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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... developed, though, researchers at HuidaGene Therapeutics guessed that fusing MPG to an ABE would allow...recognize T and/or C substrates. The HuidaGene Therapeutics team has deposited their editors, called gTBE...
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New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m....penetration depth as well as high spatial and temporal resolution, making it ideal for visualizing gene expression...also included an analogous set of transient constitutively-expressed mARG plasmids driven by CMV promoters... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.... processing in live cells. Indeed, groups have utilized dCas13 fusion proteins for imaging, tracking, ...global RNA expression, cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they found... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....molecules. Using a technique called systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX), ...Peixuan AND Haque, Farzin. RNA Nanotechnology and Therapeutics. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2014. 5. Hayat, Akhtar... -
Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....consists of a mutated mCherry and a downstream constitutively active eGFP. To create the inactive mCherry...T2A site and expressed in cells. mCherry is constitutively expressed to identify successfully transfected... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2020, 1 p.m....pathogen or virus detection), therapeutics and sensitive genotyping. The beauty of SHERLOCK systems is that...bottleneck. In the last few years, scientists have utilized CRISPR-Cas9 protein variants, Cas13, and Cas12a... -
Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2020, 2:15 p.m....invaluable to me as a bench scientist working at an institution where training opportunities weren’t always available...transfer, which occurs when bacteria of different evolutionary lineages share genes that can improve chances... -
New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.... spatiotemporal control over its expression. Constitutive or inducible Cre recombinases can be introduced...method to dissect the individual and shared contributions of transcript isoforms to neuronal physiology... -
pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m....opened up vast possibilities for the clinical and therapeutic applications of iPSCs. The generation of human...the production of iPSCs: Blood is easily and routinely drawn from patients in contrast to the process... -
Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m....Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks limit the utility of these systems: St1Cas9 requires a very specific... Wang D, Zhang F, Gao G (2020) CRISPR-Based Therapeutic Genome Editing: Strategies and In Vivo Delivery... -
CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m....generation of base modifiers available. This system utilizes an RNA template containing the desired edit adjoined...like with base editing, alternative Cas9s can be utilized allowing for PAM flexibility. Fig. 2: Prime... -
CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m....known functions has the potential to be used in therapeutics, as it can increase gene expression at certain..., Garnett MJ (2019) Prioritization of cancer therapeutic targets using CRISPR–Cas9 screens. Nature 568... -
Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m..... An internal control may be a plasmid that constitutively expresses a reporter protein (e.g., GFP or ...many variables. However daunting designing and executing these steps may be, proper controls are a basic... -
Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.... Used since the mid-90s, this technique has revolutionised the way we apprehend molecular complexes and...wavelength, to the concentration of fluorophore in solution) are two additional parameters that can affect... -
Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2014, 6:51 p.m....supported/readable. Is the author or their host institution expected to provide data in formats exported ...resources can offload the burden of data storage and distribution. I would argue that the journals themselves ... -
Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... genes with potentially harmful mutations in therapeutic settings. Silencing of a target gene is achieved...the backbone, shRNAs are most often expressed constitutively, either in lentiviral or retroviral backbones... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but proceed with caution! Loading controls only address one type of error...by sample concentration as well as by antibody dilution — both factors we’ve covered in our previous blog... -
Tips for Getting a Faculty Position
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....interview and sell a vision for your contribution to a Department's/Institution's success is the task. Do your... -
Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 5, 2021, 1:15 p.m....occurring due to protein synthesis, degradation, or reconstitution (reviewed in Shcherbakova et al., 2018). For...K.D. et al. A robotic multidimensional directed evolution approach applied to fluorescent voltage reporters... -
Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m....biotinylating your macromolecule of interest To utilize the natural binding of biotin and avidin, macromolecules...biotinylation reagents to help with the specific elution of biotinylated proteins. For help determining ...