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TypeBlog Post...widely available imaging platform: ultrasound. Challenges of in vivo imaging with existing bacterial reporters... by water-dwelling photosynthetic bacteria and archaea to regulate their buoyancy. The Shapiro lab recently...genes for in vivo imaging Following in vitro characterization, Bourdeau et al performed a proof-of-concept...
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Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021
TypeBlog Post...provide new opportunities for investigating genetic mechanisms related to morphogenesis, cell fate specification...enzymatic receptor DAD2. SLs induce a conformational change of the receptor which modulates the fluorescence... a major economic impact. Design and mechanism of action of the receptor-based SL fluorescent... -
What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?
TypeBlog Post...backbone of the DNA helix or even changes the DNA sequence through a mechanism called depurination. In depurination...contamination. Extreme pH can denature, break, and even change the DNA sequence. High pH favors the breakage of... -
Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?
TypeBlog Post...found in bacteria, but also exist naturally in archaea and eukaryotes such as yeast and plants. In nature...manipulate gene expression in target cells. Characteristics such as flexibility, versatility, safety, and...Produce enzymes that will make specific, controlled changes to an organism’s genome (genome engineering) Produce... -
Management for Scientists: Giving Feedback
TypeBlog Post... for giving feedback Use formal and informal mechanisms for feedback (more on this below). Make sure...positive outcome if the employee sees that real change is possible in your eyes so their confidence is...feedback is a very effective way to bring about change in behaviors and habits in a nonthreatening way... -
Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?
TypeBlog Post... of freedom and diversity built into their jobs Chance to do/learn new things, diversity of responsibilities...it, we are special. Below are some special characteristics of scientists in the work place as described...identify the work style of each team member) Need challenging work, opportunities to pursue and problems to... -
What the HEK?
TypeBlog Post...cancer-specific research. Membrane receptors and ion channels are often exogenously expressed and studied in...proteins and its relatively low expression of native channels. No matter what your research question, HEK-...research interests include receptor biology, ion channels, or involve human protein preparations with PTMs... -
Summer SciComm: Science Storytelling
TypeBlog Post...one or two roadblocks that sparked creativity, changed the outcome of the project, or illustrates the ... and what can be left out, which can be a big challenge! The resolution Throughout your conflict, you... and driver of your story gives your audience a chance to get curious and invested in the research itself... -
What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions
TypeBlog Post...nice to have, not a need to have Must be ready to change projects frequently with little notice or choice...someone else who can do better, no grant writing Job changes can happen regularly (every 4-6 years is common... create interpersonal issues (one bad apple can change entire culture) Specific requirements for hiring... -
New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019
TypeBlog Post...single-wavelength sensors with intensities that change in response to calcium binding. There are a few...AAV5 AAV SYN flex PSAM4 GlyR IRES EGFP Chimeric channels for neuronal manipulation 119742 AAV5 AAV ...AAV SYN PSAM4 GlyR IRES EGFP Chimeric channels for neuronal manipulation Recombinases Plasmid Serotype... -
5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time
TypeBlog Post...independently” and “the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do”. Candidates who have “started...including those that find events stressful. Video chatting makes it pretty easy to make 30 minute appointments...being able to just look at a paragraph and do a character count in your head. Here are some sites that ... -
Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux
TypeBlog Post...for the measurement of autophagic flux, or the changes in autophagic activity, and are a more reliable...autophagy-related microtubule-associated proteins 1A/1B light chain 3B, or LC3. LC3 is a commonly used marker for measuring...functions as an autophagy bionsensor via the same mechanism as Rosella: GFP is quenched in acidic environments... -
Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation
TypeBlog Post...236. PubMed PMID: 22154564. 6. Stoneham, Charlotte A., Michael Hollinshead, and Amin Hajitou. "Clathrin-mediated... cells. Although we were unable to deduce the mechanism responsible we still believe that these results... -
Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?
TypeBlog Post...against invading DNA. In 2014, Swarts et al. characterized Argonaute from Thermus thermophilus (TtAgo),...expressed from a plasmid or in vitro transcribed, and changes in gRNA secondary structure can affect editing ... 3. Swarts, Daan C., et al. “Argonaute of the archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus is a DNA-guided nuclease that... -
Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?
TypeBlog Post...you don’t take this past the chatting stage you will rarely make any change in your skill sets or activate...formality to mentoring Just getting together and chatting with another person about their career path is... -
Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering
TypeBlog Post...: to understand how a mouse changes emotions, to see how a monkey changes decision making, to cure a human... channelrhodopsin... -
K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog Post... Ploidy Usually diploid, but spontaneously changes Usually haploid Usually haploid Pathology...their peroxisomes will proliferate upon a media change into methanol and peroxisomal autophagy can be ...Resources References Liu, Wei, et al., From Saccharomyces cerevisiae to human: The important gene co‑expression... -
Hot Plasmids - January 2023
TypeBlog Post...Susanna Stroik The Doudna lab’s recent work characterized a new tool for RNA targeting, with a leg up ...were compared head-to-head for gene expression changes of non-target genes and RNA-seq of a nuclear (MALAT1...denaturing conditions, high temperatures, and other chaotropic conditions better than most FPs. The group also... -
The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell
TypeBlog Post...and accurate sequencing (“reading”) of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size...seqWell, Inc., our mission is to overcome crucial challenges in NGS by developing technologies that can help...problem in multiplex NGS library preparation. The challenge here is that, as more samples are sequenced simultaneously... -
Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider
TypeBlog Post...absorb best at 280 nm and organic compounds and chaotropic salts maximally absorb at 230 nm. The A260/A280...doesn’t tell you about contaminating proteins or chaotropic salts. Capillary electrophoresis Quantifying...fragments move through a micro- or nanofluidic channel and the sample is separated by electrophoresis....