...pigments primarily found in plants in the order Caryophyllales, such as cacti and beets. Betanin belongs to... Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a passion for microscopy...

...LTRs). After recombination, one resulting plasmid carries the transgene of interest (aka the viral genome...picking the smaller colonies which are more likely to carry the full plasmid. Chakiath & Esposito (2018) noticed...

... new particles. As a bonus, this increases the carrying capacity of the viral vector, increasing both ... possible, just to increase the viral vector’s carrying capacity. In order to allow the viral vectors ...

...Ofer Yizhar New serotype pAAV-CaMKIIa-ChRmine-oScarlet-KV 2.1-WPRE AAV8 Optogenetics Karl Deisseroth ...Deisseroth New viral prep pAAV-CaMKIIa(0.4)-eOPN3-mScarlet-WPRE AAVrg Optogenetics Ofer Yizhar New serotype ...

...Bachle  Listen to the Caspex podcast segment Steven Carr’s lab at the Broad Institute focuses on proteomics... to the C-BERST podcast segment Similarly to the Carr lab, Erik Sontheimer and his group from the University...

... MBP tag can be removed using Xa protease. The carboxyl-terminus of the fusion protein includes an AviTag...for affinity purification (see plasmid map and cartoon below). Including biotin in your culture and inducing...

...Bob Goldstein’s lab at the University of North Carolina has made CRISPR in C. elegans even easier - now... below.) After self-excision, the resulting loxP scar is located in this synthetic intron, and only the...

...have a woman carry an edited embryo to term. (We should remember that the woman carrying these embryos...

...decolorized as gram negative. A German scientist, Carl Weigert, later expanded on Gram’s discovery, adding...resources.   Bruckner, M. Gram Staining. https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/research_methods/microscopy/gramstain.html...

...institute where their typical workdays will be carried out until the end of the appointment. The visiting...don’t forget to have fun! Visiting is an amazing career opportunity, but also a really good time! If it...

...Number of chromosomes 16 3 4 Preferred carbon source Glucose Glucose Glucose, methanol,...meaning it can utilize methanol as its sole source of carbon and energy (as well as glucose or glycerol). K....

...cell on their way to the nucleus where their gene cargoes can be expressed. The bottom line is that a lot...particles do not remain adhered to the membrane. Be careful when diluting - if you end up concentrating your...

...encapsulated proteins. Video by ACS. For a more cartoony explanation of R-bodies, check out this video....Piston That Breaks Membranes to Release Encapsulated Cargo. ACS Synth. Biol. (2016). doi:10.1021/acssynbio.5b00237...

...larger. And since the library contains many plasmids, care must be taken to ensure that all of these plasmids...powerful research tool, but their proper use requires careful amplification and maintenance of good representation...

...compromising on the relevant science."     - Randall Carter, Contracts Administrator Inferior: How Science ...Story by Angela Saini "This book is a smart and carefully presented case for better more diverse science...

...intensity and/or duration. Both of these strategies carry the risk of off-target effects. Harald Janovjak ...of both DsRed fluorescence and GFP shRNA. Mice carrying the R26DsRedR; CRUSH-GFP; and Nestin-Cre alleles...lack release factor one (RF-1; Bacterial strain EcAR7) and minimizing the set of plasmids required to ...

...well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly. Have a physical copy on hand as... to Getting Started in Undergrad Research Early Career Researcher Toolbox  8 Tactics for Choosing a Lab...

...regions of the brain. However, the Cre-dependent AAV cargo would only become activated in the presence of Cre...design and interpretation of results. Take extra care when evaluating how this serotype works in your ...

... be assembled in a unique order with no cloning scars. The Elledge Lab showed that a five-piece assembly...researchers doing large amounts of cloning. Assembly is scarless, unlike Gateway cloning, and the method’s flexibility...

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