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  1. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    April 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...exclude duplicate events, and the Live/Dead gate to focus your analysis on what’s biologically active....exclude all duplicate events (two cells stuck together) from your single cells, as duplicates can’t be reliably..., you’ll first need to learn a little bit of theoretical background on the different parameters that your...and W describe the shape of a histogram, which graphically represents the time and intensity of the cell... fully depend on your individual experiment. Practical example: lymphocytes in a mouse tumor sample You... You made it! So much about the theoretical background. Let’s dive into the praxis of gating strategies...show up in a straight line one the plot, while duplicates deviate from that pattern. A.                                                                                                         ...
  2. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...proteins, such as receptors, or post-translational modifications on those proteins, like glycosylation patterns...Depending on the research question and downstream application, one or several of those techniques can be used...populations; for example, CD8+ T (“T killer”) cells. Typically, you would label the CD8 co-receptor protein on...your flow analysis. However, certain downstream applications, like an in vivo adoptive transfer of those ...cell membrane but inside the cell. Due to their chemical nature, antibodies cannot penetrate the cell membrane...intracellular labeling with antibodies requires chemically pre-treating the cells to allow for entry of ...but preserving the cellular state (think of mummification). Permeabilization, as the name suggests, perforates...
  3. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...current CRISPR research focuses on its potential applications for human medicine (Waltz, 2016), the potential...engineering, on the other hand, allows for targeted modification of known or suspected genes that regulate a ...commonly used model organisms like Arabidopsis and Medicago truncatula and several crop species including ...engineering using CRISPR, highlight the specific modifications to CRISPR machinery that allow for the use of...CRISPR principles). However, plant-specific modifications to commonly used CRISPR plasmids are necessary...selected the correct CRISPR components for your application, it is time to deliver these components to your...detergent, Polyethylene Glycol (PEG), although the application of this approach is limited to protoplast cells...
  4. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ...strategies Publication System nickname Photoactivatable moiety Cas9 variatn CRISPR protein application Split...improvements to CRISPR technology since its initial applications for genome engineering in 2012.  Many of these...temporal and spatial control. Optogenetics uses genetically encoded tools, such as microbial opsins, to control...enzymatic activity. Photoactivatable genome modifications by NHEJ and HDR using split systems Later in...mutations via NHEJ (frequency of 20.5%) and induced modifications by HDR (frequency of 7.2%). The authors additionally...C714, generating paCas9-2. This change did not significantly alter the system’s efficiency at generating ...particular interest since blue light has limited applications in vivo. UV and blue light is readily absorbed...
  5. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...the OpenWorm website. microPublication microPublication is a unique publication for the worm community...into larger publications and would otherwise be lost in lab notebooks forever. microPublications are peer-reviewed...aims and approach of CeNGEN, check out their publication.   3’UTRome The 3’UTRs of mRNA are important ...Biodesign institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically for C. elegans. This database provides detailed...normally one figure and can be negative and/or even replicated studies to show reproducible results. This a ...referenced. In addition the data published in microPublications is curated and added to other databases including...including wormbase and flybase. microPublication is run and maintained by members of the worm community...
  6. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ... do anything. Viruses are complicated and they perform complex biological tasks, both of which are factors...C virus RNA quantification as measured with branched-DNA technology." Journal of clinical microbiology...factors in the technical challenges they can present. Many researchers find themselves plagued by troubleshooting...hail Marys that have helped me troubleshoot some technical obstacles when working with virus: 1. Viral vectors...vector may undergo genomic rearrangements during replication. To avoid genomic rearrangements, try amplifying...Different titering methods can reveal differences in physical versus functional titer. If you have low titers...cells, replace the medium with half the volume typically used (e.g., use 5 mL medium on a 10 cm plate)....
  7. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    Sept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...experiments. However, the technical demands of using these wireless devices are significantly higher than standard...optic cable is threaded through—and fixed to—an optical insulator called a ferrule (below). The fiber optic...portion of optogenetics (though it does require a significant amount of equipment, most of which is relatively...There are several important considerations with fabrication of the fiber optics needed for optogenetics. ...point; the fiber optics need to be polished to significant smoothness to prevent drastic loss of efficiency...maintained during the entire protocol, otherwise optical stimulation will be erratic, opsin activation/inactivation...stimulation, the rate of movement of the animal significantly increases. Before you get your experiment started...
