...and you think there are four important times to measure that growth rate, you report the results of all...between hypothesis testing and generation, can be sure that results will be reported regardless of outcome...the journal and reviewers are incentivized to make sure that any possible null is really a true null and...

...additional flexibility in pseudotyping.   Figure 1: Genome of a prototypical gamma-retrovirus.  ...nucleus through the nuclear pore complex. This feature may be useful for the transduction of terminally...-retroviral plasmids have similar names? The nomenclature of the plasmid backbone is meant to be descriptive...

...consolidate several steps into one. Soon you’ll figure out what prompts you need to consistently and accurately... accurately run a protocol.   Figure 1: Evolution of a Western blot protocol, from a full page ...experimental steps are worth doing, and doing well, so make sure you’re taking time to do them carefully and thoroughly...

...virulence. Scientists have studied how HGT occurs in nature and have learned how to introduce genetic materials...Transformation, transduction, and conjugation occur in nature as forms of HGT, but transfection is unique to ...material from the environment by bacterial cells. In nature, this genetic material often comes from adjacent...

...genes for “gas vesicles,” a gas-filled protein structure that water-bound photosynthetic organisms use ... check out this blog post. Bourdeau RW, et al., Nature. 2018. PubMed PMID: 29300010. miRNA reporter vectors... date, containing all 620 sequences of probable mature human miRNAs. Weiss’s collection consists of a...

...screening blog post for more information.   Figure 1: Result of a blue-white screen. Image from Stefan...more about colony PCR in this blog post.   Figure 2: The steps of colony PCR.   Sanger sequencing...in this case a plasmid. Sequencing is one of the surest ways to know that your insert is what you expect...

...won’t work if the fragment ends have secondary structure or too much sequence similarity. REPLACR-mutagenesis...expressing recombineering proteins Red/ET from a temperature-sensitive plasmid. Homologous recombination then...also well suited for insertions and deletions. The figure above shows guidelines for primer design; a desired...

...at all 1,500 or 1,600 transcription factors and figure out where they bind to the genome. We’ve been doing...other scientists quickly? Myers: We were hoping to figure out how to do this for many hundreds of transcription...as well. We would also like to put some social pressure on many other labs that may be doing something...

... known as the resting potential (Vmem), can be measured as the imbalance of electrical charge between ...of the pHLuorin fluorescent protein. This GEVI features increased brightness and improved plasma membrane...Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center. The future of this field has a high potential for the advancement...

...Find the CASANOVA plasmids here! Bubeck F et al., Nature Methods 2018. PubMed PMID: 30377362. Studying ...the cell membrane where cell voltage can then be measured. Archon1 is  bright, exhibits good localization...processes in vivo. Many photoactive proteins exist in nature, but developing them into optogenetic tools can...

...These workshops illustrate the open and modular nature of the workshop content: different parts could ...for securing funding to support this effort. The future of reproducibility workshops and lessons learned.... Be on the lookout for upcoming workshops at future conferences this year. Workshops are confirmed ...

...molecules of the RNA backbone to increase stability.  Nature has evolved ways to prevent degradation of important...and rendered useless after less than a minute of exposure to the appropriate light. The photoactivatable...to engage a target sequence. Upon a brief light exposure (several seconds) the gRNA is released and the...

... receive recognition for their efforts, inspire future research, and increase their impact. Open Access...review is the only way to rigorously determine or ensure a manuscript’s quality. But even journal-based ...  Stern BM, O’Shea EK (2019) A proposal for the future of scientific publishing in the life sciences. ...

..., with the expectation for major advances in agriculture, materials, chemicals, and medicine. As they’...and where all of it is likely to lead us in the future. Building circuits from CRISPRs Addgene: What...interactions. That’s relevant if you want to make sure you don’t target anywhere else, but for synthetic...

...Golden (Gate) pot (Pryor et al., 2022).     Figure 1: Workflow for high complexity Golden Gate Assemblies...cycling conditions (see Table 1).   Enzyme Temperature Incubation time/cycling Overhang length ...also optimized the thermocycler protocols and made sure that T4 ligase was the correct choice for the job...

...IgG2a antibody. When using a monoclonal antibody be sure to use a highly specific secondary antibody, rather... IgG2a>IgG2b>IgG1 (Manning 2012).      Figure 1: Broadly reactive versus subclass-specific antibodies...antibodies rather than generally reactive ones. And make sure to check for any reported cross-reactivity when ...

... have reached labs in over 75 countries. Figure 1: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and other components. Image... the spike protein was developed based on 100 structure-guided spike designs and has improved protein ...Maynard JA, Finkelstein IJ, McLellan JS (2020) Structure-based design of prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-...

...increased pressure of the added liquid. The volume should be minimal in order to minimize the pressure into...mouse breeding colony) Environment Olfaction, temperature, humidity, noise level, circadian effects (inactive...

... Level 1 TUs into multigene constructs. Figure 2: The three assembly levels of MoClo. Image courtesy...modification of these chemical products. The flexible nature of MoClo allows users to test a variety of different....pone.0016765.  Hahn, F., Korolev, A., Sanjurjo Loures, L. et al. A modular cloning toolkit for genome...

...including propensity for off-targets, secondary structures, etc., as well as the presence of a Protospacer...one of several Cas9s that recognize NG PAMs. The Nureki lab generated SpCas9-NG, a rationally engineered...lab sought to address the PAM problem through structure-guided engineering of the PAM-interacting domain...