...coronaviruses and enable the virus to enter host cells. To do this, they injected the spike protein from two different...effectively to protein targets, similar to how antibodies do. The structure of the common antibody is heftier ...

...guanines). This limits the use of ABEs as DNA sites that do not contain a suitable PAM cannot be edited efficiently...While base editors are precise molecular tools, they do have undesired off-target editing effects. ABEs have...

...Gal Haimovich of greenfluorescentblog. Be honest. Do you really know how fluorescent proteins glow?   ..., you will not be able to use far red-FPs. If you do not have a filter that will pass blue light to the...

...offer tools to help with these decisions.  So when do you want to codon optimize your gene of interest?...useful in expressing functional proteins in hosts that do not naturally express that gene. The protein you ...

...negative control to determine whether your PIPs actually do interact. Choosing the right negative control is ...scenarios that call for a simple, yes-no answer — i.e., do two proteins interact or not? — FRET is preferable...endogenous PIPs should decrease the BiFC signal in a dose-dependent manner. This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect...easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled. This is also theoretically...

...but orthologs like LwaCas13a do not require a specific PFS. Cas13 enzymes do not contain the RuvC and HNH...

...components can interfere with conjugates. Make sure to do your research before conjugating at the bench.   ...to distinct, non-overlapping epitopes so that they do not interfere with each other. The detection antibody...

...time, when scientists who support open science, but do not share their own data - which seems to be the ...members or colleagues: How much unpublished AAV data do you have sitting in computers and notebooks right... gene transfer to the rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy...

...gradients, practice making the iodixanol layers before doing your first purification. This helped me get a feel...to learn more about different ways to titer AAV. Do you have any AAV production tips or tricks? Please...multiplicity of infections (MOIs), to determine the optimal dose of AAV for my cells of interest. Every batch of ...

...interference), and CRISRPa (activation) libraries that do just that (Doench et al., 2016, Sanson et al., 2018... identifying strong hits in genetic screens, they do have several limitations. CRISPRko results in a complete...

...fluoresce, the Jaffrey lab asked:  Could an RNA aptamer do the same thing? Using the HBI derivative 3,5-difluoro...recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune response. Aptamers can be ...

...cancer via insertional mutagenesis (which HIV does not do). Furthermore, molecular biologists working with ...in order to understand what these vector particles do once they come in contact with target cells (Fig....

...fluorescence microscopy (Dani, et al., 2010). How do you overcome this resolution limit? Electron Microscopy...Prakash K, et al. 2022). So what’s a researcher to do if they want to understand the ultrastructural relationships...

... beads are particularly advantageous because they do not require centrifugation between washes which can...controls include knockout cell lines or tissues that do not express the protein. With this control set, you...

...expression. To design a viral vector system that could do both, Addgene depositor Didier Trono and collaborators... lentiviral system (Figure 2). The HIV genes that do remain are very important for viral production: Gag...

...Gene X in the untreated cells—but can we be certain? Do we know whether the plasmid delivered into the cells...negative controls that produce a similar product, but do not target an endogenous gene in your experimental...

...of necessary data requirements and likely will not do so (calling it a “sisyphean task” given the endless...Firstly, we rely on many other labs to teach us how to do experiments and understand their data. Likewise, ...

...other aspects of molecular biology. “What I'd like to do with the plasmids from Addgene is have the students...

...quantification so that you can focus on what you want to do with your plasmid without spending time and resources...

... Michael Früh submission, which we have entitled "Do You See What I See?" I was bored this weekend while...