  8. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ... editing in Escherichia coli. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. https://doi.org/10.1093/abbs/gmab036...for successful modifications, efficiency can be low, especially for larger modifications. What’s the solution...tools available for bacteria and some of the applications for which they’ve been used. The beginnings ... of Enterobacteriaceae, without the need for modification. This finding suggests that the system may be...eukaryotes (Qi et al., 2013). As in other systems, catalytically dead (dCas9) targeted to a promoter or gene ...gene body can repress transcription by physically blocking the elongation complex from binding the DNA or...responsive promoter to drive expression of a catalytically dead Cas9 enzyme allows reversible repression...
  9. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    Nov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Castano Corsino, a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Based...like IMP, bring closer than ever (although not physically) the ideas and experience from talented professionals... IMP USA-Europe not only provide the specific technical and logistic support to increase the chances of...professional opportunities that are outside of our typical boundaries, and will arrive to Spain at one point...international mentors. Universities from five different geographical locations in Spain were enrolled: the University...represented a diverse group of individuals with technical and career path needs, and came from the universities...that their knowledge and skills had improved significantly when compared to their pre-program self-assesment...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...biosensor for cAMP dynamics. The mGold2 variants significantly enhanced photostability — 25-fold over mVenus...between mGold2s and mGold2t depending on the application. Figure 1: Super-resolution imaging...fused to mVenus, mGold2s, or mGold2t. Bottom: Quantification of photostability. Image reused from Lee & ...fluorescent proteins for extended imaging. Nature Communications, 16(1), 3241. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...proof-of-concept, they believe that the strategy will be applicable with other TnpBs and in other plant species, ...available for tracking cell lineage, different applications require careful selection or design to ensure...for gene therapy and ex vivo cell engineering applications and is especially well-suited for lung cells...
  11. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    Feb. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...lab while the publication page contains all the plasmids deposited from the same publication. Next up, we... Addgene’s plasmids is an indication of popularity. A yellow flame indicates that a plasmid has been ordered...through the depositing lab page, then onto the publication page, and finally on down to the individual plasmid...Great! Now, if I want to use this plasmid in a publication, how do I know who to acknowledge? Depositing...plasmids that are available through Addgene. Publication: If the plasmid has been published, the paper...the bottom of the page that help you cite this publication in your own work: How to cite this plasmid: The...depositing lab whenever their plasmids are used in a publication. Addgene makes this easy by providing a template...
  12. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...methods. Since molecular, ecological, and reproductive confinement typically require very little effort...Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. Scientists making transgenic organisms ...the entire wild population with unpredictable ecological effects. Because the consequences of such a mistake... to implement and have been tested in yeast5. Ecological confinement involves performing experiments in...experiments attempting to build gene drives in tropical mosquito vectors of diseases such as malaria and...they should not be relied on exclusively because historical studies of pathogen research have conclusively...strategies is strongly advised. The effects are multiplicative, and there are very few gene drive experiments...
  13. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    Jan. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...   Figure 3: Each publication featured in BioGRID ORCS has a dedicated summary page with PubMed...result interpretation. The analytical method for score assignment and significance thresholds used by the ...favorite gene was described in a CRISPR screen publication. You see this mentioned in the results section...new freely available resource developed by the Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (... to allow facile queries of published data by biomedical researchers and ready access to stably archived...manually curated and annotated from more than 45 publications, beginning with the seminal research articles...CRISPR screen results available to the entire biomedical research community, but also allows cross-interrogation...
  14. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Making Scientific Graphics

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    June 11, 2019, 1:16 p.m.
