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  1. Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence

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    Aug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of permeabilization and membrane integrity (Fig. 2). For example, saponin interacts with cholesterol ... at too high a concentration.      Figure 2: Examples of different permeabilization strategies... but it’s really just formaldehyde. Formalin: You may also come across formalin, which refers to a saturated...cause some confusion. Paraformaldehyde: Many IF protocols call for paraformaldehyde (PFA) as the fixative...saturated solution of formaldehyde (saturated being 37%). Formalin solutions often contain methanol as ...order to slow the polymerization of formaldehyde.  Note: Formaldehyde in solution will naturally polymerize... maintaining cellular and tissue morphology. Formaldehyde is the most commonly used cross-linker for IF...
  2. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...days before the deadline isn’t going to be much use. 2. Originality is essential for grant success The two... it’s important not to throw in the towel if 1 or 2 funding bodies say no. If possible, get feedback from...Communication Skills 5. Practice makes perfect, apply for small grants too There are actually quite a lot of different...available for researchers, so look into applying for smaller grants from within your institute or a private ...certainly found that the experience I gained in writing small travel grants to attend conferences and a seed funding...
  3. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...be decorated with proteins and remain functional, 2) break membranes outside of their natural context ...PubMed PMID: 3759909. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC213417. 2. Schrallhammer, M. et al. Tracing the role of R-bodies...to find R body mutants that couldn’t extend at a normal pH and later realized that these mutations clustered...
  4. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...per cell increases 4-5 fold (for pUC plasmids) or ~2 fold (for p15a, R6K, and ColE2 plasmids) as cell division...biotechnology 36.4 (2018): 352. PubMed PMID: 29553576. 2. Kittleson, Joshua T., Sherine Cheung, and JChristopher...further away. While constitutive promoters drove maximal gene expression near genomic origins of replication...
  5. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...estimate transformation efficiency (Figure 2).    Figure 2: Example of a serial dilution to estimate... easier for a smaller, recombined plasmid to overtake full-size plasmids (or for smaller plasmids to overtake...diversity in the library is maintained. However, for smaller libraries, chemical transformations can also be...using, as well as other factors, such as your lab’s normal transformation protocol, the size of the cuvettes...direct competition with other colonies containing smaller, recombined backbones that may replicate faster...on solid media. If your plasmid library is of a smaller size with a single size insert, liquid media can...
  6. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...mean you have one copy of the gene; an RQ value of 2 means you have two copies, and so on and so forth....quantitative PCR. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2005 Mar;5(2):209-19. doi: 10.1586/14737159.5.2.209. PMID: 15833050...are read after each cycle. The raw data is then normalized to a reference sequence present in the same amount...housekeeping’ gene), and quantified relative to a 'normal' sample with known copy number set as the expression... all qPCR assays, samples, standard curves, and normal controls must be run in triplicate.  The nice thing...the amount of DNA in your sample relative to your normal control - you can set up your calculations so that...RQ values used to call copy numbers should be as small as reasonably possible and set using the variance...
  7. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    Aug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...engineering methods have their own pros and cons (2). The NgAgo DNA guide is inexpensive and can be 5’...Nature biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 27136078. 2. Burgess, Shawn., et al. "Questions about NgAgo." ... dangerous, non-physiological temperature for mammalian cells and one which diminishes the endonuclease...PAM sequence might not always be available at an optimal distance from the target site. For example, NGG...can indeed be optimized for genome editing in mammalian cells. However, the fact that most of the researchers...rapidly degraded by the cellular machinery, leaving a small amount of active NgAgo/ssDNA complex in the cell...It is possible that, during translation, only a small fraction of nascent NgAgo protein molecules manages...
  8. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ..., and the desired gene (transfer vector plasmid), 2) the HIV-1 genome containing all viral genes with ...protocols that have been described (protocol 1, protocol 2, protocol 3) to find the one that will give you the...PubMed PMID: 3785217. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC367857. 2. Naldini, Luigi, et al. "In vivo gene delivery and...development of viral vectors, gene transfer into mammalian cells often relied on chemical (CaCl2, cationic...If not using proper technique, there’s always a small chance that a researcher could infect him or herself...
  9. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ... digest and compare it to some reliable controls. 2. Viral stocks may be sensitive to freeze thaw cycles...24003179. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3760253. 2. Rohwer, Forest. "Global phage diversity." Cell 113.2 (2003...An estimated 320,000 viruses can infect mammals. Even more abundant are the Earth’s estimated 1031 bacteriophages...by resuspension of the collected particles in a smaller volume. Always remove packaging cell debris before...strategy to estimate unknown viral diversity in mammals." MBio 4.5 (2013): e00598-13. PubMed PMID: 24003179...events during integration of transfected DNA into normal human cells."Nucleic acids research 18.9 (1990)...
  10. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Hrit et al. 2018, Kaas et al. 2013). Figure 2: CRISPR TET-based epigenetic editing. In reality, ...approach for targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discov 2, 16009. https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9.  ..., and big hair. To what was perhaps a slightly smaller population, something else was also suddenly cool...distinguishes genes of some human cancers from their normal counterparts. Nature 301, 89–92. https://doi.org...
