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  1. TALEN Engineering

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    ... Genome Engineering TALEN Kits TALengineering Reagents Joung Lab TAL Effector Engineering Reagents You... three platforms for engineering TAL effector repeat arrays of any desired length: the REAL (Restriction... found on the TALengineering website. Users may also wish to join the Genome Engineering newsgroup. An...Reagents from the Keith Joung laboratory for engineering TAL effectors, including designed TALENs, and...
  2. CRISPR History and Development for Genome Engineering

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    ...Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Gonzales AP, Li Z, Peterson RT, Yeh JR, Aryee MJ, Joung JK. 2015. Engineered CRISPR-Cas9...genome engineering tool. CRISPR... CRISPR CRISPR History CRISPR History and Development for Genome Engineering You ...immune system is especially amenable to genome engineering, offering flexibility and easy multiplexing/scaling...research applications, eclipsing past genome engineering technologies like zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs...DNA into small fragments approximately 20 bp in length and paste them into contiguous stretches of DNA...CRISPR was the first system harnessed for genome engineering, with Type V following in 2015. Class 1 (Multi-subunit...
  3. New England Biolabs Cell-Imaging Plasmid Collection

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    ...Depositor Collections New England Biolabs Cell-Imaging Plasmid Collection New England Biolabs Cell-Imaging ...New England Biolabs has deposited plasmids at Addgene to generate SNAP, CLIP, ACP or MCP tagged plasmids...Technology Plasmids Supplemental Information New England Biolabs offers non-toxic protein labeling systems...To learn more about this system, visit the New England Biolabs website. For a comprehensive comparison...Substrate source (PDF, 46 KB) Please note: New England Biolabs (NEB) has discontinued the ACP-tag/MCP-...
  4. The Strength of Story Telling

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    ...meetings. When scientists tell good stories, they engage their readers or listeners thus expanding the impact...invite people to ask questions, be approachable. Engage with your audience and try to learn from them. ... again until you work out what people enjoy and engage with and what parts you can leave out. Start viewing...
  5. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...sharing cells: the black market of cell biology. Engaging in this practice would seem to save time and money...
  6. Engaging with science and society at pgEd

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    ... is becoming ever more urgent for scientists to engage broadly with diverse communities, to raise awareness...and concerns of these communities. This kind of engagement and two-way dialogue is crucial if we as a society...law enforcement, continues to hamper efforts to engage these communities, including those by researchers...worked with a number of organizations in public engagement efforts, including giving public lectures, writing...takes on a variety of projects. With our focus on engaging the community and facilitating dialogue, a major...your field of research will allow you to better engage these diverse audiences and to identify issues ...ethical level, scientists arguably have a duty to engage the public on the implications of their work. ...
  7. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    ...tools, producing lentivirus, can pose certain challenges. Whether choosing a system that is the best fit...will provide an overview of some of the common challenges associated with producing and using lentivirus...make these optimization experiments a bit more challenging. With these considerations in mind, when planning...
  8. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    ...well-characterized genetic tools make it challenging to engineer a specific function in these multicellular...ve had to navigate the challenges involved in plant synthetic biology. Challenge #1: Public perception ...facilitates plant science. Challenge #3: Intellectual property There is another challenge associated with molecular...and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering. Read their previous blog post about how they... company here. The first transgenic plant was engineered over 30 years ago, but plant synthetic biology...fibers. And because working with plants can be challenging, there are a lot of unexplored areas in plant...directed at GM crops has burdened this emerging engineering technology. Monoculture and chemical spraying...
  9. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...California, San Diego. The revolution in genetic engineering techniques is a speculation of yesteryear which... of the authors during this period.  Genetic Engineering Era: Pre-CRISPR  Having visualized and understood...devise methods to manipulate it. The term genetic engineering itself is attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson...s Island. In 1976, the world’s first genetic engineering company, Genentech, was founded.  This commercialization...these corporations would extrapolate genetic engineering to exploit human beings. Ridley Scott directed...humans called replicants which are genetically engineered by a powerful corporation to serve as slaves....with the DNA of present-day frogs via genetic engineering. The corresponding movie came out in 1993 and...
  10. Antibody Data Repositories and Search Engines

