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  1. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...a bit of tuning before you know your system is working as expected. Finally, for each gene you want to... scorer 1.0 (Now 2.0) (Chari et al., 2015) and picking whichever guides are closest to the transcription...Ansari R, Harper S, Jackson DA, McRae R, Pooley R, Wilkinson P, van der Meer D, Dow D, Buser-Doepner C, Bertotti...
  2. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...that particular region. No matter where you are looking, you can either scan the genome yourself for potential...leading to degradation that can set you back days. Working with plasmid DNA is much easier and doesn’t require...slightly different method to genotype their pups. Taking a toe, a finger, a tail tip, or a combination of...
  3. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    ...we are interested in circuits that mediate drug taking behavior. If a circuit reinforces behavior (activation...sense of pleasure that the animal perceives through taking a drug. The ideal behaviors to test reinforcement...amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking." Nature 475.7356 (2011): 377-380. Pubmed PMID:...
  4. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    ...sequence (Figure 2A). Since you don’t need additional flanking sequences, shRNA plasmids are a bit smaller, with... than miRNA plasmids, which require additional flanking regions comprised of upstream and downstream genomic...between the red boxes. Highlighted blue regions show flanking genomic sequence. Created on BioRender.com. ...
  5. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ...cells of interest. In many experiments you’ll be working with a heterogeneous cell population, for example...While flow cytometry can be used for virtually all kinds of experiments and research fields, for any experiment...investigating negative regulators of T cells and cytokine signaling in tumor immunity. When he's not in ...
  6. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ... this, similar systems have been developed for tracking various cell types and organisms and for improving...recombinase. The XFPs in Flybow are membrane-tethered, making this system useful for visualization of cellular...construct was then used to develop a system for tracking the fate of Langerhans cells. In the Ubow mouse...
  7. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...dependency on magnesium and higher thermal stability, making it a potentially more useful tool for in vivo studies...much potential for growth as RNA biology, we are looking forward to reports on the next additions to aptamer...bright, high-affinity complex for RNA labeling and tracking." ACS chemical biology 9.10 (2014): 2412-2420....
  8. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...false positives observed in the cloning process, making it easier to produce the constructs you need. Expression...to simplify the protein purification process by making it easy for a researcher to quickly generate N-...carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking of cell-free expression systems, and tested ...
  9. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...nucleotides, called dideoxynucleotides (ddNTPs), lacking the 3’ hydroxyl group required for the extension...sequencing reactions and may use Sanger sequencing. Looking to the future Southern blotting, restriction mapping...mouse lines, such as BAC transgenic or traditional knockins/knockouts, a thing of the past. In the sequencing...
  10. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...adds a repressible element to this binary system (making this a repressible binary system). The GAL80 repressor...PMID: 1319065; PMCID: PMC49329. Triezenberg SJ, Kingsbury RC, McKnight SL. Functional dissection of VP16... Resources on the Addgene Blog Quick guide to working with Drosophila Terminators and PolyA Signals FLEx...
  11. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ... however NLuc’s emission peak is at 460 nm thus making it non-optimal for in vivo imaging. The solution...about to create an in vivo imaging reporter by linking two CyOFP1 molecules to NLuc (CyOFP1-NLuc-CyOFP1...the fluorescent donor for a bioluminescent donor, making BRET probes. Here the bioluminescent donor is unaffected...
  12. Using a Light Microscope Protocol

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    ... until the edges are just out of view. Pro-Tip Looking through a microscope’s eyepiece can take some practice...
  13. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...in common? The three most important items when looking for a house and choosing an AAV are… location, .... So how do you choose the right serotype? Keep asking questions!  Table 1: AAV Serotypes and Tropism ...choice of AAV will depend upon which section you’re looking at (striatum, hippocampus and cortex) within the...
  14. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ... and SciFi.  Scientists around the world began looking for the magic molecule that serves as the code ...insatiable appetite of the moviegoers for dinosaurs wreaking havoc in a theme park.  Released in 1997, GATTACA... at University of California San Diego. She is working in collaboration with Prof. Alexis Komor and together...
  15. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...RNase III enzyme named Dicer (Figure 1). The plant kingdom has expanded its repertoire of Dicer enzymes and...silencing effect through targeted mRNA degradation, blocking translation, or chromatin modifications of complementary...researchers studying plants and other organisms lacking this innate immunity need not worry and have benefited...
  16. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    ... a method relies on accurate ligation of nicks lacking gaps or mismatched base pairs (as in the case for....6 (2004): 757-764. PubMed PMID: 15582400. 2. Tomkinson, Alan E., et al. "DNA ligases: structure, reaction...: 16464020.  3. Ellenberger, Tom, and Alan E. Tomkinson. "Eukaryotic DNA ligases: structural and functional...
  17. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    ...interest and 50 nucleotides of homology to regions flanking the target site).  The best applications for dsDNA...Daiguan Yu, Hilary M. Ellis, E-Chiang Lee, Nancy A. Jenkins, Neal G. Copeland, and Donald L. Court. An efficient...Read about Homology Directed Repair Use Knockout/Knockin Plasmids to Disrupt Genes in Mammalian Cells CRISPR...
  18. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    ...the better the detection of the target marker. Looking at Table 1, we can recognize a couple of fluorophores...brightness levels are often not that great. When thinking of terms like "very bright" vs. "dim" you might...investigating negative regulators of T cells and cytokine signaling in tumor immunity. When he's not in ...
  19. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    ...the template strand. Therefore, I suggest that picking a crRNA complementary to the template strand could....For ssODN design, remember to incorporate PAM-blocking mutations (e.g. convert the NGG PAM to NGC in ...PCR genotyping (Sanger sequencing); use primers flanking the tag sequence and expect a size-shift in the...
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