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...need to amplify a library for your own experiments. Library amplification 101 Library amplification seems...successful amplification? To provide a point of reference, Addgene commonly prepares NGS samples using both...understood visually. As an example, the curves from our recent amplification of the Brunello library are...exciting and versatile offerings! We recently re-amplified our distribution stock of the Brunello Human gRNA...thought it would be a good time to talk about the amplification and verification processes we use to ensure ...taken to ensure that all of these plasmids are amplified and none are lost. Each Addgene library has its...its own depositor transformation and amplification protocol, but the overall workflow is similar for most...

...experimental samples. Let's look at an experimental example in Figure 2. Figure 2A shows the sample prior to...Figure 2: Compensation example based on experimental sample. Flow plots showing a sample before (A) and after...Compensation example with single color control. Flow plots showing an APC single-color control sample before... your experimental samples In order to do compensation on your experimental samples, you will first need...apply to your experimental samples as they did with your single control samples: if the population needs...fluorescent channel to another. When you label your samples with multiple antibodies, the fluorescent probes...overlap in spectra is often called "spillover." For example, if your flow cytometer reads out the fluorophores...

...controls An isotype sample is prepared very similarly to a FMO sample: you make a sample from a combined ...your samples. The single color controls should be used as a starting point, to preserve your sample, and...adjust the settings with experimental samples. Figure 1: Example flow plots for a single color control...experiment. To make an FMO sample, you take a subset of your experimental samples, combine it into one well...population. Figure 2: An FMO gating example. The FMO sample (A) can be used while setting up your gating...  Figure 3: Isotype flow plot example. The isotype sample (a) can be used to confirm that your ...controls will help you save on sample volume, so you can use most of your samples for flow analysis rather ...

...you use will depend on the target and sample type. Sample Preparation This step can involve multiple...methods you use will depend on target and sample type. Example steps include: permeabilization, antigen...target and sample type. Primary Antibody This is the first antibody applied to your sample, which will...depend on the sample type, microscopy tools available, and your experimental goals. Example steps include...fluorescent molecules are applied to a cell or tissue sample where they bind to their targets, most commonly...antibodies to visualize a target within an intact sample, a cell in the case of ICC or a tissue in the case...bind to a single primary, resulting in signal amplification. Another reason is cost effectiveness. Generating...

... can be completely denaturated (left) or complexes may dissociate  (right). B) Protein samples protected...protect fragile samples during cryo-EM grid plunge freezing By Rachel Leeson Cryo-EM samples can be damaged...and structure determination LEA proteins protect samples during cryo-EM grid freezing Engineered and evolved...antibodies for marking astrocytes MagIC-Cryo-EM for sample enrichment and structure determination By Mike ...for low-abundance targets or natively isolated complexes. To address these limitations, the Funabiki Lab...enrichment streamlines the purification and minimizes sample loss while also supporting imaging, making it easy...cryo-EM grid.     Figure 1: MagIC-cryo-EM for sample enrichment and structure determination. A) Schematic...

...your samples. There are a few issues that can arise in this step: protein degradation, incomplete lysing...time.   Samples can run into empty neighboring lanes, so load your gel to ensure your samples and reference...Most people will simply load an extra ladder or technical replicate (ie, leftover sample) to fill the relevant...proteins going completely through the membrane or larger proteins not transferring completely onto the membrane...amount of protein/sample loaded Incubate primary antibody at 4 °C overnight Incomplete washing Ensuring...gradients. Protein gradients use dilutions of your sample or protein of interest to understand the dynamic...the membrane is reassembled and imaged. In this example, a 1:1,000 dilution gives a high signal with low...

...sequence this highly complex hot spring sample. The sample was separated into smaller samples of 5-10 cells ... Mork collecting samples at the hot spring. Hiking all day and processing samples by night was fun...leave your samples behind! Paul and Anastasia (Potanina) Neddersen characterized a few samples by 16S ...biological dark matter and so the lab organized a sampling trip to Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Extremophiles...from these extreme environments. Gearing up for sample collection at the hot springs My husband, Paul ...post doc in the Quake Lab, volunteered to do the sampling and I happily agreed to accompany him to YNP the... and two deep cycle batteries for power so the samples could be kept frozen after collection. Figure...

...high-quality isolated DNA samples of sufficient quantity for sequencing. This process is completed in a plate format...MiSeq that takes about two days to complete. After the run completes, we begin our assembly process. Again...holes are then filled with other samples in our queue such as viral samples for Viral Genome Sequencing (... libraries.  Viral samples are filled into the same process as our normal Complete Plasmid Sequencing ...unique barcodes per sample so we can assign sequencing reads to the correct sample. The PCR is then performed... to remove any template DNA and primers.  After performing extensive QC on that sample, we’ll then load...yielding anywhere from two to six plates of 96 samples per week. This is where our new process will begin...

...pipette samples in and out of it, you can set up a procedure for it using the Biomek FxP. For example, we ... pretty simple. By clicking a few buttons you can quickly tell the Biomek FxP how much sample to pick ...easy to spread out your samples. This can be useful if you’re transferring samples from 96 wells plates ... from many bacterial samples at the same time as opposed to preparing each sample individually. Enter ...do a lot of aliquoting. Simply program the pipette with how much total sample you need and the volume ...provide you with some tips on how to automate some simple processes in your own lab. Automating bacterial...mobile pods - one pod can pick up 96 tips for easy sample transfer between 96 well plates. The second pod...

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...we just made the sample bigger? In ExM, and its various derivatives, biological samples are enmeshed in...label) your sample (i.e. cultured cells or tissues).  Step 2: attach anchors to your sample that will link...times, and the physical properties of the sample itself. For example, cultured cells are typically easier ...structure. For example, cytoskeletal structures that form continuous lines in pre-expanded samples can sometimes... popularity with an abundance of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available...the number of specific targets you can label in a sample. Super-resolution microscopy (SRM), a family of... its original size. Depending on the protocol, samples can be expanded to ~4-10x linearly! This expansion...

