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...Working on the scientific support team at Addgene, I get to see everything that can go wrong with a plasmid...DNA yield. Test multiple, small colonies After streaking LB agar plates, you may notice that there are ...recombined product tend to grow faster, so we recommend picking the smaller colonies which are more likely to carry...the recombined vector backbone, you can try re-streaking for single colonies and testing multiple preps...

...inclination to be a teacher was looking for an outlet. I started asking people: why do you do what you ...bioscience into context, while at the same time working through the details of experimental design and ...of science communication professionals who are thinking about, for example, how to use new technologies...

...Plasmagenes? In the 1940s and 50s, scientists were working to understand genetic cytoplasmic factors that ...and we’ve been using "plasmid" ever since! From napkins to notebooks Although discovered in the early 1950s...initiated at a Hawaiian deli in 1972. Using a deli napkin for paper, a small group of scientists including... curate, and distribute them all in the name of making it a little bit easier for scientists to conduct...

...established in yeast, including a widely used Parkinson’s experimental model. In fact, approximately 25%...phaffii is highly efficient at protein secretion, making harvesting recombinant proteins a cinch. This is...it doesn’t secrete its own endogenous proteins, making the recombinant protein its major secretion. Beyond...players in the game (even beyond K. phaffii ) worth looking into whether you’re just dipping your toes into...

...Will the job require public speaking? Will you be leading a group or working as part of team? Will you .... It is all too easy to get tunnel vision when working towards a specific goal, and when you realise that...often be misleading. Key aspects to determine are working hours (9am-5pm Mon-Fri or overtime and weekends...

...amplification looks like, but by looking at these kinds of graphs, making sure few/no plasmids have dropped... the key points you’ll need to remember when undertaking library amplification and sequencing. Maintain...

...will define positive selection as the means of picking up positive traits (i.e. the plasmid contains a...toxin), whereas negative selection would be the picking up of a negative trait (i.e. the plasmid contains...Conferring Resistance Cell Types* Mode of Action** Working Concentation*** Blasticidin bsd  HeLa, NIH3T3...transfection when creating stable cell lines. Looking for Mammalian Expression Plasmids? Check Out Addgene's...

...gate which selects anything to the right of it, marking it as GFP+. Quantification for such graphs could...plot! The dreaded smear - fear not! When you are looking to study the level of protein expression, instead...Figure 2). These smears tend to occur when you are looking at proteins that are expressed regularly in cells...percentage positive or negative in your dot plot, looking at a histogram vs antibody plot would be better...

... the experiment in my head, double-checking details, or just taking a moment to relax. During really stressful...worth doing, and doing well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly. Have ...however, many ways for you to reduce the chances of making an error. Try a variety of things, including (and...

...spread of COVID-19. That’s why we’re proud to be working with Ginkgo Bioworks to synthesize and share over...analyzed first thing the following day. Nothing like waking up to fresh data! These same plasmids are then ...ensuring our rigorous QC standards are met, we are taking a unique hybrid approach compared to our standard...high throughput platforms, Addgene and Ginkgo are striking a balance by modifying certain processes in both...

...and molecular biologists use to tinker with DNA. Making changes to a DNA sequence can help scientists identify...components: the error prone PolI3M that’s fused to a nicking Cas9 (nCas9). Similar to mutagenesis with error...error-prone polymerase (PolI) that is fused to a nicking Cas9. A guide directs Cas9 to a site of interest...changes promote nCas9’s dissociation from DNA after nicking and yielded an enhance nCas9 (enCas9) EvolvR with...

... with translatable skills: working with data, working with people, working with complex processes Arm ...Ginkgo Bioworks, our software development team was working on lab operations software for next-gen sequencing...

...work best for your scientific question? If you’re thinking, ‘wait, those terms mean different things?!’, ... to clearly define what type of factor you are looking for and what process or outcome that factor functions... advantage – that is, you are not specifically looking at cells that can survive. Instead, all manipulations... screens are similar to CRISPR, but instead of knocking out the genes of interest (or the whole genome...

...question more and more students are asking. Teachers are also asking, “How do I engage my students in real-world...outcomes by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, persistence, teamwork, and communication. And... the only informal synthetic biology club of its kind, running from start to finish during the academic...

...Ku then acts as a scaffold for recruitment of a kinase (DNA-PKcs) and a two subunit DNA ligase (XRCC4-...heterogeneous when constrained by sequence identities in flanking sequence (“microhomologies”). NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily...Renouf B, Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, ...Inoue A, Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F (2013) Double Nicking by RNA-Guided CRISPR Cas9 for Enhanced Genome Editing...

...Developmental Editor at F1000Research.  With many changes taking place in the world of science publishing, and an...include in my paper? More and more journals are asking for detailed information on lab resources, such...enough information to replicate your experiments, making research more reproducible and your results more...journals as possible at the same time. Take your time picking the appropriate journal and explain in your cover...

