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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m....experiment. What is immunofluorescence? Generally speaking, IF is an application in which antibodies that... different approaches to be familiar with when talking about IF, direct and indirect. For direct IF, researchers...different colors. Multiplex immunofluorescence Speaking of different colors, having a palette of secondary...permeabilization, antigen retrieval, and sectioning. Blocking Block is used to reduce non-specific binding...
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Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 10, 2018, 1:08 p.m....situation differently, some adopting simple note-taking tools, others using excel sheets or organizing ... on the market today, ranging from general note taking tools, to more scientific field-based solutions...of use of the software. We identified that when talking about ELN costs and limited budgets, “a large percentage...ELN will support that. In addition, if you are working for a large institution or company, site licenses... -
Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m....fit a big gene into a tiny vector like AAV? By breaking the transgene into smaller pieces. Reassembly ...following transduction. So what’s going on here? The working model is that the oversized AAV genomes are fragmented...Surveillance Mechanism That Eliminates Transcripts Lacking Termination Codons. Science 295:2258–2261 . https... Hirsch ML, Li C, Bellon I, Yin C, Chavala S, Pryadkina M, Richard I, Samulski RJ (2013) Oversized AAV... -
Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Iannaccone et al., 2009). Rats are larger than mice making them more useful for certain studies that involve...genetics and developmental patterns are conserved, making them great models for human disease research. One...eggs are large, opaque, and produced in abundance, making them useful for in vivo studies. These attributes...flowers. Image from BlueRidgeKitties. If you are working with Arabidopsis check out the GreenGate Toolkit... -
Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m....Brainbow labeling has also been applied to cell marking and lineage tracing in other systems, such as zebrafish...directly trafficked to cell membranes. Membrane trafficking of farnesylated derivatives enables labeling ...fluorescence due to the addition of translation-blocking STOP cassette immediately following the promoter...dev.094631. PubMed. Multiplex cell and lineage tracking with combinatorial labels. Loulier K, Barry R,... -
Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....this post, we didn’t come across a broadly used working definition of systemic capsids. After some consideration...Beadle, K., Jang, M.J., Kim, H.M., Rajendran, P.S., Tompkins, J.D., Shivkumar, K., Deverman, B.E., Gradinaru...Chen, X., Wolfe, D. A., Bindu, D. S., Zhang, M., Taskin, N., Goertsen, D., Shay, T. F., Sullivan, E. E.... I. G., Pacouret, S., Chen, A. T., Chan, Y. A., Ryvkin, D., Gu, C., & Deverman, B. E. (2022). A high-efficiency...C., Lagerborg, K. A., Tellez, L., Krunnfusz, A., King, E. M., Ye, S., Solomon, I. H., Tabebordbar, M.,... Tabebordbar, M., Lagerborg, K. A., Stanton, A., King, E. M., Ye, S., Tellez, L., Krunnfusz, A., Tavakoli... -
CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m....scenarios below for a CRISPR experiment which involves making specific knock-out edits in a gene(s) of interest...off-target frequency of 5%. Your experiment involves making a large sgRNA library to thousands of genes and...certain Cas enzymes are less compatible with the bulkiness that accompanies mispairing of bases. To reduce...enzyme swaps will only reduce off targets where nicking/cleaving of DNA occurs, not for deadCas activator... -
Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... channel with fast kinetics may be required, whereas a channel with slower kinetics can be used for lower...each light source used. Channel and activation kinetics Some channels turn on and off very rapidly in ...thorough characterization data, like spectral and kinetic activation information, in the supplemental data... -
Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m....counting the number of puncta in each cell. When making figures for a paper or presentation, make sure ...binding non-specifically – try optimizing your blocking and washing conditions or consider using a different...concentrations of all the different antibodies, blocking, washing, and sample preparation steps, in order...Immunofluorescence Staining. In W. H. Yong (Ed.), Biobanking (Vol. 1897, pp. 299–311). Springer New York. ... -
Antibodies 101: Antibody Engineering and Directed Evolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2025, 1:15 p.m....stability. Optimizing antibodies for better pharmacokinetics and reduced immunogenicity allows for more...the specific mutations you choose, whether it's tweaking the antibody-antigen interface or fine-tuning ... mutants for the specific functionality you’re looking for. For example, if you were aiming to increase...-antibody interactions in a plate-based format, making it suitable for comparing relative affinities across...