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  1. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    Feb. 11, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
    ...formats helps these statements stand out from the rest of the text. Specific aims The Specific Aims section...Develop a research plan Most grant applications restrict the space available to describe the proposed work...
  2. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...locus, provided the target is unique compared to the rest of the genome and located immediately 5’ to a protospacer... What genes are important in your phenotype of interest? Many scientists study diseases for which the ...drug-resistance. Mutant cells are treated with a drug of interest and gRNA distribution is analyzed in the drug-...can help you learn a lot about your phenotype of interest. For more detailed information on CRISPR screens...
  3. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...is the right way?  First of all, I want to put to rest a common misconception. I find personal bias often...If you're interested in sharing your science, one of the big questions you'll be faced with is "how?"...be able to access your content.  What are you interested in? Math, sarcasm, romance, and spacecraft...can guarantee you that either resource or time restrictions (or both!) will be a major limiting factor at... to reach people who are not already actively interested in scicomm. Difficult to do in-depth storytelling...
  4. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...minutes of the two hour time slot, so she can take the rest of the time to collect her data. Perhaps you both...
  5. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...protein-coding genes, and you might be wondering what the rest of our genome could possibly be made up of. The ...options. By carefully considering your ncRNA of interest, you should be able to devise an experiment that...
  6. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    April 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR tools were committed to sharing them with the rest of the community. They did this by depositing them...
  7. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...sample names and guide sequences, and ICE will do the rest. There are no parameters that need optimizing and...This score is a useful measure for those who are interested in understanding how many of the contributing...
  8. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...part time work, bills, (at times) a social life and rest. I need it just as much in my current role as Customer...Support and Operations Manager at Addgene and is interested in nonprofit management and international development...
  9. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...you even wear a lab coat! These are the things the rest of the world imagines when they think “scientist...your job as well as possible. It’s in their best interest to do so, sure, but it also eliminates that feeling...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...activation kinetics and high responsivity near the resting membrane potential, ASAP5 is a great new option...CLAP) with a flexible linker where a protein of interest can be inserted. B) Protein expression and labeling...studies of kinesins but for many other proteins of interest too! Find CLIP, CLAP, and SNAP plasmids here! ...
  11. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...of the undesired portion, designed to amplify the rest of the vector sequence. Encode homology in the forward... longer oligos, which could be avoided using restriction enzyme cloning, were more prohibitive at the ... doesn’t matter if the DNA is PCR amplified, restriction digested or even a synthesized gene. PCR is the...IVA can be employed by cutting the vector with restriction enzymes and adding the corresponding homologous...the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is interested in neuronal signal transduction, and uses electron...
  12. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    March 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
    ...AMA Managing time and energy between work and the rest of life is sometimes more of a struggle and sometimes...negotiating a demanding career in science with other interests and priorities, but many find it helpful to obtain...
  13. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ...conditions:  1) The sequence is unique compared to the rest of the genome.  2) The target is present immediately...Cas9-mediated frameshift mutations in the gene of interest. The genomic target for Cas9 and the introduction...site early in the coding region of the gene of interest. This gives you loads of sequences to select from...to find a SpCas9 compatible PAM at your site of interest, that is the most efficient option. If there is...repressors to the promoter region of the gene of interest. dCas9-based repressors are useful when knocking...
  14. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    July 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...where you are going and what you expect. For the rest of the chalk talk, as with your job talk, avoid ...and tissues is fundamental to development. I'm interested in how cells find their way to the correct positions...expert in [your research area]," – you should show interest in other faculty members’ research. Still a Grad...Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins...
  15. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    July 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...position do you want your gene to be in relation to the rest of the genes? And do you want it to be in the same... simplifies vector construction by combining restriction and ligation steps together in the same tube ...the extraction and use of a coding sequence of interestCDS Level 0 part from an Addgene MoClo kit, to construct...questions to start with are: Is your sequence of interest a promoter, a coding sequence, a terminator, or.... The overhangs are generated using type IIS restriction enzymes (BsaI, BbsI/BpiI, BsmBI), which recognize...four-base overhangs flank a coding sequence of interest (CDS1, top). Overhangs must match the Level 0 ...designing new primers to clone your sequence of interest into Level 0 parts. Use in silico cloning tools...
