... amounts or if the conjugated signaling molecule has a weak signal. For flow cytometry, secondary antibodies...introduction of antibody fragments, such as nanobodies, has introduced new options for increasing signal strength...

... - typically within 2-4 months. After the animal has the desired level of antibodies in its bloodstream...their batch to batch variability. Once an animal has undergone a terminal bleed to acquire all of its ...

...gamma-retroviruses) in cancer and stem cell research has prompted the development of multiple virus packaging...components found within the backbone. For example: pLXSN has the wild type LTR, an MCS for cloning X gene, an ...

...hundred years ago. Since then, medical technology has changed a lot, but viruses have stuck around. Vaccine...been approved by the FDA, and this mode of delivery has a lot of clinical promise moving forward. What viruses...

...immune response machinery of the host. This pathway has been clinically exploited for antiviral purposes ...deplete expression of proteins of interest. RNAi has even made it into agriculture as species-specific...

...For example, the Levin lab from Tufts University has used Arch (green-light activated proton pump) and...Allen Discovery Center. The future of this field has a high potential for the advancement of research ...

...dye, but has been modified with the addition of two iodine residues. Compared to MG, MG-2I has increased...

... human suffering and death. Doing research right has the potential to save lives and money. A 2014 analysis...physiologic or pathologic processes. Much progress has been made in this area in recent years, and you can...

...Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis Oncology, Bhang has been working on using the ClonTracer library to monitor...allosteric inhibitors at Novartis. The ClonTracer library has been distributed all over the world and was recently...

...functional elements in the human genome. The pair has focused considerable attention on transcription factors...the tagged transcription factor. The FLAG antibody has been well characterized and the system allows you...

...HDR, NHEJ is active throughout the cell cycle and has a higher capacity for repair, as there is no requirement...ends interfere with that step. Accordingly, NHEJ has a vast toolbox of processing factors, including polymerases...

...CRISPR technology has changed how scientists edit and control genes, but according to the Broad Institute's...can be manipulated at one time. Weissman’s group has made standard protocols available and they are working...

...base editing to pooled library screening. It also has information for planning your CRISPR experiment. ...

...CRISPR genome editing has made it easier to create knockout alleles in a variety of species, including...including creating Cre-dependent conditional alleles, has remained a challenge. Enter Easi-CRISPR: a method...left homology arm guanine (i.e. GG); this design has been shown to increase T7 promoter activity. To avoid...

...prime editing By Emily P. Bentley The David Liu Lab has made two recent deposits focused on optimizing prime...collaboration with the Vallabh/Minikel Lab, the Weissman Lab has developed a new epigenetic editor, Coupled Histone...subtypes, and a familiar challenge for anyone who has done histology on brain tissue is identifying the...

...served by a one-sample test as the standard value has no variation that needs to be accounted for. ANOVA...multiple range test, and several others. Each test has different likelihoods of returning false positives...to a single group. Dunnett’s is more powerful and has a lower error rate than the multiple comparison tests...

...well if you’ve been following the Addgene blog, it has been repurposed for genome editing in eukaryotes,...editing mouse embryos as Cas9 from S. pyogenes and has the advantage of being smaller (Zhang et al., 2016...than that, be nice to your microinjectionist, who has the strategically important job of delivering the...

... a single step. Scorpion chemistry in particular has been reported to work well in the Lightcycler while...for all amplicons; if your amplicon is AT-rich or has a secondary structure, you may see a double peak ...being a common choice - the frequently used GAPDH has noted issues as a reference gene (Higgins, 2000; ...assumptions that match your data set, that is.) Yuan, 2006 has a good overview of different statistical analysis...

...The characterization of RNA-protein interactions has lagged behind, likely due to limitations of current...interactions. Unfortunately, using proteins as bait has limited utility for identifying novel RNA-binding...

...-homologue recombination was released. This blog has not been updated in response to this paper. Any hint... hint of CRISPR editing in human embryos has been met with a storm of media coverage. But the paper published...