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  1. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls

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    June 6, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
    ...cytometry controls we’ll discuss are single color, fluorescence minus one (FMO), and isotype. You should always...controls like FMO or isotype controls, which we’ll describe a bit later. Single Colors Single color controls...(C) with APC-Cy7.   FMOs FMO stands for fluorescence minus one. It is used as a negative control ...
  2. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...Harvard University. In my previous two posts, I’ve described the fundamentals of how to work with Drosophila...Drosophila as an experimental model organism. I then described the Gal4/UAS system used by geneticists to study...manipulations. You can produce some very beautiful immunofluorescent images like in this paper (2). Metabolic assays...
  3. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...positive effect on cancer treatment (Ref 1). As described in the presentation, starvation or the use of ...can find useful tips on in vivo imaging in our Fluorescent Protein Guide. Throughout the conference aspirin... with T cell receptor engineering (Ref 5)  as described by Blue Flame Addgene depositor Professor Michel...
  4. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...Cell, Musunuru, Chad Cowan and their colleagues describe a much more efficient tool for doing that disease...people unfamiliar with this new TALEN kit, can you describe it for us? Musunuru: TALENs are a type of genome...including FokI endonuclease domain as well as fluorescent proteins used to sort the cells after the plasmids...
  5. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...either through a chromogenic or chemiluminescent reaction. Chemiluminescence, which is light produced by ...detect your antibodies using techniques like fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, or spectrophotometry...
  6. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    March 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...specifically refers to the organizational schema described above, and not any particular cloning technique...cellular engineering goal, several of which are described below. Multigene circuits assembled through MoClo...relationship between genotype and phenotype is best described with “it’s complicated.” Applying MoClo Interested...
  7. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ...should appear fluorescent if they were infected. While there may be some low-level fluorescent protein or...virus. Alternatively, if the virus encodes a fluorescent protein, the packaging cells could be examined...
  8. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...template with the endogenous gene. Here, we'll describe the techniques and the plasmids used to inactivate...Conditional knockouts The methods and plasmids described in the preceding sections are simple ways of knocking...knockout, researchers often use the Cre/Lox system described earlier. In this case, you design your targeting...
  9. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...photostable than fluorescent proteins, making them ideal for single-molecule fluorescence techniques. After...used to measure signal along the dendrite. D) Fluorescence signal as a function of the distance between...
  10. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

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    March 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...proteasome for degradation. Like several other tags described here, the dTAG uses a small molecule, a tag, and...for visualization of proteins of interest. A fluorescent Halo ligand can be added to media, buffer, etc...there are antibodies to it and ways to achieve fluorescence with it. AID The auxin-inducible degron (AID...
  11. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...following cloning methodologies have been extensively described in other articles; so if you are interested in... to assemble up to 6 different fragments in a prescribed order. These fragments can be pooled in one tube...homology. You might also consider FastCloning, first described by Chaokun Li and colleagues. Here you simply ...
  12. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ..., if your protein is fused with a fluorescent protein), fluorescence microscopy can theoretically be used...Addgene.org Check Out Our Protocols Pages Browse Fluorescent Protein Plasmids Find Mammalian Expression Vectors...
  13. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...organism carrying a synthetic gene drive were to escape the laboratory, the drive could eventually spread...protocols, they can reduce the risk of accidental escape to a negligible level. One major reason we chose...performing experiments in a geographic area where escaped organisms won't be able to find mates2. For example...
  14. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    Sept. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...colorimetric ladder, visible to the naked eye; a fluorescent ladder compatible with your imaging system; or...having to re-run the western.  Remember that chemilumescent methods, like horseradish peroxidase protein...Underexposed Increase exposure time Chemilumenescence: use a more sensitive exposure kit Too...Overexposed blot Shorter exposure time Chemilumenescence: use a less sensitive exposure kit No ...
  15. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...looking at your resume while they wrote the job description. You check off all the boxes - you have the desired... gaps in scientists' transferrable skills. In describing the limitations of the study, the authors noted...over email. Examine your current and past job descriptions. Scan through all the things for which you are...
  16. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ...are easy to trace and not lost in a jumble of fluorescent neurons. A simple but flawed approach to multi-color...constitutively express a red, green, or blue (RGB) fluorescent protein (4a-c). When high doses of this viral...morphology studies when used as part of a two part fluorescent tag-then-express system that allows for controlled...
  17. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...worked extensively with enChIP systems. Can you describe this technology and its advantages? Fujii: In ...enChIP system using CRISPR technology. Can you describe this technology and some of its potential applications... any other technologies that you would like to describe?  Fujii: I believe that "Biology is Method", i.e...
  18. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...used in research, and data repositories. Below I describe how each of these kinds of connectivity facilitates...deposits will be made. The Dataverse integration is described in this video and the Figshare integration in ...from RSpace documents to external data sources (described above) further enhances the value the repository...
  19. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...every amino acid I’d like to encode,” but, as described above, not every region of a protein should necessarily...rate dependence of transfer RNA abundance in Escherichia coli." The EMBO journal 9.13 (1990): 4359-4366...rate of full‐length human proteins expressed in Escherichia coli." Protein Science 19.7 (2010): 1312-1326...
  20. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    May 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... have been made since prime editing was first described in Anzalone et al., 2019, including modifications...Because they are negative-going sensors (with fluorescent signal at baseline voltage), the investigators...closely-packed labeled cells. Plus, Voltron2’s fluorescence is tunable by changing the dye that becomes ...
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