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  1. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    ...acids at the atomolar level. The Zhang lab has adapted natural RNase activity of the Cas13 protein to ...Doudna lab has used Cas12a’s non-specific ssDNA degradation to develop the method termed DNA Endonuclease...DETECTR harness the promiscuous cleavage and degradation of neighboring ssRNA and ssDNA by Cas13 and Cas12a...detection signal for a single target. SHERLOCKv2 was adapted so that a cleaved reporter could be detected on...built upon. Mammoth Biosciences and UCSF recently adapted the DETECTR platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 using...
  2. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ...Schematic of Opto-katanin’s use in cells. Images adapted from Meiring et al., 2022, under CC-BY 4.0 license...blue light illumination. Scale bar 25 µm. Images adapted from Mahlandt et al., 2023, under CC-BY 4.0 license...vesicle trafficking via CRY2-CIB1 clustering. Image adapted from Aljiboury et al., 2023, under CC-BY 4.0 license...colocalizing with SuperPLDx30. Scale bar 10 µm. Images adapted from Tei et al. 2022, bioRxiv, under a CC-BY-NC-ND...doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010765.  Berlew, E. E., Yamada, K., Kuznetsov, I. A., Rand, E. A., Ochs, C. C....
  3. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ... all CRISPR types; the fast evolution of these adaptive bacterial and archaeal immune systems has led ...suspected that they don’t carry out the same types of adaptive immune functions that other CRISPR types do, due...resembles cas10. All type IV subtypes are missing adaptation genes, Cas1 and Cas2, which are critical for ...pyogenes) belonging in II-A. Cas9 was the first to be adapted for use in mammalian systems, with the landmark... become the most engineered Cas enzyme, with adaptations for increased fidelity, activation/repression...
  4. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ... on human artificial chromosomes. Montreal, QC, Canada 45.5017°N 73.5673°W – Vanessa Sung Hundreds of...de-funding of crucial environmental research programs, Canada has been here before.  These attacks on science...Research Centre at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  Outside the lab, she dabbles in science policy...Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Vancouver, BC Canada 49.2827°N 123.1207°W – Karissa Milbury I attended...University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC (Canada). She works in a lab that uses yeast cells to study...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...protocols, visit https://clover.caltech.edu. Figure adapted from Challis et al. 2022. Image created with BioRender.com...New World Monkeys and rodents. Image and caption adapted from Campos et al., 2023. AAV.CAP-Mac is a...doi.org/10.1038/nn.4593 Chen, X., Ravindra Kumar, S., Adams, C. D., Yang, D., Wang, T., Wolfe, D. A., Arokiaraj...Zheng, Q., Beddow, T., Zhao, B., Tobey, I. G., Moncada-Reid, C., Eid, F.-E., Walkey, C. J., Ljungberg,...Konno, A., Mochizuki, R., Shinohara, Y., Nitta, K., Okada, Y., & Hirai, H. (2018). Intravenous administration...Somasundaram, S., Miller, J. A., Kalmbach, B. E., Radaelli, C., Gore, B. B., Weed, N., Omstead, V., Bishaw...Widrick, J. J., Messemer, K. A., Troiano, E. C., Moghadaszadeh, B., Peacker, B. L., Leacock, K. A., Horwitz...
  6. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    ...product, or chromosome. One of the main causes of degradation during plasmid DNA extraction and purification...protein endonuclease I encoded by the gene endA. Nowadays, the most common E. coli strains used for plasmid... extra steps like heat inactivation, protein degradation, and/or the use of chelating agents that can ...store your sample without having substantial degradation and which experiments you can use your plasmid...
  7. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    ...relevant metadata and the screen results. Screenshots updated 2024. Importantly, metadata for each...gene hits for each screen are also captured as metadata.   Screen results are reported as the original... diversify, the BioGRID ORCS resource will be adaptable to a wide variety of screen formats and contexts...
  8. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...SF-Venus-iGluSnFR.A184V, iGluSnFR3 v82, and iGluSnFR3 v857. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al., Figure 1   Increased...curves for the different iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 3. .../F0 for the different iGluSnFR variants. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al…, Supplementary Figure 2. ... PDGFR, GPI, and SGZ display constructs. Image adapted from Aggarwal et al… Figure 4. PDGFR is a C-terminal...
