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  1. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    Nov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...speech, coordination, purposeful use of hands, and walking. They may exhibit slow head growth, develop seizures...medical journal. Decades later and after years of painstaking work trying to isolate the causative gene for...:2<147::aid-ajmg6>3.0.co;2-o Baker SA, Chen L, Wilkins AD, Yu P, Lichtarge O, Zoghbi HY (2013) An AT-Hook...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ... delivery to only a few cell types.  If you’re looking for more control in the cell types your lentiviral...retrograde direction from the synapse to the cell body, making it a great tool to study neuronal connectivity....HY, Tortorici MA, Veesler D, Murphy M, Pettie D, King NP, Balazs AB, Bloom JD (2020) Protocol and Reagents...
  3. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...BP Reaction takes place between the attB sites flanking the insert and the attP sites of the donor vector...gene! STEP 2: Generate an Expression Clone When making the expression clone, it is important to choose...fragments, cDNA or Genomic DNA and is available for all kind of organisms from mammals to E. coli. Glossary of...
  4. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... month without a new, drug-resistant ‘superbug’ making headlines in one part of the world or another. ...that only infect bacterial cells), or a bacterium picking up resistance genes from it’s environment (from...resistant bacteria to over-take the population and making them more difficult to treat in the future. Patients...
  5. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    Aug. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...a bit of tuning before you know your system is working as expected. Finally, for each gene you want to... scorer 1.0 (Now 2.0) (Chari et al., 2015) and picking whichever guides are closest to the transcription...Ansari R, Harper S, Jackson DA, McRae R, Pooley R, Wilkinson P, van der Meer D, Dow D, Buser-Doepner C, Bertotti...
  6. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ...that particular region. No matter where you are looking, you can either scan the genome yourself for potential...leading to degradation that can set you back days. Working with plasmid DNA is much easier and doesn’t require...slightly different method to genotype their pups. Taking a toe, a finger, a tail tip, or a combination of...
  7. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    Oct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...we are interested in circuits that mediate drug taking behavior. If a circuit reinforces behavior (activation...sense of pleasure that the animal perceives through taking a drug. The ideal behaviors to test reinforcement...amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking." Nature 475.7356 (2011): 377-380. Pubmed PMID:...
  8. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...sequence (Figure 2A). Since you don’t need additional flanking sequences, shRNA plasmids are a bit smaller, with... than miRNA plasmids, which require additional flanking regions comprised of upstream and downstream genomic...between the red boxes. Highlighted blue regions show flanking genomic sequence. Created on BioRender.com. ...
  9. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ... this, similar systems have been developed for tracking various cell types and organisms and for improving...recombinase. The XFPs in Flybow are membrane-tethered, making this system useful for visualization of cellular...construct was then used to develop a system for tracking the fate of Langerhans cells. In the Ubow mouse...
  10. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    Jan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
    ...dependency on magnesium and higher thermal stability, making it a potentially more useful tool for in vivo studies...much potential for growth as RNA biology, we are looking forward to reports on the next additions to aptamer...bright, high-affinity complex for RNA labeling and tracking." ACS chemical biology 9.10 (2014): 2412-2420....
  11. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    April 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cells of interest. In many experiments you’ll be working with a heterogeneous cell population, for example...While flow cytometry can be used for virtually all kinds of experiments and research fields, for any experiment...investigating negative regulators of T cells and cytokine signaling in tumor immunity. When he's not in ...
  12. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...false positives observed in the cloning process, making it easier to produce the constructs you need. Expression...to simplify the protein purification process by making it easy for a researcher to quickly generate N-...carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking of cell-free expression systems, and tested ...
  13. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...nucleotides, called dideoxynucleotides (ddNTPs), lacking the 3’ hydroxyl group required for the extension...sequencing reactions and may use Sanger sequencing. Looking to the future Southern blotting, restriction mapping...mouse lines, such as BAC transgenic or traditional knockins/knockouts, a thing of the past. In the sequencing...
  14. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ... Mike Lacy Cell-cell interactions underlie many kinds of tissue function, but these connections are exquisitely...new tool offers a way to selectively perturb any kind of condensate. The killswitch can be genetically...https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02551-2    Knocking-down barriers to biotech education: Affordable...
  15. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...adds a repressible element to this binary system (making this a repressible binary system). The GAL80 repressor...PMID: 1319065; PMCID: PMC49329. Triezenberg SJ, Kingsbury RC, McKnight SL. Functional dissection of VP16... Resources on the Addgene Blog Quick guide to working with Drosophila Terminators and PolyA Signals FLEx...
  16. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
    ... a method relies on accurate ligation of nicks lacking gaps or mismatched base pairs (as in the case for....6 (2004): 757-764. PubMed PMID: 15582400. 2. Tomkinson, Alan E., et al. "DNA ligases: structure, reaction...: 16464020.  3. Ellenberger, Tom, and Alan E. Tomkinson. "Eukaryotic DNA ligases: structural and functional...
  17. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    June 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...in common? The three most important items when looking for a house and choosing an AAV are… location, .... So how do you choose the right serotype? Keep asking questions!  Table 1: AAV Serotypes and Tropism ...choice of AAV will depend upon which section you’re looking at (striatum, hippocampus and cortex) within the...
  18. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    Oct. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...RNase III enzyme named Dicer (Figure 1). The plant kingdom has expanded its repertoire of Dicer enzymes and...silencing effect through targeted mRNA degradation, blocking translation, or chromatin modifications of complementary...researchers studying plants and other organisms lacking this innate immunity need not worry and have benefited...
  19. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... and SciFi.  Scientists around the world began looking for the magic molecule that serves as the code ...insatiable appetite of the moviegoers for dinosaurs wreaking havoc in a theme park.  Released in 1997, GATTACA... at University of California San Diego. She is working in collaboration with Prof. Alexis Komor and together...
  20. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ... however NLuc’s emission peak is at 460 nm thus making it non-optimal for in vivo imaging. The solution...about to create an in vivo imaging reporter by linking two CyOFP1 molecules to NLuc (CyOFP1-NLuc-CyOFP1...the fluorescent donor for a bioluminescent donor, making BRET probes. Here the bioluminescent donor is unaffected...
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