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  1. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    Blog Post
    ...s not the virus itself that kills you, but the cytokine storm it ultimately sets off.  The virus works...only viral protein present on the virion surface – making it critical for viral attachment and fusion. Once...attachment and fusion. Recommended Reading For those looking to delve deeper or stay tuned, there are plenty...

  2. DNA Quantification

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    Protocol
    ...DNA is resuspended in, but with no DNA added. 'Blanking' measures the background inherent to the machine...

  3. Protocol - How to Design Primers

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    Protocol
    ...regular nucleotide for broader pairing capabilities. Taking into consideration the information above, primers...

  4. Microbes: Look, Listen, and Tell

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    Blog Post
    ...2018 Microbe meeting. Soon after I arrived, I was looking through a paper-based, affordable, and portable...fascinated by the world that reveals itself when looking down a paper thin and very portable microscope....the scientist in everyone - everywhere! From ‘looking at’ to ‘listening to’ microbes But seeing microbes...

  5. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    Blog Post
    ... expand reagent sharing even broader and began working with tech transfer offices to make reagents available...Plasmid Incompatibility by Leah Schiesow If you're thinking about hosting multiple plasmids in one cell, it...this year and along with it, wrote these tips for working with RNA and extracting RNA without a kit. 3. ...

  6. Editor's Choice, August 2016

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    ...CRISPR For my editor’s choice picks this month, I’m picking two posts that describe methods to make single ...posts throughout the month including a first of its kind for the Addgene blog - Addgene Software Engineer...Executive Director Joanne Kamens. I highly recommend taking a look at all of our posts as each one has something...

  7. Top 10 Open Science Developments of 2013

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    Blog Post
    ...this interest in the ways science is shared and in making it easier to share, we take special note as the...bump in citations for their trouble, even when all kinds of other factors, including journal impact factor...Way to Share Science, in honor of a decade spent making plasmids more accessible and easier to share. As...

  8. Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion

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    ...protein tracking in vivo. Sci Rep. 2015 Jul 7;5:11771. doi: 10.1038/srep11771. PubMed. McKinney SA, Murphy... the 1990s, biologists have spent a lot of time making things glow. Chances are you’ve used a GFP derivative...

  9. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    ...Experiments (JOVE). The video publication by Stuart Orkin and Daniel Bauer's labs details the use of CRISPR...biallelic deletion clones:    Like the video? The Orkin and Bauer lab's related paper describes their methods...Harvard Medical School in the laboratories of Stuart Orkin and Daniel Bauer. He received his BSE in Bioengineering...

  10. Celebrating Accomplishments in the Lab

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    Blog Post
    ...of lab BBQ parties - despite BBQs being wishful thinking in England. The Cepko Lab throws going away parties...celebrate each other's accomplishments? Any tips on making time to relax and/or enjoy time away from the bench... Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking the time to speak with us throughout this series...

  11. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Blog Post
    ...write brief descriptions on each. Place the notes sticking up out of the top of the notebooks, so that you...use the search bar to quickly find what you’re looking for. Tip 3: Share protocols and spreadsheets with... knowing the information is backed up and edit tracking will help you identify when others have added ...

  12. New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR

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    Blog Post
    ...nLightR greatly expand the toolbox for researchers looking to study norepinephrine, the Patriarchi lab continues...Ovchinnikov, S., & Steinegger, M. (2022). ColabFold: Making protein folding accessible to all. Nature Methods...Technique is Best for Me?  In Living Color: The Skinny on In Vivo Imaging Tools Resources on Addgene....

  13. Future of Research Conference - Remarkable Opening Session

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    Blog Post
    ...because it finally feels to me like the postdocs are taking some steps to control their own future in science...speaker, Dr. Henry Bourne (shown in photo), has been speaking out and writing about issues in our science training...experience and encouragement.  Dr. Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs...

  14. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    ...Streptococcus and the “py” in pyogenes), capable of locking two peptide tags together. SpyLigase overcomes ...forces acting on them. For the application we were looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating tumor cells..., highly stable and has this amazing chemistry locking the domain together - no one knows what for. Many...

  15. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Blog Post
    ... no fear - plasmids from Addgene depositors are making it easier than ever to use CRISPR  in E. coli and...gene body can repress transcription by physically blocking the elongation complex from binding the DNA or...Patino R, Heussler GE, Hearne CC, Qu J, Inclan YF, Hawkins JS, Lu CHS, Silvis MR, Harden MM, Osadnik H, Peters... Larson MH, Gilbert LA, Doudna JA, Weissman JS, Arkin AP, Lim WA (2013) Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-Guided...

