal resolution for in vivo work. APEX2, a faster...identify highly biotinylated background proteins reported by other research groups that performed BirA*-... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog Post...tended to be very large and often required the incorporation of a cleavage site and a post-purification cleavage...very pure sample. Because binding strength is proportional to the length of the tag, with longer tags you... -
Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
TypeBlog Post... measurements to determine which portions of Cas9 might be important for nuclease specificity. They found... -
Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing
TypeBlog Post..., the abstract should give you a sense of the importance of the work, the research that was done and what...to all results in the relation to how they are supporting the conclusions. Look at the figures and write... -
Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?
TypeBlog Post...Thesis (who has also blogged for us) offers a free report on her website called “Secrets to Success in Graduate...be helpful having a coach that can offer extra support for issues of diversity in science. A great person... -
Transfection for Recombinant Antibodies
TypeProtocol...500ML Benzamide, Millipore Sigma 12072 Antipain, Millipore Sigma 10791 Leupeptin, Millipore Sigma L2884 Aprotinin...that sharing the full details of our protocols supports reproducibility and accelerates science. Here,...information is solely for transparency intended to support reproducibility in science. General Considerations... Aprotinin saline solution, Millipore Sigma A6279 Before Starting Warm the DNA and working stock of PEI-MAX... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2020
TypeBlog Post...grown in high concentrations of IL-3 show a high proportion of blue fluorescence, indicating cell proliferation...they could not proliferate. Eastman et al. Cell Reports 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107804... -
Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More
TypeBlog Post... back to her church community which is really important to her. Addgenie Shreya Vedantam with our... although her focus is finance, it is just as important to bring love and fun to the office. Main takeaways... -
A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
TypeBlog Post...selection of guideRNAs. Of particular note, ABE8s reported in this work did not cause genome-wide, guide-...guide-independent off-target deamination, an important attribute for therapeutic application. ABE8s demonstrate... -
Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody
TypeBlog Post...antibodies for IHC. Working with collaborators and support from the Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative...recombinant antibodies are a newer technology, it is important to show through qualitative data that they are... -
Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog Post...sigh. The problem is that many of these studies report correlations without clearly testing whether a ...Sapozhnikov and Szyf 2021, Charlton et al. 2020). Most importantly, TET proteins affect transcription independent...