...surprise then that a lot of our subject matter comes straight from you, whether you realize it or not! Many ...what basic information someone new to antibodies might need to successfully start using them at the bench...bench, along with questions we thought they might have as they go. The guide was then assigned to our science...deeper expertise of our antibody team to rely on. High-impact content like the antibody guide always gets...sketch a western blot out quickly." Final design (right). Immediate and immense regret of the graphic designer...

...does this actually look like? For a selection, you might put cells into a drug-containing media in which ...scientific question can help determine which is right for you. Screen variations Forward and reverse screens...method you choose to assess traits of interest is highly specific to your scientific question. Things to... assay system include: How specific is it? Is it high throughput? Will it be sensitive enough? No one ...screens Selections sound like a great shortcut, right? Who would ever do a screen when a selection can...

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...growth of diverse species. These results further highlight the need for in situ genetic tools for microbiome...Yeast Toolkit by replacing the backbone vector’s high-copy number bacterial ColE1 origin with the RSF1010...microbial population dynamics in the gut can provide insight into how the microbiome responds to infection, ...on the assembly of fluorescent proteins into one bright particle that segregates into one cell during cell...

... and international team assembled the right people at the right time. Be inclusive and seek solutions...Teytelman’s vast network and ability to identify the right opportunities, he was able to bring together talented... email the team. Acknowledgements One of the highlights of 2018 for me was to collaborate with this incredibly...

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.... The protein of interest is then eluted using a high imidazole buffer that outcompetes the interaction...protein but not that of the protein of interest. A high imidazole elution buffer disrupts the interaction...concentration of imidazole used in the wash buffer should be high enough to disrupt contaminant-metal ion binding ...therefore more selective. When using systems with higher levels of histidine-containing protein contamination... histidine residues that are present, the more tightly the protein will bind to the metal ion substrate...

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...Methods to scale up multiplexed CRISPR systems for high-throughput screening are vastly useful for mapping...CombiGEM uses iterative one-pot reactions with straightforward restriction digestion and ligation steps to... by sequencing its set of barcodes. CombiGEM is highly flexible and can accommodate any genetic elements...Central PMCID: PMC4253859. 4. Hart, Traver, et al. "High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and...PMC3972032. 10. Wong, Alan SL, et al. "Massively parallel high-order combinatorial genetics in human cells." Nature...

..., these problems can be overcome by screening a higher number of potential clones. Golden Gate assembly...constructs with an attB recombination scar encoding eight amino acids, but Golden Gate assembly can be designed...that may not be amenable to "domestication", you might want to consider using an alternative method like... for cloning complicated constructs in a single, high-efficiency step. References: Sequential amplification...one pot, one step, precision cloning method with high throughput capability. Engler C, Kandzia R, Marillonnet...

...cell lines to the -omics data. The cell lines with higher expression of the target protein, as determined...expression, are often preferred for this approach. A highly selective antibody should be able to detect even...only be able to detect the target protein at the high levels caused by overexpression. Additionally, if...clones The antibody validation process represents a high level of effort and time, which may not be available... & ABIF Consortium. (2024). A guide to selecting high-performing antibodies for Synaptotagmin-1 (Uniprot....15467 Virk, H. S., Rekas, M. Z., Biddle, M. S., Wright, A. K. A., Sousa, J., Weston, C. A., Chachi, L....

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...Updated Apr 6, 2021. If you’re doing high throughput work, it’s likely that you come into the lab wishing...transformation One protocol that has been automated is high throughput transformation. With our ever growing...the deck of the Biomek. The FXP id also able to do high throughput DNA preps and other molecular work if... through this process. With enough agar and the right program, the liquid handler can fill 400 vials in...hand. How can you start automating your lab? You might not be doing enough transformations, minipreps, ...

...expression and degradation. These workshops not only highlighted new tools but also included time for questions...presented at the C. elegans meeting. Here I’ll highlight a few toolkits that we have available at Addgene..., and Erik M. Jorgensen. "SapTrap, a toolkit for high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis...

...possible by the use of our high-throughput DNA isolation process that yields high-quality isolated DNA samples... on our ability to provide requesting scientists high quality data! Addgene's new in-house NGS process...be familiar with our efforts to ensure access to high quality, ready-to-use viral preps and pooled libraries...Konermann S, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Platt RJ, Brigham MD, Sanjana NE, Zhang F (2017) Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9...

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...installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox will highlight four tools for finding journal articles related...summary of the topic and a chronological list of highly cited papers that contain your search term. When...of the page, as well as the number of citations highly influenced by this paper. Influence is measured...number of publications that heavily cite, or are highly influenced by the author. You can also see who ...