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  1. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...therapy. The year was 2001 and I started a job as a technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors... I quickly became fascinated by this emerging technology and its potential for the treatment of some genetic...research is being done to further improve the technology: engineering of new capsid variants, designing...
  2. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    ...key steps to colony PCR are: 1) design primers to detect the presence of your insert; 2) set up a standard...Running a no template control PCR reaction for detecting contamination is also a good idea.    Analyzing....org Read about Choosing a Molecular Cloning Technique Learn to Perform a Bacterial Transformation Deposit...
  3. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ...reduce this likelihood. The key problem with these techniques is efficient delivery, as the antimicrobial must...efficiently-delivered RNA-guided nucleases.” Nature Biotechnol. 32(11): 1141-5. (2014). PubMed: PMID 252409288...produce sequence-specific antimicrobials.” Nature Biotechnol. 32(11): 1146-50. (2014). PubMed: PMID 25282355...
  4. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...offer the maximal biosafety available for the technology. The minor limitation in using the 3rd-generation...scientists often refer to as “retroviruses” are technically gamma-retroviruses - another, separate member...transfer vectors for transient transfections? A2: Technically, yes. Will it actually work? That depends. The...
  5. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...have a natural preference to stay in dark areas (protected) as opposed to brightly illuminated ones (risky...environments by initially moving along a wall (protected) rather than being out in the open (risky). Taking...comprised of a brightly lit (risky) and a dark (protected) area. When measuring the time spent in a particular...
  6. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...expression. Trends in Biotechnology 22:346–353 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2004.04.006 Hausser ... be used in some in vivo experiments and in biotechnology and therapeutics (Mauro and Chappell 2014).  ...
  7. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...the Dow lab created a base editing reporter that detects and enriches for base editing events in vivo without...conversion) they could induce the translation of any detectable protein, not just fluorescent proteins. ...protein expression, it can be used for an array of detectable proteins including fluorescent proteins, antibiotic...
  8. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    ...integrate the mARGs using PiggyBac. Gas vesicles are detectable under ultrasound and phase contrast microscopy...bioengineering. They are both members of the Shapiro lab at Caltech.   References and Resources References Piraner...monitoring of tumors and tumor-homing bacteria. Nat Biotechnol 1–13 (2023) doi:10.1038/s41587-022-01581-y   ...
  9. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    ...A puromycin resistance gene on your vector can protect both plasmid-carrying bacteria and eukaryotes. ...protein synthesis, and the neomycin resistance gene protects against any of them. But different aminoglycosides...host range plasmids shuttle vectors? While it’s technically accurate to say that shuttle vectors have a “...
  10. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ...editing in mammalian cells and embryos. Nature Biotechnology, 42(4), 638–650. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...with an N-methylpurine DNA glycosylase. Nature Biotechnology, 41(8), 1080–1084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells. Nature Biotechnology, 42(10), 1538–1547. https://doi.org/10.1038/...
  11. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...Leehyo Bioscience 2015 Korea San Diego Biotech Lab 2018 Mexico e-nnovation Life Sciences...Sciences 2020 India Sinapse Biotecnologia 2022 Brazil   In some cases, the distributors broadly...best part of any conference is scientists, from techs to grad students to professors, stopping by to say...
  12. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ...two deposits that increase the utility of this technique.  By engineering a light-sensitive LOV domain ... tapes for intracellular recordings. Nature Biotechnology, 41(5), 631–639. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01524... using thick-section and whole-mount labeling techniques. The Trimmer lab’s anti-PSD-95 [K28/43R] recently...
  13. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...the screen. This toxicity was used a proxy for detecting Cas9 cutting. Safe targeting guides better control...off-target cleavage by CRISPR-Cas nucleases." Nature biotechnology 33.2 (2015): 187. Pubmed PMID: 25513782. Pubmed...specificity using truncated guide RNAs." Nature biotechnology 32.3 (2014): 279. Pubmed PMID: 24463574. Pubmed...
  14. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...split-Cas9 architecture for inducible genome editing and transcription modulation. Nat Biotechnol 33:139–...discovery through the creation of innovative technologies. To date his group has develop several popular...
  15. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...polymorphisms specific to their origins. This technique is still used today to test for HeLa contamination...test is so good that it is used as a forensic technique (aka DNA fingerprinting) that can place suspects...stance on the matter. Funding bodies such as the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC...
  16. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...ability of reviewers (and, once published, anyone) to detect possible errors in assumptions, use of inappropriate...senior colleagues. Secondly, science is highly technical and this has a natural, albeit unintentional, ...Policy: Part Two U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo Increasing Access to the ...
  17. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...David Liu’s lab by combining Cas9 DNA-targeting technology with a fused cytidine deaminase to create C→T...activity and therapeutic application. Nature Biotechnology, 38(7), 892–900. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...Cas domain compatibility and activity. Nature Biotechnology, 38(7), 883–891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...
  18. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    ...it comes to altering gene expression, CRISPR technologies have gradually taken over as the preferred method... their promoters in human and mouse. Nature Biotechnology, 35(9), 872–878. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt... constructing shRNA expression vectors. BMC Biotechnology, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6750-6-1...
  19. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    ...with the contents of the two AAVs. Using this technique, Bok and Porteus deliver a repair template that...respectively. Future researchers could apply this technique to efficiently deliver large repair templates ...AAV vectorization of DSB-mediated gene editing technologies." Current gene therapy 16.3 (2016): 207-219....
  20. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...told all of the nuances of the research in as technical of language as possible. Seriously. My suggested...review of your field or the finer points of your techniques. You DO need to be prepared to know the literature...searches. I've updated chapters to reflect new technologies, i.e. video interviews. For point of reference...
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