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TypeBlog Post... luciferase substrate, the luciferase transfers energy to the FP, resulting in a fluorescent signal. Since...based on the principle of bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET). Photons emitted by a Renilla luciferase...
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Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones
TypeBlog Post...this year with a fresh team of twenty excited undergrads. Team IISER-B’s idea for the iGEM 2019 is to ...Bhopal which received the Silver Medal in the Undergrad category at the iGEM Competition 2019. He has ... -
REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods
TypeBlog Post... products are then transformed into E. coli to undergo nick repair. This method can work well, but poor... starts out in familiar territory, but quickly diverges from previously discussed methods. As described... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog Post... Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC Chapel Hill...j.molcel.2014.08.002 Ran FA, Hsu PD, Lin C-Y, Gootenberg JS, Konermann S, Trevino AE, Scott DA, Inoue ... -
Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
TypeBlog Post...were then allowed to “self-stimulate” their VTA dopaminergic neurons by triggering a burst of light that ...behavior, if the channelrhodopsins activate the dopaminergic neurons in the VTA, this should propel the mice... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog Post...Uhlen M, Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T, Snyder... -
Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...batch to batch variability. Once an animal has undergone a terminal bleed to acquire all of its serum, ...https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2018-0065 Fishman JB, Berg EA (2019) Antibody Purification and Storage. Cold... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog Post... by ion channels and pumps in the membrane. An emerging interdisciplinary field of biology known as bioelectricity...Developmental bioelectricity is an extremely exciting emerging field, with many implications for regenerative... -
Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ
TypeBlog Post...FUNCAT and PLA PLA was originally published by the Söderberg lab in Sweden as a method for the visualization...14166766. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC300121. 3. Söderberg, Ola, et al. "Direct observation of individual... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking
TypeBlog Post...learned along the way. Own your time When I was an undergrad, I was assigned a paper to give as a journal club... of a very confused group of visiting Chinese undergrads. You get nervous and freeze, or forget a point... -
Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
TypeBlog Post...and lox511 (GtATACAT). These variant lox sites undergo recombination with other sites of the same type...recombination. I. Recombination between loxP sites. Sternberg, N. and Hamilton, D. 1981. PubMed PMID: 6276558... -
CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!
TypeBlog Post...experiments that requires modest gene activation. Synergistic Activation Mediator (SAM) Description SAM uses... J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki O, Zhang F (2014) Genome-scale... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog Post...the Auxin Inducible Degradation System (AID) The Dernberg lab in 2015 adapted the AID system discovered ... Plasmids for cGAL and split cGAL systems The Sternberg lab in 2016 created cGAL, a GAL-4 based bipartite... -
Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots
TypeBlog Post...The stringent stripping solution uses heat and detergent to denature and remove antibodies but is also ...Tris HCl 62.5 mM Buffer SDS 2% (w/v) Detergent Β-mercaptoethanol (βME) 100–115 mM = 0.7%... -
Zebrafish Plasmid Collection
TypeCollection...ortholog in zebrafish, this species has more recently emerged as a model system for human disease and translational... -
Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3
TypeBlog Post... only hypothetical at this point. More time and energy must be devoted to studying Cas3 and its Cascade...S., Lin, C., Owen, A. L. G., Künne, T., . . . Sternberg, S. H. (2019). Harnessing type I CRISPR–Cas systems... -
When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
TypeBlog Post...biosensor A FRET biosensor is a reporter that undergoes a conformational change to bring two FPs on a ...the ability of one FP to nonradiatively transfer energy to the second FP, often decreasing the fluorescent... -
PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing
TypeBlog Post...tags into the genome of the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus, which has been difficult to modify...mutagenesis by microhomology-mediated end joining in Aspergillus fumigatus.” Fungal Genet Biol. 86: 47-57. PMID... -
Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?
TypeBlog Post...fluorescence [or Förster] resonance energy transfer). FRET occurs when energy transfer from one FP (e.g. CFP... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog Post...Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET). Through the non-radiative transfer for energy between neighboring... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog Post.... Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. Gootenberg, Jonathan S., et al. "Nucleic acid detection ...plasmids from this paper at Addgene. Abudayyeh, Gootenberg, et al. “A cytosine deaminase for programmable... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog Post...during exocytotic budding, as the viral particle emerges. Retrovirus life cycle Retroviruses go against...this is where viral vectors and natural viruses diverge. For the viral vector, its job as a tool is done... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog Post...varieties must stay current with literature and emerging technologies to remain competitive and relevant...scientists that aims to help stay current on new and emerging work by collaboratively discussing recent publications... -
MXS Chaining
TypeBlog Post... Pubmed PMID: 19363495. 4. Josse J, Kaiser AD, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid... PMCID: PMC4409215. 7. Swartz MN, Trautner TA, Kornberg A. Enzymatic synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid... -
Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
TypeBlog Post...https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1231143 Cox DBT, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Franklin B, Kellner MJ, Joung....2014.02.001 Ran FA, Cong L, Yan WX, Scott DA, Gootenberg JS, Kriz AJ, Zetsche B, Shalem O, Wu X, Makarova... -
CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?
