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...scientific poster apart? First, a good poster should catch the audience’s eye and draw people in. That can ... sections should be as concise as possible, communicating only the most important results to your audience...have the advantage of being able to verbally communicate your work, so you don’t need every little detail...may choose to display it as rows. It can be more catchy because it is generally less common and will stand...advantage of being different and potentially more catchy, but it can be trickier to make figures fit nicely...relevant to the work you are presenting. The latter is catchy, but beware. A distracting background or clashing...

...experiences to undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing suitable... become very different due to a whole genome duplication and extensive rearrangements in the S. cerevisiae...overexpression vector. This plasmid contains origins of replication and selectable markers that allow students to...met deficiencies (manuscript in preparation), indicating that Met protein functions have been largely ... research into undergraduate courses and in communicating science to the public. You can find out more...). Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action, Washington, DC. 2. President's...

... biological reagents have a ton of data on the catalog page. It’s not always super easy to navigate the...originally described in a peer-reviewed scientific publication. We love science, but we don’t have the resources...questions about an Abcam antibody. Have your catalog number ready. I've attempted to answer several ...Addgene support, make sure to mention the plasmid catalog number, or at least the plasmid name in your initial...be fairly fast, getting the full answer to a complicated question may take some time. If the customer ...message Answering customer service questions is a delicate balance of knowledge, patience, and diplomacy,...

...chemical replication of RNA in the absence of evolved enzymatic machinery (i.e. RNA replication with no...Guangzhou and the Science City The conference was located in the modern, relatively new “Science City” area...and technology companies and start-ups choose to locate there. I made time to go into the city of Guangzhou...inheritance that might be less error prone than DNA replication. He too mentioned how “surprising” small RNAs...Steitz quipped that RNA in the ribosome is in a complicated conformation “not like DNA which has a boring...

...antiviral defense). Cascade is brought to the target location using a gRNA and can then recruit Cas3, which ... type I, the most abundant type in the Class 1 category. These type Is can then be further broken into...of DNA much like a fisherman would reel in a big catch. It was originally suspected that Cas3 moved a couple...Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications with the type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome...unidirectional genome editing in human cells. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-...Koonin, E. V. (2015). An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems. Nature Reviews Microbiology...

...so most labs opt to purchase adenoviruses from dedicated adenoviral production labs or companies. Production...something you may have to optimize for your specific application. With mammalian systems, it is standard to do...more cells, while AAV can be titrated following purification using qPCR or digital droplet PCR. Insect cells...to collect your viral supernatant. Baculovirus replicates inside insect cells, and its lifecycle ends in...titer the virus, or go straight into your viral application, like protein production. Titration of baculovirus...Sf9 Time to collection 2–4 days 5–10 days Purification Ultracentrifugation (AAV); centrifugation (lenti...

...targeting anywhere in an exon. But things get more complicated if you’d like to use homology directed repair...They created a selection phage (SP) to carry catalytically dead SpCas9 (dCas9) fused to the bacterial polymerase...test xCas9 3.0-3.13, Hu et al. first restored catalytic residues D10 and H840. To ensure that the clones...loci displayed a broad range of PAM sequences, indicating they may be less predictable than SpCas9 off-... that we have only scratched the surface of modifications that can be made to Cas9. It is a pleasant surprise...editing rates. This PAM flexibility should expand applications that require very specific targeting, like homology...

...retroviruses ” (Cullen, 1992) because of their more complicated genomes. Here, we will mostly use the gamma-retroviruses...wild-type viral particle — and of the normal, replicative life cycle — can help you understand these seemingly...of a non-living viral particle, and how we as dedicated researchers can exploit it. This blog was written...Hutcheson for her assistance with lentiviral replication.  Resources and References More resources on...101: Types of Viruses Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications Resources on addgene.org Addgene's Lentiviral...acid of the Bryan strain of Rous sarcoma virus: purification of the virus and isolation of the nucleic acid...

...RESCUE in therapeutic applications, the authors tested various dRanCas13b truncations that would allow packaging...longer stretches of duplexed RNA. Using an ADAR2DD catalytic mutant, they showed that editing is mediated by...into adeno-associated viral vectors, they tested truncated ADARDDs to see if they could shrink the construct... to deaminate cytidine and used dRanCas13b (catalytically inactive Cas13) to target the cytosine deaminase...construct for viral delivery. They found C-terminal truncations allowed the same or improved editing ability ...

...Red arrows indicate a conversion directly catalyzed by the base editor. Black arrows indicate natural cellular...researchers can now select the best tool for their application from among many options.  Conclusion With these...engineered human uracil DNA glycosylase. Nature Communications, 15(1), 4897. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...via engineered uracil-DNA glycosylase. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...

