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  1. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ... However, the acceptor doesn’t need to go to the same exact location as the donor. As long as some of ...targeted nearby (such as a neighboring house on the same street as the donor), then FRET measurements are...Ebright, 2001). These Cy/NTA conjugates work the same way as NTA-sepharose beads used for protein purification... binding sites are adjacent to each other on the same protein and a negative control experiment conducted...
  2. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    ...APC-Cy7) the brightness changes to "dim" for the same laser type. Knowing that the red laser excites at...fluorophore-conjugated antibodies together in the same color panel. In this case, make sure to compare ...overlap. Hence, they should not be used within the same panel.     Figure 4: Excitation and emission...virtually overlap, you cannot use them together in the same panel. Source: https://www.bdbiosciences.com/en-...
  3. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Easy Action Items

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    ...the latest news and encourage your peers to do the same. Long-term lab conservation goals Lastly, I think...freezer to -70 °C and teach other labs to do the same. -70 °C is cold enough to keep some common types... about this, and even has a list of biological samples that are stored long term at -70 °C. My Green Lab...
  4. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    ...deserve, but, in this post, we'll provide a small sampling of the many amazing new plasmid tools that have... joined modules cannot be separated again by the same cloning enzymes. MXS (MluI-XhoI-SalI) chaining results...photo-label multiple mitochondrial populations within the same cell. Mitochondrial fusion is typically assayed ...different mitochondrial subpopulations within the same cell; by photoswitching PSmOrange and photoactivating... and more, to your protein of interest using the same vector system. The tRNA/aaRS pairs are delivered... experiments in several ways. The laboratory of Samie Jaffrey describes using these tags in an in-gel ...
  5. Antibodies 101: Epitope Tags

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    ...endogenous WT levels of the same protein when both are expressed in the same system. Tagging can also aid...EQKLISEEDL) derived from the protooncogene of the same name. The tag has a net negative charge with 4 negatively...
  6. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    ...about making a copy of a piece of DNA and at the same time adding restriction sites to the ends of that...restriction enzymes that can both function in the same buffer, as this will save time later In our example...As such, the later steps in this process are the same as those discussed in our restriction cloning post...
  7. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    ...GUS staining or are not suited to studying large samples. RUBY Red But recently, something new has been ...consisting of these three enzymes expressed under the same promoter with self-cleaving 2A site linkages and...transformation next to an untransformed seed from the same plant beginning to germinate. (Top right, second...
  8. Viral Genome Sequencing - A One Stop Shop for AAV Identity and Serotype Confirmation

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    ...accommodate adeno-associated viral vector (AAV) samples and created a simplified process, termed viral ...parallel, there is a very real risk of mixing up samples, serotypes, or both. Unfortunately, the standard... as [+] and [-] strands that are packaged at the same frequency, we reasoned that, following DNA extraction...
  9. Cultivating Community Science at BosLab

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    ... DIY Biology and, on occasion, would meet in the same space where BosLab exists today. Back then, it consisted... getting the community to collect various soil samples, extract DNA, sequence it, and analyze the data... characterize the microbiomes of the different samples. The goal is to not only learn something about ...
  10. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    .... Likewise, a lot of scientists have requested samples of AAV for testing purposes. To address this, we... serotype testing AAV, which are small (20 ul) samples of EGFP-expressing AAV packaged in various serotypes... kit with all the serotypes, since these 20 ul samples are distributed individually. See our Serotype ...
  11. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ... The glycerol in the buffer will make sure your sample settles in the gel well and the dyes provide a ...you to interpret the bands that you get in your sample lanes. Choose your ladder based on the expected...approximate the DNA mass of comparably intense samples of similar size. Run the gel at 80-150V until you...
  12. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

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    ...of antibodies, although not all isotypes have the same ability to activate each of these functions: Recruitment...appropriate isotype control. An isotype control has the same constant heavy chain domain as your primary antibody...results in the B cell expressing an antibody with the same variable domain but a different heavy-chain constant...
  13. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    ...that are related to the imaging strategy and the sample. Practical brightness A protein with a high intrinsic... a reference protein that is translated from the same open-reading frame and separated from the protein...brightness for a set of fluorescent proteins (with the same reference protein) under identical conditions, a...
  14. How to Make Friends and Meet People at a Scientific Conference

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    ...opportunity to meet people who are interested in the same things you are on a deep level. Right away you have... and grow over time, but being interested in the same phosphate of your favorite kinase is a good start...meet someone since you are both interested in the same talk. Read more on this advice to “never leave an...
  15. To Each HIS Own

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    ...metal ions are immobilized on a bead or resin and a sample containing the protein of interest flowed through...interest and the metal ions.      Fig. 1: A sample containing a polyhistidine tagged protein of interest...tags are also recommended if you need a very pure sample. Because binding strength is proportional to the...
  16. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...intensive to process a large number of microbiome samples. To enable large-scale, longitudinal studies of...and can approximate mRNA concentration within a sample. Using this system, the Collins lab was able to...lab validated their platform on clinical stool samples by comparison to qPCR and demonstrated that it ...
  17. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...titers measure the amount of viral particles in a sample and are usually based on the presence of a viral...however, is that a p24 ELISA measures all p24 in the sample regardless of whether or not it is incorporated...lentiviral prep may be significantly higher than the same prep that has been stored in the freezer. If you...
  18. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...experimental and control mice will have been raised in the same environment and will harbor similar epigenetic modifications...multiple mutations is if the mutations are on the same chromosome. Homologous chromosomes recombine during...two loci, which would get both mutations onto the same chromosome. Until crossing over occurs between the...
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