  16. Fostering communication in remote collaborations

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    Blog Post
    ...Especially when your collaboration includes scientists working in different time zones, it’s important that everyone...accountable to these expectations once they’re set by checking in about them at your recurring meetings and reaching...common. I hope these tips are useful whether you’re looking to improve communication within an existing collaboration...

  17. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    Blog Post
    ... cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking. Fortunately, there are many ways to do this involving... a successful uptake of your DNA of interest by taking advantage of bacterial characteristics such as ...for specific amino acids. When plated on media lacking the essential amino acid, the bacteria will only...

  18. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    Blog Post
    ...also involved in reinforcement learning, decision making, and motor control.  What do we understand about... 100 nm) of DA. In addition, they exhibit fast kinetics (10 ms on and 100 ms off), enabling detection ...magnitudes of fluorescent responses. Studies on the kinetics of these sensors showed rapid response (60 or ...

  19. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...background noise. This is not terribly problematic when working with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest...harvest large quantities of cells. However, when working on specific tissues or organs in whole animal models...major technical hurdle.   ChIP-seq requires  cross-linking during an initial fixation step. This serves to...

  20. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    Blog Post
    ...mapping These tools are for viewing, editing or making plasmid maps, but can also analyze and annotate... Viewer: The free SnapGene Viewer is great for looking at plasmid maps and viewing sequencing traces, ... blank spaces, from the text of a DNA sequence, making it ready to copy and paste into other applications...

  21. An Addgene Co-op: The Intersection of Fun, Friendship, and Work

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    Blog Post
    ...video. Don't worry - no pipettes were harmed in the making of this photo!  Here, I was also given a mixture...such as stuffing new depositor welcome kits, note taking for protocol video production, and keeping inventory... my time here comes to an end, my worries about making connections with coworkers seem, in retrospect,...

  22. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    Blog Post
    ...fluorescent signal and enables single molecule tracking  within living cells without affecting protein...managed to track run lengths of the motor protein kinesin across microtubules. Tanenbaum et al. then tested...photobleaching Simplified, long-term single-molecule tracking Caveats of SunTag Very large size: a 24x scaffold...

  23. Tips for Improving Your Next Manuscript

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    Blog Post
    ...headquarters. I decided to go ahead and apply; thinking I probably would not get selected for both the...compose and submit a manuscript that they were working on currently. Upon arrival to the headquarters,... The most beneficial aspect of this course was breaking up into focus groups with a facilitator. In the...

  24. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Product Development

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    Blog Post
    ...bunch. They don’t really know where I came from.” Working at eScience Labs, an educational company that creates...that provides scientific editing services. “I was working during the day and editing at night. It was not...moved out here, I was still editing from home and looking for a job.” But Caitlin’s persistence paid off:...

  25. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Blog Post
    ...expressing a selection cassette with 5′ and 3′ flanking sequences matching the sequences upstream and ...to be assayed (e.g. pPD95_86 and pPD57_56), or knocking down YGOI through RNA-mediated interference (e.g... applications used to study gene function. From making transgenic animals, gene targeting and genome modifications...

  26. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    Blog Post
    ... used at high concentrations (and vice versa). Looking around the lab, you'll likely find many of the ...mammalian cells.   Name Class Mode of Action*   Working Concentration** Kanamycin aminoglycoside Binds...their mechanism for killing bacteria, and general working concentrations. For instructions on how to prepare...

  29. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...replication machinery room to come in and get busy making copies.     Types of origins of replication ...compatibility with one or more other plasmids. Generally speaking, plasmids with the same ori are incompatible because...chloramphenicol – make sure your growth conditions aren't working against you!  The culture inoculum Freshly ...

  30. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    Blog Post
    ...Addgene started dealing with this new reality of working remotely, scientists around the world mobilized...took to make all this happen with 80% of the team working remotely. We’re extremely proud of the work we’... maintain our workforce for when we need to be working at full capacity to serve the scientific community...

  32. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...around the world who would otherwise have difficulty making or getting these reagents is profound.” Frank Stegmeier...Library, a library that “enables the high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug...became passionate about virology,” he says. He was working in an HIV lab and based on that experience, soon...

