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  1. Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

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    May 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...letters, while higher-level jobs are more likely to consider cover letters an important part of the application... content team, where writing is a core skill, considers cover letters to be very important. On the other...unofficial poll, hiring managers also said that they considered cover letters to be more important for higher-level...communication skills” try giving an example, like “I have extensive communication experience, having given more than...
  2. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...within Cas13a are essential for RNA cleavage, consistent with known roles for HEPN domains in other proteins...located at the 3’ end of the spacer sequence and consists of a single A, U, or C base pair. In bacteria,...bacterial cells will likely be limited by the propensity of Cas13a to bind and cleave RNA non-specifically...Finally (and perhaps most interesting), Cas13a’s propensity to cleave any RNAs after binding a user-defined...
  3. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...show a high density of cells, while contour lines that are spread apart show a low density of cells (Figure... a ‘gate’; it tells the machine that everything inside the gate is one population and everything outside...Heat maps are often used to indicate the relative density of cells. You can see both of these features in...
  4. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...The ACE reporter is a bicistronic construct that consists of a mutated mCherry and a downstream constitutively...that results in the restoration of fluorescence. Transient reporter for editing enrichment (TREE) The Wang...Wang and Brafman lab developed a transient reporter for editing enrichment (TREE) to purify single base...Schwarz G, Nguyen T, Wang X, Brafman DA (2019) A transient reporter for editing enrichment (TREE) in human...
  5. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...included tests done in cell lines known to be more sensitive to toxicity from RNA editing, such as mouse embryonic...CRISPR-driven precision into a genome, can be considered the fourth generation of CRISPR, one which drops...drops itself neatly into that gap. Consider, for instance, a disease like cystic fibrosis, which can be...that this system wasn’t dependent on the cell’s intrinsic machinery being already activated to work. (It...
  6. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...that evolved in the last 10,000 years (which is considered recent). They have diverse traits with good genetic... and one is promiscuous and the gene that is responsible is understood. It’s possible to actually silence... to get a recombinant because this process is expensive. They are using a cool fluorescent indicator system...trying to replace embryo injection (hard to do, expensive, not every lab has the capability) with receptor...
  7. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...systems that are widely present in bacteria. They consist of a toxin which can affect a variety of cellular...division”). The encoded toxin-antitoxin system consists of CcdB (toxin) and CcdA (antitoxin) where CcdB...systems Because restriction modification systems consist of two enzymes that have opposing activities, it...the systems just described, the hok/sok systems consist of three components: Host killing (hok), a long-living...
  8. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
    ...Previously, we have described a number of practical considerations that should be taken into account when deciding...needs. Equally important, before cloning you must consider whether and how well your FP will function in ...fluorescent proteins in your experiments, please consider the following: How can one ensure that an FP ...compartments using CRISPR systems should strongly consider using moxFPs over standard FPs for the reasons...
  9. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...using microscopy techniques. FRET measurement sensitivity makes it suitable for studying interactions within...are difficult to overcome but they have to be considered when analysing data from your FRET experiments... The simplest and the most popular one is the sensitised emission method, where the donor is excited by...acceptor fluorescence, this method is also less sensitive to direct acceptor excitation artifacts and it...
  10. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...called a katana. Opto-katanin consists of two separate blue light-sensitive systems, VVDfast to control ...switch. You may be familiar with popular light-sensitive ion channels used to control activities like neuronal...in other contexts are sure to reveal even more insights. Super-duper lipid editor And if recruiting proteins...
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