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Big, big news in synthetic biology. Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute released a paper in Science
The generation of transgenic plants can be a lengthy and difficult process. Transient expression assays have been developed as faster and more convenient alternatives for investigating gene function. These assays often take advantage of the ability of Agrobacterium to transfer foreign DNA into plant cells with intact cell walls. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation is, however, [...]
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(PhysOrg.com) – A research team has made precise measurements of where and how RNA polymerase
Using a promoter that can drive expression at an appropriate level is crucial in designing constructs for gene expression. Promoters can be tested via transient or stable transfection. But transfection efficiency in such assays can be low, so promoters are commonly fused to heterologous reporter genes that encode enzymes that can be [...]
Hollis Cline, Ph.D. will speak as part of the College’s Distinguished Biomedical Scholar Lecture Series on Thursday, May 20. Cline’s talk is entitled “Building Brain Circuits,” and will be held in Urmila Sahai Seminar Room (2117 MERF) at 4 pm. The talk is sponsored by the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics.
Cline received her Ph.D. [...]
In an effort to increase communication with investigators, the Tissue Procurement Core Facility has launched a new wiki portal. The new TissueWiki portal will serve as a way for investigators to leave comments for the Facility, ask questions, or communicate with Facility staff or other investigators utilizing the core’s services.
Comments posted on the TissueWiki system [...]
Congratulations to the 2010 Research Week poster session winners! Both poster sessions were again a large success, featuring over 100 participants each day. Winners were recognized by College and University leadership April 14 during the annual Research Week awards ceremony.
Below, view award winners from the Carver College of Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, [...]
In an effort to make Research Week seminars available to all campus investigators, the 2010 talks are now available for viewing online. Many of the videos utilize a new lecture-capture system recently implemented on the CCOM campus. The system offers video footage of speakers along side a screen capture of Powerpoint slides and other visual [...]
The large size and external development of the frog Xenopus laevis make it an ideal system for in vivo imaging of dynamic cellular activity. Xenopus embryos are amenable to simple genetic manipulation techniques including knockdowns and misexpression, as well as transgenesis. The ease of collecting large numbers of embryos and the larger size of [...]
April’s issue of Cold Spring Harbor Protocols includes instructions for Rapid Coomassie Blue Staining of Protein Gels. This method is an adaptation of the conventional Coomassie staining protocol described in Staining Proteins in Gels with Coomassie Blue. Coomassie Brilliant Blue R250 (CBR-250) is the most commonly used dye for visualizing proteins because of [...]
The other blog where I write, The Scholarly Kitchen, has been nominated for a Webby, a fairly prestigious award in the online world. Since the winner is determined by the voting public, and since we’re up against some seriously stiff competition (including the NY Times and Wall Street Journal), your help would be greatly [...]
While 454-based pyrosequencing has led to great advances, an intrinsic artifact of the process leads to artificial over-representation of more than 10% of the original DNA sequencing templates. This is particularly problematic in metagenomic studies, where the abundance of any sequence in a dataset is often used for comparative community analysis. It’s important [...]
Neurons are organized into anatomical and functional groups called “circuits”. The activity of these circuits is traditionally monitored using conventional electrophysiological techniques. But some cells, such as the submandibular ganglia, are difficult to impale for intracellular recordings. Instead, viral vectors can be used to deliver fluorescent calcium sensors for detecting activity in a [...]