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  1. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... et al., 2018). To circumvent sequencing and the need for a DSB in their previous reporter, the Harris...eGFP reporters from the Harris Lab circumvents the need for DSBs in monitoring on-target DNA editing efficiency...) to purify single base edited cells without the need for single cell isolation and downstream sequencing...
  2. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...very likely be on a team that supports you when you need it. The opportunity to be creative and think critically...actually spending doing work. Yes, you may legitimately need to be in the lab that long because of the nature...during the day was also a scientist. But now you also need to talk to Tony from legal, Diana in finance, and...
  3. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...Just as researchers need to access and reference external data sources, they also need to continue to make... at the characteristics and capabilities an ELN needs to facilitate true reproducibility. The following...
  4. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...for a bacterial infection. While this post will, indeed, focus on bacteria, it is important to note that...concentration, or sometimes more exposure time is needed for the drug to work… if the instructions for treatment...or not, because scientists in the laboratory will need to isolate and grow whatever bacteria are causing...
  5. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...line maintenance The key is good recordkeeping, you need to have a way of tracking how many passages the ...reliable. When you order a new cell line you will need to grow this initial stock and create a set of vials...The future Attitudes are changing but yet more is needed to convince people of some of the basic tenets ...
  6. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... feasible, especially when the lentiviral stock needs to be titrated. If storing for less than a day, ...properly and be consistent when following protocols. Need Virus? Check out Addgene's New Viral Service! References...cellular receptors for vesicular stomatitis virus.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110.18 (2013...
  7. Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations

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    April 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m.
    ... and by offering advice on areas where you might need some help. Today in our transferable skills guide...going alone - if you are aware of a problem or a need for something, usually someone else has realized...these types of events can be very tough. First I needed to find the right contacts at the companies and...
  8. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ...controls! For every experiment, an investigator needs a standard against which the results can be compared...your experiment includes determining what factors need to be controlled for in order to eliminate any alternative... be plasmid-based depending on the experimental needs. Using our experiment as an example, the expected...
  9. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ... type of RNA that needs to be made: if you want mRNA (for gene expression) you need to use an RNAP II ...promoter based on type of RNA transcript, you will also need to make sure your plasmid has a promoter suited ...
  10. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...probably not safe to assume that they saw what they needed to see and just didn’t have anything to contribute... sub-skill to have here is pretty intuitive: You need to be willing to face conflict head-on. That doesn...most frequently towards these approaches, you may need to put more conscious effort into your conflict ...
  11. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...knocked-down through RNA interference (RNAi) by feeding the worm bacteria expressing specific plasmids ...β-cells identified by HOTcre mediated labeling." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106.35 (2009... in freely behaving Caenorhabditis elegans." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.8 (2016...
  12. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...confirmed that avidin was indeed the culprit in egg white injury by feeding rats purified avidin (Kresege...external sources. Humans absorb most of the biotin they need in the small intestine from the microflora that ...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...backbone: the DNA vector that contains everything needed to replicate inside a host cell but with space ....  We built these plasmids for flexibility and speed, so you can design, test, and innovate faster than... Perhaps these antibodies are just the tools you need to push the field forward! Browse the IPI Glypican...
  14. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...plasmid compared to DH5α. However, more research is needed to determine which recA- strains are most effective...2009), pUC multimerization was reduced by growing seed stocks at 30°C compared to 42°C. Screen multiple...production platform incorporating low metabolic burden seed-stock and fed-batch fermentation processes. Biotechnol...
  15. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...over the TetO elements, allowing transcription to proceed (pJKR-H-tetR from the Church lab uses this system...Response Element (TRE)), allowing transcription to proceed. When tetracycline or one of its derivatives is...linked in groups of 6), allowing transcription to proceed. When cumate is added, it binds cTA, resulting ...
  16. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...DNA sequence encodes the proteins the transposon needs for transposition. Transposition protein: This is... transposons” since they encode the protein they need to move around, either a transposase or a reverse...transcriptase. Non-autonomous transposons, however, need another TE to express a transposase or reverse transcriptase...
  17. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
    ... researcher at New England Biolabs. When do you need a high fidelity ligase—and when is an alternative...end-joining activity, and for others, there is a need for the exclusive ligation of fully base-paired ...amplification using cloned thermostable ligase." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 88.1 (1991...
  18. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    June 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...packaging capacity, AAV vectors were suitable for our needs for the following reasons: Safety: Since AAVs ...should be used to clean AAVs from workspaces. Speed: AAV transduction experiments are relatively quick...useful for a wide variety of experiments, care still needs to be taken when selecting which particular AAVs...
  19. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...grow haywire, access and create more vasculature to feed themselves, use the blood stream to commute to and...inflammatory responses can augment tumor growth. Indeed, lasting responses to viral infections have resulted... inhibit expression of co-stimulatory molecules needed for T cell effector function. Cancer cells also...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
    ...jump from one antigen presenting cell to another. Indeed, we now know that T cells are able to crawl more... injury in the acutely inflamed glomerulus." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2016): 201606253...cell subsets in the skin-draining lymph node." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.4 (2016...
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