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TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m....number of postdocs various academic institutions can afford to hire. It will be difficult for some of ...establishing a thriving graduate student community can make the ups and downs of graduate school much easier...
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The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m....zebrafish embryos, and they can be used to modify genomic loci that cannot be modified using wild-type...Nov 12, 2015 and last updated Aug 20, 2020. Cas9 can be used to modify any desired genomic target provided...Cas9 variants. These variants, named SpG and SpRY, can target NGN PAMs and NRN and NYN PAMs, respectively...) is about 1 kilobase smaller than SpCas9, so it can be packaged into adeno-associated virus (AAV). At... D1135E variant is far more selective for the canonical S. pyogenes PAM sequence NGG compared to wild-... -
Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m....might affect your work, and how understanding it can be used for good. First, why are plasmids incompatible...replication. However, in iteron-containing plasmids, RepA can also bind to its own promoter and inhibit its own...., 2015). It is also worth noting that plasmids can be symmetrically incompatible, meaning that both ...the other, usually a smaller, higher copy plasmid can more effectively titrate replication or partitioning... of replication, the negative regulation system cannot distinguish between the different plasmids. The...to an identification issue: the CBPs in the cell can’t tell the difference between plasmids if they have... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m....this post we'll walk through a variety of ways you can use AAVs to improve your genome editing experiments...pAAV-SEPT-Acceptor and pAAV-TK-Acceptor) so that they can be easily adapted to edit your gene of choice. These...CRISPR components as ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) that can be supplied separately from the viral vector. This... a variety of cell types, now you know that AAVs can provide a powerful boost to genome editing experiments...AAV gene editing to introduce naturally occurring cancer-causing mutations into the endogenous allele of...Professor of Oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown School of Medicine. His research...consequences of cohesin gene inactivation in human cancer. References 1. Russell, David W., and Roll ... -
An Introduction to Adenovirus
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... kb in length. Human adenovirus type 5 (hAdV-C5) can be considered the prototype, although many viruses...available by this deletion from the genomic plasmid can be used to house a recombinant sequence (transgene...potentially because some of the wild-type viruses can persist as a latent infection in certain tissue reservoirs...using vectors, and immune inactivation of the vector can still occur even in the case of no previous immunity...basic research, like other viral vectors, though significant challenges remain (Wold & Toth, 2013). While...Adenovirus Vectors for Gene Therapy, Vaccination and Cancer Gene Therapy. Curr Gene Ther, 13(6), 421–433. https... -
New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m....gvpNJKFGWV marked with Emerald GFP. These plasmids can be used directly in transient transfection in rtTA...cell lines (such as HEK293-TETOn cells), or they can also be integrated into the genome by cotransfecting...of the cells to verify the mARG positivity, which can be observed under phase contrast microscopy and TEM...ultrasound imaging (Fig. 2d). Creating a cell line can be a time-intensive endeavor. That is why we also..., and nonlinear acoustic scattering. The best candidate for this was the Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicle... -
2022 and 2023: Reflections and Looking Forward
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 23, 2023, 2:15 p.m....research applications. Scientists around the world can upload AAV validation data, sharing what works and...community to maximize the positive impact that science can have on the world. ... -
Grad School Advice Part 1: Picking a Lab and a Project
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... graduate student life. Senior graduate students can sometimes be elusive or have a certain mystique that...our next episode, Niroshi and Ben discuss how you can leverage your graduate school community to help keep...beyond graduate school. Ben J. Vincent is a Ph.D candidate in the Program in Genetics and Genomics at Harvard... -
Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 30, 2015, 3:30 p.m....titer as compared to previous lentiviral vectors. It can be used both to knock-out single genes in clonal ...need help cloning a gRNA into lentiCRISPR v2, you can take a look at the protocol kindly provided by the...used for includes work probing mTOR signaling in cancer cells, deciphering the mechanism of matrix metalloproteinase... -
Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2015, 3:30 p.m.... toolbox. As we’ve covered in Plasmids 101, tags can help you determine localization of a protein of interest... tags? Short epitope tags like FLAG, HA, and Myc can adopt a number of different conformations and thus...antibody. From their initial pool of candidates, they selected 12 candidate protein domains from non-vertebrate...