..., which disrupt its interaction with negative regulators, increase its stability and DNA binding activity...activity, and allow it to bind transcriptional co-activators and modulate transcription. The list of p53 transcriptional...proto-oncogene, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase MDMX p53 regulator; also known as MDM4 Noxa Phorbol-12-myristate-...peptidase inhibitor, clade E (nexin, plasminogen activator inhibitor type 1), member 1 PERP TP53 apoptosis...binding component 3 Reprimo TP53 dependent G2 arrest mediator candidate Scotin Shisa family member 5 Sestrins...

...following: the elevator pitch, talks, the poster session, networking, and social media. The elevator pitch Before... Before the conference Practice your “elevator pitch,” the 30 - 60 second blurb you will use to introduce...work you are familiar with. You can tweak your elevator pitch slightly if you know a bit more about the...or talk. After the conference After using your elevator pitch several times at the conference, you might...might notice some trends. Were there parts of your elevator pitch where the other person seemed confused, ...questions. If you or your lab identifies a potential collaborator from the meeting, reach out to them, pointing...

...development programs for bioscience educators. Using these hands-on tools, educators introduce their students to...a backbone structure of a protein, based on its atomic coordinates. These wire models were useful in that...necessary to download a pdb file of the structure’s atomic coordinates, and “open” these structures with molecular...dangerous. Subscribe to CRISPR Blog Posts How do educators and students use molecular models?   We created...something tangible. Under the guidance of a trained educator, these instances of focused attention become magical... their labs. Soon after we began working with educators in our Center for BioMolecular Modeling, we spun...

...The first is the study of non-coding regulatory elements. Regulatory DNA function is typically inferred ...bloggers! Daniel Bauer is a pediatric hematologist and principal investigator at Boston Children’s Hospital and...interested in exploring the function of non-coding regulatory elements in their native chromatin context. An...PhD student at Harvard Medical School in the laboratories of Stuart Orkin and Daniel Bauer. He received...

...employing optogenetic regulators to initiate the event being monitored. Optogenetic regulators respond to specific...initiation wavelengths, excitation of the optogenetic regulator leads to spurious activation of the FRET sensor...interested in using photoactivatable, optogenetic accuators to depolarize or hyperpolarize membranes. Traditional...wavelengths needed would also activate the optogenetic accuators. The researchers took a FRET reporter and adapted...biosensors that can even be paired with optogenetic regulators. Many of these tools are available from Addgene...2017) Genetically encoded bioluminescent voltage indicator for multi-purpose use in wide range of bioimaging...

... pFA6a-link-tdTomato-SpHis5 - Yeast Expression tdTomato-N1 - Mammalian Expression tdTomato-C1 - Mammalian... Bacterial Expression tdTomato 554 581 95 4.7 1 hr Tandem-dimer pCSCMV:tdTomato - Mammalian Expression...Mammalian Expression tdTomato-pBAD - Bacterial Expression Jump to Top Red Protein Excitation (nm) Emission...

...upon a moratorium until another meeting, three branches – a private funder, government regulators, and ...there was a generally agreed-upon international moratorium on utilizing CRISPR/Cas9 in humans. This topic...mtDNA transfer options being investigated; A UK regulatory body tasked two separate non-governmental groups...technology to research centers engaged in long-term, mandatory follow-ups and observational studies of the technique...stop punting decisions on scientific, ethical, regulatory, and general public consensus to the next meeting...

...lipoproteins, shuttles lipoproteins through the circulatory systems, but can also lead to the formation of...as both a powerful tool for generating complex regulatory systems and further the study of natural σ54-... PMID: 31451697. Genetically encoded voltage indicators for use in worms Article contributed by Brook...Brook Pyhtila Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) change fluorescence in real time when neurons... excitation light intensities have made these indicators difficult to work with.  The Gottschalk lab has...microbial rhodopsin GEVIs in excitable cells of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. They have found several...

...site-specific recombinases, regulatory elements, developmental regulators, and lots of viral components...test many different combinations of promoters, terminators, solubility and purification tags, connectors... examine the effects of different promoters, terminators, enhancers, and cross-cassette interactions in...Standard and New E. Coli Part Library Enable Rapid Combinatorial Design for Synthetic and Traditional Biology... Signaling in CAR T Cells. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 17 Feb. 2024. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1101...Emerging CRISPR Technologies. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 27 Oct. 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1016...

