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  1. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...directly, albeit weakly, to K-Ras and inhibit its activation. The next step may be to follow up on these promising...molecules that bind to K‐Ras and inhibit Sos‐mediated activation." Angewandte Chemie 124.25 (2012): 6244-6247....brake pedal that does not work. Both cases yield the same result – uncontrolled movement of the vehicle or...transcript most commonly found across all TCGA tumor samples is represented, making the results of any such ...screenshot below). Currently, the page includes interactive maps for the Ras, mTor, and p53 pathways. The...
  2. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...only be aware of the potential for bias but to actively look for and consider bias as a confounding factor...s imperative for scientists to be aware of and actively use tools designed to help reduce or eliminate...sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided into those of African ancestry(orange... on these and any other CRISPR screens using the same reference genomes and libraries. Further complicating...
  3. How to Be an Excellent Trainee

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    ...you up to speed easier and faster when you’re an active participant in the training. In this blog we will...assistance at some point during the procedure. Be an active partner Everyone’s learning style is different,... a saying that if the sample prep is poor, then the data will be poor. The same is true for training in...you remember where the equipment, reagents, and samples are. Do: Ask your bench mentor if they have time...
  4. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    ...around 1,000 active makerspaces around the world. Hackerspaces.org maintains a list of active spaces near...data is freely available, and the collection of samples and sequencing is being organized and funded by...
  5. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    ...PE1 variants with RT mutations known to increase activity, enhance binding between the template and primer...prime editor sequence to improve expression and activity In addition to the numerous innovations that streamline...mutations in Cas9 previously shown to improve nuclease activity (Chen et al., 2021). In a system as complex as...R221K N394K Cas9 mutations Improve Cas9 nuclease activity ~ ~ ~ ~ ✓ ✓ ✓ Evolved reverse...likely because both innovations aim to solve the same problem. Both approaches are effective, but users...
  6. EXPRESs plasmids for human platelets

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    ...Immunoglobulin E Receptor Subunit α (FcεR1α) as an Activating Platelet Endothelium Aggregation Receptor 1 (...bio-His 51749 EFNB1-bio-His 51750 EPHB1-bio-His 51751 ESAM-bio-His 51754 FCGR2a-bio-His 51755 FURIN-bio-His...
  7. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...nucleases (such as Cas3) or have its own nuclease activity. Instead, it forms a novel co-complex with the... (Vo et al., 2020). VchINT was also shown to be active in various gram-negative bacterial hosts of interest...seven required genes and the CRISPR RNA under the same promoter, and a donor plasmid (pDonor) encodes the...immunity, whereby multiple proximal insertions with the same transposon exhibit reduced efficiencies (Vo et al...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening - An excellent protocol paper by the...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening. Nat Protoc. 2017 Apr;12(4):828-863...plasmids, all of which need to be represented in the same proportion after amplification as they were prior...visualization) that confirm diversity of the library sample, and any other information or scripts provided ...
  9. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    ...modification with Homology Directed Repair (HDR), CRISPR activation or repression, transgenic mouse line creation...deliver Cas9 variants, such as a transcriptional activator dCas9-VPR, if these variants are fused to the ...detected in cells electroporated with RNPs using the same guide. Nanoblades also had lower off-target effects...
  10. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ...Zhang, Y., & Ke, A. (2024). Exploiting activation and inactivation mechanisms in type I-C CRISPR-Cas3 for...called CasPEDIA, with information about enzyme activity, experimental conditions, and more. Type II Type...enzyme, with adaptations for increased fidelity, activation/repression, high precision edits, and more. ...data. In some cases, CRISPR systems that are in the same class and type don’t share sequence similarity but...between two types, the Cas effector may have the same name but be completely different! They are merely...but it’s suspected that they don’t carry out the same types of adaptive immune functions that other CRISPR... 2000–2012. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz1197 Samai, P., Pyenson, N., Jiang, W., Goldberg, G. W., Hatoum-Aslan...
  11. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    ...adenosine deaminase can convert adenosine to inosine. Activate/Repress: Modified versions of CRISPR nucleases... using the link or use the text below to get the same information. Download a PDF of CRISPR Cheat Sheet...
  12. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...cells and one which diminishes the endonuclease activity of the enzyme. In vivo, only nascent NgAgo protein...the cellular machinery, leaving a small amount of active NgAgo/ssDNA complex in the cell. As proposed in... to deliver NgAgo ingredients into the cell, the same method used by Gao et al, 2016 (1). View the Complete...
  13. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...necessary to excise the non-fluorescent YFP and activate fluorescence of the downstream OFP, GFP, or RFP...injected transgene, each of which could recombine to activate the expression of a different fluorescent protein...cell remains the same color for its entire lifetime and daughter cells retain the same color, allowing ...3.0 and using the same fluorescent markers, Brainbow 3.1 and 3.2 (described in the same publication) are...stage, meaning that neurons of the same lineage will express the same XFP transgene in an adult fly. As... that target these epitopes and fluoresce in the same color as the fused XFP can be used to amplify the...expressing YFP, CFP, and RFP are not present at the same frequencies. The small population size of CFP++ ...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...proteins expressed in the specimen.  2. Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorter (FACs) A machine that sorts cells ...How do dendritic cells migrate to lymph nodes to activate T cells (Celli et al 2008, Kitano et al. 2016,...Patrolling monocytes promote intravascular neutrophil activation and glomerular injury in the acutely inflamed...depth. Two low-energy photons (typically from the same laser) cooperate to cause a higher-energy electronic...proteins. Additional fluorescent protein tools Photoactivable fluorescent proteins (proteins that fluoresce...movement by marking cells at a specific time. Photoactivable fluorescent proteins, for example, have been...must pay attention to time scale when using photoactivatable FPs - their degradation within labelled cells...
  15. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ...initiate replication, controlling the amount of active DnaA available is one of a cell’s best tools to...binding sites, or trading out ADP for ATP to re-activate DnaA. These regulatory mechanisms allow E. coli...machinery in order to replicate—but not always to the same extent. As described in our previous Origin of Replication... although ATP does get hydrolyzed over time, inactivating the protein binding it (Grimwade et al., 2018...proteins, it can be regulated indirectly via the same mechanisms that affect DnaA and IHF. RepA also controls...
  16. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    ...Golden Gate assembly involves the simultaneous activities of a Type IIS restriction enzyme such as BsaI...base pair substrates, it demonstrates significant activity on some mismatch-containing pairings. During Golden...confirmed the insertion of the Lambda insert at the same high frequencies as the antibiotic selection markers...
  17. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    ... enzymes are cheap, fast, shelf-stable before activation, and light-insensitive. They can detect femtogram...usually preferred because of their higher specific activity, slightly lower cost, and smaller size. However...antimicrobial agents. Chemiluminescence kits When activating your enzyme, make sure to choose a chemilumescence...and your sample(s), as you can only compare samples to a standard curve generated on the same blot. If...protein expression varies from sample to sample. To compare one sample to another, you’ll need to normalize... a weak signal. However, they have high cross-reactivity, vary significantly from lot-to-lot, and have...but they have higher specificity, lower cross-reactivity, and are more consistent lot-to-lot. The highest...
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