...career goals, and celebrate accomplishments. These techniques are laid out in Vincent et al., and are easily...a recap of accomplishments, from learning new techniques to finally figuring out a tough experiment, sets... in every lab, but the principles behind this technique are beneficial for researchers at all stages. ...

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...environmental conditions, cells must be able to detect extracellular stimuli. One way they do so is through...pathways.  This dissociation can be measured using a technique known as Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer...effectiveness of using TRUPATH as a screening technique. Lastly, the activity of both antagonists and ...

...blog post, keeping up with the newest CRISPR technologies and their applications can be exhausting. A ...of the Cong, et. al, 2013 Science paper). If you detect positive HR, isolate single-cell colonies, grow...articles, such as: Sander JD & Joung JK, Nature Biotech, 2 March 2014. Or browse the articles related to...

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...lentiviral vector plasmid in Escherichia coli Stbl3. 3 Biotech 3:61–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-012-0070...vectors using reduced-genomeEscherichia coli. BioTechniques 43:466–470. https://doi.org/10.2144/000112585...4847–4851. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.77.8.4847 Trepotec Z, Geiger J, Plank C, Aneja MK, Rudolph C (2019...

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...how they function. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus The RNA-based toehold switches described.... These toehold switches can be used to quickly detect the presence of Zika virus. Read this post from...Combinatorial Genetic Screening CombiGEM is a technology that can be used to quickly barcode a set of ...

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...Escherichia coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae with few techniques that are easily transferrable across host species...for rational, straightforward design. Since the technique relies on base pairing, it has promise to be host-independent...engineering, this is such a powerful and flexible technique that it should be on the radar of every molecular...

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... for gene editing. They named this new array architecture the DAP array, short for “drive-and-process....payloads. Different from existing multiplex array architectures, including previous tRNA-gRNA arrays, that rely...Comparison of previous representative dual-gRNA architectures with DAP array   Qichen Yuan is a PhD...

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... sharing, there will always be an interest in protecting intellectual property. Figuring out that balance...year and we have a very dominant presence in the biotech sector in both patent law and general life science...Young, LLP, auditing insurance, finance and high-tech industries. He has earned both an MBA in finance...

... creativity in employing a variety of cloning techniques and troubleshooting methodologies drew me to ...antibodies are commonly used in research laboratories to detect the different subclasses, but there are also secondary...use of subclass specific secondary antibodies to detect multiple targets with different mAbs in the same...

...biology techniques. What’s all the fuss? Well, ChIP’s complexities come not from the techniques used, but...immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an extremely useful technique that provides insight into protein:DNA interactions...

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...Reversing the orientation of the direct repeat protects the (+) stranded lentivirus RNA from Cpf1-mediated... is one of the latest developments in CRISPR technologies.  It’s a simple and effective method with multiple...CRISPR–Cpf1 Asing a Single crRNA Array." Nature Biotechnology 35.1 (2016): 31-34. Pubmed PMID: 27918548. 2...

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