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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....bacterial CRISPR targeting. Phage-derived vectors carry CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) targeting either genomic (blue... integrating into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance...hardest-to-kill bacteria. In using phage-derived vectors to carry CRISPR, we’re turning the tables on the bacteria...
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What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....generating interesting drug-like compounds especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease....disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird ...system (Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo) delivers Cas9 RNP to the arthropod germline by... -
Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m....vector can protect both plasmid-carrying bacteria and eukaryotes. But be careful — antibiotic mechanisms vary...and jump between all kingdoms of life. A bit of careful design will help make your experiment with shuttle... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....Cultures should only be passaged 20-30 times before discarding and thawing a fresh vial. In many labs, the history...Routinely test your cell line for mycoplasma and discard it if the culture has become overly confluent or...ensure high quality and reproducible results always care for your cell lines and virus properly and be consistent... -
Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m....’s which allow researchers to deliver oversized cargo (Hirsch et al., 2010). Today’s blog post will give... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064 Carvalho LS, Turunen HT, Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao...transduction following recombination between AAV vectors carrying parts of a larger gene. Nat Biotechnol 20:697–... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying on so called “housekeeping proteins.” Fully...approach is so common that we’ve used it for our cartoon gels so far. However, it throws both assumptions...Convenient! Comparison of loading control approaches Cartoons are nice and all, but we’ll leave you with this... -
Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....in vitro translation system. The gene set was carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking...conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein Expression... 48 plasmid adapter library, with each plasmid carrying a unique barcoded Illumina-M13F bridging primer... -
How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....latter would likely be more effective, so long as care is taken in the interpretation of results by requiring...use of CRISPR technology will always depend on careful experimental design, execution, and analysis. ... P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids ... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Puschnik, A. S., Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette, J. E., & Vandenberghe, L. H. (2018). An Alternate... B., Fong, D. M., Mouravlev, A., Young, D., & O’Carroll, S. J. (2019). Astrocyte-selective AAV gene therapy....2014.00076 Nieuwenhuis, B., Haenzi, B., Hilton, S., Carnicer-Lombarte, A., Hobo, B., Verhaagen, J., & Fawcett... -
Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m....al., 2009), and at high copy numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to...0092-8674(84)90060-6. PMID: 6323019. Williams JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design... JA, Luke J, Langtry S, Anderson S, Hodgson CP, Carnes AE. Generic plasmid DNA production platform incorporating... -
Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m....health sector, phages represent a reservoir of carbohydrate binding proteins waiting to be explored and ...spot this protein directly onto nitrocellulose and carry out the steps from blocking the membrane to probing...bacteriophage-encoded glycan binding proteins and carbohydrates." Current opinion in structural biology 34 (... -
Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m....lesser than the mean of a control group. If you only care if one group is different in a certain direction...rate by only performing the comparisons you really care about. Family-wise error is the probability of a...Groups with Ordinal Dependent Variables: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. Volume... -
A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2021, 1:15 p.m....population (Burger, C. 2004, Aschauer, DF. 2013, O’Carroll, SJ. 2021). This is due to differences in the ...Pillay S, Puschnik AS, Nagamine CM, Cheng F, Qiu J, Carette JE, Vandenberghe LH (2018) An Alternate Route for... 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00006 O’Carroll SJ, Cook WH, Young D (2021) AAV Targeting of Glial... -
Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must be taken to assess if proper staining is achieved... such as conjugation with proteins, should be carefully managed. Proper dye-to-protein ratios, or the ... and quenching, which can be mitigated through careful selection and optimization. Fluorescent experiment... -
Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... interpreting your data therefore necessitates careful design of RNAi sequences, confirmation of RNA knockdown...doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48363 Uhlen, M., Bandrowski, A., Carr, S., Edwards, A., Ellenberg, J., Lundberg, E., Rimm...., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, J., Amrani, Y., Duffy, S. M., Bradding, P., &... -
27 Hot Plasmids from 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m....Vectors Available at Addgene: Lab Plasmids Dan Carlson RCIscript-GoldyTALEN, pC-GoldyTALEN Tom Ellis...target cells. The piggybac system has a much larger cargo capacity than lentivirus and is capable of efficiently...there are some drawbacks with this technique. Great care needs to be taken with common S288c strains since...apicomplexan genes remain uncharacterized. Recent studies carried out by Sebastian Lourido and colleagues constitute... -
Hot Plasmids Podcast Episode 2: New RFPs, AAVs, & More
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2017, 7:52 p.m....Listen to Our Segment on mCyRFP1 Hot Plasmid 4: mScarlet - a new, bright, and monmeric red fluorescent ...fluorescent protein. Listen to Our Segment on mScarlet Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page... -
Lucky Thirteen: Guest Contributors of 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m....Codon Guide to Synthetic BiologyAuthor: Niko McCartyAntibodies 101: Conventional vs. Flow Spectrometry Author...Faculty Position Author: Erik Lee SnappSharing is Caring, But How to Distribute Open Hardware? Author: Benedict... -
Genome Engineering, CRISPR, and Research in Singapore: Interview with Wei Leong Chew
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2018, 2 p.m....Chew! Podcast breakdown Intro: Wei Leong Chew's career path and why he chose to go into genome engineering...Chapter 7/Outro: Advice for researchers pursuing careers in academia. Many thanks to our guest, Wei Leong... -
The Codon Guide to Synthetic Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2023, 1:15 p.m....resources whenever possible. Image credit: Niko McCarty; adapted from Bruce Wetzel and Harry Schaefer, ...reach out to me by email. About the author Niko McCarty is the editor of Asimov Press and is designing ...