...briefly boiling the sample before use or by directly adding a small volume of the sample to the PCR reaction...your experiment. Shorter amplicons tend to be better. Shorter amplicons make for shorter PCR programs...restriction enzyme digest; however colony PCR can accomplish the same thing in less time and for less money...polymerase) using the supernatant of lysed bacteria as template; and 3) run your PCR product on a gel to analyze...yes or no” kind of test, with a positive clone amplifying a product and a negative clone resulting in no...orientation-specific primers. Blunt end cloning is an example of when you might want to know the orientation ... insert and one primer anneals to the insert. A simple way to create this type of primer pair is to mix-and-match...

...modifications exist in the template DNA. There are several unique HDR mechanisms, but all templated-repair pathways...encoding your repair template, then uses reverse transcriptase to generate the complementary ssDNA. Easi-CRISPR...along the way. HDR uses homologous sequence as a template for repair and is thus the more accurate mechanism...process is generally error-free provided the DNA template used for repair is identical to the original DNA...one strand of the homologous DNA donor and can template repair off the other strand; this results in the...recombination intermediates can then resolve to complete the DNA repair process Homology directed repair...mechanism that notably does not require a donor template and thus won’t be covered in detail here. Classical...

...each individual sample, this will reduce convenience and comparability because each sample with be quantified... low-concentration samples can also behave differently in PCR, even if both samples fall within the linear...reference sample of known titer, which is at a higher titer than the AAV RSM. By using these samples in all... titer values of new AAV samples. We also typically quantify our AAV sample by two qPCR assays and compare...that category? Okay, let’s play. I’ll list the examples and you try to guess the category: ELISA...qPCR...affected by many experimental factors. To list some complicating factors for quantifying AAV: qPCR efficiency...the AAV genome, caused by repeats and self-complementarity of the AAV genome and the ITRs. qPCR efficiency...

...or RNA from a sample is first amplified using RPA (recombinase polymerase amplification) or reverse transcriptase...transcription to convert amplified DNA to RNA for subsequent detection by Cas13. This amplification step in combination...with Cas13 to amplify the signal of a single target. Csm6 can cleave ssRNA complementary to a crRNA of...your DNA or RNA of interest within a given sample is simply determined by the number of bands present ...sensitivity, the DNA is first amplified through isothermal amplification by RPA. When Cas12a-cRNA base... and/or are too expensive, time-consuming, and complex to use outside of standard laboratories. In the...protein variants, Cas13, and Cas12a, to develop simple, portable, and inexpensive platforms to reliably...

...to the stop codon (TGA, in this example). Assuming you are amplifying from plasmid DNA (rather than from..., but we need to use the reverse complement to get PCR amplification. We can start similarly, taking the...generate the reverse-complement of this sequence so that we can successfully amplify the ORF. You can generate... to be amplified (the ORF in this case), not the Tm of the entire primer. If you are amplifying from a... a plasmid or simple template, there is very little chance for mis-priming, so you can use a pretty wide...In its simplest form, PCR based cloning is about making a copy of a piece of DNA and at the same time...detailed refresher on the downstream steps. For this example, we will describe how to copy a cDNA from one vector...

... reference sample with two copies of the gene (Ma, 2014.) As with all qPCR assays, samples, standard curves...experiment?  Complexity of the gene of interest Some gene sequences are harder to amplify and quantify...reference sequence present in the same amount in all samples (usually to a ubiquitously expressed, one-copy ...housekeeping’ gene), and quantified relative to a 'normal' sample with known copy number set as the expression baseline...since you’re looking at the amount of DNA in your sample relative to your normal control - you can set up...number (RQ value) matches the copy number of your sample. In that case, an RQ value of one (or, more realistically...fluorescent probe and quencher to quantify specific amplicons.  Sybr has high background noise, due to the large...

... permeabilize a sample. But you can also use organic solvents after fixing your sample with a cross-linker...the point?  Fixation allows you to freeze your samples in a given state or point in time. You want to ...processes while maintaining the structure of your samples, the relationships between cellular components,... molecules and it is great for preserving your samples and maintaining cellular and tissue morphology....formaldehyde solutions.  Along with preserving your sample, cross-linking can block the epitope of some targets...sensitive to cross-linking, but it doesn’t preserve sample structure quite as well as a cross-linker. This...during fixation with these chemicals, which impacts sample structure and could also cause your target to be...

...size and density present in all samples. Uneven sample loading or incomplete protein transfer causes inconsistent...cells? Immunoblotting or simply the western blot, or western, is one of the simplest methods to detect the...thiols, to cleave disulfide bonds. Load the samples, one sample per lane, onto the top of a resolving gel...Figure 1: Overview of the Western blot process. The sample, a mixture of protein is separated in a gel, transferred...to detect a single, specific protein within the complex mix derived from cells or tissues. Westerns are...is the first step of a western. To prepare the samples for SDS-PAGE, measure the protein content and normalize...normalize to ensure equivalent loading. Denature the samples to their primary amino acid sequence by boiling...

... little simplified): Find the appropriate glycerol stock within our freezers Pick the sample into the...success or failure: In our second example we’ve added some simple but critical logic. Some steps fail...proper location To keep ourselves from mixing up samples and to ensure that everything is grown successfully...needs to handle these cases. The following code examples show how software can be structured to allow for... for the messiness of biology. These examples are intentionally trivial, but they're here to help tell...tell this story. In this first example to the right (# this will make you sad),  someone has put in a request...’s time for our lab technicians to retrieve the sample and get it ready for shipping. In the first case...