Skip to main content

We narrowed to 982 results for: Ran;

Showing: 661 - 680 of 982 results
  1. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... have pushed the boundaries in neuroscience by granting targeted control over neuronal activity. While... Mouse studies, however, require a permanent intracranial implant to be surgically installed to allow ...receptors Invasiveness Mice require permanent intracranial implant Noninvasive Controlling Stimulation...
  2. Fostering communication in remote collaborations

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...between my lab in Pennsylvania and a team in Paris, France. While efforts like these accelerate the progress...everyone can access data and drafts of manuscripts and grant applications in real-time so they can provide input...International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference in Frankfurt, Germany When funding and circumstances permit...
  3. Antibodies 101: Fc Effector Functions

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... the pores being opened in the pathogen’s cell membrane (Dunkelberger & Song, 2010). As cells cannot survive... survive when holes are punched in their membranes, the pore'd pathogens quickly lyse and die.  Antibody...where the eosinophils release cytotoxins via degranulation.  Antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis (...
  4. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...of neuroscience. The larvae of zebrafish are translucent and allow for noninvasive live imaging with fluorescent...that allow charged particles to cross the cell membrane when exposed to light. Neuronal firing depends... Portugues, Ruben, et al. "Optogenetics in a transparent animal: circuit function in the larval zebrafish...
  5. Advice for Choosing a Research Project

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... research project establishes your professional brand. It offers colleagues insight into your interests...understand where the field is today? Have you talked to veterans in the lab or the field? What are possible pitfalls...how can you mitigate them? If you were to write a grant for this project, what would be your critical experiments...
  6. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...plasmids from the same group should not be co-transformed, so if you need two plasmids for an experiment... same incompatibility group should not be co-transformed. +Actual copy number varies. See below for ...stocks, agar stabs, or liquid cultures. Freshly transformed cells also give a higher plasmid yield that colonies...
  7. Natural or synthetic? How Addgene’s dataset reveals trends in biological innovation

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... synthesis companies often work within a narrow range for GC content. Rare codons also are not good predictors...sequences is Proteobacteria - the most frequent transfer of genes is from Proteobacteria to mammalian expression...natural gene sequence is, the less likely it is transferred into another organism in the lab. Predicting ...
  8. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...sequences required for viral replication and transcription as well as reporter genes. To learn how you ... your research, check out this post! R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools In this post, Jessica...also showed that R-bodies can rupture E. coli membranes. Read the full post for potential applications...
  9. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...Resistance gene and Selection Markers) and one “Transfer Plasmid” game board. Once they agreed on each ...had 35 minutes to develop a strategy and build a transfer plasmid that could be used to genetically manipulate... this way, the students also had to practice transferable skills like team building, collaborative critical...
  10. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... The space was modern with clean bold colors of orange and white. The decor was very contemporary and ...components. Without proper processing, these small DNA strands can form concatemers in later steps. This new NEB...hours. It was robust, capable of generating a wide range of insert sizes and also produced high yields of...
  11. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...ready-to-use lentivirus from Addgene, you’ll also receive transfer plasmid DNA that you can use along with lentiviral...Addgene Blog Get the Most from Your Lentiviral Transdution Using Virus in Your Research: A Primer for Beginners...Beginners 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions Additional Resources on Addgene.org Visit the...
  12. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...used to stay up past my bedtime, poring over my grandparents’ medical textbooks by torchlight under the covers... “motivated reasoning,” the catchall term for a range of neat little tricks our minds perform to avoid...difference between airborne and aerosolised droplet transmission and how different fabrics and mask designs could...
  13. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

    Type
    Blog Post
    ..., K. phaffii is exceptionally good for post-translational modification of recombinant protein products...proteins. Peroxisome studies Peroxisomes are small, membrane-bound organelles essential for sequestering certain...non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) to perform DNA double strand break repair instead of homologous recombination...
  14. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...particular study, which includes comparing the transduction patterns of different AAV serotypes. To help... Biosensor AAV The ability to detect the neurotransmitters and other bioactive molecules is integral ...ppAAV-CKIIa-stGtACR1-FusionRed New tetracycline transactivators Plasmid Serotype Name 99120  AAV1 pAAV-ihSyn1...
  15. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... 3’ end. This repeat region associates with the trans-activating crRNA (tracrRNA) which interacts with... important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications. One of the most common of these...targeting experiments allows you to visualize transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular...
  16. Antibodies 101: ChIP

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...Fragmenting  The next step is break the DNA into random, small pieces of roughly equal size, typically ...enzymatic digestion. Sonication provides a truly random digestion, but is harsher and requires more optimization...your protein of interest is a low abundance transcription factor or cofactor. In such cases, the gentler...
  17. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...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 ...
  18. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...expression, researchers often need to determine these transduction patterns empirically for their own experiments...AAV2 pOTTC1032 - pAAV EF1a Nuc-flox(mCherry)-EGFP Brandon Harvey 50457 AAV2 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP Bryan Roth...system takes advantage of the extensive supply of transgenic reporter lines that supply a variety of GFP expression...
Showing: 661 - 680 of 982 results