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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m....–871. https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.01-0995fje. Tan, E., Chin, C. S. H., Lim, Z. F. S., & Ng, S. K. (2021... methods add an additional viral passage. This involves taking your first round of virus, called P1 (or...
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Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....grid. References Bischof J, Duffraisse M, Furger E, Ajuria L, Giraud G, Vanderperre S, Paul R, Björklund... to be successful. A BiFC experiment generally involves three steps: fusion protein construction, cellular... -
Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m....PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5529245. Deverman, Benjamin E., et al. "Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants...Ken Y., et al. "Engineered AAVs for efficient noninvasive gene delivery to the central and peripheral nervous... -
New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m....PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6214761. Savell, Katherine E., et al. "A neuron-optimized CRISPR/dCas9 activation...singled out two Bdnf isoforms (I and IV) for investigation. Co-transduction of primary rat neurons with... -
Hot Plasmids - August 2020
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Nanobodies are easily expressed in the cytosol of E. coli, however the nanobody proteins tend to get stuck... at small and large scale. This new technique involves selection in the cytosol (instead of on the yeast... -
The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 29, 2019, 2:27 p.m....Nilaratanakul, Voraphoj, Debra A. Hauer, and Diane E. Griffin. "Development and characterization of sindbis...2013). Since then, Spinach2 has been used to investigate intracellular viral DNA dynamics in neuronal ...developed into a split aptamer that can be used to investigate RNA assembly. The split aptamer is composed of... blog Learn more about aptamer fluorophores Investigate other fluorescent biosensors Find other uses ... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m....219. PubMed PMID: 27280971. 10. Epstein, Benjamin E., and David V. Schaffer. "Combining engineered nucleases...delivered through transfection of naked DNA. Other investigators who had been working to develop high efficiency..., which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step in the homologous recombination pathway... -
Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m....Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T, Snyder M, Yamamoto...sample type. Sample Preparation This step can involve multiple smaller steps that all help to ensure ... Similar to Sample Preparation, this step can involve multiple smaller steps, but the aim is to preserve... -
Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2020, 2:15 p.m....Rinaldi F, Wein N, Meyer KC, Solano S, Nguyen K , Lang E, Kaspar AA, Foust KD, Thomsen G, Fugere M, Kaspar ...). Beam Therapeutics, co-founded by Harvard Investigators and Addgene depositors David Liu, PhD, Keith... -
Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Pubmed PMID: 28245276 Liu X, Wang D, Wang H, Feng E, Zhu L, Wang H (2012) Curing of Plasmid pXO1 from ... plasmids encode a negative regulation system involving antisense RNAs or iterons that inhibits replication... -
Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m....plate after each transformation and/or use different E. coli strains with higher transformation efficiency...of the developers of the MoClo system, are an invaluable resource for learning about MoClo in an in-depth... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.... conferences and had real-time correspondence via e-mail throughout the entire year. In addition to their...base of former mentees, we encourage them to get involved and give back by becoming mentors to new students... -
How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Younger ST, Zhivich V, Najgebauer H, Allen F, Gonçalves E, Shepherd R, Doench JG, Yusa K, Vazquez F, Parts L...to perform functional screens to identify genes involved in a phenotype of interest. This blog post will... is a very low-efficiency process, and usually involves the need for single cell cloning and subsequent... -
Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4744125. 3. Sanjana, Neville E., Ophir Shalem, and Feng Zhang. "Improved vectors ...targeting each of the 1000 genes you’d like to investigate in your next CRISPR screen. Luckily, the Green... unbiased discovery. With these screens, the investigator generates a cell population where all genes ...consequence, which genes are good candidates for being involved in the studied phenotype. For robustness of a ... generated knockout mice for (all of the genes involved as I recall). The lab then used these knockout...sequenced to identify which signaling molecules were involved in the phenotype. Surface proteins My group works... These types of interactions to a large extent involve receptors expressed on the cell surface. Thus, ... -
A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m....https://doi.org/10.1126/science.351.6276.994 Moore E (2021) One mentor isn’t enough. Here’s how I built...postdoc” is, and that “PI” stood for principal investigator. In basic science (as opposed to translational...in a lab. Position Common tasks Principle investigator (PI) Runs the lab Writes a lot of grants Varying...prep media, etc. "Research assistants" are more involved in the science, experimental design, and execution...genuinely excites them, and reach out to the PI to get involved. It not only demonstrates initiative and drive... -
FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4100247. Taylor, Norman E., et al. "Optogenetic activation of dopamine neurons...and optogenetics meet, allowing scientists to investigate the fundamental basis of both brain function ... flip-excision) switch (aka DIO (Double-floxed Inverse Orientation) or DO (Double-floxed Orientation))...recognition sites, its presence induces first opsin inversion, and then lox sites excision, therefore locking... -
Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m....-312. PubMed PMID: 27087594. 16. Tycko, Josh, Vic E. Myer, and Patrick D. Hsu. "Methods for Optimizing...Hendel et al. 2015). Low detection rates mean the investigator can be relatively certain that their samples...off-target mutations are essential data points for investigators looking to definitively link genotype and phenotype...genome-wide unbiased methods. However, most investigators use single cell clones for in vitro CRISPR experiments... -
CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m....:947–951 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2969 Waltz E (2016) Gene-edited CRISPR mushroom escapes US regulation...homology directed repair, these methods do not involve double strand break (DSB) formation and do not ... -
Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m....implement RSMs? In our study (1), we implement RSMs in E. coli with two plasmids (Figure 3 below): Input Plasmid...then the result of their recombination is the inversion of the DNA between them (Fig. 1A below). In the... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Bandrowski A, Carr S, Edwards A, Ellenberg J, Lundberg E, Rimm DL, Rodriguez H, Hiltke T, Snyder M, Yamamoto...- it is hard to distinguish between specific, invariable expression and non-specific, background signal...