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TypeBlog Post...question more and more students are asking. Teachers are also asking, “How do I engage my students in real-world...outcomes by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, persistence, teamwork, and communication. And... the only informal synthetic biology club of its kind, running from start to finish during the academic...
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Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog Post...and molecular biologists use to tinker with DNA. Making changes to a DNA sequence can help scientists identify...components: the error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error...error-prone polymerase (PolI) that is fused to a nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site of interest...changes promote nCas9’s dissociation from DNA after nicking and yielded an enhance nCas9 (enCas9) EvolvR with... -
Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
TypeBlog Post...work best for your scientific question? If you’re thinking, ‘wait, those terms mean different things?!’, ... to clearly define what type of factor you are looking for and what process or outcome that factor functions... advantage – that is, you are not specifically looking at cells that can survive. Instead, all manipulations... screens are similar to CRISPR, but instead of knocking out the genes of interest (or the whole genome... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog Post... the experiment in my head, double-checking details, or just taking a moment to relax. During really stressful...worth doing, and doing well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly. Have ...however, many ways for you to reduce the chances of making an error. Try a variety of things, including (and... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog Post...Ku then acts as a scaffold for recruitment of a kinase (DNA-PKcs) and a two subunit DNA ligase (XRCC4-...heterogeneous when constrained by sequence identities in flanking sequence (“microhomologies”). NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily...Renouf B, Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, ...Inoue A, Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F (2013) Double Nicking by RNA-Guided CRISPR Cas9 for Enhanced Genome Editing... -
Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript
TypeBlog Post...Developmental Editor at F1000Research. With many changes taking place in the world of science publishing, and an...include in my paper? More and more journals are asking for detailed information on lab resources, such...enough information to replicate your experiments, making research more reproducible and your results more...journals as possible at the same time. Take your time picking the appropriate journal and explain in your cover... -
Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs
TypeBlog Post...note: in this table, reprogramming efficiencies ranking as low, medium or high is based on the reprogramming... pluripotency of mouse cells typically involves making chimeras by injecting iPSCs into blastocysts and... injecting iPSCs into immunodeficient mice and looking for tumors that contains cells from all three germ...of iPSCs is the number one priority, with safety taking lower priority. Genomic integration is less of ... and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. "Methods for making induced pluripotent stem cells: reprogramming à... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...like cross-linking immunoprecipitation (CLIP) identify RNA-protein interactions by cross-linking RNAs and...enrichment compared to E. coli’s BirA*. Faster labeling kinetics also means that BASU could potentially be used...RaPID RaPID sounds like a nifty technique, but what kinds of questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al... -
Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
TypeBlog Post...with a heterozygous 4 bp deletion in MYBPC3 donated skin, blood and semen samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids...of only 27.9% and homology-directed repair (HDR) taking place in 41.2% of edited cells. The results were...CRISPR editing. Conclusions & implications One striking feature of this paper is the failure of the embryos...comprised of individuals with varied backgrounds. Talking about this study with non-biologist friends Like... -
Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy
TypeBlog Post...autophagosomal membranes, so tagging it with GFP allows for tracking the localization or accumulation of pre-autophagosomal...an autophagy-independent manner. Additionally, tracking Atg8p or LC3 doesn’t provide information about...easier to study the mechanisms behind autophagy by tracking what’s being transported to the yeast vacuole ...vacuole (i.e. cytosol, mitochondria), rather than tracking generic autophagy markers. It’s particularly useful...