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  1. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    March 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...constructs to the kit in the next two years. References 1. Martz, Colin A., et al. "Systematic identification...so he assembled a plasmid kit designed to do exactly that. As described in the journal Science Signaling...When cancers are treated with drugs designed to hit them right where it hurts, the effects are often ...mutant complementary DNAs (cDNAs) representing core nodes that, when over-expressed, constitutively activated...activators for more cancer-related pathways and more nodes within those pathways. With support from the National...
  2. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 8:47 p.m.
    ...Lab's Nature Protocols Publication describing them here. References 1.Ran, F. Ann, et al. "Genome engineering... and the Puromycin resistance gene as separate peptides. PX459 This is the vector backbone. This particular...Protocols Paper for more information). V2.0 This designation separates pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459) V2.0 from...Guide Pages Browse Our CRISPR Collection Find gRNA Design Tools ...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ... remains fluorescent in acidic organelles (Figure 1), showing that its acid tolerance is maintained in...follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   References 1. Zacharias, David A., et al. "Partitioning of lipid-modified...cofactor binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered to bind...homology domains can be used to detect specific phosphoinositides (Varnai and Balla, 2008) (Figure 2). RNA production...Péter, and Tamas Balla. "Live cell imaging of phosphoinositides with expressed inositide binding protein domains...
  4. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    Oct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...single neurons in the living brain   Figure 1: Plasmid mix to label neuronal morphology (eYFP) and...genOway press release for more information. References 1. Atasoy, D., Y. Aponte, H. H. Su, and S. M. Sternson... this re-inversion issue. It became possible to design FLEx vectors (Flip-excision vectors) that only ...
  5. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...downstream experiments. You only successfully generate 1 null clone and proceed with it. In this case, the ...there are 10 putative off-target locations you can 1) determine if editing at those sites would confound..., it’s essential to understand them in order to design the most specific assays possible. In this blog...-target effects should impact your experimental design differently. Yes, it is always better to reduce...introducing a specified edit). However, if your design does have wiggle room, you can minimize off targets...
  6. Microbes: Look, Listen, and Tell

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    Aug. 28, 2018, 12:04 p.m.
    ...communication check out these SciComm blog posts. References 1. Bourdeau, Raymond W., et al. "Acoustic reporter genes...is absolutely fascinating to see the living art designed by creative minds with a (I assume) very steady...Our Microbiology Resource Page CRISPR plasmids designed for use in bacteria Deposit Your Microbiology ...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ...in the crystal jellyfish Aequorea victoria (Figure 1) in molecular detail. On the underside of the “umbrella...characteristic radiance for some time – there are records describing them dating back to the first century A.D. – ...mechanistic understanding of GFP’s function. His lab described the protein’s structure and also discovered many...
  8. SciComm with the Experts at Science in the News Part 2

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    April 27, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...to the interview with Science in the News Chapter 1: Introduction - Vini and Amy tell us a little about... discusses some of the programs SITN runs and describes some of the more popular topics from the Science... fields as well as students from the ed school, design school, and Kennedy school to discuss the impacts...impacts of science in a social context. Episodes are driven by narrative and story telling. Chapter 5: The...The SITN Blog - Vini and Amy describe how the SITN blog is a source of scientific information for the ...underwater? Chapter 8: Work-Life Balance - Vini describes how she balances working in the lab and working...
  9. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    Sept. 16, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...may contribute to more in the future. Figure 1: A timeline of CRISPR base editing advances that led...Lander, E. S. (2016). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041...performed best when paired with the V106W mutation (described earlier) to minimize off-target editing. Base ...final base editor that was administered to KJ was designated NGC-ABE8e-V106W. The name is hardly flashy, but...
  10. Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses

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    June 16, 2020, 1:25 p.m.
    ...Cloning grade DNA Transfection grade DNA Figure 1: Transformation introduces transformation grade plasmids...other uses.   Cloning grade DNA Molecular cloning includes a set of techniques that are used to insert recombinant...
  11. 6 Tips for Analyzing and Troubleshooting Sanger Sequencing Results

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    June 26, 2014, 2:23 p.m.
    ... with DNA sequencing troubleshooting and analysis 1. You can use any of the following programs to view...are usually unresolved and small, so I suggest designing your primer at least 50bp upstream of the sequence...
  12. Why Do I Need an MTA Anyway?

