...proteins to pathways - Ras as a model When mutations do arise and cancer ensues, traditional chemotherapies...and thousands of investigators studying them, how do we ensure that the research community has access ...

...sites, or you can utilise several online tools that do it for you. One such option is the CRISPR Design ... take roughly 3 months from the day you decide to do a gene modification experiment in mice to the day...

...they are present at a very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch all of these potential mishaps...expected hits, we always get hits to “random” genes. Do these hits always mean the sample is contaminated...users titrate their AAV vectors to find the optimal dose that allows for sufficient transgene expression ...

...Choosing a topic and gauging interest The first thing to do if you’ve thought about starting a journal club is...make. How often will you hold it? How many people do you expect to attend? What is the expectation on ...

...and realize you need to apply different filters you do not need to start a new search. Simply click the ...purpose (e.g. CRISPR) Beyond search What can you do if you don’t have any specific search terms in mind...

...Addgenies about their career path. Graduate school: Do I or don’t I? I asked the nine Addgenies about why...told her that if she found something she loves to do, she would never work a day in her life. She said...

...coronaviruses and enable the virus to enter host cells. To do this, they injected the spike protein from two different...effectively to protein targets, similar to how antibodies do. The structure of the common antibody is heftier ...

...guanines). This limits the use of ABEs as DNA sites that do not contain a suitable PAM cannot be edited efficiently...While base editors are precise molecular tools, they do have undesired off-target editing effects. ABEs have...

...Gal Haimovich of greenfluorescentblog. Be honest. Do you really know how fluorescent proteins glow?   ..., you will not be able to use far red-FPs. If you do not have a filter that will pass blue light to the...

...: Apply library Apply selection Most cells die or do not pass selection (in the case of a reporter) Sort... screen, the goal is to identify those cells that do not survive the selection mechanism. You’ll infect...

... Plasmid Description Gene/Insert PI Return to Top Do you have suggestions for other plasmids that should...protein interactions , protein dimerization , endosomal escape of cell-penetrating peptides , and more...

...Asked Questions (FAQ) about γ-Retroviral Plasmids How do engineered γ-retroviruses differ from lentiviruses...promoter is no longer present in these constructs. Why do many γ-retroviral plasmids have similar names? The...

...offer tools to help with these decisions.  So when do you want to codon optimize your gene of interest?...useful in expressing functional proteins in hosts that do not naturally express that gene. The protein you ...

...negative control to determine whether your PIPs actually do interact. Choosing the right negative control is ...scenarios that call for a simple, yes-no answer — i.e., do two proteins interact or not? — FRET is preferable...endogenous PIPs should decrease the BiFC signal in a dose-dependent manner. This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect...easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled. This is also theoretically...

...but orthologs like LwaCas13a do not require a specific PFS. Cas13 enzymes do not contain the RuvC and HNH...

...components can interfere with conjugates. Make sure to do your research before conjugating at the bench.   ...to distinct, non-overlapping epitopes so that they do not interfere with each other. The detection antibody...

...time, when scientists who support open science, but do not share their own data - which seems to be the ...members or colleagues: How much unpublished AAV data do you have sitting in computers and notebooks right... gene transfer to the rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy...

...gradients, practice making the iodixanol layers before doing your first purification. This helped me get a feel...to learn more about different ways to titer AAV. Do you have any AAV production tips or tricks? Please...multiplicity of infections (MOIs), to determine the optimal dose of AAV for my cells of interest. Every batch of ...

...interference), and CRISRPa (activation) libraries that do just that (Doench et al., 2016, Sanson et al., 2018... identifying strong hits in genetic screens, they do have several limitations. CRISPRko results in a complete...

...fluoresce, the Jaffrey lab asked:  Could an RNA aptamer do the same thing? Using the HBI derivative 3,5-difluoro...recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune response. Aptamers can be ...