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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m....work best for your scientific question? If you’re thinking, ‘wait, those terms mean different things?!’, ... to clearly define what type of factor you are looking for and what process or outcome that factor functions... advantage – that is, you are not specifically looking at cells that can survive. Instead, all manipulations... screens are similar to CRISPR, but instead of knocking out the genes of interest (or the whole genome...
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A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m....question more and more students are asking. Teachers are also asking, “How do I engage my students in real-world...outcomes by emphasizing the importance of critical thinking, persistence, teamwork, and communication. And... the only informal synthetic biology club of its kind, running from start to finish during the academic... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m....Ku then acts as a scaffold for recruitment of a kinase (DNA-PKcs) and a two subunit DNA ligase (XRCC4-...heterogeneous when constrained by sequence identities in flanking sequence (“microhomologies”). NHEJ doesn’t obligatorily...Renouf B, Renaud J-B, Sallmyr A, Ruis B, Oh S, Tomkinson AE, Hendrickson EA, Giovannangeli C, Jasin M, ...Inoue A, Matoba S, Zhang Y, Zhang F (2013) Double Nicking by RNA-Guided CRISPR Cas9 for Enhanced Genome Editing... -
Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 22, 2014, 4:02 p.m....Developmental Editor at F1000Research. With many changes taking place in the world of science publishing, and an...include in my paper? More and more journals are asking for detailed information on lab resources, such...enough information to replicate your experiments, making research more reproducible and your results more...journals as possible at the same time. Take your time picking the appropriate journal and explain in your cover... -
Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m....note: in this table, reprogramming efficiencies ranking as low, medium or high is based on the reprogramming... pluripotency of mouse cells typically involves making chimeras by injecting iPSCs into blastocysts and... injecting iPSCs into immunodeficient mice and looking for tumors that contains cells from all three germ...of iPSCs is the number one priority, with safety taking lower priority. Genomic integration is less of ... and Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte. "Methods for making induced pluripotent stem cells: reprogramming à... -
Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....autophagosomal membranes, so tagging it with GFP allows for tracking the localization or accumulation of pre-autophagosomal...an autophagy-independent manner. Additionally, tracking Atg8p or LC3 doesn’t provide information about...easier to study the mechanisms behind autophagy by tracking what’s being transported to the yeast vacuole ...vacuole (i.e. cytosol, mitochondria), rather than tracking generic autophagy markers. It’s particularly useful... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....promote tumor durability instead of repressing them, making it even harder to cure cancer. To understand how...factor, vascular endothelial growth factor, and interleukin-6 (Witkiewicz et al., 2009) which contribute ...metastasis of tumors through inciting inflammation. Speaking of inflammation, a noteworthy cell type in the...Witz, Isaac P. "The tumor microenvironment: the making of a paradigm." Cancer Microenvironment 2.1 (2009... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m....like cross-linking immunoprecipitation (CLIP) identify RNA-protein interactions by cross-linking RNAs and...enrichment compared to E. coli’s BirA*. Faster labeling kinetics also means that BASU could potentially be used...RaPID RaPID sounds like a nifty technique, but what kinds of questions can it help answer? Ramanathan et al... -
Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m....with a heterozygous 4 bp deletion in MYBPC3 donated skin, blood and semen samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids...of only 27.9% and homology-directed repair (HDR) taking place in 41.2% of edited cells. The results were...CRISPR editing. Conclusions & implications One striking feature of this paper is the failure of the embryos...comprised of individuals with varied backgrounds. Talking about this study with non-biologist friends Like... -
Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m....the design of flanking overhangs. Although there are theoretically 256 distinct flanking sequences, sequences...their recognition sequence, creating four base flanking overhangs. Since these overhangs are not part ...clone up to 7 gRNAs into one destination vector, making multiplexing easy. Disadvantages of Golden Gate...