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TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m....antibodies. Assay development, however, can be challenging since scientists must first identify two independent...Longer protocolIncreased chance of cross-reactivityChallenging to develop assay Competitive Appropriate...
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Hot Plasmids Spring 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m....earlier Voltron indicators (a fusion of Ace2N and HaloTag, Figure 4), they determined that an A122D mutation...changing the dye that becomes conjugated with its HaloTag domain. Find Voltron2 plasmids here! Abdelfattah... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m....from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand if you’ve never done any flow. ...., Sait, K., Anfinan, N., Al-Wasiyah, mohammad khalid, Huwait, E., Gari, M., & Al-Qahtani, M. (2018).... -
Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m....transgenic hairy root lines in tissue cultures takes half a year, and generating a transgenic plant can take...Luciferases usually have shorter mRNA and protein half-lives then GUS and are therefore good temporal reporters... -
Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2019, 12:46 p.m....permissiveness. The first generation of outbred mice (F1) had half the level of CNS PHP.B transduction as their C57BL...check out these two references: Dayton, Robert D., Mychal S. Grames, and Ronald L. Klein. "More expansive... -
Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2018, 1:25 p.m....relationships. Personally, I find this to be the most challenging and time-intensive part of relationship building...research-intensive careers. In addition, this skill is a hallmark for jobs focusing on: Science Policy, Business... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....300,000 individual nucleotide sequences. More than half of these sequences were generated by Addgene as ...on-site, but now we were presented with a new challenge: automating the bioinformatics steps needed to... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m....counter-intuitive, but I find office work more mentally challenging than lab work at times.” Sometimes a desk job...to non-scientists can be a fun and gratifying challenge. You’re also getting the opportunity to learn ... -
Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m....suited for recombinant protein expression. Many challenges can arise when over-expressing a foreign protein...functional RNaseE which results in longer transcript half-life F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm rne131... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m....and significance, these receptors have proved challenging to study. Cells often express multiple integrins...adhesion. The results surprised the investigators, challenging the long-held belief that αVβ3 would be the most... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 9, 2019, 1:13 p.m....properties of the protein of interest can be challenging. In this blog I discuss strategies to generate... (catalytic activity or interactions) can be challenging. If a fusion can complement a knock-down or knock-out... -
Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m....even axons of up to 100 microns in length. Some challenges of the Brainbow system are that it does not use...Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency." Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 59.3 (2018): 1630-1640. Sakaguchi... -
Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m....double strand break repair, it has proven more challenging to develop high efficiency CRISPR-based approaches...delivering CRISPR components as RNPs and delivering two halves of a repair template spread across two AAVs, it... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m....experiment, but you’ll only spend half of each day on it. The other half of each day you can spend accomplishing... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... the body or self antigens, and toxins that are lethal to animals. In the clinic, scFvs’ size also provides...plasmid in bacteria (Ahmed et al., 2012). One challenge of bacterial expression is the proper formation... -
Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m....First, the imaging of Brainbow mouse tissue was challenging due to low fluorescence intensity, caused partially...expression patterns. Hampel S, Chung P, McKellar CE, Hall D, Looger LL, Simpson JH. Nature Methods. 2011 Mar... -
Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m....important and abundant neurotransmitters, but it is challenging to monitor because only a small number of glutamate...to specific cell types in the brain can be a challenging — but critical — factor for successful experiments... -
Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....nn1525 Gunaydin, L. A., Yizhar, O., Berndt, A., Sohal, V. S., Deisseroth, K., & Hegemann, P. (2010). Ultrafast... Augustin, S., Sauter, K., Papagiakoumou, E., Gottschalk, A., Soba, P., Emiliani, V., Engel, A. K., Hegemann... -
Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m....Pamela Hines (Senior Editor at Science) Edward J. Hall (Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University) ...experiments they’re reading about weren’t changed halfway through in order to chase a positive result. Beyond... -
Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m....Cre-dependent conditional alleles, has remained a challenge. Enter Easi-CRISPR: a method that harnesses the...template. Although effective, ivTRT may be more challenging for sequences with complex secondary structure...