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  1. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ...intensive to process a large number of microbiome samples. To enable large-scale, longitudinal studies of...and can approximate mRNA concentration within a sample. Using this system, the Collins lab was able to...lab validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR and demonstrated that it ...
  2. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the take rate of mouse xenografts after cell implantation. Their goal was to figure out how to optimize...barcodes in the population (all barcodes can be amplified using the same sets of forward and reverse primers...dynamics in response to cancer therapy using high-complexity barcoding." Nature medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-...
  3. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...animal models of disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues chose to explore...trials is somewhat similar (Hussein et al). It employs Cas9 to cut at two sites within the viral genome...current delivery technologies are suited for. For example, lipid nanoparticle delivery tends to be trafficked...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...In order to understand the complex wiring of the brain and the underpinnings of neurological disease,...while resulting in minimal off target effects. For example, if your receptors are expressed in the brain, ...receptor acts through. The DREADD hM3D(Gq), for example, lowers the threshold for neuronal signaling and...
  5. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    July 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
    ...treatments, but are not useful for genetic engineering. Examples of outbred strains include Swiss Webster and Harlan... are injected into a blastocyst which is then implanted into a female animal for gestation. Nucleases ...are microinjected into a zygote, which is then implanted into a female mouse for gestation. All three can...
  6. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    April 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...loxP, black arrowheads) and one mutated pair (for example- lox511, white arrowheads). It is necessary to ...express GeneR only in the presence of Cre. In this example, Cre would first invert the reporter and GeneR ...the presence of Cre. A similar strategy can be employed for "Cre-off" (i.e. your gene of interest starts...
  7. Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization

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    Aug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...predecessors. Changes were implemented and I had to adapt accordingly. For example, the quarterly and annual...volunteered for various tasks as things came up. For example, I updated some sections of the NPA’s website. ...
  8. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ... this purpose.Learn about the effects of CO2 on sample pH Cell morphology: Shape and size matter You should...which multiplies every 16 hours). So if you, for example, split cells on a Monday diluting them 1:10, you...contaminated.Learn how Addgene uses barcodes to track samples Keep track of passage numbers Keep an eye on the...
  9. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
    ...targeting anywhere in an exon. But things get more complicated if you’d like to use homology directed repair...alternative PAM sequences are longer and often more complex than NGG, resulting in lower overall genome frequency... be less predictable than SpCas9 off-targets. Employing xCas9 for transcriptional regulation and base ...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... an enhanced pU6cm promoter, viral replicon amplification of cargo, and heat treatment.  Figure...detection of activation triggered by endogenous GPCR. Example applications include large-scale pharmacological...recombinant antibody in human postmortem brain samples. Results show positive staining in tissues from...
  11. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...specific type of virus you are trying to make. For example, bacteriophages will need to be produced in bacteria... P0), infecting new Sf9 cells, and getting an amplified P2 virus. This P2 virus can be produced in a greater...Processing of your baculovirus is straightforward — simply spin down the supernatant in a centrifuge to remove...
  12. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...RNA (pegRNA). The pegRNA consists of a target-complementary spacer, a scaffold sequence, and an extension...primer binding site and a reverse transcription template (RTT). The design of the pegRNA has been shown... of different pegRNAs for each desired edit, it simply becomes impossible (or at least unreasonable) to...
  13. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ... in proximity by the looping of chromatin, the complex of DNA and proteins that forms chromosomes. These... of the CAPTURE method. After protein and DNA complexes are cross-linked, DNA is digested into smaller...and 2) gRNAs Number of loci targeted One Many Sample type(s) Cell lines Cell lines, primary cells ...
  14. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...specific epitope that your antibody binds. For example, Myc1-9E10 binds EQKLISEEDL (pronounced “equi-kli-seed-le...be the antibody Mary Poppins!   All of the examples of new versions of Myc1-9E10 mentioned above basically...for the foreseeable future. These newer findings simply add to our understanding of how this antibody works...
  15. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...want to include a homology directed repair (HDR) template to create knock-ins, point mutations, or to add...transgenic embryos. Cas9-gRNA ribonucleoprotein complexes Purified Cas9 protein and in vitro transcribed...transcribed gRNA are combined to form a Cas9-gRNA complex and delivered to cells using cationic lipids. Transient...
  16. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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    Sept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m.
    ...happy to upload your newest resources. Here is an example of a plasmid with a downloadable protocol listed...have a record of your work. This feature further simplifies lab work if you like to bring your phone in the...of checking off each step as you painstakingly complete your experiment – one small victory in a long ...
  17. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ...getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs, databases...consistently run our blastx searches with the “Low complexity regions” filter unchecked so that these regions...benefit is that blastp searches do not filter low complexity regions by default, meaning that you do not have...
  18. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    Nov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided into those of African ancestry(orange..., but it still points to a far larger and more complex problem endemic to biomedical research: pervasive...same reference genomes and libraries. Further complicating the issue is the long and ugly history of reporting...
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