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  1. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... rounds of screening. Created with Biorender.com.   Some phage display libraries screen antibody genes...serine with dispersed hydrophilic residues for increased solubility (Monnier et al., 2013). The linker ...expression systems. scFvs are also small enough to be screened for with in vitro display methods such as phage...applications where longer retention times often increase therapeutic efficacy (Ahmed et al., 2012). How...and VH sequences. Phage display also allows for screening scFv generated from the B cell antibody genes ...the ways antibodies are. scFvs are even used to screen for new antibodies. To do this, antibody variable...variable domain sequences are expressed as scFvs and screened with in vitro assays to select for strong binders...
  2. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... are isolated from the resulting colonies, and screened for the desired modification. Finally, the positive...final circular plasmid product pictured here. B) Screening of recovered plasmids for the mutation of interest...multimerization (purple) which is evident by an increase in the size of the lower band (portion of the ...mutation). Similar results can be obtained with PCR screening using the primers specified by the arrowheads ... vastly facilitates the subsequent process of screening for succesfully mutated clones. Forward and reverse...Template A high purity plasmid prep significantly increases the success rate of site directed mutagenesis....secondary structures of the DNA template, and may also decrease the annealing temp of the primers. Because you...
  3. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    May 26, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...14 and 21 to create GEmCherry2. The Denham lab made several other small changes creating 2 other versions...Cas9 activity assays. Recently scientists have created CRISPR fluorescent reporter assays to quantify ...CRISPR/Cas-stimulated HDR activity) The Madison lab created SRIRACCHA in 2017 to enrich and identify desired...H2B-GFP. This visual read out allows for easy screening of different gRNAs by simply changing the gRNA...plasmid that contains Cas9. The Madison lab also created an inducible SRIRACCHA system (iSRIRACCHA) where... H2B-GFP expressing cells exhibited a 2-4 fold increase in the number of endogenous indel edits when compared... sites and activity (Knudsen et al., 2018).  To create GEmCherry2, the Denham lab first incorporated an...
  4. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... the injunction. While much of this decrease is due to an increase in the number of universities’ whose...postdocs who were expecting a salary increase have had that increase cancelled. Rounding out the remainder...payment for working more than 40 hours per week increasing from $23,660 to $47,476 per year. This post discusses... of postdocs who weren’t going to get a salary increase prior to the injunction still won’t after the ...issues such as childcare using money from their increased salaries. In addition, salary uncertainty may ... costs of living would get much better salary increases that those in less densely populated areas. This...Gary's Previous Article: Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages Read about the Advocating for Science...
  5. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... of interest. Although efficiency may decrease with an increased number of fragments, or the ligation ... cleave outside of their recognition sequence, creating four base flanking overhangs. Since these overhangs... fragments, these problems can be overcome by screening a higher number of potential clones. Golden Gate...the ordered assembly of multiple DNA fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed...This cloning strategy not only makes it easy to create a single gRNA-expressing plasmid, but it can also...fragment: PCR-based amplification can be used to create silent point mutations at internal recognition ...Whether you are using the Golden Gate method to create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids...
  6. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ...challenging for amateur scientists. Planarians, wormy creatures commonly found in freshwater ponds, provide a ...promoters to allow for bidirectional transcription to create dsRNA. Students can produce DNA templates via PCR... PCR off of the same plasmid and use these to create riboprobes for in situ hybridization experiments.... as how to perform worm amputations. They also created an online companion resource called “cutting class...within an embryo or tissue. Once the riboprobes are created, the WISH protocol involves preparation of the ...as a result, these cells turn blue. Students can create synthetic riboprobes off of linearized DNA templates...from their organism of interest, use the RNA to create a complementary DNA (cDNA), and then use PCR and...
  7. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    Oct. 17, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
    ...protein in your hand? At 3D Molecular Designs, we create physical models of proteins using 3D printing technology... real”.  We sometimes forget that the models we create are around 30 million times larger than the real...were soon developed that allowed researchers to create stunning, interactive images of their proteins....physical models of protein structure? We have been creating physical models of proteins for researchers for...educators and students use molecular models?   We created the Center for BioMolecular Modeling (CBM) in 1999... 1999 with the expressed purpose of creating physical models of proteins and other molecular structures...researchers to learn about their research while creating physical models of proteins that are being investigated...
  8. Microbes: Look, Listen, and Tell

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    Aug. 28, 2018, 12:04 p.m.
    ...in vivo: acoustic reporter genes’ on our blog. Creative approaches to presenting the microbial world ...bacteria in the lab, I was excited to learn about creative approaches to visualize bacteria in an educational...educational setting. The Symposium on ‘Creative Approaches to Presenting the Microbial World’ showcased complex... comics (Dr. Sanja Saftic) to educational gifs created by the Amoeba Sisters. Here’s one example of how...lactose-around-we-can-make-some-enzymes-for   The take home message was that being creative and telling a story makes scientific topics both... fascinating to see the living art designed by creative minds with a (I assume) very steady hand. By connecting...connecting art and science, a fascinating interface is created that produces loads of inspiration for the current...
  9. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    Nov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...genome-wide screens, introducing bias into all work based on these and any other CRISPR screens using the..., race. Many researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover genetic...targets and related biomarkers . Data from such screens are often uploaded to the Cancer Dependency Map...Boehm labs pulled data from more than 1000 CRISPR screens in DepMap to see if they could identify the ancestry... American, Africa, or South Asian) used in the screens based on the cells’ germline genetic variations...about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either European or East Asian ancestry, ...actually reference?  The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match...
  10. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...breaks caused by Cas12 create short 3’ overhangs, which leads to slightly increased efficiency when conducting...type to subtype to variant (shown in italics). Created with BioRender.com.   Class 1 versus class ...underutilized compared to Class 2. Class 1 Despite their incredible abundance, Class 1 CRISPR systems are less popular...Cascade. As you might imagine, this is handy for creating large genomic deletions. Type I systems are also...with Cas3 (pink). Complex shown is from type I-E. Created with BioRender.com.   Type III Type III is ...most engineered Cas enzyme, with adaptations for increased fidelity, activation/repression, high precision...CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, representing type II-A. Created with BioRender.com.   Type V Type V uses Cas12...
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