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    ...search engines and antibody data repositories to find an antibody for your experiment. Search engines let...Any Search engine May include validation data CiteAb Any Any Search engine May include...Any Search engine     Are we missing an antibody data repository or search engine that you use?...which share validation data, and antibody search engines, which allow you to search many different antibody...Table 1: Antibody data repositories and search engines Website Targets Application Purpose ...
  11. Participate in the Pets of Addgene Scavenger Hunt

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    ...Your task is to find them, scavenger hunt style. 🔎 Here’s how the scavenger hunt works works: You will...correct photo, you will see a reference to this scavenger hunt and the subsequent clue. (Begin with clue...until April 7, 2021 to make your way through the scavenger hunt and enter the raffle. We encourage you to...menu and search tool to help you navigate the scavenger hunt. Good luck and have fun exploring the blog...
  12. pSiM24: Simplifying Plant Genetic Engineering

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    ...posts 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids...the plants that we grow and eat, and genetic engineering will continue to improve plant nutrition, yield..., and pest resistance. Much of plant genetic engineering revolves around Agrobacterium tumifaciens. Agrobacterium...with biolistic methods, making it useful for engineering plants that are not susceptible to Agrobacterium...have tested the system with genes up to 4 kb in length and confirmed successful protein expression via...customizability, pSiM24 can be used not only for plant engineering and biotechnology applications, but also for ... plant genetic engineering...
  13. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ...these defenses. For some applications of genome engineering - such as certain forms of gene therapy - avoiding...tool and an alternative to CRISPRs for genome engineering whose use is only likely to grow in the coming...  genome engineering...
  14. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    .... To tackle the PAM problem, researchers have engineered alternative Cas9s binding distinct PAM sequences... and NNNNGATT, respectively. Researchers also engineered SpCas9 variants with alternative PAMs like NGAG...transcriptional regulation and base editing Hu et al. also engineered transcriptional activators using the xCas9 scaffold...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn about Engineered Cas9 PAM Variants Read about CRISPR Base Editing...
  15. CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...that this basic concept of gRNA design is still challenging for researchers using CRISPR, and that standardizing...paraphrased in the tweet below. The complexity and challenges of homology directed repair (HDR) are echoed ...s a list of blog posts to help you tackle the challenges of DNA repair (with bonus gRNA design resources... HDR repair. Check out this post to see if an engineered Cas9 variant might work for your experiment. ...Creating knock-in mouse models with CRISPR has been challenging, with protocols using dsDNA templates achieving...
  16. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...Health (NIH) Swiss. Genetically engineered mice Mice can be engineered by inserting a targeting vector... successfully engineered cells. Similar to transgenic mice, knockout mice are engineered during the embryonic...to understand mammalian traits and genetically engineered mouse models provide researchers with useful ...models, several common techniques used to create engineered mouse models at embryonic stages, and the pros...or treatments, but are not useful for genetic engineering. Examples of outbred strains include Swiss Webster...blastocyst. There are several types of genetically engineered mice: transgenic mice, knockout mice, and mice...DNA breaks, such as ZFN and TALEN, can used to engineer knockin mice. Co-injection of a targeting vector...
  17. Antibodies 101: Antibody Engineering and Directed Evolution

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    ...variety of purposes. One focus of bioengineering is antibody engineering, to improve reagents and therapeutics...therapeutics. What is antibody engineering (and why do we like it)? Antibody engineering is the modification of...effectiveness. How do you engineer an antibody? There are many, many ways to engineer an antibody, thanks to... more. How you engineer an antibody depends on your ultimate goal, and some engineering projects will ...antibody engineering methods. (A) Basic structure of an antibody. (B) Examples of engineered antibodies...Nicolaci, a PhD student at Moffitt Cancer Center. Engineering usually calls to mind building things, lots of...math, and maybe heavy machinery. But not all engineering is at a large scale — some is done on much smaller...
  18. Streaking for Single Colonies: The Streak Plate Challenge

