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  1. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    June 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
    ...behaviors. Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The opsin ChETA...body. Administering the drug once can result in several hours of neuronal excitation or inhibition. This...sustained activation period is beneficial for use in therapeutic or behavioral applications where drawn out effects... by Designer Drugs): Chemogenetic Tools with Therapeutic Utility. Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology...
  2. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    June 4, 2020, 1:22 p.m.
    ...of time, especially at room temperature or at 4°C. Storing DNA: temperature and longevity You should consider...molecular biology like restriction enzymes and polymerases. In the situation where you need to use plasmid...Plasmid DNA can be stable at 4°C or even room temperature for a short period, and there are indications...
  3. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    July 16, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
    ...escape reflex. These traits, coupled with short generation times and high fecundity, make zebrafish ideal...lights (Baier et al., 2009).  Zebrafish behaviors Several behavioral assays can be done on zebrafish at 5...neurons that trigger the CPG (central pattern generator) (Wyart et al., 2009). The CPG is a neural circuit...circuit involved in locomotion that generates periodic motor commands for rhythmic movements like spontaneous...
  4. Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ

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    Sept. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...receptor ACVR1. ACVR1 triggers appropriate bone regeneration in healthy patients. However, the R206H mutation...including Activin A. A commercially developed therapeutic antibody that binds Activin A and interferes ...interferes with inappropriate activin-ACVR1 interactions prevents FOP bone growth in mouse models. As this biologic...experience is in both vaccine subunit design and therapeutic biologic design (ADCs) along with pre-clinical...
  5. Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs

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    Nov. 17, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...the the University of Cambridge and within the general public. The society organises talks by prominent...graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and the general public. Chemical Society in University College ...studying to earn a PhD. The society encourages interactions between undergraduates and PhD students so that...develop a range of talks for both students and the general public, career events, and networking meetups. ...
  6. Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?

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    Dec. 9, 2014, 2:22 p.m.
    ...included in organizational decision-making. It is imperative that employees are thanked for their work by ...but it is worth it. This requires a focus on deliverables. It does not mean a manager must allow his team...enough of a jerk to make the rest of the team miserable.   A good manager keeps these factors in mind...decisions, but that should not be the common mode of operating.  Managing scientists I should add a few special...
  7. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m.
    ... concept that these clustered repeat sequences operated as a safeguard against bacteriophages did not ... bacterial genome. Cas genes, which code for polymerases, nucleases, and helicases, were also disrupted...proteins then express and process the CRISPR loci to generate RNA, which guide a Cas nuclease to the specified...learned to circumvent the CRISPR/Cas defense by generating a single point mutation in the PAM sequence, ...
  8. Why Add Sucrose? Improved Yields for Adeno-associated Virus Preparation

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    Dec. 13, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
    ...study which can be accessed here at bioRxiv. AAV2 interacts with the packaging cell's cell membrane When packaging...blocked following sucrose treatment. Moreover, several reports have shown that cells treated with sucrose...    Despite observing a positive effect on our overall yield, we were unable to demonstrate that these...-associated virus manufacturing." Human gene therapy21.10 (2010): 1251-1257. PMID: 20649475. PubMed Central...
  9. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    March 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m.
    ...publications—the pressure to produce is the same You get to interact with scientists just like you What is different...structures are common Small integrated teams, little hierarchy Real diversity and acceptance can be an issue...requirements for hiring more common Likelier to hire on general talent and not specific skills <- Can move between...where you want to go will help you focus on the transferable skills that you will need to get there. Additional...
  10. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...developed in David Liu’s lab in 2019, has added considerably more precision and flexibility to the CRISPR... repair favoring the edited strand. The first iteration of prime editor simply fused the wild-type Moloney...pairs for prime editing. Since PAM sites occur on average every ~8 base pairs on either DNA strand, many ...by double strand breaks has been widely used to generate precise changes. However, the efficiency of Cas9...system PE2, which had prime editing efficiencies on average 2.3- to 5.1-fold (though up to 45-fold) higher ...
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