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TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m....described in the preceding sections are simple ways of knocking out a non-essential gene of interest. However,...Although CRISPR is very good at making knockouts, knocking in large sections of DNA can be more difficult...
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Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... side, successful indel generation and epitope knockin was achieved by a few respondents suggesting that...inconvenient. Another possible reason for the trickiness of NgAgo is the inability of mature NgAgo protein... -
Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 25, 2016, 3:30 p.m....geared toward careers in academia or industry. Luckily, I discovered that there are many ways to get a...of others were key to creating my career path. Luckily, in grad school much of the up front work was done... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.... localization, cell structure, intracellular trafficking, and protein turnover rates. Additionally, by...fission/fusion, nuclear import, and neuronal trafficking. Although FPs have enabled discovery of many ... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m....reagent storage and inventory, managing orders, tracking students and research projects, electronic lab...lab bench with them and feel the satisfaction of checking off each step as you painstakingly complete your... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.... this limitation, with limited success so far. Luckily for patients, this gene can be targeted to RPE ...Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It by Ricki Lewis. ISBN-13: 978-1250015778 7. Yu W and Wu Z.... -
Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.... used for protein localization, isolation, and tracking experiments (Rizzo, 2009). With many different...Davidson, and David W. Piston. "Fluorescent protein tracking and detection: fluorescent protein structure and... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2020, 1 p.m.... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING (SHERLOCK and SHERLOCKv2) (Gootenberg et al., ... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING Cas13 (C2c2) was first identified in 2016 by the... -
Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m....replication by binding to the origin of replication and blocking replication machinery (del Solar, 1998). As the...occurs for several reasons, including one plasmid blocking replication of another and one plasmid outcompeting... -
The Challenges of Cell Culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... good recordkeeping, you need to have a way of tracking how many passages the cells have undergone and... cell line’s age and monitor any changes. Your tracking system could be as simple as a piece of paper ... -
Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m....different ways: methylating newly synthesized DNA, blocking binding sites, or trading out ADP for ATP to re-activate...mRNA and prevent this pseudoknot from folding, blocking replication. Created with BioRender.com. Plasmids... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.... GFP or any of the other fluorescent proteins. Luckily there are often solutions for many of the limitations...Chartrand. "Using fluorescent proteins to study mRNA trafficking in living cells." Methods in cell biology 85 ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m....time it will take you to complete the task When picking which tasks to actually do, you should err on the...experience, planning has 3 components: A mechanism for blocking off time for different tasks. I use google calendar... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m....we developed a great plan to start consistently knocking out high-quality videos for you all. The next ... me, and to move it out of the way when it was blocking some more important lab work from being done. ... -
Evolution of Lab Techniques
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m....nucleotides, called dideoxynucleotides (ddNTPs), lacking the 3’ hydroxyl group required for the extension...mouse lines, such as BAC transgenic or traditional knockins/knockouts, a thing of the past. In the sequencing... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.... this, similar systems have been developed for tracking various cell types and organisms and for improving...construct was then used to develop a system for tracking the fate of Langerhans cells. In the Ubow mouse... -
New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m...., 2023). Rab family proteins support vesicle trafficking and organelle dynamics, but with dozens of family...Optogenetic inhibition of Rab protein vesicle trafficking via CRY2-CIB1 clustering. Image adapted from ... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m....antibody is extremely rare. While many function-blocking integrin antibodies exist, almost all bind outside...to the Springer lab, a highly specific function-blocking antibody, αVβ3.13, may also block function of ... -
Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m....sites for conditional deletion of exon 6 of Syt1, mimicking a previously made mouse model. To avoid disrupting...Easi-CRISPR works best with insertions of 2 kb or less. Luckily, most of the commonly used cassettes, such as fluorescent... -
Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m....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...