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  1. Ghanaian Researchers to Receive Plasmid Awards from Addgene and Seeding Labs

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    ...bioinformatic and proteomic tools to discover genes and proteins associated with pathogenesis. In his future work... T7 polymerase, EcoRI, and various fluorescent proteins. Dr. Duedu’s plans for these plasmids have a heavy...PCR. We hope these plasmids will help Dr. Duedu inspire new Ghanaian scientists to continue to do excellent...have received equipment through Seeding Labs’ Instrumental Access program. We are excited to discover what...Apply to Recieve Equipment through Seeding Labs' Instrumental Access Program Additional Resources on the ...
  2. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    ...does all of its damage with just seven structural proteins. But, as NPR explained, it’s not the virus itself... critical for viral attachment and fusion. Once inside a host cell, new evidence in PLoS Pathogens shows...shows that the Ebola virus glycoprotein remains essential in allowing those infected cells to go undetected...in a novel way, by shielding host cell surface proteins. Researchers at the University of Virginia School...California, Santa Cruz, offers sequence data on five strains of Ebola representing the latest outbreak and earlier...
  3. How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

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    ...researchers led by Dr. Jorge Ruas of the Karolinska Institutet, the discovery really wasn’t what they’d...those mild stressors as usual, but somehow their brains were protected. Effects of Activation of the PGC... Moon and Henriette van Praag of the National Institute on Aging in a commentary about the new work published...explore. “It will be important to identify the key proteins and metabolites that are dynamically secreted ...
  4. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    ...covalent modifications to DNA or histones, the proteins that help package DNA, were associated with gene...With the help of guide RNAs, fusions between Cas proteins and the epigenetic modifier could be targeted ...cytosine demethylation of DNA. However, several proteins in the DNA oxidation and repair pathways work ...of the larger pMVP/pMAGIC cloning system, which contains Cas9 fusions for several epigenetic modifiers,...Sander JD, Reyon D, Bernstein BE, Costello JF, Wilkinson MF, Joung JK (2013) Targeted DNA demethylation...endogenous genes using programmable TALE-TET1 fusion proteins. Nature Biotechnology 31:1137–1142 . https://doi.org...
  5. CRISPR-Cas14: a family of small DNA-targeting enzymes enabling high-fidelity SNP genotyping

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    ...immune systems that provide bacteria protection against infectious agents. Several enzymes behind this ... from the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute for uncharacterized genes that were proximal to...40-70 kDa), which is half the size of other Cas proteins found in the so-called class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems... of the larger and more complex Cas9 and Cas12 proteins. Cas14 cleaves ssDNA But what is the function ...providing a gRNA specific of a viral sequences, for instance, the enzymes are activated and can cleave fluorescent...
  6. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    ...for this tool? Howarth: Polyproteins are useful for mechanical study of proteins by atomic force microscopy...SpyLigase can be used to link affibodies or antibodies against common tumor markers to subsequently capture cancerous...SpyTag/SpyCatcher system, to be able to grab on to proteins irreversibly in a genetically encoded way. SpyTag... bacteria have this chemistry in their surface proteins. It is best studied in the pili that they use ...
  7. Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening

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    ...pooled libraries include enrichment against kinases, cell cycle proteins, and more.  “In the past, genome... really not possible before,” said the Broad Institute's Ophir Shalem. “Whole regions of the genome which...delivery vehicle, Neville Sanjana, also of the Broad Institute, said they were able to produce a very diverse... of one of the Science papers, told the Broad Institute. “This will greatly aid efforts to understand ...
  8. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...when using them. There are suspected cases of insertional mutagenesis in humans (1) and AAVs are non-enveloped... in the tissue/what cell type? In the CNS, for instance, there are marked differences among serotypes ... second strand synthesis before gene expression begins. ScAAV avoid this rate limiting step and can immediately...complexes to study neural function. Often the reporter proteins associated with these complexes are so robustly...References 1. Russell, David W. "AAV vectors, insertional mutagenesis, and cancer." Molecular Therapy 15.10...vectors: packaging capacity and the role of rep proteins in vector purity." Human gene therapy 18.2 (2007...
  9. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    ...image. You could probably also do Western blotting against GFP expression, but I didn’t. 2. In the original...data not shown). Pro-Tips: 1.Designing primers against genomic DNA to amplify the gRNA targets was challenging...digestion products (that would co-migrate on a gel) instead of two different sized digestion products (which...make a figure with the data). Using acrylamide instead of agarose gives much sharper bands. I compared...you are analyzing short DNA fragments, run PAGE instead of agarose to get sharper bands. Conclusion Overall...C, Vogelstein B, Bunz F. Genetic knockouts and knockins in human somatic cells. Nature Protocols 2007;...
  10. CASTing Off for New Shores in Human Genome Editing