...environmental modulation of hepatocellular cancer cell growth." Hepatology 54.4 (2011): 1237-1248. PubMed... was contributed by Bárbara Pinho, a science communicator at the Portuguese science museum "Fábrica Centro...myofibroblasts, neuroendocrine, adipose, immune, inflammatory, angiogenic vascular, endothelial, and stromal...seems to attack us by releasing mitogenic growth mediators and improving cancer cells proliferation.  How... Pinho! Bárbara Pinho is currently a science communicator at the Portuguese science museum "Fábrica Centro...

...you'll find in this post: Tools for labeling excitatory inhibitory synaptic proteins Fluorescent protein...corner New from the viral service Labeling excitatory and inhibitory synaptic proteins with FingRs ...developed AAV vectors to selectively visualize excitatory and inhibitory synapses in the brain.  ...scaffolding proteins PSD95 and gephyrin to label excitatory and inhibitory synapses, respectively. Once expressed... fluorescent proteins targeting inhibitory or excitatory synapses or that are Cre-inducible, researchers... cycle in vivo, particularly if the cells are migratory or in deep tissues. To resolve this issue, Shangqin...

...from the NETRF-funded investigators listed below. Depositing Principal Investigators (PIs) PI Institution...Shivdasani Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Epigenetic Regulators of Intestinal Endocrine Cells and Carcinoid Tumors...Tumors Qiao Zhou Harvard University Epigenetic Regulators of Intestinal Endocrine Cells and Carcinoid Tumors...

... the notation works? The + operator denotes intersection and the – operator denotes set difference. That...inclusive markers of regulatory regions in the genome, including enhancers, promoters, insulators, and more. I...enhancers, lncRNAs, repetitive elements, repressors, insulators, and more. We know that this matter exists, but...criteria: no TTTTT allowed (this is a polymerase terminator), and no off-target effects for the identified...

...discovered the modular format of some transcriptional activators: that the DNA binding domain (DBD) and transcriptional...of whether it interacts with a transcriptional activator (1a) or a repressor (1b). Scientists took advantage... original Y2H systems utilized the yeast Gal4 activator, bacterial LexA DBD and the lacZ reporter gene...transcription-activating function of a eukaryotic regulatory protein. Science. 1986; 231:699-704. PubMed PMID... and Ptashne, M. A eukaryotic transcriptional activator bearing the DNA specificity of a prokaryotic repressor...PubMed PMID: 2547163. 5. Ozawa, T., Kaihara, A., Sato, M., Tachihara, K., Umezawa, Y.l. Split luciferase...

...gRNA sequence to direct the dCas9-activator to promoter or regulatory regions of your gene of interest....Catalytically dead dCas9 fused to a transcriptional activator peptide can increase transcription of a specific...separate gRNA expression plasmid to target the dCas9-activator to your specific locus. Want more information ...

...has a great team of moderators who facilitated scheduling, filtered out inflammatory questions, and even...and the moderators were on top of any comments that were at all trollish. Kudos to the moderators for keeping...lists of forums on particular topics. Volunteer moderators set the rules for these forums and try to keep...days). Redditors ask serious questions What the moderators did not delete or suppress were the large number...

... concrete happen. You may have more willing collaborators than you realize. Being at a university provides...meetings and take minutes. Get to know your collaborators from other institutions personally on conference...relationship with the perspective of my potential collaborators in mind. Being at a university allows you to...with people at your organization. You can meet collaborators  for lunch, make a point of talking to them ...as messages and keep you up-to-date on your collaborators’ professional developments without directly ...to remind myself to check in regularly with collaborators for example on a holiday or for professional...

...Expresses dCAS9-VP64 activator with 2A GFP 61423 : Expresses the MS2-P65-HSF1 activator helper complex with...screening library CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator (SAM) is an engineered protein complex for the...: lentiviral vector encoding the MS2-P65-HSF1 activator helper complex with a 2A Hygro resistance marker...JS, Konermann S, Trevino AE, Scott DA, Inoue A, Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F. Cell . 2013 Sep 12;154(6):...

...gRNA sequence to direct the dCas9-activator to promoter or regulatory regions of your gene of interest....Catalytically dead dCas9 fused to a transcriptional activator peptide can increase transcription of a specific...separate gRNA expression plasmid to target the dCas9-activator to your specific locus. ID Plasmid Gene/Insert...

...crop species including potato, corn, tomato, wheat, mushroom, and rice (Khatodia et al., 2016). Despite...https://doi.org/10.1128/mmbr.67.1.16-37.2003 Khatodia S, Bhatotia K, Passricha N, Khurana SMP, Tuteja N (2016... al., 2013). Nuclease dead Cas9 (dCas9) based activators (such as dCas9-VP64) or repressors (dCas9-KRAB...