...note: in this table, reprogramming efficiencies ranking as low, medium or high is based on the reprogramming... pluripotency of mouse cells typically involves making chimeras by injecting iPSCs into blastocysts and... injecting iPSCs into immunodeficient mice and looking for tumors that contains cells from all three germ...of iPSCs is the number one priority, with safety taking lower priority. Genomic integration is less of ... and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. "Methods for making induced pluripotent stem cells: reprogramming à...

...with a heterozygous 4 bp deletion in MYBPC3 donated skin, blood and semen samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids...of only 27.9% and homology-directed repair (HDR) taking place in 41.2% of edited cells. The results were...CRISPR editing. Conclusions & implications One striking feature of this paper is the failure of the embryos...comprised of individuals with varied backgrounds. Talking about this study with non-biologist friends Like...

...autophagosomal membranes, so tagging it with GFP allows for tracking the localization or accumulation of pre-autophagosomal...an autophagy-independent manner. Additionally, tracking Atg8p or LC3 doesn’t provide information about...easier to study the mechanisms behind autophagy by tracking what’s being transported to the yeast vacuole ...vacuole (i.e. cytosol, mitochondria), rather than tracking generic autophagy markers. It’s particularly useful...

...promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making it even harder to cure cancer. To understand how...factor, vascular endothelial growth factor, and interleukin-6 (Witkiewicz et al., 2009) which contribute ...metastasis of tumors through inciting inflammation. Speaking of inflammation, a noteworthy cell type in the...Witz, Isaac P. "The tumor microenvironment: the making of a paradigm." Cancer Microenvironment 2.1 (2009...

...like cross-linking immunoprecipitation (CLIP) identify RNA-protein interactions by cross-linking RNAs and...enrichment compared to E. coli’s BirA*. Faster labeling kinetics also means that BASU could potentially be used...RaPID RaPID sounds like a nifty technique, but what kinds of questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al...

...the design of flanking overhangs. Although there are theoretically 256 distinct flanking sequences, sequences...their recognition sequence, creating four base flanking overhangs. Since these overhangs are not part ...clone up to 7 gRNAs into one destination vector, making multiplexing easy.  Disadvantages of Golden Gate...

...by starting with the least-abundant protein and working toward the most abundant. If the abundance of your...precipitates that permanently stain the membrane, making that section of the blot unusable for reprobing...ll want to check for the primary antibody by re-blocking your membrane and re-incubating with your secondary...is the one time in western blotting that you’re looking for a “blank” result! If some signal remains, you...

... one place... well, lucky for you one is in the making by Dr. Zhuhao Wu and his colleagues! Dr. Wu and...for low-cost, high-quality antibodies for IHC. Working with collaborators and support from the Brain Research...enable scientists to have an intuitive guide for checking their staining and neuroanatomy without the fear...by submitting data, sending antibodies, and/or working with Dr. Wu please contact us here! Ava Shipman...

...localization in cells, or even single-particle tracking of the bound complex. There are so many FPs available...TagBiFC technique allows long-term single-molecule tracking of protein-protein interactions in living cells... can even be bright enough for single-molecule tracking in live cells.  Controls  When designing experiments...Proteins Plasmids and Resources Reference Feng, S., Sekine, S., Pessino, V. et al. (2017) Improved split fluorescent...

...  Second, plasmids are easy to store and share, making recombinant antibodies the most practical choice... and producing antibodies from plasmids is much kinder to our animal friends! Finally, if we want better...improve genetically-encoded research tools, it is shocking that the plasmids and sequences for antibodies...10.1038/520295b Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B,...

...Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible degron...Epigenetic engineering with single-pot assembly By Eric Perkins Though it’s easy enough to contemplate DNA in terms... own engineering plasmid tools in about a week. Taking advantage of Golden Gate cloning, the Haynes lab...human body and G-baToN provides versibility in tracking and modulating the interactions between cells....

...tweet in order to easily access it later. Pro tip Checking the number of retweets, likes, and comments on...recent papers that the scientific community is talking about and jumping into the discussion! Semantic...altmetric score, is also displayed in your feed. By clicking on a paper in your feed you can see suggested ...Career Research Toolbox blog posts on free tools for making scientific graphics post and social media for scientists...

...another optimized platform. Gene Stacking As the name implies, gene stacking is the use of a combination of...engineering complex cellular behaviors requires making complex manipulations to cells. For example: in...reagents and strategies are not available to those working with yeast or plants. Using MoClo, or better yet...

...This disease is caused by mutations in the common cytokine receptor gamma chain (c) and is characterized ...deficiency, Cystic fibrosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Parkinson’s disease, and HIV. A notable landmark study showed...AAV-based gene therapies are promising, scientists are working to overcome key challenges to their efficacy:  ...AAV vectors used to treat them. Scientists are working to overcome this issue by developing new capsids...