  16. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    .... Overgrown cultures stimulate quiescence, the resting phase of the cell cycle; quiescent cells do not...establish cell lines that stably express a gene of interest. While the general approach for using lentivirus...the positively charged polycation, polybrene. Interestingly, one study found that alternative polycations...
  17. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...between cancer cells, therapeutic drugs, and the rest of the body than studies in other model organisms...level and spatiotemporal expression of a gene of interest. This type of control over gene expression is ...continuously improved upon since then. If you are interested in these systems check out Gerald Rubin’s lab...specific plasmids (L4440) that contain your gene of interest (Fire et al., 1998). The discovery of RNAi in ...sensor, GCaMP6 (Nguyen et al., 2015). If you are interested in C. elegans plasmids and resources check out...
  18. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... easily gate on the unlabeled cells of interest while the rest can be excluded, or “dumped”. From left...fluorophore-conjugated antibodies directly bind to epitopes of interest that are found in the extracellular space. The...like bulk lympho-/splenocytes, you might only be interested in one of the various cell populations; for example...selection: labeling markers that your cells of interest do not have, and selecting for the cells that ...quick method of negatively selecting your cells of interest is magnetic bead-activated cell sorting, or MACS...An effective strategy to sort out your cells of interest via FACS using negative selection is called dump...Intracellular labeling Oftentimes, a marker of interest is not located on the cell membrane but inside...
  19. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ...affinity is much closer to the Ca2+ concentration in resting neurons. Their soma-targeted variant SomaFRCaMPi... MitoTRACER plasmids here! Borcherding, N., & Brestoff, J. R. (2023). The power and potential of mitochondria...killswitch can be genetically fused to a protein of interest or targeted to a GFP fusion protein using an anti-GFP...killswitch-nanobody system. A cell expressing the protein of interest fused to GFP forms fluorescent biomolecular condensates...
  20. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...out my window and I saw the Dorr Mountain with the rest of the skyline of Acadia National Park. I was confused...molecular biologist with Biogen and is particularly interested in applying CRISPR for mouse genome editing. ...Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he is interested in using CRISPR to develop therapeutic applications...
  21. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    Jan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...regions are made from the Ig heavy chains, and the rest of the Fab regions are completed with the Ig light... of interest from among the mixture and to measure the relative amount of your protein of interest on ...scientists to target specific proteins they’re interested in. Once a protein is targeted with an antibody...primary antibody, which recognizes your protein of interest, and a secondary antibody, which recognizes the... A primary antibody recognizing the protein of interest is added, and will bind to that protein on the... antibodies are used to capture the protein of interest and detect its presence. Then, the amount of light...sample, you’ll want to extract your protein of interest from the mixture. Antibodies can do this, too!...
  22. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...so we’ll focus on DNA transposons for much of the rest of this article. Class I Transposable elements (...transposase gene is provided in trans so that a gene of interest can be inserted between the transposon’s LTRs,...mini-transposon that contains the DNA cargo of interest flanked by ~50-150 bp transposon end sequences...
  23. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...plasmid. This is seen only in the uncut DNA; the rest of the digest appears normal and produces the expected...When performing restriction digests on plasmids at Addgene, we sometimes observe something odd in our...themselves cannot be used to detect multimers, since restriction sites in multimers usually repeat in tandem along...DNA without changing the size. As a result, a restriction digest of multimers will produce the same fragment...sample, you could try linearizing the plasmid via restriction digestion and then run the linearized plasmid...eBookAddgene's Molecular Biology ReferenceAddgene's Restriction Digest Protocol More resources on the Addgene...
  24. 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral experience

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    Oct. 9, 2018, 12:21 p.m.
    ...exhausting. Now is the time to develop strategies to rest and re-energize yourself, and to address all of ...better idea of how to leverage it to ask new and interesting questions in your own lab. 2. Seek multiple mentors...investigators. Discussions can reveal mutual scientific interests, complementary perspectives, a shared communication...Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His interests include the quality control of secretory proteins...
