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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m....put on typical middle age weight and “exercise” consisted of taking walks in the mall. I took action, joined...patients. However, the R206H mutation makes ACVR1 responsive to members of the ubiquitous activin ligand family... to raising funds and awareness of FOP. Please consider running with us or making a donation via the link...
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The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 15, 2014, 3:11 p.m....labs. Disposable plastic materials are fairly inexpensive in this country and we are quick to throw out... gel on a large glass slide using only surface tension. It's a bit tricky to pour the right amount so...plastic and solder this thing together. One of the downsides—there was no cover so you had to be careful not... -
Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 25, 2023, 1:15 p.m....how Protein A and Protein B interact. You read extensive research on the two proteins and come up with ...antibody against Protein B. The antibodies are both extensively published, knockout validated, and work in your...with human antibody sequences. Additional considerations Although isotype conversion is routinely used... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m....cells. Until now, tools for doing this were labor-intensive and required using manipulations such as injection...sites in the construct to different lengths, the density of cells that are labeled can be altered to dense...designed a calcineurin transcriptional reporter consisting of a quickly-degraded destabilized GFP variant... -
Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m....a relatively pH-insensitive RFP variant, DsRed.T3, that’s connected to a pH-sensitive GFP variant, super...lysosome, and degradation of autophagic substrates inside the lysosome. Historically, methods for studying... -
HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m....proteins in vivo. These probes however can be expensive to make, hard to deliver into living systems, ..., and often do not fold properly once inside cells. Developing the HA frankenbody To combat the issues...found that the HA frankenbody is effective in sensitive cells such as living neurons, and can be fused... -
Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m....markers and replication origins, but there is extensive heterogeneity in the feature sequences due to ...control elements in commercial plasmids were inconsistent and sometimes clearly wrong. In an effort to...reliable feature annotations. Even with these extensive efforts, such an algorithm has limitations. For... -
Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m....at our graphics and design editors. How about condensing a week’s worth of the world’s scientific discoveries...like word choice, punctuation, and stylistic consistency. If you’ve ever doubted the importance of copy...in the science communications world, you might consider an internship or a short program to build skills... -
Hot Plasmids - January 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m....applications such as super resolution, electron, and expansion microscopy. hfYFP is not only brilliantly bright...than most FPs. The group also tested hfYFP in expansion microscopy as well as correlative light and electron...stable FP for your next microscopy experiment, consider hfYFP and LSSmGFP. Fig. 4: hfYFP retains... -
Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2019, 1:58 p.m....then integrates into the genome. Thus the gRNAs responsible for a phenotype can be identified by next-generation...UAS). The Wang Lab created a tripartite system consisting of dCas9, a gRNA fused to an RNA binding motif...a requirement for very high excitation light intensities have made these indicators difficult to work ...