TypeBlog Post...positioned PAM without undesired bases nearby that may undergo unwanted editing. Just like with base editing, ... and antibody-activator fusion proteins. The Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally the strongest... -
Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...Hypothalamic CNTF volume transmission shapes cortical noradrenergic excitability upon acute stress." The EMBO journal...PMC4028491. Van Huijstee AN, Mansvelder HD. Glutamatergic synaptic plasticity in the mesocorticolimbic... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog Post...find ways to tag and curate reagents from these emerging organisms so scientists can easily find the useful...electric fish are excellent systems to study for convergent evolution because electric organs arose in different... -
Viral Production at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...pool. In addition, the final viral preparation undergoes PCR with primers targeting the transfer plasmid...https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2013.131 Wang, Y., Bergelson, S., & Feschenko, M. (2018). Determination of ... -
Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
TypeBlog Post...symptoms of the disease. However, there are some emerging treatments that have shown some positive potential...as these new detection techniques and therapies emerge into mainstream use, they will have a much greater... -
5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication
TypeBlog Post... work she put into this. 5. Reddit forums are evergreen! With all the great questions that were posted...you’ll see below, it pretty nicely displays her energetic, truthful and helpful style: Joanne also provided... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog Post...PMC3775282. 2. McDevitt, Ross A., et al. "Serotonergic versus nonserotonergic dorsal raphe projection neurons: ... -
COVID-19 Resources
TypeCollection...Schroeder, S., Krüger, N., Herrler, T., Erichsen, S., Schiergens, T. S., Herrler, G., Wu, N. H., Nitsche, A., ... -
Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus
TypeBlog Post...downstream of the gRNA target site so that transcripts undergo nonstop decay (Frischmeyer et al., 2002). How ...Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao R, Bennett J, Vandenberghe LH (2017) Evaluating Efficiencies of Dual AAV... -
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog Post...10.1038/s41587-020-0513-4 Kellner MJ, Koob JG, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Zhang F (2019) SHERLOCK: nucleic...2020.04.20.052159 Zhang, F., Abudayyeh, O. O. & Gootenberg, J. S. A protocol for detection of COVID-19 using... -
Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog Post...Uhlen M, Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T, Snyder... -
Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
TypeBlog Post...sucrose into a toxic metabolite. Cells that have undergone a double crossover will not contain sacB, allowing...are those where the allelic exchange vector has undergone single crossover and integrated into the genome... -
Five Popular Model Organisms
TypeBlog Post...genetics, and the nervous system. The fly has also emerged as an important human disease model with potential...and read about new systems being developed for emerging model organisms! References Brenner, Sydney. ... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog Post...RFP. Cells that express the construct but do not undergo recombination can be detected by immunostaining...background, each cell in the mouse that expresses Cre undergoes exactly one recombination event, leading to each... -
3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post...generate a specific sequence change the cell must undergo homology-directed repair (HDR), a distinct cellular...developed a technology called CORRECT, which, by undergoing two rounds of gene-editing enables scarless introduction... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog Post...messenger cyclic di-AMP in Gram-positive bacteria (Kellenberger et al., 2013). Other variants of Spinach include... 25337688. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4244833. Kellenberger, Colleen A., et al. "RNA-based fluorescent biosensors... -
Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
TypeBlog Post...Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ. In vivo gene editing...PMC4335351. 9. Ran FA, Cong L, Yan WX, Scott DA, Gootenberg JS, Kriz AJ, Zetsche B, Shalem O, Wu X, Makarova... -
Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab
TypeBlog Post...What is the energy level in the lab? Does a frenetic atmosphere make you edgy or energized? Are you ... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog Post...Uhlen M, Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T, Snyder... -
9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience
TypeBlog Post...learning. Serve as a daily mentor for a summer undergrad, rotating grad student or high school student.... the time to develop strategies to rest and re-energize yourself, and to address all of the other parts... -
When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity
TypeBlog Post... (2006): 687-699. PubMed PMID: 16464020. 3. Ellenberger, Tom, and Alan E. Tomkinson. "Eukaryotic DNA ... PMID: 17466627. 25. Luo, Jianying, Donald E. Bergstrom, and Francis Barany. "Improving the fidelity of... -
Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)
TypeBlog Post... to tell if the dependent variables worked synergistically, antagonistically, were additive, etc.). ANCOVA... The Bonferroni Correction and the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure are designed to reduce false positive... -
A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture
TypeBlog Post...In the 1960s, Har Gobind Khorana, Marshall W. Nirenberg, and Robert W. Holley cracked the genetic code... a renaissance in the field of health sciences, energy, and agriculture, its portrayal in popular fiction... -
Cre-Lox and Other Site-Specific Recombinases
TypeCollection...vector allows you to visualize which cells have undergone recombination. Reporter plasmids can also be useful... -
CRISPR References and Information
TypeCollection...at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. CRISPR FAQ forum (Link opens in a new window...