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  1. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...colleagues have developed a new genetically-encoded voltage indicator (GEVI) called JEDI-2P (Liu et al...Verkhusha’s lab has generated a new genetically encoded calcium indicator using small monomeric NIR fluorescent...Tuning the Sensitivity of Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Potassium Indicators through Structure-Guided...colleagues present an improved genetically encoded temperature indicator B-gTEMP designed to meet those... B-gTEMP itself is a significant improvement over previous temperature indicators, it also demonstrates...doi: 10.1038/s41592-022-01597-x. New glutamate indicator iGluSnFR3 Improving on the glutamate sensor iGluSnFR...They generated variants optimized for different applications (v82 has higher affinity for glutamate but slower...
  2. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...or macromolecule. Biotin can be added enzymatically or chemically. Enzymatic biotinylation occurs naturally...molecular biology applications for biotin and avidin. A short list of some other common applications and links...downstream application. Biotin labelled oligonucleotides can be used in a multitude of applications including...post-translational modification of exceptional specificity.” Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 24.9 (1999b... M. “Biotin: The forgotten vitamin.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 75.2 (2002): 179–180. PubMed...dye-labeled molecules on surfaces.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 125.27 (2003): 8074–8075. PubMed PMID...this highly specific post-translational protein modification. Most organisms have less than five enzymes ...
  3. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ... and LV have been used successfully in preclinical and clinical settings for ocular conditions. However...used in clinical trials, a variety of engineered ones have shown great promise in preclinical studies ...that I got into the field of gene therapy, more specifically AAV-based retinal gene therapy. The year was... Gelsinger in an adenovirus-based gene therapy clinical trial gone horribly wrong. It brought the whole...scientists, doctors and patients hope are many more clinical successes for gene (and cell) therapies. One may... over 25 years ago when completing her PhD and medical training in Ophthalmology. Gene therapy was in ... time advances in human genetics led to the identification of several disease-causing genes, including...
  4. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...process allows you to physically magnify a sample so you don’t have to optically magnify quite so much...compatible with conventional antibodies, chemical dyes, and genetically encoded fluorescent proteins (Gambarotto... and the physical properties of the sample itself. For example, cultured cells are typically easier to...promises an easier, more accessible way to image biological features previously only visible via techniques...with an abundance of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this...experiment or evaluating ExM images in a new publication.         Why Expansion Microscopy?  Traditional...techniques also require specialized instruments and technical expertise, limiting their accessibility (Prakash...
  5. What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry

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    July 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...present.  Purification reagent contaminants The reagents used during nucleic acid purification can leave...thiocyanate (used in many plasmid purification kits), which can dramatically reduce the A260/230 ratio at ...Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit Resources on Addgene.org DNA Quantification Protocol Recovering... and are ready to move on to your downstream application — but wait! Do you know how much plasmid DNA ...(Figure 1B). The A260/230 ratio can be a good indicator of protein contamination, but a number of other...researchers traditionally use the A260/280 ratio as an indicator of protein contamination. However, this ratio ...suggest that the A260/280 ratio does not drop significantly until protein levels exceed 70% of the sample...
  6. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...dCas9-fusion proteins has dramatically increased the potential applications of CRISPR/Cas9 in genome-engineering... tools for all-optical electrophysiology A major challenge in the field of all-optical electrophysiology... the perfect voltage indicator and optogenetic actuator pair. Ideally, indicators should possess fast ...sensitivity. This hierarchical screen led to the generation of two enhanced voltage indicators: QuasAr1 and...temporal control over CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome modification and gene expression. The plasmids associated... system widely accessible for many potential applications. Polstein LR & Gersbach CA, Nat Chem Biol ...expression Brilliant technologies adopt basic biological concepts and employ them in creative and innovative...
  7. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...SR, Bird A (2017) Radically truncated MeCP2 rescues Rett syndrome-like neurological defects. Nature 550...awareness and published his observations in a German medical journal. Decades later and after years of painstaking...silenced by a Lox-Stop cassette, resulting in the neurological deficits observed in Rett Syndrome. Restoring... tamoxifen-inducible Cre not only halted the neurological damage but completely reversed it, regardless...this interaction to varying degrees determine the clinical severity of different MECP2 mutations. More recently...the MECP2 protein is necessary to rescue the neurological defects of Rett syndrome (Tillotson et al., ...detrimental as too little, resulting in MECP2 duplication syndrome or Rett Syndrome, respectively. One ...
  8. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    April 13, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... editing in Escherichia coli. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. https://doi.org/10.1093/abbs/gmab036...far, we’ve used the MUCICAT system in two ways: In our initial paper, we used MUCICAT to optimize the gene...industrial strain. Not only is MUCICAT better, it is faster. Using MUCICAT only needs 2 newly constructed...engineered cells for green chemistry and biomedical applications.   Yiwen Zhang entered the Sheng Yang Lab...integration using CRISPR-associated transposases” or MUCICAT. Here, we’ll describe each of these CRISPR systems...providing users with a complete editing process. The MUCICAT system While the above systems are great for experiments...chromosomal integration (ex: genome editing), our MUCICAT system which is based on the CRISPR-associated ...
  9. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...regulator. Other methods for physical shearing exist as well, such as sonication and needle shearing. Essentially... whole genome amplification (by a mechanism known as multiple displacement amplification) even in the ...proteins! Many thanks to our guest blogger Jessica Sacher! Jessica Sacher is a microbiology PhD student at...Their Viruses." Chemical Reviews (2016). PubMed PMID: 27319741. 3. Simpson, David J., Jessica C. Sacher, and...This post was contributed by guest blogger, Jessica Sacher, a microbiology PhD student at the University...bacteria) may be the most numerous and most diverse biological entities on our planet, but we still know collectively...adding methyl groups, glycosyl groups, and other modifications to their bases in order to protect their DNA...
  10. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    Feb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m.
    ...them. An easy way to do this is gel purification. In gel purification, you use a voltage difference across...backbone. Sample results indicative of successful and unsuccessful ligations are indicated below. A successful...grow overnight cultures for DNA purification. The simplest purification you can do is a miniprep, but if... maxiprep. In these purifications, you generally lyse the bacteria; add chemicals to precipitate out the...that can be easily maintained in a variety of biological systems. Read on for an in-depth breakdown of...digests. Of course there’s much more detail and verification required for the process to work well, so let...backbone. Because you lose some DNA during the gel purification step, it is important to digest plenty of starting...
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