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  1. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
    ...precise than shRNA knockdown, it still displays substantial off-target activity. By mutating residues in ... on the ADAR2DD residues that contact the RNA substrate resulted in 15% C-to-U editing activity. They ...

  2. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., is an exercise in restraint. The very first subheading in Chapter 1 asks “What is science?” That’s a...over the coming years. It is arguably the most subjective chapter of the book, but that’s unlikely to be...

  3. Plasmids 101: Colony PCR

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    May 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... the last step is to mini-prep these clones and submit the plasmids for Sanger sequencing. Sequencing ...there aren’t mutations in your insert. Make sure to submit multiple positive clones for sequencing to verify...

  4. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...range from coordinating the grant application and submitting it, to evaluating the capacity of an organization...deadlines, and we ensure that grant reports are submitted and project evaluations are completed. To enter...

  5. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...by, for example, helping to improve the papers submitted to journals. In addition, it is my pleasure to...Hodaka Fujii lab's Addgene page and click the "Subscribe to Alerts" link in the Addgene Alerts box. ...

  7. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
    ...interchangeable. While these differences may seem subtle they result in a key physiological difference between...useful in gene therapy applications where a distinct subset of the cellular population needs to be targeted...

  8. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...directly accomplish the base edit or to create the substrate for a base excision repair pathway. The team behind...UNG enzyme was modified to recognize T and/or C substrates. The HuidaGene Therapeutics team has deposited...

  9. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
    ... activating chemogentic receptor (hM3Dq) into a subset of neurons within the LC of mice. When those neurons...further and showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (Drd1) in mPFC is responsible...

  10. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    March 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
    ...market? In addition to all of the documents you submit, you will need to present a "chalk talk." However...mini-organs or organoids, neither of these can substitute for a liver transplant. My lab will combine bioengineered...

  11. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...multiple myeloma drug mezigdomide and ubiquitination substrate Ikaros (IKZF1ZF2) (B). Image adapted from Kroupova... Tag catalyze a luminescent reaction with the substrate furimazine. Right: Demonstration of PILATeS. Cell...

  12. Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

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    May 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    .../dev team rarely, if ever, sees cover letters submitted for their entry-level jobs and does not require...there were examples of great hires who hadn’t submitted a cover letter; their experience and skills had...

  14. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...transcription to convert amplified DNA to RNA for subsequent detection by Cas13. This amplification step in...trans-ssDNA, including the ssDNA-FQ reporter are subsequently degraded at a rate of ~1,250 cuts per second...

  15. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ... an organism uses only a subset of codons, it only needs to produce a subset of charged tRNAs and therefore...

  16. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...transductions. Cell lines should be routinely subcultured at densities that are low enough to prevent confluency...behavior. Signs of a mycoplasma contamination can be subtle and may include reduced saturation density, decreased...

  17. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
    ...eukaryotic) proteins localize to chemically distinct subcellular environments, including the organelles that compose...focused on optimizing fluorescent proteins for subcellular environment. Currently, she is a SPIRE postdoctoral...

  18. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...should not effected by claims that ‘facts’ are subjective or alternative. Inclusion of data informing...informing policy specifically related to the following subjects: Climate change Vaccines GMOs Transgender issues...

  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...N-terminus, but this hardly reduces its size. The substantial size of GFP may interfere with the activity or...generated several functional heterotrimeric G-alpha subunit fusions that do not tolerate N- and C-terminal ...

  20. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
    ...are identified by PCR. Then, if necessary for subsequent experiments, the floxed neoR gene is removed ..., and are therefore able to infect only a small subset of the cells used in a given experiment. For this...
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