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  1. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    June 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m.
    ...them to see how feasible they were, conducting literature reviews and having weekly journal clubs outside...this process, we had an idea that survived the literature review, survived technical feasibility analysis...evenings on the project, but still continued to generate new ideas as they popped into our heads. Anything...color change until a few months later. RevBio accelerates with help from SynBio Axlr8r We limped along ...business. We ended up applying to a business accelerator freely stating that we had an idea, knew how ...rough day, and we have great partners in this accelerator program who want us to succeed. We’re excited...
  2. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    June 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...DNA, the CTD is also sometimes called the PAM-interacting (PI) domain. The guide RNA is bound primarily...most likely through unstructured electrostatic interactions. It also can’t recognize PAMs, so it associates... less stringent recognition mechanism that can tolerate mismatches in this region. The crystal structure.... As mentioned above, however, Cas9 sometimes tolerates mismatches in the next 8-10 bases after perfect...this region of Cas9 also allows the protein to tolerate RNA:DNA mismatches between base pairs 18 and 20...Each new structural insight also spurs the next generation of engineered CRISPR enzymes with their own tradeoffs...Molecular graphics and analyses performed with UCSF ChimeraX, developed by the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization...
  3. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ... (cap) genes. AAV replication uses the host’s polymerase, but requires Rep proteins to process a double-stranded...consuming to prepare the 40% PEG solution. PEG takes several hours on a heated stir plate to dissolve and requires...carefully layered and then the viral suspension generated during AAV production is overlaid. Following ultracentrifugation... comparing to an AAV standard curve, which is generated from an ITR-containing plasmid. This whole process... always be included. While the physical titer generated by qPCR is useful, I test a few different concentrations...inverted terminal repeat sequences. Human gene therapy methods, 23 1, 18-28. PubMed PMID: 22428977. 2....
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...experiments require some consideration of FP properties. It is important to look out for general problems associated... judgement by simply “looking at them”. Modern cameras and image analysis software are highly sensitive...microscopy cannot be interpreted as direct molecular interaction without further investigation. One fluorescent...microscopy method commonly employed for analyzing interactions between two molecules more closely is Förster...PMC4777285. Further Reading Microscopy U. Generfal Considerations when Using Fluorescent Proteins. Ruusuvuori...
  5. Tips to Make the Most of a Scientific Conference

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    May 23, 2019, 12:26 p.m.
    ...the conference After using your elevator pitch several times at the conference, you might notice some ...larger side? At large conferences, chances are that several talks will be going on at once in different rooms...a conference, be sure to practice beforehand. Generally, two types of people will visit your poster: those...have “tweep ups” where you can meet those you’ve interacted with on science Twitter in real life. If there...the tweep up (and for the entire conference, in general). After the conference Review your favorite conference... considered networking, but here are some more general tips. Before the conference Networking is key even...
  6. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    April 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...that Mobile-CRISPRi is transferable into multiple bacterial species including several involved in human disease...and is stable and active for greater than 50 generations. Figure 1: Mobile-CRISPRi's modular components...highly conserved glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate aminotransferase (glmS) gene in the recipient bacteria due ...Mobile-CRISPRi to knockdown individual genes in several bacteria associated with human disease (S. aureus... library strains was measured after 6 and 12 generations with or without induction of CRISPRi knockdown...
  7. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... copy number variation (CNV) assays. There are several varieties of these, but in this blog post, we're...length of the amplicon. As the probes can have several different markers, it can also be used to run multiplex...Do you need to call exact copy numbers or just general trends? How confident do you need to be in your...Addgene blog   Droplet Digital PCR for AAV QuantificationPolymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications...Applications Resources on Addgene.org Protocol: Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Protocol: How to Design a primer...SYBR Green I and TaqMan quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction methods for the determination ...
  8. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    Aug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...incubation at 55 °C - a dangerous, non-physiological temperature for mammalian cells and one which diminishes ...could detect knock-in of tags at a target site. Overall, 64% of researchers were unhappy with the new method...the water. On the bright side, successful indel generation and epitope knockin was achieved by a few respondents...ssDNA leading to inefficient downstream editing. Overall, the real take-home message thus far, based on ...form a complex with a 5’-P-ssDNA guide at room temperature. Until that time, those who have been lucky with...Pooran Dewari is a postdoc at the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM), Edinburgh. His research interests...
  9. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    June 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
    ... Their focus at the lab is on plant-pathogen interactions, and her aim is to produce constructs and edit...biosensors designed to elucidate the molecular interactions that go on between plants and their pathogens... share and educate and enable plant science in general. We are funded by a charity and since we are making...elements anymore. The kit contains sequences for several different fluorescent proteins. Visualizing fluorescence...piece of DNA. We do a lot of protein-protein interaction work and we’ve gotten some tools back from Addgene...Twitter account recently inspired by an academic in literature who gave a talk to the women’s research network...
  10. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ... both vector amplification with low fidelity polymerases and the cost of synthesizing longer oligos, which...using the same three step protocol:  Fragment generation - Any linear DNA fragments can be assembled in... the template binding region, with a melting temperature (Tm) of around 60 °C for all primers. The length...simple cloning procedures. Use high fidelity DNA polymerase This will minimize random errors during PCR: ...aliquots of PCR master-mix, containing buffer, polymerase and dNTPs, can be stored frozen: just defrost...mutagenesis by placing homologous ends on DNA using polymerase chain reaction." Biotechniques 10.1 (1991): 62...
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