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  1. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Recycling

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    ...the world’s population, we account for an estimated 2% of global plastic generation. Less than 9% of plastics...plastic is a substantial portion of lab waste. Despite the fact that researchers represent a minority ...
  2. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    ...development and therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov (2017) 16(2):89-100. DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2016.238 Additional resources...onset) may be best served by this type of targeted design. Alternatively, a disease model can be generated...
  3. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    ...remained active in up to 30% plasma. Figure 2: Human plasma longevity of SpCas9 vs GeoCas9. SpCas9...results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can introduce...
  4. 10 Ways to Share Your Science!

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    ...but also something about how science really works. 2)   Read science writing in magazines or newspapers...research, SciFund is really motivated more by the desire to help close the widening gap between science ...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    ... temporal activation of a transgene. Figure 2: FLEX Cre-Lox system.  WPRE The Woodchuck Hepatitis...this post, you’ve got the knowledge to be able to design a construct for the successful and specific expression...
  6. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...available to the community. We now offer AAV9 for 2 more constructs from Christopher Harvey’s lab. These...H134R) plasmids from Karl Deisseroth’s lab, which includes pAAV-hSyn Con/Fon hChR2(H134R)-EYFP that is both...
  7. Extracurricular Activities for a Strong Science Career Path

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    ... sets Taking the time to identify and research 2 – 3 potential professions will highlight which skills...how can future regulations impact your work? What design variables need consideration? Enrich your knowledge...
  8. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ...incorporation of biosensors, protein evolution lineages, 2-photon spectra, more elaborate spectrum analysis tools...or FP) is one of the most important steps in the design of an imaging experiment.  The choice is non-trivial...fusion protein, etc...).  There are many online guides – including an excellent series of posts by Joachim...information about fluorescent proteins.  It was designed with the goal of encouraging user contributions...while also maintaining a relatively strict database design (schema).  Registered users can submit new fluorescent...risk of inaccurate data submissions, so FPbase includes a versioning system that allows users to see when...for, the Table of Fluorescent Protein Properties provides a master list of all proteins in the database,...
  9. Viral Genome Sequencing - A One Stop Shop for AAV Identity and Serotype Confirmation

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    ...containing complementary polynucleotide chains. J Virol 9(2): 394-396. Lecomte E, Tournaire B, Cogné B, Dupont...our AAV preparations. We recently published a description of the VGS process and use cases in Human Gene...ligation and tagmentation preparation approaches described previously require a preliminary double stranding... the expression cassette that we want, it also includes a small amount of spurious DNA from the packaging...plasmids. We decided to use this to our advantage by designing a Python script that looks for pre-defined serotype...signature sequences in the data. Unlike previously described thermodynamics-based methods of serotype confirmation...
  10. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development... 35. Academic Press, 2015. PubMed PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of... recognition are a few methods by which tumors sidestep immune surveillance: Suppressing Function Antigen...target is never the answer to the multi-level barricades put up by cancer. As mentioned in this article...
  11. Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags

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    ...is the most charged, with 5 negatively charged and 2 positively charged amino acids. FLAG tag has been ... What are epitope tags? Epitope tags are short peptides introduced at the N or C terminus of a protein...purification or detection of the tagged protein. These peptides consist of as little as 8 or as many as several...need monoclonal GFP antibodies or guidance on designing a GFP tag Addgene has you covered!   Potential...Protein folding issues, steric hindrances, and destabilization can be brought about by the tag so it’s important...
  12. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    ...PMID: 30083608. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6070312. 2. Stark, Jessica C., et al. "BioBits™ Bright: A fluorescent...resources to provide them to their students. My desire to create a set of low-cost, easy-to-use educational...protein – you first need the DNA sequence that encodes it. That DNA sequence then needs to be incorporated...one is as cheap as 10 cents, making activities designed with FD-CF reactions affordable to many schools...students. In our BioBits kit for example, we’ve designed FD-CF experiments that result in outputs that ...
  13. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    ...delivering an AAV construct expressing channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a blue light sensitive cation channel, fused...blocks of polymers are heated up and pulled to a desired thickness. The fibers are drawn with microelectronics...whistles’ – including microscale light emitting diodes, thermal sensors, and microfluidic channels. These...using NeuroStack and the fibers as previously described, then measured electrophysiological potential ...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    ...strategy, etc.) and episomal expression will last ~2-7 days at moderate levels. With regard to target cells...retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, or AAV. Then, your desired DNA to be integrated can be cloned into the vector...packaged, when the vector is expressed. Once the design and construction steps are complete, it’s time ...weeks, depending on the virus, cell type, and/or desired event.   Figure 1: Transduction to expression...
  15. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    ...Bacterial Cell Envelope. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2(5) a000414 (2010). Cleveland Clinic. Gram Stain. https...phrase gram negative or positive being used to describe a species of bacteria, but what does it actually...bacteria. In a gram negative bacteria, the alcohol destroys the outer lipid membrane, and the thin inner peptidoglycan... is also useful in a laboratory setting. When designing a plasmid to be inserted into a specific bacterium...
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