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  1. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...use a standard strain, like DH5α, grown at 30 °C instead of 37 °C. If you’re unsure about the integrity ...prefer to store freshly harvested virus at 4 °C instead of storing it briefly at -80 °C. If troubleshooting...option may be to avoid freezing altogether, and instead to use the virus immediately upon harvesting. Interestingly...appear as a white pellet. The pellet can then be rinsed and resuspended in cold sterile PBS.  Alternatively...of ensuring viral production is to perform PCR against components of the viral vector using the harvested...
  2. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ... they bind to a class of Argonaute proteins. The Argonaute proteins remove one strand of the siRNA and...cDNA), and then use PCR and molecular cloning to insert the cDNA into the desired plasmid backbone. The...the process is a little more complicated. These strains are more picky eaters and refuse to eat liver paste...Sánchez lab protocol also provides step-by-step instructions for the “the bravest and more curious” students...
  3. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    ...Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the NIH, started off with the first...will lead to advances in human health. It was inspiring to hear how the genome project has already had...enzymatic machinery (i.e. RNA replication with no proteins). The chemistry is complex and this work requires...desribed how P. furiosus has systems to defend against both DNA and RNA viruses - 2 cas systems regulate...system. His lab is also exploring the use of cas9 proteins from different species for genome engineering....
  4. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    ...secondary antibodies instead (B).   Since a polyclonal primary antibody contains a mix of different...antibodies used for detection bind to non-target immunoglobulins naturally present in the tissue sample. There...antibody fragments to block the endogenous immunoglobulins and reduce the background staining but they...Biological systems tend to be complex with a variety of proteins interacting. Experiments tend to be equally complex...
  5. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...distinct proteins and result in unclear transcriptional consequences (Sprujit 2013). Enzymatic domains tethered...are a number of drawbacks to this approach: TET proteins are not demethylases; they are dioxygenases that..., Charlton et al. 2020). Most importantly, TET proteins affect transcription independent of their enzymatic...overlap the CpG of interest. Having the CpG directly inside the gRNA sequence is a great guarantee that DNMT1...
  6. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    ...challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox will highlight...search that’s constantly updated. This Twitter list contains >300 Twitter literature bots, including a bot ...AI-backed literature search developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar ...Initiative. Meta is not a traditional search engine. Instead, you create your own research feed by entering ... papers are published, similar to Facebook or Instagram. Key features Setting up a personalized feed is...
  7. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...first make your poster. While a poster generally contains the same sections as a primary research article...in your poster. This is a section where you can insert your references and contact information, and it...conclusions, and acknowledgements sections are inserted. The advantage of this style is that it will display... a poster vertically rather than horizontally. Instead of displaying your information as columns, you ... poster, written and graphical information are inserted into larger circles or ovals, that are arranged...
  8. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    ...—an optical insulator called a ferrule (below). The fiber optic cable/ferrule is inserted into the target...stimulation guarantees that the majority of the opsins will receive sufficient quantities of photons to...although you may be able to purchase one pre-made instead). Laser stimulation         In the video above...: closed/light receptive, open, closed/light insensitive. If you deliver a continuous stream of photons...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ... sunglasses — these proteins are bright! Most current yellow fluorescent proteins tend to photobleach ...recently developed a pair of new yellow fluorescent proteins: mGold2s and mGold2t (Lee & Lai, et al., 2025)...or mCitrine, or if existing yellow fluorescent proteins just haven’t met your needs, consider trying mGold2s...2025). Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging. Nature Communications, 16...
  10. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...variance of size of plasmids in your library (Are the inserts of different sizes?), and the desired coverage ...100x coverage of your library, and your library contains 5,000 plasmids, your goal for your transformation...replicate faster. For this reason, if your library has inserts of different sizes (such as a transcription factor...library is of a smaller size with a single size insert, liquid media can be faster and easier to work ...protocol paper by the Zhang lab, and the Broad Institute’s general pDNA Library Amplification protocol are...
