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  1. How to Write a Scientific Review Article

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    Feb. 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...read particular studies or experiments. Later, you can easily convert the citation style to whatever the... relevant researchers in the field. Finally, you can sound credible and cool when you casually mention...factorials. In environmental science and ecology, this can be represented by the tip of the iceberg. For writers... like me, you might be surprised at how much you can get done between office hours and experiments. A ...don’t forget to include citations so that people can go back and read the original reference for the data.... Submit your article! Overall, writing a review can be overwhelming and challenging. My best advice is...development, physiology and malignancy." Genes & cancer 6.5-6 (2015): 184. PubMed PMID: 26124919. PubMed...
  2. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... another virus. With the pseudovirus, scientists can study the mechanisms of infection and how to interfere...yields and stability. This stabilized spike protein can be used for the development of vaccines and diagnostics...those encoding different spike protein variants that can be incorporated into pseudoviruses. The lab used ...neutralizing the different SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. You can learn more about their research in this article. ...transcription (RT-LAMP) and a colorimetric readout that can be completed in just 45 minutes. The team deposited...MMLV reverse transcriptase and Taq polymerase that can be used in a one-step RT-qPCR reaction to detect ...
  3. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    Nov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can be encoded by more than one codon. Although the genetic...organism's codon bias. The idea is that scientists can make mutations throughout a gene of interest based...certain systems, synonymous changes to a gene sequence can cause unexpected detrimental results to the protein...those that exhibit wobble base-pairing (a tRNA that can recognize multiple synonymous codons) may actually...genes contain a region where a synonymous mutation can be harmful (Sauna and Kimchi-Sarfaty, 2011).  Overall...CDS-located miRNA target sites suggests that they can effectively inhibit translation. Genome Research ...expression limiting regulatory elements or use a non-canonical code (Gustafsson et al., 2004), such as Hoogsten...
  4. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...both dCas9 and the gRNA. This expression can vary significantly depending on transgene design and delivery...proteins might not localize to the right places, which can provide misleading information on where exactly a...signal or including fusions with Histone 2A or 2B can result in bright targeted expression while minimizing... found that too high expression of these markers can lead to non-specific labeling. They generated plasmids...be exported to the periplasm of bacteria where it can be secreted into the supernatant. Four plasmids containing...-one dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR targeting plasmids can be found at Addgene. Check out these plasmids for...benefits of nanobodies over conventional antibodies can’t be overlooked. Nanobodies are smaller in size, more...
  5. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ... lab has worked extensively with enChIP systems. Can you describe this technology and its advantages? ...enChIP). By using enChIP, specific genomic regions can be easily isolated for identification of associated...retroviral enChIP system using CRISPR technology. Can you describe this technology and some of its potential...involved in these professional activities because I can contribute by, for example, helping to improve the...and Japan (University of Tokyo, Osaka University). Can you speak about your different experiences in research... in Japan, which is very disappointing. I hope I can help change the situation in the future. Addgene:...
  6. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...internal region of the mRNA. In the figure above, you can see that the IRES element acts as another ribosome... L L K L A G D V E S N P G P * (GSG) residues can be added to the 5' end of the peptide to improve ... the co-expression of multiple unique genes, you can start with a plasmid that has multiple cloning sites...PCR-cloned between your genes of interest and you can then insert the whole multicistronic cassette into... 101 eBook And now for some exciting news... You can now download Addgene's new eBook! Our goal was to...additional resources into one downloadable PDF that you can save on your desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed...
  7. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...well as their modern equivalents and see what we can learn from their evolution. Southern blotting and..., named for its inventor Edward M. Southern (1), can be used to detect DNA identity, size, and abundance...has a particular gene mutation, southern blotting can be used to identify the presence of that mutated ...bind to the sample thereby labeling it. The label can then be visualized by autoradiography and X-ray film...are also commonly used. In all cases, the result can be quantified by the strength of the signal in comparison...for cloning and analytical digests. A researcher can test the orientation of an insert in only a few hours...nucleotide, a researcher (or a simple computer program) can then reproduce the DNA sequence (Figure 2). Accuracy...
  8. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    Sept. 9, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...this phrase when discussing raising children, it can also be applied to research. Sharing knowledge and...Putative enhancer sequences for specific cell types can be identified based on the wear-and-tear footprint...fluorescent gene and packaged into viral vectors that can be administered systemically (retro-orbitally, RO...resources. Luckily for us, they like sharing! You can find data, analysis tools, and other scientific and... and educational resources on their website. You can find more neuroscience-focused tools in their Brain...this collection of highly specific AAV enhancers can help scientists around the world better understand...understand the brain, how it functions, and how we can help keep it healthy. Thank you to Dr. Yoav Ben-Simon ...
