... that you can do now is diversify. Read on for an overview of some of the resources you can use to better...Conferences One of the single most important things you can do to plan for your career is to expose yourself ...homework and know who is going to be there, so that you can tailor your CV accordingly. Make it stand out with...you’ve identified an appropriate job opening, you can send your contact an email with the relevant info... position he or she originally called about, you can keep in touch and reach back out when you are looking...should have a well-groomed LinkedIn page. Here you can search for jobs, post your CV, and, most importantly...who they know all in one place! This information can be critical to a focused and effective job search...

...visualization for big biology. GPS for the genome We can think of the human genome as a map with three coordinates...addresses in the genome. Let’s now examine how we can locate powerful stretches of DNA known as enhancers...Through the marvel of DNA compaction, an enhancer can increase the expression of a gene that is millions...are bound to modified proteins called histones. We can detect modified histones with “GPS for proteins,”...tri-methylated histones, functions as an enhancer. We can therefore denote enhancers as follows: (mono_methylation... and conclude with a targeted CRISPR screen that can disrupt these enhancers. A real-world experiment ...H3K4me3 The following video demonstrates how anyone can find enhancers with Quilt. Seek and destroy enhancers...

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...constructs can be achieved by fluorescence-activated cell sorting, and stable gRNA expression can be achieved... But other enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain that they resemble,...site is not as straightforward as expected. TET1 can have many effects independent of dCas9 targeting,...ve got some good news: complete DNA demethylation can be achieved by dCas9 alone, without TET (or any demethylase...demethylase) fusion. This may seem counterintuitive: how can a DNA-binding protein with no enzymatic activity ...DNA demethylation! With optimization, this method can produce nearly 100% demethylation without the confounds...block that unmethylated CpG so that nothing else can interact with it. Remember, the goal of this experiment...

...hybridoma cell lines can produce more than one mAb (Bradbury et al., 2018). Hybridomas can lose gene expression...into a fully functional antibody. These antibodies can be used just as you would use antibodies made from...purified antibodies from a patient’s blood), scientists can use mass spectrometry to determine the amino acid...from an established hybridoma line, the antibody can be converted into recombinant form through DNA sequencing...2010; Andrews et al., 2019). Finally, scientists can perform the entire process of antibody selection ...been cloned into an expression plasmid, the plasmid can be introduced into host cells, such as bacterial,...engineer them. Given the ease with which scientists can now improve genetically-encoded research tools, it...

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...need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2016 below. With over 45,000 plasmids, we can't write posts...biotinylate proximate proteins in the cell. These candidate proteins can be enriched via biotin pull-down methods...transcription from the minimal promoter and its strength can be determined from its enrichment over input levels... (the identity of the genes and target sequences can be found here). To use the library, the authors packaged... CRISPR libraries from Addgene’s repository that can be used to perform screens in human cells. General... well as criteria of a good screening experiment can be found on our blog post entitled “Genome-wide Screening...Detailed information regarding the Wu Lab library can be found in the associated publication. Ma, et al...

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...as yeast. HEKs can also grow in suspension, which allows for large scalability, and can also be adapted...cells can catch a cold—or worse! HEK-293T and its derivatives are immortalized, but cell health can degrade...reproducible results. It’s also widely available, which can make for a seamless transition of biological tools...degrade over time in culture. This can affect factors that could skew research results (gene expression... tumorigenic, which makes them a candidate cell line model for cancer-specific research. Membrane receptors...adapted for serum-free growth, which significantly reduces the cost of production. Research applications ...

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