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...an anti-CRISPR protein. Nature 546:436–439 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22377 Harrington LB, Doxzen ... species of bacteria.  A note on anti-CRISPR nomenclature Acr family proteins are named for the type of... DNA cleavage (Harrington et al., 2017). Figure 1: Anti-CRISPR proteins (Acr's) can block CRISPR...

...gene delivery, but it has a drawback: how do you ensure your gene goes where you want it to? Knowing that...transcriptionally active in retinal cell types in mice. Figure 1: The four strategies used to design synthetic...AAVs would express Cre-mCherry and GFP.   Figure 2: Synthetic promoters can be paired for targeted...promoter AAVs in mice, non-human primates and humans. Nature Neuroscience, 22, 1345-1356. https://doi.org/10.1038...

...those which you’ve already fluorescently labeled. Figure 1: Using Split-BioID to Identify Protein Protein...that give the strongest biotinylation signal, as measured via Western blot, and that result in proper localization...these two bait proteins stop interacting. This feature is particularly useful for in-depth characterization... of spatiotemporally defined protein complexes. Nature communications. PubMed PMID: 28585547. PubMed Central...

...infections. She is particularly passionate about HIV cure research and science communication.     References...to the central and peripheral nervous systems." Nature Neuroscience 20.8 (2017): 1172-1179. PubMed PMID...affinity-purified receptor-targeted viral vectors." Nature communications 6 (2015): ncomms7246. PubMed PMID... the Addgene Blog Check out our Viral Vectors Featured Topic Page Learn about CRISPR-AAV vectors Learn...

...the impacts of neural circuits on behavior. Figure 1: An overview of the chemogenetics system. ...characterize the compound, or compounds, you choose to ensure reliable results (Goutaudier et al., 2019). Using...Yang X, Stone O, Roth BL, Jin J (2015) The First Structure–Activity Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors...designed Gi-coupled receptor in transgenic mice. Nature Biotechnology 17:165–169 . https://doi.org/10.1038...

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...inheritance: 1. Genotype your parental mice In order to ensure that your genetic modification will be passed along...genotype all of your F1 mice, as well as progeny from future generations. 4. Continue breeding your colony You...they are likely to stay on separate chromosomes in future generations as well, a concept known as linkage...expression of Cre, loxP, and your gene of interest. To ensure that the effects you see in your experiment are...

...et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4–UAS system for Caenorhabditis elegans." Nature methods 14.2 (2017... detailed information about C. elegans 3’UTRs structures, alternative polyadenylation for all protein ... novel findings. These results are normally one figure and can be negative and/or even replicated studies...

...animal’s skull using dental cement (a similar procedure as implanting a guide cannula). A fiber optic ...optogenetics but may become the standard in the future. Now that your animals are all wired up and expressing...long-term optogenetic manipulation of neural circuits. Nature protocols. 2012;7(1):12-23. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2011.413...Neuroscience research. 2011;70(1):124-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2011.01.007. PubMed PMID: 21238511. 6. Jeong, ...

... explain the thinking behind the tool, its key features, how it works, and how to use it. Background on...frequency determination (CFD score) is used to measure specificity of a guide to the target. The CFD score...Optimal mutation in-depth One the most sophisticated features of CrispyCrunch is how it mutates guide sequences...more detailed information on using CrispyCrunch, be sure to check out the How To Guide. Conclusion CrispyCrunch...

...graduate school who were at AstraZeneca and could assure me that they were having a positive experience,... years. This time limit can feel like a lot of pressure. However, it means that your manager (and you)... choose. If publishing is important to you, make sure that your project will not involve proprietary compounds...reviewed by an internal committee before submission to ensure that it does not divulge any propriety information...

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... 25°C. At low temperatures like 18°C, flies take longer to develop. At high temperatures like 30°C, flies...drift away with each passing generation.  Another feature of balancer chromosomes is that they produce dominant... during meiosis. This can sometimes be a handy feature when setting up genetic crosses. More importantly...

...sent to the AbuGoot lab for testing, they weren’t sure what they would find… but it was safe to say the...dual activities: processing pre-CRISPR RNA into mature CRISPR RNA and cleaving RNA at positions defined.... But they weren’t done engineering quite yet – surely, they thought, the integration rate could be improved...with the single-protein CRISPR effector Cas7-11. Nature. 2021 Sep;597(7878):720-725. doi: 10.1038/s41586...

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