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  1. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...biological systems. Size is also a factor; the pol lll promoter and terminator need be encoded only once, and...containing the RNA pol III promoter, gRNA and pol III terminator. These relatively large cassettes (considering...gRNAs that can be packaged together in a single vector. In addition, the pol III promoter is relatively...deletions of other regions, such as noncoding RNAs or regulatory elements, to examine their function. Bacteria...
  2. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    ...tips can help:  If there’s a teacher, mentor, or other educator working with your audience, ask! They ...refers to the work put into creating a permanent store of knowledge (a schema).”  In scicomm, I like to.... It’s a lot easier to read a formulaic fiction story that doesn’t require any detailed retention of information...knowledge and expertise your audience has is a major factor in how quickly they can understand and process ...
  3. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    ...credit to. Thankfully, as Addgene's resident blog editor, I could take the needed steps to continue where...alternative reagents have reduced immunogenicity. Effector functions are eliminated, as is antibody recognition...constant region. Nonspecific binding, caused cell receptors for the constant region, is also reduced.  Disadvantages...antibody constant region. They are generated using combinatorial libraries, and high specificity has been reported...allowing for them to be used as intracellular inhibitors.  Aptamers are not proteins at all. These high-affinity...
  4. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ...expressed in a single vector, pCRISPRainbow-DONOR1, with dCas9 supplied by a separate vector. Figure ...the 4D nucleome. Visualizing specific loci has historically been difficult, as techniques like fluorescent...technique was developed in the lab of Addgene depositor Stanley Qi and used in Chen et al. to track telomere...given chromosome simultaneously, they could also monitor the spatial relationship of the two genes over ...
  5. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    ...contributed by guest blogger, Gary McDowell, executive director of Future of Research. On December 1st 2016, many...of Information Act (FOIA) requests for their postdoctoral salary information as of December 1st. Salary...are an important step forward in helping the postdoctoral population continue to pursue academic work,...of the scientific enterprise by reducing the postdoctoral population which keeps growing despite a lack...McDowell! Gary S. McDowell is currently the Executive Director of Future of Research. He is interested in advocating...
  6. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    ... post was written by Professor Mark Howarth, investigator at the University of Cambridge. His research...Many of these tools can be found in Addgene's repository (Table 1). Figure 2: Adding function to...the Brainbow system, adds Tetracycline (Tet) transactivator to increase fluorescent protein expression ...can also assemble vaccines, target gene therapy vectors, or lock together smart biomaterials. There are...to particular compartments, or fused to other effectors from nanobodies to fluorescent proteins. So, I...
  7. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ... some exist as dsRNA. Still others use dsDNA to store their genetic information. All of these viruses ...sword – balancing antiviral benefits with the inflammatory response associated with the introduction of...of duplexed RNA Mammalian cells have multiple receptors in place to sense dsRNA and respond accordingly...threshold and thus do not typically activate an inflammatory response. However, if dsRNA sensors are mutated...its way outside of the mitochondria, the same inflammatory response can activate. These types of cellular...
  8. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    ...reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to track bioelectric states...channelrhodopsin used as a sensitive fluorescent voltage indicator with near-complete desensitization in continuous... artificial intelligence," says Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center. The future of this...Use of genetically encoded, light-gated ion translocators to control tumorigenesis." Oncotarget 7.15 (...(2018): 134-144. PubMed PMID: 29684787. Oviedo, Néstor J., et al. "Long-range neural and gap junction ...
  9. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ... all have a PR-T4 vector backbone, which is a modified version of L440. This vector is versatile in that...of interest into the empty PR-T4P vector backbone. The empty vector PLL4, which is similar to PR-T4P, ...experiments in the beginning. In most classrooms, the laboratory experience is focused on classical embryology...
  10. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...with a terminator. A simple TU could be comprised of just three parts: promoter, gene, and terminator.   ...As a plasmid repository, we are no strangers to cloning. If you’re reading this, then chances are you...this category also includes promoters, UTRs, terminators, etc. Once selected, individual units can be ...UTRs, genes, tags, etc.) into MoClo-compatible vectors. Level 1: Assembly of multiple Level 0 parts into...
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