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  1. The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It

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    ... signals from time to time. False positives in original studies and false negatives in replications are...powered research designs. Unanticipated discoveries Finally, there are good reasons for obtaining a different...replication study. An important difference between the original setting and the new one, previously unaccounted...different handling can all be important.  If we eliminate the problems above: unclear methods, QRPs, and...when replications do not come out the same as an original research finding we can be more certain that some... papers. The precise timing, order, or every combination of materials and treatments is all too often ...reports, the gold standard for testing hypotheses Finally, Registered Reports combine all the best practices...
  2. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    ...list of Fragmid destination vectors currently available. Table 1: Fragmid destination vectors Organism...depicted. (Bottom) Schematic depicting available destination vectors for various delivery methods, along with... with compatible inserts. All destination vectors contain an ampicillin resistance cassette and an origin...components you want, simply assemble them into a destination vector via Golden Gate cloning, perform an exonuclease...sequence for every individual assembly. What destination vectors are available? What you’re building ...Organism Delivery Type Destination Vector Mammalian Lentivirus pRDA_512 (RSV-driven; lentiGuide-based...type (lentivirus, AAV, transposon, Plasmid) Destination vector (dropdown options depending on above selections...
  3. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...Originally published Aug 3, 2017 and last updated Apr 6, 2021 by Will Arnold. Introducing NGS in 2017...plexWell technology to easily and quickly create Illumina sequencing libraries. From start to finish the...libraries are then QC’d, pooled, and prepared for Illumina sequencing on our newly donated MiSeq.  For Complete...electrophoretic gel, and qPCR quantification of the final libraries. A broader view of the whole plasmid To...plasmid.     Confirming tags and fusion proteins Finally, we confirm promoters, tags, fusion proteins, and... Analysis Platform to Assess the Identity of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Viral Preparations from Viral... also adds the necessary adapter sequences for Illumina sequencing as well as unique barcodes per sample...
  4. Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More

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    ...and Shannon Rinaldi in the Addgene lab! Read their Instagram profiles here (Kenkel, Rinaldi)! But leaving...might not be the right choice. I spoke with our Financial Operations Specialist, Lucy Hammer, about why ... have to go back to school right away. Shannon Rinaldi, Addgene’s Lab Manager, was taking classes at her...science, she stuck with it. Lab Manager Shannon Rinaldi values loving what she does. Her parents told her...response to this question came from Lucy Hammer, our Financial Operations Specialist. She said, “I’ve found the...came to Addgene with a goal to learn nonprofit finance, and while I've done that, my big takeaway has ...conversation master knows that although her focus is finance, it is just as important to bring love and fun ...
  5. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    ...did not result in significant recombination. If you do see recombination, we recommend ensuring the cells...pooled libraries can lead to issues such as recombination and loss of plasmid diversity, so Addgene strives...strives to distribute aliquots of the original library whenever possible. In this blog, we’ll discuss ... lentiviral backbone might be more prone to recombination, while a library with a large backbone might...diversity of the library is maintained and reduce recombination during the amplification process. In liquid ...factor overexpression library) or is prone to recombination, we recommend amplification on solid media. ...may not have amplification protocols attached.  Final step: validation  Remember, there is no “one-size-fits-all...
  6. Plasmids 101: Degron Tags

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    ...protein tag which can be added to either the N or C terminal of a protein and can inducibly facilitate the ...concentration can yield intermediate protein abundance. Finally, some degron tags can do more than just degrade... the gene of interest and the degron domain is terminal. Between the tag elements (protease and degron...endogenous CRBN E3 ligase complex which will polyubiquitinate the fusion protein. This will target the protein...protein-of-interest and the CRBN E3 ligase complex leading to ubiquitination and proteasomal degradation. Adapted from Nabet...interacting ligands. After an E3 ligase facilitates ubiquitination of the Halo-tagged protein in question, it ...complex members, an E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. Finally, when auxin is added in the form of auxin hormone...
  7. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...researchers test many different combinations of promoters, terminators, solubility and purification tags...connectors, cDNAs, and more to find the perfect combination. The EcoFlex Kit has a wide array of DNA parts...EcoFlex a great option for those interested in recombinant protein purification and metabolic engineering...expression, the system includes a toolkit to express recombinant proteins within the mitochondrial matrix.   ...specialized system with parts including site-specific recombinases, regulatory elements, developmental regulators... examine the effects of different promoters, terminators, enhancers, and cross-cassette interactions in...localization and transport studies in HEK cells, recombinant protein purification in bacterial cells, and ...
  8. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    ...validation data, or follow the references to find the original publication and ensure that it includes validation...-lot. The highest reproducibility comes from recombinant antibodies (rAbs), which are produced from plasmids...plasmid sequencing. While rAbs are monoclonal, recombinant multiclonal antibodies — mixtures of different...re-purchasing your primary antibody with the new reporter. Finally, each new conjugate will have to be tested to ensure...It is recommended for small to medium proteins. Finally, there are dry/electroblot transfer systems available...range, they cannot be read with equal accuracy. Finally, they degrade quickly and need to be read fairly...compatible with stripping and probing.   Imaging At the final step of your western, you’ll have two choices: x-ray...
  9. Protocol - How to Design Primers

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    ... primers) or too short. Short primers produce inaccurate, nonspecific DNA amplification product, and long...
  10. New Viral Vectors - Fall 2024

