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TypeBlog Post... 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...
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Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?
TypeBlog Post... 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... -
Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)
TypeBlog Post...JS, Legube G, Miller KM Genes Dev. 2015 Jan 15;29(2):197-211. DNA Cross-Bridging Shapes a Single Nucleus...gene a megabase away, or looking at the histone methylation status at a double-strand break that needs repairing... -
Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors
TypeBlog Post...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 ... -
All in a Twist: dsRNA
TypeBlog Post... 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... -
Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
TypeBlog Post...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.... -
Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
TypeBlog Post... 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... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog Post...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., &... -
The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs
TypeBlog Post... tabular HTML formatted output. Surprisingly only 2 tools provide FASTA output. A few notable tools allow...Nature biotechnology(2014). PubMed PMID: 24880488. 2. Hsu, Patrick D., et al. "DNA targeting specificity...database, CrisprGE (published 27 Jun 2015), is noteworthy for its broad scope, curated content, and ease... -
7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors
TypeBlog Post...out for help so you can get the support you need. 2) Prepare an agenda for every meeting Supervisors are...of many posts in our career series. “The only healthy communication style is assertive communication.... -
CRISPR Guide
TypeGuide...left free to interact with the target DNA. Figure 2: Overview of the NHEJ repair mechanism Cas9 will only...systems enable researchers to target anywhere from 2–7 genetic loci by cloning multiple gRNAs into a single...Cas9 is included in the gRNA-containing plasmid, or 2-vector systems, in which Cas9 must be delivered separately...your experimental cell population (Figure 8E). In a 2-vector system, you’ll need to either co-infect with...the presence of infectious organisms (like SARS-CoV-2 ) and genetic mutations. Similar to Cas9 and Cas12...Cas enzymes? CasPEDIA is an encyclopedia of Class 2 CRISPR systems with wiki entries describing enzyme...off-target effects by using a single Cas9 nickase and 2 different gRNAs, which bind in close proximity on ... -
CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery
TypeBlog Post...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... -
Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog Post...split at 175 Arabidopsis homolog of the yeast TREX-2 mRNA export complex: components and anchoring nucleoporin... Luciferase systems, including NanoLuc®, DULIP, LuTHy Other split protein tools: Split-TurboID for protein... -
Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids
TypeBlog Post...start selecting and testing systemic capsids! Figure 2 contains a decision tree for selecting a capsid, while... highlighted below the table. Figure 2: This decision tree can help guide your choice on ...transfer to the adult brain. Nature Biotechnology, 34(2), 204–209. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3440 Goertsen...are detargeted from the liver, kidney, lung, and thymus, and transduce the heart and spleen at similar ....org/10.1038/s41592-020-0799-7 Lawler, A. J., Ramamurthy, E., Brown, A. R., Shin, N., Kim, Y., Toong, ... -
Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3
TypeBlog Post...systems utilize with type I-F Cascades. Figure 2: Cascade complex from CRISPR type I-E. Created with...efficient rate. These cuts most often occur in thymine-rich regions on the non-target strand. Occasional...