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  1. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

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    ...Lab Management Software for Biology Learn about CRISPR Pooled Libraries Resources at Addgene.org Find...Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that uses neoantigen biology to treat cancer. My partner for the day...
  2. Improved Plasmid Maps Powered by SnapGene

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    ...are commonly used for Golden Gate cloning or for CRISPR gRNA cloning. With this more functional display... a variety of common plasmid features such as antibiotic resistance genes, selectable markers, promoters...
  3. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    ...interactions with Alzheimer's, I found others using CRISPR to generate new knockout mice, using adenoviral...There were, of course, many companies selling antibodies, microscopes, and dissection tools, but there...
  4. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    ...including a bot for biosensor papers, microbe articles, CRISPR papers, and more. Saving papers There isn’t technically...about and jumping into the discussion! Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar is an AI-backed literature search...the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar analyzes publications and figures using...more relevant to your search terms. Key features Semantic Scholar has several ways to focus your search ...at the top of this filter. A unique feature of Semantic Scholar search results are the topic pages, which...displayed. Saving papers Papers can be saved to a Semantic Scholar library. You can add hashtags to library...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...transient gene expression in a particular cell type to CRISPR genome editing, optogenetics, and chemogenetics...specificity; this is particularly helpful when wanting to target specific neuron subtypes, since AAVs ..."Development and optimization of a real-time quantitative PCR-based method for the titration of AAV-2 ...
  6. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ... RNA amplification, new toehold switch designs, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genotyping, as well as our electronic... synthetic gene networks for the detection of antibiotic resistance and strain-specific diagnostics for...electronic reader that provides portable quantification of diagnostic results.  Our approach now detects samples...
  7. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ...Biology with BioBuilder 3D Models for learning about CRISPR Resources at Addgene.org Find plasmids from the...riboprobe binding (via hybridization) specific antibodies that detect the mRNA-riboprobe complex are added...stain the cells that contain this mRNA-riboprobe-antibody complex and, as a result, these cells turn blue...
  8. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    ... genes for proteins in these compartments using CRISPR systems should strongly consider using moxFPs over...by guest bloggers Erik L. Snapp and Lindsey M. Costantini. "You underestimate the power of the Dark Side...non-fluorescent, and misfolded FP-fusions on quantitative imaging experiments and cell physiology in general...population is not readily apparent and can confound quantitative imaging experiments or even negatively impact...misfolded dark FP fusions including erroneous quantitation of fusion protein levels. It remains unclear...proteins. Our recent publication illustrated the quantitative increase in fluorescent signal achieved when...our guest bloggers Erik L. Snapp and Lindsey M. Costantini! Erik Lee Snapp received his PhD in Molecular...
  9. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    ...- a primer for beginners Adenoviral delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 5 tips for troubleshooting viral transductions...formation assay on A549 cells . Alternatively, antibody-based assays are commercially available for faster...ratio for the purified virus should be ~1.3 Quantitative PCR: the number of viral DNA packaged in virions...virions is determined by a standard curve of known quantity and primers specific for a viral DNA sequence....
  10. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    ...packaging transfections Find tips for a first time CRISPR user Resources on Addgene.org Learn how Addgene...titration by qPCR Overview: AAV titering by qPCR quantifies the number of genome-containing viral particles... primer/probe set can be used and samples are quantified by comparing to an AAV standard curve, which ...Universal real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of adeno-associated virus serotype 2-derived...
  11. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ... References 1. Ma, Hanhui, et al. “Multicolor CRISPR labeling of chromosomal loci in human cells.” Proc...advantages over their amino acid-based counterparts, antibodies and enzymes, such as: Design and selection ...commercial synthesis (those of us who have used antibodies for diagnostics know how frustrating it can be...hybridization (FISH) where fluorophore-linked antibodies are used to visualize RNA. Low signal-to-noise...
  12. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    ...page Find synthetic biology plant plasmids Find CRISPR plant plasmids ...track, we switched to luciferases to more easily quantify the effect of the different treatments on transformation...transformation success. Luciferases are great quantitative reporters and use a substrate to produce bioluminescence..., Marc-André, et al. "Transient expression of antibodies in plants using syringe agroinfiltration." Recombinant...
  13. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    ...for transfer plasmids with small inserts (such as CRISPR guides) while a single 72h harvest is best for ...generally a good place to start. If you don’t anticipate that you will need large volumes of lentivirus...
  14. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    ...Addgene blog Engineering the plant genome using CRISPR/Cas9 Using pSiM24 for simplifying plant genetic...the tDNA insertions (usually via seed growth on antibiotic-containing media) A similar process occurs ... the absence of selection. For a protocol for antibiotic selection, check out Harrison et al., 2006. Tips...
  15. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ... instance, the popular genome-engineering tool, CRISPR, may one day make techniques used to generate transgenic...from their evolution. Southern blotting and quantitative real-time PCR Southern blotting, named for its...commonly used. In all cases, the result can be quantified by the strength of the signal in comparison to...experimental questions. Real-time PCR detects and quantifies a gene or DNA sequence of interest by recording...Frank Speleman, and Jo Vandesompele. "Real-time quantitative PCR as an alternative to Southern blot or fluorescence...
  16. Fluorescent Proteins 101: GFP Fusion Proteins - Making the Right Connection

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    ...revolution in genome editing methods (most notably CRISPR/Cas mediated HDR) enables the tagging of endogenous...Organized Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (OSER) assay (Costantini et al., 2012) measures homodimerization of FPs...the appearance of OSER whorls. This assay is quantitative and is currently the standard for assessing ...: 30783202. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6381139. Costantini, Lindsey M., et al. "Assessing the tendency of...PMCID: PMC3324619. Cranfill, Paula J., et al. "Quantitative assessment of fluorescent proteins." Nature ...
  17. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    ... interactions Learn how biotin can be used with CRISPR Additional resources Idtdna educational pages... and antibody labelling. In these experiments, biotin is added to a primary or secondary antibody that...that targets your protein of interest or primary antibody respectively. Avidin bound to a reporter is then... on this complex can bind to your biotinylated antibody. This creates a large meshwork of biotin-avidin...
  18. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...genomic loci in living human cells by an optimized CRISPR/Cas system." Cell 155.7 (2013): 1479-1491. PubMed...N-terminus, but this hardly reduces its size. The substantial size of GFP may interfere with the activity or...: PMC5385933. 6. Cranfill, Paula J., et al. "Quantitative assessment of fluorescent proteins." Nature ...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3918502.  14. Chernov, Konstantin G., et al. "Near-infrared fluorescent proteins...
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