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    May 1, 2014, 8:23 p.m.
    ...is here to help. Contact us at [email protected] or +1 617-225-9000, or check out our MTA reference pages...University Technology Managers (AUTM). This MTA provides many benefits for both the providing and receiving...
  13. CRISPR Kinome Libraries Available: Pooled and Individual Plasmid Formats

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    Sept. 9, 2016, 2:43 p.m.
    ...normal size.      References: 1. Doench, John G., et al. "Optimized sgRNA design to maximize activity and ... producing a wall of results that can only be described as bigly. But such a project should not be undertaken...Library Screening Why the kinome? While properly designed perturbations – in the case of screens using CRISPR...with CRISPR/Cas9 Get John Doench's Tips on gRNA Design Check Out News Ways to Use CRISPR for Single Base...
  14. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Jan. 2, 2014, 3:44 p.m.
    ...organized and boost your productivity in 2014. Tip 1: Use color coding, labels, and post-its to make finding...lab earlier, to read that stack of papers on your desk, and to tackle some new experiments before the next...gathering that pile of lab notebooks and binder on your desk. Arrange them in chronological order (or by project...labels. Color code your Post-its and write brief descriptions on each. Place the notes sticking up out of ...colleagues. Start small by identifying the protocols, guides, or references that your labmates ask to borrow...
  15. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...science.aaq0180  Fine EJ, Appleton CM, White DE, Brown MT, Deshmukh H, Kemp ML, Bao G (2015) Trans-spliced ...indel formation and phenotypic changes as early as 1 week post-injection. Livers from these mice were histologically...as potent and specific? The two AAV strategies described above showed successful target modification, indicating...from Streptococcus thermophilus and a rationally-designed truncated Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks... approximately 1350 amino acids in size, which includes SpCas9, and shortern orthologs approximately 1000...Split inteins are a pair of naturally occuring polypeptides that, when at the ends of two proteins, mediates... proof-of-concept split intein SpCas9 which had modest editing rates in HEK-293T cells when compared to...
  16. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...target cell line or organism (Presented in figure 1). More information on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation...mediated cloning of your gRNA of interest. Figure 1: Simplified schematic of agrobacterium-mediated transformation... While it is certainly possible to select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding approaches...modification of known or suspected genes that regulate a desired phenotype. In fact, CRISPR has already been used...wheat, mushroom, and rice (Khatodia et al., 2016). Despite the almost universal functionality of the CRISPR...genes in plants using the same general experimental design principles developed in other model organisms (...nanostructures (Zhang et al., 2019) or cell-penetrating peptides (Santana et al., 2020) and plants viruses (barley...
  17. Easing the Protein Purification Process with pCri

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    June 19, 2015, 3:08 p.m.
    ...individually or as a complete kit from Addgene. References 1. Goulas, Theodoros, et al. "The pCri system: a vector...subtilis and Pichia pastoris pCri also includes plasmids designed for protein expression in systems other...construct, most often in special E. coli strains designed for protein expression. Cultures are then lysed...plasmids are divided into two sets, each of which includes plasmids with different varieties of tags, both...other eukaryotes better than E. coli. Plasmids designed for these systems may include a signal peptide...can improve disulfide bond formation. pCri also includes a special feature for difficult-to-purify membrane...membrane proteins. pCri vector pCri-13a, designed for use in B. subtilis, contains the MISTIC (membrane-...
  18. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...reconstitutes a fully functional luciferase enzyme (Figure 1). Addition of substrate generates a proportionate ... before creating knock-ins.  Figure 1: Schematic of HiBiT tagging technology.   The bioluminescence...most clinically-relevant proteins are also the hardest to study. One common strategy is protein overexpression...compatible with both strong and weak promoters, and even modest endogenous pools generate high signal-to-background...introduce mutations. This vector-based use of HiBiT provides a means to quickly answer research questions before...the code of 'undruggable' targets Researchers can design drugs to bind to well-defined ligand-binding pockets...mechanistic drug responses (Kamio et al., 2025). They designed HiBiT-tagged TP53 constructs, one with an R175H...
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