...some public speaking and a bit of video work for webinars (get tips for your next science talk). I do illustrations...website quite a bit.” Out of all of these tasks, webinars are Hans’ favorite thing to work on. “It’s one...someone to take over hosting them. Since then, webinars make up a larger part of Hans’ workload. “I am...getting abstracts and plans together for my next 4 webinars—I have them stacked close together for the next...

...still free, and different regions of the spinal cord were illuminated. By looking at groups of neurons that...expressed the LiGluR opsin in different subsets of spinal cord neurons using the Gal4/UAS system. This created...dissection of a behavioural module in the vertebrate spinal cord." Nature 461.7262 (2009): 407. PubMed PMID...

...lines: ones either suspected to be contaminate or easily contaminated, as well as commonly misidentified...informative. Spoiler alert: HeLa is the most common contaminator line.  For those wanting to access Cellosaurus...profiling, you can use Cellosaurus, and CLASTR, to finally know whether it was an 'h' or a 'b' written on ...

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... nuclease folds found in other proteins. The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the protein also belongs to the...Sternberg et al., 2014). The nuclease lobes are inactive in the absence of guide RNA, preventing Cas9 from...loaded and the DNA sequence is recognized, it’s finally time to cut! The HNH domain, which cuts the target...flexible; it can rotate about 140 degrees between inactive and active conformations (Bravo et al., 2022; ...on this topic are still being made! Conclusion Finally, we can summarize the process from start to finish...

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...electrical activity through imaging. Since it’s illuminated by red/orange light, Archon1 can also be used...Chimeric channels for neuronal manipulation Recombinases Plasmid Serotype Name 50363  AAV5  AAV ...labeled neurons because background fluorescence from inactive neurons is reduced. 105322  AAV1  pGP-AAV-...densely-labeled neurons because background fluorescence from inactive neurons is reduced.  Additional resources...

...particles. A single viral particle is called a virion. Finally, viral vectors, which are used in the lab, are ...contrast to bacteria and eukaryotes, which use a binary replication process whereby one cell copies itself...engineering controls — changes made to the virus that eliminate or reduce the risk of infection — researchers ...genetically modified to either limit or completely eliminate their replicative ability. The remaining particle...

...disturbing the tissue for imaging or collection could contaminate it. I have used it for selecting transformation...promoter with self-cleaving 2A site linkages and a terminator. Image from He, Y., Zhang, T., Sun, H. et al....untransformed seed from the same plant beginning to germinate. (Top right, second panel) Transformed seedlings... Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a passion for microscopy...

...next experiment. Nucleic acid based machines Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic...inputs are received by a cell. These so-called recombinase-based state machines could potentially be used...development. Read this post to learn more about recombinase-based state machines and how they function. Adapting...them. CRISPR Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening CombiGEM is a technology that...

.... We will continue to provide you with more fascinating, informative, and actionable content in the coming...genome editing.   2. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox Cre recombinase can be used to generate inversions, deletions...Blue-White Screening Getting a lot of empty vector contaminants in your cloning experiments and tired of having...you’ve made the right one. In this post, Addgenie Melina Fan guides us through the basics of the validation...

... embryonic stem cells, they found very high recombination percentages (78-79% after two rounds of transduction...application of iTOP Having tested iTOP using Cre-lox recombination, D’Astolfo et al. were eager to see if iTOP ...events. For these reasons, iTOP is best suited to binary systems in which transient protein expression has...long-lasting effect, such as Cre- or Cas9-mediated recombination. Both primary hESCs and immortalized cells treated...

...annotate things as they come up in their minds. The final screen can also be saved and exported as a picture...miscommunication, a lack of leadership, and inappropriate tools or writing approaches can lead to frustration...frustration, delay of publication, or even the termination of a project.” Take brain breaks Meetings can...Wuchty S, Jones BF, Uzzi B (2007) The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge. Science 316...

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...many cases, you won’t see any signs of DNA in your final tube after purification. How do you know if you ...your DNA prep and whether there are any other contaminants. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) absorb maximally...method also gives an indicator of DNA or RNA contamination based on the presence of other bands or streaking...methods, this method doesn’t tell you about contaminating proteins or chaotropic salts. Capillary electrophoresis...

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...nearly all cell types in the body from otherwise terminally differentiated cells simply by expressing four... a community largely created due to Yamanaka’s seminal work. It didn't take very long to realize that...Hideyuki Okano presented ground-breaking work on spinal cord injuries; Jessica Young shared research on..., a half-brother who is a quadriplegic due to a spinal cord injury, and numerous family friends who had...