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  1. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    ...such as RNaseZAP. When harvesting tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and work...the homogenate was loaded onto cesium-chloride gradients and ultracentrifuged for up to 20 hours to separate...instead of RNA separation using cesium-chloride gradients, water-saturated phenol, sodium acetate, and chloroform...
  2. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...restriction sites to easily assemble multiple DNA fragments. This system has been used to construct plasmids...McCormick lab generated knock-out and knock-in mutants, determined protein expression levels from different...critical for reducing Cre toxicity in long-term experiments.  Figure 4: The C-terminus of Cre (CreC...
  3. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ...Messina et al, 2016). We quickly assembled a team of students, postdocs and professors to move the project forward... member of the team to accomplish so that many elements of the project were able to move forward quickly...of Zika Virus Using Programmable Biomolecular Components." Cell (2016). PubMed PMID: 27160350. Find Plasmids...
  4. Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door

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    ...Take the DIY approach and start a blog. Stellar talents like Ed Yong jumpstarted their science writing ...AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, which places science students for 10 busy weeks at media outlets like National...MIT’s OpenCourseware for course materials and assignments.  9) Citizen science projects Lastly, if you'...
  5. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...introduction, methods, results, conclusions, and acknowledgements sections. Some other additions you might wish...present at your poster at all times, so other participants can identify you. You may also wish to make ...the introduction, methods, conclusions, and acknowledgements sections are inserted. The advantage of this...
  6. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...of the mutations engineered into each of their parents. Here’s how to cross mice, using a simple example... all of your desired alleles to conduct your experiments. You should also maintain your parental strains...contain a mix of genetic material from each of the parents. If both of the mutations that you are trying to...
  7. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...result to a reference sequence to confirm backbone elements.   Confirming the gene/insert by aligning to NCBI...origin of replication or other common backbone elements. Since we’ve successfully grown the plasmid in... about our sequencing results in the Depositor Comments section at the bottom of the plasmid page. Viral...
  8. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    ...scientists, I have spent hours sifting through comments and papers to find the most reliable (and cost-effective...of animals), and wrong application (different experiments/conditions can change binding ability – i.e.,...produced in large “copies.” This homogeneity circumvents the batch-to-batch variability found in polyclonal...
  9. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    ...understand mechanisms and, eventually, develop treatments, we need tools to specifically edit methylation...original methylated strand is diluted to undetectable amounts: ergo, DNA demethylation! With optimization, this...Genome-wide tracking of dCas9-methyltransferase footprints. Nat Commun 9, 597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...
  10. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    ...discussions are becoming a ubiquitous format for events and sessions in scientific conferences. They can...a table. It adds a formality and distance that prevents interaction with each other and the audience. ... inviting interesting friends and colleagues to events for this purpose. If possible, make sure the panelists...
  11. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    ...find more detailed information about the plasmid contents? The middle section of our plasmid pages contain...information you'll need to use the plasmid in your experiments: Backbone: The starting vector that the depositing...from Addgene!).  It also contains links to any agreements under which the plasmid is distributed.  All ...
  12. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...difficult to ensure comparable expression of all components of Cascade for maximum efficiency of the process...During DNA repair, there is a chance that the two breakpoints will repair without the section between the two... mentioned issues with expressing all Cascade components can make Cas9 easier to work with than Cas3. ...
  13. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    ... antibodies for aminoacyl tRNA synthetases Nanocompartments for yeast bioproduction pathways The CRISPR...with previous research, which required protein compartments to co-localize multiple enzymes in a reaction...expressing GCaMP6f with this promoter. Image calcium transients in PV interneurons with AAV-S5E2-GCaMP6f are ...
  14. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...CRISPR affinity purification in situ of regulatory elements (CAPTURE) (Liu et al., 2017). This system utilizes...techniques, this method also has great potential for improvements and adaptations that can provide an increased..."Efficient sequence‐specific isolation of DNA fragments and chromatin by in vitro enCh IP technology using...
  15. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...exception to this effect -- meticulously designed experiments in labs around the world were put on hold indefinitely...the likelihood in our Poisson process into two components: 𝜃x(t) and 𝜓z(t). 𝜃x(t) describes the exponential...corresponding factor 𝜙z if t is during event z. The "events" we considered for our model were weekends, Christmas...
  16. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ... that introduced an ancestry bias into their experiments instead of a true correlation.   It turned out...five-team response to address this issue, but it still points to a far larger and more complex problem endemic...contributes to false negatives in CRISPR-based experiments with varying burden across ancestries. Sean A...
  17. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ...virus, we will see that they are very central determinants of how AdVs behave, and in fact, of how adenoviral...present in the HEK293T cell line used (which have fragments of the AdV genome in them, including the E1 region...intracellularly-exposed proteins and downstream cellular events, all recruit strong innate and adaptive immune ...
  18. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ...because ‘antibiotic’ merely means that the drug prevents the growth of a living organism. As for multi-...making them more difficult to treat in the future. Patients not finishing the whole course of antibiotics ... can utilize tactics like rotating antibiotic treatments, so that exposure to each antibiotic is minimized...
  19. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    ...rounded out the top four average video abstract view counts.” For researchers looking to garner more attention...can be shared by research scientists, faculty, students, private sector researchers, or pretty much anyone...the study, or even review Facebook and Twitter comments. On We Share science, video usurps the written...
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