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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....the yeast extracellular surface) which enables tracking of protease activity with a fluorescent protein...that the best motif was from the Lck gene. For marking microtubules of mammalian cells, the author found...
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Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2020, 1 p.m.... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING (SHERLOCK and SHERLOCKv2) (Gootenberg et al., ... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING Cas13 (C2c2) was first identified in 2016 by the... -
Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m....independently identified LY6A as a receptor for PHP.B by looking for a unique sequence of DNA that was present in...galactose and the AAV receptor (AAVR). Cell lines lacking galactose were still transduced by PHP.B but only... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....clear plans to connect Genotype to Phenotype thus making progress on the NSF “G to P grand challenge.” Creating...like people. This is actually rare in the animal kingdom. Gasterosteus aculeates (Dan Bolnick) A paper on... -
Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m....research vision uninterrupted and then you will begin working through your aims over the next 45 minutes. The...salient details. Make the most of your limited speaking time. Beyond the information you seek to convey... -
New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m....tools for cellular targeting. Lately, they’ve been working on two tools that expand and exploit CRISPR, both...Jonathan and experts in CRISPR evolution, were also working on the project. Using computational observations... -
Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m....The assay only uses one antigen binding antibody, making it less specific than other methods. In addition...positive control will confirm that the procedure is working and should always be included. For a negative... -
Hot Plasmids Spring 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m....high fidelity during action potentials of fast-spiking neurons. The same A-to-D mutation in the related...useful materials for research into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, and Huntington’s Disease, including plasmids... -
Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.... used as a test to see how well treatments are working to fight the cancer. Beyond early modifications...Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) are working toward such a ban, and the president of the organization... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....lentivirus to be time consuming, difficult, and lacking in reproducibility. Read on for some tips for getting...overly confluent or too old. Ensuring that you are working with healthy, happy cells is one of the easiest... -
Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m....positive selection and a p15A origin of replication, making it incompatible with other p15A plasmids. pLys ...of Replication The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Looking for More Plasmids 101 Articles? Find them all ... -
Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m....biologist you would say. The student was of course talking about the now well-known FRET, aka Fluorescence...and the extinction coefficient of the acceptor (linking the quantity of absorbed light, at a given wavelength... -
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... so, the WHO recommends one strategy: testing, tracking, and social distancing. With countries like South...relies on its activity on the target regions thus making it an affinity-based method. Due to the mismatch... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... signal is boosted and enables single molecule tracking in living cells. The HA frankenbody is an HA tag...also be fused to cellular toxins, radioisotopes, cytokines, and enzymes for cancer, autoimmune, and/or inflammatory... -
Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... are equal. Created with BioRender.com. This kind of normalization is a nearly ubiquitous tool, but...controls So how can you address these errors without making incorrect assumptions? The answer depends on the... -
Tips for Getting a Faculty Position
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....thoughts on research statements. Snapp, who is always looking for ways to improve his eBook, adds: "If you have... fit into a department and bring in grants. What kind of colleague will you be? Do you understand what... -
Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m...., termed BASU. BASU exhibits 1,000 fold faster kinetics and increases the signal to noise ratio 30-fold...more recently cell-cell interactions. If you’re looking to identify interactions with your favorite protein... -
Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m....fed a diet of primarily egg whites would develop skin lesions and other terrible health issues. This disease...PMC3223083. 6. McInnes, J. L., Forster, A. C., Skingle, D. C., & Symons, R. H. “Preparation and uses of... -
Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m....optimal promoter for your gene of interest, painstakingly cloned into the perfect empty backbone, made...Promoter Region – Let's Go! Mammalian Vectors Looking for More Plasmids 101 Articles? Find them all ... -
How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....gRNAs to choose from. With so many possibilities, picking a gRNA with an optimized sequence is of primary...detectable mutations (Veres et al., 2014). When working with single-cell clones, the authors note that ... -
CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.... MQ1.) The Q147L mutation improves methylation kinetics such that cytosine methylation occurs within 24...Sander JD, Reyon D, Bernstein BE, Costello JF, Wilkinson MF, Joung JK (2013) Targeted DNA demethylation... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m....cell types and are useful if you're going to be working in several different systems or want to transduce...j.omtn.2017.03.009 Watakabe, A., Ohtsuka, M., Kinoshita, M., Takaji, M., Isa, K., Mizukami, H., Ozawa,... -
Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m....been observed to occur in many different kinds of plasmids, taking many forms (Levene, 2009; Higgins & Vologodskii... -
Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m....riboregulation could be a promising strategy for linking RSM inputs to endogenous gene expression (2). ...terminators, promoters, and genes) were built with flanking primer binding sites (designed to have 20-30 nt... -
A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2021, 1:15 p.m....with DIO/FLEx vectors and off-target expression making it easier to determine the spread pattern around...false negative or conclude the viral vector is not working. When using a “cell-type specific” promoter, such... -
Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m....mutations are essential data points for investigators looking to definitively link genotype and phenotype. It... and do not require high sequencing read counts making them fast and viable options for multiplex sequencing... -
Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m....cytometry particularly well to complex experiments looking at a variety of different targets. If you are planning...43:404–409 . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1685647 McKinnon KM (2018) Flow Cytometry: An Overview. Current... -
Which Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques is Best for Me?
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2017, 1:57 p.m....photographer at the Super Bowl, a medical technologist taking an x-ray, or a biologist imaging the smallest structures...microscope to use for a new sample I always start by asking two questions: 1) Is the sample dynamic or static... -
CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m....Base editors chemically modify DNA bases without breaking the DNA backbone, sidestepping the problem of ... 98-99% target modification in primary T cells, making them a promising tool for cell therapy applications... -
15 Hot Plasmids from 2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m....efficiency is so high that some applications may permit working with edited “pools” of cells, eliminating the time-consuming...telomere length. Telomere trimming can be assayed by looking for the production of ECT-DNA (extra-chromosomal...