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  1. Streaking for Single Colonies: The Streak Plate Challenge

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    March 2, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Time for the #BioSci3319 #StreakPlateChallenge part 1. Lab B needs a redo :-( @SandTBioSci #CompetitiveStreaking...and spread over the second quadrant. The process continues until all quadrants are used, hopefully revealing...students transform them into different strains of E. coli,” says Westenberg. During the transformation experiment...plate, first the bacteria are inoculated over a quadrant of an agar plate. Then, a stick is dragged through...revealing single, isolated colonies in the last quadrant after incubation. The challenge is usually successful...genetic backgrounds of the host strains affect transformation efficiency.  Aside from the Streak Plate Challenge...
  2. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... to the development of resistance include (Figure 1): Over-prescription of antibiotics (for example, ... communication, and public health.     References 1. O'Neill, J. "Tackling drug-resistant infections globally...methods of ‘horizontal gene transfer’. Resistance can also arise from random mutations in the genetic sequence...didn’t develop, either through random mutation or horizontal gene transfer, means to defend themselves from...bacterium sharing genes with another, an accidental transmission of genes from one bacterium to another through...
  3. Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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    Oct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...existing protein structures, called Top7. Figure 1: Top7 receives the Nobel Prize. Created with BioRender.com...References Kuhlman, B., Dantas, G., Ireton, G. C., Varani, G., Stoddard, B. L., & Baker, D. (2003). Design...
  4. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...other. Figure 1: Base transition editors catalyze purine-to-purine or pyrimidine-to-pyrimidine base...changes require Base Transversion Editors, which we've discussed in two follow-up posts: (1) (2). Base editors...SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as 1-2 nucleotides. To reduce off-target effects associated...engineering and protein delivery. Nature Communications, 8(1), 15790. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15790 Richter...the opposite strand). ABEs make an A to G change (or a T to C change on the opposite strand). Both are ...place on the free strand of DNA and converts a C to U without producing a double strand break. UGI = uracil...Repair CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors Learn about base...
  5. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...true reproducibility. The following are critical: (1) connectivity to other data sources used in research...engagement with the Wisconsin research community were to: (1) prevent vendor lock in by making it easy to get data...that emerged from intensive engagement with a wide range of people at the University of Wisconsin in 2011...reproducibility an ELN should have integrations with a broad range of relevant generic and science-specific tools. ... however, in some cases it would be possible to grant those wanting to understand and/or attempt to reproduce...Massachusetts, and feels privileged to be part of the vibrant life sciences research and commercialization community...
  6. New Viral Vectors - Spring 2025

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    April 29, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
    ... new preps might enhance your research!   Table 1: New ready-to-use viral vectors in the Addgene repository...diverse needs of our community and support a wide range of experimental designs. Here are nine great additions...Request service, which offers over 3,000 eligible transfer plasmids and five different serotypes. Not sure...
  7. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...more applications.   Fig. 1 Making a Protein Tag (Abridged) (1) Locate a promising monoclonal antibody...an amide group added to its C-terminus post-translationally, which turned out to be critical for antibody...
  8. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...does not greatly alter the size of the tag.   Table 1: Common protein tags Tag Epitope Mass (kDa) Function... conditions FLAG DYKDDDD or DYKDDDDK or DYKDDDK 1 Affinity and Purification Good for antibody-based ...usually smallish peptides incorporated into a translated protein. As depicted in the accompanying cartoon...peptide-based proteosome inhibitors, glutathione S-transferase (GST), which can be fused to recombinant proteins...
  9. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...fragments of these transcripts. I remember when small RNA was just something we ran off the bottom of ...viruses - 2 cas systems regulate at the DNA level and 1 at the RNA level. Udi Qimron from Tel Aviv University...’t give tRNAs much thought. High throughput transcriptome sequencing methods including work done by the...hypothesized that life started with RNA and a simple cell membrane. His recent work shows that they are making fairly...knew…I had barely heard of these). These single stranded, covalently closed RNAs seem to be conserved in...
  10. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...dark affinity range (130nM to 4.7µM for iLID nano and 800nM to 47µM for iLID micro; Figure 1). With this... August 20th; 14(1). TRICK: A method for visualizing the first round of translation in living cells ...light-sensitive LOV2 domain of Avena Sativa phototropin 1 (AsLOV2). In the dark, this peptide is caged by the...Figure 2). They are all available now at Addgene. 1 Lungu et al., Chem Biol. 2012 Apr 20;19(4):507-17....Guntas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015 Jan 6; 112(1):112-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas. CRISPR-Cas9 optogenetic...for a variety of experimental purposes including (1) single or multiple, constitutive or inducible, gene...the years. The authors optimized these systems by: 1) decreasing the number of plasmids required for each...
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