...question more and more students are asking. Teachers are also asking, “How do I engage my students in real-world...outcomes by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, persistence, teamwork, and communication. And... the only informal synthetic biology club of its kind, running from start to finish during the academic...

...Ku then acts as a scaffold for recruitment of a kinase (DNA-PKcs) and a two subunit DNA ligase (XRCC4-...heterogeneous when constrained by sequence identities in flanking sequence (“microhomologies”). NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily...Renouf B, Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, ...Inoue A, Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F (2013) Double Nicking by RNA-Guided CRISPR Cas9 for Enhanced Genome Editing...

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...like cross-linking immunoprecipitation (CLIP) identify RNA-protein interactions by cross-linking RNAs and...enrichment compared to E. coli’s BirA*. Faster labeling kinetics also means that BASU could potentially be used...RaPID RaPID sounds like a nifty technique, but what kinds of questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al...

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...Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible degron...Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly By Eric Perkins Though it’s easy enough to contemplate DNA in terms... own engineering plasmid tools in about a week. Taking advantage of Golden Gate cloning, the Haynes lab...human body and G-baToN provides versibility in tracking and modulating the interactions between cells....

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...Terskikh et al.) and even displays predictable kinetics over 14 hours of expression in C. elegans embryos...Miyatsuka et al.) Distinguish between models for trafficking to the lysosome by fusing Medium-FT to LAMP-2A...structure and a particular biological event (trafficking to a subcellular location, start of gene expression...change color from blue to red report on cellular trafficking." Nature chemical biology 5.2 (2009): 118-126...

...the development of a simple and scalable means of making targeted genetic edits. Cas9 is a DNA binding protein...Traditional Cas9 regulators In addition to its utility in making targeted modifications to DNA, Cas9 can be reprogrammed...potent Cas9-based transcriptional regulator without making any functional changes to Cas9. For instance, when...PMC4747789. 6. Platt, Randall J., et al. "CRISPR-Cas9 knockin mice for genome editing and cancer modeling." Cell...

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