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    ...plate technique. Time for the #BioSci3319 #StreakPlateChallenge part 1. Lab B needs a redo :-( @SandTBioSci... the lab used three different species for the challenge, but one species always outcompeted the other ...it would be a perfect fit for the streak plate challenge. Chromoproteins are a subset of the fluorescent... distinguish colonies from one another in the challenge. To create a successful streak plate, first the...colonies in the last quadrant after incubation. The challenge is usually successful for the students. “They ...colonies. I should probably make it a bit more challenging, potentially by using a thicker bacterial suspension...transformation efficiency.  Aside from the Streak Plate Challenge, Westenberg’s course includes Winogradsky columns...
  19. Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering

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    ...brain at a level of abstraction that enables the engineering of its function." Once scientists can do that...big questions that motivate his interest in neuroengineering, and some of the optogenetic tools that are...are still missing. Optogenetic tools for neuroengineering Addgene: For those who may not be experts, can... neuroengineering...
  20. Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids

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    ...inexpensive enzymes. Now, a new toolkit - aptly named GreenGate – offers all of those same advantages to researchers...advanced molecular plant science lab.” Introducing GreenGate As Lohmann and his colleagues describe in the ...ONE paper that introduced the kit in December, GreenGate includes the six most frequently used elements... selection of transgenic plants. The complete GreenGate toolkit, now available at Addgene, also gives ...transgenic plants. In the most practical terms, what GreenGate can do is “save you half a year,” in comparison...Lohmann said. The key component of Golden Gate and GreenGate are type IIS restriction endonucleases. They are... in a single tube. (Additional details on the GreenGate kit and how it works are available here.) Although...
  21. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ...).  CRISPR-transposons for bacterial genomes engineering In the Sternberg group’s initial report of VchINT...additions to the growing CRISPR toolbox for genome engineering in bacteria, alongside more established tools...currently studies CRISPR biology and CRISPR genome engineering technologies. Message or follow him on twitter...high-efficiency, multiplexed bacterial genome engineering. Nat Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587...
  22. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    ...built our new search engine atop Elasticsearch, a powerful open-source search engine that can scale to search...users who prefer to use search, our updated search engine is now more powerful, intuitive, and searches across...team identified. The basic function of a search engine is to find the website resources that best match...in order to more granularly customize the search engine, and a scoping mechanism that allows category-specific...category to expose as filters and designed the search engine to return only the filters that are relevant to...information for a given resource, and designed the search engine to weight search results differently according ...more technical details that make our new search engine unique. Most importantly, with this new implementation...
  23. Addgene @ Keystone: Thoughts on Precision Genome Engineering and Synbio

