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  1. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ... any preventive measure designed to help keep you from getting sick can be helpful in preventing the spread... on preventing the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, check out this resource on preventing antibiotic...because ‘antibiotic’ merely means that the drug prevents the growth of a living organism. As for multi-...standpoint, we can all work together to try and prevent outbreaks of drug resistant bacteria within communities...standards. Handwashing is an essential component of preventing infection, as is cleaning and disinfecting frequently...

  2. 3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells

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    ...have shown recently that desired genome-editing events by HDR can be generated more efficiently by (1)...1) improving editing accuracy by preventing re-editing and (2) optimizing “cut-to-mutation distance”. ...as APP and PSEN1, in most cases the intended HDR events were corrupted by unwanted indels on the same allele... was that these “blocking mutations” mutations prevent CRISPR from re-cutting the target sequence once... and found that for generating a homozygous HDR event with optimal efficiency a guide RNA targeting a ...desired mutation should be used. For a heterozygous event, the cut should ideally be around 5 to 20 bp away...away from the cut site. Lastly, if a heterozygous event is desired but only guide RNAs that target very ...

  3. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    ...important binding events take place during the course of infection. These binding events can be impaired...subcultured at densities that are low enough to prevent confluency but high enough to promote cell growth...the negatively charged cell with the virus. To circumvent this problem, transductions typically employ ...Incidence, sources, effects, detection, elimination, prevention.” Cytotechnology 39.2 (2002). 75-90. Pubmed PMID...of infection (MOI) for predicting gene transfer events.” Genetic Vaccines and Therapy 2.1 (2004) Pubmed...

  4. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    ...recombination to generate additional recombination events, and the synthesis of alternative loxP sites to... removes one of the other loxP site variants, preventing further recombination. Brainbow-1.1 scales up...to four fluorescent proteins, with recombination events specified by three loxP variants, but the principles...that transient Cre recombination is required to prevent constant inversion of the construct. Sanes and...combinatorial effect of multiple, independent recombination events leads to a rainbow of colors. With three copies...their protein sequences are highly homologous, preventing design of antibodies specific to each fluorophore...

  5. Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ

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    ...tissue damage, have excessive bone growth until eventually the patient loses mobility. Attempts to remove...body could initiate very painful FOP flare ups. Eventually, without a cure, AJ will begin losing mobility... with inappropriate activin-ACVR1 interactions prevents FOP bone growth in mouse models. As this biologic... Super Hero 5K on October 23rd. This is a great event at which people dress up like superheroes or other... to AJ.   PS: The superhero race is the perfect event for supporting AJ, who is a big superhero fan. This...

  6. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...can be used to induce site-specific recombination events, and that the orientation of the flanking loxP ...target sites to induce site specific recombination events: Cre recombinase binds loxP sites, while FLP binds...fragment (Figure 1, middle). A second recombination event then excises the DNA between the identical loxP ... the DNA fragment, any additional recombination events are impossible even in the presence of Cre recombinase...and GeneR fragment. Then the second recombination event would excise the reporter from the cassette, allowing...

  7. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...In this study, the labs found that anti-CRISPR prevents Cas9 activity in HEK293 by reducing editing from... Acr samples. Acr proteins can also be used to prevent dCas9 tethering to DNA. Since these early anti-... AcrIIC2 interactions with Cas9 interferes and prevents the correct assembly of the crRNA-Cas complex ...binds to the HNH endonuclease domain of Cas9 and prevents target DNA cleavage (Harrington et al., 2017)....vectors. Having a way to shut off CRISPR-Cas systems prevents the off-target effects and cytotoxicity that result...

  8. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    ...organizing events. I contacted local professional organizations and nonprofits. I volunteered at events like...Science Outreach, or CINSO. We organize fun science events for adults and professional development opportunities... development including workshops and networking events. I took advantage of as many of these resources...graduate school resources daily to promote CINSO events and recruit speakers and participants for our professional...

  9. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    ...Lots of scientists work to invent novel techniques or to engineer improved tools for familiar applications...applications. But how does one invent a tool for applications that don’t even exist yet? Andrew York, Maria... After a few more rounds of mutagenesis, they eventually found a version of AsLOV2 with five mutations...applications are still yet to be demonstrated (or invented), its behavior has already been successfully reproduced... chemistry and protein biophysics, as well as inventors and biomedical engineers, join efforts to explore...

