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...Feng Zhang (of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research) – and...I have an important question: How much coffee does it take to fuel more than 30,000 neuroscientists over...Though, to be fair, I think this is a conservative estimate. As a graduate student, I drank 3-4 cups of coffee...Zhang was awarded one of this year’s SfN Young Investigator Awards and we couldn’t wait to congratulate ...

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...Controlling Stimulation Some studies rely on delivering reversible or varied amounts of stimulation to receptors...are: Timing Targeted manipulation Controlling stimulation Invasiveness  Choosing the best set of tools...injected, this is not as precise and the offset of stimulation is gradual. Invasiveness Both optogenetic and...intracranial implant Noninvasive Controlling Stimulation ExogenousEasily controlled EndogenousNot easily...

...recurring meetings, you should share interesting results or ask questions to your collaborators. This helps...person responsible for incorporating everyone’s suggestions into a final version of the document. Set and...to specialized microscopes and allowed me to investigate my protein of interest in a French clinical cohort...’re looking to improve communication within an existing collaboration, or start something new! Additional...

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...pGP-AAV-syn-FLEX-jGCaMP7b-WPRE) exhibits the brightest resting fluorescence of the GCaMP7 family of calcium sensors...respond to blue light. We recently released a constitutive (pAAV-Syn-Archon1-KGC-GFP-ER2) and cre-dependent...next 6 months, pending quality control. For an estimate on availability date or to be notified when a ...exhibits high contrast between peak fluorescence and resting fluorescence. It is useful for activity imaging...exhibits high contrast between peak fluorescence and resting fluorescence.  It is useful for activity imaging...

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...of the population as a whole, scientists gain statistical power in their observations. However, while flow... of FSC versus SSC that allows them to observe distinct cell populations and rule out dead cells and debris...complexity, these cell types will separate into distinct populations on a FSC versus SSC plot (Figure 2...flow cytometry experiment and will appear as a distinct population. After initially gating the lymphocytes...marker) to separate the B cell and T cell into distinct populations (Figure 2). An immunologist who studies...cells from a whole blood sample will separate into distinct populations of monocytes, lymphocytes and granulocytes...

...sure it is working? This article addresses these questions, which are critical in setting up a FRET-based... the wrong address in a different city, you can still develop a successful FRET-based assay since energy...interest: you just don’t know it yet! The poly-histidine tag often used for protein purification is a reliable...dye, as well as by extending the length of the histidine tag from 6 to 10 residues. While these Cy/NTA ...incorporation of fluorescent probes into protein: hexahistidine-tag-mediated fluorescent labeling with (Ni2+...FRET-Based Approach for Antibody Detection–A New Serodiagnostic Concept." PloS one 8.5 (2013): e62739. PubMed...

...efficiency of multiplex gene editing. Moreover, existing multiplex strategies have been facing difficulties... fused base editors (nCas9-BE), as Cas9 is mechanistically more favored for efficient base editing. They...human cysteine tRNA stood out from their initial testing. It outperformed other tRNA candidates (either ...multiplex genome engineering of crops or allow for sophisticated CRISPR screenings that would perturb the unprecedented... only minimal genetic payloads. Different from existing multiplex array architectures, including previous...

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