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    ... an engineering school as an undergraduate, I never fooled myself into thinking I was an engineer. The...talk, which focused on the history of genome engineering from ZFNs through TALENs and CRISPR-Cas nucleases...names in the CRISPR-Cas9 field – Jennifer Doudna, Feng Zhang, and Keith Joung. All Addgene depositors! ...huge impact on this field. Advances in genome engineering & CRISPR technology That afternoon's workshop...workshop, entitled "Advances in Genome Engineering", brought us 8 short talks on every conceivable way of examining...systems, modifications to the RNA components, and challenging target genomes, such as the malaria-causing Plasmodium...Addgene depositor, discussed some of the many challenges of creating biological circuits, and I can only...
  24. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...enzymes are the latest tools in the transcriptome engineering toolbox. How were Cas13d enzymes discovered?...property is size - Cas13d enzymes have a median length of ~930aa - making them 17-26% smaller than other... tell how large the genome and transcriptome engineering toolbox will be. It is, however, certain that...References Konermann, Silvana, et al. “Transcriptome Engineering with RNA-Targeting Type VI-D CRISPR Effectors...
  25. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    ...method that can be used for cloning or genome engineering and is based on homologous recombination. It ...lambda red bacteriophage and its use as a genetic engineering tool is frequently called recombineering - short...for homologous recombination-mediated genetic engineering.  It can be used to make an assortment of modifications...efficient recombination system for chromosome engineering in Escherichia coli. PNAS 2000 97 (11) 5978-5983...Homologous Recombination-Based Method of Genetic Engineering. Nature protocols. 2009;4(2):206-223. doi:10.1038...and Court, D. L. 2014. Recombineering: Genetic Engineering in Bacteria Using Homologous Recombination. Current...Mammalian Cells CRISPR Methods for Bacterial Genome Engineering Resources on Addgene.org Browse our Microbiology...
  26. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...by Benoit Giquel. CRISPR has taken the genome engineering world by storm owing to its ease of use and utility...Waltz, 2016), the potential of CRISPR for genome engineering in plants is also being realized. There are a...plants with the phenotype of interest. Genome engineering, on the other hand, allows for targeted modification...phenotype. In fact, CRISPR has already been used to engineer the genome of many plant species, including commonly...will present a general overview of plant genome engineering using CRISPR, highlight the specific modifications...plants, and outline the various plant genome engineering tools that are available to academic researchers... Addgene. CRISPR components for plant genome engineering CRISPR can be used to knockout, activate or repress...
  27. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ...students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing suitable projects. In the O'Connor...Advisors on Science and Technology [PCAST] (2012). Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College...Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Washington, DC: US Government...
  28. Genome Engineering, CRISPR, and Research in Singapore: Interview with Wei Leong Chew

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    ...career path and why he chose to go into genome engineering. Chapter 1: Early research on CRISPR and what... 6: Projects in Wei Leong Chew's lab. Genome engineering, gene delivery methods, AAVs, and more. Chapter...and gene therapy.   Special thanks to our sound engineer/producer, Eddy Page! Edward B. Page is a Digital...Production Specialist at Addgene. He is the audio engineer and producer for the Addgene Podcast.      Additional... genome engineering...
  29. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...bacterial CRISPR engineering One common way of accomplishing bacterial genome engineering is done with recombineering...the genus Streptomyces, yet genome engineering remains challenging for most organisms in the genus. Work...discovered in bacteria, most CRISPR-based genome engineering has taken place in other organisms. In many bacteria...quirks change the way CRISPR-mediated genome engineering functions in bacteria, but have no fear - plasmids...recombineering-based MAGE (Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering) technology (Ronda et al., 2016). pMA7CR_2.0 ...E. coli and T. citrea scarless editing plasmids Sheng Yang’s lab describes a two-plasmid system that combines...create a system for scarless, iterative genome engineering (Jiang et al., 2015). pCas contains Cas9 and ...
  30. Introducing an All-in-One CRISPR/Cas9 Vector System for Multiplex Genome Engineering

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    ...multiplex genome engineering. Image from Sakuma at al. (2015). Multiplex genome engineering demonstrated...system for CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiplex genome engineering is now available thanks to researchers at Japan...making an all-in-one vector for multiplex genome engineering.” Now, they’ve filled that gap. As Sakuma and...efficient viral vector-mediated multiplex genome engineering. The system now provides an efficient targeting...Sakuma’s protocol. Reference: Multiplex genome engineering in human cells using all-in-one CRISPR/Cas9 vector... multiplex genome engineering...
  31. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    ...post-transcriptional regulation of endogenous RNA. J Biol Eng. 2014 Mar 1;8(1):7. doi: 10.1186/1754-1611-8-7. PubMed...has opened up a world of possibilities in the engineering of complex gene networks. A comparable system...assemble designer PUF domains for RNA specificity engineering. “The RNA binding domain is interesting because...report published in The Journal of Biological Engineering in March is fused to a translational repressor...
  32. Protocol - How to Run an Agarose Gel