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    ...recruits transposition cofactors. The transposon proteins integrate a payload sequence into genomic DNA ... combines with a donor template and transposon proteins (Tns) to integrate large sequences into genomic...mutations in TnsB, the subunit that catalyzes DNA insertion, along with both evolved and engineered adjustments...editing with a site-specific recombinase to achieve insertion of long sequences. In their experiments, PASSIGE...S. H., & Liu, D. R. (2025). Programmable gene insertion in human cells with a laboratory-evolved CRISPR-associated...
  11. Antibodies 101: Fc Effector Functions

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    ... antibodies drive an effective immune response against a pathogen. The Fc domain creates a link between...expressing Fcγ receptors binds to IgG and release cytotoxins that kill the target cell. If the pathogen is...and eosinophils, where the eosinophils release cytotoxins via degranulation.  Antibody-dependent cellular... functions and all that antibodies can do! For instance, some Fc receptors, once bound to an antibody,...Inhibitory Fc receptors modulate in vivo cytotoxicity against tumor targets. Nat Med. 2000 Apr;6(4):443-6. doi...
  12. Plasmids 101: Walkthrough of Addgene’s Snapgene-Powered Quality Control Process

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    ... selectable markers, tags, origins of replication, and fluorescent proteins that are already included ...backbone sequences, and any known sequences for the insert. The Snapgene desktop software allows us to quickly...using the Snapgene desktop software. If a plasmid contains a region with a high amount of guanine and cytosine...digest to confirm the size of the plasmid and the insert. By using the “Simulate agarose gel” option with...
  13. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    ...this post we'll focus primarily on antibiotics against Gram negative bacteria. In future posts, we'll ...bacteria, and general working concentrations. For instructions on how to prepare antibiotic stocks, see Addgene's... as a marker for successful cloning. In these instances, the cloning vector typically has two separate...that are only resistant to the antibiotic that remains intact. Tips and tricks from the bench Use fresh...Tetracycline is used. Keep in mind that some E. coli strains have natural antibiotic resistances, so make sure...
  14. What the HEK?

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    ...recombinant proteins at high levels. In a case where clinical applications of recombinant proteins are necessary...cells may be particularly useful due to their intrinsic properties. HEK-293 cells are tumorigenic, ...cell line’s ability to faithfully produce these proteins and its relatively low expression of native channels...Cell Line as a Platform to Produce Recombinant Proteins and Viral Vectors. Front Bioeng Biotechnol. (2021...
  15. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    ...-free system, capable of producing fluorescent proteins and enzymes. Image from Moore et al., 2021. ...through monitoring the expression of fluorescent proteins and oxytetracycline enzymes. Next, this system...libraries: Cas13X and Cas13Y, two compact Cas13 proteins found in the metagenome datasets from hypersaline...messenger-RBP sgRNA Library targets human mRNA binding proteins with 10 guide RNAs per gene. The lab modified ...also target core operons in other pneumococcal strains. The BARBEKO sgRNA library uses CRISPR cytosine...
  16. Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...stochastic and combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins is only possible at low copy number ranges, resulting...2018) (Figure 1). Once introduced, fluorescent proteins were best imaged after tissue clearing with SeeDB2...expression levels. Clearing large tissues - Fluorescent proteins are very stable in SeeDB2. However, SeeDB2 is ...strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system." Nature 450.7166 (2007)...labeling of neuronal circuits with fluorescent proteins and chemical tags." eLife 7 (2018): e40350. PubMed...
  17. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    ...Every year, the Rare Genomics Institute sponsors a global competition for researchers working on rare...He says that the award from the Rare Genomics Institute and Addgene will make a substantial difference... (top right) and his colleagues at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA will put their award to work...Joshua Wang (bottom right), also of the Wistar Institute, says that the lab got interested in XP out of...Resources Find out more about the Rare Genomics Institute and the BeHeard Award!    ...
  18. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...second GFP antibody?  Similarities:  Generated against full length GFP and converted to recombinant form...Isotype IgG2a Differences:  Distinct variable domains that recognize different epitopes on GFP Monoclonal...light over the last decade, but the fluorescent proteins (FPs) necessary for many of these applications...consider hfYFP and LSSmGFP.     Fig. 4: hfYFP retains folding and fluorescence in high molarity GdnHCl...Campbell, B.C., et al. Chemically stable fluorescent proteins for advanced microscopy. Nat Methods 19, 1612–...
  19. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...in monoallelic diseases In 2013, a team led by Jinsong Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that...independent team led by Hans Clevers at Hubrecht Institute in The Netherlands used the CRISPR/Cas9 genome...handle on how cleavage sites are repaired.” Those insights will be critical for scientists’ ability to influence...addition, the current work in developing anti-CRISPR proteins aid the limitation of these mutations, to control...s Disease.” Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism. https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0460.1000439 6...
  20. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ... Biological repositories that distribute mouse strains, plasmids, cell lines, and much more have been ... Bioresources Cell Bank, part of the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health, and Nutrition...19 plasmids and resources! Case study 3: Mouse strains Reagents developed during the SARS-CoV pandemic...The Jackson Laboratory, a nonprofit research institution, has been able to rapidly propagate this strain... Aliyah Weinstein...
  21. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider

