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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...Cellular activities like action potentials, muscle contractions, and the control of voltage gated ion channels...insufficient level. The heartbeat – a muscle contraction – is directly related to the electrical impulse...and emit signal from. This specific example is attractive due to the large number of sheer molecules and...
  2. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    ...ultrafugation Overview: Iodixanol gradient ultracentrifugation uses a gradient of different concentrations...during AAV production is overlaid. Following ultracentrifugation, the AAV-containing 40% fraction is collected...day. Refer to the AAV Iodixanol Gradient Ultracentrifugation Protocol for more details. Pro tips Watch...
  3. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    ...particles (Figure 1). Briefly, packaged DNA is extracted from purified, DNase-treated AAV and submitted...with AAV-68544 to validate our method. We then extracted the DNA and processed the mixed sample in our ...Adeno-Associated Viral Preparations from Viral DNA Extracts. Human Gene Therapy 31:664–678 . https://doi.org...
  4. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    ... method (Tanenbaum et al., 2014). The sgRNA or tracrRNA sequences can also be modified to include RNA ...transcription factors. The Root and Doench labs utilized tracrRNAs with two PP7 stem loops to recruit additional ...the targeted region (Sanson et al., 2018) . This tracrRNA was combined with the sgRNA expression vector ...
  5. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...kb), and they remain popular for targeting and tracing cells in the brain (Figure 1). 2nd generation lentiviral...been used for complex applications like lineage tracing in heterogeneous tumors. Lentiviral vectors are...In-vivo RGB marking and multicolour single-cell tracking in the adult brain. Gomez-Nicola D, Riecken K,...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...biosensors has been designed to detect a variety of intracellular conditions, including ion (such as Ca2+) concentrations...Because of its stability, GFP can be used in lineage tracking capacities in cell fate studies. It can also be...strand break repair, and to label pathogenic intracellular microbes to visualize host/pathogen interactions...
  7. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...certain number of days and tracking average transit time for each courier we contracted with so we can always...Culture Collections Lentiviral Plasmids Tetracyline Inducible Plasmids Empty Backbones Bacterial ...
  8. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    ...scientists are paid above this threshold or for tracking the hours that these scientists work and paying...across academia). Increased postdoc wages, overtime tracking? What are institutions doing? Institutions are...their salary raised 101% if hours are not to be tracked. University of Buffalo and Ohio State both have...
  9. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...cytosol (instead of on the yeast extracellular surface) which enables tracking of protease activity with a ...reporter. With this system, they could quantify and track cells expressing both dCas9 and gRNAs. The...
  10. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    ...cargo Optogenetic proximity labeling and TransitID Tracking cellular history with protein ticker tape Teaching... bioRxiv – doi: 10.1101/2023.02.07.527548.    Tracking cellular history with protein ticker tape By Brian...et al. (2023). Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings. Nature Biotechnology, 41(5), 631...
  11. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...General expression mRNA Tetracycline response element promoter Inducible with Tetracyline or its derivatives...promoter with low basal activity and several tetracycline operators. Transcription can be turned on or...
  12. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    ...useful to avoid such procrastination: Remove distractions: Probably the easiest way to do this is to leave...internet and all it’s enticements are far too distracting. (As a side note, I’d recommend the book, “Bored...more fantastic reasons to remove yourself from distractions every once in awhile.) Reframe the task in a...
  13. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    ...thrive in laboratory settings. One of its most attractive features is its stability and easily obtainable...ability to regenerate, the axolotl has several attractive characteristics that make them an ideal model...for human disease research. One of their most attractive features are their eggs. Frog eggs are large,...
  14. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    ... signal is boosted and enables single molecule tracking in living cells. The HA frankenbody is an HA tag...expressed on T cells to make CAR T cells. The extracellular scFv portion of the receptors recognizes an ...an antigen of interest while the intracellular T cell receptor portion of the CAR facilitates signal transduction...
  15. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    ...like lamellipodia or filopodia formation, cell contraction, or other morphological changes, depending on...tools to control formation of lamellipodia and contractile stress fibers, and recently developed a full ...selection in mammalian cells used here could be an attractive strategy for engineering other enzymes. Conclusion...
  16. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...therapeutics, which is also gaining a lot of new traction lately (1, 2), depends on knowledge of the structure...storage. After overnight growth, scrape up, pool and extract plasmid DNA directly from the colonies. Transform...solution containing your favourite bacterial protein extraction reagent (BPER from Thermo works well) with some...
  17. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...microglia. This property makes the lentivirus an attractive choice for a gene transfer vector. Lentiviral...used inducible lentiviral vector system is the tetracycline (Tet)-regulated system. You can choose either...promoter in your transfer vector. In the absence of tetracycline or a derivative such as Doxycycline (Dox), the...
  18. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...culture through various sources that are difficult to trace. These include the laboratory personnel, the serum...mycoplasmas, contamination by other bacteria or extracellular fluorescent signals produced by these bacteria...fluoroquinolone ciprofloxacin, ciprobay, zagam, baytril, tetracycline, etc. are available for mycoplasma removal from...
  19. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...the sensitive FLEx-split TVA receptor used for tracing neural pathways was 8.5 x 10e10 GC/mL. The lot ...Adeno-Associated Viral Preparations from Viral DNA Extracts. Human Gene Therapy 31:664–678. https://doi.org...Jin L, Lea NE, Wickersham IR (2020) Monosynaptic Tracing Success Depends Critically on Helper Virus Concentrations...
  20. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    .... Other dyes may prove challenging to stain intracellular compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra...green, red, and far-red dyes is important for intracellular fluorescence live imaging ​​(Hayashi-Takanaka...fission, fusion, biogenesis, and mitophagy, can be tracked using dyes like Rhodamine 123 (R123) (Liu et al...
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