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TypeBlog Post...They play important roles in many cellular and regulatory processes, but much of their functionality is...effects can be minimized by disrupting lncRNA regulatory elements that are crucial for transcription and..., on the other hand, recruits transcriptional activators such as VP64, SAM, or SunTag to specific ncRNA...
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Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog Post...), Antibodies: a Laboratory Manual, 2nd Edition. 2104. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Publications, New...production and subsequent purification. Academic laboratories and companies have already begun creating plasmids... -
6 Tips for Grant Writing
TypeBlog Post...the field. 3. Highlight your network and your collaborators It’s a good idea to move around to different...Networking for Scientists Series 4. Become a science communicator More and more fellowship applications are asking...on your grant application to your peers and collaborators can also help you get some critical insight ... -
Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR
TypeBlog Post...important supporting roles. Enhancers are cis regulatory DNA sequences that, when bound by transcription...CAPTURE (CRISPR Affinity Purification in situ of Regulatory Elements) method. The original CAPTURE method...2020). CRISPR Affinity Purification in situ of Regulatory Elements: The original CAPTURE method The original... -
10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture
TypeBlog Post...air conditioning on) so leave them in a sterile incubator. This also means that any medium or washing buffer...entering the hood and when putting them into the incubator). It also helps to get familiar with the morphology...results. Most cell culture media contain the pH indicator phenol red (pH range 6.0 (yellow) - 8.0 (red))... -
PhD Applications After COVID
TypeBlog Post... Is this department/laboratory collaborative with other departments/laboratories? How long is the average...by meeting with professors - a/k/a Principle Investigators (PIs) - whose labs does research that aligns... -
Starter guide to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) part 1: A renaissance in regenerative medicine
TypeBlog Post...multiple cell types of the same lineage. Blood (hematopoietic) stem cells are a good example of multipotent...numbers or replenish dying cells. For example, hematopoietic stem cells found in the bone marrow only differentiate...three germ layers, form embryoid bodies, and form teratomas [11]. iPSCs also possess similar morphologies,... -
When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells
TypeBlog Post...localization, dynamics, and behavior of a POI. As an investigator, you want a fusion tag to be inert, to not produce...has gone into making FPs monomeric, yet many investigators remain ignorant of FP dimerization. Equally ...Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology. His interests include the... -
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy
TypeBlog Post...expressing eGFP under the human ubiquitin C promoter. Anatomical abbreviations: Gr= Gracile tract, Cu= Cuneate... The first successful attempt to render fixed anatomical preparations transparent was done by Walter Spalteholtz...protein (GFP) (6). The Dodt and Frank Bradke laboratories later developed the 3DISCO (3-dimensional imaging... -
Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?
TypeBlog Post...genetically encoded calcium indicators (e.g. GCaMP). Others include: pHluorin & pHTomato (pH sensors), HyPer ...fluorescent intensity upon pH changes (e.g. pHluorin, pHTomato). Keep this list handy as you plan your next ... -
CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery
TypeBlog Post...available by both the Jacob Corn and Alex Schier laboratories. Delivering Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins An...and purification, which will require additional laboratory reagents, equipment, and expertise. Final thoughts...production of the Cas9 protein and a gRNA in your laboratory, once these have been acquired, genomic editing... -
Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication
TypeBlog Post...communication should be fun and engaging for the communicator as well as the audience, so pick a mode of communication...Otherwise, you’re going to drop your project like a hot potato or burn yourself out trying to slog through unappealing... Low barrier to entry for both audience and communicators. Well-developed content creation platforms. ... -
Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...and debris. Affinity chromatography is a popular choice for this. Chromatography columns containing appropriate...using a desalting column or an ultrafiltration concentrator. As the name suggests, you may also concentrate... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills
TypeBlog Post...you possess because any potential employers, collaborators, or co-workers want to know that you are a well-rounded...situation? Maybe you demonstrated empathy for a collaborator or co-worker and showed that you really understood...Resources Cross team communication External collaborators For further advice on highlighting your transferable... -
AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS
TypeBlog Post...pictures (see figure 4). It also enables single-cell anatomical study and neuronal tracing, aka determining where...under the control of an inducer, i.e. tet-off transactivator (tTA), is injected at a high dose to maximize...An AAV expressing the inducer (i.e. tet-off transactivator) is co-injected. The dose of this AAV can be... -
Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview
TypeBlog Post...do both, Addgene depositor Didier Trono and collaborators turned to the lentivirus HIV-1, well-known to...precursor protein), Pol (polymerase), Tat (viral transactivator for transcriptional activation from the 5’ ...trials for other diseases, including the common hematopoietic disorders sickle cell anemia and beta-thalassemia... -
Zebrafish Plasmid Collection
TypeCollection...zebrafish Whole organism lineage tracing by combinatorial and cumulative genome editing - Jay Shendure...America. The Zebrafish Book - A guide for the laboratory use of zebrafish. CRISPRz - A database of CRISPR... -
Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...anxiety by modulating the production of the pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin IL-1 beta in the dorsal...shRNA to downregulate expression of miR124a, a regulatory RNA that negatively regulates BDNF levels. They...showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (Drd1) in mPFC is responsible for the... -
Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
TypeBlog Post...splicing. (RNAi, in contrast, engages existing gene regulatory mechanisms to block activity and does not work...phiC31. The popular UAS/Gal4 and Cre/Lox gene regulatory systems have also been successfully implemented...Patrick Müller’s group at the FriedrichMiescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen, Germany... -
Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
TypeBlog Post...exhibit slow head growth, develop seizures, cardio-respiratory dysfunction, distinctive hand movements, and ...& Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have suggested ...). Beam Therapeutics, co-founded by Harvard Investigators and Addgene depositors David Liu, PhD, Keith... -
Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
TypeBlog Post...feasible, it leaves little room for additional regulatory elements. Feng Zhang's group previously packaged...for Cas9. However, to allow for more room for regulatory sequences while still fitting Cas9 and its gRNAs... https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14299 Senís E, Fatouros C, Große S, Wiedtke E, Niopek D, Mueller A-K, ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping
TypeBlog Post...but not all. For example, LDLR expression in hematopoietic stem cells, T cells, and B cells is low. Infection...great at infecting neurons and cause minimal inflammatory response, but are not taken up by axon terminals...Precious Tools to Improve Gene Modification of Hematopoietic Cells for Research and Gene Therapy. Viruses... -
Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications
TypeBlog Post...tools and assumptions to reveal findings that the originator was oblivious to, no matter how much time they...they had. It could be argued that data generators may, in light of the policy, hold onto data longer before... available to everyone at once, including the generators. This practice doesn’t appear to harm the originating... -
Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
TypeBlog Post...Rhamnose induction relies on the transcriptional activator rhaS. To allow manipulation of bacteria without...synthetic ribosome binding site (using the online calculator from the Salis group) (Espah Borujeni et al.,...mix. Introduction of the strong transcriptional terminator BBa_B1002 (from IGEM) upstream of the MCS to ... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog Post...subunit. Using these affinity reagents, the investigators inhibited other RGD-binding integrins, individually...for cell adhesion. The results surprised the investigators, challenging the long-held belief that αVβ3 ...events and training courses on technologies and laboratory techniques related to antibody discovery. You... -
Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog Post...and opened a sequence file. Then I saw it, the chromatogram showing the telltale signs of a mutation introduced....3026 Gurumurthy CB, Takahashi G, Wada K, Miura H, Sato M, Ohtsuka M (2016) GONAD: A Novel CRISPR/Cas9 Genome...10.1038/s41598-018-33408-9 Mizuno N, Mizutani E, Sato H, Kasai M, Ogawa A, Suchy F, Yamaguchi T, Nakauchi... -
Neurodegeneration Research Collection
TypeCollection...Sun et al. Nat Methods. 2020 Oct 21. Glutamate indicators with improved activation kinetics and localization...with support from the BRAIN Initiative. Jackson Laboratory (Link opens in a new window) A collection of ... -
Finding Your Science Policy Path
TypeBlog Post...can manifest via research and data gathering, regulatory efforts, policy implementation, program management...company who decides how they are going pursue regulatory approval for a new product or a well-endowed ...example proposals and consider applying for their accelerator for some hands-on guidance. Check out my webinar... -
TALENs for Endogenous Zebrafish Genes
TypeCollection...TCTTTTTGTGCTGCGCCAcccagcccataatcgaGTCTTCTACAGGCATGAA retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator b TAL3528 & TAL3529 TGGAGAAACAGAAGATGAaatccccgagtccggaGCTGTCTTCACTTTTGGA...TGGAGAAACAGAAGATGAaatccccgagtccggaGCTGTCTTCACTTTTGGA retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator b ORF15 TAL3530 & TAL3531 TAAGAGGGCGGAGCTTTTatctcgcaaagctctgCCCACTGAGTTACTTAGA... -
With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science
TypeBlog Post...worried that, because we were speaking out against legislators and because the march had been so well-publicized...Scientific Instrument Maker at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory. Vancouver, BC Canada 49.2827°N 123.1207°W – ...damage promotes cancer. She is also a science communicator, UBC Public Scholar, and a member of the Vancouver...