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  1. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...CRISPR Cas variant that can also cleave dsDNA similarly to Cas9 (Zetsche et al., 2015 ). Cas12a however...DETECTR. How does DETECTR work? DETECTR works similarly to SHERLOCK. Cas12a is targeted to a specific ...
  2. Hot Plasmids Spring 2024

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    May 23, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Janelia, are now available! Building on their earlier Voltron indicators (a fusion of Ace2N and HaloTag...Neurodegeneration Research Collection. This page is regularly updated with useful materials for research into...
  3. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ...the introduction of this mutation can be any site early in the coding region of the gene of interest. This...Repressing target genes using dCas9-based repressors Early experiments using dCas9 in bacteria demonstrated...
  4. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...article is an interactive chart where you can see the yearly interdisciplinarity index of research for single...and case study." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2.2 (2014): 2. Additional Resources...
  5. Changing Labor Laws Bring Increased Postdoc Wages

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    Oct. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...major effect on scientists within academia, most particularly postdocs working in the U.S., whose current ...thing. Reliance on a cheap trainee workforce has clearly not been a sustainable approach to biomedical research...
  6. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    May 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... is still a problem today. It is now known that nearly 500 cell lines suffer from contamination with HeLa...out on low passage cells and this means you can regularly discard the cells you are working with because...
  7. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...American Type Culture Collection and freeze as many early passage vials as possible. One problem that often...can make this assumption incorrect. One of the earliest steps in lentiviral transduction is the interaction...
  8. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    Oct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... determine this is to examine expression of the early response gene c-fos. For example, using Chr2 stimulation...and a lot of room for error, optogenetics is not nearly as difficult as it seems. Like every other advanced...
  9. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ...between cell types or organisms, promoters must be similarly variable. Bacterial promoters only work in prokaryotic...related species from which they were derived. Similarly, the various eukaryotic cell types (mammalian,...
  10. New Optogenetic Tools for Cytoskeleton and Membrane Control

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    Sept. 28, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... under CC-BY 4.0 license.   Building off their earlier work on Rab11, the team used optogenetic clustering...constructs to the plasma membrane or lysosomes (the earlier article also provided CIB constructs for targeting...
  11. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    July 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... interviews but no job offers, is a failure to clearly articulate one's talents and ideas. Some key points... matter how many times I say this, candidates regularly try to convince me that their search committee...
  12. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...while requiring a lower concentration of sample — nearly ten times less protein. While the addition of LEAs...Methyltransferase (CHARM), with several advantages over the earlier system.  Rather than overexpressing an exogenous...
  13. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... glycosylation patterns. Surface labeling is particularly useful for classifying and sorting cells by ...Paul Heisig is a Research Associate in the lab of Arlene Sharpe at Harvard Medical School. His projects ...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
    ...the use of bright red fluorescent proteins (e.g. mScarlet) or infrared fluorescent proteins (Chernov et ...interfere with the function of the protein. This is clearly the case when proteins undergo post-translational...
  15. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
    ...vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system...is composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step ...
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