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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m....multiplexed pool. The cost of these normalization steps, measured in time and consumables, can be daunting for large...normalized to two-fold variation above and below mean read count per sample, and the amount of information...
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Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m....interest, the team could visualize three loci and measure inter-locus distances. They tested this system ...intergenic DNA region (IDR3) as a reference loci to measure inter-locus distances of loci pairs from intergenic... -
Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 27, 2018, 2 p.m....deletions on biofilm formation and growth will then be measured to link the deleted genes to specific functions...river, take water samples at specific locations, measure fluorescent signals from the sensor, and send a... -
Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m....combinations that can be imaged together, but this also means that the choice of fluorescent proteins requires...this filter set and have reported brightness measurements. Here, EGFP outperforms the improved folding... -
Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 25, 2014, 3:15 p.m....plasmid components, it may be useful to describe the means of introducing genetic material (such as plasmids... post, we will define positive selection as the means of picking up positive traits (i.e. the plasmid ... -
The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2020, 2:15 p.m....respond as expected, use of representative images, measuring the main outcomes in several different ways, and...and you think there are four important times to measure that growth rate, you report the results of all... -
Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 28, 2020, 2:35 p.m.... for milk processing, fruit juice clarification, meat tendering, and oligosaccharide synthesis. A major...function well under suboptimal conditions. This means recombinant proteins can aggregate or precipitate... -
Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m....inflammatory state by inducing immunosuppressive measures, for example the upregulation of the immunosuppressive... analysis platform focused on analysing immune measures and correlating them with tumor mutations and ... -
Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m....great deal of precision. This means digital PCR provides an absolute measure of target abundance, does not... -
Plasmids 101: Screens vs. Selections
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2022, 2:15 p.m....question? If you’re thinking, ‘wait, those terms mean different things?!’, you aren’t alone! We’ve noticed...individually administered and then outcomes are measured. While the entire genome can be knocked out with... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.... commonly done using calcium chloride which permeabilizes the cell membrane so the bacteria can easily...electrical charge to cells, to increase cell membrane permeability and thus transformation efficiency. Check out... -
Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 21, 2019, 1:15 p.m....generating mutant libraries exist, but none provide a means to continuously diversify all nucleotides within...size at the target site. The use of such libraries means that the diversity introduced by lambda red recombineering... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....generally have moderate to high immunogenicity, meaning they induce an immune response in the host. So...endogenous DNA. AAV also has low immunogenicity, meaning it does not induce the same high immune response... -
OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.... yellow GECIs, OCaMP shows: Higher ΔF/F0 (the measure of signal change during calcium events), Greater...curves for OCaMP and various red and yellow GECIs measured with soluble protein. Reproduced from Aggarwal... -
Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 22, 2014, 4:02 p.m....conventional journal. Publishing via open access means that your manuscript will be available to anyone... for publication and is, in most cases, blind (meaning you don’t know who the reviewers are). If the reviewers... -
Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 25, 2014, 7:11 p.m....yeast-specific origin of replication (ORI) and a means of selection in yeast cells, in addition to the ...some drawbacks to using auxotrophic markers as a means of selection: A specific selection marker needs... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m....There are a variety of methods that can be used to measure your fluorescent protein’s propensity to aggregate...an affinity of 110 µM (Zacharias et al, 2002), meaning that at this concentration 50% of the protein forms... -
Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m....ahead with raises. What will these further changes mean? The abrupt reversal in salary raises at institutions... La Jolla California are not getting a raise. Meanwhile, in less densely populated places like the University... -
RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m....lagged behind, likely due to limitations of current means to detect RNA-protein interactions. To address this... E. coli’s BirA*. Faster labeling kinetics also means that BASU could potentially be used in vivo to study... -
dTAG - You're it!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m.... are happy to share aliquots of dTAG-13 in the meantime, please address your requests for dTAG molecules...the dTAG lentiviral plasmids can serve as a rapid means of comparing functionality of N- and C-terminal ...