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  1. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...Therefore, FPs are used to study many biological questions. The two most common uses are: 1) to test the ...microscopes the filters are not narrow enough to distinguish between closely related colors. Furthermore, ...

  2. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...viral vector production facility, food allergy testing lab, and the grad student down the hall from you...curve? A poor standard curve leads to over or underestimation of an unknown sample’s concentration. To determine...

  3. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    Jan. 16, 2020, 2:18 p.m.
    ...PMCID: PMC5915492. Witte, Anna Kristina, et al. "A systematic investigation of parameters influencing droplet...

  4. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...VSV-G due to wide infectivity, is often used as a substitute for HIV-1 Env, which can only infect CD4+ cells... for cancer immunotherapy, but this research is still in the pre-clinical/early clinical stages. Researchers...

  6. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ...genetic disease more prevalent or life-threatening (cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy)? AAV...Additionally, AAVs do not integrate in the host genome but still lead to long-term (>10 years) transgene expression...

  7. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...secondary nanobody, it’s important to review a few characteristics of your primary antibody: species it was raised...subclass. Once you know the answer to these two questions, refer to this table to find the right nanobody...

  8. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ...labeling is to inject a mix of AAV vectors that constitutively express a red, green, or blue (RGB) fluorescent...studies), as well as translational applications (mechanistic studies and gene therapy treatments for neurological...

  9. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ... one at a time by standard restriction enzyme digestion followed by ligation. Upon ligation, the original...and XhoI MluI BioBricks SpeI and XbaI EcoRI and PstI Bglbricks BglII and BamHI EcoRI Additional...

  10. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ... tag antibody produced by our partners at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), part of a new collection... more highly autofluorescent tissues like the intestine. Figure 3: Expression of fluorophore-tagged...

  11. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...expressing it from a CAGGs promoter. However FLPe is still less efficient than Cre recombinase. FLPe codon ...Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT and is fascinated by the question of how genes and proteins coordinate billions ...

  12. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...far messier than biorender plots, quadrants can still help me as a reader if I'm struggling to see the...correlates with the occurrence of post-transplant opportunistic infection in liver and kidney recipients. World...

  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...biomolecules of interest e.g. DNA, RNA, and lipids. Still, these molecules can be indirectly visualized by...facilitates the choice of the proper site, although it still is worthwhile to generate several variants and check...

  15. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... expression is dependent upon the cell type in question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved by...depending on the delivery method and cell type in question. CRISPR components can be delivered and expressed...

  16. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
    ...Lambda Red recombineering, which uses enzymes domesticated from the Lambda bacteriophage, is arguably the...that have only gone through the single cross over still contain sacB and will not grow on sucrose. One ...

  17. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    Jan. 26, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... and Mary Gearing on Mar 12, 2015; updated by Christina Mork, Jul 27, 2020; updated by Susanna Stroik ...homology-independent pathway as it involves the direct ligation of sticky or blunt ends and often introduces small insertions...

  18. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...SV40, are always active and thus referred to as constitutive promoters. Others are only active under specific... GAL80 under different promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further...

  19. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...1896) where he explores the concepts of animal testing and modifications. The premise of the novel involves...mutations. In 2016, the researchers at the Broad Institute envisioned a new strategy to introduce point mutations...

  20. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...we call CRISPR, by any other name would…probably still edit genomes. Understanding the different types...they are grouped together because they contain a distinct Cas7-type gene. The exact mechanism of type IV...
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