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  1. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    Dec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...have larger homology arms in the 500 bp to 1 kb range, however, shorter homology tracts have recently ...is a silent mutation, so you don’t accidentally change your protein of interest.   Fig. 2: Stop...to be efficacious for increasing knock-in events (Yang et al., Int J Mol Sci). Adding these inhibitors ...cutting. Cas12a may promote HDR by generating ssDNA overhangs at the break site – an early HR step (Moreno-Mateos...: 10524-10535 (2018). 1 10.1074/jbc.TM118.000372 Yang, H., Ren, S., Yu, S., Pan, H., et al. Methods favoring...
  2. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...regulations. A grant professional’s job duties can range from coordinating the grant application and submitting...government grantmakers. We keep up-to-date on the changing guidelines and regulations impacting grant management...government. Throughout these moves and program changes, I learned to write grants for health, housing,...within the city infrastructure. My career path changed when I was asked if I would consider consulting...evaluation and grant management.  Your niche will change over time. Going into the grants profession with...
  3. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    March 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ....0172913 Pubmed PMID: 28245276 Liu X, Wang D, Wang H, Feng E, Zhu L, Wang H (2012) Curing of Plasmid pXO1 from....0029875 Pubmed PMID: 22253811 Ni B, Du Z, Guo Z, Zhang Y, Yang R (2008) Curing of four different plasmids in...
  4. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...Lukas Villiger, Wenyuan Zhou, Kaiyi Jiang, Nathaniel Roberts, Liyang Zhang, Christopher A. Vakulskas, John...broadly similar to shRNA and Cas13 systems in a range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same ...Prime editing — the ability to now make any small changes, including base edits, insertions, and deletions...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ...doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2017.084 Li Q, Liu Q, Huang W, Li X, Wang Y (2017) Current status on the development...virus to either restrict or broaden the host cell range (tropism). Pseudotyping is only done on enveloped...513 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v12050513 Cronin J, Zhang X-Y, Reiser J (2005) Altering the Tropism of Lentiviral... Jennifer Tsang...
  6. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    Dec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...of diagnosis) is about 35 years, but it usually ranges from 20-50 years and sometimes longer. There is...mesothelioma is so rare, there’s not really much of a danger of getting the disease, even if you do happen to...options: Early detection, immunotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors New research is also going into two...bevacizumab (Avastin). This drug (known as an angiogenesis inhibitor) prevents the growth of new blood ...future generations will be protected from this dangerous material. This post was contributed by the Mesothelioma...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... could be screened for their affinity to a wide range of non-nucleotide targets. These RNA molecules, ...The key to aptamers’ flexibility is their broad range of targets, including proteins, peptides, amino ...ions, and cells (even pathogenic bacteria). That range is possible because aptamers can either fold to ...- since they frequently undergo conformational changes after target binding, aptamers are highly customizable... 26877022. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4800036. 12. Wang, Rongsheng E., et al. “Aptamer-Based Fluorescent...
  8. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...technology? See our improved CRISPR-Cas Guide. Wang et al., Science. 2014. Jan 3;343(6166):80-4. Shalem...a mutant of the fluorescent protein dsRed that changes irreversibly its color from green to red when it... show its usefulness in cell culture to report changes in mitochondrial turnover and transport. pMitoTimer...green) protein and organelles with older (yellow to orange) protein. Image courtesy of Roberta Gottlieb. ...sites, and provides a modular system for easier exchange and re-use of existing elements. DNA sequences... and Dieter Söll at Yale University previously changed the way researchers can explore important questions...site, and permits DNA fragments with compatible overhangs to be efficiently assembled. Scientists can engineer...
  9. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...10.7554/elife.06100 Liu, L. S., Zhao, L. Y., Wang, S. H., & Jiang, J. P. (2016). Research proceedings on amphibian...doi.org/10.1159/000504294 Wang, T., Guan, C., Guo, J., Liu, B., Wu, Y., Xie, Z., Zhang, C., & Xing, X.-H. (...addition, axolotls have many age-related phenotypic changes that are similar to those observed in humans. Thus...
  10. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    Jan. 26, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... technology. Links: Zhang Lab’s CRISPR FAQs CRISPR forum moderated by the Zhang lab CRISPR Challenges... aging, and other harmful processes. The most dangerous type of DNA lesion results from breakage of both... is resected by nucleases to create a ssDNA 3’ overhang. This will serve as both a substrate for proteins...or on the non-crossing strand (vertically at the orange arrows). If resolved dissimilarly (e.g. one junction...
  11. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...to simultaneously test how multiple amino acid changes affect a protein of interest’s function. This technique...combination and possibly discover unexpected epistatic changes in protein activity. See Natarajan et al for an...mutagenic primers to introduce all desired codon changes (step 1 in the image above). A second universal...This results in the final product having a codon change present on both strands of the plasmid. The ssDNA...PMC4409680. 2. Mccullum, E. O., Williams, B. A., Zhang, J., & Chaput, J. C. (2010). “Random Mutagenesis...
  12. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    July 10, 2018, 1:08 p.m.
    ...How are you currently exchanging information with your team? If you need to exchange information regarding...types of ELNs are available on the market today, ranging from general note taking tools, to more scientific....e. main priorities of different ELN features, ranging from whether respondents saw them as not important...which they are sure that there will be no sharp changes in costs once they establish the system within ...
  13. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...publication at Addgene.  Lei Y, Zhang X, Su J, Jeong M, Gundry MC, Huang Y-H, Zhou Y, Li W, Goodell MA ... at Addgene. Xu X, Tao Y, Gao X, Zhang L, Li X, Zou W, Ruan K, Wang F, Xu G, Hu R (2016) A CRISPR-based... from this publication at Addgene. Maeder ML, Angstman JF, Richardson ME, Linder SJ, Cascio VM, Tsai ...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Zingg, B., Chou, X. lin, Zhang, Z. gang, Mesik, L., Liang, F., Tao, H. W., & Zhang, L. I. (2017). AAV-Mediated...the region you want to cover - and as your titer changes, so may your needed volume (de Backer et al., 2010...
  15. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    Jan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m.
    ... 2018 and last updated Jan 27, 2021 by Jennifer Tsang. We have some crisp new CRISPR material for you!...template, CRISPR can be used to introduce a functional change in the DNA sequence. Base Editors: Modified versions...versions of CRISPR nucleases that make single base changes in the DNA sequence without completely cutting ...other Cas proteins continue to expand the targeting range. CRISPR can be difficult to deliver. Not all cells...
  16. Editor's Choice, October 2016