  9. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    Jan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...kinds of problems can, of course, be solved with good management practices, but can sometimes go unnoticed...those contracts fall through or are cancelled, then redundancies can be made within the company; new staff...large company (both for-profit and non-profit) you can also get a lot of office politics (many individuals...projects and away from other individuals projects, this can cause conflicts and favoritism, as well as affect...have less work to do than was anticipated and there can be a glut of individuals with similar skill sets....was entitled to a Work-Travel VISA, which means I can gain employment for up to 6 months in Australia or... my job. Because of my background in genetics, I can help scientists problem solve experiments over the...
  10. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...mismatches that can nevertheless still lead to activity has been established, and can be used to identify...gRNAs. A more extended discussion of these subjects can be found in two recent review articles (Doench et...importance (target should be near the TSS but you can worry less about sequence optimality because you ...variants thereof offers additional PAM options that can greatly expand gRNA options. Created with ... in vitro transcription, or lentiviral delivery) can affect the accuracy of a predictive score, as well...computational prediction is ever perfect, but this can decrease the number of guides one needs to test in...minimizing off-target activity, which sounds obvious but can often require difficult decisions. For example, would...
  11. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    May 7, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...more about their work, and how these plasmids can help cancer researchers studying an assortment of genes...population, as mutations with strong phenotypic effects can mask weaker ones. Thus, the need for a faster and...phenotypic effect in a different system. These plasmids can also help scientists understand how a given gene ... genetic perturbations that may play significant roles in cancer pathogenesis. Their work culminated ... from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a catalog of genetic mutations responsible for cancer from genomics...interventions for cancer. This screening platform is an incredible boost to the cancer research community...functional annotation of somatic mutations in cancer." Cancer Cell 33.3 (2018): 450-462. PubMed PMID: 29533785...
  12. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    Sept. 3, 2020, 12:15 p.m.
    ..., high intensity exposure can cause DNA damage. Far-red light, however, can penetrate 5 mm past the surface...CRISPR system. This common optogenetic technique can be employed in other split systems where light is...2015) resulting in a double strand break (DSB) that can be repaired by either non-homologous end joining ...Single-chain Cas9 photoswitches Photoactivation of Cas9 can also be achieved using single-chain fusion proteins... of AcrIIA4, this unfolding conformational shift can interfere with activity. The resulting system was...Hoffman et al., 2020). Fluorescent dCas9 proteins can be used to identify specific genomic loci for imaging...imaging techniques. Since expression of dCas9 can potentially alter the genome and chromatin architecture...
  13. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...SurvivalTM, one can efficiently propagate and prep plasmids containing the ccdB gene, which can then be used...learn more about it? Read on to find out how ccdB can make your cloning experiments a little easier. One...ccdB alone isn’t the only key to the system – how can one work with a plasmid/gene that kills the cells...function, there is some evidence that ccdB Survival™ can be more difficult to transform, depending upon the...
  14. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ...Cpf1 can process its own pre-crRNA arrays. Zetsche et al demonstrate this by showing that Cpf1 can cleave... to express the gRNAs and Cas9. Co-transfections can lead to variable expression levels due to differences...is a suitable substrate for Cpf1. This means Cpf1 can bind and cleave the lentiviral RNA, preventing packaging...repeats, leading to expression of a crRNA array that can be processed by Cpf1. Lastly, an AAV vector was ...
  15. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    Aug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m.
    ... role in the severity of breast cancer. Infectious Disease. RaPID can also help identify which host proteins...naturally occurring complexes present in the cell, it can also introduce non-physiological RNA-protein interactions...like a nifty technique, but what kinds of questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al. outline three applications...to Zika replication. Human genetic disease. RaPID can also be used to test how RNA variants associated ...patients. These are just three examples of how RaPID can be used to study RNA-protein interactions. Do you...in breast cancer patients. By digging into the literature and analyzing data from The Cancer Genome Atlas...other BirA*-based proximity labeling methods, RaPID cannot distinguish between proteins that directly or indirectly...
  16. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...used for targeting; however, these options can be cumbersome, can lower on-target efficiency, and sometimes...similar mutations can improve the specificity of Cas9 derived from S. aureus. This means you can likely apply...It is well known that CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing can result in unwanted changes at non-target sites. Means...
  17. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    Nov. 24, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    .... Thus, T-DDOGs can be used in combination with green-red Cre-lox systems. T-DDOGs can also be designed...T-DOGGs can be made drug-inducible using the rTetR system, but Cre-DOG lacks the toxicity that can be seen...their system, Tang et al. found that YFP and CFP can activate certain T-DDOG constructs similarly to GFP...
  18. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Recycling

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    Feb. 14, 2019, 2:35 p.m.
    ...responsibility in our lab’s environmental impact, but we can all do more to make research more environmentally...will likely end up in a landfill, but at least we can reduce the rate at which that happens and reduce ...t offer plastic recycling, specialized companies can recycle plastic-- you just have to find them (or ...commonly accepted at recycling facilities. Your lab can buy a box with the prepaid label and fill it with...
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