...check it out!). After months of strategizing, designing, developing, testing - and repeat - we’re proud... also made it hard for users to get where they desired. It became clear to us that we needed to improve...plasmids and viral vector tools more easily. In the redesign, the new search bar is now front and center, with...these three main values we set out to radically redesign our homepage to reflect this message. We concentrated... a make-over as well. While in the course of redesigning the homepage, and striving to tell our story ...

...epitopes (Ewert et al., 2004). This scFv hybrid provides the probe structure and stability from the scaffold...translated quickly by the ribosome. This feature provides HA frankenbody the ability to bind nascent HA ...

... push the test system, we redesigned for 12 and 24 fragments.  This redesign was guided by both advances...in 5’ four base overhangs after cutting. The destination vector receives the assembly after similar Type...re-digested and "eligible” for ligation into the destination construct. Reactions are often cycled between...acquisition of antibiotic selectable markers by the destination plasmid. Antibiotic selection allowed for high...ability to correctly assemble a lacI/lacZ cassette (designed by NEB for use in optimization of assembly systems...very occasional uncut or cut/re-ligated pGGA destination plasmids. A final validation of the 5-, 12- or...is dependent on the presence of every module, destination construct and functioning Type IIS restriction...

...safe-targeting guides vs. non-targeting guides on screen analysis and hit calling. 5,644 non-targeting guides and...safe-targeting guides were included in the library. Safe-targeting guides were designed to target genomic...short guides had reduced toxicity compared to full-length guides. Reduced toxicity of short guides could...CRISPR screen design. Unanswered questions about genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen design Are non-targeting...non-targeting guides an appropriate control? Many CRISPR screens use non-targeting guides as negative controls...screens. Do short guides (17-18 bp) have less off-target cutting than full-length guides (19-20bp)?  Small-scale...predicted off-target activity when selecting guides. Guides were delivered as a pooled library via a lentiviral...

...thanks to our guest blogger, Dalila Cunha de Oliveira. Dalila Cunha de Oliveira is a PhD student in Hematology...post was contributed by guest blogger, Dalila Cunha de Oliveira. Bricking Science is an idea built, literally...with my husband, I thought about how the limitless design possibilities of the LEGOs were mirrored by the...made, colorful laboratory. When we started, the hardest part of the process was to embed personality in...

...suggestions, like alternative word suggestions. De-jargonizer The De-jargonizer can identify jargon in your writing...This paper talks more about the development of the De-jargonizer.   Academic Phrasebank  The Academic Phrasebank... of the suggestions Hemmngway makes (it wasn’t designed for technical writing), it’s great at flagging... Just enter the DOI of a paper and select your desired formatting style. This tool is great for generating...library in Microsoft Word. Mendeley has a web and desktop version that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux...easier to work with collaborators. Zotero is a desktop based program that’s compatible with Mac, Windows...

... Mendel. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie 323:1053–1060 . https...Mendelian genetics was being revived by the botanist Hugo de Vries (1896).  In 1928, Frederick Griffith used mouse...//doi.org/10.1038/nature17946 Lenay C (2000) Hugo De Vries: from the theory of intracellular pangenesis...domain (FokI). Zinc finger nucleases were first designed in 2005. The DNA-binding domain can be engineered...triplets, the components recognize individual nucleotides. This imparts TALENs more specificity and a broader...editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed each time we wanted to target new genomic sites...chasing an anti-villain geneticist named Zobrist who designs a virus that can potentially kill one-third of ...

...thanks to our guest blogger, Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Harshana S De Silva Feelixge is a researcher whose... post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold ...form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic...

...Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y, Lin C, et...11;342(6155):253-257. PubMed. 3. Canver MC, Bauer DE, Dass A, Yien YY, Chung J, Masuda T, et al. Characterization...and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods for CRISPR design, cloning, and delivery, as well...

... rather than aversive stimuli. In a recent paper, de Jong and colleagues used rAAV FLEx-based vectors ...brain regions associated with motivated behaviors (de Jong et al., 2019). FLEx vectors represent, therefore...developmental biology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her love for educational science led her to...neuroscience 8.9 (2005): 1263. PubMed PMID: 16116447. de Jong, Johannes W., et al. "A neural circuit mechanism...scientific communication manager at genOway. A few decades ago, the brain remained elusive, not from a lack...Boyden et al., 2005; Deisseroth et al., 2006). Despite its relatively recent development, the history ...Double-floxed Orientation)) is a powerful tool that provides precise temporal and spatial control of gene expression...

