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  1. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...lentiviral particles are produced by co-transfecting three essential ingredients: the lentiviral packaging ...interest, and the plasmid coding for an envelope. Three generations of lentiviral packaging systems have...the lentiviral transfer vector), rather than the three used for 2nd-generation systems. Frequently asked... pol, and rev. Second-generation contains those three genes plus tat. The envelope plasmid provides ...
  2. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ...organisms with multi-drug resistance are resistant to three or more different classes, or types, of drugs used...after another bacterium died for instance). These three mechanisms of acquired drug resistance are referred...may seem counter-intuitive considering the other three scenarios, but a short treatment regiment might ...especially if the infection is serious or life-threatening, treatment will often begin before this information...
  3. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ..., Width, and Area Within FSC and SSC, there are three parameters that are being measured: height (H), ...research fields, for any experiment, your first three gates will likely be: the FSC/SSC gate to identify...to choose either one to use. With our first three gates out of the way, it’s time to move on to my... scattering, you also discovered that there are three parameters — H, W, and A — describing the intensity...
  4. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...their ability to infect non-dividing cells. Thus three different generations of lentiviral vectors have...1st generation of lentiviral vectors consisted of three plasmids encoding 1) the lentiviral vector genome...RCL generation because this vector requires only three HIV-1 genes (gag, pol, and rev) for production. ...viral particles to determine their concentration. Three methods are broadly used for virus titration: the...
  5. Celebrating Accomplishments in the Lab

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    ...The recent conversations with three lab heads have revealed that a combination of hard work, determination... the PI Interview Series investigates how these three PIs reward their team and manage work-life balance...family reunions in various wildernesses and enjoys “three generations walk[ing] together in the Arboretum ...
  6. Working 9-5: an Addgene Co-op

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    ...at least one semester (the majority spend two to three) working in your chosen field. This cooperative ...training process was lined out to span the first three months of my six month employment. In the beginning...that it is possible to work the remainder of the three hours (outside of the core hours) at a time that...
  7. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ...mouse and ferret models. Furthermore, they created three affinity variants – A184S (increased affinity for...A184V (medium affinity for glutamate), that came in three different colors – blue (SF-Azurite-iGluSnFR), green...affinity, and ∆F/F0. Introduce the two variants in three different membrane-targeting flavors – PDGFR, GPI...
  8. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ...about the popular technique incorrectly known as “three-parent babies,” where fused genetic material from... assistive reproductive technique was feasible, three separate things happened nearly simultaneously: ... agree upon a moratorium until another meeting, three branches – a private funder, government regulators...
  9. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    ...figure 1). While the codon used is often one of the three stop codons ­– most commonly the UAG codon – in ...need to be individually optimized for each of the three factors: the ncAA, the tRNA, and the tRNA synthetases...are the optimization parameters the same for all three components, meaning that the final protocol may ...
  10. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al. outline three applications of RaPID: Discovery. To discover novel...Ramanathan et al. designed an RNA bait containing three well conserved but not well characterized RNA motifs...iron levels seen in HHCS patients. These are just three examples of how RaPID can be used to study RNA-protein...
  11. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ...creating three other photoswitchable kinases: psMEK2, psRaf1, and psCDK5. MEK2 is a serine/threonine kinase...but Raf1 and CDK5 have less similarity. For these three kinases, photoswitchable Dronpa domains were inserted...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...alter excitability by lowering or raising the threshold for signaling. The two main classes of receptors... The DREADD hM3D(Gq), for example, lowers the threshold for neuronal signaling and causes neuronal burst...DREADDs, such as the KORD receptor, increase this threshold and silence neurons. DREADD-activated GPCR signaling...
  13. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    ... Toolbox and commercially available reagents in three major steps - all without the need to find a llama...antigen. The Seeger lab can directly provide the three sybody libraries in the form of mRNA for academic...SB_convex. These scaffolds contain serines and threonines at positions that can be randomized for creating...
  14. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    ...homology arms. MMEJ: An Introduction There are three primary methods for repairing DNA after a double-stranded...insertion locus flanking the GFP-Puro cassette. Three double stranded breaks are necessary for knock-in...-locus-specific gRNA cleaves genomic DNA. These three double stranded breaks are repaired by two rounds...
  15. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ... DNA-targeting module together with the crRNA.  Three transposase proteins (TnsA, TnsB, TnsC). The donor... but instead employ a Cas12k protein instead of three Cas proteins (Fig. 1A, bottom), and require only...the Sternberg group’s initial report of VchINT, three separate plasmids and multiple promoters were used...
  16. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ... We can think of the human genome as a map with three coordinates: chromosome, start, and stop. For instance...One hypothesis: the enhancers! This leads us to a three-step approach for designing an experiment to identify...are wrong. In reality, cellular DNA is a complex three-dimensional globule of chromatin. Chromatin is a...
  17. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...different codons that encode 20 amino acids and three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can...One part of the tRNA contains the anticodon,  a three nucleotide sequence complementary to the mRNA sequence...the 64 codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example of codon usage among different...
  18. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ...viral vectors have changed the scope and power of three commonly used behavioral assays - locomotion, anxiety...associated) compared to an animal running to escape a threat. Locomotion can thus be used as a readout for associated...associated with psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. In both diseases, animals...
  19. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...vivo (Allocca et al., 2008). Shortly after though, three groups independently tried reproducing these results... Today’s blog post will give brief overviews of three split vector strategies plus one additional split...mini-dystrophin gene to a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. Three different splice site donor and acceptor sequences...
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