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  1. The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It

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    ...and how each hypothesis will be tested with a specific statistical test.  Preregistration makes clear the...distinction between hypothesis testing work, in which a-priori hypotheses are tested with a new experiment; and...where reported methods may not include how many tests were conducted on how the results were analyzed....more credible than they actually are. Throwing out plates that don’t respond as expected, use of representative...encouraged to present that work using hypothesis testing statistical tools that generate a p-value.  As ...As an example, if you hypothesize that growth rates will be higher in treatment versus control, and you...rate, you report the results of all four of those tests and not just the subset of those that return a particular...

  2. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ...contain a mix of cells including granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes. Due to differences in size and...separate into distinct populations of monocytes, lymphocytes and granulocytes in a plot of forward scatter (FSC...and fluorescent light sources. Visible light illuminates each cell as it passes through and scatters in...intensity of events. Since intensity positively correlates with expression, the further the shift of a cell...staining is quicker than indirect staining and eliminates potential non-specific staining that may arise...through the cell membrane. Formaldehyde fixation creates cross-links between lysine residues thus preserving...subset of cells. During FACS, the sample stream oscillates to generate droplets that are charged as they...

  3. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    ... or decreased off-target activity across the sites tested when compared to eSpCas9(1.1) and SpCas9-HF1...editing can result in unwanted changes at non-target sites. Means to decrease these so-called “off-target effects...activity of the Cas9 nuclease itself. Design and testing of eSpCas9 Looking at the structure of the Cas9...However, this is not always enough to keep off-target sites from being cut. Slaymaker et al reasoned that, if...separation afforded by gRNA binding at non-target sites would theoretically decrease off-target cutting....throughout the groove in 32 separate Cas9 mutants. When tested for their ability to cut the EMX1 locus in human...went on to combine the best of these mutations and tested the combination mutants for their on-target and...

  4. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ... DNA sequences located between two loxP sites. The loxP sites are present at both ends of a gene in the...include Swiss Webster and Harlan (Hsd) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Swiss. Genetically engineered...embryonic stem cells. Non-homologous recombination incorporates this DNA randomly into the mouse genome. In ...also included to select for successfully modified zygotes or embryonic stem cells. Modified embryonic stem...vector containing homologous ends to the breakpoint promotes homologous recombination of the targeting vector...undergone genetic modification that alters or eliminates the expression of a particular gene. Targeting...because non-homologous repair is a random process, zygotes edited using the same nuclease may not result in...

  5. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ... (green) integrates downstream of the glmS gene in the recipient's genome. Antibiotic plates lacking DAP...bacteria. Once transferred, Mobile-CRISPRi stably integrates into the genome and is propagated during normal... a tri-parental mating scheme. Mobile-CRISPRi integrates downstream of the highly conserved glutamine-...is transferred to recipient bacteria where it integrates into the trnS-leu2 locus.   Figure 2: ...recipient bacteria by bi-parental mating. The ICE integrates into the trnS-leu2 locus. Antibiotics select ...of transfer was variable. They measured transfer rates by comparing the number of colonies that grew on...that grew on a non-selective plate. Most bacteria tested had 1 transfer in every ~100 to 1,000 colonies,...

  6. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags Protease Recognition site Notes TEV ENLYFQS Cleaves...make something the cell doesn’t need to make. Eukaryotes and some bacteria deploy proteosomes to degrade...proteolysis. That’s one form of instability. Prokaryotes can also have a hard time folding eukaryotic ...correctly, there’s no point in crystallizing it or testing its function. Small ubiquitin-related modifier ...protein tags Tag Epitope Mass (kDa) Function Notes CBP KRRWKKNFIAVSAANRFKKISSSGAL 4 Affinity and ...solulibility and folding of eukaryotic proteins in prokaryotes; single step purification with amylose, but wicked...amino acid protein  12 Stability At N-terminus, promotes folding and structural integrity; cleavable. Not...

  7. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    ...96-well microplates, and thanks to our dedicated product and development teams, frequent updates allowed...have evolved over the years to keep up with the latest tools. In Addgene’s early days, we would ‘spot-...eventually outpaced our software, even with continuous updates. The generous donation of a Illumina MiSeq sequencer...and optimize our pipeline. After reviewing and testing several platforms for engineering pipelines, we...other programs running on a computer, so it safely operates in isolation, and can be easily shared with others...others without any complicated setup. We created, tested, and debugged each of our pipeline steps within...resources. Now, we could iterate our development and testing cycle faster due to the ease of jumping back and...

