...have used fluorescent proteins to observe what’s happening inside cells for at least a couple of decades....tissues is set by the properties of hemoglobin and melanin pigments, which absorb the majority of light below..., thus, allowing higher resolution in samples containing substantial autofluorescence background.” Just...

...and it wasn’t long until the field was off and running with camelid-derived single-domain antibodies (...thanks to their small size of 12–15 kDa Ease of cloning and expression from plasmids, due to only needing...amenable to recombinant expression (and because maintaining a llama facility is out of reach and unappealing...

... the beginning of the development of ARGs and have already developed a high-throughput screening method...Shapiro, M.G. (2018). Acoustic reporter genes for noninvasive imaging of microorganisms in mammalian hosts....

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... us 8 short talks on every conceivable way of examining, modifying, and improving the CRISPR-Cas9 system...characterization and implementation of this system. Monday evening's talks switched gears (or should I say circuits...genetic circuitry to the downstream output. Tuesday morning's talks were also about circuitry and synthetic ...

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...Zhang group. Learn more here. Q2: When designing oligos for cloning my target sequence into a backbone that...editing using the Zhang lab's CRISPR/Cas plasmids. Designing your CRISPR genome editing experiment Q1: Should...

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... (also referred to as TX-TL systems) have been gaining popularity as a synthetic biology tool. These systems... biosynthetic pathways. Biosynthetic pathways containing multiple enzymes could be successfully reconstituted...library targeting S. pneumoniae D39V from Jan-Willem Veening is now available with one sgRNA per operon or gene...

...transmitting out in the world” says Balazs. “By combining those with [sera] we got from people that have... spike protein are one of the key drivers in determining whether the current vaccines are effective or...the extent to which the escape appeared to be happening.”  In their assay, the neutralization rates of...

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...and while we think of the AAV vector genomes as containing just the expression cassette that we want, it...plasmids. We decided to use this to our advantage by designing a Python script that looks for pre-defined serotype...two types of adeno-associated virus particles containing complementary polynucleotide chains. J Virol ...

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...Michohomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ), also known as alternative non-homologous end joining (Alt-NHEJ), has ...so much more to working with CRISPR than just designing a repair template that contains your desired edit...

.... Minigenomes are stripped down viral genomes containing only the sequences required for viral replication...CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening CombiGEM is a technology that can be used to quickly...barcode small libraries of CRISPR gRNAs to use for screening experiments. Get the full details on how to make...

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