...post was contributed by Jordan Ward who is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa...elegans relied on selective markers such as drug resistance (Chen et al., 2013), fluorescence (GFP; Tzur ...unedited animals struck me as a “needle in the haystack” type of problem and led to me to explore alternate...lethal mutation should remove much of the unedited “haystack”, facilitating recovery of edited animals. ...allowing novice researchers to quickly and easily start genome editing (Schwartz et al., 2018). To see more...Thank you to our guest blogger! Jordan Ward is an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa...

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...expression, is it necessary to add a G nucleotide to the start of my target sequence? A2: The human U6 promoter...promoter prefers a 'G' at the transcription start site to have high expression, so adding this G could help ...when they order the oligo. If your spacer sequence starts with a 'G', you naturally have one and do not need...that mutation be selected/screened? A4: Before starting your experiment, consider co-transfecting with... cells (for example, plasmid with a puromycin resistance cassette, such as PX459). After you co-transfect...

...use, and likes to start at the beginning, shepherding a new product from the idea stage through all of its... days or even weeks. Primer design was done painstakingly by hand. Records of plasmid construction were... plasmids contain features such as antibiotic resistance markers and replication origins, but there is...efforts, such an algorithm has limitations. For instance, it could miss a common feature if the sequence...

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...and all the shortcomings and mistakes pointed out. Therefore, I try to stay away from the loaded and judgemental...ensuring that published work meets the accepted standards of reporting in the discipline and reduces the...underscore the sentences that I found hard to understand or individual words that are not appropriate ...whoever cares to listen. In March 2020 she will start her own research group at Boyce Tompson Institute...

... and communication. A great approach to fully understand and acquire competitive skill sets in a myriad...with a strong impact, or a journalist does not understand the high-level science discussed in an interview...your project may not advance beyond its initial stages. Help you build a network outside of the academic... incorporating EAs into your routine.  Getting started: Planning your career path and identifying needed...Science writing competitions (e.g. Access to Understanding)   Writing Communication Publicity ...

...out to start the conversation. Many researchers are open to sharing knowledge and establishing collaborations...perform research there temporarily. The length of stay could be from a month to a year. The researcher ...take good notes, and ask questions if you don’t understand something. Offer to help out wherever you can...a really good time! If it sounds right for you, start thinking outside of your current research box, send...

...indicating translational repression. During later stages, single RFP-labeled osk and Oskar protein were ...mRNA and keeps it in a single field of view for constant tracking. You can then directly monitor multiple...used harringtonine, a translation inhibitor that stalls ribosomes after initiation, to calculate a ribosome...silent. Both of these methods increase our understanding of translation dynamics, but they come with ...translation in various cell types and physiological states. References 1. Ingolia, Nicholas T., et al. “Genome-wide...

...profound, and this is a rare instance in which "profound" seems like an understatement. Multiple speakers from...be of secondary importance (or tertiary, or non-existant). On the very first night of the iPSC symposium... Christine Mummery, Lorenz Studer, and Deepak Srivastava--addressed a battery of questions regarding topics...implant human kidney progenitors into a pig. In stark contrast to recent genome engineering technologies...

...individual fluorescent protein (brightness, photostability, and so on; see the previous blog post for ...CFP and GFP (ex 488 nm / em 507 nm) show some crosstalk between the two fluorescent proteins. If you must... microscope. Ideally, you would like to have substantial overlap between the excitation and emission filters...most recently published ones), they can be a good starting point. In many cases it is sufficient to use a...screenshot from the Chroma Spectra Viewer comparing a standard Cy3 or Rhodamine filter set (Chroma #49004) to...

... and your career ambitions. First, how does one stand out amongst a pool of successful applicants and ...the end of your PhD or contract, you should be starting to send out polite emails with your CV to people...with others to accomplish your goals. You must understand your own style before making this choice.  How...You won't always be in the zone, but even brief stays there can make all the difference. Choose a lab ...Achieve Success in Academia  Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab   ...

... includes biochemical properties, previously established uses, and intended applications. Within CasPEDIA... different enzymes. CasPEDIA is meant to be a constantly updating database which serves as a resource ...That’s a lot of helpful information! To get you started, we’ll give a quick overview of each CasPEDIA feature...activity. AsCas12a, on the other hand, generates staggered DNA nicks at its target in cis and cleaves ssDNA...the previous information may be all you need to start your targeting experiment. However, many situations...

...function and a well established cellular signaling gene, thus providing a starting point for downstream...per gene approach that has been the historical standard. Specifically, in our recent publications, we ...profiling, systematic tumorigenesis assays, drug epistasis assays, and morphological profiling can be used...essence in clinical settings, looking ahead, we’re starting to build saturating libraries of all possible ...

...Next-generation sequencing technologies are the gold standard but they remain cost-prohibitive for many labs...Since there are many thousands of partitions, statistical modelling can be used to determine the actual... measure of target abundance, does not require standard curves, and can theoretically detect a single ...reference probe designed to bind at an unedited site distal tothe predicted double strand break, and a NHEJ...individual target molecules based on their mutation status. The drop-off probe is designed to perfectly complement...