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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ..., B-B’, and C-C’) that give the feature its characteristic T-shape. The arrangement of the B-B’ and C-... efficiency. Our practical knowledge of ITRs is still limited, but this area of research is important ...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    ...prototypical gamma-retrovirus.    Frequently asked questions about γ-retroviral vectors How do engineered γ-retroviruses...post‐transcriptional regulatory element; sequence that stimulates the expression of transgenes via increased nuclear...
  3. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls

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    ...application. These controls will allow you to distinguish real results from background noise or nonspecific...positive and negative cells. This can be achieved by adjusting your voltage using your single color controls ...
  4. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists

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    ...advice for using Twitter, this post provides suggestions for using LinkedIn and Facebook. For each of ...the three social media platforms, there’s some statistics on what percent of scientists and engineers regularly...
  5. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ... a jigsaw puzzle, the oligos were designed with sticky ends that only anneal together in one direction...plasmids available from Addgene. If you have any questions or thoughts about Cpf1 multiplexing, leave them...
  6. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ...less than an hour, thus a population of cells constitutively expressing a targeted Cas9 should possess indels...reduces breaks and mutations at off-target sites. Christina Mork contributed to the update of this post. Thank...
  7. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    ...Morgan, our senior engineer? The answer to these questions--which were real, not hypothetical--was clearly...Others in the meeting might also have the same question and asking can help the team identify possible...
  8. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    ...Maybe take a deep breath?" Once you answer the question, you need only to take that step. Repeat that ... to be anxious, nervous, and/or apprehensive. I still get nervous quite regularly, and I've had multiple...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving

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    ... while puzzling through your broader research questions and designing future experiments. Being able to...Scientific Method? Imagine your problem is just a question you have about the world. You might do some background...
  10. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ...their activity in mammalian systems has been in question. Three different labs have recently published ... the prime editor, yielding PEmax, to work synergistically with epegRNAs and PE4 and PE5. These enhanced...
  11. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...as KLH or Freund’s adjuvant is injected, which stimulates the overall immune response. Once the initial...increases the likelihood that one of the clones will still recognize your protein. For the same reason, they...
  12. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    .... Staining with multiple HRP-RANbodies is indistinguishable since they produce the same signal, so only...fluorescent protein (i.e. GFP, RFP) Detecting GFP reconstitution across synaptic partners (GRASP) assays No...
  13. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...edition, we’re going to take a look at a very interesting tool that can be used for creating (excuse the...sites are 34-base-pair long recognition sequences consisting of two 13-bp long palindromic repeats separated...
  14. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...impacts the expression level of the transgene. In existing strains of mice, the transgene can be maintained...tissue-specific promoter). And, Cre may also be either constitutively expressed, or inducible (this is explained ...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors

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    ...mammalian cell expression, and compatible with constitutive or Cre-dependent expression. These sensors have...the calcium sensor to specific tissues or even distinct cell subtypes for efficient expression and downstream...
  16. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ... clade of huge phages. In this article, they investigated three Casɸ orthologs, Casɸ-1, Casɸ-2, and Casɸ...photostable yellow fluorescent protein to date By Justin Ng High-throughput screening methods, such as fluorescence-activated...
  17. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...six different genes whose protein products have distinct localizations. Figure 2: Split-wrmScarlet...the protein to fluoresce red. H2B-FT-red is long lasting and was shown to have a half life of 84 hours in...
  18. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...modifying enzyme) to pair with it can be queried by testing any number in the Level 2 assembly. These pathways...scratch! As you can imagine, there is an array of distinct goals within metabolic engineering, synthetic ...
  19. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...This new capsid will be a valuable tool for investigating NHP brains. Figure 3: Overview of library...Importantly, AAV1-X1 is not neutralized by pre-existing antibodies against AAV9-based vectors (and vice...
  20. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ...sequences with G/C content outside this range can still be optimized (Anzalone et al., 2019). Test different... edit. If possible, consider following these suggestions: Edit the PAM along with your intended edit....
  21. Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots

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    ...sample protein is retained better, antibodies will stick permanently to a membrane that has been dried, no...harsher stripping means more sample loss. If you are still optimizing your system, start with a mild stripping...
  22. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...prime editing in both tomatoes and Arabidopsis, suggesting the improvements may be broadly applicable to...activation kinetics and high responsivity near the resting membrane potential, ASAP5 is a great new option...
  23. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ...transfection reagents and keep the cells happy. Harvesting virus Once you have transfected your cells, wait...non-genome-containing (empty) capsids, thus leading to an overestimate of transducible units in the virus preparation...
  24. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    ... lead to a wealth of additional experiments investigating the role of individual genes or entire pathways... you use them for! A well-developed biological question and experimental system are absolutely necessary...
  25. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    ...Therefore, FPs are used to study many biological questions. The two most common uses are: 1) to test the ...microscopes the filters are not narrow enough to distinguish between closely related colors. Furthermore, ...
  26. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...secondary nanobody, it’s important to review a few characteristics of your primary antibody: species it was raised...subclass. Once you know the answer to these two questions, refer to this table to find the right nanobody...
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