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TypeBlog Post... question about what should go into a cell, hover over the cell and instructions will pop up. When you...spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down options for you to choose from, while... into the appropriate full and partial sequence cells. *Note: If you believe you need to deposit a collection...
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Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research
TypeBlog Post...lack uracil, but contain methionine. (This allows cells carrying nonfunctional as well as functional MET... is available at our Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Website. Many thanks to our guest blogger...right) has taught courses in biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics at Boston College. She is particularly...Science and Technology [PCAST] (2012). Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates... -
Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)
TypeBlog Post...color change until a few months later. RevBio accelerates with help from SynBio Axlr8r We limped along ...business. We ended up applying to a business accelerator freely stating that we had an idea, knew how ...pretty steep. But we can rely on one another to celebrate good news or share a bottle of wine after a rough...rough day, and we have great partners in this accelerator program who want us to succeed. We’re excited... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation
TypeBlog Post... make it difficult to properly gate your desired cell population. By compensating between fluorescent ... your fluorescent markers are staining for. If a cell is positive for both markers, it will show up as...Figure 3: Flow plot for a double positive sample. The cell population in the top right corner of the plot is...learning! Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells and cancer immunotherapies. She is currently a research... -
Plasmids 101: Degron Tags
TypeBlog Post...uses a small molecule, a tag, and the endogenous cellular degradation machinery to function. The dTAG is...tag and small molecule. It does work in mammalian cells, mice, and even yeast, though (we have a kit!). ...and complete degradation of proteins in mammalian cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Dec 4;109(49):E3350...Tags Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags ... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog Post... acid (DAP), a component of the cell wall. Once in the recipient cell, the CRISPRi DNA (purple) flanked... is propagated during normal DNA replication and cell division. Mobile-CRISPRi does not disrupt gene function...mobilize these plasmids for transfer to recipient cells during a tri-parental mating scheme. Mobile-CRISPRi... -
xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility
TypeBlog Post... in mammalian cells Hu et al. compared xCas9 activity with wt SpCas9 in mammalian cells, finding xCas9...NG and GAT PAMs. xCas9 3.7 Activity in Mammalian Cells Construct NGG PAM NGA PAM NGC PAM NGT... percent editing efficiencies (edit frequency in cell population measured with NGS) are shown as percentages... -
AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS
TypeBlog Post...our viral service to continue our mission of accelerating scientific research. To make sure that adeno-associated... check viral transgene expression in transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow...fragments of DNA from the helper plasmids or the cell genome can be packaged inside the vectors during...earlier, it is common to find DNA from the packaging cell genome, bacterial genomes, cloning vectors, and ... -
Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School
TypeBlog Post...is an excellent resource that has gained a lot of traction with researchers. It is an excellent way to... and nonprofits. I volunteered at events like Celebrate Science Indiana and sent emails to any group with...programs and departments Graduate school was an excellent time to try new things, develop new skills, and... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog Post...machinery, and could thus be used in non-dividing cells. Cas13 enzymes also don’t require a PAM sequence... a maximum of 28% editing efficiency in HEK293T cells, as assessed using RNA-seq. Since the REPAIRv1 machinery...including reversibility and use in non-dividing cells. With the expanded targeting ability using both ...Functionally Orthogonal Type VI-A CRISPR-Cas Enzymes." Mol Cell. 66(3) (2017):373-83. PubMed PMID: 28475872. Find... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog Post...transformation efficiency of the strain: when asking the cell to perform multiple recombination events, all linear...linear fragments need to get into the same cell. For simple cloning requiring just one or two recombination...recombination events, homemade competent cells of 107 CFU/μg are perfectly fine, yet performing multiple modifications...modifications will require ultracompetent (109 CFU/μg) cells. Primer design Using specific primer design (Figure... -
CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors
TypeBlog Post...homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway which occurs in cells at low frequencies and relies on the efficient delivery...Later the resultant U-G pair is either repaired by cellular mismatch repair machinery making an original C-G...’ to ‘I’ (inosine), which is treated as ‘G’ by cellular polymerases. Subsequently, an original genomic... is converted to a G-C pair (Figure 1). As the cellular inosine excision repair is not as active as uracil... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog Post...reasons include: Metabolic pressures - it takes cellular resources to produce tRNAs that recognize different...mismatched translation rates and potential effects on cell growth, even hosts producing alternative tRNAs may...inclusion bodies that will generally segregate with the cell pellet during purification procedures. Even if you...a means to fine-tune gene expression." Molecular cell 59.2 (2015): 149-161. PubMed PMID: 26186290. PubMed... -
Tips for Getting a Faculty Position
TypeBlog Post...patterning of cells and tissues is fundamental to development. I'm interested in how cells find their way...competitive CV You don't necessarily need a Nature/Cell/Science paper. You do need multiple first/corresponding... optimization of fluorescent proteins, and live cell imaging approaches. Erik is also an avid long distance... -
Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation
TypeBlog Post...commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation ...translation of many stop codons and detrimental effects on cell growth. The C321.ΔA strain was genomically recoded...is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling, metabolism, and the mighty mitochondrion..."The origins of protein phosphorylation." Nature cell biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757... -
An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency
TypeBlog Post...experiments possible in a wide range of organisms and cell lines. In C. elegans, one of the model organisms... efficiency. Finally, as shown in Drosophila S2 cells (Böttcher et al., 2014), inactivation of non-homologous... community. Developments in mammalian and yeast cells using modified Cas9 proteins to regulate gene expression...homologous recombination donors in cultured Drosophila cells. Nucleic Acids Research 42:e89–e89 . https://doi.org... -
With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science
TypeBlog Post...of high profile people denying science, from celebrities falsely claiming vaccines cause autism to politicians...worried the march would be a simple, unquestioning celebration of science, at a time when scientists must rise...fellow at Vanderbilt University. She studies beta-cell function and failure in Type 2 Diabetes. Birmingham...BC (Canada). She works in a lab that uses yeast cells to study how DNA damage promotes cancer. She is ... -
Lucky Thirteen: Guest Contributors of 2023
TypeBlog Post...ImagingResearchers: Andrea Radtke, Ziv YanevCellosaurus: A Cell Line Information DatabaseResearcher: Amos...officially the start of Addgene's winter holiday celebrations! We're kicking it off by sharing all the incredible... -
A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology
TypeBlog Post...Guide RNA and Target DNA. Cell, 156(5), 935–949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001 Osuka, S., Isomura...efficiency and are important for robust activity in cells (Jiang & Doudna, 2017). Within an interior cavity...it, so many researchers think the enzyme needs cellular recycling factors to release its handiwork (Sternberg... -
Antibody Data Repositories and Search Engines
TypeBlog Post... Immune cells Flow cytometry (potentially others) Data repository From the Human Cell Differentiation...repository HuBMAP Consortium Healthy human cells Imaging (IHC, ICC, IF, etc.) Data repository...