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TypeBlog Post...When we developed this tool, there were so many interesting questions that we could apply [it to].” Using...Pharmacology at Novartis Oncology and is particularly interested in applying what we have learned about tumor ...
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Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells
TypeBlog Post...SpCas9. gRNA A gRNA targeting a DNA sequence of interest is expressed in 293T cells and loaded into Nanoblades...transduction for most cell types they tested. Interested in using Nanoblades? Plasmids are available from... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...particles are delivered into the brain region of interest. AAV or lentivirus? Both AAV and lentiviral vectors...however, the spreading of vector to the area of interest may be very limited with this method, especially... -
Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog Post...the G receptor. In neurons, the G receptor is restricted to presynaptic nerve terminals (Lafon 2005). ...applications Use of G deleted RABV in conjunction with restricted TVA and G protein expression is a powerful development... -
Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research
TypeBlog Post...plasmids are also used to teach students about restriction mapping and western blotting. Students who participate...genetics at Boston College. She is particularly interested in strategies to incorporate research into undergraduate... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog Post... CRY2 and CIB1 domains to separate proteins of interest, a researcher can cause them to interact by stimulation...reversible oligomerization when fused to a protein of interest. Fusion protein oligomerization happens within... -
CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!
TypeBlog Post...on a guide RNA complementary to the sequence of interest. Upon binding, CRISPRa systems recruit transcription...having multiple copies of VP64 at each loci of interest, this allows more transcriptional machinery to... -
Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More
TypeBlog Post...take me. I’m also just learning. I have a huge interest in data science,” which she’s taking some classes... hours in the lab, she told me, “I was really interested to learn more when I was introduced to bioinformatics... -
Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post.... One popular approach is to fuse a protein of interest to each part of a split fluorescent protein (FP...the behavior of the split FP in your system of interest. Remember that the FP fragments themselves can... -
Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog Post...considerations: Design your gRNA to overlap the CpG of interest. Having the CpG directly inside the gRNA sequence...but if this is not possible due to gRNA design restrictions, anything within 5 base pairs should work well... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog Post..., quantify, deplete, and visualize proteins of interest (Greenfield, 2014). Traditionally, they have been...similarities to host proteins. After the antibody of interest has been cloned into an expression plasmid, the... -
Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors
TypeBlog Post...noise and ensure you are measuring the events-of-interest. Sensors suitable for ER measurements include:...scientists to focus on specific cell populations of interest. Many of the calcium sensors described are also... -
Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning
TypeBlog Post...from Golden Gate Cloning, in which a type IIS restriction enzyme and a ligase are used to assemble multiple...described with “it’s complicated.” Applying MoClo Interested in using MoClo? You don’t have to start from ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021
TypeBlog Post...scientists can control expression of their genes of interest. While recombinases are powerful gene expression...cells to identify cells exhibiting properties of interest. However, FACS is unable to spatially and temporally... -
Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015
TypeBlog Post...outskirts of Guangzhouon west of beautiful Mao Fengshan Forest Park. As a national science and technology park...surprising” small RNAs can be and posited that “we underestimate living things.” He further cautioned the distinction... -
Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
TypeBlog Post...in-situ hybridization, methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion, DNA adenine methyltransferase...construct specifically to the histone protein of interest (in the figure above, H3 at K9 or K27). Joined... -
The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments
TypeBlog Post... are all wired up and expressing your opsin of interest, it’s time to get to the fun stuff: the experiments...Jeanne Kreek at the Rockefeller University. His interests include the role of learning and memory in opioid... -
Protocols for Molecular Biology, Plasmid Cloning, and Viral Preps
TypeProtocol... spectrophotometer Restriction Digests Cut and analyze plasmid DNA with restriction enzymes Agarose Gel...pooled-plasmid libraries Diagnostic Restriction Digest Verify a plasmid using restriction enzymes Watch the Video!...new window) Link to Video Restriction Cloning Assemble plasmids by restriction digest and ligation Cloning...Cloning by PCR Generate restriction sites by PCR Modification by Annealed Oligo Cloning Add a short stretch... Cloning (LIC) Scarless cloning with Type II restriction enzymes and T4 polymerase pLKO.1 - TRC Cloning... -
Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies
TypeBlog Post...student at Harvard University. Do you have a gene of interest but have run into a wall trying to study it? It...the Classical Genetics Simulator website. One interesting thing to know is that males do not recombine ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021
TypeBlog Post...fusion protein containing VP2C and a protein of interest (POI). The VP2C fusion protein anchors to VP1,...into a compartment encapsulating the protein of interest (Figure 3). Figure 3: Schematic representation...