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TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 17, 2020, 1:32 p.m....go of the DNA. ABEs are somewhat slow and need a strong Cas9 domain to “hold on” long enough to the DNA...Richter MF, Zhao KT, Eton E, Lapinaite A, Newby GA, Thuronyi BW, Wilson C, Koblan LW, Zeng J, Bauer DE, Doudna...
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AAV Q&A with Tim Miles
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... use amplicons in ITR as we have found this to strongly bias titer. We are also adopting ddPCR, which ...microglia? I have been using the AAV.PHP.eb for neuron, oligodendrocyte, and astrocyte specificity and... -
Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 29, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... S, Bladen CL, Jones B, Aldred SF, Bestagno M, Burrone O, Maynard J, Ferrara F, Trimmer JS, Görnemann ...doi.org/10.1093/ilar.46.3.258 Mould AP, Askari JA, Byron A, Takada Y, Jowitt TA, Humphries MJ (2016) Ligand-induced... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m....Transformation is the uptake of genetic material from the environment by bacterial cells. In nature, this genetic material...plasmid DNA or fragmented DNA released into the environment. Various factors promote natural transformation... -
Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m....high GC content and hairpin structures, ITRs are prone to replication errors and disruptive mutations and...improvements unrelated to capsid protein modification. Front Med, 10, 1106085. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1106085... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m....immunogenicity, which means they do not stimulate a strong immune response when introduced into an organism...Harbor, NY, USA: 1997. PubMed PMID: 21433340. 4. Cronin J, et al. “Altering the tropism of lentiviral vectors... -
A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 15, 2017, 2:07 p.m....biosensing technique can be applied to an important neuronal signalling pathway - if you’ve got a useful tool...genes to specific cell types in the brain, mapping neuronal networks, and selectively activating signaling... -
Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m....improved RNAi vector that leads to significantly stronger phenotypes than standard RNAi protocols without...Recently, the Sidhu group at the University of Toronto expanded the specificity landscape of the SH3 proteins... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m....make a knockout in your gene of interest, as it is prone to generating indel errors. Indel errors generated...Non-Homologous End-Joining Really an Inherently Error-Prone Process? PLoS Genet 10:e1004086 . https://doi.org... -
3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m....other than to sustain those techniques. We feel strongly that the scientific and the agricultural community...themselves if they want this beautiful flower in their front yard or not. By developing plant aesthetics with... -
Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 10, 2014, 7:17 p.m....and a specialist. Notably, the team must have an upfront conversation about its goals and vision for the...us about the biotech startup process and work environment! Interested in Synthetic Biology? Read On! Synthetic... -
Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m....disease in question – cardiomyocytes, adipocytes or neurons, for instance – to see how those mutations influence...TALENs may be cleaner than CRISPR/Cas9. Reference: Quirong Ding et al. "A TALEN genome-editing system for ... -
Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 5, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... means that F(ab’)2 fragments may have overall stronger interaction with their antigens than a Fab or ... Ashley Waldron... -
Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.... psoriasis Generalized pustular psoriasis is a chronic autoinflammatory skin disease estimated to affect...genetically-encoded biosensors and iPSC-derived cortical neurons from patients with GNB1 mutations, the lab hopes... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....degraded. To effectively isolate intact RNA, a fast, strong protein denaturant would be required- something...late 1970’s, Chirgwin and colleagues showed that a strong protein denaturant, guanidinium thiocyanate, did... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m....particularly helpful when wanting to target specific neuron subtypes, since AAVs tend to be very neuro-permissive...Postdoctoral Fellow in Connie Cepko’s Lab investigating neuronal circuits of the retina using viral tools. References... -
All in a Twist: dsRNA
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m....Transcription, translation, and prone to degradation – those are the words that describe RNA! Double ...telomeres and centromeres. These genomic regions are prone to persistent R-loop formation, presumably due to... -
Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m....more useful! From FPs optimized for oxidizing environments to photoconvertible variants, it seems like ... cells infected with AAV-Cre-DOG retain normal neuronal function, this system may make optogenetics in... -
Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2015, 3:54 p.m....automate the process as well. Sign up for eTOC (electronic table of contents) alerts from journals you read...useful papers. For many, this collection is purely electronic. Gone are the days of file cabinets filled to... -
Working with Nuclear Receptors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m....for endocrine steroids (i.e., corticosteroids, progesterone, androgens, and estrogens), fat-soluble vitamins... the genome to sense the impact of the total environment on the cell. The NURSA Consortium Now in its ...