  25. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...presenting cells (APCs) that would normally alert the rest of the immune system to the presence of cancer are... complicated and dynamic phenomenon that is interestingly responsible for tumor reduction as well as progression...TGFβ. T-regs are suppressive immune cells that restrict the production and activity of other effector ... engineering and cancer immunotherapy, and is interested in exploring new avenues in healthcare.   References...
  26. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...a sequence recognized by the restriction enzyme MstII. When a restriction digest with MstII and southern...than real-time PCR (4). Restriction mapping and modern sequencing Restriction mapping informs on DNA sequence...different restriction enzyme digests. Incubating a DNA sample of unknown sequence with restriction enzymes...sequence of interest to create a physical map of the DNA. Starting in the 1970s, restriction mapping was...has changed, restriction enzymes are certainly not dead yet! Labs still keep restriction enzymes on hand...three historical techniques: southern blotting, restriction mapping, and sequencing gels, as well as their... (2). Southern blotting, in conjunction with restriction digest analysis, is used to identify the presence...
  27. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Method C: Restriction cloning of a restriction enzyme fragment containing the DNA of interest and a attL-entry...scientists are no longer limited to traditional restriction enzyme cloning. Instead, you can choose a molecular...vectors, one can use Gateway to clone a gene of interest into a variety of expression systems. Keep reading...generates the entry clone containing the DNA of interest flanked by attL sites. As a byproduct of the reaction... a result, an expression clone with the DNA of interest flanked by attB sites is generated. As in the ...recombination, and it is exchanged with the gene of interest during the BP or LR reactions. Since the CcdB ...Figure 5: Method C to create an entry clone: Restriction cloning the inset into an attL-containing entry...
  28. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the mutation of interest. Gel electrophoresis diagrams of the anticipated restriction analysis results... by Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) analysis (right). Introduction of restriction site...conventional cloning (to introduce or remove restriction sites), in mapping of regulatory elements (to...the plasmid template (blue), and introduce a restriction site “A*” (in addition to the “A” site already...in the parent vector). Also shown are the “B” restriction sites, which flank the targeted region. Upon ...amplification, the template is removed by DpnI restriction digestion leaving behind only the mutagenized...primers to successfully anneal to the plasmid of interest during the PCR reaction. Ideally, your primers...
  29. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    Jan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m.
    ...institutional oversight is required. Restraint: mechanical restraint or anesthesia Location: tail vein or...you might after getting a vaccine. Restraint: mechanical restraint Location: thigh Gauge: 25–27 Volume... create xenograft models. Restraint: back scruffing or mechanical restraint Location: back or hind legs...Injection Route Restraint Location Gauge Volume Skill Intravenous Mechanical restrainer or anesthesia ...potential pain or discomfort of the mice, and restraint method. Many different substances can be injected... potential off-target pokes to nearby organs. Restraint: scruffing Location: peritoneal cavity Gauge: ..., like on the back. Depending on the site and restraint method, subcutaneous injections take some practice...
  30. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...selectively detecting the target-of-interest in your assay and sample-of-interest. The approaches available broadly...antibody can detect the antigen of interest in the protocol of interest, ideally at endogenously expressed...a candidate antibody can detect the antigen of interest in the given protocol. This requires use of one...ability of an antibody to detect the antigen of interest when expressed at endogenous levels (Laflamme ... a robust level, similar to that in samples of interest. If you are working with cells that are amenable...approach to antibody validation. If your protein of interest is essential to the cell’s function, it likely...on the specific antibody:target combination of interest (Figure 1). It can therefore be helpful to try...
  31. To Each HIS Own

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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... containing the protein of interest flowed through. The protein of interest binds to the metal ions, becoming... of interest. A high imidazole elution buffer disrupts the interaction of the protein of interest and ...the N- or C-terminus of a recombinant protein of interest. The tag was developed as a means to purify a ...proteins and other contaminants. The protein of interest is then eluted using a high imidazole buffer that...outcompetes the interaction between the protein of interest and the metal ions.      Fig. 1: A sample...sample containing a polyhistidine tagged protein of interest (purple) and several contaminating proteins (blue...through the Ni2+-containing resin. The protein of interest (purple) binds to the Ni2+ and is immobilized ...
