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  1. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    ...by delivering an AAV construct expressing channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a blue light sensitive cation channel... Plasmid tools for microbiome studies Channel rhodopsins for optogenetics Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics...
  2. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    ...11 and Cas13 are 1). non-specific RNA cleavage and 2). cell toxicity. Cas7-11 does not display collateral...Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system. Cell, 163(3): 759-771 (2015). 10.1016...Cas9’. The Cas9 nuclease is a genome engineering powerhouse, and for good reason. It is guided by an RNA ...
  3. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    ... ligands can elicit varying degrees of β-arrestin-2 recruitment to receptors, indicating their agonistic...fluorescent labels. In Nature Methods (Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 149–158). Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038...and mitophagy, can be tracked using dyes like Rhodamine 123 (R123) (Liu et al., 2017). In multi-color ...diffraction limit of light. Dyes like silicon-rhodamine or Janelia Fluor (JF) dyes have specific properties...
  4. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...immediate early gene expression. Genes Dev. 1988 Jun;2(6):718-29. doi: 10.1101/gad.2.6.718. PMID: 2843425...Targeted Gene Expression in Drosophila.” Genetics 186(2) (2010): 735-55. PubMed PMID: 20697123. PubMed Central... in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197-214. PubMed PMID: 22129153. Additional...//doi.org/10.1186/1472-6750-6-43Kaczmarczyk A, Vorholt JA, Francez-Charlot A. Cumate-inducible gene expression...
  5. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    ...with neuron-specific expression of dCas9-VPR (Figure 2), a popular Cas9 activator developed by the Church...Patrick Miller-Rhodes from the University of Rochester Medical Center. Patrick Miller-Rhodes is currently...This post was contributed by Patrick Miller-Rhodes, a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellow at ...
  6. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...articles, such as: Sander JD & Joung JK, Nature Biotech, 2 March 2014. Or browse the articles related to the ...be inserted into the genome using CRISPR/Cas forHomologous Recombination (HR)? How long should the homology...
  7. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...another. You’ll need to validate that points 1 and 2 hold true under your specific experimental conditions...when (1) other strategies may not be feasible and (2) large-scale proteomic and transcriptomic datasets...your bioinformatics skills (or your friendly neighborhood bioinformatician) to look at RNA expression ...
  8. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    ...products have distinct localizations. Figure 2: Split-wrmScarlet labeling proteins with different...a Cre-dependent, soma-targeting inhibitory channelrhodopsin. It’s now available as AAV5. Find the AAV...
  9. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ...PubMed PMID: 9618448. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC98921. 2. Rakowski, Sheryl A., and Marcin Filutowicz. "Plasmid.... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC390392. 4. Feinbaum, Rhonda. "Introduction to plasmid biology." Current Protocols...
  10. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ...work. Nobody wins, and you need to make a change. #2 Thou shalt sometimes put work ahead of life Sometimes...Automation and Screening (SLAS) Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood.   Work/life balance. Is it truly possible to...
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