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  1. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...maturation is even faster. Published just a few days later, Mohan Balasubramanian and colleagues showed the... then, when AAV-PHP.eB was injected three weeks later, that LY6A transgene rescued the enhanced brain ...Functional gene delivery to and across brain vasculature of systemic AAVs with endothelial-specific tropism...
  2. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ...cassette exchange. By utilizing recombinases to manipulate genomes, scientists can control expression of...and Tagging with Light (SPOTlight) as a way to isolate individual cells with unique spatiotemporal phenotypes...AAV-deliverable ABE.  Find the plasmid here Jesse Zalatan’s lab deposited plasmids for a chemically inducible...
  3. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...The UCLA Library offers some Powerpoint based templates with different column numbers for a good starting...starting point. Adobe also offers free poster templates, although most are vertical.  Large central box...is relevant to the work you are presenting. The latter is catchy, but beware. A distracting background...
  4. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    ...F1 Once you’ve performed your first cross, congratulations! You’ve generated F1 mice and they are the ... strains throughout this process. In the F1 and later generations, mice that are homozygous wild type ...crossing over occurs between the two loci, F2 and later generations of mice can only be heterozygous for...
  5. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...measurement. Like a p24 ELISA, this method is relatively quick, providing results in less than a day, ...amplification of the original plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing vector deficient in reverse ... serial dilutions of a viral prep, genomic DNA isolated, and primers targetting viral components or the...
  6. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    ...protecting intellectual property, it worked away in isolation. It published a paper a year (or less) and limited...popped into our heads. Anything was fair game for speculation - in fact, our color changing flower project ... accomplish the color change until a few months later. RevBio accelerates with help from SynBio Axlr8r...
  7. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ...managing a team. You’ve just been promoted, congratulations! You’re now a manager with your own team! But... other student stayed until he graduated. Years later I attended a formal training for new managers and...you motivated and help you grow in your role. The latter will make you feel discouraged and not valued which...
  8. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ...system. The paper also gives quantitative data for regulatory elements, which has not been available for plants...Nicotiana benthamiana. N. benthamiana is a tobacco relative and a good model for plant disease because it ...Patron: Remember plants. Every time you look at your plate, think about how much that’s on it are plants, and...
  9. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...particular scientific subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426...and uncertainty in estimating parameters from relatively sparse data from China. An important additional...therapeutics. Prime editing, base editing, PACE, and DNA-templated synthesis are four examples of technologies pioneered...
  10. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...mammalian cells can perform human-like post-translational modifications that bacterial and most yeast ...also need to know the extinction coefficient to calculate the concentration. At 280 nm, the extinction coefficient...protein standard and the concentration may be calculated using imaging software. Any bands on the gel ...
  11. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...they want to understand the ultrastructural relationships that influence everything from cell division...physically separates molecules while maintaining their relative positions, allowing you to resolve individual ...accessible imaging equipment, ExM protocols utilize relatively inexpensive reagents and are readily adoptable...
  12. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ... If you are miserable at home or work, your relationships will suffer in both the short run and the long... learn to work within these bounds You can work later (in the evening, or in a few years) when life responsibilities...agree on before you get enmeshed in a serious relationship. #5 Thou shalt not sweat the small stuff The...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...cells with VSV-G pseudotyped virus requires the upregulation of LDLR expression using other methods.  In ...Gutierrez-Guerrero, et al, 2020). Because retrovirus is closely related to lentivirus, many retroviral envelope proteins...spumaviruses to human serum by galactosyl(alpha1-3)galactosylation. Journal of virology 71:6174–6178 . https:/...
  14. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...targeting the genomic site of interest. The donor template is supplied separately. To use this system, you... 37 °C.     The new pEcCas/pEcgRNA system We speculated that the gRNA on pCas that is specific to the... in the lack of recovered transformants. Our speculation motivated us to update the pCas/pTargetF system...
  15. Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone

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    ...singletons). I felt like anyone at a meeting who felt isolated at a conference for any reason was a Singleton...phenomenon in bacteria that occurs when bacterial cells regulate gene expression in response to changes in cell...structure with regard to the Mentor-Singleton relationship. Some of the variability was organic, as some...
  16. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ...different bacterial hosts (Doran et al. 1998). Regulatory elements within the ori also control copy number...which is the most commonly used bacteria in lab manipulations. Table 1 has a detailed list of the bacterial...leguminosarum, R. meliloti, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, R. capsulatus, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, Salmonella spp....
  17. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...modifiers available. This system utilizes an RNA template containing the desired edit adjoined to the sgRNA...affect gene expression? dCas9 can be used as a platform to deliver various cargo to a specific DNA locus...single transcriptional activation domain - VP64.  Later generations of activators include the SunTag system...
  18. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...several genes previously not associated with ricin regulation, including almost all genes involved in the production... screen did fail to identify some known ricin-regulators, but most of these genes are also essential for...increased and decreased p-values of known ricin regulation genes compared to results generated using non-targeting...
  19. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    ...ummmm, what is it? Reddit is a volunteer-organized platform where users can participate in forum discussions...to see the questions first makes Reddit a great platform for those who aren’t so great at coming up with...whole point is to meet actual people to build relationships. I also like Twitter because I can get a little...
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