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  1. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    .... Layers of control have also been added to the CRISPR technology to allow time-controlled edits to occur...generation of knockout cell lines which has made this control step extremely accessible. For example, let’s say...
  2. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    ...it is non-invasive and offers a high degree of control over time and space. Zebrafish have become a popular...had previously been a mystery, but through the control offered by the optogenetics toolbox and the versatility..., Filippo Del Bene, and Herwig Baier. "Optical control of zebrafish behavior with halorhodopsin." Proceedings...
  3. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    ...plasmids contain an origin of replication (which controls the host range and copy number of the plasmid)... that scientists can purify and study it in a controlled setting. Read more: Plasmids 101: Protein Tags...environment Produce enzymes that will make specific, controlled changes to an organism’s genome (genome engineering...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    ... promoters are upstream or 5’ of the gene they control. Promoters can be organism or tissue type-specific...recombinase, are used to spatially and temporally control transgene expression. Lox sites are directional...availability of Cre, lox sites lets researchers control the spatial and temporal activation of a transgene...
  5. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...access to transcriptional regulatory elements is controlled during development using the Drosophila wing ...the target protein. This targeted digestion is controlled by the addition of calcium, which MNase requires...only for a short period of time, thus precisely controlling the amount of cutting and mitigating noise generated...
  6. Antibody Guide

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    ...negative control. The negative control may be a no-antibody control in which a sample is processed without ...standard curve can serve as the positive control); and a negative control, a sample known not to contain your...interest. The negative control should be biological (no protein expressed), which controls for your antibody...fragmentation of the DNA. Controls for capture methods Capture methods should use a positive control and a negative...addition to the control used in standard IP, ChIP should additionally use a beads-only control which runs ...the machine. Controls for cell sorting methods Flow cytometry requires a negative control, a small subset...basic steps needed for each application, important controls, and any special considerations to think about...
  7. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    ...-phosphorylated or ‘wild type’ control protein. The ‘wild type’ control can be made one of two ways. First...-containing GFP that can be used as a positive control during optimization experiments. This version of...expression plasmid. This is a particularly important control when creating a phosphoserine-incorporation mutant...mutating a threonine residue to a phosphoserine) to control for effects of the amino acid substitution. Alternatively...
  8. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ...on the left, your digested DNA (and undigested controls) are loaded at the top of the gel in wells positioned...to insert. It is critical to set up a negative control ligation reaction with no insert DNA added. This...minimum, two transformations after a ligation: 1. Control Transformation containing the ligation mixture ...see any colonies, you should conduct a positive control to ensure that your transformation worked. You ...depending on the number of background colonies on your control plate (the more background, the more colonies you...
  9. Deisseroth INTRSECT Collection

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    ...recombinase recognition sequences enables directional control of the portion of the ORF that is sandwiched between... INTRSECT recombinases, viruses, and important controls to consider as part of experimental design. How-to..., Paninski L, Li B. 2017. The central amygdala controls learning in the lateral amygdala. Nat Neurosci...Meletis K. 2019. A hypothalamus-habenula circuit controls aversion. Mol. Psychiatry 24(9):1351-1368. PubMed...
  10. Optogenetics Guide

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    ...research utilize light to detect, measure, and control molecular signals and cells in order to understand... genetically-encoded tools for light-activated control of proteins; e.g., microbial opsins and optical...subsets of neurons, allowing precise spatiotemporal control of these neurons by turning on and off the light...illuminated. There are several different ways to control opsin expression. Generally, the most robust and...-ChR2 mouse, where ChR2 is expressed under the control of the vesicular gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA)...GABAergic neurons being activated by the light is controlled via the placement of the optic fiber. Using viral...bacterial photoreceptors to create protein systems controlled by light. These “photoswitchable” proteins offer...
  11. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    ...qPCR assays, samples, standard curves, and normal controls must be run in triplicate.  The nice thing about... of DNA in your sample relative to your normal control - you can set up your calculations so that your...so forth. This also serves as a light technical control - an RQ value of 1.5 means you have either made... does not require a standard curve or a normal control, it can take a few hours longer than qPCR to run...
  12. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ... Transcription Reporter: Placing GFP under the control of a promoter of interest can be used to effectively...Scientists can use light to detect, measure, and control molecular signals, cells, and groups of cells in...Plasmids of this type may have the GFP under the control of an additional promoter from that of the gene...fate studies. It can also be used, when put under control of promoters of interest, to visualize the developmental...
  13. Promoters

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    ...Transcription is tightly controlled in both bacteria and eukaryotes. Promoters are controlled by various DNA regulatory...vital component of expression vectors because they control the binding of RNA polymerase to DNA. RNA polymerase...a functional protein. Thus the promoter region controls when and where in the organism your gene of interest... are proteins which recruit RNA polymerase and control and regulate the transcription of DNA into mRNA...consists of the sequence TTGACA and this element controls the rate of transcription. Bacterial cells contain...Operons are a cluster of different genes that are controlled by a single promoter and operator. Operons are...operon in bacteria is an example of a negatively controlled operon. A positive repressible operon works in...
  14. Worm Expression Resources

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    ...silencing in the germline. A "FLP-Out" system for controlled gene expression in Caenorhabditis elegans. - ...Hubbard Lab. Plasmids for the temporal and spatial control of gene expression in C. elegans by combining expression...
  15. mTOR Pathway

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    ...apamycin (mTOR) is a key metabolic regulator controlling cell growth and proliferation. mTOR, a serine...Kris Wood) References mTOR signaling in growth control and disease. Laplante M, Sabatini DM. Cell. 2012...in cancer promotes the conditions needed for uncontrolled cell growth and proliferation, including an ...
  16. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    ...tips on probe chemistries, primer optimization, controls, and analysis.  As a rule of thumb, you can assume...the fold change of each sample compared to your control. But as we said previously, just because it’s used...assumes the amplification kinetics of the target and control genes are fairly equal, an assumption that is not... Pfaffl et al No Standard Curve sample=control Gentle, et. al No Raw Data researcher defines...between 0 and 1. Flipping your experimental and control values during analysis can allow you to see this...differences between your experimental values and your controls. ANOVA, t-test, multiple regression analysis, ...-018-26707-8Suzuki T; Higgins PJ; Crawford DR. Control selection for RNA quantitation. Biotechniques. ...
  17. Viral Genome Sequencing - A One Stop Shop for AAV Identity and Serotype Confirmation

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    ...One of the main tenets of our quality control (QC) mantra is to do our utmost to ensure that scientists...Gene Therapy. Existing methods for AAV quality control Historically, AAV vector QC has been sparse including...number of AAV preparations this level of quality control is sufficient but for viral vector core facilities...
  18. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...the origin of replication (ori) and all of its control elements. The ori is the place where DNA replication...depending on how they are regulated. Generally, control of replication is referred to as "relaxed" or "...Vectors Copy Number+ ori Incompatibility Group Control pUC ~500-700 pMB1 (derivative) A Relaxed pBR322...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ...placing FP timer DsRed-E5 under the control of Neurog3 (a gene controlling pancreatic differentiation) in ...synthesized or long-lived transcription factors control gross changes in gene expression as new body sections...Pratik, et al. "A programmable synthetic lineage-control network that differentiates human IPSCs into glucose-sensitive...
  20. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...target genes. The sequence of the promoter region controls the binding of the RNA polymerase and transcription... all the time while others are more carefully controlled. Regulated promoters might act only in certain... light. In the cell, promoters themselves are controlled by still other regulatory factors: enhancers,...induced. Requires T7 RNA polymerase, which is also controlled by lac operator. Can be induced by IPTG. Commonly...
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