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TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m....fluorophore, which emits light. No excitation illumination needed — just the luminescent substrate. This...you used? Share your tips below! This post was originally written by Jason Niehaus in June 2014 and was...
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From Lab Bench to Leadership: Transitioning into Management as a PhD
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2025, 2:15 p.m....supportive environment to build my management skills. Finally, developing emotional intelligence is vital. Learning...collaboration. The good news: It’s a journey, not a final choice Management is not a one-way path. As careers... -
Hot Plasmids - February 2022
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m....identifying guide selection rules, and reducing recombination by finding acceptable variations in DR sequences... cassette provides increased simplicity for combinatorial genetic screens, and this optimized toolkit ... -
GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m....dissociation from the GPCR allows for binding of a new inactive heterotrimeric G protein complex and subsequently...pathways from ligand to receptor to G-protein, and finally, to a response? Let’s take a look at a few examples... -
Clear and Accessible Writing
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m....website, as an instructive step-by-step guide. Finally, when writing your alt text, use all of this information... equal to the buoyant force of the solution. Contaminants of lower densities are captured at the 17%, ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....biology – they can deliver materials to specific destinations, haul a variety of cargo, and even handle a ...applications Vaccine development Attenuated and inactivated viruses pioneered vaccine development well over... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m....them ideal for applications with whole organisms. Finally, viral delivery is typically straightforward across...for multiple diseases, including hemophilia B and spinal muscular atrophy. Type of Virus Pros Cons ... -
Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.... very similar to the widely used FRET, but it eliminates the need for an excitation light source. Instead... medium to allow RLuc8 to produce photons. The original nano-lantern emitted yellow-green light and exhibited... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m....from Bryan Roth’s lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. These can be used to investigate... only be expressed in cells that express cre recombinase. Typically, this feature is used to attain cell-specific... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.... genome through homologous or site directed recombination. Transduction is a common tool used by scientists...and Edward Tatum when they observed genetic recombination between two nutritional deficient E. coli strains... -
Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 21, 2019, 1:15 p.m....dCas9 fused to the Activation Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID) enzyme. AID, however, only changes cytidines...targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while increasing the standard mutation ... -
Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m....Vellai lab’s new plasmid, T444T, contains T7 terminators adjacent to the T7 promoters to prevent the incorporation...norovirus RNA), the ribosome binding site is inaccessible. When the target RNA is present, however, it... -
Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 19, 2018, 1:12 p.m....writing grant proposals to be reviewed by interdisciplinary panels. And highly successful scientists ... graduate students in different regional and disciplinary communities gather at ComSciCon's local and ... -
Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m....opportunity for homologous recombination. Before CRISPR, that recombination was a one in a million event... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m....Ku then acts as a scaffold for recruitment of a kinase (DNA-PKcs) and a two subunit DNA ligase (XRCC4-...reduces breaks and mutations at off-target sites. Christina Mork contributed to the update of this post. Thank... -
How to Make Friends and Meet People at a Scientific Conference
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 7, 2014, 1:58 p.m....interested in the same phosphate of your favorite kinase is a good start. Check out Joanne's Reddit AMA ...Networking - Building Relationships for Success" webinar with Joanne Kamens via ASCB Check out more Career... -
Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m....plasmids out of the library in the appropriate combination and do a restriction enzyme digest to cut out...scientists relied on traditional homologous recombination. That technology had been used for decades to... -
Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2021, 1:15 p.m....easy detection with the appropriate fluorescent illumination in in vivo, ex vivo, or post-mortem experiments...Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Using a combination of in vivo and anatomical techniques, her research... -
Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m....expressed. Pho8Δ60 localizes to the cytosol in an inactive form unless autophagy is induced. Then non-selective... Pho8 from its uncleaved to cleaved form is the final read out of this assay. This is also a quantitative... -
Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m.... DNA that you want to assemble together in a combination of different ways according to your cloning strategy... or PCR products from a gel. You will avoid contamination from other DNA fragments and you will remove...