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  1. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...larger. And since the library contains many plasmids, care must be taken to ensure that all of these plasmids...powerful research tool, but their proper use requires careful amplification and maintenance of good representation...
  2. Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition

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    Aug. 22, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...institute where their typical workdays will be carried out until the end of the appointment. The visiting...don’t forget to have fun! Visiting is an amazing career opportunity, but also a really good time! If it...
  3. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...Number of chromosomes 16 3 4 Preferred carbon source Glucose Glucose Glucose, methanol,...meaning it can utilize methanol as its sole source of carbon and energy (as well as glucose or glycerol). K....
  4. Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria

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    Aug. 2, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...decolorized as gram negative. A German scientist, Carl Weigert, later expanded on Gram’s discovery, adding...resources.   Bruckner, M. Gram Staining. https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/research_methods/microscopy/gramstain.html...
  5. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...intensity and/or duration. Both of these strategies carry the risk of off-target effects. Harald Janovjak ...of both DsRed fluorescence and GFP shRNA. Mice carrying the R26DsRedR; CRUSH-GFP; and Nestin-Cre alleles...lack release factor one (RF-1; Bacterial strain EcAR7) and minimizing the set of plasmids required to ...
  6. Plasmids 101: Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)

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    Sept. 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... be assembled in a unique order with no cloning scars. The Elledge Lab showed that a five-piece assembly...researchers doing large amounts of cloning. Assembly is scarless, unlike Gateway cloning, and the method’s flexibility...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype

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    April 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...regions of the brain. However, the Cre-dependent AAV cargo would only become activated in the presence of Cre...design and interpretation of results. Take extra care when evaluating how this serotype works in your ...
  8. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    Feb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly. Have a physical copy on hand as... to Getting Started in Undergrad Research Early Career Researcher Toolbox  8 Tactics for Choosing a Lab...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ...clearly and strategically is powerful in almost any career. It allows you to share and build support for your...with two single-panel figures, one of which was a cartoon of the protein.) In the middle of my presentation...
  10. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...PEG10 RNA sequences to instead drive packaging of cargo sequences in the capsid, in an approach called Selective...Figure 1: SEND combines an endogenous Gag homolog, cargo RNA, and fusogen in a modular system for delivering...
  11. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    Sept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
    ... disease. “My mentors Dr. Dianna Milewicz, Dr. Carolyn Bondy, and Dr. Angela Lin got me interested in ...is abnormally deregulated in TS and can lead to cardiac developmental defects. Eight genes from the X chromosome...
  12. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    July 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m.
    ..., including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol gallstone disease, senescent...such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature...
  13. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...not yet fully understood, so it is important to carefully select the target locations of knock-in studies...systems offer a number of different options. By carefully considering your ncRNA of interest, you should...
  14. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for follow-up DNA oligos to arrive. We also were careful to set up clear tasks for each member of the team...Sciences at Arizona State University. His group carries out research in synthetic biology, nanomaterials...
  15. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the molecular biology to learning how to grow and care for the worms. As an example of one of the problems...cheap using equipment that would otherwise be discarded. For instance, the centrifuge in the picture had...
  16. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...pU6cm promoter, viral replicon amplification of cargo, and heat treatment.  Figure 1: Left: recombined...and adopts an open conformation in the absence of cargo. bioRxiv 2024.12.20.629623; doi: https://doi.org...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    July 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...can be transfected with your transfer plasmid, carrying your gene of interest, and the two helper plasmids...undergoing titering, to remove residual plasmid DNA carried over from the production process. For more details...
  18. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the Gateway Cloning Platform (Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA) that represents 180 genes from the Ras signaling... 25877186. 4. Prior, Ian A., Paul D. Lewis, and Carla Mattos. "A comprehensive survey of Ras mutations...
  19. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... PITCh plasmic is cotransfected with a plasmid carrying Cas9, the PITCh-gRNA, and the locus-specifc gRNA... Contransfect the PITCh vector with the vector carrying Cas9 and the PITCh- and locus-specific gRNAs Step...
  20. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ...Sharpie to circle 12-48 individual colonies by (carefully) holding plates up to the light, where they appear...diluted from 10X and containing both Hepes and bicarbonate) is brought to room temperature and placed in...
  21. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ... exonuclease, a polymerase, and a DNA ligase to carry out a pooled set of ligations in an hour or less...one to simultaneously complete an ordered set of scarless ligations following digestion with Type II restriction...
  22. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ...15%, 25%, 40%, and 60% iodixanol solutions are carefully layered and then the viral suspension generated...digested to remove any residual AAV plasmid that was carried over from the AAV production process. Either SYBR...
  23. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...high-throughput experiments. If a user wants to carry out a high-throughput genetic screen, it is expensive...marker can be removed by Cre-mediated excision for scarless tag insertion.   In addition to the obvious advantages...
  24. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...this protein compartment was used to optimize D-glucaric acid biosynthesis. This MPyV system encapsulated...with this encapsulated enzyme produced 20% more D-glucaric acid, suggesting that MPyV system can improve ...
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