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  1. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...from two homologous strands of DNA through error-prone non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). In targeted DNA... for cancer therapy. Elsevier, pp 39–67 Ding Q, Strong A, Patel KM, Ng S-L, Gosis BS, Regan SN, Cowan ... https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05105 Stephens CJ, Lauron EJ, Kashentseva E, Lu ZH, Yokoyama WM, Curiel DT...
  2. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...then, using multiple confinement strategies is strongly advised. The effects are multiplicative, and there...technology: because they necessarily alter the shared environment, they must never be used without popular support2...organisms and associated ecosystems.  Because the environment is shared by everyone, he is deeply concerned...
  3. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...cost-effective, timesaving for transformations. Cons: Prone to satellite colony formation on agar plates, less...less stable at high temperatures and in acidic environments.   Carbenicillin   Carbenicillin, colloquially...antibiotic than amp: it is more stable in high pH environments and is less susceptible to degradation in agar...
  4. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    May 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...antibiotic resistant cells could repopulate the environment after treatment. The phagemid systems used in...pathogenic or drug-resistant bacteria. It’s a bit ironic that CRISPR, the bacterial immune system, may someday...4. Yosef, Ido, Miriam Manor, Ruth Kiro, and Udi Qimron. “Temperate and lytic bacteriophages programmed...
  5. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...constructs were then combined to create a single polycistronic 15 kb insert. The final construct was then introduced...resulting HeLa cells show robust labeling, with strong expression and detection of each fluorophore at...degree of identity, so not suited to generate polycistronic containing multiple identical polyadenylation...
  6. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ...adenovirus-based gene therapy clinical trial gone horribly wrong. It brought the whole field to a grinding stop and...efficiently transduce various types of retinal neurons. Nowadays a toolbox of naturally occurring and ...Applications of CRISPR-Based Genome Editing in the Retina. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2018 May 14;6:53. Review. PubMed ...
  7. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    March 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
    ...for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood.   Work/life balance.... spouse won’t be at every school performance, chaperone every field trip or cheer at every soccer game...birth and breastfeed. Keeping this always at the forefront will go a long way toward alleviating the guilt...
  8. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...analysis window shows a green checked circle in front of the sample name. If there was a minor error during... error, you will see a red exclamation point in front of that sample. You can hover over the yellow or...line represents the cut site. Cutting and error-prone repair typically result in mixed sequencing bases...
  9. Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor

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    July 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m.
    ... and transduces the majority of astrocytes and neurons across multiple CNS regions. PHP.eB, an enhanced...Ly6a seemed the most likely candidate due to its strong linkage to the PHP.B phenotype and its expression...references: Dayton, Robert D., Mychal S. Grames, and Ronald L. Klein. "More expansive gene transfer to the ...
  10. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...plasma HIV-1, they are at increased risk for other chronic diseases, including dementia, gut disorders, nerve...disease risk is attributed to latent HIV reservoirs, chronic inflammation, and negative metabolic effects of...in this publication at Addgene. Wang Z, Pan Q, Gendron P, Zhu W, Guo F, Cen S, Wainberg MA, Liang C. CRISPR...
  11. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... can be from one of the transgene’s endogenous introns or comprised of non-endogenous sequences, such ... A potential solution is to include an in-frame degron, or degradation sequence, upstream of the 5’ splice...Efficiencies of Dual AAV Approaches for Retinal Targeting. Front Neurosci 11: . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00503...
  12. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...controls are equally strong, so the normalized value simply reports which POI band is stronger. The right gel...protein in the lane, your loading control won’t be strongly influenced by unexpected variations in any individual...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...determination By Mike Lacy Conventional cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) protocols typically require...in Xenopus nucleosomes and in complex with its chaperone NPM2, but the technique should be widely applicable...marking cell types in the nervous system By Ashley Waldron The mammalian nervous system is composed of myriad...
  14. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...research for over a century but was brought to the forefront by Thomas Hunt Morgan, who is known as the “father...work with as they can survive in a variety of environmental conditions, and double every 2 hours. Yeast ...Sydney Brenner brought it into the lab to study neuronal development (Brenner, 1973). C. elegans are small...
  15. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...neither the aptamer nor the small molecule are strongly fluorescent but the binding of an aptamer to its...investigate intracellular viral DNA dynamics in neuronal cells (Nilaratanakul et al., 2017) and levels ...Jonathan. "RNA fluorescence with light-up aptamers." Frontiers in chemistry 4 (2016): 29. PubMed PMID: 27446908...
  16. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    Oct. 5, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Two-photon image of miRFP670nano3-expressing neurons in the neocortex of a living mouse. Image courtesy... and far-red genetically encoded indicators of neuronal activity. J Neurosci Methods 362, 109314 (2021...improved monomeric infrared fluorescent protein for neuronal and tumour brain imaging. Nat Commun 5, 3626 (...
  17. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and Ruddock., 2017), but requires an oxidizing environment to form. When expressed in the non-oxidizing ...cytoplasm. expression in the presence of molecular chaperones that help scFvs fold properly in the cytoplasm...and screened with in vitro assays to select for strong binders. Then the sequences for the variable domains...
  18. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    May 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...adapted for video making.   Cycle One: The Ironing Board Control Center With the pandemic in full ...that included iPad and her laptop raised on an ironing board, giving it the perfect height (Fig. 2). We...to think of something else.   Figure 2: Ironing boards. Good as a WFH desk, and as a video control...
  19. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    Nov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...are methylation sensitive. dnaJ Mutation in a chaperonin gene Increases the stability of certain expressed... fhuA (formerly tonA) ferric hydroxamate uptake, iron uptake receptor mutation. T1/T5 Phage resistance...not degraded, cell cannot methylate DNA lac Lac operon mutations Blue/white screening of clones   lacIq...
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