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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...optimize your activation protocol for your particular set up. Applications of photoactivatable fluorescent ...and Wei‐Lih Lee. "Photoactivatable GFP tagging cassettes for protein‐tracking studies in the budding yeast...
  2. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...Gersbach Lab multiplexing plasmids: This plasmid set allows you to express 2-4 gRNAs, with four being ...including Standard PolIII-gRNA cassette, Csy4-cleavable cassette, and PTG cassette.    Find gRNA multiplexing...smaller than constructs with multiple promoter-gRNA cassettes, making them advantageous for small capacity vectors...aTet-inducible gRNA and a backbone-targeting gRNA cassette for plasmid curing through "self-destruction" ...
  3. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Peripheral Infrastructure Vectors and an Extended Set of Plant Parts for the Modular Cloning System.” PLOS... chromosomal integration of larger expression cassettes (Shaw et al., 2023). Those looking to express ...different promoters, terminators, enhancers, and cross-cassette interactions in gene expression, and to generate...
  4. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...optimization before the field begins to converge on a set of standard tools. Additionally, aspiring genetic...
  5. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    Aug. 22, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...You’ll want to select a pre-stained or unstained set of standards that covers a size range appropriate...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...vasculature (adult marmosets), biased toward astrocytes (adult rhesus macaque) Rats, marmosets, green monkeys... including ENS (adult marmosets, infant rhesus macaques) Mice, rats, marmosets, rhesus macaques Unknown... screened in marmosets. AAV.CAP-Mac effectively transduces vasculature in adult marmosets (Chuapoco et...transduction levels in marmoset brain, with both neurons and astrocytes targeted. While marmoset liver transduction...AAV.CAP-B22 CNS: neurons and astrocytes Mice, marmosets Unknown Goertsen, Flytzanis, et al., 2022 ... of inhibitory and excitatory neurons Mice, marmosets Unknown Brown et al, 2021 Goertsen, Flytzanis...
  7. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    May 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...side of a stop cassette, upstream of an effector gene. In cells where the stop cassette is removed during...just a fraction of a single genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population...cells will express the effector or retain the stop cassette following recombination. Image from Isaacman-Beck... genetic tool that allows for the labeling of a subset of cells with the same genetic makeup, overcomes...effector is expressed. In cells where the stop cassette remains, the effector is not expressed and the...attP sites to drive expression of either a stop cassette or an effector gene. HDVR (2X Hepatitis Delta ... Truncating the attP site upstream of the stop cassette results in decreased efficiency of recombination...
  8. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... satellite colonies? Ampicillin Fair {% icon icon_set="fontawesome-5.14.0" name="Check" style="SOLID...decorative" title="Check icon" %} Just bacteria {% icon icon_set="fontawesome-5.14.0" name="Check" style="SOLID...Excellent No Bacteria and eukaryotes (G418) {% icon icon_set="fontawesome-5.14.0" name="Check" style="SOLID...purpose="decorative" title="Check icon" %} {% icon icon_set="fontawesome-5.14.0" name="Check" style="SOLID...Check icon" %} Carbenicillin Excellent {% icon icon_set="fontawesome-5.14.0" name="Check" style="SOLID...
  9. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    April 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... switch conditional knock-in cassette. As shown in Figure 2, the cassette should contain a reporter DNA...For this FLEx switch to successfully work, the cassette would need to contain the BFP coding sequence ...antisense orientation (Figure 1, top). The entire DNA cassette would be flanked by two pairs of target sites-...in the opposing orientation, you have created a cassette that will express GeneR only in the presence of...recombination event would excise the reporter from the cassette, allowing for expression of GeneR. This allows...
  10. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...To overcome this obstacle, a positive selection cassette can be incorporated, and used during the differentiation..., but defective for integration [4], the donor cassette is removed leaving behind no accessory transposon...recombination and Footprint-Free™ removal of the selection cassette by excision-only piggyBac™. Image courtesy of ...recombinase technology (Cre/loxP) to remove the donor cassette. While this method can be effective, a loxP site..., it is possible to make the ITR and selection cassette disrupt the target site for the nuclease thereby...preventing re-cutting. Transposase removal of the cassette later restores the target sequence. This allows...
  11. IBEX Knowledge-Base: A Data Resource for Multiplex Tissue Imaging

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    June 8, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...resource for spatial biology enthusiasts. This dataset currently includes 1049 community-validated reagents...into conversations with other users. The entire dataset can be downloaded from Zenodo, including the reagent...table or by downloading directly from the Zenodo dataset.     Figure 2: Screenshot showing reagent...HuBMAP) antibody metadata standards. And the dataset is rich. Experimental data includes reagent type...protocols, panels, publications, software, and datasets. It’s also a great place for anyone who has used...
  12. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    Jan. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ... Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) in order to increase the accessibility...accessibility of CRISPR-based phenotypic screen datasets. Original published CRISPR screen data is curated and ...and ready access to stably archived large-scale datasets by computational biologists. Figure 1: ...other species. By accurately compiling genome-wide datasets, which are often obscured in large supplementary...but also allows cross-interrogation of different datasets that might otherwise be hard to identify. ...
  13. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...bacterial selection cassette for growth and cloning in bacteria and a mammalian selection cassette to screen for...cells, you will not need a mammalian selection cassette (e.g. 1435 pSG5L Flag HA). You can also upgrade...with an integrating vector expressing a selection cassette with 5′ and 3′ flanking sequences matching the...fusion proteins. Pick your promoter, selection cassette and visualization vehicle to conduct your custom...
  14. Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly

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    Sept. 6, 2017, 1:01 p.m.
    ...Producing yeast expression cassettes Traditionally, generating expression cassettes for yeast transformation...-fidelity polymerase) is the ability to remove, reset and ligate mismatched overhangs, yielding scarless...Cloning sgRNAs Production of Yeast Expression Cassettes Generating constructs with multiple point mutations...regions of homology and inserted into a linearized cassette, ready for transformation into yeast that same...
  15. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    Aug. 22, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
    ...resistance cassette and you aren’t introducing an additional antibiotic resistance cassette along with...plasmid backbone contains a kanamycin resistance cassette, you would plate the cells on kanamycin-containing...carrying plasmids that contain a kanamycin resistance cassette will grow. However, often times, the plasmid backbone...
  16. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    Jan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m.
    ... Scientists introduce an antibiotic resistance cassette within the coding region of the gene they are ...is best practice not to use the same resistance cassette for the mutation and for plasmid selection. Additionally... vector typically has two separate resistance cassettes and your gene of interest is cloned into/inactivates...completely removes (in the case of Gateway cloning) one cassette. Counterselection allows the scientist to select...
  17. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    July 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m.
    ... background. Their new method uses a selection cassette containing genes for hygromycin resistance and...heat-shock inducible Cre to generate a self-excising cassette (SEC). To make it possible fluorescently label...into the genome. Figure 1: Self-excising cassette schematic from Dickinson et al. (2015). Used with...Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette. Dickinson DJ, Pani AM, Heppert JK, Higgins CD...
  18. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    Nov. 3, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...strewn across the floor. In the final wake it all settles down and the value of each item changes from what...individual; the  community as a whole has yet to settle on any true kind of value. I’ve dubbed this the...software design that is applicable to only one, or a subset of organisms. In only a few cases the software ... agnostic. Most tools are exclusive to one or a subset of organisms. Examples: “organism agnostic”, “model... you can rule out any tool that limits you to a subset of specific genomes. These are most of the tools...
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