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TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m....exploration site Inventing Heron has a radio reporter challenge, and code.org has coding tutorials for all ages...environment. Be kind to yourself. This is a challenging period for everyone for numerous reasons, and...
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Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2019, 1:58 p.m....these indicators difficult to work with. The Gottschalk lab has surveyed a range of microbial rhodopsin...previously reported for other organisms, and the Gottschalk group hypothesizes that this may be due to different... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 24, 2014, 3:59 p.m....cloned from include click beetles (Pyrophorus plagiophthalmus), railroad worm (Phrixothrix hirtus), and a... ATP No Jamaican click beetle(Pyrophorus plagiophthalamus) 544-593 64 Luciferin ATP No Railroad worms... -
From Lab Bench to Leadership: Transitioning into Management as a PhD
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m....management, the journey can be as exciting as it is challenging. How do you prepare for this shift and navigate...experiences, and practical advice for overcoming challenges. Experimenting with leadership opportunities... -
Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m....interested in studying genes whose knockout would be lethal to cells and thus not assayable with CRISPR. Another...could culture cells in the drug of interest at a lethal dose for non-manipulated cells and then assay cells... -
Antibodies 101: ChIP
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m....such as sequencing or qPCR. Yay! Where’s the challenge in that? So while this method is certainly long...the sample type and size.) It can be quite the challenge, and take a few rounds of adjustments, to get ... -
A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m....engineering designs and ideas ranged from a biological breathalyzer to pesticide breakdown, production of fire-resistant...of students and teachers. It’s possible to join a half-day workshop for teachers, to schedule a three-day... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m....makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses challenging. This cytotoxicity also causes growth rate variability...):337-47. PubMed PMID: 12595892. 4. Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Zhang F. Improved vectors and genome-wide libraries... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.... (such as Nicotiana benthamiana or Arabidopsis thaliana (Xing et al., 2016)). During Agrobacterium-mediated...structural knowledge of the proteins. To overcome this challenge, the Uppalapati and Woolley lab developed a phage... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m....the power 2-fold does not reduce photobleaching by half. How exactly the photobleaching rate depends on ...described by the t½, which is the time after which half of the initial fluorescence intensity remains. The... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m....2015; Koike-Yusa et al., 2014; Ma et al., 2015; Shalem et al., 2014; Wang et al., 2014), knock down (Gilbert... 26190106. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4559080. 8. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 26, 2018, 1:33 p.m....have shown that the conditions Sotos-type 2 and Marshall Smith Syndrome are due to mutations in the NFIX...diagnosis of NFIX-related syndromes (Sotos-type 2 and Marshall-Smith) and could be expanded to NFIA-, NFIB- and... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2019, 12:55 p.m....that can impact reproduction include embryonic lethality, a short lifespan, or infertility and can arise... number or expression level effects. Another challenge that may arise when crossing mice with multiple... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.... tool by splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein ...With the split system, only cells that have both halves of cGAL can drive expression of your gene of interest... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2020
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m....synaptic connections and physiology is particularly challenging as they are great in number, generally very small...H2B-FT-red is long lasting and was shown to have a half life of 84 hours in primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts... -
How to Prepare for an Industry Interview
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m....research project. In total, the interviews lasted from half to all of the day. This whole process may seem ...carefully. And even if you don’t have technical challenges, your interviewers might. You’ll probably still... -
A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....T-to-G•C base changes (Figure 1), but it can be challenging to make these base changes, especially in primary...𝛽-globin), which cause sickle cell disease and 𝛽-thalassemia, can be mitigated with the expression of fetal... -
Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel recently took a different approach to ...to test for cell type-specific expression of GFP. Half (113) expressed in retinal cells four weeks post-injection... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m....particularly hard. There are millions of them. The real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment...topic or that were published by the lab down the hall. Scientific journals: They publish papers, so naturally... -
Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m...., Gautier A. Nat Commun. 2019 Arnaud Gautier HaloTag TagBiFC allows exogenous labeling for single-molecule...and reversible complementation. TagBiFC (split HaloTag) provides maximum flexibility in color labeling...