...This post was contributed by guest blogger Chris Richardson, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s lab...and yet unanswered) question. Our recent paper (Richardson et al 2016) revealed some of the biophysical ...binding to the cleaved DNA duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016. We next wondered if we could...interaction with the Cas9-DNA duplex. Image from Richardson et al., 2016.   dCas9 enables sequence replacement...Results from our lab and others (Lin et al 2014, Richardson et al 2016, and Kim et al 2014) have shown that...transcribed sgRNA, and optional donor DNA. Chris Richardson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Jacob Corn’s ...worked on this publication:         References 1. Richardson, Christopher D., et al. "Enhancing homology-directed...

...called GMAP (Gibson assembly-based modular assembly platform). GMAP is based on the Gibson Assembly method...Parton DL, Hanson SM, Rodríguez-Laureano L, Albanese SK, Gradia S, Jeans C, Seeliger MA, Levinson NM, Chodera...as individual plasmids shipped as agar stabs. Iverson, et al. ACS Synth Bio. 2015. PubMed PMID: 26479688...30-40bp overlaps). To expand the capabilities of Gibson assembly and make a more modular platform, the ...context-dependent human fitness genes, the laboratory of Jason Moffat at the University of Toronto has created ...Vectors Available at Addgene: Lab Plasmids Dan Carlson RCIscript-GoldyTALEN, pC-GoldyTALEN Tom Ellis...pTAL7a, pTAL7b Michal Zurovec pBlue-TAL Nathan Lawson pJDS Series   Superglue proteins with SpyTag...

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...labelled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP; Kristensson and Olsson, 1971), plant lectins (wheat germ agglutinin...24336151. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4004172. Kristensson, K., and Olsson, Y. (1971). Retrograde axonal transport...difficult to accurately map network connections (Lo & Anderson, 2011). In the past two decades, several virus...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4324159. Castle, M.J., Gershenson, Z.T., Giles, A.R., Holzbaur, E.L., and Wolfe...29, 363–365. PubMed PMID: 4107258. Lo, L., and Anderson, D.J. (2011). A Cre-dependent, anterograde transsynaptic..., J.S., Hyman, B.T., and McLean, P.J. (2009). Comparison of transduction efficiency of recombinant AAV... V., Thiry, I., Deroose, C. M., Mortelmans, L., Wilson, J.M., Debyser, Z., and Baekelandt, V. (2007). ...

...used to call copy numbers should be as small as reasonably possible and set using the variance seen within...negative for each reaction, math happens (this time, Poisson statistics), and the readout gives an absolute ... through concentration values, rather than by comparison to a standard curve, and most results can be ...7778-9_9. PMID: 29717442. Arya M, Shergill IS, Williamson M, Gommersall L, Arya N, Patel HR. Basic principles... S., Hollox, E. J., & Boon Peng, H. (2015). A comparison of assays for accurate copy number measurement...journal.pone.0116791 Providenti MA, O'Brien JM, Ewing RJ, Paterson ES, Smith ML. The copy-number of plasmids and ... Rachel Leeson...

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...a price of a few dollars per reaction. By comparison, Gibson assembly can cost over $15.00 per reaction...In today’s post, we will focus on a high-level comparison of popular cloning methodologies, with a special...as 30 minutes! Alternatively, you might consider Gibson cloning. In this technique, you first perform a...reaction if you purchase a pre-made mix. Nonetheless, Gibson assembly is a highly versatile and efficient way...propagating. The ligation-independent methods like Gibson and SLIC are also quite efficient; although efficiency...them are some of the homology based methods, like Gibson or SLIC, since one can pool the components and ...

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...changes in specificity than AAV-PHP.eB. For this reason, the Gradinaru lab anticipates that high-dose AAV-PHP.AX...happy transducing! This post was written by Rachel Leeson, with significant contributions from Cynthia Arokiaraj...Altermatt, M., Dobreva, T., Chen, S., Wang, A., Thomson, M., & Gradinaru, V. (2021). Deep Parallel Characterization...s41565-023-01419-x Deverman, B. E., Pravdo, P. L., Simpson, B. P., Kumar, S. R., Chan, K. Y., Banerjee, A....., Wang, Q., Katz, N., Buza, E. L., Bell, P., & Wilson, J. M. (2018). The Neurotropic Properties of AAV-PHP.B.... J., Bell, P., Raymond, A., Stanford, W. L., & Wilson, J. M. (2019). The GPI-Linked Protein LY6A Drives...journal.pbio.3002112 Jang, M. J., Coughlin, G. M., Jackson, C. R., Chen, X., Chuapoco, M. R., Vendemiatti,...

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...them for use in your lab. Structural Comparison Functional Comparison Advantages of Nanobodies How to Use...for a comparison of nanobody, HCab, and traditional IgG antibody structures. Functional comparison Strong...Nanobody Toolbox Find Nanobody Plasmids Structural comparison As the name suggests, nanobodies are smaller ...Large: Advantages of Antibodies One of the main reasons antibodies are great indirect immunodetection tools... antibody incubation. See figure 4A below for comparison of this one-step staining with nanobodies vs ...

... is adapted from the 1979 Patterson Protocol. When published, the Patterson Protocol was shown to purify...DNA gel extraction method described in Kim and Morrison is nearly identical to that of commercially available...Purify DNA using glass filters. Image: Kim and Morrison, 2009. This method provides DNA yield and quality... kits for different purposes, with the Kim and Morrison method, you can just adjust the number of glass... protocol video library References Kim, Y., & Morrison, S.L. (2009). A Rapid and Economic In-House DNA...://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-30316-w  Zou, Y., Mason, M.G., Wang, Y., Wee, E.J., Turni, C., Blackall,...

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...multiplex (Thellwell, 2000). See Table 1 for a comparison of features of several commonly used chemistries...sixfold variation in expression levels reported (Biassoni, 2014), so you’ll want to ensure that your reference...genes - and it is well worth your time to do one (Biassoni, 2014). At the bench As a highly sensitive technique... See Table 2, (adapted from Wong, 2018) for a comparison of different analysis methods.   Method ...defined log-linear phase   Table 2: A comparison of different qPCR analysis methods. Table adapted... master. References and Resources  References Biassoni R; Raso A. (eds.), Quantitative Real-Time PCR:...doi.org/10.1016/j.bdq.2017.11.001.Bustin SA; Benes V; Garson JA; Hellemans J; Huggett J; Kubista M; Mueller ...

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