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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m....Sequence- and ligation-independent cloning: A SLIC makeover In 2007, LIC received an important update, courtesy...for multi-fragment DNA assembly, and its low cost makes it ideal for researchers doing large amounts of ...
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Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2024, 1:50 p.m....control for a specific marker in your experiment. To make an FMO sample, you take a subset of your experimental... is prepared very similarly to a FMO sample: you make a sample from a combined subset of your experimental... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....then inserted into the host's genome and is used to make more virus. The most studied (and used in the lab...also transduce dividing and non-dividing cells, making it conducive to targeting all cell types. Altogether... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... Thus, the adjustable nature of viral libraries makes them the ideal vector for the job. Therapeutic ...immunogenicity, and cell-specific targeting features make them an ideal delivery system for human patients... -
Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... experiments and it’s already looking like it’s making a big difference. We can now look at many more ...out there. Addgene: Why was it important to you to make these plasmids available to other scientists quickly... -
3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m....testing and a lack of well-characterized genetic tools make it challenging to engineer a specific function in...construct our color changing flower we are carefully making our way through the IP landscape, using plant parts... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m....developed by engineering the Cas12f scaffold gRNA and making strategic mutations in the DNA binding cavity of...half the size of the Cas9 or Cas12a based systems, making it well suited for AAV packaging. Most importantly... -
Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2021, 1:15 p.m....opsin-expressing cells). For other things to keep in mind when making fluorescent protein fusions, check out Joachim ...Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins – Making the Right Connection. Thank you to our guest... -
Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... been talking about Click Chemistry since 2001, making use of robust reactions that work in just about...particularly useful for a kind of cellular computation, making possible multiple logic-gated steps. Beyond the... -
Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2019, 1:34 p.m.... she couldn’t run enough workshops by herself to make the biggest impact. When she spoke with Teytelman...visualization. Not everyone in the group was able to make it physically to instruct the workshop at the conference... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making it even harder to cure cancer. To understand how...Witz, Isaac P. "The tumor microenvironment: the making of a paradigm." Cancer Microenvironment 2.1 (2009... -
Summer SciComm: Preprints
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....comment online! Want the general public (say, policymakers or community organizations) to use your work...those plasmids alongside a journal article, but it makes the research materials available to the community... -
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....time to read the book. Intuitively, this probably makes sense. It’s a lot easier to read a formulaic fiction...happens to us all!) and offer a variety of options to make your content more accessible to your audience. ... -
Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....short linker peptide. The lack of constant region makes them less immunogenic, but they have lower affinity...produced in bacteria and are generally cheaper to make than antibodies. Minibodies are created by binding... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m....systemically administered in an organism. These features make AAV ideal for human therapies and in vivo laboratory...delivery of genetic cargo to a host cell. In order to make room for a gene of interest, AAVs used in research... -
Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m....suppression of expression is faster and easier than making a knockout and is a great way to temporarily reduce...integrated (once or many times) into the genome. Make sure to choose an appropriate promoter to express... -
Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....exposure to autophagy-inducing conditions. Rosella makes it easier to study the mechanisms behind autophagy... shown in Sargsyan et al. It is also possible to make Rosella fusions and thereby monitor autophagy of... -
CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m....However, they note that certain improvements could make CRISPRainbow even better. Adding an additional hairpin...activation/repression and genome editing. Ready to make your cells a little more colorful? CRISPRainbow ... -
Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2015, 3:54 p.m....is no small task. As a scientist, it is useful to make literature searching and reading a regular part ...Keeping up with the literature There are a few ways to make sure you are keeping up with the literature in your... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m....summaries of recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you...receiver cells. There are over 40 trillion cells that make up the human body and G-baToN provides versibility...