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TypeBlog Post...monitor protein and cell ageing, as the spectrum shift occurs during Timer protein life due to a form of...read the Addgene interview with Mark Howarth. Shining a light on channelrhodopsins – Chronos & Chrimson...spectral peak at 590 nm, which is 45 nm more red-shifted compared to other variants. The group further optimized...functional GFP, and the cells will turn green. Mashiko et al., Sci Rep 2013 Nov 27; 3:3355. Rinehart...TALEN assembly and activity? The laboratory of Takashi Yamamoto has created a complete TALEN assembly ...
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Summer Fun at Addgene!
TypeBlog Post...and watch it now! (Bonus: Tim kindly offered to finishing answering all submitted questions via blog post... the next few weeks.) Finally, Addgenies love sunshine and warm weather - check out our Instagram all...endeavors - in between some much-deserved vacations, sunshine, and beach trips, of course. *not me, though... -
Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Innovations
TypeBlog Post... FACS machine after a single use. So how about washing and reusing pipette tips in a high-throughput and...example, offers automated, benchtop, high throughput washing devices that are compatible with a variety of pipette...incentives (for example, by grant agencies), we can shift toward a more sustainable one. The math on this ... -
CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]
TypeBlog Post...of the method. One observation was an inverse relationship between deletion size and frequency [3]. There...coding sequences often result in loss-of-function frameshift mutations. However these may require restriction...genomic landscape may be surveyed in unprecedented fashion. Targeted deletions are just one of many available... -
2023 and 2024: Reflections and Looking Ahead
TypeBlog Post...repository in 2023. In June, we announced a new partnership with the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI...we’re pleased to announce that we are now able to ship rabies plasmids in our repository to international...through active conversation and collaboration. Wishing you a healthy, productive, and thriving 2024, mirroring... -
Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017
TypeBlog Post...muscular atrophy patients. Noushin Nabavi - Peritoneal Mesothelioma Noushin Nabavi is a Postdoctoral Fellow...diagnostic tools and animals models of the disease in partnership with Taconic Biosciences. The study of peritoneal... -
6 Steps to Submitting a Resume That Gets Seen
TypeBlog Post...Expanding your network of relationships early and often is the most effective tactic a scientist in training...result of existing professional (and personal) relationships. However, most job seekers will and should apply...after the academic bench. Utilizing existing relationships as part of the job application process can dramatically... -
Fostering communication in remote collaborations
TypeBlog Post...person, and helps improve your interpersonal relationships with people you’re collaborating with remotely...like something out of your nightmares, shared ownership of materials produced from your collaboration ...the project. The state of research is constantly shifting, and long-distance collaborations are becoming... -
Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...awesome. The process of writing, editing, and publishing blog posts runs its course more quickly than ...supervisors warned me, the swift gratification of publishing posts can be addicting. Even more satisfying,...always thoroughly enjoyed: travel. I’m actually finishing up this post on a plane back to Boston from Kentucky... -
CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
TypeBlog Post...deaminase from sea lamprey fused to Cas9 nickase (Nishida et al., 2016). Target-AID acts similarly but not...efficiency but higher indel formation than BE2 Nishida et al., 2016 Target-AID Edits 3-5 base window...685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01533-6 Nishida, K., Arazoe, T., Yachie, N., Banno, S., Kakimoto...Mochizuki, M., Miyabe, A., Araki, M., Hara, K. Y., Shimatani, Z., & Kondo, A. (2016). Targeted nucleotide editing... -
The Strength of Story Telling
TypeBlog Post...whether I’m working with a talented journalist to shine light on living as a scientist in Beijing, talking...emotional investment and following cause-and-effect relationships are all things almost all of us are programmed...Interviewee: “I did the most work for a paper we were publishing, but when it came time to add author details ... -
Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools
TypeBlog Post...new FP. Their aim - to red-shift the boundaries of FP technology by shifting the emission maxima toward...APOBEC-Cas9n-UGI-mediated activity edits out a frame-shift mutation within the mCherry reporter. Quantification... -
The MTA at Addgene
TypeBlog Post...returned the MTA, Addgene can move forward with shipping the material to the requestor. Why the MTA? ...certainly frustrating to find out your plasmid hasn’t shipped because a form needs to be signed. But the truth... And that’s where MTAs, and similar agreements, shine. These types of agreements allow for centralized... -
Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network
TypeBlog Post...FDA-approved). This is a big job, but under the leadership of Nevan Krogan at UCSF we’ve brought together...line, with a row of FedEx envelopes waiting to be shipped out of the Krogan lab at UCSF. Our team members...Foussard, and Dave Gordon) have been quite busy shipping and sending plasmids to all who request them -... -
Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog Post... for clear communication, fair credit through authorship, and acceptance of a diversity of work styles...stress the fact that “miscommunication, a lack of leadership, and inappropriate tools or writing approaches...that was probably lost during these weird times of shift working and social distancing. The take home message... -
Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog Post...jumped at the chance. Here was an opportunity to see Shinya Yamanaka celebrate the tenth anniversary of his...clinical trial with iPSCs with his collaborator Takahashi in 2014 – just 8 years after the OSKM paper – ...panel of thought leaders in the field--including Shinya Yamanaka, George Q. Daley, Christine Mummery, Lorenz... -
Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids
TypeBlog Post...however, it requires high doses. Requests have shifted toward the more efficient AAV-PHP.eB, developed...Evolutionary tree depicting the phylogenetic relationship of common research species. Among these species..., Kim, H.M., Rajendran, P.S., Tompkins, J.D., Shivkumar, K., Deverman, B.E., Gradinaru V. Systemic AAV...0799-7 Lawler, A. J., Ramamurthy, E., Brown, A. R., Shin, N., Kim, Y., Toong, N., Kaplow, I. M., Wirthlin....017 Matsuzaki, Y., Konno, A., Mochizuki, R., Shinohara, Y., Nitta, K., Okada, Y., & Hirai, H. (2018).... -
Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity
TypeBlog Post...30082838. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6078992. Nishimasu, Hiroshi, et al. "Engineered CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease ...which required only the di-nucleotide PAM NG (Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu Lab similarly described... -
A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog Post...launched the BioBuilder Educational Foundation in partnership with high school teachers to boost interest and...students include The BioBuilder High School Apprenticeship, preparing local (Massachusetts), economically...economically disadvantaged students for paid summer internships. A summer teacher professional development program... -
Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon
TypeBlog Post...the US and Canada convene at ComSciCon's annual flagship workshop. Our 2018 workshop took place in Boston...students, and we pay for travel expenses to our flagship workshop. In our view, the best possible outcome...is a co-founder of ComSciCon and Chair of its Leadership Team. Nathan did his PhD in astronomy and works...