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  1. Are Hybrid Guide RNAs Right for Your CRISPR Application?

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    Jan. 27, 2026, 2:14 p.m.
    ...dramatically reduce CRISPR efficiency, and DNA substitutions don’t fare much better: they largely abolished...recognizes the 2’-OH of RNA in this region, and DNA substitutions dramatically reduced cleavage (Kim et al., 2020...scaffold sequences have different tolerances for substitution of DNA bases. Created with BioRender.com. ...matches, the complex is stable enough that the DNA substitution doesn’t disrupt it. Combined with the reduced...access these kinds of tools. Location of DNA substitution Similar on-target efficacy Reduced off-target...Different targets benefit most from different DNA substitutions, although there are commonalities that may suggest...
  2. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    Sept. 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...common solutions to avoid background staining when doing species on species IHC. (A) One solution is to...fluorophore) directly attached to it. (B) Another solution is to combine your primary and secondary antibodies...aren’t free to bind endogenous IgGs. (C) A third solution is to use Fab fragments against the sample species...still see non-specific staining! Hopefully, these solutions will help get your experiments back on track.  ... or immunocytochemistry (ICC). Not all of the solutions described here may be as effective for other techniques...
  3. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...The most commonly used yeast by biotech and pharmaceutical companies is K. phaffii (formerly known as ...the system. Since then, multiple biotech and pharmaceutical companies (along with some research laboratories...It’s also a methylotropic yeast, meaning it can utilize methanol as its sole source of carbon and energy...distantly related to S. pombe and S. cerevisiae; evolutionarily it evolved much slower and bears more similarity...the expression of recombinant proteins by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as a protein expression...greatest hurdle for genome engineering. A unique evolutionary feature of K. phaffii, relative to S. cerevisiae...
  4. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...display-based directed evolution to create APEX2. They have now applied the same directed evolution technique to...compartments is via proteomics--the study of the distribution and interactions of proteins within these structures...small-molecule substrate to map the spatiotemporal distribution and interaction networks of specific proteins...paper, they describe TurboID and miniTurbo, which utilize non-toxic biotin, but label nearly as quickly as...escape detection. The Alexander Green lab found a solution: a low-cost, cell-free detection assay that can...
  5. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    Jan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...chemiluminescence, precipitate the protein out of solution, or isolate cells expressing this protein. Read... The hybridomas are then subcloned by limiting dilution, which produces an immortalized, clonal population... curve. This curve is generated using a serial dilution of a known amount of protein that is also detected...the protein of interest and pull it out of the solution. Once the unbound protein is washed away, the ...2014.   In vivo uses For both research and therapeutic purposes, antibodies can be used to affect cellular...functional grade antibodies. Some of the research and therapeutic uses overlap: antibodies can bind to and inhibit...investigating signaling pathways or developing therapeutics. Experimentally, antibodies conjugated to fluorescent...
  6. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    April 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... super-resolution or single-molecule techniques.   Figure 2: Two-color super-resolution imaging...which reacts with O2-benzylcytosine(BC) ligands (Gautier et al., 2008). Although based on the same original...multiple proteins but label each separately before reconstituting, choosing your colors depending on the needs... want to use far-red rhodamine dyes for super-resolution imaging, HaloTag gives better performance than... (2019). Labeling Strategies Matter for Super-Resolution Microscopy: A Comparison between HaloTags and...), 547–556. https://doi.org/10.1021/cb900062k  Gautier, A., Juillerat, A., Heinis, C., Corrêa, I. R., ...
  7. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ... gene expression. On the other hand, using a constitutive promoter in the same background resulted in ...over-represented compared to those further away. While constitutive promoters drove maximal gene expression near...during shifts in growth rate as compared to a constitutive promoter. To simulate the increase in plasmid...When they increased concentrations of IPTG, a constitutive promoter upstream of GFP increased expression...stabilized promoter while gene expression from the constitutive promoter did not. Similar levels of expression... al. placed the genes under the control of a constitutive promoter and then moved them into the genome...
  8. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    Sept. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.
    ... that present as global developmental delays or autism spectrum disorder. It is estimated that CTD is ...could greatly enhance our ability towards CTD therapeutic development,” says Iyer. Since the RESOLUTE plasmid...understand so that we could possibly develop pharmaceutical interventions that would inhibit IL-36 release...says Mellett. This would help the lab identify therapeutic targets in the future. Congratulations Mark Mellett...of developmental delay, and is characterized by autism-like symptoms, seizures, and muscle weakness. So...To study cellular transduction events, we will utilize BRET-, FRET-, and intensity-based signaling biosensors...
  9. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...human conditions, opening up new avenues for therapeutics that treat disease at the molecular level. For...patients have achieved persistent immunological reconstitution with a normally functioning T cell repertoire...design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic gene, finding a means to deliver it and identifying...issue by developing new capsids through direct evolution, capsid shuffling, and peptide displays. These... and other ongoing clinical trials support the utility of AAV as a broadly applicable gene delivery tool...understanding of disease pathogenesis will enable robust therapeutic outcomes. In contrast to other gene delivery ...
  10. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ...can be removed either by filtration of the virus solution (through a 0.45 µm or 0.22 µm filter) or by a ...sterile PBS.  Alternatively, to concentrate a virus solution without ultracentrifugation, you can reduce the...the virus is released, a more concentrated virus solution can be obtained. 4. Enhancing virus-cell contact... in single-use aliquots. Never use a polybrene solution that has been thawed more than once. Fibronectin... packaging cells. This check can be performed routinely and without disrupting the flow of your experiment... of the viral vector using the harvested viral solution as a PCR template. Regardless of the type of virus...
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