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This post was contributed by guest blogger Nathaniel Roquet, a PhD student in the Harvard Biophysics program and researcher in the Lu Lab at MIT. Note: The following blog post reduces the content of our paper, “Synthetic recombinase-based state machines in living cells” (1), ...
The post was contributed by guest blogger Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University. Sex and gender are critical components of biological research that are often forgotten or ignored. If we wish to conduct research that fails less and ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger James D. Fessenden, an Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Biochemists often struggle to understand how a protein of interest actually behaves. How large is it? What parts of it move when you feed it substrate or add an ...
Note: Cpf1 is also called Cas12a. In 2015, Feng Zhang’s lab characterized two Cpf1 nucleases, distant cousins of well-known Cas9. Cpf1 cleaves DNA in a staggered pattern and requires only one RNA rather than the two (tracrRNA and crRNA) needed by Cas9 for cleavage. Now, two new ...
Last updated on Oct 1, 2020 by Aliyah Weinstein. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Wenning Qin and Haoyi Wang. CRISPR/Cas9 is revolutionizing the mouse gene-targeting field. Mice have long been extremely useful in the lab – they are relatively small and easy to work ...
We’ve recently begun expanding our presence in the microbiology community. For our first concrete steps into this field, we’ve curated microbiology plasmids from the repository onto one handy Microbiology Resource page and, just a few weeks ago, we attended the American Society ...
Have you ever tried digesting with XbaI or ClaI restriction enzymes and gotten unusual or unexpected results? Or considered why DpnI will degrade your template DNA from a PCR reaction but not the newly synthesized product from a site-directed mutagenesis experiment? The answer ...
