...nothing’s ever perfect, neither is AAV. Its main limitation is the small size of its DNA cargo - 4.8 kb at...strategies are being optimized to overcome this limitation, with limited success so far. Luckily for patients...an ever-growing number of clinical trials for devastating genetic diseases such as hemophilia, muscular...

...Cellular Structures Construct Fluorophore Excitation/emission maxima Tethering partner Subcellular...genes from organisms with high CpG dinucleotide representation. The specific restriction enzymes used in various... 3. The goal of high throughput cloning is to facilitate the construction of plasmids with many components...

...attend? What is the expectation on level of critique and detail? Who is/are the facilitator(s) of the journal...papers could be more important.  Any slides, presentations, recordings, and other materials should be made...

...protein synthesis. The kan resistance gene, NPTII, facilitates phosphorylation of kan, which inactivates it....when not 100% inhibited, meaning it will induce mutations in the host/plasmid DNA during selection if it...good choice for experiments in which off-target mutations are undesirable. Pros: Works across many species...

...producer cells where there is E1 and E3 gene complementation. In target cells that are infected by the vector...persistent transgene expression in certain cell types (Tatsis et al., 2007), potentially because some of the ...doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05949-1. PMID: 36996871. Tatsis, N., Fitzgerald, J. C., Reyes-Sandoval, A., Harris-McCoy...

...the new protocols.io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we...simultaneously allowing scientists to actively comment, annotate, and edit protocols. After my introduction to ...lab-use tablet? The software also makes it easy to annotate protocols, make them public for others to use,...

...get there: I had to send the company detailed documentation of my results, answer loads of questions, and...differences in customers’ personalities and their expectations. If you are willing to listen to a customer’...support roles. Examples are Technical Service Representative, Technical Support Specialist, Technical Support...

...acceptor FRET know-how with aptamers, aptabeacons (or aptatags) were born. Aptabeacons can be created in many...general premise is that an aptamer in its unbound state contains a fluorophore and a quencher in close proximity...brighter version of the aptamer, but it still had limitations in vivo. Using a combination of SELEX and fluorescence-activated...

.... In vivo, these recombination reactions are facilitated by the recombination of attachment sites from...attL-entry-TOPO vector. TOPO cloning adds short end(s) to facilitate cloning into an attL-containing entry vector.... to 4 DNA fragments, in a specific order and orientation, in one tube, into one Gateway vector to produce...

...inflammation, which can cause mesothelial cells to mutate and ultimately form cancerous tumors.  This process...For example, multiple studies show that certain mutations of the BAP1 gene play a role in susceptibility...individuals, asbestos has not been banned in the United States and many other countries, and it is still imported...

...at the same time increasing interdisciplinary citations in their own work. Of course not all research ...ImpactStory, a website that helps researchers go beyond citation rates to measure the impact of their contribution...Archambault. "The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007." Journal of the American Society for...

...editors, PE6a–g, that overcome some current prime limitations and enable impressive editing efficiencies in...similar or better efficiency than PEmax, the current state-of-the-art. PE6b was very efficient for short, unstructured...transmission, and plasticity and is a popular marker of excitatory synapses in assays like IHC. In fact, Anti-PSD...

...maintaining their friendships. I put “neutral” in quotations here because I would not have considered myself...handy: Empathy: If you often find yourself in confrontational situations with others because you simply cannot...competing, or accommodating, if you find yourself gravitating most frequently towards these approaches, you...

...training and experience, better align trainee expectations with job outcomes, and increase diversity in...need to know in order to even assess the current state of research became more clear throughout the various...information publicly available may realign trainee expectations with actual job outcomes and/or disincentivize...

...research is dependent on a pathology microtome/cryostat, then making a careful decision on the condition...for suggestions to meet each others’ needs and limitations. Everything is negotiable. Try asking for discounts...research, then it’s worth working within their limitations. 3. Always provide value to others This is a ...

...have intricacies that aren’t always mentioned in static written protocols. It is therefore a bit ridiculous...experiments with too few replicates leading to suspect statistical significance (you can read more about this problem...experimental design practices including talking to statisticians when necessary and encouraging interlab peer...

...across the genome) has been implicated in disease states, and targeting the epigenome may make certain processes... spiroplasma (M. Sss1) (termed MQ1.) The Q147L mutation improves methylation kinetics such that cytosine...transduction. Lysine-specific Demethylase 1 (LSD1) Tatjana Sauka-Spengler's lab has deposited pX330a dCas9...

...galactose3 AAV receptor2 Laminin receptor (LR)3 Putative integrin3 1Wu, Miller, et al., 20062Pillay...for mice in vivo. To target... Try using... Citation CNS AAV1, AAV2, AAV5, AAV8, AAV9, AAVrg Aschauer.... (2006). Α2,3 and α2,6 N-Linked Sialic Acids Facilitate Efficient Binding and Transduction by Adeno-Associated...

...of hands-on lab work for a dissertation. I chose to carry out my dissertation research in a lab in California...outcome for a specific combination of genetic mutations. This is a particular challenge in pancreatic ...

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