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  1. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...to their laboratory. A single mouse click on a gene of interest will direct the investigator to a list... cancer are yielding promising results in the laboratory, and Addgene is accelerating this research by...proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressors to the accelerator and brake pedal of a vehicle, respectively. In... (now an oncogene), this is analogous to the accelerator of a vehicle being stuck down. Similarly, a mutation...cells still need to successfully infiltrate the circulatory or lymph systems to spread, or metastasize. Many...Many cancerous cells will die trying, as the circulatory and lymph systems are not ideal environments ...involved in the Ras pathway alone and thousands of investigators studying them, how do we ensure that the research...
  2. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...target genes using dCas9-based activators The simplest of the dCas9 activators consists of dCas9 fused to ... dCas9 and antibody-activator fusion proteins. The Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally ...exploited to localize factors such as transcriptional activators and repressors to target genes. Repressing target...activation domain - VP64.  Later generations of activators include the SunTag system which facilitates recruitment...generally the strongest activator, consists of a dCas9-VP64 fusion and a modified gRNA that is capable of interacting...with an additional RNA-binding transcriptional activator. Plasmids for activating target genes in a variety...fusion, both targeted to the promoter region. Cas9 activators include Cas9 fused to VP64, VP64 along with other...
  3. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    ... voltage indicator: JEDI-2P  by: Brian O'Neill  The François St-Pierre lab and collaborators have successfully...what you'll find in this post: Improved voltage indicator: JEDI-2P Novel class of light-gated potassium...successfully developed an improved voltage indicator (GEVI) called JEDI-2P. Using a custom, high-throughput...predecessor GEVIs (called ASAP 1 and 2), they found an indicator that is optimized for 2-photon imaging of voltages...screen for improved genetically-encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) based on the ASAP sensors. The resultant...Sustained deep-tissue voltage recording using a fast indicator evolved for two-photon microscopy. Cell, 18, 3408... cations. B) Cortical slice of HcKCR1-EYFP and tdTomato expressed layer 2/3 neurons in mouse. C) Action...
  4. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...cell mitochondrial transfer tracker Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi Micropeptide killswitch...doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510511103      Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi By Mike Lacy Many popular...popular genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) are available, but red GECIs have been limited compared...sensitive soma-localized red fluorescent calcium indicator for in vivo imaging of neuronal populations at...macromolecules to serve cellular functions. Along with collaborators, the Denes Hnisz Lab previously discovered that...models By Brian O'Neill The Nadav Ahituv Lab and collaborators have found a way to make adipocytes fight cancer..., its accessibility outside of well-equipped laboratories remains limited. Members of the Stanley Qi Lab...
  5. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...massive amount of information regarding which regulatory proteins, signaling molecules, mutations, and...paper (1). Lastly, it is possible to build gene regulatory RSMs (GRSMs, the subset of RSMs that regulate...also demonstrates that genetic parts (genes, terminators, and promoters) may be interweaved onto a GRSM...parts used in this paper (recognition sites, terminators, promoters, and genes) were built with flanking...them. We recommend using strong, directional terminators and promoters with buffer sequences on their ...ends (for insulation). A list of promoters and terminators used in our GRSM registers can be found in Table... parts (recognition sites, promoters, genes, terminators, etc) are composed. Fear not – the state machine...
  6. Plasmids 101: Inducible Promoters

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    ...the activator protein cannot bind. After an inducer binds to the activator protein, the activator protein...In this system, the activator rtTA (reverse tetracycline-controlled transactivator) is normally inactive...protein purification. When arabinose is absent, regulatory protein AraC binds O and I1 sites upstream of...addition to arabinose, cAMP complexed with cAMP activator protein (CAP) can also stimulate AraC binding ...research. Promoter Subtype Promoter Example Activator Addgene Plasmid/Kit Alcohol-regulated AlcA...
  7. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    ...cut either strand of DNA. Traditional Cas9 regulators In addition to its utility in making targeted...to DNA, Cas9 can be reprogrammed to serve as a regulator of gene expression. Its catalytic domains can ...fused to effector domains such as transcriptional activators or repressors. These fusion proteins retain the... generate a potent Cas9-based transcriptional regulator without making any functional changes to Cas9....adapter capable of recruiting a transcriptional activator, robust regulation of gene expression is observed...the truncated gRNA recruits a transcriptional activator to the Cas9-gRNA complex. When this complex is...of the Addgene Scientific Advisory Board. His laboratory at Columbia University is focused advancing scientific...
  8. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...carrying a synthetic gene drive were to escape the laboratory, the drive could eventually spread through the...mistake would necessarily extend far beyond the laboratory and seriously damage public trust in scientists... can spread through populations of transgenic laboratory organisms but not wild organisms. For example...synthetic sequence will only spread in transgenic laboratory populations with that sequence2. Both methods...Reproductive confinement involves working with laboratory organisms that can't reproduce with wild ones...confinement seeks to keep the organisms in the laboratory. It varies by organism, but your local biosafety...population and immunizes it against the first drive. Laboratories interested in building candidate gene drives...
  9. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...  Javier García-Nafría is an investigator scientist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is ... Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Plasmid cloning is an essential...with successful recombination reported in all laboratory E. coli strains tested so far. The use of this...low cost and can be immediately adopted by any laboratory. All procedures are performed using the same...the homologous region (calculated using Oligo Calculator). Insertions - To insert short sequences of ... Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...postdoctoral researcher in neurophysiology at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He is currently investigating...
  10. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...the Tapscott Lab identified regulators of DUX4, a transcriptional regulator that when inappropriately expressed...activation using a fusion to a transcriptional activator such as VP64 (Gilbert et al., 2013), or repression...region to inhibit association of transcriptional activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9...specific genomic region In 2013, the Hodaka Fujii Laboratory first described a method to purify a specific...lab is CRISPR affinity purification in situ of regulatory elements (CAPTURE) (Liu et al., 2017). This system...additional research conducted in the Hodaka Fujii Laboratory, please also see our interview with Dr. Fujii...immunoprecipitation identifies miR483 as an epigenetic modulator of IGF2 imprinting in tumors." Oncotarget 8.21...
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