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  1. Management for Scientists: Seeking Feedback

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    Jan. 8, 2015, 2:34 p.m.
    ...   Here are some other practices to encourage constructive input from your team: Solicit feedback regularly...speaker accurately. Thank employees who volunteer constructive feedback and suggestions. Consider offering ...
  2. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
    ...fused to the bacterial polymerase subunit ω. This construct is designed to activate transcription from the...xCas9 scaffold. With an NGG PAM, xCas9 3.7-VPR constructs modestly outperformed SpCas9-VPR in activating...PAMs. xCas9 3.7 Activity in Mammalian Cells Construct NGG PAM NGA PAM NGC PAM NGT PAM GAA ...
  3. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
    ...of viral constructs is a useful tool as it provides a means to quickly check that a construct is functional...making a stable cell line. When expressing a viral construct transiently care needs to be taken to ensure that...
  4. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    Blog Post
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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...N-glycosylase (UNG) from E. coli. The resulting construct, eUNG-BE4max(R33A)ΔUGI, was given the pithier ...on the same day.) This team created a similar construct that they called a Glycosylase Base Editor, or...PB) (Chen et al., 2021). Both of these fusion constructs improved editing in various cell types, although...efficiencies when fused to the N terminus of a GBE construct. This effect improved GBE editing but not CBE ...introduced the enzyme HMCES, either as a fusion construct or by co-transfection. HMCES forms a chemical ...editors by expression optimization and ancestral reconstruction. Nature Biotechnology, 36(9), 843–846. https...
  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    May 18, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...binding region RS20. When calcium is absent, the construct does not fluoresce; when present, calcium induces...check out our gene-specific biosensors. These constructs are often used to monitor enzymatic activity ...
  6. Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes

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    Blog Post
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    June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ...different bacteria, Bourdeau et al created two constructs optimized for expression in E. coli: acoustic...acoustic collapse to aid in the development of ARG constructs with new acoustic phenotypes. Want to start using...
  7. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 12, 2017, 3:13 p.m.
    ...Tet1. RNA Targeting: This page contains Cas13 constructs for mammalian and bacterial systems. Plasmids...certainly didn’t, but now we can with Cas13b/ADAR constructs from the REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable...
  8. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 22, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
    ...needs to identify cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking. Fortunately, there are many ways...sucrose medium will select for cells that contain constructs that have lost the sacB gene. SacB can be used...
  9. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    Blog Post
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    July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
    ... for the transgenic construct). More importantly, the expression of this construct is Cre-dependent, enabling...Figure 1: (A) Schematic of the Cre-dependent SPH construct for generating the SPH mouse. (B) AAV plasmids...
  10. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...percentage of transformants contain the ccdB-less construct. Other toxin-antitoxin systems and their applications...Plasmid addiction systems can be great additions to constructs that are used to drive high protein expression...also used the hok/sok toxin-antitoxin system to construct a stable synthetic gene circuit that can be used...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    July 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...receive an aliquot from the original library constructed by the depositing lab. (For our more popular ...library without an amplification protocol, or have constructed your own library, you’ll need to develop your...protocol paper by the Feng Zhang lab describing construction, lentiviral production, transduction, screening...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... prevent ITR loss, it’s best to propagate AAV constructs in recombination-deficient bacterial strains,...you’ve got the knowledge to be able to design a construct for the successful and specific expression of ...
  13. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... states in deep tissue, in vivo. Two of their constructs are currently available as Cre-dependent, EF1ɑ-driven... (AAV1) - and you can also find several other constructs in plasmid form. Fig. 1: Summary of the...
  14. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    .... Next, consider the expression level of your construct: would you like to stay as close as possible to...Finally, you can add bells and whistles to your construct. If you are planning to track your protein in ...
  15. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...experiments without having to clone a whole new construct for every application. Plus, the photophysical...fold more). So, labeling a HaloTag or SNAP-tag construct can help you better detect dim structures or low...easy! Instead of taking the time to clone a new construct for every new-and-improved fluorescent protein... so many possibilities from just one or a few constructs, it’s no wonder that self-labeling protein tags...
  16. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...Zhang lab created an all-in-one SaCas9 and sgRNA construct using the liver-specific serotype AAV8. Since ...control AAV-GFP. Not only did the AAV-SaCas9-sgRNA constructs mediate genome modification, but they did so ... the catalytic domain of RNA deaminase ADAR2. Constructs containing the ADAR2 truncation ADAR2DD(delta984...
  17. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    Blog Post
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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...traditionally used Sanger sequencing to validate these constructs, as the relatively low cost and quick turn-around...suited to large-scale de novo assemblies of short constructs like plasmids. The plexWell™ workflow also offers...fragments within a library allows researchers to reconstruct the full individual sequence. Traditional NGS...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    Blog Post
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    April 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the design and construction steps are complete, it’s time to make virus! The constructed viral vector containing...
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