... due to the interaction with quizzes and discussion on that week’s topic by the moderators. The assignments...scientists. Over the course of the class, the moderator discussed individual sections of a paper, the ...laborious, but helped build my understanding of how to generate a manuscript. At the end of the online course,...understanding of how to apply it. The personal interaction of critiquing others’ manuscripts as well as ...the writer works.  4. Practice writing everyday Overall, the most important instruction the classes taught.... Over time that portion of the paper will be generated. After you complete a publication quality figure...figure. Writing a scientific manuscript is like generating a quilt with your lab mates, you add the individual...

...(2023) Nanobodies: A Review of Generation, Diagnostics and Therapeutics. Int J Mol Sci 24:5994. https:...The UN General Assembly has declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids. The declaration is intended...into the clinic as well. The first sdAb based therapeutic was approved in 2018, with many others in clinical...clinical trials (Jin, et al. 2023). In addition to therapeutics, there is a lot of excitement around using sdAbs... synthetic single-domain antibody libraries to generate new sdAbs. There has also been some interesting... (A) Overview of genetic modifications made to generate the nanomouse. (VHH = variable domains of heavy...their impact grow as new sdAbs become easier to generate and more widely adopted. So thank you to the camelids...

...and discovery The first generation of CRISPR could cut DNA, the second generation could do base editing,...specificity: when purified, it could be programmed to generate specific cuts on the RNA target. In addition, ...most common RNA targeting system, Cas13, the "collateral" activity of the enzyme can lead to off targets...RNA editing tools.   Fig. 1 Schematic of luciferase RNA knockdown assays using Cas7-11   Use ...editing, and with the third generation came Prime editing — the ability to now make any small changes, including...small deletions and small insertions, leaving a several kilobase-sized gap in the gene editing field. The...precision into a genome, can be considered the fourth generation of CRISPR, one which drops itself neatly into...

...and the moderators were on top of any comments that were at all trollish. Kudos to the moderators for keeping...lists of forums on particular topics. Volunteer moderators set the rules for these forums and try to keep...questions! 2. The r/Science subreddit is well moderated. One of our original worries about sharing science...trolls (urban dictionary for trolling: The art of deliberately, cleverly, and secretly pissing people off, ...dialogue). Luckily r/Science has a great team of moderators who facilitated scheduling, filtered out inflammatory... sales-y in posts which falls in line with our general mission to share- as opposed to sell- science. ...expect. Fortunately, Reddit Science is heavily moderated. I started watching the questions and comments...

... Choosing a Cas9 for your knockout experiment Generating a no-fuss genetic knockout  Knock-out cells or...loads of sequences to select from - in many cases several exons’ worth of DNA. Any ∼20 nucleotides of DNA...targeting opposite strands must be available in moderate proximity to each other.  If having two sgRNAs...requirements, giving it more flexibility. A consideration with this tool is that the desired edit will...strand break.   Prime editors are the second generation of base modifiers available. This system utilizes...transcriptional activation domain - VP64.  Later generations of activators include the SunTag system which... The Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally the strongest activator, consists of a dCas9-VP64...

...practiced or required by many other journals and several funding agencies (e.g. Wellcome Trust, NIH Data...information (or links to information) for assessment of veracity of the conclusions drawn. The main difference ...publication. Who is to say that the initial data-generating lab has efficiently trawled their own data? A...much time they had. It could be argued that data generators may, in light of the policy, hold onto data longer... available to everyone at once, including the generators. This practice doesn’t appear to harm the originating... as in an actual publication and not require interaction with the data authors. In some types of research...multiple animals on different occasions via video, generating huge amounts of data. When published, this data...

...Addgene blog Important Considerations When Using AAVs Three Key Considerations For Precise Neuronal Targeting... for sharing on the site. The entry form has 5 general question types and it takes approximately 15 minutes...experiment, read our blog post on important considerations when using AAVs. Experimental results: These...virus? If you were using a genetic tool, did it operate as expected? If your experiment did not work, we...Frontiers in Neuroanatomy and summarized some considerations for precise neuronal targeting using AAV on...submission of an experimental image result that you generated with a caption. For microscopy images, please ...microscope used, and objective used. If you did not generate the image yourself and it is under copyright, ...

...high efficiency CRISPR-based approaches for the generation of knockins via homologous recombination with...approach is most well suited, since it routinely generates knockin efficiencies of 1-40% with G418-selected... CRISPR-based approach. Second, the AAV preps generally used for gene editing are low titre, and are therefore... most current CRISPR-based approaches for the generation of knockins, it is not always ideal. Because ...advantages of the AAV and CRISPR-based approaches, several groups have recently worked to enhance the efficiency...AAV and CRISPR-based approaches is described in several recent reviews (Howes and Schofield, 2015; Moser...PMC3010411. 2. Kohli, Manu, et al. "Facile methods for generating human somatic cell gene knockouts using recombinant...

...kits with greatly reduced costs per plasmid. We generally create kits to allow you to easily use a set of... by making it easy for a researcher to quickly generate N- and C-terminal epitope tag fusions to a protein...protein of interest. The plasmids used to generate these fusions all use the same restriction enzymes for...provided a solution for this problem by developing a general translation initiation sequence known as the Species-Independent...locus-specific libraries compatible with Illumina next generation sequencing in order to study evolutionary dynamics...These bridging primers are amplified and used to generate Illumina sequencing libraries using a 2-step PCR-based...open source platform and the libraries can be generated in a cost-effective manner with minimal bias. ...

...Standard AAV vectors are generated with a producer cell line like the widely used 293T. During vector...Casey Maguire and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School took a closer... antibodies. This is particularly useful for therapeutic applications in vivo where endogenous anti-AAV...anti-AAV antibodies often neutralize the therapeutic efficacy of AAV vectors. How are exosome AAVs produced...exosomes or stabilize their structure or their interaction with AAVs (Schiller et al., 2018). Exosomal vesicles...interest special contexts, such as the delivery of therapeutic proteins to the brain which requires crossing...cells using exosome-associated AAV." Molecular Therapy 25.2 (2017): 379-391. PubMed PMID: 28082074. PubMed...