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    Nov. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...had record readership with over 75,000 views. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages Our most...information for anyone considering a postdoc. In “Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages,” Future...for some of these institutions to manage these changes quickly and harmlessly. Learn much more about the...Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages I hope...
  17. Grad School Advice Part 2: Building Community

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    Oct. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... causes this dip. 11:11 - 15:37 : How have you changed throughout graduate school? - The importance of...to give to younger graduate students   Check Out Angela Depace's Talk on "Precision and Plasticity in Mentoring... studies developmental gene regulation with Dr. Angela DePace in the Department of Systems Biology, and... genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She enjoys chromosome biology and reading Ben ...
  18. Download Science-Themed Zoom Backgrounds from Addgene

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    April 22, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Zoom’s default backgrounds all year and want a change? Addgene has you covered. Today we’re releasing...Plasmids 101 videos and needed a break so they're hanging out with Aavery in this Zoom video background. ...plasmids as well as transfer plasmids. Download the orange lentivirus background.         We also have ready-to-use...our fluorescent protein background. Download the orange fluorescent protein background.           Did...
  19. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...dye emits green, yellow and orange photons while PE emits yellow and orange photons. If FITC and PE were...of the protein. In some cases this can lead to changes or a complete loss of protein function. In addition...determine the relative contribution of yellow and orange from FITC and that from PE. During compensation...10.1002/cpim.40 Picot J, Guerin CL, Le Van Kim C, Boulanger CM (2012) Flow cytometry: retrospective, fundamentals...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...) are fluorescent proteins that display unique changes in their spectral properties upon exposure to a...fluorescent states to high fluorescence states, they can change from one fluorescent color to another, or their...Activating Light Pre/ Post Color Contrast (Fold Change in Fluorescence) Brightness Excitation/ Emission...PMID:26167640. PubMed Central PMCID:PMC4597790. 14.Wang, Yingxiao, John Y-J. Shyy, and Shu Chien. "Fluorescence...
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