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  1. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Andrew and Maria were skeptical. The team was careful to test the possibility that this might just be...proteins that had shown magnetic responses: EGFP, mScarlet, and AsLOV2. After several rounds of semi-random...semi-random mutagenesis and screening, the EGFP and mScarlet variants were showing no obvious signs of improved...
  2. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...advantage over Taqman is price point, which should be carefully balanced against the limitations of the assay....left, of droplet immersion technique, courtesy of CAR15.) Each droplet contains a primer and probe set for...Cloning Techniques References Bell AD, Usher CL, McCarroll SA. Analyzing Copy Number Variation with Droplet...
  3. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    May 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...figure at right for an example). Look out for carbohydrates Certain strains, including HB101 and derivatives...derivatives, release large amounts of carbohydrates that can inhibit the cell lysis process. To ensure that..., buffering agents, and/or supplying additional carbon sources such as glycerol or glucose (in moderation...
  4. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic acids Nucleic acids...Microinjection Cells Many types Single cells Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic acids or protein... nondividing Dividing Dividing or nondividing Cargo Nucleic acids Nucleic acids Nucleic acids Throughput...
  5. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...spread even when costly. If even a single organism carrying a synthetic gene drive were to escape the laboratory...trust in scientists to develop new technologies with care and humility. Nothing would damage that trust more...aaa5945 (2015). doi:10.1126/science.aaa5945. PubMed. DiCarlo, J. E., Chavez, A., Dietz, S. L., Esvelt, K. M....
  6. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    Feb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...groups of trainees at an earlier point in their careers? A CURE for Biochemistry Undergraduate biochemistry... then proceed to use those skills to design and carry out their own novel experiments in semester two ...as they increase student interest in scientific career paths while also broadening access to experiences...
  7. Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy

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    Aug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...high-throughput application is much more straightforward to carry out because it relies on a single BiFC pair. Find...Experiment Much like FRET, BiFC experiments must be carefully optimized to be successful. A BiFC experiment ...construction Fusing FP fragments to your PIPs requires careful selection of FP fragments and, preferably, some...
  8. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...micro, and cell biology are often more suited for cartoons or graphics for visuals. However, it’s much more...need text to properly contextualize. Graphics/cartoons (no words) Low Visually compelling and flexible...requires both artistic and scientific training. Cartoons may be read as “for children” or may need text...
  9. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ... settles in and people get the time recurrently carved out. This notice typically should include the paper...suited for different applications and should be carefully chosen for each group and topic. For example, ...purpose, journal clubs should be well planned and carefully organized. Most importantly, they should be regularly...
  10. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    May 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...bacterial CRISPR targeting. Phage-derived vectors carry CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) targeting either genomic (blue... integrating into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance...hardest-to-kill bacteria. In using phage-derived vectors to carry CRISPR, we’re turning the tables on the bacteria...
  11. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...generating interesting drug-like compounds especially cardenolides which have been used to treat heart disease....disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that tastes yucky (and is poisonous) for bird ...system (Receptor-Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo)  delivers Cas9 RNP to the arthropod germline by...
  12. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    May 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...vector can protect both plasmid-carrying bacteria and eukaryotes. But be careful — antibiotic mechanisms vary...and jump between all kingdoms of life. A bit of careful design will help make your experiment with shuttle...
  13. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Cultures should only be passaged 20-30 times before discarding and thawing a fresh vial. In many labs, the history...Routinely test your cell line for mycoplasma and discard it if the culture has become overly confluent or...ensure high quality and reproducible results always care for your cell lines and virus properly and be consistent...
  14. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    Sept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...’s which allow researchers to deliver oversized cargo (Hirsch et al., 2010). Today’s blog post will give... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2017.06.064  Carvalho LS, Turunen HT, Wassmer SJ, Luna-Velez MV, Xiao...transduction following recombination between AAV vectors carrying parts of a larger gene. Nat Biotechnol 20:697–...
  15. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... a western blot — and why you might want to be careful relying on so called “housekeeping proteins.” Fully...approach is so common that we’ve used it for our cartoon gels so far. However, it throws both assumptions...Convenient! Comparison of loading control approaches Cartoons are nice and all, but we’ll leave you with this...
  16. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...in vitro translation system. The gene set was carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking...conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all constructs. The Cell-Free Protein Expression... 48 plasmid adapter library, with each plasmid carrying a unique barcoded Illumina-M13F bridging primer...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter

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    June 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Puschnik, A. S., Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette, J. E., & Vandenberghe, L. H. (2018). An Alternate... B., Fong, D. M., Mouravlev, A., Young, D., & O’Carroll, S. J. (2019). Astrocyte-selective AAV gene therapy....2014.00076 Nieuwenhuis, B., Haenzi, B., Hilton, S., Carnicer-Lombarte, A., Hobo, B., Verhaagen, J., & Fawcett...
  18. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...al., 2009), and at high copy numbers (Williams, Carnes, and Hodgson, 2009). More research is ongoing to...0092-8674(84)90060-6. PMID: 6323019. Williams JA, Carnes AE, Hodgson CP. Plasmid DNA vaccine vector design... JA, Luke J, Langtry S, Anderson S, Hodgson CP, Carnes AE. Generic plasmid DNA production platform incorporating...
  19. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    Nov. 11, 2025, 2:14 p.m.
    ...fluorescent proteins, PinkyCaMP is the first based on mScarlet. Compared to RCaMP3 and jRGECO1a, PinkyCaMP had...Fink, R., Imai, S., et al. (2024). PinkyCaMP a mScarlet-based calcium sensor with exceptional brightness... Figure 6: CRISPRkit uses a cell-free system to carry out transcription and translation of chromoprotein...
  20. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...double-stranded RNA. They hypothesized that if ADAR1 were carried by extracellular vesicles (EVs), edited transcripts... as a sensitive reporter for tracking proteomic cargo flow via EVs. Find ADAR-HiBiT Fusion Vector at Addgene...the heterogeneity and spread of hepatocellular carcinoma in human tissue and in vitro. Oncology Reports...
  21. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...health sector, phages represent a reservoir of carbohydrate binding proteins waiting to be explored and ...spot this protein directly onto nitrocellulose and carry out the steps from blocking the membrane to probing...bacteriophage-encoded glycan binding proteins and carbohydrates." Current opinion in structural biology 34 (...
  22. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...lesser than the mean of a control group. If you only care if one group is different in a certain direction...rate by only performing the comparisons you really care about. Family-wise error is the probability of a...Groups with Ordinal Dependent Variables: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Front. Appl. Math. Stat. Volume...
  23. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...latter would likely be more effective, so long as care is taken in the interpretation of results by requiring...use of CRISPR technology will always depend on careful experimental design, execution, and analysis. ... P-Y, Daley G, Church G (2013) Optimization of scarless human stem cell genome editing. Nucleic Acids ...
  24. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    Nov. 2, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...population (Burger, C. 2004, Aschauer, DF. 2013, O’Carroll, SJ. 2021). This is due to differences in the ...Pillay S, Puschnik AS, Nagamine CM, Cheng F, Qiu J, Carette JE, Vandenberghe LH (2018) An Alternate Route for... 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsyn.2020.00006 O’Carroll SJ, Cook WH, Young D (2021) AAV Targeting of Glial...
  25. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must be taken to assess if proper staining is achieved... such as conjugation with proteins, should be carefully managed. Proper dye-to-protein ratios, or the ... and quenching, which can be mitigated through careful selection and optimization. Fluorescent experiment...
  26. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... interpreting your data therefore necessitates careful design of RNAi sequences, confirmation of RNA knockdown...doi.org/10.7554/eLife.48363 Uhlen, M., Bandrowski, A., Carr, S., Edwards, A., Ellenberg, J., Lundberg, E., Rimm...., Weston, C. A., Castells, E., Bowman, V. W., McCarthy, J., Amrani, Y., Duffy, S. M., Bradding, P., &...
  27. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...Vectors Available at Addgene: Lab Plasmids Dan Carlson RCIscript-GoldyTALEN, pC-GoldyTALEN Tom Ellis...target cells. The piggybac system has a much larger cargo capacity than lentivirus and is capable of efficiently...there are some drawbacks with this technique. Great care needs to be taken with common S288c strains since...apicomplexan genes remain uncharacterized. Recent studies carried out by Sebastian Lourido and colleagues constitute...
  28. Hot Plasmids Podcast Episode 2: New RFPs, AAVs, & More

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    Sept. 8, 2017, 7:52 p.m.
    ...Listen to Our Segment on mCyRFP1 Hot Plasmid 4: mScarlet - a new, bright, and monmeric red fluorescent ...fluorescent protein.  Listen to Our Segment on mScarlet Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page...
  29. Lucky Thirteen: Guest Contributors of 2023

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    Dec. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Codon Guide to Synthetic BiologyAuthor: Niko McCartyAntibodies 101: Conventional vs. Flow Spectrometry Author...Faculty Position Author: Erik Lee SnappSharing is Caring, But How to Distribute Open Hardware? Author: Benedict...
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