  11. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... PITCh vector via In-Fusion or SLIC cloning. Step 2: Design an insertion locus-specific gRNA The gRNA ...Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Dalvai, Mathieu, et al. (2015). “A Scalable Genome-Editing.... optimized the PITCh-gRNA for minimal off-target binding in mammalian genomes as assessed by CRISPR design... of alternative end-joining, requires only very small homology regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it...similar to HDR, but it is accomplished using much smaller regions of homology, which facilitates easier cloning...
  12. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
    ...of these neurons via the channel Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2) reduced glutamate transmission from the mPFC...deliver Cre-dependent expression of  Channelrhodopsin 2 (ChR2), a modified receptor protein that activates...diseases, animals have reduced anxiety levels and a higher tendency for risk taking. These animals also show...time the animal spends in the passive mode, the stronger is the depressive component of the animal behavior...and quantify locomotion, scientists monitor an animal’s movement in an open field box or a circular corridor... other aspects may be involved. For example, an animal moving around to explore the environment has a ...motivation (and brain areas associated) compared to an animal running to escape a threat. Locomotion can thus...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Indicators GEVIs can be divided up structurally into 2 main groups: voltage sensitive domains and Rhodopsin...depending on your experimental system.   Figure 2: General overview of chemigenetic tools. A genetically...and utilize both a genetic component as well as a small molecule which we will describe in more detail below...contain a FRET pair, a genetic component, and a small molecule component. Early versions of these sensors...component is delivered in vivo or in vitro and a small molecule is added exogenously to measure a phenotypic...
  14. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    Aug. 13, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...detection, and control. Int J Pharm. 2018 Oct 25;550(1-2):251-268. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2018.08.043. Epub...and particle formation. J Pharm Sci. 2015 Feb;104(2):602-11. doi: 10.1002/jps.24259. Epub 2014 Nov 21....cost-effective and faster-growing than mammalian cells, but mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational... Y, Zhan C, Malm M, Field R, Turner R, Sellick C, Varley P, Rockberg J, Chotteau V. Small-scale bioreactor...can take place in bacterial, yeast, plant, or mammalian cells. Each of these systems has their advantages...bonds (Frenzel et. al., 2013). If you’re using a mammalian production system, cell lines typically used include... your plasmid(s), and then wait 7-14 days (in mammalian cells) to collect the cell culture supernatant...
  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
    ... fluorescent proteins expressed in the specimen.  2. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACs) A machine...photostability of your fluorescent protein when using 2-photon microscopy as this hasn't been well reported...PMID: 18703742. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2606057. 2. Chtanova, Tatyana, et al. "Dynamics of neutrophil...little tissue absorption, weak tissue scattering and small amounts of tissue auto-fluorescence (Drobizhev et...excitation wavelength as it has been shown that even a small incremental change of the excitation wavelength ...Dynamic imaging of dendritic cell extension into the small bowel lumen in response to epithelial cell TLR engagement...
  16. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    June 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ...studies have shown that the conditions Sotos-type 2 and Marshall Smith Syndrome are due to mutations in...accurate diagnosis of NFIX-related syndromes (Sotos-type 2 and Marshall-Smith) and could be expanded to NFIA-...intervention that rescues the function of even a small fraction of Arg-mutant proteins could improve health...
  17. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...of ~75% in response to the magnetic field (Figure 2); they named this variant MagLOV. Andrew was thrilled...any added cofactors.      Figure 2: Fluorescence intensity and ΔF/F of MagLOV, a variant of AsLOV2...Matsuoka et al., 2023), but these effects were very small or were possible only in non-biological conditions...slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was passed over the sample (Frank Hayward...license. They did more experiments to see if any small molecules act as a cofactor (among others, flavins...clearly visible whether expressed in E. coli, in mammalian cells, or in purified form, and didn’t need any...
  18. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...antibiotic selection. Essentially, this gene is a 2-in-1 providing both bacterial and eukaryotic selection...Zeocin-induced DNA cleavage in human cells. Mutagenesis, 20(2), 111–114. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/gei016I ...beta-lactamase is excreted. Satellite colonies are small colonies of bacteria which do not contain the plasmid... its associated resistance gene. They can grow proximal to a colony that does contain the plasmid that...other plasmids must carry both a bacterial and a mammalian antibiotic selection gene. However, it does require...Pros: Widely available, cost-effective, confers mammalian resistance to G418. Con: Slow transformation ...
  19. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ...et al., 2020). Genomic targets require an upstream 2-bp PAM sequence for recognition by QCascade; although...of the plasmid after integration. Figure 2: (A) Streamlined VchINT expression constructs. (B) High...strongly biased towards T-RL, where the R end is proximal to the target site (Klompe et al., 2019, Vo et...pSPIN), which offer simple transformations for smaller cargos, and the ability to easily cure cells of...something called target immunity, whereby multiple proximal insertions with the same transposon exhibit reduced... R, Jiang Y, Yang J, Yang S (2020) Multicopy Chromosomal Integration Using CRISPR-Associated Transposases...
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