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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m....subtypes of the hippocampus. This technology has formed the basis of the Rett syndrome program being pursued...
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Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m....CD11c-. Finally, B cells are CD11c- and CD123-, forming a population in the lower left(ish) corner. If...learning how to read a gating strategy. Other information FACS plots often contain other data. Some will...Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bioinformation, 14, 53–59. https://doi.org/10.6026/97320630014053... -
AAV Titers: Where Do They Come From And What Do They Mean?
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.... of a viral genome). Empty viral capsids can be formed during viral production depending on the experimental... the solution. These characteristics give us information on three important factors. What can AAV titers...requires an electron microscope, it is not routinely performed on all new viral vector preparations. Addgene ... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m....genes and proteins coordinate billions of neurons to form the functional networks of the human brain. ...Buchholz, Angrand, and Stewart 1998). FLPe’s performance was further improved, by adding a nuclear localization...technology. Read the genOway press release for more information. References 1. Atasoy, D., Y. Aponte, H. H. Su... -
Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.... the anti-sense strand, then the ssDNA template formed will be sense. Therefore, mutagenic oligos need... plasmid. The ssDNA template is generated by transforming a backbone phagemid vector into an E. coli strain...to remove residual starting template. After transformation and harvest, the library is ready for use. ...true if the sense strand is nicked for template formation: template will be anti-sense, primers should be...ease of use, 2) time savings, and 3) ability to perform single site or multi-site saturation mutagenesis... -
Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m....representation of integration process and episomal forms of non-integrating transgenes. Created with BioRender.com...include detecting vector particle components or performing quantitative PCR titration of vector DNA in samples... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m.... random amino acid sequences or (ii) designed to form an inert, unstructured peptide and therefore consisted...by proteases. Nowadays, with ample structural information available, it’s clear that the C-terminus of ...the POI would work best. Ideally, structural information can guide this decision. In our experience, the...-Hermans et al., 2011). Although structural information may guide design, it is advisable to generate... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m....Instead, they incorporate a truncated, non-fluorescent form of YFP as the default state of the transgene such... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.... your manuscript is a form of (hopefully constructive) conflict. As you perform the experiments to address...trouble spots: Communication (or lack thereof): Information sharing gets more challenging the bigger an organization... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... 2017), but requires an oxidizing environment to form. When expressed in the non-oxidizing cytoplasm of... at a distance that favors proper folding and formation of the antigen-binding site while also minimizing...functional scFvs; however, some individual scFvs performing better in one configuration than the other (Sandomenico...challenge of bacterial expression is the proper formation of the disulfide bond between the VL and VH domains...of bacteria to allow for proper disulfide bond formation. expression in strains of bacteria that are redox...Sandomenico et al., 2020). conversion to a cysteine free format that’s easier to express in the cytoplasm of E....scFvs designed for oncology applications are reformatted as bispecific molecules which bind CD3 and a ... -
Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m....restriction digestion to anneal to one another and form a complete, circular plasmid. You then add DNA ligase...You should perform, at minimum, two transformations after a ligation: 1. Control Transformation containing...contamination from uncut plasmid. 4. Transformation Transform your ligation reaction into your bacterial...Read on for an in-depth breakdown of how to do perform restriction digests. Overview of the restriction...Bromide Pre and Post UV Light 0.5 For more information on these stains see the Bitesize Bio Blog and... how many colonies you should expect in the transformation due to background re-circularization and contamination...competent cells. For most standard cloning, you can transform 1-2μl of your ligation reaction into competent... -
Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m....brain, a connectome that would detail how neurons form circuits and where they synapse. View the overview... -
28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.... molecules that cannot function in isolation but form a fully functional Cas9 upon dimerization. Splitting...inactive dCas9 and VP64, respectively. CibN and Cry2 form a heterodimer in response to blue light, which will...this system if a small contaminating PCR product formed from primer dimers and containing the missing codons...limitation to this strategy is that each "bit" of information must be controlled independently; that is, the...the signal to record one bit of information must not act on any of the other bits in order to achieve ...capable of recording 11 bits (1.375 bytes) of information. This leads to 2048 (211) possible combinations...designed to minimize the possibility of dimer formation. Prosser et al., Biotechnol Lett. 2015. 37:383... -
Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m....crosslinking or tilted-stage imaging. A truncated form of a tardigrade LEA, RvLEAMshort, protected samples...PASSIGE efficiency (Pandey et al., 2024). The best-performing variant yielded an average integration efficiency... -
CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.... available from Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab in plasmid form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Figure 2: ... available from Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab, with the former also available as ready-to-use lentivirus. ...ME, et al (2018) Creation of versatile cloning platforms for transgene expression and dCas9-based epigenome... -
Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.... criticism? Do they encourage diversity in all forms? How are their organizational skills? Are they... most informative way of gathering data. Former lab members can give open, revealing information about...attention and interaction (and I did). Some of the information you will need is about you. It’s worth taking...discussing career opportunities with the lab head. Former lab members can give you a fuller picture. Consider...physical or social isolation, withholding necessary information Overwork – including undue pressure, impossible... Or is it teamwork that brings out your best performance and learning? Everyone’s different so give some... on relevant papers? Will you have access to information from other labs with skills that you can learn... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... or alternative splicing that could lead to some form of the target protein to be present and recognizable...your antibody performs as expected in one application does not mean that it will perform as expected in...so you use your bioinformatics skills (or your friendly neighborhood bioinformatician) to look at RNA ...doesn’t necessarily mean that you yourself have to perform extensive validation experiments for every antibody...data, you may need to roll up your sleeves and perform some extra validation experiments yourself. Goal...researchers can use to show that their antibody performs as expected. One of the benefits of these pillars...levels tend to correspond to protein levels, so you perform immunohistochemistry with your antibody on these... -
Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m....feel you rolling your eyes, but even if this ideal form of pre-registration doesn’t come to fruition any... it easier to find information about research tools. BenchSci collates information about antibodies while...can find a variety of additional resources and information about organizations promoting reproducibility...S. Flier, Researcher at Harvard Medical School, former dean of the faculty of Medicine at Harvard University..., generating new therapeutics, and sometimes formulating new biological concepts. However, rates of reproducibility...reproducibility. Cause 1: Inability to repeat previously performed experiments Researchers should be able to follow... tools that make it easier to share in-depth information about reagents, protocols, analysis tools, and... -
Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m....individual bacterial cells to form colonies on a plate and then we performed colony PCR on the register ...Biological research has produced a massive amount of information regarding which regulatory proteins, signaling...homogenous for one state, regular PCR may not be very informative – each primer pair will amplify even if its target..., each Sanger sequencing reaction can only be performed on one register at a time. If a particular application...considered as an alternative. The qPCR method can be performed on a sample of multiple registers. However, it...recognition site array on the register. RSM (See performance data from the indicated figures in our paper ...have observed that certain GRSMs may still not perform as expected, perhaps due to idiosyncrasies that... -
Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m....their sights on another approach. Since shorter forms of dystrophin can still be functional, exon skipping...