...the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science’s (SACNAS) annual conference... written up in mSphere. A post-meeting survey indicated that the program was largely a success, but also... even more valuable program to Microbe 2020 in Chicago.  Finding our place in networking and mentoring... career scientists, students, and those from historically underrepresented groups. Through such mentoring...

...Why pseudotype? Lentiviruses and retroviruses typically target immune cells with their wild-type envelopes...out this review article published in Reviews in Medical Virology (Li et a., 2018).   Figure 2:...The glycoprotein will be incorporated into the replicating rabies virus envelope, travel retrogradely, and... Pseudotypes: Precious Tools to Improve Gene Modification of Hematopoietic Cells for Research and Gene...Restriction of Transsynaptic Tracing from Single, Genetically Targeted Neurons. Neuron 53:639–647 . https:/...

...post was originally written by Joel McDade and significantly updated in 2022 by Susanna Stroik.  The advent... than ever to make precise, targeted genome modifications. Cas9 has been modified to enable researchers...uses a “nicking” Cas9, in which one of Cas9’s two critical enzymatic residues has been converted to an alanine...instead.  Choosing a Cas9 for site-specific modifications Site-specific deletions and knockouts Some experiments...Perhaps you need to introduce a single nucleotide modification at a defined amino acid to mimic a patient mutation...

...even when larger vector genomes are packaged, the physical size of the genomes is still ~4.7kb. But despite...overlapping strategy has a region of homology, typically ~400-1400 bp long between part A and B of the ...overlapping split vector had an improvement in muscle physiological performance.  2. Trans-splicing Overview: For...and may need to be optimized for each unique application (Trapani et al., 2015).  Expression of smaller..., was 81% of that from a single vector, but significantly greater than the expression from an overlapping...

...many cell types and often results in biallelic modifications. Most commonly, DSBs are repaired by the nonhomologous...combining these two strategies allows you to specifically incorporate homo- or heterozygous mutations....in the field at the time but had never been systematically analyzed: introducing silent CRISPR/Cas9 blocking...efficiently incorporated during HDR. We decided to systematically characterize this phenomenon and found a general...University. He currently works to understand pathological mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease by developing...

...favorite twitter #agarart accounts, Petri dish Picasso (@PetriPicasso) came together and delivered very impressive...are some of our 2017 contest winners:   Chicagoland's Community Biology Lab (@ChiTownBio) and one ...Mackin Lab from University of Colorado -Anschutz Medical Campus (@CSD_CUAMC) caught a case of holiday cheer...

...simple in C. elegans and bacteria. But CRISPRing typical mouse models, including creating Cre-dependent ...on both sides and the T7 promoter on one end. Typically, Easi-CRISPR works best with insertions of 2 kb...models varies from 8.5-100% of pups born, with typical efficiencies of 30-60%. Quadros et al. attribute...2.5x more animals than i-GONAD and is a more technically difficult process. Overall, the main drawback... out our CRISPR Guide Find Plasmids for Cas9 Purification Find CRISPR Plasmids for Mammalian Expression...

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...Investigator III at Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland. After completing...completing her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering with Harry Gray at Caltech, Crystal moved on to a ...Chapter 7: How Crystal developed her science communication skills and how they've helped her at Novartis...scientific teams at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research to develop novel biologics for the treatment...

...Addgene podcast, we sit down with Alex Chavez, a Clinical Fellow in Pathology at Masachusetts General Hospital...Church and Collins labs at the Wyss institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Alex is the first MD PhD...and explains why he loved the first 2 years of medical school. 7:05 - 10:55 : Alex's focus during graduate...postdoc 12:01 - 13:21 : The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and why Alex decided to...