... they are based on light which is very easily scattered by tissue. Ultrasound, on the other hand, is a...protein nanostructures called gas vesicles, which scatter sound waves and thereby produce ultrasound contrast...limiting their applicability. They also did not scatter ultrasound nonlinearly, making them difficult to...out to develop next-generation bARGs that could scatter ultrasound nonlinearly and be easily expressed ...promoter pBAD and a low-copy number origin of replication (p15A) worked best under a wide range of inducer...smaller genetic footprint, and nonlinear acoustic scattering. The best candidate for this was the Anabaena...

...a protein’s stability or post-translational modifications, or study how a target protein interacts with...Protein A and Protein G are not suitable for all applications, such as protein isolation from serum. In this...capture antibody interaction and/or the downstream application. Typically, if the target protein will be detected...and an isotype control antibody. Alternative applications Oftentimes, an IP-appropriate antibody simply...identify DNA binding proteins involved in histone modification. Similarly, RNA IP (RIP) can be used to isolate...resources References:  Björck L, Kronvall G (1984) Purification and some properties of streptococcal protein...

... Aptamer biosensors are used in a variety of applications, including detection of environmental pollutants... opens aptamers for use in many entirely new applications including aptamer based fluorescent biosensors... render this approach less sensitive in most applications. Learn About Fluorescent Biosensors Light-up..., MG proved to be too toxic for many in vivo applications, but this work proved the concept that RNA could...and biochips. Ultimately, there are just some applications that lend themselves to aptamer-based instead...Kyung-Mi, et al. “Aptamers and Their Biological Applications.” Sensors (Basel). 2012; 12(1): 612–631. PubMed...

...positively charged polycation, polybrene. Interestingly, one study found that alternative polycations such as DEAE-dextran... freshly collected lentivirus for downstream applications. While this ensures that the highest titer virus...lentivirus may want to consider testing a variety of cation and serum sources to ensure the best possible transduction...establishes the best conditions for specific applications, stick with them! Changes in such variables ...efficiency of lentiviral vectors: effect of sera and polycations.” Molecular Biotechnology 53.3 (2013). 308-14...

...EthoVision. Consult the literature to find all the applications of optogenetics relevant to your field. Ultimately...Inhibition of neuronal activation is a little more complicated since basal neuronal activity in your brain region...technology is improving and may one day reach the sophistication of mouse transgenics. Everything that has been... and memory in opioid addiction and science communication/science writing. Derek is also a pianist and...rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogenetic application to dopamine-mediated reinforcement." Neuron 72.5...sensitivity optical neural silencer: development and application to optogenetic control of non-human primate cortex...

...advice on how to dive into new forms of science communication. Click here to listen to the interview with ... from Addgene.      Check out more science education tools like Verse Two and Fill in the Planck at...with us. Tom McFadden is a YouTuber and science educator looking for creative ways to implement the next...next generation science standards and communicate science. Learn more about Tom on his youtube channel ...Community Check out All of Our Podcasts Find Great Educational Content in our Plasmids 101 Series Additional...

...protein, but its modest photostability limits applications like long-term imaging or super-resolution techniques...hM3D(Gq)-mCherry) or 3 (pAAV-hSyn-DIO-mCherry) replicates. Over 60 labs have already ordered these...evolved purpose, they became available for new applications: incorporating artificial amino acids into proteins... the best, most efficient set of guide RNAs. To cater to these tastes, the labs of John Doench and David...increase the quality and accuracy of downstream applications.  Figure 5: Brief comparison of the ...activity predictions for CRISPR screening. Nature Communications, 13(1), 5255. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...

...variety of small RNA types to choose from and can be catered for your specific experiment. For this blog, we...is an umbrella term for a number of different applications that involve different types of small RNA molecules... by a ribonuclease called Dicer. In a great simplification of the process, Dicer chops off the loop of...sequence is highlighted in green, with red boxes indicating mature siRNA. Hairpin loop is in between the ...sequence is highlighted in green, with red boxes indicating mature miRNA. Hairpin loop is in between the ...for your research arsenal, and there is still a dedicated field of study for improving these tools. Next...

...studying genetic modification for their ease of manipulation and their ability to be replicated. Because E...., 2004). Additionally, breakthroughs in gene modification tools and methods such as CRISPR have vastly...Escherichia coli as a Model Organism and Its Application in Biotechnology. In Escherichia coli - Recent...Physiology, Pathogenesis and Biotechnological Applications. InTech. https://doi.org/10.5772/67306 Koornneef... bacteria with superior performance. Nature Communications, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04899...

...that the oversized AAV genomes are fragmented or truncated when packaged and then following transduction,...and may need to be optimized for each unique application (Trapani et al., 2015).  Expression of smaller...transgene to help prevent the accumulation of such truncated proteins. Examples of use:  Ghosh et al., 2008...design, donor A may be capable of expressing a truncated protein. This can be avoided by excluding a stop...JS (2011) Gene Therapy of mdx Mice With Large Truncated Dystrophins Generated by Recombination Using rAAV6...Improved dual AAV vectors with reduced expression of truncated proteins are safe and effective in the retina ...