...This post was contributed by Adam Chin-Fatt, a Ph.D. student at the University of Western Ontario. Adam...the overexpression of various metabolites in Escherichia coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae with few techniques...programs. Thank you to our guest blogger! Adam Chin-Fatt is a Ph.D. student at the University of Western...recombinant pharmaceuticals. Follow him on Twitter @AdamChinFatt     References Qi, L. S. et al. Repurposing...

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... as many viral particles must infect a cell to achieve visible expression of the protein. However, expression...expression of receptors may not need to be as high to achieve an observable signal in your experiment, therefore...looking for effective gene expression. How do you achieve high titers in the first place? Some AAVs are known...solution. Add a bit less buffer than you would to achieve the exact desired concentration to avoid over-diluting...

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...oligos can be cloned to create a chimeric guide RNA. Find pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-...years on their own or through Addgene!) pX330-U6-Chimeric_BB-CBh-hSpCas9 - The S. pyogenes Cas9 (SpCas9) has... This plasmid expresses the S. pyogenes CRISPR chimeric RNA element with customizable sgRNA from the U6...

...thanks to our guest bloggers Joachim Goedhard and Marieke Mastop! Joachim Goedhart is an assistant professor...This post was contributed by guest bloggers Joachim Goedhart and Marieke Mastop from the Section of Molecular...fluorescent probes. You can follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   Marieke Mastop is a PhD candidate at the...

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... Arnold’s lab and Viviana Gradinaru’s lab used machine learning to design new channelrhodopsins that are...channelrhodopsin that’s successful in vivo. Using machine-learning to overcome channelrhodopsin design challenges...challenges, the Arnold and Gradinaru Labs developed a machine-learning model to help them construct “designer...Robinson JE, Mackey ED, Gradinaru V, Arnold FH (2019) Machine learning-guided channelrhodopsin engineering enables...

...CRISPR-Cas9-assisted genome editing in Escherichia coli. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica. https://doi....a technique that utilizes phage recombination machinery to promote homologous recombination of linear ...resistance E. coli carrying the phage recombineering machinery are first electroporated with pCas9. Then, pCRISPR.../10.1038/nbt.3043 Bikard D, Jiang W, Samai P, Hochschild A, Zhang F, Marraffini LA (2013) Programmable...

...which uses a much shorter crRNA. Cas12-RNP-PAGE achieved high editing frequency (nearly 100% in some cases...method is fast! These editing frequencies can be achieved with a 30-minute incubation, even with multiplexed...best-performing variant, CAP-Mac, was effective at breaching the blood-brain barrier and delivering a transgene...as well? Our collection includes a mouse and a chimeric rabbit (original mouse Fab region with rabbit ...

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... more than 10 modules often rely on two-step hierarchical approaches using different Type IIS restriction...Our work demonstrates that it is now possible to achieve 20+ fragment assemblies with both robust efficiency...Additional confirmation of accurate assemblies was achieved by the sequencing of plasmids isolated from blue...fragment lacI/lacZ cassette assembly was easily achievable with high levels of transformants and low backgrounds...

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... tag, and the endogenous cellular degradation machinery to function. The dTAG is the smallest tag reviewed... and widespread usage, a proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) was developed for HaloTag. PROTACs are...functions – there are antibodies to it and ways to achieve fluorescence with it. AID The auxin-inducible degron...441. doi: 10.1038/s41589-018-0021-8 Holland AJ, Fachinetti D, Han JS, Cleveland DW. Inducible, reversible...

...level in vitro. In vivo monitoring has also been achieved with these sensors, but further optimization is...cell level as they are in vitro. Factors like photobleaching, lack of red-shifted indicators, and brightness...electrochromic FRET capable GEVIs, with rhodopsin quenching the added fluor for this two-part fluorescent ...voltage-dependent changes in rhodopsin modulate the degree of quenching of the fluor via FRET. This system is particularly...

...enabling microscopes to visualize the cellular architecture of whole tissues in 3D with unprecedented detail... through the specimen, which often leads to photobleaching.  Furthermore, point-by-point scanning along...focus light. Therefore, there is much less photo-bleaching or photo-damage than in conventional laser scanning...1007-1009. Pubmed. H.-U. Dodt, U. Leischner, A. Schierloh, N. Jährling, C.P. Mauch,  K. Deininger, et al...

... E., Nguyen, J., … Chiu, C. Y. (2023). Adeno-associated virus type 2 in US children with acute severe ...three (Servellita et al., 2023). Normally when children have acute viral hepatitis it is caused by the...noting that it is possible to design a vector that achieves persistent transgene expression in certain cell...