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  1. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    July 25, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...violet light can penetrate. How can I try using photoswitchable kinases in my experiments? You can find the...of interest, but there can be a lot of static since other signaling networks can also be non-specifically...intermediate messengers. Optical control of kinase activity can provide greater spatiotemporal resolution than pharmacological...ERK KTR isn’t phosphorylated and red fluorescence can be found in the nucleus. For testing kinase inhibitors... of signaling vs the delayed effects because you can precisely control the timing of kinase activity. ...
  2. Management for Scientists: Managing vs. Leading

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    March 31, 2015, 4:08 p.m.
    ... Yet little explanation is given for how someone can or should demonstrate this quality.   I am often ...high quality. Their work involves coordination and can require technical mastery. Scientists need to be ...hire and fire to make sure the team is the best it can be. Managers must ensure that their teams are working...operating in a different role?  I think the secret sauce can be summed up in one word – initiative.  Initiative... listed a few of my favorites. Additionally, you can find more suggested resources on this topic and get...Reads: On Leadership (Articles on Leadership, also can be purchased individually) ...
  3. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...overhangs, stat? GetSet can do that for you, complete with predicted fidelity. You can specify number of overhangs...highest-fidelity overhang set it can find for those parameters. For even more specificity, you can exclude specific sequences...overhangs with a high potential for mismatches, so you can redesign individual pieces as needed to improve fidelity...rather than pre-designed sets, so identical searches can return multiple answers. You might want to take advantage...fusion sites to split it into multiple fragments. You can define the number of fragments, and the “search windows...constricted to a specific number of fragments, you can also ask it to give the maximum or minimum number...52 fragments may be near the upper limit of what can be accomplished with Golden Gate Assembly—even when...
  4. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...The analysis can be sorted by any of the parameters displayed in the summary table. You can also use your...analysis formats: sample by sample analysis, which can compare up to five editing experiments at a time,...simultaneously.  The current version of ICE software can analyze indels that result from single or multiplex...red exclamation point in front of that sample. You can hover over the yellow or red circles to gather details...  The higher the R2 value, the more confident you can be in the ICE score. KO Score - Represents the proportion...to search for a particular sequence or name. You can perform more in-depth analyses on each sample by ...about the indel profile of the edited sample. You can also download the entire analysis as a ZIP file by...
  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    Nov. 14, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ... that you can do now is diversify. Read on for an overview of some of the resources you can use to better...Conferences One of the single most important things you can do to plan for your career is to expose yourself ...homework and know who is going to be there, so that you can tailor your CV accordingly. Make it stand out with...you’ve identified an appropriate job opening, you can send your contact an email with the relevant info... position he or she originally called about, you can keep in touch and reach back out when you are looking...should have a well-groomed LinkedIn page. Here you can search for jobs, post your CV, and, most importantly...who they know all in one place! This information can be critical to a focused and effective job search...
  6. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...two direct repeats which can be used for marker removal so that the marker can be reused to introduce multiple...present in bacteria. They consist of a toxin which can affect a variety of cellular processes and an antitoxin...by methanol. Once linearized, the delivery vector can be integrated into the genome to introduce the genetic... in the chromosome. The more stable endonuclease can then cut the chromosome leading to cell death. Antisense...resulting in cell survival. Plasmid addiction systems can be great additions to constructs that are used to...Kaper used the hok/sok system to create strains that can stably express antigens in sufficient quantities ...to construct a stable synthetic gene circuit that can be used over prolonged periods. Using a plasmid carrying...
  7. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...experiments? While codon preferences can be very useful for organisms, they can be problematic for researchers...organisms - organisms have codon usage bias. You can find many codon tables showing which codons encode...constraints that lead to these preferences and what can we do about them? Read on to find out!   Why do organisms...conditions. With varied codon usage, an organism can change which proteins are highly expressed and which...instance, it may not express at all in E. coli (you can find a variety of databases showing various organisms...sounds. Even for relatively short peptides, there can be many possible ways to encode them and what constitutes...advantage of producing additional tRNAs is that you can use the same expression system for many different...
  8. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    Sept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...region or nucleus. Just optimizing AAV expression can take months (or longer), yet the process is often...detailed in the primary literature, and as a result can leave scientists under-informed with respect to how...cell types used for packaging viral particles (6), can influence vector performance. Open science initiatives...especially for AAV data, that may not be the case. We can all acknowledge that negative data is something every...getting this information out into the public where it can be utilized by others. Addgene’s AAV Data Hub is ...evaluate how small changes in vector administration can influence AAV expression properties.  By providing...generally captured in the literature, scientists can use the Data Hub to compare different methods and...
  9. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    Jan. 23, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...although sequences with G/C content outside this range can still be optimized (Anzalone et al., 2019). Test ... pegRNAs whose 3′ extension begins with a C base can cause unwanted base pairing (left), while pegRNAs... What to edit The sequence you choose to install can influence the success of your prime edit. If possible...synthesized strand before heteroduplex resolution, which can lead to indels (Anzalone et al., 2019). Figure...left), but “bubbles” of 3 or more mismatched bases can often evade MMR (right). Created with BioRender.com...PE3/PE5 approach. Figure 7: Nicking sgRNAs can be designed to target edited DNA, so that nicking...scaffold sequence (orange) and the genomic target can increase the odds of incorrect editing outcomes, ...
  10. CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics

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    Aug. 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...visualization for big biology. GPS for the genome We can think of the human genome as a map with three coordinates...addresses in the genome. Let’s now examine how we can locate powerful stretches of DNA known as enhancers...Through the marvel of DNA compaction, an enhancer can increase the expression of a gene that is millions...are bound to modified proteins called histones. We can detect modified histones with “GPS for proteins,”...tri-methylated histones, functions as an enhancer. We can therefore denote enhancers as follows: (mono_methylation... and conclude with a targeted CRISPR screen that can disrupt these enhancers. A real-world experiment ...H3K4me3 The following video demonstrates how anyone can find enhancers with Quilt. Seek and destroy enhancers...
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