  32. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...principle behind MXS-chaining is repeatable, restriction-enzyme based (chaining-based) cloning. The modules...Modules are assembled one at a time by standard restriction enzyme digestion followed by ligation. Upon ligation...the repeatability of the method. Note that the restriction sites of the MCS are only regenerated at the ... 3’ termini of the ligation product, and the restriction site between the modules is eliminated upon ligation... using these techniques are free of specific restriction enzyme recognition sites. Thus, chaining methods...Technology Pros Cons References Golden Gate Type II restriction enzymes Can assemble up to 10 modules in a single...reaction, can assemble large DNA sequences, no restriction enzymes needed Not optimal for joining sequences...
  33. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    Oct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
    ... am talking about making sure the audience is interested, educated and talking as a result of the content...where the questions are obvious, the answers uninteresting, the panel members all say the same thing and... a well-planned approach to making the event interesting and engaging. Long before the event... Choose... should be taking good notes and discovering interesting stories, riffs or opinions that each panelist...moderator should identify the funny, provocative or interesting stories that will make for a fun discussion. ...questions in a directed way to bring out these interesting stories and remind the panelists of the stories...spontaneity, but having a good handle on some interesting questions and topics in advance is key. Make ...
  34. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    June 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...scientific interests were or what I wanted to do with myself when I was 18. I just knew I was interested in trying...some perspective and advice to any undergraduate interested in getting a taste of the role of a scientist...begin. Here’s my advice: Reflect on your personal interests While it’s perfectly fine to be unsure, it helps...excited about the science allows you to ask more interesting questions and your excitement will in turn inspire...makes for an experience more tailored to personal interests. Talk to people, ask questions, and dig deep Talk...though, try to be conscious of who has your best interests at heart. A great piece of advice I’ve gotten ...who have taken career paths that you would be interested in can also help you clarify your goals and define...
  35. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...unwanted selection markers. Restriction modification systems Because restriction modification systems consist...toxin-antitoxin roles. Restriction modification systems are composed of restriction endonucleases and methyltransferases...preventing the cognate restriction enzyme from cleaving the DNA. A role for restriction endonucleases in plasmid... when the ccdB gene is replaced by the gene of interest. As a result, cells that retain the ccdB gene ...methyltransferases. Restriction endonucleases cleave DNA at or near specific nucleotide sequences. To ...Escherichia coli in 1995 when introduction of restriction-modification systems onto plasmids allowed cell...these plasmids as compared to those without the restriction modification systems. As with the other toxin-antitoxin...
  36. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...of fluorescent fusion protein with your gene of interest: Plasmid Color Expression Description pPROEX... mCerulean N1 Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the N-terminus of monomeric Cerulean ... mCerulean C1 Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of monomeric Cerulean ... tag SCFP3A Cyan Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of SCFP3A Amber N1 Yellow... Yellow Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the N-terminus of Amber Amber C1 Yellow Mammalian...Mammalian Express a gene of interest fused to the C-terminus of Amber mVenus N1 Yellow Mammalian Express...Express a gene of interest fused to the N-terminus of monomeric Venus mVenus C1 Yellow Mammalian Express ...
  37. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...fragments, but uses site specific restriction sites (Type IIS restriction endonucleases) to cleave DNA outside...which have provided appealing alternatives to restriction enzyme cloning. These newer technologies have...They offer many advantages over the traditional restriction enzyme cloning we once relied exclusively on....that does not require the presence of specific restriction sites (or lack thereof) nor a serious time commitment..., imagine that you want to insert your gene of interest into a vector with a large tag at the N-terminus.... If you inserted these two pieces of DNA by restriction enzyme cloning, you would have to do it in two...Gibson assembly, you can insert both the gene of interest and the tag sequences into the vector in one step...
