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  1. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...bringing in environmental contaminants.  Figure 2: An Addgenie works in the tissue culture hood while...doi.org/10.1290/1071-2690(2002)038<0086:caeomi>2.0.co;2 Uphoff CC, Drexler HG (2011) Detecting Mycoplasma ...increases the risk of secondary contamination to other healthy cell lines. Mycoplasma Removal Agents (MRA) are...
  2. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ... a template, copying the base edit. Figure 2: Cytidine deamination takes place on the free strand...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides. To reduce off-target effects associated...formation. To further decrease indel formation 1.5-2 fold, the team fused bacteriophage protein Gam to ... DNA. Uracil is then subsequently converted to thymine through DNA replication or repair. Fusing an inhibitor...
  3. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    ...Bacterial Cell Envelope. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol. 2(5) a000414 (2010). Cleveland Clinic. Gram Stain. https...iodine solution. Rinse briefly with tap water. Add ethyl alcohol or acetone drop by drop onto the smear until...
  4. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    ...perceived climate change risks. Nature Climate Change, 2(10), 732-735. doi:10.1038/nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (...were much more likely to rate that study as untrustworthy, inaccurate, methodologically flawed, and biased...
  5. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development... 35. Academic Press, 2015. PubMed PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of...therapies produce lasting side effects, damage healthy cells, and often cannot eradicate metastasis or...
  6. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ... high-priced commercial devices.     Fig. 2: Workflow for open software (left) vs. open hardware...Express 11, 2447-2460 (2020) Hongquan Li, Deepak Krishnamurthy, Ethan Li, Pranav Vyas, Nibha Akireddy, Chew...
  7. Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors

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    ...and are considered “high copy”. A fragment from the 2 micron circle (a natural yeast plasmid) allows for...overproduces hydrosulfide ions yes - Grow with methylmercury. S. cerevisiae  no no Can be used for color ...
  8. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ... would release them into the cytosol. Fig. 2: Endogenous sources of duplexed RNA DNA:RNA hybrids...introduce some of its dsRNA intermediates into a healthy individual to provoke an immune response and then...
  9. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ...PMID: 20543841. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2920597. 2. Nathans, Daniel. "Puromycin inhibition of protein...contributed by guest blogger, Eugenia Rojas. A question worthy of a PhD: How do you visualize protein turnover...
  10. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...excise the HIV-1 genome from every infected cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al...and opportunistic infections not usually seen in healthy individuals. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) can virtually...rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy individuals, expanded, and infected with HIV-1....
  11. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...reaction of HRP with its substrate, 3,3′,5,5′-Tetramethylbenzidine (TMB). The addition of hydrochloric acid...
  12. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    ...neuron-astrocyte, and cancer-stromal cell pairs.   Figure 2: Schematic of the interaction between the sender cell...targeting a specific chromatin feature (e.g. a methylated histone such as H3K27me3), a linker between these...
  13. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...types within a sample to expected labeling (Figure 2). The panel of antibodies used in this approach should...the antibody in the same tube.     Figure 2: Schematic showing the use of an orthogonal approach...., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, J., Amrani, Y., Duffy, S. M., Bradding, P., &...
  14. Chemogenetics Guide

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    ...muscarinic receptor and has not been used in vivo . Figure 2: DREADDs, their ligands, and signaling properties.... Reference Rq(R165L) Human M3 muscarinic Arrestin-2/-3 CNO* Increase Arrestin translocation Arrestin signalling...hM1Dq hM5Dq Human M3 muscarinic G αq CNO* Increase Ca 2+ Neuronal burst firing Armbruster et al., 2007 rM3D...channels, their effect, and outcome in neurons. Table 2. Descriptions of PSAMs and their activity in neurons...Forbes SL, Liggett SB (2001). Modification of the beta 2-adrenergic receptor to engineer a receptor-effector...2004). The highly efficacious actions of N-desmethylclozapine at muscarinic receptors are unique and not...
  15. Lentiviral Vector Guide

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    ...intact. First-generation plasmids include (Figure 2): Transfer plasmid — contains transgene and wild-type...envelope removed Envelope plasmid — contains env Figure 2: First-generation lentiviral plasmids. Created with...plasmid 1 — contains gag and pol Packaging plasmid 2 — contains rev Envelope plasmid — contains env Third-generation...The inside out of lentiviral vectors. Viruses , 3 (2), 132–159. https://doi.org/10.3390/v3020132 PMID: ...Infectivity and Integration Targeting. PLoS ONE , 2 (12), e1340. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001340...features of lentiviral vectors. Human Gene Therapy , 24 (2), 132–142. https://doi.org/10.1089/hum.2012.229 PMID...gene therapies is the possibility of transducing healthy tissues not associated with a certain disease and...
  16. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...PMID: 27151215. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4938170. 2. Zuris, John A., et al. "Cationic lipid-mediated delivery...intense study. Two methods to accomplish this are Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) mediated transfection of protoplasts...
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