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    ...lab procedure for separating DNA by size (e.g., length in base pairs) for visualization and purification...longer ones. Thus, you can determine the approximate length of a DNA fragment by running it on an agarose gel...ladder (a collection of DNA fragments of known lengths). Last Update: Feb. 20, 2018 Protocol Video Watch...concentration of 10 mg/mL) Gel loading buffer, New England Biolabs B7022S Procedure Pouring a Standard 1% ... be purifying the DNA for later use, use long-wavelength UV and expose for as little time as possible ...
  33. DNA Quantification

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    ...absorb different wavelengths of light to varying degrees and most have a specific wavelength that they maximally...based on its absorbance, you need to know the wavelength of light that your substance maximally absorbs...
  34. Gibson Assembly Protocol

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    ... (Gibson et al. , 2009). Regardless of fragment length or end compatibility, multiple overlapping DNA ...fragments at a time. Resources and References New England Biolabs (NEB) (Link opens in a new window) sells... window) . Gibson Assembly® is licensed to New England Biolabs by TelesisBio. Gibson DG, Young L, Chuang...
  35. Protocol - pLKO.1 – TRC Cloning Vector

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    ...used for ligation, use only long-wavelength UV light. Short wavelength UV light will increase the chance...Materials Material Vendor and catalog # AgeI New England Biolabs (NEB) #R0552S EcoRI NEB #R0101S NEB buffer...
  36. Protocol - How to Purify DNA from an Agarose Gel

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    ...gel electrophoresis, which separates DNA by their length in base pairs. Following electrophoresis, you can...cutting out the bands and you will want to use long-wavelength UV for as short a time as possible to get the...
  37. Ligation Independent Cloning

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    ... DNA polymerase can create overhangs of varying length (typically 10-12 bp) based on a specific sequence...or tag sequences (where appropriate). The primer length is dependent on the T4 Pol "chew back" reaction...
  38. Protocol - How to Ligate Plasmid DNA

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    ...the amount of DNA used in a ligation based on the length of the DNA to get a proper ratio of 3 available...found on the web. Just enter the concentration, lengths of your insert and vector, and what ratio you want...
  39. Plasmid Cloning by Restriction Enzyme Digest (with Protocols)

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    ...cells. The problem is that the only version of full-length cDNA you can find for YGOI is in a bacterial expression...enzyme buffer (see (Link opens in a new window) New England Biolabs for more information about restriction ...
  40. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...within tumours via focused ultrasound. Nat Biomed Eng. 2021 Nov;5(11):1336-1347. doi: 10.1038/s41551-021...antibody?  Similarities:  Generated against full length GFP and converted to recombinant form by the NeuroMab...these processes. The Liu and Petsko labs recently engineered hyperfolder YFP (hfYFP), a FP well-suited for...
  41. Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them

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    ... Glanville J, Wolf P, Frenzel A, Wong J, Koh XY, Eng H-Y, Lane D, Lefranc M-P, Clark M, Dübel S (2018)...empower the scientific community with the tools to engineer them. Given the ease with which scientists can... Gong B, Nguyen K, van der List D, Murray KD, Engebrecht J, Trimmer JS (2019) A toolbox of IgG subclass-switched...Monoclonal Antibodies for Clinical Use. In: Antibody Engineering. InTech Additional resources on the Addgene blog...
  42. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    ...their applications in neuroscience. Curr Opin Biomed Eng. 2019. 12:111-117. doi: 10.1016/j.cobme.2019.10.010... as bright as the other GEVI systems that use engineered FPs. Attempts have been made to optimize their...their fluorescence, which ultimately led to the engineering of the second type of these GEVIs: a FP-fused... voltage sensor. FP-rhodopsin GEVIs have been engineered to have kinetics comparable to its one component... transiently and for genomic integration. Lab-engineered viruses will package your genetic cargo in lieu...
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