  9. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    ... motifs at their 3′ end to protect them from degradation. When designing epegRNAs with large structured...different strategies for protecting pegRNAs from degradation. Created with BioRender.com. That’s all ...A., Sahin, M., Osborn, M. J., Weissman, J. S., Adamson, B., & Liu, D. R. (2021). Enhanced prime editing...., Bauer, D. E., Marson, A., Parsons, L. R., & Adamson, B. (2024). Improving prime editing with an endogenous...
  10. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    ...for the Auxin Inducible Degradation System (AID) The Dernberg lab in 2015 adapted the AID system discovered...and new tools for conditional expression and degradation. These workshops not only highlighted new tools...  Zhang, Liangyu, et al. "The auxin-inducible degradation (AID) system enables versatile conditional protein...
  11. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...weeks after herbicide was applied to both plants. Adapted from Vu et al., 2024 bioRxiv, under CC-BY-NC-ND... B) Protein expression and labeling procedure. Adapted from Smith et al. 2024 under a CC-BY 4.0 license...(C) is indicated; red line is exponential fit. Adapted with permission from Hao and Lee et al., 2024. ...non-neurodegenerative diseases (Diabetes & cancer). Image adapted from Wu and Wang 2024 under a CC-BY 4.0 license...
  12. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...purification of a specific genomic region, numerous adaptations of this system have been made in different fields...specific genomic region has also recently been adapted to isolate genomic loci in bacteria (Fujita et ...also has great potential for improvements and adaptations that can provide an increased understanding of...programmable dual-RNA–guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity." Science337.6096 (2012): 816...
  13. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    .../Cas9 for gene editing has expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers... gene (although it has been quite successfully adapted for use in screening experiments as well). Therefore...fluorescence indicates a more successful gRNA design. Adapted from Mashiko et al., 2014. Not all gRNA’s are...chance of contamination with RNase leading to degradation that can set you back days. Working with plasmid...
  14. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...endocytosed material or molecules targeted for degradation. These two pathways also use different cytoskeletal...several parallel mechanisms in place (for review see Maday et al., 2014). It is currently unclear which proteins...Common AAV Serotypes and their target tissues (adapted from Addgene's AAV guide)  Commonly used serotypes...PMID: 22196330. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3275419. Maday, S., Twelvetrees, A.E., Moughamian, A.J., and Holzbaur...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4269290. Masamizu, Y., Okada, T., Kawasaki, K., Ishibashi, H., Yuasa, S., Takeda...
  15. Chemogenetics Guide

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    ... 25587888 (Link opens in a new window) Coward P, Wada HG, Falk MS, Chan SD, Meng F, et al. (1998). Controlling...opens in a new window) Farrell MS, Pei Y, Wan Y, Yadav PN, Daigle TL, Urban DJ, Lee H-M, Sciaky N, Simmons...Shimojo M, Zhang M-R, Tomita Y, Nakahara J, Suhara T, Takada M, Higuchi M, Jin J, Roth BL, Minamimoto T (2020...
  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...immune system. The techniques used here could be adapted to studying other systems in which there is large... revealing the cellular behaviors that mediate adaptive and innate immunity in diverse tissue environments... to better understand T cell initiation in the adaptive immune response. It was known that T cells were...scale when using photoactivatable FPs - their degradation within labelled cells limits the timespan available...
  17. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...developed by Roger Tsien and co-workers (Griffin, Adams, & Tsien, 1998), these dyes are now commercially...loops are best since these tags form beta-hairpins (Madani et al., 2009). Donor and acceptors: Putting it ...PMID: 19823671. 5. Griffin, B. Albert, Stephen R. Adams, and Roger Y. Tsien. "Specific covalent labeling...12125. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 7. Madani, Fatemeh, et al. "Hairpin structure of a biarsenical...
  18. The 12 Days of CRISPR

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    ... On the 10th day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: RADARS from Gootenberg, Chen, and Abudayyeh🎵On the 9th...9th day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: RADAR from Gao🎵On the 8th day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: Functional...High-fidelity Cas13 variants for targeted RNA degradation with minimal collateral effects🎵 On the 1st ...
  19. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...Traditional sgRNAs are protected from cellular degradation by Cas9 binding, but pegRNAs have an extended... RNA stability This recent contribution by the Adamson lab also addresses the problem of RNA stability...A., Sahin, M., Osborn, M. J., Weissman, J. S., Adamson, B., & Liu, D. R. (2021). Enhanced prime editing...., Bauer, D. E., Marson, A., Parsons, L. R., & Adamson, B. (2024). Improving prime editing with an endogenous...
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