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  1. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    Sept. 27, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...- e.g. codon choice may interrupt transcription factor binding sites) As you might imagine, it’s not ...not easy for humans to balance all of these factors on their own. Luckily, many researchers have created...Kimberly A., et al. "Selective charging of tRNA isoacceptors induced by amino‐acid starvation." EMBO reports...
  2. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    Sept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m.
    ... delivered as a pooled library via a lentiviral vector to cell lines that either stably expressed Cas9... screen did fail to identify some known ricin-regulators, but most of these genes are also essential for...hypersensitivity, or are in an enhancer, transcription factor binding site, or a coding region. Targeting these...
  3. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ... (LshCas13a) to begin to characterize this new effector (Abudayyeh et al., 2016). In the endogenous CRISPR...fluorophore. The fluorescent signal can be used as an indicator to determine whether the target sequence is present...single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector." Science 353(6299) (2016):aaf5573. PubMed PMID...
  4. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    Dec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Western blot. When choosing beads, there are several factors to consider. Agarose beads are sponge-like and ...more stringent buffers may be needed. Since many factors, including salt concentration, ionic strength and...prevent this, include protease and phosphatase inhibitors in the lysis buffer, keep samples on ice, and...
  5. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...time-consuming, and complex to use outside of standard laboratories. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, qPCR ...each enzyme. In addition, Csm6, a CRISPR type-III effector nuclease, can be used in conjunction with Cas13...single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector. Science 353:aaf5573 . https://doi.org/10.1126...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    April 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...on FRET techniques. By combining standard donor/acceptor FRET know-how with aptamers, aptabeacons (or aptatags...fluorophore protein. Years later, Samie Jaffrey’s laboratory took advantage of their deep knowledge of the...a higher melting temperature than its Spinach ancestors, and has a lower magnesium dependence. Though ...
  7. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...research scientists, faculty, students, private sector researchers, or pretty much anyone applying the...studies on reducing antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections. The video abstracts provide...is not hard either. Here are some resources: ImpactStory, a website that helps researchers go beyond citation...
  8. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ... al., 2009). By injecting mice with retroviral vectors that harbored different mutations found in leukemia...Gerald Rubin’s lab who created a set of modular vectors that can be used to optimally control gene expression...discovery of RNAi in the worm actually rewarded depositors Andrew Fire and Craig Mello a Nobel Prize in ...
  9. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR, RNAi methods are often quicker and the repositories of validated small RNAs are vast and difficult...processing Following delivery into cells using viral vectors or plasmids, shRNAs hijack the endogenous miRNA...cloning strategies for constructing shRNA expression vectors. BMC Biotechnology, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1186...
  10. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ...too many activities too close to one another. Monitoring task progress. For this, I always make sure I... lists. Because I know what my goals are (see monitoring task progress), and I know that I’ve blocked ... give it a final read Browse list of previous depositors from Boston University Contact Dr. Gilmore directly...
  11. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ...either by electroporation of plasmids, or using AAV vectors. The Imai lab also developed a version of Tetbow...Livet, Jean, et al. "Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous...Markus Grompe. "Clonal tracing of Sox9+ liver progenitors in mouse oval cell injury." Hepatology 60.1 (...
  12. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ... the microflora that reside there. Biotin is a cofactor that in its active form is covalently attached...consists of a biotin molecule attached to a photoreactive arylazide group. Under strong visible light,...single-step purification of tagged transcription factors in mammalian cells and transgenic mice.” PNAS 100.13...
  13. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    Aug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...introduce or remove restriction sites), in mapping of regulatory elements (to mutate promoters/enhancers in reporter... addition to the “A” site already in the parent vector). Also shown are the “B” restriction sites, which...Browse Our Molecular Biology Protocols Find Empty Vectors for Your Next Cloning Experiment ...
  14. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...of multiple circular DNA forms of colicinogenic factor E-1 from Proteus mirabilis. Biochemistry. 1968 ...Guttman A, Thompson L. Vaccine Plasmid Topology Monitoring by Capillary Gel Electrophoresis. Curr Mol Med... JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design: impact on efficacy, safety and upstream...
  15. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    March 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.
    ...Aydin S (2015) A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory experience with peptide...knockout line for validation, please view this tutorial from Stuart Orkin's and Daniel Bauer's labs.  ...
  16. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...modular toolkits build single plasmid targeting vectors that encode the gRNA transcript and the repair ...recognized by the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), and Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their seminal work on....114.170423 Schwartz ML, Jorgensen EM (2018) SapTrap vectors for introducing point mutations with unc-119+ selection...
  17. It’s CRISPR Week at Addgene!

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    May 13, 2019, 12:01 p.m.
    ...Now we have over 8,000 CRISPR plasmids in the repository that have been shared over 140,000 times to over... today, we’ll start with a CRISPR overview and history. Tuesday will focus on generating knockouts using...
  18. The Twelve Days of CRISPR

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    Dec. 22, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...first generation of base editors to the eighth generation (and dual base editors, too!).  On the seventh...
  19. SciComm with the Experts at Science in the News Part 1

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    March 16, 2017, 1:06 p.m.
    ...graduate student at Harvard University, former Co-director of Science in the News, and member of the SITN...her PhD from Harvard University, is a former Co-director of Science in the News, and is a member of the...
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