  10. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...were to escape the laboratory, the drive could eventually spread through the entire wild population with...create an RNA-guided gene drive. In principle, this event could happen even if there isn't any homology available...undo the genetic changes driven by the earlier intervention2. While an initial reversal drive cannot restore...in building candidate gene drives intended for eventual release should consider building an appropriate...publications. Thank you to our guest blogger! An inventor of technologies that harness evolution, Kevin ...

  11. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...usually have a good event-planning base and will know how to reserve space, time events, and network for ...general meeting and a means to request funding for events, consider reaching out to it. PTAs have more flexibility...volunteers. Speaking of volunteers, you can’t run an event like this without them! If you live in a school ...curriculum coordinator with minimal luck, but eventually the 8th grade science teachers at our school ...

  12. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...these sequences. To prevent re-cutting and the resulting mutations after an HDR event, ensure the gRNA or... other on the non-crossing strand), a crossover event will occur; however, if both HJs are resolved in...the same manner, this results in a non-crossover event.  Synthesis-dependent strand-annealing (SDSA) pathway...mechanism which exclusively yields non-crossover events. This means all newly synthesized sequences are...

  13. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ... an event, and assigns each event to a channel number based on intensity. Higher intensity events are ...assay a user will compare the shifting intensity of events. Since intensity positively correlates with expression...preparation, staining procedures, and controls. To prevent instrument clogs, ensure that samples are single...

  14. SciComm with the Experts at Science in the News Part 2

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    ...communicators. In this chapter we learn about some of their events - science seminars, science cafes, and the SITN...discussed below). Chpater 3: SITN Popularity and Events - Amy discusses some of the programs SITN runs ...short-form blog posts help readers think through current events. Chapter 6: The SITN Editorial Process -Vini discusses...the Pint - We learn why a "Science by the Pint" event is the best way to get a Science Communication group...

  15. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    ...CRISPR construct needs to be segregated away to prevent continued production of new alleles or off-target...it. I have used it for selecting transformation events and am currently planning to use it to simplify...expression can vary from different transformation events likely due to insertional effects in the genome... generation when CRISPR needs to be removed to prevent further editing, then green offspring can be selected...

  16. Lentiviral Vector Guide

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    ...lentiviruses has a long incubation period that eventually leads to serious disease and occurs in many species...regions, regions recently involved in translocation events, and other “fragile” genomic locations, and that...packaging plasmids. Unless multiple recombination events occur between the packaging, envelope, and transfer... incorporation into a host cell, this deletion prevents further transcription of the full-length virus...family. Characterized by long incubation and the eventual cause of serious diseases. Provirus The genetic...vectors, can occur from a spontaneous crossover event between the transfer plasmid and genes provided ...

  17. Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs

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    ...not been well characterized as it is not a common event. What are exosome AAVs? In 2012, Casey Maguire ...these particles have some advantages over the conventionally purified AAV vectors. They found that they ...both in vitro and in vivo when compared to the conventional AAVs (AAV preparations were always normalized...target cell types with a similar specifically as conventionally produced AAV particles. But, exo-AAVs may open...

  18. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    ...few inventory items offered domestically, but by the end of 2016, we expanded our viral inventory to 25... lentiCas9-Blast Most of Addgene’s lentiviral inventory is based on CRISPR tools, though we do provide...pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D(Gi)-mCherry Our current AAV inventory consists almost entirely of viruses expressing...

  19. Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon

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    ...channels to apply for our future events. In addition to this annual event, graduate students in different...passionate about communicating science.  ComSciCon's events have 3 main goals: To help graduate students in...your area here: https://comscicon.com/. All our events are offered free of charge to accepted students...

  20. Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux

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    ...F1000Research, 2014; Dolan, F100Research, 2016). These events have also started progress towards solutions. The... necessary to determine the best solutions. The event also culminated in a joint American Society for ...science-related fields. In particular, two recent events have the potential to influence both graduate students...many institutions to set postdoc wages. The second event of note is a ruling in August by the National Labor...
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