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  1. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls

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    ...companies or check the literature. Pro tip! Early gates, like your live/dead markers or commonly used markers...specific cell populations, often used in the later gates, are more likely to require FMOs. Isotypes Isotype...rather than for setting up your initial voltages and gates. Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells...
  2. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    ...together. I also prefer the number system to using dates as labels, since I often work on multiple projects...sure that the original code remains in tact! Take notes Comment in your scripts: Comments on what a given...who are still learning the basics. However, these notes take up a lot of space and don’t tell you why you...
  3. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    ...infancy. A long timeline from transformation to testing and a lack of well-characterized genetic tools ...excited to see how this exchange of genetic tools facilitates plant science. Challenge #3: Intellectual property...in 2004, she accepted a commission in the United States Air Force. She left active duty to pursue a degree...
  4. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    ...the idea of general interfaces and the freedom to test out lots of combinations, to end up finding something... which are useful for connecting proteins in the test tube or in cells. There are also SNAP-tag and HaloTag...template VirD2 HUH-tag For creating DNA-protein conjugates rHUH HUH-tag (RNA) Covalent protein tag for...
  5. Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist

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    ...keep track of how you met the connection, as these notes are saved in the messaging stream. Unfortunately...LinkedIn is not the platform for politics, family updates, or click bait of any kind. For more on inappropriate...However, do comment on other people’s news and updates. Share your own good ideas, events and favorite...
  6. Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment

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    ...antibiotic in your plate might not work. Check the plates! Streak on them an E. coli  strain known to be ...growing fine, it is probably time to prepare new plates with a fresh stock of antibiotic. Many small colonies... different temperature (30°C) for the growth on plates and in liquid culture. If you don’t get any positive...
  7. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...caveolin 1, also known as CAV 1. Usually, caveolin 1 promotes the cell life cycle progression and enhances tumor... TAK 1, an enzyme that controls apoptosis and regulates transcription. Without TKA1, cells proliferate... 2004). In fact, Sanford H. Barsky and his team tested the influence myoepithelial cells had on the conversion...
  8. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    ... oxygen concentration may affect photobleaching rates (Shaner et al, 2008). This brings us to the key ...application (Goedhart et al, 2012). The third issue relates to the environment of the fluorescent protein. ...The issues with quantification of photobleaching rates can be summarized as follows: Instead of determining...
  9. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ... cross-talk with the other orthologs. Ma et al. tested their dCas9 variants using gRNAs specific for telomeric...individual colors to 6. A gRNA with all three hairpins generates white light. All 6 gRNAs can be expressed in a...separate vector. Figure 2: CRISPRainbow generates 6 unique colors and a white composite. gRNAs with...
  10. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    ...Photo courtesy of Henry Mühlpfordt, under a CC BY-SA license. Many scientists and advocates have argued...manuscript is drafted. Preprints were one of the key routes for researchers to share information about the ...
  11. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    ...large number of targets, and can require specific conjugates. And, of course, once you have them, you’ll need... along with a higher likelihood of aggregation (Bates, 2019). They are small enough to be produced in ...delivery systems. Elsevier Science & Technology Books. Bates A, Power CA. David vs. Goliath: The Structure, Function...
  12. Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody

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    ...options. With limited time and budget you cannot test them all, so how do you know which ones to try?  ...immune complexes are smaller than a primary:secondaries:conjugates complex. If you are trying to visualize....  The 5 pillars include genetic strategies that test expression in knock-out or knock-down down tissues...
  13. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ...with the desired resolution of prime editing intermediates. Building upon the PE2 and PE3 systems of their...introduce epitope tags and RNA transcription start sites. The lab further demonstrated that PRIME-del can...RT), which induces two double-strand breaks and deletes the intervening sequence. As with other prime editing...
  14. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    ...a new legal minimum of $47,476 per year, under updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This was...22nd a preliminary injunction against the FLSA updates was granted nationwide. Again, we at Future of ...getting paid, which we will be analyzing for future updates. But suffice it to say, salaries are showing surprisingly...
  15. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ...and disease states, their circadian regulation, as well as in important physiological states such as adipogenesis...therapeutic indices, including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol gallstone...
  16. Gamma-Retroviral Vector Guide

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    ...transcription start sites, such as promoters and enhancers. Many times, integration sites are found in proto-oncogenes... transfer plasmids may have limited restriction sites or may only be compatible with certain cloning methods... packaging cell line. This system provides the greatest flexibility to pseudotype gamma-retrovirus using...possible development of cancer. Pseudotyping Tropism dictates which types of host cells the gamma-retroviral... virus with the envelope glycoproteins of HIV generates a retroviral vector with specificity of infection...transcription. Removal of this region in the 3’ LTR creates self-inactivating viral vectors. R in cis Repeat...constitutive promoter such as CMV or RSV. 3' LTR in cis Terminates transcription started by 5' LTR by the addition...
  17. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ... used to integrate the tagged AID* into genomic sites of interests via CRISPR techniques. This tool-kit...activated, Cas9 cleavage can induce DSBs within minutes. New CRISPR plasmids for Borrelia burgdorferi from...are now available. These libraries encode target sites flanked by randomized nucleotides in place of a ...
  18. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    ... Viruses are intracellular parasites and natural vehicles for genetic information. Therefore they make...Addgene: Follow our viral vector blog posts for updates on the most recent deposits, protocols, and tips...MuLE (Multiple Lentiviral Expression) system facilitates the simultaneous introduction of multiple genetic...
  19. Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...BioID, BirA* is fused to a bait protein and it biotinylates proteins that are within a ~10 nm radius of ...the bait proteins were tagged with. It’s best to test all combinations and pick the conditions that give...interactome. Further characterization of these candidates is critical to understanding how they interact...
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