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TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.... Base editing, another method to create point mutations, also has a strict editing window about 15 nt ...mutagenesis plasmid (MP6) permits quick, large-scale mutation of the gene of interest. They created a selection...
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Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m....due to its endA1 recA1 relA1 genotype, as these mutations improve plasmid stability and yield. If a plasmid...using older plates could increase plasmid loss or mutation. Let it incubate Increasing the incubation time... -
Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 25, 2016, 3:30 p.m....for CINSO. For instance, I tweeted to the Indiana State Museum and others when I was trying to find local...informal science educators, and ever since, the State Museum has been the best supporter and most productive... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m....industry, you’re more likely to give an oral presentation to highlight any new data or ask for additional...industry with most team members giving oral presentations, you will also have to attend many more meetings... -
Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m....However, many fluorescent proteins face similar limitations, and many labs are already using these chromoproteins...promoter. The resolution step leads to the desired mutation and excision of the vector backbone. To do this... -
Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m....chance of a chromosomal inversion, or just random mutations if the chromosome is repaired with all the original...deleting a problematic copy of a gene that causes a debilitating disease! This is, of course, only hypothetical... -
Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m....eventually found a version of AsLOV2 with five mutations (C450P, L496V, Q513K, G528K, D540M) that shows... and ΔF/F of MagLOV, a variant of AsLOV2 with mutations C450P, L496V, Q513K, G528K, D540M, in response... -
Of Myc and Men
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m....partner; as I write this, there are close to 10,000 citations for anti-Myc 9E10 in CiteAb, many of which are...no antibody is that perfect. One of the known limitations was described by Schüchner, et al., who published... -
Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m....reflected light by using a pinhole. However, the excitation light excites all of the fluorophores as it passes...takes to image through a large z-stack (8). One limitation of LSFMs using single side illumination, especially... -
Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m....BLAST (blastx) search to check for expected ORFs, mutations or truncations. A primary advantage of blastx ...database. Another benefit is that a frameshift mutation present in the ORF is readily apparent when viewing... -
Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 12, 2013, 3:35 p.m....the central dogma. We have the beginnings of computational logic and data storage. What we don't have are...begin to imagine designing 10-gene systems with quantitative precision. There are few designers of biological... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m....were more prohibitive at the time. With these limitations no longer an issue, bacterial in vivo cloning... N-terminus of a protein-coding sequence, or a mutation can be introduced in a gene, while adding a GFP-tag... -
CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m....follows: (my_house + coffee) - starbucks See how the notation works? The + operator denotes intersection and...Through a bit of stochastic magic and Poisson statistics, each sub-population has, on average, one distinct... -
CRISPR Antimicrobials
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....the world is unprepared. Each year in the United States, two million people will be infected by antibiotic...defective phagemid; Bikard et al. did not observe any mutations at the target site. In a mouse skin colonization... -
INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m....studies (e.g. using mariner), as a method of tagmentation for next-gen sequencing pipelines (e.g. using...the mini-transposon can occur in two different orientations, but is strongly biased towards T-RL, where ... -
Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Fixation allows you to freeze your samples in a given state or point in time. You want to halt degradative processes...methanol, or ethanol, work by dehydrating and precipitating cellular components. This method of fixation... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Gene-Editing Systems Based on CRISPR/Cas: Current State and Perspectives. Viruses, 13(7), 1288. https://... the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 54(1), 137–144. https://doi.org/10.1073... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m....structures in 10 closely related yeast strains. Adaptation to changing conditions - Organisms often need...sometimes (but not always) be noted in in the “mutation” field on the plasmid page (see plasmid 87904 ... -
Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m....were designed to target genomic sites with no annotated function, i.e. sites that lack open chromatin ...safe-targeting guides, which target genomic sites with no annotated function. In the growth screen, safe-targeting... -
5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2016, 2:30 p.m....definitely glad we did - you can see some of the stats from the AMA to the right - the Reddit community...r/Science has a great team of moderators who facilitated scheduling, filtered out inflammatory questions...