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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m....educational and great for lab life. These apps prevent you from constantly searching the interwebs for...important biological information, amino acid abbreviations, and structures into one convenient resource...say that I still have the single and triple abbreviations of the amino acids memorized, but the structures...
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Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2019, 2:08 p.m....altered by blue light illumination. This ability to reversibly bind and release a protein of interest in response...allows for tagless protein purification as well as reversibly regulation of endogenous signaling activity in...while cycling between dark and blue light which revealed a blue light-dependent shift in mCherry fluorescent... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....approach, your workflow, or your physical setup - to prevent the mistake, just like you would change variables...reagents from left to right as they use them. Prevent Interruptions If you need to focus, a large set...Down At the suggestion of a postdoc, to whom I am forever grateful, I started setting aside 3-5 minutes to... -
7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2021, 2:15 p.m....internship. Lastly, have your resume and cover letter revised by your network, which includes your friends, family...personality leap out of the page. Finally, as previously mentioned, enlist the help of your network to...week before the deadline. The day of submission, review your application with a fine comb and hit submit... -
Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m....Targeting inflammation in cancer prevention and therapy." Cancer Prevention Research 9.12 (2016): 895-905...effects of starvation on cancer therapy. Findings in previous animal studies suggested that fasting has a positive... -
Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m....-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae expression vectors are available at Addgene. ...-CoV-2 protein coding genes in E. coli and S. cerevisiae expression vectors in late March. The first set...available for scientists speedily meant that we had to revamp some of our quality control processes. For the ... -
Antibodies 101: ChIP
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m....formaldehyde or UV light to create strong but reversible bonds. This will keep the protein:DNA complexes...washing and then incubate with Proteinase K to reverse the crosslinking. Finally, purify your DNA with...Shengliu via Wikicommons. Okay, let’s do a quick review. At this point you have (1) crosslinked your proteins... -
CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 25, 2024, 2:15 p.m....wiki format and includes biochemical properties, previously established uses, and intended applications. ...resources and information For some researchers, the previous information may be all you need to start your ... burst of class 2 and derived variants. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18(2), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1038... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2023, 1 p.m....display. Pol, the last component, contains the reverse transcriptase and integrase components to convert...relevant viral genes (including the ones listed previously). E3/E1B suppresses both apoptosis and the host...matter to adenovirus production tips. For quick review, all of the elements discussed are compiled for... -
Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....strategy that works. But, those darn cancers have revealed many tricks up their sleeves and most patients...experiments. But, there have been two huge challenges preventing us from testing this hypothesis: There was no... this publication We also wrote an extensive review on the exciting new field we call “precision functional... -
Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m....methyltransferases, methylate DNA at particular sequences to prevent them from being degraded by restriction endonucleases...used for long term storage. Additional Resources Review of restriction modification systems NEB's Resource...describing Dam and Dcm Methylases Discovery of DpnI Review describing dam-/dcm- E. coli Resources on the ... -
Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m....next-generation sequencing. Sequencing the 16S rRNA reveals the identity of the organisms present while sequencing...16S rRNA isolated from the microbial community) reveals the RBS and allows translation of the reporter ...Cameron, et al. "A distributed cell division counter reveals growth dynamics in the gut microbiota." Nature ... -
Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.... are two heart defects that are 50 times more prevalent in women with TS. “The goal of our study is to...chromosome gene dosage in TS cells as a first step to reverse the developmental defects that cause heart problems...monitor intracellular signaling,” says Hébert. Previous research has shown that GNB1 mutations lead to... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m....Advanced microscopy, University of Amsterdam. The previous post in this series described a practical approach...photostable fluorescent protein. Photobleaching is the irreversible destruction of a fluorophore under the influence...photobleaching, fluorescent proteins may display reversible intensity changes (Shaner et al, 2008; Bindels... -
Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m....Chemistry. Chemical Reviews, 121(12), 6697–6698. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00469 Howarth,...plasmids Exchangeable HaloTag Ligands HaloTag Reversible binding of fluorescent ligands to HaloTag PCV-Cas9... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m....marriage of two simple platforms CRISPR has revolutionized how we decode the genome by making it easy ...CACCGNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGTTTGGGTCTTCGAGAAGACCTATTCXXXXXXXXC -3’; Reverse oligo: 5’- AATTGXXXXXXXXGAATAGGTCTTCTCGAAGACCCAAACNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNC... Traver, et al. "High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m....mutations in the PMM2 gene. Videira’s group recently reviewed and reported that PMM2-CDG patients suffer from... congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG): a review. J. Inherit. Metab. Dis. 39, 765–780 (2016). PubMed...acetylcholine. Given its unique molecular biology and previous approval by the FDA, GdnHCl could, in principle... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m....dust since the digital music revolution hit. I predict a similar revolution for antibodies. Recombinant...expression of the mAb-encoding genes or fail to revive after cryopreservation (Bradbury & Plückthun, 2015a... -
Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m....therefore already have ways to prevent AAV infection. For example, prevalence of neutralizing antibodies ...or potentially curing human diseases that were previously thought to be incurable. Rapid advances in next... -
A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Editing Technology at Beam Therapeutics, used a previously developed bacterial selection strategy (Gaudelli...more efficient. Informed by these mutations and previously described TadA mutations (Gaudelli et al., 2017...mitigated with the expression of fetal hemoglobin. Previous studies have shown that one base change in the...