...deposited PSAM AAV, which encode engineered ligand-gated ion channels that can be activated with FDA-approved...expanded our inventory of chemogenetic AAV for activating and inhibiting neurons. Minimally-tagged DREADD...size 20 µL samples of control AAV that scientists can use for serotype testing. These samples are available...serotype testing jGCaMP7c for calcium detection PSAM4 GlyR for chemogenetic inhibition Flp expression ...ability to detect the neurotransmitters and other bioactive molecules is integral to the study of neuroscience...Plasmid Serotype Name 119741  AAV5  AAV SYN flex PSAM4 GlyR IRES EGFP Recombinase AAV Finally, we are...ppAAV-CKIIa-stGtACR1-FusionRed New tetracycline transactivators Plasmid Serotype Name 99120  AAV1 pAAV-ihSyn1...

...Similarly 90% of active research scientists believe climate change is mostly due to human activity while much...opinion do not seem to take note. For example, 91% of active research scientists (scientists who hold a doctorate...conversation about science’s role in government as well as active advocacy will be required. Information on how ...politician Rush Holt said, government must have the same fundamental attribute that enables science: “humility...

...2010). However, IDLV genomes are transcriptionally active, leading to transient expression of gene products...vectors tend to integrate into transcriptionally active regions of the genome (Schröder et al., 2002), ... 1 integrase mutants retain in vitro integrase activity yet fail to integrate viral DNA efficiently during...). HIV-1 integration in the human genome favors active genes and local hotspots. Cell, 110(4), 521–529...have been developed with different mechanisms to inactivate the integrase.  The IDLV life cycle When IDLVs...expression of the transgene. This makes IDLVs an attractive choice for certain types of clinical or basic...performing quantitative PCR titration of vector DNA in samples harvested 24 hours post-transduction (Wanisch and...

...transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation, and more. How ...and aggressive plan to use gene editing, MECP2 reactivation, RNA editing, gene replacement therapy, RNA ...syndrome can be inherited. In females, random X inactivation results in approximately half of cells expressing...expressing mutant MECP2 . Skewing of these X inactivation ratios can affect disease severity. The MECP2...variability in symptoms even within patients with the same mutation, the location and type of MECP2 mutation...cell line repository (Link opens in a new window) Sampled - one of the world's largest biorepositories (Link...direction and degree of skewing of X-chromosome inactivation. J Med Genet . 44, 148–152. (Link opens in a...

...original method, we used the Tetracycline trans-activator system to boost the expression levels, and we ...we named the system Tetbow (Tetracycline trans-activator Brainbow) (Sakaguchi et al., 2018) (Figure 1)....not powerful enough for large brain samples. For large brain samples, we recommend pretreatment with ScaleCUBIC1...time points, sacrifice the animals and fix the samples. When you use AAVs, it typically takes a few weeks...excessive amount of XFPs expressed. Then, clear the samples and visualize. For more details on this procedure..."Optical clearing and index matching of tissue samples for High-resolution fluorescence imaging using ...

... scared to engage with them. Comment on their activities and participate in discussions. Get your voice...Twitter to promote your other science communication activities, e.g. tweet it when you publish a new blog post...step I have taken in my career. The moment, I got active with it, new doors started opening up. My current...requires lots of data. Get your community involved in sampling or bioinformatics analysis or upload your data...

...within the target gene. CRISPR can also be used to activate or repress target genes without permanently modifying...CRISPR libraries have been created to knock out, activate or repress target genes by combining a gRNA library...Addgene carries CRISPR libraries for gene knockout, activation, repression, and barcoding.  3) Are you trying...Enrichment or depletion of multiple gRNAs targeting the same gene can be strong evidence that a particular gene...

...cut-to-mutation distance"  Even though we had controlled over-active Cas9 and repeated our experiments with blocking...have sufficient on-target and very low off-target activity, but should also mediate a DSB at optimal distance... the desired zygosity. Furthermore, re-editing activity of the guide RNA should be minimized by incorporating... events were corrupted by unwanted indels on the same allele, probably due to concomitant NHEJ repair....blocking mutation and our intended mutation were on the same oligo, the intended mutation rarely got in. It seemed...mixed with another ssODN template that contains the same CRISPR/Cas-blocking mutation but not the intended...

...ways to incorporate science themes into our fun activities and Halloween is no exception. For the past 10...grasshoppers, including those linked to neurotransmitter activity and geotactic behavior (Biron et al., 2005).   ... 2015). There, it divides into two cells. At the same time, it sucks out its contents (hence the name ...

...Reproducibility for Everyone Workshop included this interactive activity during their session. Image from Reproducibility... more initiative. “You have to actively reach out. It’s more proactive versus organic networking,” she...both days. pic.twitter.com/4MysvpzwkP — Samuel Guay (@SamGuay_) June 18, 2020 Final thoughts on virtual...at once, virtual conferences may have apps or interactive calendars that you can use to help plan your ...the Q&A in the chat box. Presenting? Make it interactive! As a presenter, it can be difficult to keep ...spend with the conference. “If you want to have the same experience as an on-site conference, you really ...