  34. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...frequently with little notice or choice Always working on a team/in a matrix - can be frustrating for ...but good performers move around easily  Table 1: Taking it a Step Further - Big Company v. Small Company...on what paths to pursue. Spend some time really thinking about your motivations and what parts of being...

  35. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    Blog Post
    ...species). This feature is advantageous if you’re working with small capacity viral vectors such as AAV. ... “recovering” its original sequence. If you’re looking to disrupt gene function via indel formation, this...targets. Are you using NgAgo? Let us know how it’s working in the comments section! Read About NgAgo User'...

  36. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    Blog Post
    ...In its simplest form, PCR based cloning is about making a copy of a piece of DNA and at the same time adding...restriction site (GAATTC) to the 5’ end of this primer, making our Forward Primer 5'-GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC... get PCR amplification. We can start similarly, taking the final 18 bases of the ORF, including the stop...

  37. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    Blog Post
    ... Why and Where Do I Find One? If you need help making a transition into a new job or maybe to an entirely...gene delivery, but have limited packaging capacity making them difficult to use with CRISPR as the cargo..... 10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids Need help thinking about the types of controls you’ll need for your...

  38. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    Blog Post
    ... apart sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to...Zealand’s multiple Covid-19 lockdowns, I held mask-making workshops in my community. I brought along printed... to better meet the needs of the people we are talking to. Emma Harcourt is a PhD student in the Department...

  40. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    ...Check out this post for a refresher on AAV titers Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV ... this type of vector to such a high titer when looking for effective gene expression. How do you achieve... Hanley is a Research Team Lab Tech at Addgene working on methods to improve AAV production.     References...

  41. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    Blog Post
    ...“reading”) of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects ...library prep. As part of our mission, we’ve been working with Addgene to develop and apply our plexWell™...read level, and because custom primers or "primer-walking" reactions are completely unnecessary for sequencing...

  42. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Blog Post
    ...hot plasmids articles. Think we missed something smokin'? You can pitch a Hot Plasmids section (antibodies...heatshock promoter) drives expression of the tumor-seeking CAR (chimeric antigen receptor), whereas a ubiquitous... variants with similar capabilities. If you’re looking for a super stable FP for your next microscopy ...

  43. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    Blog Post
    ...biological motion (whether endocytosis, vesicle trafficking, or muscle contractions) are produced by orchestrated...the ciliate. It’s thought that they function as a kind of armor to protect their host from predation (Petroni...

  44. Components of CRISPR/Cas9

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    Blog Post
    ...Cas9, and the tracrRNA which acts as a scaffold linking the crRNA to Cas9 and facilitates processing of...different components of CRISPR, It's time to start thinking about how you can used them in your experiments...experiments. Use the following flow chart to get you thinking about the types of experiments you're planning on...

  45. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ...idea to take some time to confirm that you are working with the correct construct, and verify that the...Consult the manufacturer’s manual for the optimal working conditions for each enzyme. Watch out for methylation...run control uncut DNA to ensure your enzymes are working. When uncut plasmid DNA is isolated and run on ...

  46. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    ...question that didn’t get answered live - but he kindly took some time to address all your unanswered questions...astrocyte specificity and would like to get it working in microglia as well. A:  We are not aware of any... tail vein injections but would like to avoid "leaking" into the brain, would you recommend using the ...

  47. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    ..., you may be curious about all of the different kinds of antibodies that are available. One common type...References Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B,...TA, Humphries MJ (2016) Ligand-induced Epitope Masking. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291:20993–21007...

  48. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    ...great? It produces a ~10 fold higher titer virus, making it ideal for CRISPR pooled library screening experiments...V2.0 was made available through Addgene in 2015, making this the most recently available plasmid in the... thank all of our depositors and requestors for making their reagents available and for supporting scientific...

  49. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...These enzymes also do not require a protospacer flanking sequence, so you can target virtually any RNA ...Cas13d enzymes have a median length of ~930aa - making them 17-26% smaller than other Cas13s and a whopping...and we at Addgene appreciate our depositors for making their tools available to the broader community....

  50. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    ...think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into ‘making virus’ or what gag and pol stand for, we demystify...recombinant adenovirus is missing the endogenous E1 gene, making it replication deficient. This is typically supplied...discussed are compiled for reference below. Happy virus making!  References and Resources Kulanayake, S., Tikoo...
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