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  1. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Technique is Best for Me?

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    Oct. 10, 2017, 1:57 p.m.
    ... microscopy technique to incorporate optical sectioning. Optical sectioning refers to the ability to extract...Super-resolution microscopy uses a number of optical and chemical ‘tricks’ to turn subsets of fluorescent ...Richardson, Director of the Harvard Center for Biological Imaging and a Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular...are a sports photographer at the Super Bowl, a medical technologist taking an x-ray, or a biologist imaging...excitation volumes to enhance spatial contrast (i.e. optical sectioning (2) or super-resolution (3). Fluorescence...before reaching the detector. The pinhole is specifically placed to only allow light from the focal plane...of a sample. Therefore, when a large number of optical slices are acquired all fluorophores throughout...
  2. Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm

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    July 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... sport athletes, as well as the ethical and health policy implications arising from sport-related concussion... years of exclusively writing lab reports and empirical essays had also stirred some of my more creative...begun my journey towards a career in science communication, an established field of inquiry with which ...University of Otago’s Department of Science Communication the following year and, having thoroughly enjoyed...straight on to a master's degree in science communication. The first year of the course involved a whirlwind...world of industry. Along this road, science communication graduates are often well-equipped. Many institutions...truly benefit others. Herein, a good science communicator—with an understanding of how to appeal to a ...
  3. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    May 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.
    ...transmitted transsynaptically). This is because the recombinant forms of these viruses typically used in ...able to replicate, and for a virus to cross a synapse from one cell to another, it must replicate. Modified...tracing, it has two practical limitations. First, these high levels of viral replication are toxic. Second... well as to only spread monosynaptically from these cells. These modifications take advantage of the fact... became foundational later on when we studied biological processes, like how our stem cells are housed... thus, are a major part of the answer to many biological questions about the brain. To address this, molecular...enter cells and deliver a variety of cargoes, genetically engineered neurotropic viruses emerged as powerful...
  4. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...desired modification. Finally, the positive clones are sequenced to confirm the desired modification and ...polymerase activity (for amplification), 3’->5’ exonuclease activity (increases amplification fidelity), and no... genome modifications. Occasionally, multimerization of the PCR primers can cause duplication of the primer...the desired modification have been identified (and confirmed to be free of primer duplications), final validation...used to mutate the PAM sequence (an NGG sequence critical for Cas9 cleavage), thereby rendering the resulting...and the absense of additional modifications.   Site-directed mutagenesis of Plasmids. A) Generation..., which flank the targeted region. Upon PCR amplification, the template is removed by DpnI restriction...
  5. Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors

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    Feb. 25, 2014, 7:11 p.m.
    ...recombination. Yeast Replicating plasmids (YRp):  These vectors contain an Autonomously Replicating Sequence (ARS...These vectors replicate as though they are small independent chromosomes and are thus typically found as a...not necessarily promote replication.  Selection markers for yeast Historically, scientists have utilized...mammalian vectors, will catch you up on the core replication and resistance features of yeast vectors and ...proteins yet they still share many of the same technical advantages that come with working with prokaryotes...includes but is not limited to: rapid growth, ease of replica plating and mutant isolation, a well-defined genetic...mutation. Yeast expression plasmids used in the lab typically contain all the necessary components to allow ...
  6. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    May 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...are used across species: replication, selection, and expression. Replication It’s usually not enough to...chromosome has a single origin of replication (ori), where DNA replication begins, so a bacterial plasmid...Eukaryotes are a bit more complicated. Yeast vectors may contain an autonomously replicating sequence (ARS), a...fast-growing populations of cells, the vector needs to replicate alongside its host, or it will be lost from the...compatible ori that will be recognized by its host’s replication machinery. A shuttle vector designed for unrelated...experiment. Yeast shuttle vectors have these replication sequences for their yeast targets as well as ...episomal vectors is to include viral oris to drive amplification, which helps increase cellular uptake, but this...
  7. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...systems have been used as biological tools for a wide range of applications in molecular biology or in...activity of CcdB. Applications of ccdB in plasmid cloning Perhaps the most widely used application of CcdB is...selection markers. Restriction modification systems Because restriction modification systems consist of two enzymes...types of plasmid addiction systems and their applications. The discovery of toxin-antitoxin systems Toxin-antitoxin...CcdA (antitoxin) where CcdB inferes with DNA replication by binding the GyrA subunit of DNA gyrase and...construct. Other toxin-antitoxin systems and their applications MazE/MazF Aside from CcdB/CcdA, there are many...counterselectable marker to create unmarked genetic modifications in the yeast Pichia pastoris. By combining both...
  8. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...a tail, and when gap junction-mediated electrical communication is briefly inhibited in the entire worm...fluorescent reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to...thing that comes to mind. However, ion-based communication is not just for neurons. Non-neuronal cells ...It's just that for non-neural cells, ion-based communication happens at a slightly slower scale.  All living...living cells with a membrane possess an electrical state. This state, known as the resting potential (... (Vmem), can be measured as the imbalance of electrical charge between the inside and the outside of the...bioelectricity is revealing the important role of bioelectrical signaling mediated by ion-channels and pumps...
  9. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    June 14, 2018, 11:44 a.m.
    ...Each round of amplification should result in a 10-100-fold increase in virus. Purification (2 days) - Purification... Purification is required if rAdV is to be used in vivo. The standard method for purification of rAdV ...or 10 days) Physical titer (particle count, rAdV genomes/mL) can be measured by: Optical density: particle...vectors (AdV) are attractive vectors for research applications and gene therapy: they can be produced at high...AdVs is what makes them ideal candidates for applications in oncolysis and vaccination!) In the 65 years...years since its discovery, researchers have done significant work to improve the Adv genome’s utility in research...Adenovirus-mediated gene delivery: Potential applications for gene and cell-based therapies in the new...
  10. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...are currently approved or have made significant progress in clinical trials.     Figure 1: Types...editor-based clinical trial for SCD in 2022 and Editas Medicine starting a Cas12-based clinical trial for...choice. In sum, CRISPR therapies have made significant clinical strides since we first wrote this blog post... no longer an accurate descriptor; progress in clinical therapy is more fitting, so it is time to update...some solid tumors are currently in early-phase clinical trials and have shown promising preliminary results...introduction of the cancer-fighting component, CAR. Clinical trials are underway to explore CRISPR’s capacity...for these diseases was sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics. Data shared from these...
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