Skip to main content

We narrowed to 855 results for: NTS

Showing: 101 - 110 of 855 results
  1. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ...expensive reagents and equipment like incubators, micropipettes, and plate readers. Instead, students can use...melanin production, allowing students to explore cell metabolism. Plasmid components of CRISPRkit are now available...limited compared to other colors. Two recent developments add to this part of the spectrum: PinkyCaMP ...designs offer promising templates for future improvements. Find PinkyCaMP plasmids and FRCaMPi plasmids...its unique microenvironment, immobilizing the components and altering the composition and dynamics. The...choose from! Find plasmids to probe condensate microenvironments here! Mensah, M. A., Niskanen, H., et al....Zhang, Y., et al. (2025). Probing condensate microenvironments with a micropeptide killswitch. Nature, 643...
  2. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    July 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...electrophoresis. Smaller fragments migrate quicker than larger fragments. These fragments are quantified over...the DNA such that smaller fragments are quantified first before larger fragments. Figure 1: The quantification...units over time. Smaller fragments migrate more quickly than larger fragments. Image from OpenWetWare....your DNA prep and whether there are any other contaminants. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) absorb maximally...quick and simple and doesn’t require any special reagents. However, there’s limited sensitivity at low concentrations...piece of DNA. This method is best used for DNA fragments (like a PCR product). This method also gives an...a few minutes per sample. During the run, DNA fragments move through a micro- or nanofluidic channel and...
  3. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...literature. Data reported from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand if ... and output is generated through measurement of events. An event is something that passes through the ...axis to generate a dot plot (Figure 1). Clustered events are called a population.                           ...left, it might make more sense once you realize events are plotted on an invisible Cartesian plane (right...real-world data is far messier than biorender plots, quadrants can still help me as a reader if I'm struggling...strategy from Barlow-Anacker et al., 2017, with quadrants to help visualize the different populations. Used...populations; this indicates the percentage of total events contained in the gated population. Heat maps are...
  4. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Oct. 9, 2018, 12:21 p.m.
    ... protocol or reagents, do you understand all of the steps? Do you know how the reagents have been validated...preparation) A history of successful funding (fellowship grants) A project with sufficient preliminary data to...couple of months and requires that all of the experiments have been completed. Therefore, to be ready to...postdoctoral mentor. A good mentor typically writes the grants that fund your research, guides the research directions...provide expertise in designing and interpreting experiments, as well as career guidance. In my own experience...the methodology and can have confidence in the reagents and outcomes. This is preferable to finding out...work for your specific assay. "Quick and dirty" experiments often eat far more of your time as they can result...
  5. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    June 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...fluorescence imaging strategies use widely varying amounts of excitation power (Shaner et al, 2008). In confocal...to predict how fluorophores perform in ‘real experiments’, it is advisable to perform time-lapse imaging...with low excitation power. By repeating these measurements for different fluorescent proteins and by comparing...protein distribution. Therefore, photostability measurements can be performed with soluble fluorescent proteins.... It should be noted that the photostability measurements reported in the literature are performed in ... the experimental designs used to make these measurements and hope this information can help guide your...evolves over time. The second issue is that, in experiments that measure photostability, high excitation ...
  6. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...overhangs can be used to assemble multiple fragments - up to 10 fragments are commonly assembled in a single ...increased number of fragments, or the ligation of very small/very large fragments, these problems can ...homology at the ends of DNA fragments to specify assembly order, so fragments with 5’ or 3’ sequence homology...they can be customized to direct assembly of DNA fragments. When designed correctly, the recognition sites... These overhangs specify the desired order of fragments, and the loss of enzyme recognition sites after...BpiI/BbsI to efficiently assemble up to six DNA fragments at a time. As with all Golden Gate-based methods...outside their recognition site and permits DNA fragments with compatible overhangs to be efficiently assembled...
  7. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
    ...site-specific recombination events. The system consists of two components derived from the P1 bacteriophage...present; intramolecular events happen with greater frequency than intermolecular events, but any two sites ...series, we examined a number of important plasmid elements – promoters, origins of replication, protein tags...recognition site. The P1 bacteriophage uses these components as part of its natural viral life-cycle, and ...and researchers have adapted the components for use in genome manipulation. Cre recombinase, originally...allowing for broad applications in a variety of experiments. LoxP (locus of X(cross)-over in P1) sites are...modification can be restricted based on experimental constraints. This has been used for a wide range of purposes...
  8. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Sept. 16, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...PAM sequence of NGG (where N represents any base), their engineered variants are more permissive: SpG can... and mouse model systems, testing base editing variants, and assessing the safety of their intervention... al., 2020).  Five years later, three of these variants (ABE8.8, ABE8.20, and ABE8e) would be tested for...problem, Benjamin Kleinstiver’s lab engineered new variants of S. pyogenes Cas9. While the wild-type enzyme...in cellular models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of Cas9. With many PAMs available, a large number...the most efficient editing. In these initial experiments, SpG Cas9 came out on top. Narrowing PAM preferences...worked on the opposite project: engineering Cas9 variants with a preference for specific PAMs. Though near-PAMless...
  9. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...money on optimizing experiments, to false conclusions.  Figure 1. Potential points where DNA errors...shifts, missing elements, and nucleotide indels or mismatches in significant plasmid elements. Which differences...an important part of maintaining the quality of reagents, especially shared ones.  The importance of QC... propagation of plasmids in bacteria — has many points at which small errors can be introduced. Eventually...introduced, indicated by exclamation marks. Error points include places where DNA is being created, such...tags, promoters, and other critical functional components. Fun fact! Some older plasmids in our collection...each of their plasmids, from descriptions of key components of the plasmids to partial, full, or annotated...
  10. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

    Type
    Blog Post
    Published
    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...link together multiple fragments, allowing ordered assembly of multiple components into a destination vector...suitable for other model systems, including E. coli, plants, Drosophila, and zebrafish!   Why use multiplexed...(here, O1-4) adjacent to the cut sites “link” fragments together and drive ordered assembly into a Cas9...and thus the highest frequency of genome editing events. Yamamoto Lab Multiplex CRISPR/Cas9 Assembly Kit... with the Gersbach lab plasmids, multiple Cas9 variants are available: wt humanized Cas9, D10A nickase...clone your own entry vectors containing other Cas9 variants to use with the MuLE system. Multiplexing from...are also available from the Yang lab for use in plants. The mammalian multiplex systems use the Csy4 RNA...
Showing: 101 - 110 of 855 results