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    ...based on your downstream application, time, and instrument availability. UV absorbance Using UV absorbance...acids (DNA and RNA) absorb maximally at 260 nm. Proteins on the other hand absorb best at 280 nm and organic...you can compare the fluorescence of your sample against this curve to quantify your DNA prep. Though this...this method doesn’t tell you about contaminating proteins or chaotropic salts. Capillary electrophoresis...read with a standard ELISA reader if no other instruments are available. Some last reminders about quantifying...
  22. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    ... when a researcher decides on a new project and begins by trying to reproduce someone else’s result. Then...time that they thought would be moving forward instead trying just to get going. It’s like being stuck... in science needs both a job and funding, so institutions and funders, to a large extent, hold the keys...is clearly room to do more. If we could really instill a culture of rewarding good scientific citizenship...UK and then a postdoc at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. She joined Elsevier after...
  23. Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**

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    ...Wang, Y., Missinato, M. A., Onuoha, E., Perkins, L. A., Watkins, S. C., . . . Bruchez, M. P. (2016). A ...you can do just that.  Photosensitizing dyes and proteins have been around for awhile (check out this review...produced by photosensitizers inactivate target proteins or cells while having little effect on neighboring...suggests that it could be used with these fluorescent proteins. He et al also compared MG-2I-dL5** head-to-head...
  24. Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly

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    ...sections, while still creating scarless plasmid inserts.  Want to Learn More about DNA Assembly? Check...polymerase used in the amplification. This tool allows instant updates as fragments are added, deleted, or reordered...(sgRNA). Using only one single-stranded oligo, instead of the more typical two oligos, is more cost effective...linearized plasmid with a synthetic oligo that contains a region of homology and any desired edits to ...amplified with overlapping regions of homology and inserted into a linearized cassette, ready for transformation...
  25. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ...differentiated cells simply by expressing four proteins Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and cMyc (the so called OSKM...Yamanaka's work has been profound, and this is a rare instance in which "profound" seems like an understatement...degeneration; Laurenz Studer discussed his work with Parkinson's Disease; Hideyuki Okano presented ground-breaking...clinical trials for ALS.   I have an uncle with Parkinson's, a half-brother who is a quadriplegic due to ... Eric J. Perkins...
  26. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...searching the interwebs for lab resources, and instead conveniently provide them on your smart phone. ...holds the Gibco Cell culture manual and basic instructional videos. The search function in the manual just...that require restriction enzymes or PCR. The app contains a double digest tool that is only helpful for ...for NEB restriction enzymes since the instructions use NEB buffers. Nonetheless, if you are setting up a...draw an amino acid or peptide for some reason. It contains all twenty amino acids plus selenocysteine and...
  27. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    ... at the Hotchkiss Brain Institute. He previously worked at The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics and...tool in neuroscience research. These fluorescent proteins light up in response to calcium, which is more...spectrum (Figure 1). The GCaMP series (e.g., jGCaMP8) remains the gold standard for green fluorescence, while...Additional Resources on addgene.org Fluorescent Proteins: Biosensor Plasmids In-Stock AAV Vectors: Biosensors...
  28. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    ... may feel it’s overwhelming or challenging. So instead, let’s focus on practicing with a short and accessible...information? This can be physical or digital. For instance, you would present information differently in ...image on a protocol page on our website, as an instructive step-by-step guide.  Finally, when writing your...after centrifugation and the syringe needle is inserted bevel-up at the interface between the 40% and ...captured at the 40% layer. To collect purified AAV, insert a syringe at the interface of the 40% layer containing...
  29. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    ...readouts for levels of different chemicals, hormones, proteins, etc., that you are interested in. The most obvious...could be a microscope, plate reader, or any other instrument which measured GFP levels and converted that ...includes tension monitors associated with specific proteins of interest such as actinin. When tension is high....2019.00474 Resources on Addgene.org Fluorescent Proteins: Biosensors Viral Service: Biosensor AAV Viral...Epigenetics with a FRET Based Biosensor Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors ...
  30. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    ...AAV? A: One potential strategy is to use split-inteins to mediate trans-protein splicing. Note, however...possible to make an efficient AAV prep for a 4.2 kB insert with the CMV promoter using the AAV-BR1 capsid?...bringing total genome length to ~4.7kB.  If your insert alone is 4.2 kB and CMV promoter+enhancer is 0.5...experiments using PHP.eB in the brain give some insight into codelivery efficiency at different doses. ...tropism to other serotypes, but reproducible success remains elusive.  There has also been a lot of effort in...
  31. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    ... thanks to our guest blogger Rachel Rubinstein! Rachel Rubinstein is currently a Field-based Product Manager...post was contributed by guest blogger, Rachel Rubinstein, a field-based software product manager at Oxford...your network to your advantage  As the profession gains more traction in the sciences, I believe that more...customer in mind. You can follow her on twitter @rgrubinstein. Additional resources on the Addgene blog Discover...
  32. Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    ...certified health insurance executive (CHIE). He is a member of both the Internal Institute of Auditors and... Directors brings complementary experience and insight to the now 10 member board at Addgene. Let’s meet...at both MetLife & Ernst & Young, LLP, auditing insurance, finance and high-tech industries. He has earned...Addgene blog Learn more about about Addgene in our "Inside Addgene" blog series Subscribe to the Addgene blog...
  33. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    ...resources. There are three types of cognitive load: intrinsic cognitive load is the effort associated with a...show frustration if they're incorrect; take it instead as valuable feedback.  Listen. Think about the ...strategy. Don’t assume it’s the audience’s fault; instead look for ways to improve how you're communicating...If something I was communicating didn’t click, instead of blaming the audience, I would think about how... wasn't. Maybe I needed to employ a visual aid instead of describing something verbally. Sometimes a group...
  34. Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody

