{"id":816,"date":"2023-04-02T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/?p=816"},"modified":"2023-11-02T12:41:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:41:16","slug":"a-simple-method-to-dramatically-increase-c-elegans-germline-microinjection-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"A simple method to dramatically increase C. elegans germline microinjection efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this bioRxiv manuscript, Gibney et al., (2023) describe a paintbrush based method to improve the speed and survival of microinjections in <em>C. elegans<\/em>. The authors show a significantly higher injection efficiency when using a paintbrush instead of a pick to transfer worms to and from the agarose pad. The technique is simple as demonstrated in their videos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this bioRxiv manuscript, Gibney et al., (2023) describe a paintbrush based method to improve the speed and survival of microinjections in C. elegans. The authors show a significantly higher injection efficiency when using a paintbrush instead of a pick to transfer worms to and from the agarose pad. The technique is simple as demonstrated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/?p=816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briggsae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}