    ...May 22, 2019 Smart Servier Medical Art This site has 3,000 free medical images organized into four main...software that let me create graphics that better communicated the science in my blog posts. This post highlights...free tools which will hopefully also help you communicate your science, whether it’s in presentations, ...number of drawing tools, so it’s harder to draw intricate figures, like a brain or a mouse. Vectr Vectr ... over 20,000 icons is designed by professional medical illustrators with input from life scientists. It...without the watermark, which are better suited for publications, if you sign up for a paid account.  I’m proud... anatomy and the human body, cellular biology, medical specialities, and general items. Individual images...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Packaging Plasmid

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    Dec. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Rep78/68 play a key role in AAV genome replication. Replication initiates from the AAV genome ITRs on ...Srivastava A (2019) Capsid Modifications for Targeting and Improving the Efficacy of AAV Vectors. Molecular...contains the proteins needed for the virus to replicate,  and the transfer plasmid which contains the ...aka the RepCap plasmid encodes two genes: the replication (rep) gene and the capsid (cap) gene. In wild-type...its products. Created with BioRender.com   Replication (rep) gene The rep gene encodes four proteins...proteins that are required for viral genome replication and packaging: Rep78, Rep68, Rep52, and Rep40. Rep gene... domains, all four Rep proteins share a common helicase and ATPase domains. To function, the Rep proteins...
  16. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    May 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...their undomesticated counterparts) - not exactly species that jump to mind when we think “biomedical research...ways these animals have impacted humans through biomedical research. The Camelid family is composed of ...research". The family entered the biomedical field’s spotlight after researchers discovered heavy-chain...to sdAbs becoming valuable tools for diverse applications. For example, RANbodies can be used as an alternative...chromobodies,” which are single-domain antibodies genetically fused to fluorescent proteins and used to visualize...therapeutic was approved in 2018, with many others in clinical trials (Jin, et al. 2023). In addition to therapeutics... excitement around using sdAbs in diagnostic applications. For example, fluorescently and radioactively...
  17. Plasmids 101: What is a plasmid?

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    April 2, 2020, 6:17 p.m.
    ...origin of replication (which controls the host range and copy number of the plasmid) and typically include...Description Origin of Replication (ORI) DNA sequence which allows initiation of replication within a plasmid...point for PCR amplification or sequencing. Primers can be exploited for sequence verification of plasmids...plasmids are small circular pieces of DNA that replicate independently from the host's chromosomal DNA....Minimally, lab-created plasmids have an origin of replication, selection marker, and cloning site. The ease... plasmids and the ability of plasmids to self-replicate within a cell make them attractive tools for the...plasmid by recruiting replication machinery proteins Antibiotic Resistance Gene Allows for selection of plasmid-containing...
  18. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m.
    ... tactics of prokaryotes to deliver the technological biological blockbuster known as the CRISPR (clustered...genes, which code for polymerases, nucleases, and helicases, were also disrupted to elucidate their role in...destroy the phage upon re-exposure (2, 3). More specifically, specialized Cas proteins snip the foreign DNA...distinct types and subtypes using polythetic classification based on evolutionary similarity (5). Type ...2013 (7, 8). Nine months later, more than 1500 publications describe work to improve the tool’s specificity...various species and describe an assortment of applications. Despite the ubiquity of CRISPR/Cas toolkit,...programmable platform well-suited for various innovative biological and translative technologies. Addgene has empowered...
  19. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...where you assume your technical skills define you and that the other not-so-technical skills you’ve built...my job. The same can be said about teamwork, communication, writing, management, and creativity; I have... individual with more going for you than your technical expertise in a specific field. While searching...built over time are only applicable to those positions you have already held. Imagine this situation: You...have the desired degree, you have mastered the applications they use, you’ve gained experience working with...under your belt from your last job. You knock the technical portion of the interview out of the park. It’s...hiring team will also want to examine not just technical skills, but also transferable skills, before offering...
  20. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...Cell-Type-Specific Gene Editing." Journal of the American Chemical Society 140.21 (2018): 6596-6603. PubMed PMID...valuable to scientists, there are some potential complications that must be considered when using this method...alternative approach, which avoids many of these complications, is to directly deliver a ribonucleoprotein ...used for most of the current genome engineering applications of CRISPR including: generating single or multi-gene...pathways. This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited expression of Cas9 is required... of eventually using this method for in vivo applications. This technique utilizes Cas9 proteins harboring...Liang et al. 2017).  PEG-mediated methods, while technically less difficult to perform, often show low efficiency...
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