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...smn1 gene is known to cause spinal muscular atrophy, the molecular mechanisms behind the disease are unclear...devastating afflictions. Elia Di Schiavi - Spinal muscular atrophy Dr. Elia Di Schiavi is a Research Scientist...Bioresources in Naples, Italy. His group works on spinal muscular atrophy, a disease in which disruption of the ...cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular biology behind SMN1 and its interaction partners...thereby restore motor neuron function in spinal muscular atrophy patients. Noushin Nabavi - Peritoneal ...mesothelioma subsets. Peritoneal mesothelioma in particular takes root in the tissues surrounding the abdomen...Systematic review of incidence and prevalence of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)." European Journal of Paediatric...

...miRFPnanos9 do not yield to (m)iRFPs in cellular and molecular brightness (Table 1).  NIR reporters and...). Modern state-of-the-art NIR FPs can be used similar to GFP-like probes by supplying a single gene to...brightness of NIR FPs in cells, in addition to their molecular brightness (a product of the fluorescence quantum...biosensors can be imaged at spatial scales from sub-cellular to whole-body in small animals, such as mice (...phytochrome (BphPs) photoreceptors have higher apparent cellular brightness than previously reported widely used...and biosensors NIR reporters can tell us about cellular events via  fluorescence changes occurring due...FP Ex, nm Em, nm ECa, M-1cm-1 QYb, %   Molecular brightness vs. iRFP713, % Oligomeric state Photo-stabilityc...

...disulfide bonds, made by molecular evolution 1 1Edited by I. A. Wilson. Journal of Molecular Biology 275:245–253...sequences of hybridomas, but phage display is a popular way to generate scFvs.  For phage display, a pooled...oxidizing cytoplasm. expression in the presence of molecular chaperones that help scFvs fold properly in the...blocks for engineered proteins. This flexibility is largely due to scFvs being smaller than antibodies. scFvs...cells to a tumor site. ScFvs can also be fused to cellular toxins, radioisotopes, cytokines, and enzymes ...also used for eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) since direction injection to...expressed on T cells to make CAR T cells. The extracellular scFv portion of the receptors recognizes an ...

... have a large impact on downstream results. Examples: “HTML”, “visual track”, “plot”, “tabular”, “interactive...Pasteur, Paris) that changed genome editing in the malaria community for the better (Nat. Biotechnol., 2014...Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes malaria). I attribute their success to technical expertise...audience blindly receiving them; it results in highly similar content and the absence of iterative design; it...The third, WGE (published 15 Sep 2015), is more similar to EENdb than CrisprGE, but is also a good example...interactive”, and “save”. Trends: Most tools provide tabular HTML formatted output. Surprisingly only 2 tools... agnostic”, “model organisms”, “small genome”, “large genome”, and “organism biased scoring”. Trends: ...

...Pro tip! Getting a vector into a particular cell type depends largely on the viral capsid, but specificity...varying tissue tropism, allowing them to target particular cell types. Figure 1: Diagram of AAV ...cells. Generally, AAV serotypes have a primary cellular receptor and sometimes one or multiple coreceptors...contexts outside the nervous system to confirm its cellular receptors and tissue tropism. AAV5 AAV5 is the...additionally been reported to have tropism for liver, vascular endothelial, and smooth muscle cells (Issa et ...al., 2023; Wu, Asokan, et al., 2006). AAV6 is particularly well-suited for transduction of lung cells via... cross blood vessel barriers. It is especially popular for applications targeting liver tissue. In addition...

...Mutagenesis is a tool that both evolution and molecular biologists use to tinker with DNA. Making changes...phenotypes, and forward genetics harnesses this at a large scale by screening diverse libraries of genetic ...must be grown in a turbidostat. Only mutate particular types of nucleotides. Both the Bassik Lab and...PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error prone PCR, EvolvR uses...However, by using nCas9 to direct PolI3m to a particular genomic loci, EvolvR allows for targeted mutagenesis...replication by 120-fold over background. Due to its modular nature, the Dueber Lab created a few versions of...increasing the editing window of EvolvR to ~56 bp. A larger editing window also increased the likelihood that...

... that actively engage with the community are particularly successful. Machine-learning denoising of raw...segmentation of imaging data (ILASTIK), or the popular plugin-based image process framework FIJI are just...such as the OpenFlexure microscope or open-source modular optical toolbox openUC2 are trying to overcome ...rely on such tools has allowed the community to regularly replicate designs worldwide. Distributing hardware...facilitates the reproduction of the structure in a similar way to the biological protocol, and assembly designs...Nevertheless, there are still many open questions to be clarified, especially with regard to licensing models. Direct...is a great example of how sharing of data and molecular tools can lead to faster and more efficient science...

...on the intracellular side of the cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches...induce or inhibit intracellular signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli. Ligand dissociation...to the seven alpha helices that transverse the cellular membrane. The receptor recognizes the appropriate...signaling is initiated when a ligand binds to the extracellular surface of the GPCR. This results in a conformational...response in a certain cell type. Chemogenetics is similar to optogenetics but instead of light, these genetically...activate or inhibit neuronal firing. As GPCRs are the largest class of signal transducing receptors in the brain...

...targeting is led by a ~20 bp gRNA which is part of the larger CRISPR RNA (crRNA). In addition to the 20 bp guide...evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications... Moving one position over in the sugar ring, a popular stabilizing modification is 3’ phosphorothioate...resulting in less off-target events. While both have similar advantages, bridged nucleic acids with N-methyl...et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing). This is particularly important in experiments in which viability ...transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular experiments. There are many suitable dyes to choose...References and Resources References Hendel, A., Bak, R., Clark, J. et al. Chemically modified guide RNAs enhance...

...key tools researchers use to prove causation in molecular biology and genetics. It can be used to characterize...are available for making small point mutations, large deletions/insertions require complicated, often ...possible to use the same technique just using a large primer known as a megaprimer. Piecing together multiple...methods can be expensive because they require particular enzymes, some of which are proprietary. These...have secondary structure or too much sequence similarity. REPLACR-mutagenesis: Letting bacteria do the...then joins the linear PCR products into stable circular plasmids - no nick repair is needed. Since the...L-arabinose. These cells can be made and frozen in large batches suitable for many experiments. When REPLACR-mutagenesis...