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    ...for every assay. Antibodies that are generated against a linear antigen tend to work very well for applications...application. Take immunohistochemistry (IHC), for instance. While an antibody may be validated for IHC, not...region highly conserved across species? If the proteins are highly homologous between your target species... each isotype or species to easily discern the proteins in your assay.  Narrowing the field After working...compare the staining patterns of multiple antibodies against the same target; tagged protein strategies that...
  35. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ...awards to early career scientists using fluorescent proteins in their research. These awards help early career...biosensor fuses MPST to roGFP2. Because roGFP2 contains two cysteines near the chromophore that are susceptible... to better understand the processes that happen inside the cell,” says Pedre Pérez. Figure 2: ...changes following opioid withdrawal, providing insight into new methods for treating patients in recovery...indicator which had improved performance in live mouse brains. Currently, she is using the improved voltage indicator...
  36. Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist

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    ...discussions.  Pro tip: Instead of connecting with someone you don’t really know, follow instead of connecting....information available. When I am speaking at a new institution, for example, I will often see a whole bunch ... “a postdoc from this Uni viewed your profile” instead of “Joanne Kamens, PhD viewed your profile.”  The...option for sending LinkedIn messages to Click Send instead of Press Enter to Send. That way you can type a...
  37. Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration

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    ...postdoctoral researcher at the Noble Research Institute, co-instructed the ASPB workshop and authored a three-part...well received, and then when the team started brainstorming ideas for the next workshop, they realized that...in the group was able to make it physically to instruct the workshop at the conference, but because each...of the scientific community. Lessons learned Instead of continuously talking about a problem and potential...
  38. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ...comprised of two tandem fluorescent proteins: a relatively pH-insensitive RFP variant, DsRed.T3 and a pH-sensitive...the degradation rate of radio-labeled long-lived proteins as a proxy for autophagy. Cells are cultured with...washout period removes radio-labeled short-lived proteins primarily via proteasome degradation. Autophagy... to giving more fine-grained detail about what proteins or organelles are being degraded) and it is slow...
  39. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...destination vector + insert may spontaneously religate, this transient construct retains functional Type IIS...in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary overhangs that direct...complete with helpful tips and tricks, see The Sainsbury Lab website or Engler & Marillonet. Golden Gate...technology has adapted Golden Gate cloning for inserting the appropriate oligonucleotides specifying a ...
  40. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    ...secondary antibodies instead (B).   Since a polyclonal primary antibody contains a mix of different...antibodies used for detection bind to non-target immunoglobulins naturally present in the tissue sample. There...antibody fragments to block the endogenous immunoglobulins and reduce the background staining but they...Biological systems tend to be complex with a variety of proteins interacting. Experiments tend to be equally complex...
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