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  1. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ...back into the infants. Almost all patients have achieved persistent immunological reconstitution with a...mutations in the gene RPE65. It is characterized by childhood onset of blindness and was thought to be untreatable...Improvement and decline in vision with gene therapy in childhood blindness." New England Journal of Medicine 372.20...
  2. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    ...Intermolecular FRET can be experimentally difficult to achieve, because the ratio of acceptor to donor fusions... Before constructing your own FRET probe, try searching PubMed for articles describing the FRET tool that...PMC2396198. 4. Sustarsic, Marko, and Kapanidis, Achillefs N. "Taking the ruler to the jungle: Single-molecule...
  3. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ...fluorescent protein tags. Tamura et al. Commun Biol. 2021 Daichi Kamiyama Cerulean Cerulean(1–10) for use with...fluorescent protein tags. Tamura et al. Commun Biol. 2021 Daichi Kamiyama ECFP C155 of ECFP pairs with N173 ...fluorescent protein tags. Tamura et al. Commun Biol. 2021 Daichi Kamiyama sfCherry2 sfCherry2(1–10) and sfCherry2...
  4. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...multiple genes to achieve a desired effect. This is commonly used in plant biology to achieve traits such as...organization schema MoClo can be broken down into three hierarchical levels: individual DNA parts, transcriptional...
  5. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    ...intended. Sharing unverified plasmids can lead to far reaching consequences, from wasting time and money on optimizing.... For more information, see the press release. Catching and addressing QC issues Addgene’s QC team has...discrepancies can be caught prior to distribution. Catching these errors prevents future experimental issues...
  6. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    ... instances of focused attention become magical teaching moments. The models function as thinking tools...that the resulting physical model is an effective teaching tool. You can read about Jacob’s initial reaction...BioMolecular Modeling web site to check out our hands-on teaching tools that are designed to make the molecular ...
  7. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    ...concentration. Add supplements to the media You can achieve higher cell density using a nutrient-rich broth...plasmids may need to be grown for 20 hours or more to achieve maximum plasmid yield. The optimal growth time ...insufficient gas exchange will prevent your cultures from reaching the desired density. The volume of your flask ...
  8. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ...writing a grant, thinking about the next project, reaching out to other teams, expanding your network…. I...problem, I was able to resolve this issue - with coaching - before it became a major problem. But I also...always the case or you may not feel comfortable reaching out to your manager. This is when having a mentor...
  9. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ... it has been challenging to introduce CRISPRi machinery into diverse bacteria species. Existing protocols...bacteria with a chromosomal copy of the RP4 transfer machinery mobilize these plasmids for transfer to recipient...contain a chromosomal copy of the RP4 transfer machinery, which mobilizes the Tn7 plasmids, and lack the...
  10. Of Myc and Men

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    ... that this step “...proved to be quite easy to achieve…” - but I think we can all agree that it sounds...c-Myc protein and did not recognize the mouse or chicken homologs. By comparing the homologous sequences...Myc1-9E10 in the late 1990s (Fuchs, et al. 1997; Schiweck, et al. 1997) with the goal of making the antibody...
  11. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    ...partially because they contain some of the necessary machinery to make these viruses. The cells are also easy...they require cloning specific AAV or lentiviral machinery into a baculovirus plasmid. Production of baculovirus... https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.01-0995fje. Tan, E., Chin, C. S. H., Lim, Z. F. S., & Ng, S. K. (2021). HEK293...
  12. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    ... functional groups: nucleases, modulators, and chimeric effectors. Nucleases generate a classic double-stranded...break, while modulators regulate transcription and chimeric efforts make a precise edit or insertion via a...distributed CRISPR plasmids. But modulators and chimeric effectors, made available in 2013 and 2016, respectively...
  13. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...Chromoproteins also enhance corals’ resistance to mass bleaching, the loss of their symbiotic algae, during heat...cost and resources are limited or for bioart and teaching applications. Find a chromoprotein for your experiment...doi.org/10.1186/s13036-018-0100-0 Murakoshi, H., Horiuchi, H., Kosugi, T., Onda, M., Sato, A., Koga, N.,...
  14. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ... is valuable in many experimental settings. To achieve this, scientists use a multitude of techniques ...use the 2A peptides instead of an IRES when stoichiometrically equivalent levels of expression are required...to plasmids, allowing you to spend less time researching plasmid basic features and spend more time developing...
  15. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...was derived from figure 3b in Chan et al.   To achieve the full diversity of colors AND sparse labeling...co-injected. The dose of this AAV can be adjusted to achieve sparse levels of labeling, without loss of color...virus, but the desired sparsity of labeling is achieved with lose doses of inducer virus. Additionally...
  16. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    ... approaches. Major restaurant chains including Chipotle and Panera Bread have pledged to eliminate the...bacteria have poor non-homologous end joining machinery, so a CRISPR-induced double-stranded break (DSB...into the bacterial genome, and it carries CRISPR machinery targeting 1) the given resistance gene and 2) ...
  17. Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus

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    ...and the viral mRNAs are translated) by cellular machinery. NP encapsidates the negative sense, single-stranded.... These mRNAs are translated by cellular host machinery (as viral mRNAs would be in the course of viral...initial titration experiments might be helpful to achieve optimal results. It is important to note that this...
  18. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...while not widely known, plasmid assembly can be achieved in vivo using a bacterial recombination pathway...in a gene, while adding a GFP-tag (Figure 3). Achieving multiple modifications requires multiple recombination...DNA encoding plasmids, or promoters such as the chicken beta-actin promoter of the pHLsec vector. In this...
  19. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...responsible for an autosomal recessive, severe, childhood-onset form of blindness name Leber’s Congenital... therapy restores vision in a canine model of childhood blindness. Nature Genetics 28, 92-95. PubMed PMID...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5960719. 8. Trapani I and Auricchio A., 2018. Seeing the Light after 25 Years of Retinal...
  20. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...References Furuta-Hanawa, Birei, Teruhide Yamaguchi, and Eriko Uchida. "2D droplet digital PCR as a tool for...is common. Here are some steps you can take to achieve a clean NTC: Have a dedicated bench with a dedicated...
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