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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....newest line of defense against bacteria. Created with BioRender.com. The problem of antibiotic...may also induce cell death. CRISPR also enables increased specificity - rather than targeting a process ...mouse skin colonization model, phagemid treatment decreased the proportion of virulent S. aureus from 50% ...death. Image from Beisel et al., licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License....rendering the population sensitive to antibiotics. Created with BioRender.com. Phages could be used to...
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Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.... shalt create community to help Involve family. If you don’t have local family to help, create “fake” ... on the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Electronic Laboratory Neighborhood. Work... to church, join a club, meet the neighbors and create a network of support to help with elder care, carpooling...partner – no kids. Get a massage – no guilt. Have recreational time with your friends – no spouses or kids.... -
CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2020, noon...is possible with efficiency >70%. CRMAGE is an incredibly fast protocol, with only 5 hours incubation time...system that combines recombineering with CRISPR to create a system for scarless, iterative genome engineering... pathways within this genus, Huimin Zhao’s lab created two “pCRISPomyces” systems for use in Streptomyces...CRISPR in bacteria, they also led early efforts creating tools for CRISPRi and CRISPRa (Bikard et al., ... in Mycobacterial species, Sarah Fortune’s lab screened 11 other Cas9 orthologs to identify a more efficient... used to engineer the bee gut microbiome. They created a modular system using a broad host range plasmid... -
Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 8, 2018, 1 p.m....to solve this problem. This tool was initially created to support the CRISPR analysis needs of Synthego... sgRNAs. Since multiplexing is commonly used to create functional knockouts or large deletions, the ability...optimizing and no complicated steps to learn. For increased flexibility and scalability, the ICE software ...editing analysis Once the analysis is complete, a new screen appears with a graphical representation of the ...Data button on the bottom right of the analysis screen. ICE analysis details Contributions The Contributions... -
Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m....careers. External collaborations are becoming increasingly important as more complex approaches to scientific...seminar to connect the imaging community and to create a platform for discussions and potential collaborations...postdoctoral work there are loads of opportunities to create communities, platforms, and to be a part of projects...your ideas and don’t be afraid to make something concrete happen. You may have more willing collaborators...make sure to share them with a short note - this creates a thoughtful way of interacting and is much more... -
Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m.... ligase The Roux Lab in 2016 optimized BioID to create BioID2, a smaller and improved promiscuous biotin...was its low sensitivity. Sensitivity could be increased with higher expression levels but for many fusion...until they identified a mutant with significantly increased sensitivity that did not affect the function or...miniTurbo were developed in the Ting Lab in 2018 to increase the speed of proximity labeling by promiscuous... BASU exhibits 1,000 fold faster kinetics and increases the signal to noise ratio 30-fold compared to ... -
Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m....Dicer chops off the loop of hairpin structures to create a mature siRNA duplex. Fun fact! Endogenous miRNA...production starts with transcription of the miRNA to create pri-miRNA, which is then processed by a complex...shRNA and miRNA processing and silencing pathways. Created on BioRender.com. Expressing shRNAs using...Highlighted blue regions show flanking genomic sequence. Created on BioRender.com. When it comes to the backbone...expression of specific mRNAs. shRNAs are a quick way to create stable knockdown cells lines, and you can usually... -
Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 13, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... used for a variety of research purposes, like creating stable cell lines, delivering CRISPR/Cas9 to cells...vector with an integrase-deficient viral vector. Created with BioRender.com. What are integrase-deficient... episomal forms of non-integrating transgenes. Created with BioRender.com; adapted from Banasik and McCray...regions of the genome (Schröder et al., 2002), thus increasing the risk for insertional mutagenesis. This integration...remember: You can never trust a lentivirus with secrets... Because they tend to insert themselves into ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m....fluorescent protein can be truncated to increase the FRET efficiency. Creating fusions at the N- and C- termini...double the size of the protein. In addition, it increases avidity because it doubles the number of binding...non-aliphatic amino acids. However, long linkers increase the chance that a fusion protein is cleaved by...Sheridan, Douglas L., et al. "A new way to rapidly create functional, fluorescent fusion proteins: random... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m....for quantitative imaging, Ming Hammond’s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach...was cloned into bacterial expression vectors to create a library. Bacteria were transformed, and then ...for in vivo studies. Dimerization of Broccoli increases its fluorescence by about 1.8-fold, and may be...for greater contact with its RNA aptamer. This increased interaction between Corn and its small molecule... to TO1-biotin. Two of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango, and all are photostable...