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  1. Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots

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    Aug. 1, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to probe the blot again, almost like new. This approach preserves your sample and saves you from having...your sample. Pro tip! Because some protein is lost each time you strip a blot, you should not compare the...cycles! Just remember that a bit of sample is lost in each round of stripping, so it pays to plan ahead.   ...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...thoroughly decontaminated after use, typically with bleach (plastic) or ethanol (other surfaces). For AAVs...and isopropyl alcohol, 0.5% peracetic acid, 10% bleach, or 1% iodine are useful. Some organizations or...policies – basically, you’ll need to get trained in each new place (and pay attention to the trainings!),...
  3. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    March 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Ophthalmology Basel recently took a different approach to enhance specificity in retinal cells. To do...type specific expression in the retina.  Four approaches for designing synthetic promoters  To build a...permission. In total, this library contained 226 AAVs, each with a different synthetic promoter driving expression...
  4. Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux

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    Sept. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Relations Board to allow graduate students who work as teaching or research assistants to join unions. The topic...provide a better deal for students in areas such as teaching salaries, healthcare access, and benefits; however...Assistant Professor of Sociology. University of Massachusetts Boston Christine Oslowski, PhD - Biotechnology...
  5. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    Sept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...outlining the different steps and materials required for each [1, 2]. This protocol [3] provides, in exquisite... appropriate wavelength to stimulate your opsin. Each opsin has an excitation spectrum (use the resources...the laser must be controlled. As discussed above, each opsin variant has slightly different activation/...
  6. Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization

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    Aug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...longer term and more substantial experience can be achieved by volunteering for a professional organization...organized a “Committee Leadership Institute” (CLI) where each Committee Chair and Vice Chairs were invited to ...was ultimately invited to join the Advocacy and Outreach Committee within a professional society in my ...
  7. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    June 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m.
    ...markets), and serious ideas (how to stop rhino horn poaching using biotechnology) were thrown on the table ...future in. And we decided to make education and outreach a cornerstone of our business, because we are ...flowers, bugs, and the ocean. After receiving her bachelors in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from ...
  8. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ...Addgene AAV Production protocol, I take a lazier approach for harvesting my AAV. I skip the PEG precipitation...immediately before iodixanol purification. This approach gives me a bit of flexibility since I can store... Feelixge at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center for teaching me about AAV production and purification! References...
  9. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...confluent because cells like their space. If they reach confluence, they stop growing (contact inhibition.... Additional passages will allow your cells to achieve a consistent growth rate. For every minute spent...pipettes for liquid waste) should be sterilized before each use. Also, all contaminated liquid and solid waste...
  10. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...pBAD vectors for example. Protein expression from each of these vectors is controlled by a different promoter...resulting in different levels of expression from each vector; lower expression may be required if your...components of the transcription and translation machinery. These include ribosomes, RNA polymerase, tRNAs...
  11. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...partially because they contain some of the necessary machinery to make these viruses. The cells are also easy...they require cloning specific AAV or lentiviral machinery into a baculovirus plasmid. Production of baculovirus...releasing the virus to the supernatant. The virus will reach peak production when roughly 60–70% of cells have...
  12. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    Aug. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to run larger panels: five laser spectral flow machines have 64 detectors, allowing for the use of up ...be distinguished using spectral flow since the machine uses the full spectral signature, not just a narrow...it is critical to include an unstained sample for each tissue type you are running in your panel if you...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... current yellow fluorescent proteins tend to photobleach rapidly, which hinders their use for long-term...Alejo Rodriguez-Fraticelli recently developed an approach called Simultaneous Tracking of Recombinase Activation... skeletal muscle, kidney, spleen, lung, heart, stomach, and brain. C) Recent studies have shown that AAV11...
  14. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    July 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... through the specimen, which often leads to photobleaching.  Furthermore, point-by-point scanning along...focus light. Therefore, there is much less photo-bleaching or photo-damage than in conventional laser scanning...215. Pubmed. W. Spalteholz. (1914) Uber das Durchsichtigmachen von menschlichen und tierischen Praparaten...
  15. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ... Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoproteins? One alternative approach, which avoids many of these complications, is ...vendor, this can often be expensive. An alternative approach is to express and purify His-tagged Cas9 from ...inner ear (Zuris et al. 2015). A more targeted approach using RNPs has recently been described in vitro...
  16. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    Feb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...labels (green circles in figure 2 below) can be attached to each antibody. But being big is a double-edged... to different epitopes of a primary antibody. B) Each arm of the antibody has an antigen binding site ...
  17. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
    ...doesn't require homology-directed repair (HDR) machinery, and could thus be used in non-dividing cells....convert adenine to inosine, which the translational machinery treats like guanine. This RNA editor would permit...as assessed using RNA-seq. Since the REPAIRv1 machinery is too large to fit into adeno-associated viral...
  18. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...that you will contribute openness, clarity, approachability, and professionalism to team meetings and projects...second to reflect. For example, say your boss approaches your team with a project she needs one of you...to produce such great work. Say your manager approaches you with glowing feedback from a client you helped...
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