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TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m....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...
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R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....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... -
22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m....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 ... -
Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....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... -
Plasmids 101: Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC)
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... 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... -
Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....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 ... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m....the other hand, mScarlet-I shows correct ER labeling, which is good evidence that mScarlet-I acts as a monomer... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m....PEG10 RNA sequences to instead drive packaging of cargo sequences in the capsid, in an approach called Selective...Figure 1: SEND combines an endogenous Gag homolog, cargo RNA, and fusogen in a modular system for delivering... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m....early career scientists using fluorescent proteins in their research. These awards help early career researchers... -
Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2021, 1:15 p.m....ago (Field et al., 1988). Thus, we injected AAVs carrying hM4Di-HA in the brains of mice and monkeys. Surprisingly...But our data does highlight the importance of a careful characterization of transgene expression. Which... -
Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.... disease. “My mentors Dr. Dianna Milewicz, Dr. Carolyn Bondy, and Dr. Angela Lin got me interested in ...is abnormally deregulated in TS and can lead to cardiac developmental defects. Eight genes from the X chromosome... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 20, 2023, 4 p.m....clearly and strategically is powerful in almost any career. It allows you to share and build support for your...with two single-panel figures, one of which was a cartoon of the protein.) In the middle of my presentation... -
CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m....used. One thing is that Cas9 is toxic. When cells carry CRISPR circuitry, it can slow their growth. Something...things like butanol - very simple molecules - a few carbons and oxygens. Nothing too much more sophisticated... -
Working with Nuclear Receptors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m...., including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol gallstone disease, senescent...such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m....not yet fully understood, so it is important to carefully select the target locations of knock-in studies...systems offer a number of different options. By carefully considering your ncRNA of interest, you should... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m....for follow-up DNA oligos to arrive. We also were careful to set up clear tasks for each member of the team...Sciences at Arizona State University. His group carries out research in synthetic biology, nanomaterials... -
Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m....the molecular biology to learning how to grow and care for the worms. As an example of one of the problems...cheap using equipment that would otherwise be discarded. For instance, the centrifuge in the picture had... -
Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m....of engineered Type IIS restriction enzymes and careful choice of junction sequences guided by experimentally-derived...of overhangs can lead to incorrect assemblies, so care must be taken to minimize this possibility. Recently... -
Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.... exonuclease, a polymerase, and a DNA ligase to carry out a pooled set of ligations in an hour or less...one to simultaneously complete an ordered set of scarless ligations following digestion with Type II restriction... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m....high-throughput experiments. If a user wants to carry out a high-throughput genetic screen, it is expensive...marker can be removed by Cre-mediated excision for scarless tag insertion. In addition to the obvious advantages...