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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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 ...
  6. 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...
  7. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    ...AID) and an engineered tRNA adenosine deaminase (TadA) to a catalytically impaired Streptococcus pyogenes...Cas13 (dCas13) with the adenine deaminase domain of ADAR2. Now, they’ve further developed this editor for ...editing by evolving the adenine deaminase domain of ADAR2 into a cytidine deaminase. This editor still retains...
  8. Scientific Sharing in the Time of COVID-19: Databases and Resources

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    ...nationally and internationally COVID-19 Resources Canada is a database that provides information about reagents...research into COVID-19. While this program is based in Canada, much of the information is applicable to researchers...University of Toronto, co-founded the COVID-19 Resources Canada site. To date, the portal has recruited 3,218 Canadian...
  9. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...University of Wellington, Victoria, has developed an adaptable bacterial expression vector which gives close ...and C-terminal tags. Additionally, by using an adapted destination vector with a heterologous promoter...activation plasmids have great potential and have been adapted for use in mammalian cells, yeast, and Drosophila...during their transport. Finally, the system can be adapted to cellular screening to identify molecules that... overlap with the optogenetic actuator. In 2012, Adam Cohen's lab presented Archaerhodopsin 3 (Arch) as...a tool for monitoring multi-gene expression and adapt it for multi-color calcium sensing (plasmids coming...
  10. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    ...originally utilized CRISPR/Cas as a powerful and adaptive defense strategy against life-threatening viruses...scientists to hypothesize that prokaryotes developed an adaptive immune system that utilized various cas genes ... of anti-CRISPR genes in phages The CRISPR/Cas adaptive immune system seems like the winning ticket to...
  11. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    ...including organelles, are targeted to lysosomes for degradation. Autophagy is a dynamic process which involves...materials to be degraded to the lysosome, and degradation of autophagic substrates inside the lysosome....autophagasomal membranes, which leads to its degradation by autophagy. The RFP-LC3∆G, however, can not...
  12. From Lab Bench to Leadership: Transitioning into Management as a PhD

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    ...structure. I quickly learned that my approach needed to adapt based on individual needs. For instance, I had one...projects autonomously. Failing to recognize and adapt to these differences could have led to frustration...experienced this firsthand when it took me some time to adapt to the communication style of a new, junior team...
  13. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ...their devices, which makes it very difficult to adapt the device to one's own samples and limits the use...to as 'frugal science', existing components are adapted and combined with creativity and feedback from ..., for example, can also be printed quickly in Madagascar. Platforms that allow for on-going creativity...
  14. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    ..., gRNAs can be chemically modified to resist degradation while still effectively serving their function...recognized as foreign RNA. To protect the RNA from degradation, several simple methods have been employed which...stability.  Nature has evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ...packaging into virus-like particles. Feng Zhang’s lab adapted the native PEG10 RNA sequences to instead drive...delivering gene editing tools into cells. Image adapted from Segel et al. 2021.   Prime editing improvements...engineered pegRNAs (epegRNAs) protect the RNA from degradation by cellular exonucleases and broadly improve ...
  16. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    ...features and evolved PAM sites, making Cas9 an adaptable choice for many genome engineering endeavors. ...target sequence and initiates single stranded DNA degradation. Cas3 DNA digestion can proceed up to multiple...   Choosing a Cas While Cas9 may be the most adaptable Cas currently available, the other Cas proteins...
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