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  1. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    ...reliable and reproducible. However, we do not use amplicons in ITR as we have found this to strongly bias ...somewhat more reliable quantitation. Differences in sample treatment across methods can affect reported titer...that users keep titering method consistent across samples within a project. Targeting Your AAV Q4: Are there...
  2. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ...specific region of your protein of interest. For example, if you are studying a protein that may bind a ...recognize the protein even though it is present in your sample. Additionally, there is a lower likelihood that...higher than that of polyclonal antibodies. For example, it takes longer to develop a hybridoma than it...
  3. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...binding of a new inactive heterotrimeric G protein complex and subsequently another round of signaling.    ...finally, to a response? Let’s take a look at a few examples with plasmids deposited at Addgene.  PRESTO-TANGO...gamma subunits of the heterotrimeric G protein complex that can be used to detect G protein activation...
  4. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    ...students focus on the application process, and simplify access to academic resources, we created STEAMid...worried about any eligibility provision, don’t guess. Simply reach out to the program coordinator with your ...Chemical Biology Program at Harvard. Roo wants to simplify access to academic resources among economically...
  5. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...intensive to process a large number of microbiome samples. To enable large-scale, longitudinal studies of...and can approximate mRNA concentration within a sample. Using this system, the Collins lab was able to...lab validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR and demonstrated that it ...
  6. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ... practice to compare degradation rates between samples treated with or without an autophagy inhibitor....accumulates in the vacuole. See Figure 2 for an example of what fluorescence looks like for cytoplasmic...Fluorescent Protein Oligomerization Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy...
  7. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...preserves RNA structure and naturally occurring complexes present in the cell, it can also introduce non-physiological...non-physiological RNA-protein interactions due to sample processing. Require prior knowledge that the protein...levels seen in HHCS patients. These are just three examples of how RaPID can be used to study RNA-protein ...
  8. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ... the LoxP sites, which is more difficult than a simple knock out. Looking for some permanent knock out...two varieties: tet-on and tet-off. As the names imply, tet-off turns off constitutively expressed proteins... tunable control These systems can be easily implemented for exogenously introduced proteins, as many ...
  9. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    ...necessary” detail after “necessary” detail and end up completely overwhelming your audience - like the professor...intuitive that actually wasn't. Maybe I needed to employ a visual aid instead of describing something verbally...group was just really tired and needed a slower, simpler presentation than I had planned; other times students...
  10. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    ...several different species are present. One common example is using pre-adsorbed secondary antibodies (which...antibodies are polyclonal, as their function is to amplify the signal from a primary antibody; the ability...target protein thereby greatly increasing signal amplification.  When to stay away from polyclonal antibodies...
  11. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    ...the take rate of mouse xenografts after cell implantation. Their goal was to figure out how to optimize...barcodes in the population (all barcodes can be amplified using the same sets of forward and reverse primers...dynamics in response to cancer therapy using high-complexity barcoding." Nature medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-...
  12. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...treatments, but are not useful for genetic engineering. Examples of outbred strains include Swiss Webster and Harlan... are injected into a blastocyst which is then implanted into a female animal for gestation. Nucleases ...are microinjected into a zygote, which is then implanted into a female mouse for gestation. All three can...
  13. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...animal models of disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues chose to explore...trials is somewhat similar (Hussein et al). It employs Cas9 to cut at two sites within the viral genome...current delivery technologies are suited for. For example, lipid nanoparticle delivery tends to be trafficked...
  14. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...loxP, black arrowheads) and one mutated pair (for example- lox511, white arrowheads). It is necessary to ...express GeneR only in the presence of Cre. In this example, Cre would first invert the reporter and GeneR ...the presence of Cre. A similar strategy can be employed for "Cre-off" (i.e. your gene of interest starts...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...In order to understand the complex wiring of the brain and the underpinnings of neurological disease,...while resulting in minimal off target effects. For example, if your receptors are expressed in the brain, ...receptor acts through. The DREADD hM3D(Gq), for example, lowers the threshold for neuronal signaling and...
  16. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ... this purpose.Learn about the effects of CO2 on sample pH Cell morphology: Shape and size matter You should...which multiplies every 16 hours). So if you, for example, split cells on a Monday diluting them 1:10, you...contaminated.Learn how Addgene uses barcodes to track samples Keep track of passage numbers Keep an eye on the...
  17. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    ...targeting anywhere in an exon. But things get more complicated if you’d like to use homology directed repair...alternative PAM sequences are longer and often more complex than NGG, resulting in lower overall genome frequency... be less predictable than SpCas9 off-targets. Employing xCas9 for transcriptional regulation and base ...
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