... Mendel. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie 323:1053–1060 . https...Mendelian genetics was being revived by the botanist Hugo de Vries (1896).  In 1928, Frederick Griffith used mouse...//doi.org/10.1038/nature17946 Lenay C (2000) Hugo De Vries: from the theory of intracellular pangenesis...domain (FokI). Zinc finger nucleases were first designed in 2005. The DNA-binding domain can be engineered...triplets, the components recognize individual nucleotides. This imparts TALENs more specificity and a broader...editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed each time we wanted to target new genomic sites...chasing an anti-villain geneticist named Zobrist who designs a virus that can potentially kill one-third of ...

...thanks to our guest blogger, Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Harshana S De Silva Feelixge is a researcher whose... post was contributed by guest blogger Harshana S De Silva Feelixge. Gene therapy technologies hold ...form, translating gene therapies from conceptual design to clinical trials involve identifying a therapeutic...

...Genome Res. 2010 Jan;20(1):81-89. PubMed. 2. Bauer DE, Kamran SC, Lessard S, Xu J, Fujiwara Y, Lin C, et...11;342(6155):253-257. PubMed. 3. Canver MC, Bauer DE, Dass A, Yien YY, Chung J, Masuda T, et al. Characterization...and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods for CRISPR design, cloning, and delivery, as well...

... rather than aversive stimuli. In a recent paper, de Jong and colleagues used rAAV FLEx-based vectors ...brain regions associated with motivated behaviors (de Jong et al., 2019). FLEx vectors represent, therefore...developmental biology at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Her love for educational science led her to...neuroscience 8.9 (2005): 1263. PubMed PMID: 16116447. de Jong, Johannes W., et al. "A neural circuit mechanism...scientific communication manager at genOway. A few decades ago, the brain remained elusive, not from a lack...Boyden et al., 2005; Deisseroth et al., 2006). Despite its relatively recent development, the history ...Double-floxed Orientation)) is a powerful tool that provides precise temporal and spatial control of gene expression...

...postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL) and one of the coordinators... illustrates the power of collaboration, which despite the competitiveness of cutting-edge research, is...physics. Even non-scientists, such as lawyers, designers and other professionals, joined the platform; ...

...unpublished, that allowed the visualization of specific de novo synthesized proteins in situ. I was privileged..., 2010) and allows the visualization of the whole de novo synthesized proteome. However, FUNCAT alone ...radioactive materials is highly regulated, requires designated work areas and come with health risks. Importantly...synthesized endogenous proteins in situ. Now FUNCAT-PLA provides both quantitative and spatio-temporal information...

...protein design goals, both from the Baker Lab and others. The introduction of de novo designed proteins...concept that this kind of protein design is possible. Although Top7 was designed simply to be stable and novel...Hassabis and John Jumper! The Baker Lab focuses on designing entirely new proteins, improving our understanding...team was the first to develop and publish a human-designed protein that was not based on any existing protein...least that we’ve seen so far!). They started by designing a novel topology, then iteratively generated 3D...got closer and closer to achieving it. Once they designed the protein computationally, the researchers expressed...demonstrating “the structure is strikingly similar to the design model at atomic resolution” (Kuhlman and Dantas...

...References Akhtar, W., De Jong, J., Pindyurin, A. V., Pagie, L., Meuleman, W., De Ridder, J., Berns, A....this means we could design hundreds to thousands of different pegRNAs for each desired edit, it simply becomes...via GitHub (which includes prediction in batch mode). To predict the best pegRNA design for a specific edit...or offline via GitHub. The model provides users with different designs of pegRNAs, ranked by their PRIDICT...and a reverse transcription template (RTT). The design of the pegRNA has been shown to play a critical...find a way to predict the efficiencies of pegRNA designs based on patterns observed from high-throughput...experiments, where we can evaluate tens of thousands of designs in parallel. To do this, we performed high-throughput...

... which one you choose depends on your experiment (de Ruijter et al., 2003). For example, we did our initial...Humana Press, 2009. 41-50. PubMed PMID: 19183892. De Ruijter, N. C. A., et al. "Evaluation and comparison...and a vacuum is applied with a vacuum bell or desiccator. Successful infiltration can often be seen by...

...to go back to Ghana after his PhD and the need to de-mystify molecular biology. 25:51 - 30:56 : Further...

...in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling, gene activation...Tillotson R, Selfridge J, Koerner MV, Gadalla KKE, Guy J, De Sousa D, Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird A (2017) Radically...that MECP2 binds to methylated CpG dinucleotides and CAC trinucleotides during neuronal maturation (Tillotson...If you’re new to Rett Syndrome, this blog post describes the history of Rett Syndrome research, the role...MECP2 in Rett Syndrome Rett Syndrome was first described in 1966 by Austrian physician, Andreas Rett, who... his observations in a German medical journal. Decades later and after years of painstaking work trying...

