...in our lab’s environmental impact, but we can all do more to make research more environmentally friendly...recycling program at your institute! What should I do in the lab to help the environment? Well, you could...

...are not enough to move the CRISPR field forward. To do that, we need to learn much more about cellular DNA... just stick to RNA? Cas13 may be able to help you do that! How to Design your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing...

...Iowa. “I left not really knowing what I wanted to do, but knowing that I wanted to leave the bench.” Her...stumbled upon, about 6 months in, this opportunity to do scientific editing.” It was for Cactus Communications...

...plasmid to manipulate and use in later work.     How do scientists use plasmids? Generally, scientists use...Some of the many things that plasmids can be used to do include: Produce large amounts of a protein so that...

... time a post doc in the Quake Lab, volunteered to do the sampling and I happily agreed to accompany him...temperature is 30°C. Find IgnaviCas9 here! What can you do with IgnaviCas9? Why would a thermostable Cas9 be...

...edible relatives, it is fair to say that most people do not recognize its importance or perhaps even know...Industry (COSI) and the Franklin Park Conservatory. Do you use Arabidopsis in your research? Are you a biology...

...sequence starts with a 'G', you naturally have one and do not need to add an additional 'G'. Q3: What is the...) template, you could then: Confirm your HR by doing Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) ...

...chemically coloured lymphoid organs did in the past. How do researchers track fluorescently labeled cells? 1.... answer using two-photon microscopy include: How do T cells and/or Neutrophils travel to the sites of...Chtanova et al. 2008, Kamenyeva et al. 2015)? How do blood monocytes patrol blood vessels during immune...Auffray et al. 2007, Finsterbusch et al. 2016)? How do dendritic cells migrate to lymph nodes to activate...

...train of action potentials that GCaMP6 and jGCaMP7 do not. Most likely, it’s a combination of many factors...supporting data and community engagement required to do this drove Addgene to develop new systems, new partnerships...resources, and collaborations, and will continue to do so, in the hopes that these findings can help others...

...site-directed knock-in. We’ll also discuss what to do if your editing efficiency isn’t as great as you ...insertion or deletion that isn’t a multiple of three will do. A popular screening method for knockouts is Tracking...base pairs modified? In these cases, it’s best to do some planning in the design phase of your experiment...

...guides as negative controls. Non-targeting guides do not target any site in the genome. This means that...confound the results of high-throughput CRISPR screens. Do short guides (17-18 bp) have less off-target cutting...have fewer off-target effects than long guides, and do not have a major reduction in on-target efficacy....

... resting phase of the cell cycle; quiescent cells do not take up nucleic acid or express transgenes as...economical mode of detection, Uphoff et. al. outline a do it yourself PCR-based approach complete with freely...Learn All About Viral Vector Elements Learn How to Do Genome-Wide Screens with CRISPR Lentiviral Vectors...

...expression levels for most purposes, but what do you do when you’ve tried a common strain and don’t get...popular commercial strains designed to avoid them. Why do I need an expression strain? Protein expression from...

...Rooms to divide the audience into small sessions and do a quick break to chat. This can be done randomly ...from academia to industry”. To date, aside from doing science, he has assisted many researchers in gaining...

...physics and sustainable design while allowing me to do my internship in the daytime.  Getting into the office...be heavy restrictions on what I could and couldn’t do as an intern. I expected that these restrictions ...

...to infect with the virus. Then the viral particles do the rest! Downstream expression or integration resulting...biological outcome you want to achieve? For example, do you want the nucleic acid cargo to be integrated ...

...ends results in the production of blue colonies that do not need to be picked and sequenced for potential...PCR, restriction digest, or sequencing. Pro tips Do not add 5’ phosphates to your PCR primers; you need...

...make, hard to deliver into living systems, and often do not fold properly once inside cells.  Developing ... started with your experiments! What else can you do with the HA frankenbody? Another large advantage ...

...individual/non-overlapping cells. Until now, tools for doing this were labor-intensive and required using manipulations...structural deformation, these probes are reversible and do not cause structural deformation or photo-induced...

..., but from what was necessary in order for you to do your research. For example, did you help put together...extracurricular activities – did you volunteer to do science outreach and teach children about science...