... Hacohen N, Hahn WC, Lander ES, Sabatini DM, Root DE. Cell. 2006. 124:1283-1298. PubMed . A versatile ...site. Find resources for more information on shRNA design and delivery. Constitutive Lentiviral shRNA Lentiviral...for constitutive shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description PI 10878 pLKO.1 ‐ TRC cloning vector shRNA expression... included in the vector to monitor expression; Designed for inducing RNAi in a wide range of cell types...conditional (Cre-lox) shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description PI 11578 pSico Cre addition causes EGFP to be...for Tet-regulated shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description Tet on or off PI 11643 pLVCT-tTR-KRAB 2nd generation...for constitutive shRNA expression ID Plasmid Description PI 8452 pMKO.1 puro Retroviral vector for shRNA...

...postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and one of the coordinators... illustrates the power of collaboration, which despite the competitiveness of cutting-edge research, is...physics. Even non-scientists, such as lawyers, designers and other professionals, joined the platform; ...

...unpublished, that allowed the visualization of specific de novo synthesized proteins in situ. I was privileged..., 2010) and allows the visualization of the whole de novo synthesized proteome. However, FUNCAT alone ...radioactive materials is highly regulated, requires designated work areas and come with health risks. Importantly...synthesized endogenous proteins in situ. Now FUNCAT-PLA provides both quantitative and spatio-temporal information...

...Stedingk K, Fujita T, Persson CU, Eriksson P, Veerla S, De Preter K, Speleman F, Fujii H, Påhlman S, Mohlin ...also like... CRISPR Guide CRISPR Protocols gRNA Design Tools CRISPR Blog Posts Originally developed in...can be ordered via the links below: ID Plasmid Description 47948 3xFLAG-dCas9/pCMV-7.1 enChIP plasmid, expresses...

...M. M., Semenova, E., Severinov, K., De Vos, W. M., Dame, R. T., De Vries, R., Brouns, S. J., & Van Der...Cascade ( C RISPR- as sociated c omplex for a ntiviral de fense) complex to initiate DNA degradation. Cascade...Cascade C RISPR- as sociated c omplex for a ntiviral de fense; a complex of multiple Cas enzymes including...Han, Y., Ogrodowski, P., Crippa, A., Rekhtman, N., De Stanchina, E., Lowe, S. W., & Ventura, A. (2014)...., Boix, C., Perrouault, L., Tesson, L., Geny, S., De Cian, A., Itier, J. M., Anegon, I., Lopez, B., Giovannangeli... the desired HDR-edited allele. Therefore, it is important to confirm the presence of the desired edit..., the longer pegRNA also encodes a primer binding site (PBS) and the desired edits on a RT template. The...

...protein design goals, both from the Baker Lab and others. The introduction of de novo designed proteins...concept that this kind of protein design is possible. Although Top7 was designed simply to be stable and novel...Hassabis and John Jumper! The Baker Lab focuses on designing entirely new proteins, improving our understanding...team was the first to develop and publish a human-designed protein that was not based on any existing protein...least that we’ve seen so far!). They started by designing a novel topology, then iteratively generated 3D...got closer and closer to achieving it. Once they designed the protein computationally, the researchers expressed...demonstrating “the structure is strikingly similar to the design model at atomic resolution” (Kuhlman and Dantas...

... which one you choose depends on your experiment (de Ruijter et al., 2003). For example, we did our initial...Humana Press, 2009. 41-50. PubMed PMID: 19183892. De Ruijter, N. C. A., et al. "Evaluation and comparison...and a vacuum is applied with a vacuum bell or desiccator. Successful infiltration can often be seen by...

...References Akhtar, W., De Jong, J., Pindyurin, A. V., Pagie, L., Meuleman, W., De Ridder, J., Berns, A....this means we could design hundreds to thousands of different pegRNAs for each desired edit, it simply becomes...via GitHub (which includes prediction in batch mode). To predict the best pegRNA design for a specific edit...or offline via GitHub. The model provides users with different designs of pegRNAs, ranked by their PRIDICT...and a reverse transcription template (RTT). The design of the pegRNA has been shown to play a critical...find a way to predict the efficiencies of pegRNA designs based on patterns observed from high-throughput...experiments, where we can evaluate tens of thousands of designs in parallel. To do this, we performed high-throughput...

...to go back to Ghana after his PhD and the need to de-mystify molecular biology. 25:51 - 30:56 : Further...

...in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation...Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa D, Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird A (2017) Radically...that MECP2 binds to methylated CpG dinucleotides and CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson...If you’re new to Rett Syndrome, this blog post describes the history of Rett Syndrome research, the role...MECP2 in Rett Syndrome Rett Syndrome was first described in 1966 by Austrian physician, Andreas Rett, who... his observations in a German medical journal. Decades later and after years of painstaking work trying...