...your way. Label your tubes with a label maker. Label makers generate far more legible labels than your...into the lab wishing there was a machine that could make your life a hundred times easier. We’ve certainly...Addgene recently started automating a few protocols to make standard lab processes easier and more efficient...really liked that Beckman was flexible and willing to make removable parts to fit on the deck of the Biomek...pick up 8 tips and position the tips indepently making it easy to spread out your samples. This can be...

...mechanical work for editing. Class 1 CRISPR systems make up the majority of CRISPR-based immune systems in...broken down into different types, with Cas3 systems making up type I, the most abundant type in the Class ...away at both the non-target and target strands by making cuts every so often. Cutting both strands ensures... for Cas3’s biggest trick. Cas3 likes to bluff, making you into think it’s more powerful than it is. The...issues with expressing all Cascade components can make Cas9 easier to work with than Cas3. Future targets...1477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-019-0310-0 Makarova, K. S., Wolf, Y. I., Alkhnbashi, O. S., Costa,...

... we’d like to make sure they are present at a very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch ...an experiment because of poor reagent quality. To make sure our AAV vectors are of the highest quality,... mission of accelerating scientific research. To make sure that adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors available...robots. Unfortunately, humans have been known to make mistakes. What if a tube is mislabeled or someone...K, Sanders E, Tasissa M, Kostman M, Tillgren M, Makana Hanley L, Mueller I, Mitsopoulos A, Fan M (2020...

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...reliable and robust high quality viral vector service, making an array of ready-to-use viral vectors available... prioritization process to decide which tools we make available. This prioritization happens for good...of our most popular ready-to-use viral vectors, making up almost 10% of our requests by 2019 (Figure 5A...which preps to include in our service allows us to make ready-to-use viral preps that are available quickly...Hub before selecting an AAV can help a researcher make a more informed choice on which AAV to request and...since, we’ve learned so much about what it takes to make these viral vectors not only available, but accessible...

...Zetsche B, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Slaymaker IM, Makarova KS, Essletzbichler P, Volz SE, Joung J,...Non-SpCas9's bind a variety of PAM sequences, which makes them useful when no suitable SpCas9 PAM sequence...non-SpCas9's may have other characteristics that make them more useful than SpCas9. For example, Cas9 .... BV3L6 Cas12a, AsCpf1, uses a 5'-TTN PAM which makes it easier to target AT-rich genomes (Kleinstiver...Gootenberg JS, Kriz AJ, Zetsche B, Shalem O, Wu X, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Sharp PA, Zhang F (2015) In vivo...

... Denotes the presence of an additional plasmid-- make sure to maintain this by growing on appropriate ...Induction timing is important, as you typically want to make sure your cells have first reached an appropriate...exponential growth phase are alive and healthy, which makes them ideal for protein expression. If you wait too... as there are not enough cells in the culture to make protein.  The DE3 lysogen/T7 promoter combination...positive selection and a p15A origin of replication, making it incompatible with other p15A plasmids. pLys ...Double-check your plasmid backbone and expression strain to make sure they are compatible. An arabinose-inducible...

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...requires that the RNA be tagged. “This tool makes it possible to make the protein specific to any endogenous...PUF proteins! A newly available PUF Assembly Kit makes it possible to devise RNA binding proteins to hit...continue to evolve and improve, Abil says they will make those new plasmids available through Addgene, and...the final version,” she said. “If we learn how to make the library even better, we would be very happy ...

... puncta in each cell. When making figures for a paper or presentation, make sure the images are accessible...want to look for them? Or maybe you just want to make some really beautiful images? Multiplex IF may be...different colors in one session – fast and easy! Just make sure your primary antibodies are all of different...considerations to keep in mind. Most importantly, make sure you are using primary antibodies from different... and dye meets your needs and budget, or you can make your own. For example, to label the rat brain sample...

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... or set of plasmids. We hope that these articles make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you...for in vivo expression, and/or produce vectors to make mutant cell lines or transgenic animals.   Wall...To expand the capabilities of Gibson assembly and make a more modular platform, the Jacks lab generated...cumbersome to use in a high throughput manner or make it difficult to quantify interaction strengths. ...Cas9-based AID tagging Seven years ago, Masato Kanemaki's lab successfully used the plant-based auxin-inducible...introduction of auxin range from 10-20 minutes, making AID an appealing tool for studying essential proteins...described in their recent Cell Reports paper, the Kanemaki lab overcame this hurdle using CRISPR technology...

...This is something I was expecting when I set out to make my first CRISPR/Cas9 gene edit. I wanted to inactivate...articles (gasp). To my delight, not only was I able to make the edits without any reagent-grade endangered Martian...Vinculin is a loading control. 3. In terms of making the monoclonal line: I had never done it before...important results (for example, if you needed to make a figure with the data). Using acrylamide instead...agarose to get sharper bands. Conclusion Overall, making a human cell line with a gene knockout was straightforward...who you are, you could quickly be on your way to making new scientific observations. References 1. Rago...

...smallest bacteria. The absence of a rigid cell wall makes them resistant to antibiotics and antibacterial ...interpretation. Also, the signals from the nuclear area make the detection of mycoplasmas difficult (Ligasová...contamination when you are working without gloves or masks. Make sure to change the gloves and masks regularly instead...line stock for mycoplasma contamination before use. Make sure there is no contamination present in the serum...disposable pipettes to avoid cross-contamination. Make sure you keep all the required equipment and reagents...Avoid long exposure of the cell culture to air and make sure to tighten the flask cap before placing them...

... an incredibly fast-moving field, and we want to make it easy for you to keep up with new developments...to update our web resources and plasmid pages to make them more useful and easy to navigate. We also updated.... Base Edit: Base editing plasmids allow you to make precise C:G->T:A or A:T->G:C edits in DNA without...Like RNA targeting systems, RNA editing does not make changes to the genome, thus providing an avenue ...CRISPR Genome Editing and The CRISPR Software Matchmaker Day 2: Homology directed repair: CRISPR 101: ...

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