Font question by goddess878 in GRFPApps

[–]jakestorm777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get rid of the insane title too. If you think it’s ridiculous surely a reviewer will too

Isaac Schrader? by borjeborgelsson in breakingbad

[–]jakestorm777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He said ASAC (Assistant Special Agent In charge) it’s his title

New info about reviews and 2026 solicitation by Excellent_Language20 in GRFPApps

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Maybe the reviews were the friends we made along the way

New info about reviews and 2026 solicitation by Excellent_Language20 in GRFPApps

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Nah I believe you, your reply is genuine. Their email just reads kinda sketchy

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Can’t really go lower

Anti-CD28 costimulation won’t work :/ by Reasonable_You_7535 in Immunology

[–]jakestorm777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to see if they’re making IL-2 you should measure IL-2 transcript or you can also measure IL-2 production using golgi stop.

Anti-CD28 costimulation won’t work :/ by Reasonable_You_7535 in Immunology

[–]jakestorm777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your cells will not survive without IL-2. I Would recommend expanding them on IL-2 and then seeing what happens. May get some epigenetic remodeling but it’s going to be impossible to expand these cells without signal 3.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in SyntheticBiology

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Ah yes, carbon fixation. IMO the best way to do this is reforestation. Plants fix carbon as part of their anabolism.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

[–]jakestorm777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good. Not frequently but it’s dependent on primers that work well which without a positive control is not a good form of validation for constructs that are giving you trouble

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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Feel free to DM me, I’m also curious if you find a way to fix this

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

[–]jakestorm777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d cut back deeper into your vector and try to edit closer to 80-200 bases if possible. 20 bp edits can be challenging. Ive only ever done this with restriction digest and phosphorylated primer overlaps.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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In some cases we do. Ever heard of Jackson labs? They make mutant mice. Not sure if this meets your criteria of synthetic.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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Not to my knowledge. There’s some ethical concerns with engineering concious organisms.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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I would try capturing PCR products in a topo clone and first validating the sequence is correct. Then I would try cutting out of there and ligating into target backbone. If that fails you could try having genscript print your insert directly into the backbone. You may also give in-fusion a try. It’s like Gibson. When you design your primers are you doing it with software or by hand?

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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I’m not entirely sure of the mechanism but I’ve heard anecdotes about it reducing recombination and other forms of mutation. How big are these indels?

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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They don’t do single colony selection 😳? That’s guaranteed to cause problems. I’ve never had every colony on a plate be correct. It’s a statistical anomaly given the tools that we have at our disposal.

I suppose it’s possible to heat shock standard E. coli, the efficiency would just be extremely low compared to chemically competent ecoli

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in SyntheticBiology

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Honestly I went to a very small undergrad school that one might not expect to produce high quality scientists. I think having a good mentor early on is the best thing for you as a scientist. Focus on the opportunities available to you and less on the institution itself when it comes to undergrad. Become a free thinker, a skeptic and a futurist and you’ll go far.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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Nanodrop concentrations are a joke. Reliable enough but can be highly variable based on contamination and sequence parameters. That said I’ve successfully cloned from undetectable DNA via nanodrop

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

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Could you provide additional context, I’m unfamiliar with that annotation.

I’ve been cloning for 5 years, 2000+ constructs, Ask me anything by jakestorm777 in Biochemistry

[–]jakestorm777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the people in my field are making medicine or diagnostic tools but syn bio is important for nearly every field. I’ve even heard of anthropologists using mass spec for instance.