  38. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...relies on Type IIS restriction enzymes, first discovered in 1996. Type IIS restriction enzymes are unique...If your genes of interest or destination vector contain multiple internal restriction sites that may not...Addgene’s plasmids are used with a wide variety of restriction enzyme-based cloning methods. Each method has...unique from "traditional" restriction enzymes in that they cleave outside of their recognition sequence, ... The cloning scheme is as follows: the gene of interest is designed with Type IIS sites (such as BsaI ... ligation favors formation of the construct of interest. Although efficiency may decrease with an increased...to as MoClo, this strategy uses the Type IIS restriction enzymes BsaI and BpiI/BbsI to efficiently assemble...
  39. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...protein of interest The first step in analyzing the localization of your protein of interest is to make...disease, researchers often isolate proteins of interest and examine them using biochemical methods thus...healthy and diseased states can also provide interesting insights into disease mechanisms and protein ...available for microscopy, by cloning your protein of interest into a vector encoding a fluorescent tag. Once...fusion, it is possible to track your protein of interest from its production site to its final destination...traffics the fluorescent protein to your organelle of interest. Click on the gene names in the figure below to...plasmids for labeling your subcellular structure of interest in the Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid...
  40. CRISPR 101: Validating Your Genome Edit

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    Nov. 3, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
    ...screen using PCR and a restriction enzyme digest.   Fig. 3: Restriction enzyme screening for resistivity...edits.   Interested in this method, but your edit doesn’t affect any endogenous restriction enzyme sites...screen hundreds of clones looking for your edit of interest. For all of the screening strategies outlined ...introduces a frameshift in the coding region of interest will get the job done. In other words, any insertion...First, use PCR to amplify the target region of interest. Then Sanger sequence the PCR product of both ... 50% are -/+, and 25% are +/+ for your gene of interest. Thus, to find a null clone, you should screen...of your experiment for a screening strategy. Restriction enzyme screening is sensitive to single base ...
  41. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...express your gene of interest either constitutively or inducibly. If your gene of interest is toxic or needs...If you are interested in using lentiviral vectors to introduce your favourite gene into your favourite...and the transfer plasmid encoding the insert of interest as well as sequences necessary to encapsulate ...system was efficient at transferring the gene of interest to the appropriate cells, it was obvious that ...The ability to infect non-dividing cells is not restricted to in vitro cell culture as lentivirus-derived... optimum concentration to infect your cells of interest.   Advantages Disadvantages Can carry large...transfer plasmid is the vector you clone your gene of interest into and is an important feature for your experiment...
  42. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    Dec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m.
    ...Restriction enzyme cloning is the workhorse of molecular cloning; however, one of its biggest limitations...that sequence modifications can only be made at restriction enzyme cut sites. The lambda red system is an... of DNA within E. coli and is independent of restriction sites. The lambda red system is derived from ...means cloning occurs in vivo, as compared to restriction enzyme cloning where the genetic changes occur...sections, key steps that differ from traditional restriction enzyme cloning will be explained in greater detail...Red recombineering system to replace a gene of interest with an antibiotic resistance cassette.   ...using primers that amplify the DNA sequence of interest and flank it with 50 base pairs of homology to...
  43. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...with Type IIS restriction enzymes and standardized primers to clone your gene of interest into both sequencing...protein of interest. The plasmids used to generate these fusions all use the same restriction enzymes for... pExpression vectors) plasmids. The type IIS restriction sites used in these vectors are of low abundance... they are unlikely to be found in your gene of interest) and prevent incorporation of extensive sequences...kit will allow you to quickly study your gene of interest in a variety of model systems, thereby opening...downstream of which you can clone your gene of interest. Translation of the standardized leader peptide...secondary structures in the mRNA encoding your gene of interest from affecting its translation initiation and ...
  44. Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections

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    Nov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...finding new factors in your biological system of interest, the so-called “fishing expedition.” Your first... process in which only cells with the trait of interest will survive in the selected growth conditions...hinder, or have no effect on the process you are interested in. What does this actually look like? For a...selected. The method you choose to assess traits of interest is highly specific to your scientific question...CRISPR, but instead of knocking out the genes of interest (or the whole genome), they knock down gene expression...RNAi libraries are especially useful if you are interested in studying genes whose knockout would be lethal...apply enough pressure to select for variants of interest, though. A selection can take the form of varied...
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