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TypeBlog Post...or the activity of a protein in a synapse. What kinds of tools enable us to measure these properties, ...articles describing the FRET tool that you are looking for and check our curated list of biosensors too... Sustarsic, Marko, and Kapanidis, Achillefs N. "Taking the ruler to the jungle: Single-molecule FRET for...
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Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post...alleninstitute.org. A classic challenge in cell biology is making sure that what we observe through the microscope...whole segment—a GFP tag and 1kb of homologous DNA flanking both sides (about 2.7kb total)—is inserted into...and destroyed by CRISPR/Cas9 during transfection. Making the double strand break and introducing the tag... -
Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux
TypeBlog Post...Advancement of Science, Rush Holt, followed by a networking reception. Saturday’s workshop will be an advocacy...laid out by a 2014 National Academy of Sciences working group (National Academy of Sciences. “The Postdoctoral... Advancement of Science, Rush Holt, PhD and a networking reception. Saturday’s workshop will progress ... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog Post... me troubleshoot some technical obstacles when working with virus: 1. Viral vectors undergo DNA rearrangements...cells for infection If your transductions aren’t working, you can check if virus is being generated by your...template. Regardless of the type of virus you’re working with, there’s a lot that goes into virus design... -
Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors
TypeBlog Post...recombination events, and that the orientation of the flanking loxP sites directs the Cre recombinase to invert...placement of the two pairs of target sites. By flanking the reporter with one loxP site and one lox511...PMID: 12665802. 2. Branda, CS and Dymecki, SM. Talking about a Revolution: The Impact of Site-Specific... -
Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps
TypeBlog Post...The day has arrived; you’ve painstakingly cared for your packaging cell line, prepped your DNA, transfected...amount of virus you actually have in your prep. Taking time to properly titer your virus will not only...original plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing vector deficient in reverse transcriptase will ... -
7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors
TypeBlog Post... who keep changing their minds and have trouble making decisions. In my work as a thesis coach for graduate...categories. In addition, I also learned about two other kinds of difficult supervisors: Hands-off super busy ...explain how it is interfering with your work. Avoid talking about your emotions, such as frustration or anger... -
Protocol - How to Ligate Plasmid DNA
TypeProtocol...efficiency in situations where the 3:1 ratio is not working or when doing more complicated cloning. While 3... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog Post... I’m not going to lie, AAV transfer plasmids are kind of a pain to work with. These plasmids contain ITRs...the viral particles of the AAV serotype you’re working with are primarily found in the culture media, .... If you’re new to creating gradients, practice making the iodixanol layers before doing your first purification... -
PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs
TypeBlog Post...in brackets and add the upstream and downstream flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This...prediction models. In addition, we provide options for nicking gRNAs (used for PE3 and PE5 prime editing strategies...strategies) based on a DeepSpCas9 score ranking (Kim et al., 2019). PRIDICT saves time and resources by ...