... an assistant professor at Kyushu University. He has a particular interest in the development of sensory...Imai is a professor at Kyushu University. His lab has been studying functional and anatomical aspects of...

... to objects that exist online, but this approach has been adapted for the identification of physical materials...Let’s take a look at lenti-Cas9-VQR-Blast, which has the Addgene ID #87155. The resolvable compact identifier...

...TOPO-TA) cloning; however, the TOPO cloning technique has also be adapted for blunt end cloning. So how does...PCR products. Keep in mind that Taq polymerase has an error rate of about 1 in 3,500 bases. Typically...

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...requiring a double-stranded break. The Xiao Wang Lab has recently deposited a set of plasmids that helps identify...in human pluripotent stem cells, a cell type that has been difficult to modify in the past.   Figure...

...depositing lab. If your vector is large (>10 kb) or has a low copy number, try following protocols for low...easiest and clearest ways to determine if your sample has recombined. Choose a restriction enzyme that will...

... have been spent within a lovable community that has allowed me to expand my knowledge more than ever ... had opened its arms to me from day one. Addgene has changed my life for the better, and I wouldn’t want...

...cells, but since the majority of the viral genome has been swapped for alternative genetic cargo, they ... there an easier way? In fact, there is! Addgene has a number of ready-to-use viral preps available for...

... A practical guide by Paula J. Silvia  This book has tips for how to write a lot as an academic. If you...your Mendeley library in Microsoft Word. Mendeley has a web and desktop version that works with Windows...

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...prokaryotes; the ultimate victor will be the species who has the strongest will to survive. Genome engineering...biological and translative technologies. Addgene has empowered researchers to harness previous experimental...

... immune response to it. Once the immune response has developed, the antibodies are collected, tested against...epitopes on constant regions of other antibodies. This has useful research applications, and is covered in the...exist as monomers. Each antibody class therefore has a valency, or number of binding sites available per...of antibodies multiplied by two, as each antibody has two binding sites. Isotype Description Configuration... must be able to detect if and where an antibody has bound. Signaling molecules , proteins that emit a...to avoid confusing data. Check that your machine has appropriate lasers and filters for each fluorophore...

... beta-barrel structure. Although the beta barrel has no strong affinity for other proteins, it may still...modifications. Despite these potential issues, GFP has been used successfully in countless fusion proteins...localization of critical fusions (e.g. tubulin or connexin) has been used as a proxy for dimerization (Shaner et ...

...track single cell dynamics at the organism level has been made possible by tools that allow cells to become... such as neurons in the fly visual system, which has been difficult to study previously (Hadjieconomou...of cells in the intestinal crypt, and since then has become a powerful tool for understanding cell proliferation...

...with the macromolecules it is added to. Biotin also has an exposed side chain that can be easily manipulated...coated with avidin. The biotin-avidin interaction has also been adapted for use in immunohistochemistry... either the N or C terminus of the protein. BirA has been shown to effectively biotinylate AviTag expressing...

...specific knock-out edits in a gene(s) of interest and has an average off-target frequency of 5%. Your experiment...Kostman. The most commonly used Cas, spCas9, has gone through multiple rounds of optimization which...where only DNA sites bound by Cas are sequenced, has been tested with some success. The major con is that...

...localized, rapid and reversible microtubule severing and has very low dark-state activity and toxicity. All of...could be extended to other GTPases. The Chow Lab has also generated a variety of membrane-recruitment ...engineering other enzymes. Conclusion We hope this post has illuminated some of the many tools available for ...

... editors be close at hand? Once again, this post has a lot of acronyms, so we've included a glossary at...or C substrates. The HuidaGene Therapeutics team has deposited their editors, called gTBE and gCBE, with... abasic site. The same protein (or its homologs) has more than one name. Indel Insertion/deletion A ...

...means persuading an employer that your past work has prepared you to contribute at a high level to their...rewarding. A truly passionate community of scientists has formed around science communication, including the...

...science writer Ed Yong’s book “I Contain Multitudes” has me considering the microbiome more often than not...these tools and to tell us how useful the service has been for their experiments. This helped reinforce...