  8. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    ...samples of AAV for testing purposes. To address this, we recently released our serotype testing AAV, which are...GCaMP6s. jGCaMP7f is the fastest responding variant. jGCaMP7b exhibits the brightest resting fluorescence ...AAVs include: EGFP-expressing AAV for serotype testing Calcium sensors and GABA sensors Optogenetics Recombinases...are distributed individually. See our Serotype Testing AAV inventory for the entire collection! We are... promoters and fluorophores for validating and testing purposes. We will continue to add more controls...calcium sensors and GABA sensors) Calcium sensors The latest calcium sensors from Janelia (jGCaMP7) continue...be used for imaging small neuronal processes (dendrites and axons). jGCaMP7c exhibits high contrast between...

  9. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ...contain a variety of restriction enzyme cut sites (restriction sites) downstream of the promoter as part of...these stains see the Bitesize Bio Blog and their associated manufacturers websites. These stains require...and insert - these both must have compatible cut sites for restriction enzymes that allow your insert to... a multiple cloning site (MCS). Having multiple sites allows you to easily orient your gene insert with...promoter (blue arrow) followed by the restriction sites EcoRI, XhoI, and HindIII. To place your gene in ...flanked on both sides by that enzyme’s restriction sites, but the insert can then anneal to the backbone ...digest large amounts of DNA in as little as 10 minutes, but check with your enzyme’s manufacturer to ensure...

  10. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ... 20’s, new graduates often ask me for advice on careers available to new science graduates and the pro...better. I worked in a Microbiology testing facility, where I tested materials for bacterial contamination... in Spanish or French, and so they were ideal candidates for these positions.  I had to reassess what ...Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and every item I tested was constantly tracked with barcodes and spreadsheets...the constant fear of failure because I knew the tests worked and would produce a reliable result. This...quickly; as soon as I learned how to do the different tests and became efficient, I then started to become bored...Molecular Genetics to give me an edge over other graduates during the recession. As each advertised job received...

  11. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...important for candidates during a job search and it is even more critical for international candidates. Being...international candidates that they should join their relevant associations/groups. These candidates should also...looking to continue their careers in the United States. There has been a growing shift away from employers...with filing a permanent residence case with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). If...years to work (up to 40 years for recent Ph.D. graduates). Therefore, it is imperative to plan for and ...following paths to maintaining a status in the United States including green cards that are well-tailored to...startups and firms with a non-international focus. Candidates in need of an industry H-1B need to be aware ...

  12. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    ...reasons, it is essential to test the selectivity of your antibody. But testing is not one size fits all....important to test for the protocol you intend to use in your experiment. An antibody that demonstrates selectivity...best to determine this by testing them. For intracellular targets, we usually test 3 different fix/perms ... Correctly interpreting your data therefore necessitates careful design of RNAi sequences, confirmation...like a blood sample containing many different leukocytes. Where data is available from antibody-independent...quite useful. HCDM, among other things, works to test flow cytometry antibodies through their HLDA workshops... labeling patterns on different primary blood leukocytes. The file shared also contains information about...

  13. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    ...following a report that one can use linear repair templates (ie. PCR-derived dsDNA) with 30-60 basepair homology...ribonucleoprotein complex with linear DNA as repair templates which reduces time to generate edits to only four...rescued F1 animals (gel image under worm). Image courtesy of Jordan Ward, UCSF. In 2015 (Ward, 2015)...optimize a range of editing parameters: oligo repair templates with homology arms of 35-80 bp, and DNA double-strand...guidelines for designing single-stranded repair templates (Farboud et al., 2019).   The Mello lab also reported...of oligos used to generate linear dsDNA repair templates by PCR boosted efficiency (Ghanta et al., 2018...that melting and rapidly cooling dsDNA repair templates dramatically boosted editing efficiency (Ghanta...

