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TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2019, 1:21 p.m....keep track of how you met the connection, as these notes are saved in the messaging stream. Unfortunately...LinkedIn is not the platform for politics, family updates, or click bait of any kind. For more on inappropriate...However, do comment on other people’s news and updates. Share your own good ideas, events and favorite...
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Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m....antibiotic in your plate might not work. Check the plates! Streak on them an E. coli strain known to be ...growing fine, it is probably time to prepare new plates with a fresh stock of antibiotic. Many small colonies... different temperature (30°C) for the growth on plates and in liquid culture. If you don’t get any positive... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m....CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA complex, fluorescent...genes-of-interest (GOI) into two independent expression cassettes on a single plasmid (Grefen and Blatt, 2012). ...proteins that bind to either the light- and dark- states of the photoswitchable cPYP, which changes in conformation... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....caveolin 1, also known as CAV 1. Usually, caveolin 1 promotes the cell life cycle progression and enhances tumor... TAK 1, an enzyme that controls apoptosis and regulates transcription. Without TKA1, cells proliferate... 2004). In fact, Sanford H. Barsky and his team tested the influence myoepithelial cells had on the conversion... -
Summer SciComm: Preprints
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Photo courtesy of Henry Mühlpfordt, under a CC BY-SA license. Many scientists and advocates have argued...manuscript is drafted. Preprints were one of the key routes for researchers to share information about the ... -
Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....large number of targets, and can require specific conjugates. And, of course, once you have them, you’ll need... along with a higher likelihood of aggregation (Bates, 2019). They are small enough to be produced in ...delivery systems. Elsevier Science & Technology Books. Bates A, Power CA. David vs. Goliath: The Structure, Function... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 15, 2022, 1:15 p.m....options. With limited time and budget you cannot test them all, so how do you know which ones to try? ...immune complexes are smaller than a primary:secondaries:conjugates complex. If you are trying to visualize.... The 5 pillars include genetic strategies that test expression in knock-out or knock-down down tissues... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m....with the desired resolution of prime editing intermediates. Building upon the PE2 and PE3 systems of their...introduce epitope tags and RNA transcription start sites. The lab further demonstrated that PRIME-del can...RT), which induces two double-strand breaks and deletes the intervening sequence. As with other prime editing... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.... oxygen concentration may affect photobleaching rates (Shaner et al, 2008). This brings us to the key ...application (Goedhart et al, 2012). The third issue relates to the environment of the fluorescent protein. ...The issues with quantification of photobleaching rates can be summarized as follows: Instead of determining... -
CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.... cross-talk with the other orthologs. Ma et al. tested their dCas9 variants using gRNAs specific for telomeric...individual colors to 6. A gRNA with all three hairpins generates white light. All 6 gRNAs can be expressed in a...separate vector. Figure 2: CRISPRainbow generates 6 unique colors and a white composite. gRNAs with... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m....a new legal minimum of $47,476 per year, under updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This was...22nd a preliminary injunction against the FLSA updates was granted nationwide. Again, we at Future of ...getting paid, which we will be analyzing for future updates. But suffice it to say, salaries are showing surprisingly... -
Working with Nuclear Receptors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m....and disease states, their circadian regulation, as well as in important physiological states such as adipogenesis...therapeutic indices, including hypertension, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cholesterol gallstone... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m.... real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career Researcher Toolbox...around since 1996, but is getting an update! The latest version can be found here. The new PubMed will ...cite the most), and who the author influences (who cites the author the most). Best uses Finding papers frequently... -
Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.... Viruses are intracellular parasites and natural vehicles for genetic information. Therefore they make...Addgene: Follow our viral vector blog posts for updates on the most recent deposits, protocols, and tips...MuLE (Multiple Lentiviral Expression) system facilitates the simultaneous introduction of multiple genetic... -
Split-BioID: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 1, 2018, 1:57 p.m....BioID, BirA* is fused to a bait protein and it biotinylates proteins that are within a ~10 nm radius of ...the bait proteins were tagged with. It’s best to test all combinations and pick the conditions that give...interactome. Further characterization of these candidates is critical to understanding how they interact... -
Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m.... experiments is cutting efficiency so that the greatest effect possible will be achieved. On the other... an NG PAM. Cas PAM sequence Additional notes SpCas9 NGG - Cas12a TTTV Great for AT-rich...coverage in the human genome. SpRY Cas9 has PAM sites covering the majority of the genome! Want to... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....co-incubate it with an “assist peptide” that facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral... in rodents have not been widely successful in primates. The authors used a multispecies approach to generate...endothelial-specific tropism in rodents and broad tropism in primates. Nature Communications, 14(1), 3345. https://doi.org... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m....animals may be variable among animals and bleed dates and even clonal hybridoma cell lines can produce...Tran et al., 2016). Each antibody would then be tested for antigen binding. If starting from an established...data (Begley & Ellis, 2012; Baker, 2015). This contributes to an enormous amount of wasted money and time... -
Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.... plate format yielding anywhere from two to six plates of 96 samples per week. This is where our new process... process only takes about one day, even for six plates (576 individual plasmids)! These libraries are ...takes about two days to complete. After the run completes, we begin our assembly process. Again, thanks ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... used to integrate the tagged AID* into genomic sites of interests via CRISPR techniques. This tool-kit...activated, Cas9 cleavage can induce DSBs within minutes. New CRISPR plasmids for Borrelia burgdorferi from...are now available. These libraries encode target sites flanked by randomized nucleotides in place of a ...