...the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 is an enormously plastic tool and...that can reassemble when exposed to specific UV wavelengths or chemicals (Polstein and Gersbach, 2015; Zetsche...activator by simply providing a new gRNA rather than engineering an entirely new protein. This makes it much cheaper...the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.     Alejandro (Alex) Chavez is a member of the...Church GM (2015) Unraveling CRISPR-Cas9 genome engineering parameters via a library-on-library approach....Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex. Nature 517:583–588 . https...

...unfamiliar, scFvs are often the building blocks for engineering proteins. So let’s get acquainted with scFvs....plasmid in bacteria (Ahmed et al., 2012). One challenge of bacterial expression is the proper formation... antibodies to be used as building blocks for engineered proteins. This flexibility is largely due to ...When these molecules, called Bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTE®s), bind CD3 on T cells and a tumor-specific...minimal systemic side effects. scFvs are part of engineered chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). CARs are a...Bruccoleri RE, Haber E, Crea R (1988) Protein engineering of antibody binding sites: recovery of specific...

...mediated transduction and expression of the full-length transgene in vitro and in vivo (Allocca et al.,..., the fragments reassemble and produce the full-length gene. Below are overviews and drawbacks of four...and B of the transgene to reconstitute the full-length transgene (Chamberlain et al., 2016). It’s generally...halves of the transgene will reconstitute the full-length transgene.  Drawbacks:  Trans-splicing occurs...sequence, the 3’ half of the transgene. The full length gene is reconstituted by either the overlapping...10.1038/mt.2013.184 Lai Y, Yue Y, Liu M, Ghosh A, Engelhardt JF, Chamberlain JS, Duan D (2005) Efficient in...

...the best ways to make you and your presentations engaging and memorable. If you read my story above about... results, striking images, creative ideas, and engaging stories as you encounter or experience them. Drop...everything I allow 1 slide for every 1 minute of talk length, and then I cut a few more slides. Do not run over...to be conversational - the audience should feel engaged and not like they’re sitting through a pre-recorded...experience you can experiment with other ways to engage the audience. Take an informal poll by asking for...from the speaker, but actually makes for a more engaging session. The best speakers use no notes and can...

...all cases, the result can be quantified by the strength of the signal in comparison to a control sample...in the synthesis of DNA strands of all possible lengths because extension is terminated upon the incorporation...become obsolete. For instance, the popular genome-engineering tool, CRISPR, may one day make techniques used...new prenatal test for sickle-cell anemia." New England Journal of Medicine 307.1 (1982): 30-32. PubMed...Andrew Cho, and Ashok B. Kulkarni. "Overview: engineering transgenic constructs and mice." Current Protocols...254.5028 (1991): 59-67. PubMed PMID: 1925562. 10. Feng, Yanxiao, et al. "Nanopore-based fourth-generation...

...Precision genome editing faces the challenges above and more. One chief challenge is upregulating HDR in mature...complex oligonucleotide treatment comes with many challenges, researchers have begun to explore genome editing...necrosis compared to unedited animals. In grip strength, specific force, and other muscle tests, muscle... the time to clinical approval. Even with the challenges precision editing faces, it’s encouraging to ...Central PMCID: PMC3922311. 6. Tabebordbar M, Zhu K, Cheng JK, Chew WL, Widrick JJ, Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY...

...Chief Software Engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks. He also holds a SB and a Masters in Engineering from MIT, both...received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University and his Master of Arts ...Computer Science.   Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page! Edward B. Page is a Digital...Production Specialist at Addgene. He is the audio engineer and producer for the Addgene Podcast.      Additional...

...students develop their communication skills and engage with the public. The organization runs a wide variety...picked a theme (Bio-Medley) to showcase SITN’s strength in the biomedical sciences and decided to offer...offer a varied format event to keep the audience engaged. The day kicked off with introductory lectures ...presenters and board members enabled attendees to engage in small group discussions. The afternoon program...Addgene would love to hear about your efforts to engage the public - let us know in the comments section...

...straight-forward, concise explanation of how to adapt our engineered devices, recombinase-based state machines for...of inputs, may be used to better understand and engineer cellular processes that are influenced by temporally...primer binding sites (designed to have 20-30 nt length, ~60 oC annealing temperature, and ~50% GC content...over a time series of increasing input exposure lengths and found that two hour inductions were sufficient...al. "Serine recombinases as tools for genome engineering." Methods 53.4 (2011): 372-379. PubMed PMID: ...Check Out More Lu Lab Plasmids Find More Genome Engineering Tools  ...

...GeoCas9 started with an interesting question: why engineer a new Cas9 when you can just find one that naturally...naturally occurs? This is different than the engineered approach used to make eSpCas9 and SpCas9-HF1. By... PAM Sequence NGG CRAA (R = A or G) Spacer Length 20 nt 22 nt Temperature Range for Optimal Activity...prior research had shown that a cocaine esterase engineered to have increased thermostability also had a ...Read about CRISPR Methods for Bacterial Genome Engineering   Interested in using CRISPR/Cas9 RNPs? Check...

