...her at [email protected]. References 1. Dieterich, Daniela C., et al. "In situ visualization and dynamics... has recently published techniques to follow translation in living single cells. However, before CRISPR-Cas9...the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She presented a novel technology...to be invited to learn from them at the MPI in Frankfurt am Main and perform similar experiments. Visualizing...Both antibodies have a short antibody specific DNA strand added to them. Only if the proteins of interest...are in close proximity to each other can the DNA strands take part in rolling circle DNA amplification. ...microscope she likes to travel, discover new restaurants, go to concerts and bake. you can contact her...

...guide outlines these components.     Fig. 1 - Viral vector components of retrovirus  Adeno-associated...the delivered cargo (often a gene) is called the transfer plasmid while the other plasmids with packaging... or something similar, and is contained on the transfer plasmid. If expression is the goal, a promoter...Pol, the last component, contains the reverse transcriptase and integrase components to convert the cargo...other to allow DNA synthesis of the complementary strand to yield dsDNA. Unlike LTRs, ITRs are perfectly...delivered and expressed in the host cell from the transfer plasmid. Viral packaging and entry The viral packaging...the primary viral polymerase. E4/E1A activate transcription of other relevant viral genes (including the...

...into the genome of mammalian cells.  Figure 1: The SRIRACCHA reporter construct. Image from Wen ...Wen et al., 2018). SRIRACCHA uses the Piggybac transposon to stably integrate a reporter gene that contains..., you’re ready to edit. These cells are then transfected with several different constructs for the reporter... gRNAs by simply changing the gRNA used when transfecting your cells.  A plasmid that contains Cas9. The...plasmid.  With this set up, all successfully transfected cells will express RFP while cells containing... Lastly, once a mutant is identified, the PB transposase can easily and seamlessly remove the integrated...Knudsen C, Ásgrímsdóttir ES, Rahimi K, Gill KP, Frandsen S, Hvolbøl Buchholdt S, Chen M, Kjems J, Febbraro...

...may begin to prove the technology. This transition takes around 1 – 2 years. The product is the measure...community. As a result, I have occasionally pondered translating my research into a startup company. However, ...school and turn it into a biotech company. Transitioning an idea from academia to a startup Mike Koeris... biotech startup, Mike explained, his career transitioned away from the bench and became all about finding...stages in the startup". To gain insight into "the random-walk" of a budding startup, I asked Mike to outline...into it.” Have any other helpful tips to help transition a project from academia to a biotech startup ...

... UK team members before they log off for the day. 1:45 PM--Write final report. Work on a final report ...alone. A few years ago when I started my career transition from bench science to software product management...explaining more of her role, which eventually led me to transfer to her team and begin my product management (PM...science backgrounds, most did not. It was my job to translate complex lab operations workflows into a format... help improve their work. Then, I distill and translate that valuable information back to the rest of ...science companies, try to find internships with translatable skills: working with data, working with people...

...non-canonical amino acid at the site of interest (figure 1). While the codon used is often one of the three stop...factors can negatively impact both translation and fidelity of translation, leading to system-wide effects... incorporation of an unnatural amino acid in translation (Noren et al., 1989). In the late nineties, this...non-interacting with) the cells’ own natural translation machinery; these are often incorporated into ...

...medRxiv.org) in the past few years.   Fig. 1: Stand aside, CERN - it's a new age of accelerating...conference poster or talk, or submitting patent or grant applications; to informal settings like lab meetings..., and increase their impact. Open Access and Transparency Another major benefit of preprints is their ... of listing “Submitted” articles in their CV or grant applications. A number of organizations (such as...be prone to biases or errors, with a lack of transparency in most review processes. Preprints and their...

...in Streptomyces (Cobb et al., 2015). pCRISPomyces-1 includes Cas9, a tracrRNA, and a CRISPR array, while... four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins forming the QCascade DNA-targeting...modify a given gene. CRISPR-tranposons By combining CRISPR editing and transposons, the Sternberg and Zhang...developed CRISPR-transposons. The Sternberg lab's system called INTEGRATE (Insertion of Transposable Elements ... CAST (CRISPR-associated Transposase) both enable gRNA-directed transposition. INTEGRATE consists of four...multi-spacer CRISPR array, CRISPR-transposons can be multiplexed. Transcriptional repression (CRISPRi) in bacteria...proteins involved in the activation of transcription including transcription factors, phage proteins, and RNAP...

...first of only three such databases, EENdb (published 1 Jan 2013, no longer available), is a simple catalogue...follow him on Twitter @CMacPhD.          References  1. Ghorbal, Mehdi, et al. "Genome editing in the human...should we use all tools as some kind of a meta/Frankenstein app? Or perhaps there is a clear winner, is ...enthusiasts, take a look at sgRNAcas9. Top tools for transferring CRISPR technology to a new organism: For obvious...

