...capable of spreading through wild populations. Whereas most genomic changes impose a fitness cost and are eliminated...heterozygotes, the endonuclease cuts the wild-type chromosome and its own gene is used as a repair template...experiments attempting to build gene drives in tropical mosquito vectors of diseases such as malaria and dengue...don't have resident populations of the relevant mosquito species. Reproductive confinement involves working...Control of Insect Populations: I. Cage Studies of Chromosome Replacement by Compound Autosomes in Drosophila...

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...over time that the most successful computer languages are free to use. Of the 15 most popular computer ... operators are so useful they are implemented in most materials that have been engineered. For example...it's free to use and that tends to be true about most successful human-to-human languages. Who owns computer-programming...bioeconomy it's less clear, but the way I'd leave it is mostly to the imagination. The question is: what can you...

...for 10 years. In that time, scientists have used almost all available approaches for generating iPSCs. ...cut and paste” mechanism between a vector and chromosomal DNA. PB has a cloning capacity of ~9-14 kb. This...assists in tethering the vector to the cell’s chromosomes. With the addition of a selectable marker, this...EBNA1 plasmid to be maintained as a stable extrachromosomal piece of DNA. Reprogramming efficiency is ...three germ layers. Choosing a reprogramming method Most iPSC research falls into two categories: 1) studies...PMCID: 5072705. 2. Sommer, Cesar A., and Gustavo Mostoslavsky. "The evolving field of induced pluripotency...

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...these vectors. Read on to find the answers to our most frequently asked lentiviral questions. This useful...Second-generation vectors are likely sufficient for most experiments; however, the 3rd-generation packaging...answer the questions those of us at Addgene get asked most often: Q1: Are retroviruses and lentiviruses the...plasmids replication competent? What is SIN? A6: Most (if not all) Addgene transfer plasmids are replication-deficient...ClonTracr Library Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Overview of Lentiviral...

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...then choose the most efficient approach for your own system. The simplest and the most popular one is ...and others. CFP-YFP is still one of the best and most used pairs to measure FRET. The table below lists...that have a similar brightness - even though in the most popular pair, CFP has five-fold less brightness ...FLIM has been developed more recently and is the most rigorous method for measuring FRET. FLIM measures...

...CRISPR systems were first discovered in bacteria, most CRISPR-based genome engineering has taken place ...finding suggests that the system may be functional in most Enterobacteriaceae. An update to this system, called... RNA interference does not function in bacteria, most efforts to regulate gene expression were limited...adenine base editing in Streptomyces Some of the most industrially and clinically relevant bacterial species..., yet genome engineering remains challenging for most organisms in the genus. Work from the Sun lab demonstrates...base substitutions respectively. Substitutions seem most efficient when using a nickase version of Cas9, ...

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