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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...
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Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m....highly recommend watching this entertaining video created by our friends on the Cambridge 2010 iGEM team ...of homology at their ends, which are typically created by PCR. Then, the fragments are incubated together... homology between neighboring fragments can be created via PCR amplification with primers that contain...typically fairly high, so there is usually no need to screen a large amount of colonies. Excluding the time ...advantages that Gibson assembly does not such as increased efficiency, shorter incubation times, or the ability... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m....from Aschauer et al., 2013, Figure 1. Used under Creative Commons Attribution License. Within the nervous...can become methylated over time, resulting in decreased expression (Damdindorj et al., 2014; Nieuwenhuis...from Griffin et al., 2019, Figure 4. Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License....vice versa. The total volume needed, however, increases with the size of the region you want to cover ... effects (e.g. recombinase-dependent vectors) increases with the amount of virus you add, so it is strongly... -
Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m....generated by SnapGene software. Thanks to increasing affordability and accessibility, more researchers...by growing seed stocks at 30°C compared to 42°C. Screen multiple colonies to isolate the monomer Sometimes... 1984; Summers et al., 1993). In these cases, screening multiple bacterial colonies using one of the detection...DNA-forming sequences and WRN deficiency independently increase the frequency of base substitution in human cells... self-control and a sense of direction are the secrets of multicopy plasmid stability. Mol Microbiol. ... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further increase the complexity...system into a repressible system, Gossen and Bujard created the tetracycline-controlled transactivator (tTA...bacterial operons. A chimeric transactivator, cTA, was created by fusing CymR to the activation domain VP16. cTA...state, and co-expression of the inducer QF can increase QUAS driven expression by ~3,300-fold in Drosophila... -
Finding Your Perfect Job After University
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.... is a tumour suppressor. This summer role was incredibly valuable because it was a set duration of only...with the large scale data analysis, as this is increasingly reliant on programming skills which are not ...attempted was more meetings, but this simply seemed to create more bureaucracy. As with any large company (both...detection and diagnosis of different types of pancreatic cancer and highlighting which treatment would... mutations. This is a particular challenge in pancreatic cancer where one drug does not work for all patients... -
Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m....understanding of how protein folding works and creating biological tools not found in nature. Dr. Baker... Figure 1: Top7 receives the Nobel Prize. Created with BioRender.com. Top7 gets its name from...approximate, two-dimensional map. The Baker Lab wanted to create a new fold that is not present in nature (at least...simply to be stable and novel, the principles that created it have been applied to numerous other protein ... -
CRISPR Cheat Sheet
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m....example) that are used to increase or decrease expression of a gene. Screen: A library of gRNAs with a...cell population. The resulting mutant cells are screened for phenotypes of interest. Limitations of CRISPR... -
Congratulations, Deck The Lab winners!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 14, 2021, 1:30 p.m....annual Deck the Lab competition drew upon the creativity of the community, who delivered impressive science-themed... used an impressive variety of lab materials to create their decorations! Despite all the craziness of...first place in the home edition, the MicrobiGals created glow in the dark petri dish ornaments and microbe...December 23, 2020 In second place, Dr. Anne Madden created a microbe advent tree displaying over 25 archaea... -
Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m.... to screen for positive clones in most cases, and restriction enzyme digest can be used to screen plasmids...strand was degraded. Beta: Beta protects the ssDNA created by Exo and promotes its annealing to a complementary...recombination frequency between 0.1% to 1%, and can be increased to as high as 25-50% by designing oligos that ...recombination than dsDNA substrates, so you should screen more clones when using dsDNA. Have you used the...