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  1. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    ...positive and negative populations, Careful panel design In both conventional and spectral flow cytometry...indistinguishable. This tool is of particular value when designing a panel.     Figure 3: Similarity index...if markers are co-expressed in your cells when designing your panel. If you have two highly overlapping...
  2. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ... also the easiest: don't use a DNA vector that encodes both Cas9 and sgRNA. What if I want to work with...one mistake can be enough. Reversal drives are designed to overwrite a previous gene drive and thereby... on popular support, which in turn depends on widespread trust in scientists to develop new technologies...
  3. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ...terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs...matrix BLOSUM62, but you may want to check the description of the other matrices to see if another would...alternatives Depending on your sequencing result and desired analysis, BLAST may not always be your optimal ...
  4. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ... can teach  5-10 year olds in a single evening. Grades K-5 cover a broad range of attention spans, skill...CRISPR work? This section was essentially background slides getting everyone on the same page in terms of the... by running it by the teachers and sharing some slides on Twitter, where I was able to get some great ...
  5. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    ...The NPTII gene confers resistance to several aminoglycosides, including G418 which is commonly used for ...DNA and generating DNA breaks. The Sh ble gene provides zeocin resistance by expressing a protein that...experiments in which off-target mutations are undesirable. Pros: Works across many species/systems. Cons...
  6. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...Microscopy. What is Expansion Microscopy?  ExM provides a straightforward answer to the space problem....improve label density (Mikhaylova, et al. 2015).  Despite these limitations, ExM is a valuable tool, especially...Bournonville L, et al (2021) Expansion microscopy provides new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria ...
  7. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    ...semester one and then proceed to use those skills to design and carry out their own novel experiments in semester...resources, offers mentoring for instructors, and provides opportunities for students to exchange ideas and...results in student learning gains and positive STEM attitudes in CUREs. CBE Life Sciences Education. 21(4):ar74...
  8. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ... the data points generated by replicate values provides useful information about the accuracy of the curve...If the unknown sample’s measurement is too low, redesign the standard curve dilution series with lower ...often recommend using advanced graphing software designed to plot complex trendlines. If you don’t have ...
  9. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...their production requires animal sacrifice and precludes genetic engineering of a tag or fusion with a ... with secondary nanobodies conjugated with the desired fluorophores. In figure 4B below, triple colocalization...review. If you just want to use the nanobodies described in Pleiner et al, the key steps for generating...
  10. MXS Chaining

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    ...Origin and purpose of MXS chaining MXS-chaining was designed to create plasmids for fluorescence imaging or... can be assembled. For example, because CpG dinucleotides are underrepresented in most vertebrate genomes...and MluI recognition sites, which contain CpG dinucleotides in their 6-mer sequences, are rarely found in...
  11. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ... Protein tags are usually smallish peptides incorporated into a translated protein. As depicted in the...depending on their protein of interest. After several decades of trying to address these challenges, researchers...examples. The tables list more common tags than are described in the post, but have been categorized to help...
  12. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    ...worked extensively with enChIP systems. Can you describe this technology and its advantages? Fujii: In ...enChIP system using CRISPR technology. Can you describe this technology and some of its potential applications... any other technologies that you would like to describe?  Fujii: I believe that "Biology is Method", i.e...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...biochemical properties. In 1995, Roger Y. Tsien described an S65T point mutation that increased the fluorescence... in the wildtype protein and facilitating its widespread use in research. Many other mutations have since...array of GFP-based fluorescent biosensors has been designed to detect a variety of intracellular conditions...
  14. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...promising tool for future structure-guided drug design and studies of protein ubiquitination and degradation...CRBNmidi plasmid here!   Kroupova, A. et al. (2024). Design of a Cereblon construct for crystallographic and...specifically for C. elegans (Cao et al., 2024). The team designed coding sequences for mScarlet3 and mScarlet-I3...
  15. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    ...most situations.  A slightly different method is desirable if the antibody is expected to bind weakly to ...vary in shape and structure. Their porous surface provides a large area for binding, but antibodies conjugated... slightly higher, than those of agarose beads, despite the size difference. Magnetic beads are particularly...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ... If not, our protocol on Lentivirus Production provides a general approach for producing lentivirus in...excellent protocol paper by the Feng Zhang lab describing construction, lentiviral production, transduction...the Broad Institute: A variety of protocols and guides regarding pooled libraries, from cloning a pooled...
  17. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...series of markers are set up sequentially, from broadest to most specific marker, and are represented as...are, try drawing a quadrant over the plot that divides it into four, using the location of the cell populations...Gating and plot orders  As the gates progress from broadest markers to most specific, the first step is to...
  18. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...CRISPR-associated transposases” or MUCICAT. Here, we’ll describe each of these CRISPR systems. The original pCas...by sacB counterselection.  The MUCICAT toolkit includes versions of plasmids with different induction ...mechanisms behind their distinct phenotypes and to design a new generation of engineered cells for green ...
  19. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...Usage Tabulated from GenBank database (CUTG), that provides an electronic dataset for codon-usage of 257,468...(A) The codon wheel depicts the 64 codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example...Codon Optimization  ATUM DNA2.0  IDT Synthetic gene design made easy GenScript- GenSmart Codon Optimization...
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