...regarding what makes this group of researchers special: 1. Stem cell scientists care deeply about ethics Ethics...that stem cell scientists are so focused on translational research is encouraging. Patients are key to...

... genes with a single viral vector.   Fig. 1: Schematic of multiplex gene editing with DAP array..., lengthy genetic payloads and insufficient transcription on the array have limited the scalability and...

...region: IgM, IgD, IgG, IgE, and IgA.    Figure 1: Diagram of an antibody labeled with Fc, Fab, heavy...that helps attack extracellular pathogens.  Transportation of antibodies to places they can’t reach on...region, can be bound by special receptors that transport antibodies through cells and into different body...tears, saliva, mucus) where it protects mucosal membranes. This isotype is most commonly a dimer with a ...

...give these stabilized promoters a try. References 1. Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and...number during the transition to stationary phase, Segall-Shapiro et al. placed a trans-acting RepA protein...plasmids modified from pSC101 with copy numbers ranging from 3-100 per cell, a stabilized promoter buffered...

...accessible to practically everyone.     Fig. 1: Open source hardware builds   Since I started...next few years, with the goal of creating more transparent and reproducible science in the long run (Hohlbein...2020) Hongquan Li, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Ethan Li, Pranav Vyas, Nibha Akireddy, Chew Chai, Manu Prakash, ...

...speed: base editing before Cas lets go Figure 1: David Liu gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene...induces the DNA base change without a DNA double-strand break. But base editors aren’t perfect. They may...References Gaudelli NM, Komor AC, Rees HA, Packer MS, Badran AH, Bryson DI, Liu DR (2017) Programmable base ...

...doesn't work for your application.      Fig. 1: Antibody Selection Flow Chart    What does validated...-independent assays such as mRNA data from transcriptomics; independent antibody strategies that compare...validation does not mean that the antibody is guaranteed to work. Antibody-based assays are complex and...

...many of which are available in rAAVs!   Figure 1: Diagram of AAV components      Cargo capacity...therapies and in vivo laboratory experiments ranging from transient gene expression in a particular cell type... Figure 2: DNA rescue and transduction of a conventional single-stranded AAV (ssAAV) and a self-complementary...genome conversion in the transduced cell nucleus, the single-to-double stranded conversion of the DNA goes...structure can readily fold into transcriptionally active double-stranded form through intra-molecular annealing...Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a single stranded, Parvoviridae DNA virus, packaged in a non-enveloped...hijack host cell machinery, and synthesize a second strand of DNA before expression of their cargo can begin...

...internalization of two different receptors- angiotensin II type 1 receptor and the β2 adrenoceptor. GPCRs in chemogenetics...different ligands, including hormones, neurotransmitters, photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling...seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, due to the seven alpha helices that transverse the cellular...cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins are important molecular switches in signal transduction pathways...fusion to a receptor-transcription factor fusion. TEV protease cleave the transcription factor from the receptor...initiating signaling pathways in inflammation, and neurotransmission. These receptors can be activated by an array...cellular membrane. The receptor recognizes the appropriate ligand to activate the G proteins. It is estimated...

...see how you use them in your research!  References 1.Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “A nanobody-based system... to create a complete transcription factor, activating luciferase transcription. Tang et al. coined this...Connie Cepko’s lab allow researchers to activate transcription or Cre recombinase activity only in the presence...Using nanobodies to create GFP scaffolds for transcriptional activation The project began with a frustration... in their 293 cell culture system. In cells cotransfected with GFP and the GBPs, GFP linked the two GBPs...this system T-DDOG (Transcriptional Devices Dependent On GFP). In testing the specificity of their system... dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce transcription. Thus, T-DDOGs can be used in combination with...

... trafficking of these biosensors.   Figure 1: Schematic of iGluSnFR3 (left). GluSnFR3 in pMinDisplay... from Abhi Aggarwal.   Brandán Pedre Pérez: Redox biosensors Brandán Pedre Pérez is a postdoc at... enable multiplexed imaging of neurotransmitter, calcium, and membrane voltage,” says Tian. Figure...Congratulations to the five winners! Abhi Aggarwal Brandán Pedre Pérez Elizabeth Hubbard Haoyi Qiu He Tian...hippocampal cultured neurons, imaged 14 days post-transfection, excited at 505 nm (right). Scalebar represents...hydropersulfide-propagating enzymes 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MPST) which catalyzes the desulfuration of...an enzyme-bound hydropersulfide that is then transferred to thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides...