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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    July 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...system, in which the required adenoviral helper genes are supplied on two different packaging plasmids...pHelper plasmid containing Ad E2A, E4, and VA RNA genes; and the pRepCap plasmid containing replication ...replication factors and serotype-specific capsid genes.  In this helper-free system, HEK293T cells, expressing Ad...
  2. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

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    March 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...The degradation tag (dTAG) system functions by harnessing the power of a novel degrader of the 12 kDa protein...round of evolution (AID-2) to reduce some of the leakiness associated with the system, but the general concept...all the tags discussed here and profile their effectiveness with over a dozen different proteins. In the...
  3. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    July 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...are millimeters in thickness (8,9).  In addition, there is a drop in image brightness with increasing depth... Ultramicroscope.  In addition, adjusting the thickness of the laser sheet and using multi-view imaging...
  4. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ...adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (e.g. using mariner...method of tagmentation for next-gen sequencing pipelines (e.g. using Tn5), and as knock-in tools for human...plasmid (pEffector) expresses all seven required genes and the CRISPR RNA under the same promoter, and ...
  5. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
    ...editing from the Cas13b REPAIR system To test the robustness of REPAIRv1, the lab targeted 34 pathogenic G...cytosine deaminase. Three rounds of rational mutagenesis on the ADAR2DD residues that contact the RNA ...RNA-sequencing, the authors performed rational mutagenesis and identified that a S375A mutation in RESCUE...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...teammates want to be assured that you will contribute openness, clarity, approachability, and professionalism...you can learn more about possible strengths and weaknesses, and view everything as a learning experience... weaknesses...
  7. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...students learned something. Based on the initial guidelines I received from the teachers, I formulated the...own wonderful tangents. Some groups asked about vaccines, others were curious about the agricultural repercussions...special thanks to Joanne Marks, Jonathan Marks, and Vanessa Bullard of Chenery Middle School for their tremendous...
  8. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...studying transcriptional and translational dynamics of genes and proteins in living plants, to complementing ...process right the first time. I’ll lay out some guidelines here. A detailed transformation protocol, as ...potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop....
  9. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...should be run in duplicate or triplicate. The closeness of the data points generated by replicate values...be linear or nonlinear. BCA assays have linear trendlines while those for ELISAs and other enzymatic assays...advanced graphing software designed to plot complex trendlines. If you don’t have access to this kind of software...
  10. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    Feb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Joseph Provost, then a new faculty member at Minnesota State (and now Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry...my students published their work identifying new genes required for stem and progenitor cell maintenance...for increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM disciplines (Bangera & Brownell, 2014; Duboue et al., 2022...
  11. Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems

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    Oct. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...hybrid system (also called the interaction trap), genes encoding proteins of interest(POI’s) are fused to...variations, including many that use auxotrophic rescue genes as reporters and some that repress instead of activate... Vectors Read our Blog Post About Tagging Yeast Genes ...
  12. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Austrian physician, Andreas Rett, who tried to raise awareness and published his observations in a German medical...global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have suggested roles in transcriptional..., Zoghbi HY (2013) An AT-Hook Domain in MeCP2 Determines the Clinical Course of Rett Syndrome and Related...
  13. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
    ...areas (protected) as opposed to brightly illuminated ones (risky). They also prefer to explore novel environments... (BDNF). BDNF is a small protein involved in neurogenesis, neuronal survival, and synaptic plasticity.... insights into the complex relationship between genes, neurons, and behavior. There are several other ...
  14. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...(Chen et al., 2018). Both SHERLOCK and DETECTR harness the promiscuous cleavage and degradation of neighboring...ability to cleave non-specific (trans) ssDNA and harnessed this ability to create a DNA detection platform...Kellner MJ, Tan AL, Paul LM, Parham LA, Garcia KF, Barnes KG, Chak B, Mondini A, Nogueira ML, Isern S, Michael...
  15. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...coat! These are the things the rest of the world imagines when they think “scientist.” But leaving the bench...that at a desk, it is much easier to stick to timelines. This is probably because you don't have to worry...transferable skills guide Read blog posts about career readiness Resources at Addgene.org Find careers at Addgene...
  16. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...sharing information through the use of popular Chinese social media platforms.  As you can imagine, shipping...compare their options for tools such as empty backbones, lentiviral packaging systems, and luciferase ...Plasmids Tetracyline Inducible Plasmids Empty Backbones Bacterial Expression Systems AAV Plasmids ...
  17. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...27, 2020. CRISPR, and specifically Cas9 from S. pyogenes (SpCas9), is truly an exceptional genome engineering...analysis, they identified 53 potential candidate genes that fell into 3 categories based on the architecture... to bind and cleave target RNAs, although its usefulness in bacterial cells will likely be limited by ...
  18. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    Dec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...options: Early detection, immunotherapy, and angiogenesis inhibitors New research is also going into two...bevacizumab (Avastin). This drug (known as an angiogenesis inhibitor) prevents the growth of new blood ...asbestos. Nonprofits like the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) are working toward such a ...
  19. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ...my days as an undergrad working with cancer cell lines. As I started planning out my own experiments in...when prioritizing, you should always be aware of deadlines and think about what they mean in terms of the...favorite podcasts. JUST GET STARTED - One Harvard Business Review article on procrastination recommends testing...
  20. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence

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    Nov. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...signal amplification. Another reason is cost effectiveness. Generating and validating primary antibodies...outcome of your assay. So how do you choose good ones? Choosing a secondary is often much more straightforward...non-fluorescent IHC/ICC assay are similar to the ones you plan to use, then the primary antibody will ...
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