  11. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    ...practice: Rehearse your presentation with people inside and outside your field. Your colleagues, lab mates... tack up your poster seconds before the session begins. Plus, you’ll have extra time to practice at the... in to the next figure. Remember your outline: Instead of getting bogged down in the minutia or coming... practicing with your colleagues, ask them to brainstorm potential questions you may receive. People often...in to thirty-minute-long presentations, which constrains the number of posters you can see. If you are...
  12. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...previous books focused primarily on fluorescent proteins and their applications, tackles much broader issues...from mildly surprising to genuinely shocking. Mainstream media outlets have addressed CRISPR frequently...science produced by the quieter, more reserved Franklins and Prashers will find it increasingly difficult...Addgenies Joanne Kamens, Marcy Patrick, Aliyah Weinstein, Fabienne Furt, and Quintin Marcelino for their... Eric J. Perkins...
  13. MXS Chaining

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    ...sensors. Given the expanding palette of fluorescent proteins and the availability of powerful imaging technologies...modules used in this method include fluorescent proteins, promoters, enhancers, polyadenylation signals...combined to create a single polycistronic 15 kb insert. The final construct was then introduced to HeLa...later combine all four constructs into one 15 kb insert. Table 1: MXS Constructs for Labeling Cellular ... fluorescent proteins...
  14. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...pastoris) because it secretes fewer of its own proteins, making the purification process simpler. Due ... the production of Fab fragments where variable chains are secreted into the periplasmic space to be oxidized...SDS-PAGE gel. Once stained, the heavy and light chains become visible alongside your ladder and a protein... density of the antibody bands can be measured against the protein standard and the concentration may ...Any bands on the gel beside the heavy and light chains can also be measured. Contaminating bands lower...
  15. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ... for instance, a recent preprint released by the Boehm and Beroukhim labs at the Broad Institute of MIT...MIT and Harvard, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Koch Institute, where an exploration into the effects...introduced an ancestry bias into their experiments instead of a true correlation.   It turned out there was...
  16. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ...DNA N-glycosylase (UNG) enzymes. Various other proteins included in different CGBE tools allow the researcher...a similar tool shortly thereafter, using mouse instead of human AAG (remember, MPG and AAG are the same...a more specific A → C base editor (ACBE), they inserted the deaminase into the C-terminal domain of Cas9...excises inosine can be modified to target guanosine instead, perhaps analogous engineering of UNG, which excises...its homologs) has more than one name. Indel Insertion/deletion A type of unwanted DNA edit. AYBE, ...
  17. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    ... This post was contributed by Ryan Watkins, Professor at George Washington University and developer of...in scientific journals flies under the radar and gains little notice. A 2009 research study found that ...influenced by research in other disciplines. But there remains a great deal to learn from the science of others...platforms (such as social networking, visual appeal, instant sharing across multiple other sites), I created...and let the world know about your science! Ryan Watkins is a professor at George Washington University ...
  18. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...Mashiko et al. 2013). The pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid contains overlapping 5′ and 3′ EGFP fragments under the...MCS) between EGFP fragments. The pX330 plasmid contains humanized Cas9 expression cassette and sgRNA expression... surrounding your gRNA. Once amplified, you can insert this region into a pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid using standard...techniques (The XX indicates where your target is inserted, disrupting the EGFP fluorescent signal, for details...give specific details on what exactly has been inserted or deleted. Each lab will use a slightly different...
  19. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...Science (DBCLS),  National Cancer Institute, Public Domain, National Institutes of Health, Wikipedia user Aimecie...isoenzymes and genetic polymorphisms specific to their origins. This technique is still used today to test for...working cell bank has been made by a research institution (an excellent practice), or maybe cells have ...Brendan P., Walter A. Nelson-Rees, and Grover M. Hutchins. "Henrietta Lacks, HeLa cells, and cell culture...
  20. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    ... thanks to our guest blogger, Jessica Roginsky. Jessica Roginsky leads the scientific support team at ...This article was contributed by Jessica Roginsky, Scientific Support Lead at Synthego. Article source...genomes that have been successfully modified with insertions or deletions (indels) and then characterizes ...each bar of the indel plot shows the size of the insertion or deletion along with the percentage of genomes...
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