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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...
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m....: creativity. I’ve heard quite a few scientists state that they’re not creative, usually saying that they...your break can be as simple as a few minutes of meditation or a walk to the break room for a sip of water... -
CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... E. coli B strains, 1 E. coli W strain, and 1 Tatumella citrea, with a total of 70 sites edited. We optimized...strain library with different gene dosages to facilitate swift optimization of strains. Multiple induction... -
Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m....floating on the water surface. The latter reflects a state of behavioral despair, and the more time the animal...showed that the activity of a particular subset of excitatory neurons (Drd1) in mPFC is responsible for the... -
Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m....cleaves a substrate, which will then form a blue precipitate. GUS is usually the first choice for establishing...transformation success. Luciferases are great quantitative reporters and use a substrate to produce bioluminescence... -
New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m....calmodulin-dependent kinase II alpha (aCaMKII; excitatory neurons) and Synapsin-1 (pan-neuronal) promoters...cell types (microglia are a notable exception) necessitates such molecular gymnastics for sensitive applications... -
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...