... continue to be useful for monitoring neuronal activity in the form of calcium dynamics. (For more details...fluorescence) and is useful for imaging signaling activity in large populations of densely-labeled neurons.... Likewise, a lot of scientists have requested samples of AAV for testing purposes. To address this, we... serotype testing AAV, which are small (20 ul) samples of EGFP-expressing AAV packaged in various serotypes... kit with all the serotypes, since these 20 ul samples are distributed individually. See our Serotype ...neurons because background fluorescence from inactive neurons is reduced. This variant has an approximately...

...and ClaI are sensitive to methylation and their activity may be blocked. If you have to use these enzymes...bacterial strain such as JM110 or INV110. Avoid star activity. Some endonucleases (for example BamHI) are capable... The glycerol in the buffer will make sure your sample settles in the gel well and the dyes provide a ...you to interpret the bands that you get in your sample lanes. Choose your ladder based on the expected...approximate the DNA mass of comparably intense samples of similar size. Run the gel at 80-150V until you...

...near future. Science on Twitter Addgene: You are active on twitter @nicolabiologist, where you tweet about...communication tool for work. Most Sainsbury scientists are active on Twitter. Sometimes it’s a good way to find out...happening in the office next to you. There is an active Twitter scene of iGem teams that is really useful... with a knockout and expression construct on the same piece of DNA. We do a lot of protein-protein interaction...

...for cellular activation. In addition, FACS achieves greater purity of your sorted cell sample than MACS....selecting your cells of interest is magnetic bead-activated cell sorting, or MACS. But MACS usually only allows...a single (lineage) marker, while fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) enables you to include further...indirect labeling is through antibody host species reactivity. Just like for western blotting, a primary epitope-targeting... T cells (Figure 2). Even better, we can use the same fluorophore for the three lineage markers we have...gating labels all unwanted cell lineages with the same fluorophore to easily gate on the unlabeled cells...different while the permeabilization solution can be the same). Examples of such targets include transcription...

...much more challenging to design a hands-on interactive activity using elephants than it is to design one...or do you need a full exhibit? In a five minute activity at a street fair, or a semester-long after school... difficult to reach people who are not already actively interested in scicomm. Difficult to do in-depth... allow people to learn in multiple ways from the same experience.  Can combines cons of multiple medias...

...exposed ssDNA bases. Thus, base editors have an activity window restricted to the stretch of ssDNA created... edits at certain positions within the editing activity window (Kurt et al., 2021). They hypothesized ...2022). Specifically, they found that the SOX2 activation domain (SAD), which recruits histone acetyltransferase...suggest that DSBs are a common intermediate of CGBE activity, and they are sometimes processed by error-prone... around the same time. (The papers were actually published in the same journal on the same day.) This ... But the same strategy in E. coli produced different results. GBEs seemed to follow the same initial mechanism...repair pathways within the cell — in some cases, the same repair pathways that were considered problematic...

...enzymes such as ClaI or XbaI, or, conversely, activating enzymes such as DpnI. For example, cleavage by...affected Not affected DpnI Requires methylation for activity Not affected Not affected If your enzyme is... experiment? The answer to both questions is the same--methylation! Read on to learn about how DNA methylation...companion endonucleases that recognizes and cleave the same DNA sequence if not methylated (if it comes from...Although not all prokaryotic DNA is methylated to the same level, the potential for methylation should be considered...any) of those sites will be methylated. Using the same example plasmid as above (which has the XbaI site...

...be developed and optimized for the samples, antibodies, activation, and assay readout used. You’ll note...antibody. Perform a second series of wash steps. Activate the signaling molecule and perform the assay readout...approach is as follows: Prepare the sample. Incubate the sample with the primary (unconjugated) antibody...if all the primary antibodies are the same isotype from the same species, only one secondary antibody ...remove any unbound or excess antibody. Incubate the sample again with a conjugated secondary antibody, which...primary antibodies indiscriminately, giving them the same output signal. In these cases, it is best to use...not allow for absolute quantitative analysis of a sample. Instead, relative quantification can be done using...

...interactions can be discovered by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). The mode #2 phosphosite library... a Program of OPTN/NDP52 Recruitment and TBK1 Activation to Promote Mitophagy. Heo JM, Ordureau A, Paulo...Muir P, Szeligowski RV, Rogulina S, Gerstein M, Sampson JR, Isaacs FJ, Rinehart J. Nat Biotechnol. 2018...

...Isaacman-Beck et al., 2019. Sparse Predictive Activity through Recombinase Competition (SPARC), a genetic...system to use other experimental transcription activation systems, such as LexA/p65 or mCD8/GFP, to allow...allows for the labeling of a subset of cells with the same genetic makeup, overcomes all of these labor-intensive...upstream of the second attP site to cleave and inactivate any read-through transcripts of the effector ...