...bacterial infection, she shared that tweet with Jan Zheng, a UX designer that she knew. “We had actually met... met at a lindy hop swing dance event,” Zheng says (networking can happen anywhere!). The pair quickly...inception of Phage Directory ~1 year ago, Sacher and Zheng found that they could expand their role in the phage...because there is so much information out there,” Zheng says. In the past year, they found that phage information...potential for successful phage therapy, Sacher and Zheng also saw the need to archive phage reagents. If ...

... W., Li, Y., Feng, D., Ho, A., Nicholas, E., Hirokawa, K.E., Bohn, P., Joines, K.M., Peng, H., Hawrylycz...forming a neuronal loop which is activated and strengthened during memory formation and memory retrieval...modified and used as tools for tracing. With some engineering, RABV and HSV, but also others including pseudorabies...been found naturally or have been genetically engineered to have differences in their capsid proteins....S.K., Deverman, B.E., and Gradinaru, V. (2017). Engineered AAVs for efficient noninvasive gene delivery ...Koch, C., Bernard, A., Dang, C., Jones, A.R., and Zeng, H. (2014). A mesoscale connectome of the mouse ...

... effects on actin filament length (lower). d) Intensity and filament length traces for a different event...benzylguanine (BG) (Keppler et al., 2003). This engineered hAGT later became known as SNAP-tag. There is...cross-reactivity. Other strategies include using engineered ligases to attach a ligand to a peptide tag on... ligands are available from suppliers like New England Biolabs and Promega (though if you are comfortable..., M., Beaufils, F., & Johnsson, K. (2008). An Engineered Protein Tag for Multiprotein Labeling in Living...

... Greg Lohman, a biochemistry researcher at New England Biolabs. When do you need a high fidelity ligase—and...Optimization through high-throughput profiling New England Biolabs® (NEB) researchers recently published a...possible pairing resulted in a product of a different length, with products identifiable and quantifiable by...Greg Lohman is a biochemistry researcher at New England Biolabs, specializing in the enzymology of DNA ...G., et al. "Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and engineered expression of Thermus thermophilus DNA ligase...17428930. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1933048. 16. Cheng, Changming, et al. "Electrochemiluminescent assay...

...up with all these questions, Dr. Le Cong and Dr. Feng Zhang developed a Google Forum to allow scientists... the growing PubMed article list, the Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems has expanded out of ...wildtype or double nickase for my CRISPR genome engineering experiments? A1: When assessing which nickase...nickase type to use for your CRISPR genome engineering experiments, consider that wildtype Cas9 with optimized... Confirm your HR by doing Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) (see Figure 4 of the Cong, ...

...competitive skill sets in a myriad of professions is to engage in extracurricular activities (EA). EAs can: Introduce...Introduce new perspectives in science and engineering Looking at your research from a broader viewpoint...expands your professional network. No brainer! Engaging audiences from across the hall, fields, and other...traditional academic setting and to shape and strengthen interests and skills. Although the word “extracurricular...potential EAs and which professional skill sets are strengthened. This short list highlights the ubiquity of ...

... NIR light.  NIR wavelengths have better tissue penetration than shorter wavelengths, which makes it possible...will light up if excited with light of specific wavelength and also produce ROS - targeted cell ablation...iodine-modifications also shift MG-2I’s excitation wavelength to 666 nm, which is within the near-infrared ...non-specific ROS when exposed to YFP and RFP excitation wavelengths, which suggests that it could be used with these...

...by New England Biolabs, Inc. Many thanks to our guest blogger Lydia Morrison from New England Biolabs...contributed by guest blogger Lydia Morrison from New England Biolabs. What is DNA assembly? In the context of...the NEBuilder® HiFi DNA Assembly method from New England Biolabs® has minimal upfront requirements and allows...becomes hard to accurately execute. However, these challenges can be circumvented by generating individual ...

.... This is like taking an engine out of the car – you can still use the engine as a power source, but now...experiments for FD-CF reactions can be fun and engaging for students. In our BioBits kit for example, ... a 4th year PhD student at MIT in Biological Engineering and is interested in developing synthetic biology... biology Use the pathways over time plasmids to engage students in functional genomics research Learn ...

...components of EvolvR and its potential applications. Challenges of existing mutagenesis methods Several continuous...drawbacks with these approaches that makes it challenging for users to achieve targeted diversification...recombineering and Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering (MAGE) will always be limited by the size of ...investigate non-coding segments of the genome, or engineer microbes to perform tasks. EvolvR could also be...about other CRISPR methods for bacterial genome engineering   Learn more about lambda red recombineering ...