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TypeBlog Post...generating mutated sequences for site-directed mutagenesis. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction, qPCR...interest Molecular Cloning Site-directed mutagenesis Molecular Diagnostics qPCR Quantify starting... PCR Plasmids 101: Colony PCR Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR Resources on Addgene.org Protocol: Polymerase...
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Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy
TypeBlog Post...are millimeters in thickness (8,9). In addition, there is a drop in image brightness with increasing depth... Ultramicroscope. In addition, adjusting the thickness of the laser sheet and using multi-view imaging... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills
TypeBlog Post...teammates want to be assured that you will contribute openness, clarity, approachability, and professionalism...you can learn more about possible strengths and weaknesses, and view everything as a learning experience... weaknesses... -
Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves
TypeBlog Post...should be run in duplicate or triplicate. The closeness of the data points generated by replicate values...be linear or nonlinear. BCA assays have linear trendlines while those for ELISAs and other enzymatic assays...advanced graphing software designed to plot complex trendlines. If you don’t have access to this kind of software... -
SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools
TypeBlog Post...students learned something. Based on the initial guidelines I received from the teachers, I formulated the...own wonderful tangents. Some groups asked about vaccines, others were curious about the agricultural repercussions...special thanks to Joanne Marks, Jonathan Marks, and Vanessa Bullard of Chenery Middle School for their tremendous... -
Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
TypeBlog Post... Joseph Provost, then a new faculty member at Minnesota State (and now Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry...my students published their work identifying new genes required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance...for increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines (Bangera & Brownell, 2014; Duboue et al., 2022... -
INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons
TypeBlog Post...adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (e.g. using mariner...method of tagmentation for next-gen sequencing pipelines (e.g. using Tn5), and as knock-in tools for human...plasmid (pEffector) expresses all seven required genes and the CRISPR RNA under the same promoter, and ... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog Post...editing from the Cas13b REPAIR system To test the robustness of REPAIRv1, the lab targeted 34 pathogenic G...cytosine deaminase. Three rounds of rational mutagenesis on the ADAR2DD residues that contact the RNA ...RNA-sequencing, the authors performed rational mutagenesis and identified that a S375A mutation in RESCUE... -
What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry
TypeBlog Post...The blue lines in B-D represent the spectra for the specified contaminant, while the grey lines in B-D ... to detect by spectrophotometry than others. The ones most likely to impact absorbance readings are phenol... -
Tips for arabidopsis transformation
TypeBlog Post...studying transcriptional and translational dynamics of genes and proteins in living plants, to complementing ...process right the first time. I’ll lay out some guidelines here. A detailed transformation protocol, as ...potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop.... -
Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems
TypeBlog Post...hybrid system (also called the interaction trap), genes encoding proteins of interest(POI’s) are fused to...variations, including many that use auxotrophic rescue genes as reporters and some that repress instead of activate... Vectors Read our Blog Post About Tagging Yeast Genes ... -
AAV Titration by qPCR Using SYBR Green Technology
TypeProtocol... 3125000X Dilutions highlighted in green are the ones loaded onto the qPCR plate for most samples. If ... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
TypeBlog Post...27, 2020. CRISPR, and specifically Cas9 from S. pyogenes (SpCas9), is truly an exceptional genome engineering...analysis, they identified 53 potential candidate genes that fell into 3 categories based on the architecture... to bind and cleave target RNAs, although its usefulness in bacterial cells will likely be limited by ... -
Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility
TypeBlog Post...sharing information through the use of popular Chinese social media platforms. As you can imagine, shipping...compare their options for tools such as empty backbones, lentiviral packaging systems, and luciferase ...Plasmids Tetracyline Inducible Plasmids Empty Backbones Bacterial Expression Systems AAV Plasmids ... -
Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...areas (protected) as opposed to brightly illuminated ones (risky). They also prefer to explore novel environments... (BDNF). BDNF is a small protein involved in neurogenesis, neuronal survival, and synaptic plasticity.... insights into the complex relationship between genes, neurons, and behavior. There are several other ... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog Post...coat! These are the things the rest of the world imagines when they think “scientist.” But leaving the bench...that at a desk, it is much easier to stick to timelines. This is probably because you don't have to worry...transferable skills guide Read blog posts about career readiness Resources at Addgene.org Find careers at Addgene... -
Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
TypeBlog Post...Austrian physician, Andreas Rett, who tried to raise awareness and published his observations in a German medical...global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have suggested roles in transcriptional..., Zoghbi HY (2013) An AT-Hook Domain in MeCP2 Determines the Clinical Course of Rett Syndrome and Related... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog Post...(Chen et al., 2018). Both SHERLOCK and DETECTR harness the promiscuous cleavage and degradation of neighboring...ability to cleave non-specific (trans) ssDNA and harnessed this ability to create a DNA detection platform...Kellner MJ, Tan AL, Paul LM, Parham LA, Garcia KF, Barnes KG, Chak B, Mondini A, Nogueira ML, Isern S, Michael... -
Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
TypeBlog Post...options: Early detection, immunotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors New research is also going into two...bevacizumab (Avastin). This drug (known as an angiogenesis inhibitor) prevents the growth of new blood ...asbestos. Nonprofits like the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) are working toward such a ... -
Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup
TypeBlog Post... post. Figure 2: iGluSnFR3 displays enhanced brightness, expression, and sensitivity compared with earlier...2P has faster response kinetics and increased brightness, sensitivity, and photostability under two-photon...screen, selected for increased voltage response, brightness, and photostability. It enables sustained deep-tissue...