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  1. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    ... An undergraduate can mentor a high school student, a graduate student can mentor an undergraduate, a ... up on plans. Make a commitment to put time and energy into your mentoring relationships. You will only...
  2. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ...non-governmental groups with seeking “public views on emerging IVF techniques designed to prevent the transmission... a controversial and ethically fraught rapidly emerging technology. We could do this for CRISPR/Cas9 –...in the software industry to inform her work on emerging issues in novel technologies, including self-driving...
  3. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    ...Instead, R body monomers respond to pH changes by undergoing local conformational changes. These tiny movements...decades, and they were known to be resistant to detergents and degradation under a variety of conditions...conditions. More speculatively, R bodies might endow divergent organisms with new functions. For inspiration,...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...ll provide information about commonly used and emerging capsids to help you decide which ones may be suitable... of published descriptions of commonly used or emerging capsids. Selected capsids are further highlighted... regional bias towards the cortex and thalamus emerges. AAV-PHP.eC effectively transduces neurons and ... Moncada-Reid, C., Eid, F.-E., Walkey, C. J., Ljungberg, M. C., Lagor, W. R., Heaney, J. D., Chan, Y. ... Sakopoulos, S., Schneider, G., Stevenson, O., Vergara, J., Sharma, J., Zhang, Q., Franken, T. P., Smith...
  5. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    ...just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9 Synergistic Activation Mediator or SAM. SAM is an engineered...distinct effector domains that work together synergistically, modeled after natural transcription activation... J, Abudayyeh OO, Barcena C, Hsu PD, Habib N, Gootenberg JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki O, Zhang F. Nature. 2015...
  6. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...cargoes, genetically engineered neurotropic viruses emerged as powerful tools for visualizing neural connectivity...monosynaptic tracing to identify inputs to two major dopaminergic cell populations in two specific brain regions...617–623. Pubmed PMID 19349161.  2. Deshpande A, Bergami M, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Lepier A, Götz M, Berninger...
  7. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...obstacles when working with virus: 1. Viral vectors undergo DNA rearrangements. Depending on the composition...repeat sequences present in the LTR, the vector may undergo genomic rearrangements during replication. To avoid...immunotherapy." Acute Leukemias VIII. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2001. 291-306. PubMed PMID: 10634178. 8. Murnane...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    ... media, while others remain cell-associated (Vandenberghe et al., 2010). For certain in vitro and in vivo...rAAV sample has to be digested with DNase before undergoing titering, to remove residual plasmid DNA carried...Article 10. https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2009.223 Vandenberghe, L. H., Xiao, R., Lock, M., Lin, J., Korn, M...
  9. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    ...surface of the protein where the nascent polypeptide emerges from the exit channel.   He then said “I hadn’t...accurately suggests the potential of this protein to undergo conformational shifts. This backbone model of Cas9...conformational gymnastics that this protein must undergo as it interrogates your genome. If you are interested...
  10. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies

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    ...takes roughly 10 days for an egg to develop and emerge as an adult fly at 25°C. At low temperatures like...the day and throughout daytime. They mostly stop emerging at night. An incubator with a light cycle makes...makes for very predictable work! When flies first emerge, their bodies will be very light in coloration ...
  11. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ...I knew that when I was “managing” a couple of undergrads back in grad school. Both were hard-working scientists-in-training...reviewing the results of my Myers-Briggs test:  my undergrads were different people! More specifically, they...time I could likely have retained this talented undergrad. The point here is managing is not “one size ...
  12. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...their viruses; food allergy labs use standard curves with ELISAs to measure allergen concentrations in ...What do a viral vector production facility, food allergy testing lab, and the grad student down the hall...
  13. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...Pigmentosa. I quickly became fascinated by this emerging technology and its potential for the treatment...cost of clinical development. As a result, Luk Vandenberghe and colleagues at MEEI co-founded a non-profit...approves gene therapy for blindness 2. Gene Therapy emerges from disgrace to be the next big thing, again 3...
  14. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    ... zoonotic? A systematic review of the evidence. Emerg Microbes Infect, 8(1), 1679–1687. https://doi.org...of a Cytopathogenic Agent from Human Adenoids Undergoing Spontaneous Degeneration in Tissue Culture. Proc...M., Foresythe, A., Huh, H. J., Bazinet, A. L., Bergman, N. H., Bull, R. L., Garcia, K. Y., Goodrich, J...
  15. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    ...third chromosome, ten base pairs in length. An emerging family of sequencing techniques function as a ...coordinates into meaningful experiments. Table 1: An emerging family of "GPS for the genome" techniques Technique...going. Appendix DNAse Hypersensitive Sites and Intergenic CRISPRs Yours truly generated the DHS data set...
  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...the earliest uses of GFP. Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET): This is used to study the interactions...proteins or between two domains of a protein that undergoes conformational change. Typically, two fluorescent...come into close proximity, the two halves of EGFP undergo folding, maturation, and fluorescence. Biosensors...
  17. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    ...molecules of an RNA species with high specificity (Gootenberg et al., 2017). This system, dubbed SHERLOCK (...Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene.  3. Gootenberg, Jonathan S., et al. "Nucleic acid detection ...plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 6. Shmakov, Sergey, et al. "Discovery and functional characterization...
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