...itself. Among other things, science communication comprises broadcasting, science writing, and certain aspects... get on stage for a Science Slam – a sort of competitive TED talk – to win the audience’s applause with...photography and participate in a science photo competition. Or nominate yourself as an educator for a short...

...also is also called Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC). 8 points to keep in mind when choosing...divided by 1000. In many cases the brightness is compared to that of EGFP which is set as 1. Some proteins... BD bioscience. ilovegfp – a site with very comprehensive data sheets on many FP variants Plasmids 101...

...RNA (pegRNA). The pegRNA consists of a target-complementary spacer, a scaffold sequence, and an extension...accounting for some of the inherent inaccuracies of computational prediction models. In addition, we provide options...Switzerland), where he developed a strong passion for computational biology. His expertise includes applying machine...

...proteins on the cell surface. Figure 1: Comparison of common antibody, HCab, and nanobody. For more...starting library size (up to 1012 members) in comparison to other display systems using phage and yeast...the end of the mRNA molecule, forming a ribosome complex consisting of the translated protein (sybody), ...

... fluorescent signal throughout the reaction is compared to a standard curve of amplified DNA of a known...The cycle in which the unknown DNA is detected compared to the standard curve can be used to determine... to note however, that multiplex PCR is more complicated to develop and is often less sensitive than PCRs...

...the cell lysis process. To ensure that lysis is complete, use a reagent like Qiagen’s LyseBlue, which uses... uses color to show you if lysis is incomplete. Protein expression strains are not good for cloning Bacterial...the material used for inoculation. To further complicate matters, plasmid copy numbers are often ambiguous...

...importance of the entire GFP protein, which is almost completely required to maintain fluorescent activity; very...may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising common fluorophores Fluorescent Protein Mutations...chromophore to form with an indole rather than phenol component (cyan derivatives) Y66H Blue-shifts the wavelength...

...engineered DNA-binding molecule such as the CRISPR complex is expressed in cells to be analyzed, the Fujii...another "in vitro" form. In this form, the CRISPR complex, consisting of a recombinant dCas9 protein and ... a genomic locus through a specific gRNA-dCas9 complex. When combined with next-generation sequencing,...

...your samples, the relationships between cellular components, and the accessibility of your target epitope...work by dehydrating and precipitating cellular components. This method of fixation is good for epitopes...away your target (for example, some cytoskeletal components) and you want to fix and permeabilize in one ...

...No examination of the state of science would be complete without the inclusion of some interesting case...Prashers will find it increasingly difficult to compete (for funding, etc.) with that produced by the confident...the U.S. environment, and a decline in the competitiveness of U.S. science and technology.” This last ...

...cells can decrease the number of fluorophores, compromising the photon budget. Likewise, the switch from...labeling chemistry easier and more functional in complex biological environments such as live cells and ...brightness of the resulting conjugate, and the complexity of the system. A particularly desirable property...

...ordering the sgRNA is simple and easy. Several companies supply gRNA sequences, such as GenScript, ThermoFisher...order them yourself through whatever DNA supply company you currently use. You can also find many previously...explored and it allowed control over each individual component of the system. However, it is easier to directly...

...promoter present in your plasmid backbone must to be compatible with the type of RNA that needs to be made: if...speaking, promoters in bacteria are less diverse and complex, having fewer parts than those in eukaryotic cells... repression in the presence of glucose or by competitive binding of the anti-inducer fucose Weaker. Commonly...

... amplify well and others don’t. The size and composition of your library can drastically impact what conditions...suffice…and the answer is no. Due to the size and complexity of pooled libraries, NGS is the best way to validate... plasmids didn’t amplify after your screen is completed!  Producing Your Lentiviral Library Once you've...

...needs a standard against which the results can be compared; results from an experiment lacking the proper...baseline/standard against which other samples can be compared. The Empty Vector Control (mentioned above) could... where expression of that gene is knocked out completely. These controls may or may not be plasmid-based...

...1997). We have a lot of plasmids that contain components of the SB transposon system including those from...but think again. Spaghetti squash is actually a component of the fly actomyosin cytoskeleton that regulates...regulates cellular contraction. This network is composed of actin and myosin which interact with each other...

...decreased p-values of known ricin regulation genes compared to results generated using non-targeting guides...full-length (19-20 bp) or short (17-18 bp) guides. When comparing the toxicity of guides that have 1-bp mismatch...off-target sites, short guides had reduced toxicity compared to full-length guides. Reduced toxicity of short...

...line identity and purity making it easier for comparable studies to be performed on a cell line even decades...passage number, cell line, and date, which you complete each time you passage the cells (as well as recording...through working for a variety of pharmaceutical companies including GSK, AstraZeneca-MedImmune, and Infors...

...are differentially inactivated by nonspecific complement mechanisms in serum. Sometimes this is due to...sugars end up in the envelope and are targets for complement-based killing by anti-alphaGal antibodies. The... as described above and is inactivated by the complement system in serum (DePolo et al., 2000). Other ...

...the anticodon,  a three nucleotide sequence complementary to the mRNA sequence. The 3’ end of  the tRNA...resources (Athey et al., 2017) and many DNA synthesis companies, such as IDT, Genewiz and GenScript, offer tools...the other while other codons are under expressed compared to others. Image from Hiss et al., 2017. Most...