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  1. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    March 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...time it takes to make a plasmid could increase dramatically if you are piecing together several PCR products...to make plasmids that already exist, and we significantly reduce costs of producing plasmids with high-throughput...The faster methods, like Gibson assembly, are typically more expensive, so you’ll have to find a balance...calculations for any of the numbers in this post is a mathematical story well beyond my ability to tell. But even...
  2. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    Feb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
    ...protein expression in mammalian cells: easy to use biological tools are abundant! In this post, we will review...that! CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) targets a catalytically dead Cas9 fused to a transcriptional repressor... protein, then these systems need to be site-specifically knocked in. This can be labor intensive and ...and target-specific protein degradation. Nature Chemical Biology. May 2018. 14(5): 431-441. PubMed PMID...
  3. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...donating and receiving labs)” — Jim Woodgett, biomedical researcher at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute...reagents and protocols so easy!” — Nina Jain, Harvard Medical School. We want to give a special thanks to the...decade. We did this the old-fashioned way: through physical outreach, visiting organizations, knocking on ...standardized agreements and electronic signatures to dramatically speed up MTA approvals. In 2013 we were thrilled...
  4. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    Aug. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...our second example we’ve added some simple but critical logic. Some steps fail “hard”, they reset the ...interchange them easily as needed. In this case, the physical considerations of the laboratory make object composition...science_name`. You'll need to decide given the technical details of the problem you're solving, but consistency...interesting biotechnology code.There are valid technical reasons to choose a non-Python stack, but if you're...
  5. Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?

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    Jan. 29, 2015, 1:25 p.m.
    ...choose well. What are their qualifications? Do they have certifications? How can they demonstrate their...help you. A good coach usually will be a clear communicator and make direct suggestions for improvement ...she is especially excellent in coaching for communication skills. Industry transition is also an area ...
  6. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    July 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...-humanized (Plasmid #44246) Expression of a catalytically inactive (dead), human codon-optimized Cas9 ...ecotropic or amphotropic MuLE lentivirus provides significant genetic power and allows high throughput genetic...be used to construct complex lentiviruses for modification of mammalian cells with a single viral infection...Gammaretroviral Vectors: Biology, Technology and Application. Viruses. 2011. PubMed PMID: 21994751. PubMed...
  7. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    May 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m.
    ...engineered microbes, used coffee grounds could be economically repurposed as starting material for the bioproduction... FLINC biosensors for live-cell imaging of biochemical activity Article contributed by Angela Holmes... live-cell imaging of the dynamic changes in biochemical activity within the cell. Their Fluorescence ...peak of 519 nm. These proteins have improved photophysical properties and can be used in quenching, FRET...
  8. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...can contain different neurotransmitters. Using genetically encoded fluorescent proteins coupled with Fibronectin... show a high proportion of blue fluorescence, indicating cell proliferation. BaF3 cells maintained in ...in high IL-3 showed mostly blue fluorescence, indicating a quick cell cycle. Cells that had IL-3 withdrawn...Hybrid for Multiplexed Editing and screening Applications (CHyMErA) Knockout Libraries express hybrid ...
  9. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...methods greatly improved CRISPRa, expanding its practicality and popularity in research (Tanenbaum et al....themselves. SunTag, SAM, and VPR have all shown significant improvements upon the initial dCas9-VP64 method...Performance Generally, VPR is found to have significantly higher activation levels than the initial dCas9... (2014) A Protein-Tagging System for Signal Amplification in Gene Expression and Fluorescence Imaging....
  10. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ..., 2018). For example, AcrIIA4 mentioned above indicates that it’s the fourth Acr protein discovered that...viral particles that have the gene deletion could replicate when challenged with the S. islandicus CRISPR-...Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development 9:390–401 . https://doi.org/10.1016...B, Bondy-Denomy J (2020) Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies....
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