  14. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ...editor had relatively high indel rates ranging from 4.7% to 30% at tested sites. Still, it opened a new avenue...abasic sites. This approach resulted in a maximum A → T product purity of 66%. Pro tip! Abasic sites are ...also called apurinic or apyrimidinic sites and abbreviated as AP sites. A collaborative team from the David...retained considerable A → G editing activity at most sites, in addition to A → C and A → T activity. To drive... produce a lot of indels (up to 40% at one site tested with AYBEv3!). Although AYBE, AXBE, and ACBE do...UNG enzyme was modified to recognize T and/or C substrates. The HuidaGene Therapeutics team has deposited...of which acronym is which. Acronym Full name Notes   Base transition Base change between purines ...

  15. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...were designed to target genomic sites with no annotated function, i.e. sites that lack open chromatin marks...20,500 protein-coding genes. Unique, non-overlapping sites in the genome were targeted and predicted on-target...binding site, or a coding region. Targeting these sites should control for the effects of guide expression... 3) safe-targeting guides, which target genomic sites with no annotated function. In the growth screen... safe-targeting guides were depleted at greater rates than their non-targeting counterparts, suggesting...screen Next, the toxicity of guides with off-target sites was profiled. Guides with exact or 1-bp mismatch...off-targets were only toxic if they had 5+ off-target sites. Results from the screen also reproduced several...

  16. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...profile) and can also be used as a paternity test. The test is accurate, precise, robust, and STR profiles...for a range of testing, from animal doping to forensics, DNA sequencing to drug testing. You can find ...favour of biochemical assays followed by in vivo testing. The mantra being “you can’t trust those whacky...their origins. This technique is still used today to test for HeLa contamination. HeLa contamination is still...closely followed by T24 bladder cancer cells. Estimates of the amount of money wasted in basic oncological...Down-Regulation of HIF-1α by NDRG2 Expression Attenuates Proliferation and Invasion in Renal Cancer Cells...directly isolated from patients. In these cases, a test known as Short Tandem Repeat (STR) profiling can...

  17. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    ... the backbone vector has multiple BbvCI sites. If these sites have opposite orientations, then both strands...the sites are in opposite directions, you just need to use a plasmid with BbvCI restriction sites in the...Scientists use deep mutational scanning to simultaneously test how multiple amino acid changes affect a protein...Hundreds of thousands of protein variants can be tested in one experiment. There are many functional assays...choosing and validating a selection system. You can test the effect of multiple mutations in combination ...shuffling to combine pairs of mutations together to test combinatory effects. One-pot saturation mutagenesis...comprehensive mutagenesis library that’s ready to be tested in a functional screen of your liking. This method...

  18. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...2023. DNA damage drives genome instability and contributes to cancer, premature aging, and other harmful...displacement loop (D loop). The recombination intermediates can then resolve to complete the DNA repair ...a one-ended DSB). This single invasive strand initiates primary synthesis from a template followed by ...sequence to be modified. In general, the insertion sites of the modification should be very close to the ...determinant when selecting a type of donor. ssDNA templates (referred to as ssODNs (oligodeoxynucleotides)...insertions such as fluorescent proteins or selection cassettes. This class of template should have homology arms...1000 bps. HDR efficiency with circular plasmid templates is generally low; to increase the frequency of...

  19. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...tip! Abasic sites are also called apurinic or apyrimidinic sites and abbreviated as AP sites. To explore...efficiency of up to 68% at the most favorable target sites. Differential cytosine editing between bacteria ...reliance on the glycosylase UNG to crease abasic sites (Zhao et al., 2021). Their GBE produced C → G edits...with over 50% efficiency in 23 out of 30 target sites. But the same strategy in E. coli produced different...bases — but E. coli instead filled those abasic sites with A's, producing C → A edits. Figure 3...base editors, so the Yidi Sun and Erwei Zuo labs tested and implemented several of these advances for CGBEs...HMCES forms a chemical crosslink with DNA abasic sites, protecting them from cellular processes that would...

  20. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    ... junction proteins cx43 GJB1 GJB2 Bioelectric states can alter cell types and patterning There is mounting... or cancerous it is (Levin et al., 2017). These states can even be necessary and sufficient for certain... the entire worm during regeneration, the worm creates two heads. Subsequent cutting results in a two-...visualize or perturb these slower-changing bioelectric states in living cells. Since bioelectrical signals are...indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to track bioelectric states (Matthew et al., 2018). These allow for not only...only recording but also modulating bioelectric states in vivo. For example, the Levin lab from Tufts University...fusion of the voltage sensing domain of a Ciona intestinalis voltage sensor and a mutated version of the ...
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