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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 7, 2019, 12:39 p.m....therapeutic interventions for cancer. This screening platform is an incredible boost to the cancer research community...Barcoding (HiTMMoB) technique (Tsang et al., 2016), creating a collection of plasmids each carrying a single...mutations The researchers used the collection to screen individual perturbations in vitro using Ba/F3 and...~22% of the mutations, however, significantly increased cell viability, and these “activators” may be ...annotation of rare gene aberration drivers of pancreatic cancer." Nature communications 7 (2016): 10500...
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What's New in CRISPR - March 2020
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 10, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... in yeast Base editing CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells...editing. Using several rapid and cost-effective screening methods, David Liu’s lab identified and validated... base editor plasmids CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Figure 1: Serial dilutions of CRISPRi in...adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020. Caulobacter crescentus is a popular model organism for studying the ...ctrA sgRNA and saw that the levels of ctrA mRNA decreased after 20 minutes in xylose (which controls expression...methylcytosine oxidation to DNA repair, which increases activation of methylation-silenced genes. Read... -
Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m....membrane depolarization increases the BRET signal whereas hyperpolarization decreases the signal. The authors...technologies that can accelerate your research. The creation of NanoLuc® Luciferase from a rather dull 19kDa... by NanoLuc® luciferase (NLuc) and set about to create an in vivo imaging reporter by linking two CyOFP1...-Lanterns with NLuc and called their improved creations Enhanced Nano-Lanterns. These great imaging tools...the two fluorescent proteins together thereby increasing their FRET signal. FRET is a non-radiative transfer...overlap with this optogenetic tool, they needed to create a calcium sensor with the following characteristics... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m....International Mentorship Program (IMP) USA-Europe was created. IMP as an idea was conceived and developed by ...the specific technical and logistic support to increase the chances of success, but also nurture a supportive...country of origin with an international mentor creates a closer and more approachable relationship for...at IMP In these sessions, mentors helped mentees create “Career Development Plans” which provided paths...developmental needs and resources needed to pursue them, increased their network of contacts important for their ...Conference highlights included remarks by the Spanish Secretary of Research, Development, and Innovation, D. Carmen... as they witness their student’s progress and increases in self confidence. These improvements, combined... -
ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2017, 3:20 p.m....experiments but we can definitely give you credit for it and increase your impact! Download ReFigure extension...along with the article metadata, legend and user created notes on a “Pinterest for scientists”? ReFigure...Linkedin and ResearchGate profile. To see how to create ReFigures in a few minutes, visit our YouTube [email protected] Please support ReFigure by creating ReFigures and answering this 2 minute survey! ...impact of teaching and doing science is rapid, concrete and open to innovation by all. Additional Resources... -
Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 22, 2019, 12:43 p.m....positive selection, negative selection, and/or screening. We’re focusing on positive and negative selection...in this blog post, but don’t worry, we’ll cover screens in a future post. Positive selection: Cells that...with or without your inserted DNA) and further screening will help you determine if the plasmid backbone...arises in yeast. For example, Markus Ralser’s lab created a yeast prototrophy kit containing 23 plasmids ...bacteria to grow on sucrose. Plasmid cloning: Creativity with naturally occurring genes At this point... scientists are finding more and more ways to creatively perform selections in plasmid cloning. Additional... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Making Scientific Graphics
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 11, 2019, 1:16 p.m....are under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, which requires users to give appropriate credit, provide a link...about new scientific techniques and cool plasmids. Creating graphics were usually the last thing I thought..., I found some free design software that let me create graphics that better communicated the science in...reasons why this was the first program I used to create graphics for the Addgene blog. However, it has ...requested, although there’s no guarantee Biorender will create it. Additionally, you can upload your own images... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 18, 2017, 2:30 p.m.... biosensor creation, and custom FRET biosensors can be created using the cpFRET kit created by Olivier...Robert Campbell’s lab display calcium-dependent increases in fluorescence of up to 11,000-fold. FRET biosensors...biosensors. Blue flame “cameleon” calcium sensors created by Roger Tsien’s lab contain two fluorescent proteins...calcium binds, it triggers CaM/M13 interaction that increases FRET transfer between the fluorescent proteins... -
Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 3, 2019, 1:15 p.m....Natsume et al., 2016). Now, the Kanemaki lab has created a new toolkit of plasmids for the N- or C- terminal...makes it easy to tag your protein of interest to create conditional human cell lines. Lastly, the Kanemaki...sites adjacent to an NG PAM in human cells. The increased versatility of the engineered SpCas9-NG and its...enhancers, or have attempted to engineer loops to create genomic interactions that wouldn’t normally occur...develop dCas9 for synthetic looping, the Phillips-Cremins lab developed the light-activated-dynamic-looping...were able to observe loop formation as well as increased Zfp462 expression within 4 hours of blue light... -
FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m....self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11) to increase fluorescence 10-fold after protease activity (... (To et al., 2016). However, the lab wanted to increase the fluorescence range to better study the spatio-temporal...β-strand of GFP, hence the name FlipGFP. FlipGFP increases fluorescence 100-fold compared to other reporters...can be applied to other fluorescent proteins to create an array of multicolor reporters that will enable...apoptosis during embryo development. GFP fluorescence increased over time and showed a clear pattern in the developing... This reporter achieves approximately 100-fold increase in fluorescence after cleavage by executioner ...