...Sullender M, Ebert BL, Xavier RJ, Root DE (2014) Rational design of highly active sgRNAs for CRISPR-Cas9...LO, Morgan JL, Juan WC, Roca X, Ong ST, Bergstrom DE (2018) Viable Mice with Extensive Gene Humanization... mouse genome is made up of 3 x 109 nucleotides (nt), and encodes 23,000 or so genes. It would be great...guide you in gRNA design. We have been using Benchling, but there are many other gRNA design tools available...for cells that had successfully incorporated the desired mutation, and then derive mice from these engineered...NHEJ), this will leave behind a “scar”, with nucleotides missing or added at the broken ends and, as such...CRISPR is much more efficient at generating the desired mutant offspring, with 85% success compared to ...

...X, Scott DA, Mikkelson T, Heckl D, Ebert BL, Root DE, Doench JG, Zhang F. Science. 2013 Dec 12. (PubMed...Wang’s library is designed to target a smaller set of genes and it includes more guides per gene. The Sabatini...Two new human lentiviral CRISPR library systems described in companion papers in Science in December were...Additionally, a concurrent Nature Biotechnology article describes the development of a mouse lentiviral CRISPR library...

...as your titer changes, so may your needed volume (de Backer et al., 2010).  Second, high efficiency transduction...–10. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0106472 de Backer, M. W. A., Brans, M. A. D., Luijendijk, M....could help, or harm, your experimental goals when designing and testing your AAV.  Figure 2: Comparison...

...Rodrigo Arturo Rivera Solís, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico Dr. Rodrigo Arturo Rivera Solí...renewable biotechnology products and biosensors for herbicides as well as developing yeast as source for dietary...technology to engineer plants that are able to destroy DNA viruses, similar to the anti-phage CRISPR effect...cloning kit) she intends to make yeast capable of desaturating fatty acids. Identification of Insecticidal ...as insecticidal proteins, the use of chemical pesticides may be avoided or decreased. Biosensors for herbicide...thrives to make affordable biosensors that detect herbicides, such as glyphosate, in water. He aims to leverage...

...pushing the work forward. Xeroderma Pigmentosum Hendrik De Buhr (top right) and his colleagues at the Wistar...as their kidneys fail. The condition was first described more than 60 years ago, but there is still no ...says that the lab got interested in XP out of a desire to understand the early events in the transformation...changes in temperature.  “The disease was first described in 1971,” McSweeney said. “But, it is still sometimes...responsible for the disease as ATP1A3. The gene encodes a sodium-potassium pump expressed specifically ...

..., Smith I, Sullender M, Ebert BL, Xavier RJ, Root DE. Nat Biotechnol. 2014 Sep 3. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3026...Wilen C, Orchard R, Virgin HW, Listgarten J, Root DE. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jan 18. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3437...and Primer3 to design primers that amplified a 500-600 bp product. The primers I designed (listed above...from John Doench & David Root and is described in Rational design of highly active sgRNAs for CRISPR-Cas9...John Doench & David Root and are described in Optimized sgRNA design to maximize activity and minimize..., so some of the cells will still appear green despite having active Cas9 (see tip 2). Pro-Tips 1. To ... 4). The most difficult part of the assay was designing primers flanking my edits in genomic DNA and doing...

...salmon_phd References Frassl MA, Hamilton DP, Denfeld BA, de Eyto E, Hampton SE, Keller PS, Sharma S, Lewis ASL...in scientific research and in any workspace. Re-design lab meetings with a focus on discussion and brainstorming...pivotal in writing publications/grants too. As described by several works (Wuchty et al., 2007, Vicens ...Meetings can get very long sometimes, and interaction fades away the longer we are on it – so it is important...important to take breaks. After 1 hour (or another designated time) of meeting, someone could raise their hands...prepares a coffee, or simply moves away from the desk to switch off a few minutes. The host could also...

...plexWell™ libraries is well suited to large-scale de novo assemblies of short constructs like plasmids...all over the world. The rest of this piece will describe plexWell™ in more detail, and how we are using... containing fragments carrying sample-specific barcodes. Rather than continuing to process 100s to 1000s...

...Terry, F. E., Roberts, B. J., Rosenberg, A. S., & De Groot, A. S. (2022). In silico Immunogenicity Assessment...in vivo animal models. In these cases, they are designed to mimic the human lymphatic system or even the....org/10.3389/fddsv.2022.952326Joubert, M. K., Deshpande, M., Yang, J., Reynolds, H., Bryson, C., Fogg,...