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  1. Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence

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    Aug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...options for what reagents to use - organic solvents and detergents.  Organic Solvents  As mentioned above...antibodies. Detergents  Another common family of permeabilization reagents are detergents, such as Triton...these detergents avoid some of the negative effects caused by organic solvents. However, detergents can ...with this type of fixation*. Organic Solvents Organic solvents, generally acetone, methanol, or ethanol...benefits of both reagents - cross-linkers better preserve sample morphology, while organic solvents can reveal...your samples, the relationships between cellular components, and the accessibility of your target epitope...fixatives - chemical cross-linkers and organic solvents.  Chemical Cross-Linkers Chemical cross-linkers...
  2. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    May 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...individual variants found in tumors are exceedingly rare. As a result, how most of these “variants of unknown...scale laboratory-based functional experiments that classify which variants are likely gain-of-function, loss-of-function...Also, in principle, these experiments could find correlations between variants in a gene of poorly classified...revealed many tricks up their sleeves and most patients still don’t benefit from this approach. One central...cancer clinical sequencing report includes rare variants that haven’t been characterized? Some have developed...approach this challenge, using attributes of cancer variants such as evolutionary conservation, or predicted...hope researchers can use to characterize these variants in a high-throughput manner and therefore push...
  3. Hassle-free 96-well Format Epitope Tagging Using Cas9 Ribonucleoprotein

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    June 28, 2018, 3:01 p.m.
    ...ICC) assays.  Figure 1: Three ingredients of epitope-tagging experiments. Cas9 protein, annealed cr:tracrRNA...procurement of cr:tracrRNA reagents, we scaled up these tagging experiments by assembling csRNPs in a ...set up csRNP knock-in experiments If your lab is new to CRISPR/Cas9 experiments, there is no need to worry...CRISPR reagents (turnaround time 5-7 days); because the tracrRNA is the same in all csRNP experiments, it...proteins. Similarly, in ChIP-seq assays, chromatin fragments that are bound by a protein of interest are pulled-down...adoption of CRISPR/Cas9 technology and rapid improvements in the field, it has recently become possible...CRISPR depends on successful delivery of three reagents to cells: a guide RNA, Cas9 protein, and a donor...
  4. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...receptors) or with experiments on permeabilized cells. Biarsenical labeling reagents If you want to label...control experiments are needed to establish the dynamic range of your assay. These experiments include...pressing issues in your laboratory, then FRET experiments are a viable biophysical path to answers. What...lipid bilayers, organelles or other cellular impediments. FRET has been used in many applications, including...fluorophore delivered to the right place? FRET experiments require targeting the donor and acceptor fluorophores...experimental design is that the targeting specificity requirements are different for the donor and acceptor fluorophores... on the same street as the donor), then FRET measurements are possible. In fact, even if the majority ...
  5. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...creation process. Each module of Fragmid represents a class of components, such as your CRISPR enzyme or Pol...module, are the components. Using the handy website, users can simply select the components they want for...module fragments on the Fragmid website.   Step two will ask you to fill in module fragments from ...able to select components that work with your design. Note that you can browse all components by clicking...Fragmid doesn’t have the components I want? You can make your own Fragmid components! Ensure your backbone...’ terminus, and selection markers. Need fewer components? A spacer can be inserted instead, allowing everything...everything to stay in the correct order. Most Fragmid components are available for request on the Addgene website...
  6. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    June 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
    ...quantitative data for regulatory elements, which has not been available for plants. Addgene: Will the MoClo tools...Remember plants. Every time you look at your plate, think about how much that’s on it are plants, and the...produce constructs and edit genomes so as to make plants, and agricultural crops in particular, resistant...elucidate the molecular interactions that go on between plants and their pathogens. As Patron explains it, her...been focused on gene transfer, from transgenes to plants, chloroplast to the nucleus, or pathogens to their...have tested them to show that they work well in plants and give similar stability to transcripts as the...construct, you don’t have to worry about repeating elements anymore. The kit contains sequences for several...
  7. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...science teachers reached out to their students’ STEM-oriented parents looking for experts to come give guest...can recruit parents from any background, it really helps if activities are run by parents who can answer...groups of about 50 students each, and each group went on its own wonderful tangents. Some groups asked... the annual Math & Science Night, a chance for parents and other members of the community to share their...general meeting and a means to request funding for events, consider reaching out to it. PTAs have more flexibility...event-planning base and will know how to reserve space, time events, and network for volunteers. Speaking of volunteers...you live in a school district that has a lot of parents in STEM careers, chances are they’re wondering ...
  8. What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry

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    July 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...break down how different contaminants impact these ratios.  Protein contaminants Whether you are purifying...protein present.  Purification reagent contaminants The reagents used during nucleic acid purification ...salts, and detergents (Figure 1C-D; Koetsier and Cantor, 2019). Guanidine salts and detergents have absorbance... read accuracy    In many cases, small amounts of contaminants in your sample will have minimal impact...NanoDrop. The principles will apply to similar instruments from other companies, like the Implen NP80 or...Characteristic absorption spectra for pure DNA and likely contaminants found in DNA samples. The blue lines in B-D ...pure DNA spectra for comparison. Each of these contaminants will have a slightly different impact on the...
  9. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    Feb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...scientific community represents the culmination of many such experiences. For example, students in Provost’s ...sciences by making a greater number of students active participants in the research process – so if this...provide the same kinds of opportunities for his students. But he also found that his teaching responsibilities...decided to adopt a more focused format, where all students work on malate dehydrogenase (MDH), a citric acid...ultimately settled on a two-semester model, in which students learn to express, purify, and analyze MDH in semester...skills to design and carry out their own novel experiments in semester two (Knutson et al., 2010a,b).    ...research activities in a CURE must be authentic – students should be attempting to generate new knowledge...
  10. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...recombinases, regulatory elements, developmental regulators, and lots of viral components. This kit is also ...bacteria, protists, plants, and animals (Chiasson et al., 2019). Many plasmid elements such as promoters...systems, mammalian cells, yeast, flies, and even plants! In this blog we will review common uses of MoClo...chemical synthesis of these molecules. To make large amounts of pure product in an affordable way, researchers...Pérez-González et al., 2017). In addition to additional elements for S. cerevisiae chromosomal integration and ...great starter for your general plant cloning experiments. Addgene also has two additional MoClo plant ... a variety of Cas enzymes with different PAM requirements and editing abilities, such as base editing,...
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