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    ...AAV5 Recombinases Stanley Thomas Carmichael New viral prep pAAV-EF1a-fDIO-Cre AAV5 Recombinases Esteban.... These preps drive expression of either Cre recombinase or a fluorescent marker in the various cell types...serotype pAAV-hSyn-Cre-P2A-dTomato AAV PHP.eB Recombinases Rylan Larsen New serotype AiP13778 - pAAV-...pAAV-AiE0450h-minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA (Alias: CN3778) AAV PHP.eB Recombinases Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13779 - pAAV-AiE0779m...minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA (Alias: CN3779) AAV PHP.eB Recombinases Jonathan Ting New viral prep AiP13781 - pAAV-AiE0452h-minBG-iCre...pAAV-AiE0452h-minBG-iCre(R297T)-BGHpA (Alias: CN3781) AAV PHP.eB Recombinases Jonathan Ting New viral prep pAAV-CAG-GFP ...
  11. What the HEK?

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    ...produce recombinant proteins at high levels. In a case where clinical applications of recombinant proteins...wondered where human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells originated from? Or why they are such a commonly used cell...difficult to determine its true tissue origin. Originally, it was assumed HEKs were a common cell type ... necessary, HEKs are human in origin, so they eliminate non-human PTMs which is a concern with other protein...cultured human cell lines are susceptible to contamination by mycoplasma and bacteria, but HEKs are also...., HEK293 Cell Line as a Platform to Produce Recombinant Proteins and Viral Vectors. Front Bioeng Biotechnol...
  12. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...conductor receptor (CFTR) by homologous recombination in cultured intestinal stem cells of patients with cystic...This post was originally written in 2014 by Kendall Morgan and updated in 2022 by Lucie Wilson. Lucie...CRISPR/Cas9 could be used to edit several autosomal-dominant mutations that have been connected to the early...Chinese Academy of Sciences found that mice with a dominant mutation in a gene that causes cataracts could... chose to explore its potential in mice with a dominant cataract disorder caused by a single copy of a... "Functional Repair of CFTR by CRISPR/Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    ...interest: The transgene sequence is flanked by long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences, which facilitate integration...line that stably expresses Gag-Pol and/or Env, eliminating the need to deliver these genes in trans by specific...feature may be useful for the transduction of terminally differentiated (non-dividing) cells. Both lentiviruses...produce additional virus. Are γ-retroviruses self-inactivating (SIN)? They can be. Plasmids that encode SIN... LTR Subcomponents: -U3 -R -U5 LTR; Long terminal repeats; U3-R-U5 regions found on either side ...U5 and the rest of the provirus. 3’ LTR Terminates transcription started by 5' LTR by the addition...written and updated by multiple Addgenies. It was originally published in 2018, in the Viral Vectors 101 eBook...
  14. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    ...pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM3D(Gq)-mCherry Bryan Roth   Recombinases Recombinase systems such as Cre-lox allow for more...types, recombinases allow you to further restrict gene expression to areas in which the recombinase and ...and construct are coexpressed. Three new recombinases from the Cepko Lab are now available as AAV1. CRE-...constructs 69570 and 69571 together encode the N and C terminal segments respectively of a GFP dependent Cre. ...to form a functional Cre enzyme that induces recombination of lox sites. This system takes advantage of...
  15. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    ...efficiency.  Finding recombinant psychrophilic enzymes for the host The expression of recombinant proteins for...conditions decrease the potential for microbial contamination. Additionally, the high activity of these enzymes...well under suboptimal conditions. This means recombinant proteins can aggregate or precipitate out as ...would allow the stable folding and expression of recombinant psychrophilic proteins. As the figure below shows... as engineering and regulating psychrophilic recombinant proteins.  To infinity, and beyond! Keeping ...brainstorm with each other. The event also featured a seminar on “Tools to increase scientific reproducibility...
  16. Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics

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    ...With no blue light, the channelrhodopsin remains inactive and neurons don't fire. With blue light, ions ...minimally-invasive, Frances Arnold’s lab and Viviana Gradinaru’s lab used machine learning to design new channelrhodopsins... To overcome these challenges, the Arnold and Gradinaru Labs developed a machine-learning model to help...information about parental channelrhodopsins to create recombinant channelrhodopsin sequences. The model first removed...their success in vivo. Therefore, the Arnold and Gradinaru Labs expressed ChRgers in mice to see if they ...broad transduction of the nervous system which eliminates the need for intracranial injections. When packaged...Bedbrook CN, Yang KK, Robinson JE, Mackey ED, Gradinaru V, Arnold FH (2019) Machine learning-guided channelrhodopsin...
  17. The Twelve Days of Antibodies

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    ...second day of Antibody, Addgene gave to me…  A recombinant anti-GFP!    🎶On the third day of Antibody, ...fourth day of Antibody, Addgene gave to me…  A recombinant Anti-Arl13b!    🎶On the fifth day of Antibody...sixth day of Antibody, Addgene gave to me… A recombinant Anti-PSD-95!    🎶On the seventh day of Antibody...eighth day of Antibody, Addgene gave to me…  A recombinant Anti-DYKDDDDK!   🎶On the ninth day of Antibody...tenth day of Antibody, Addgene gave to me…  A recombinant Anti-APP!   🎶On the eleventh day of Antibody... of Antibody, Addgene gave to me…  A growing recombinant antibody collection!     ...
  18. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    ...with a terminator. A simple TU could be comprised of just three parts: promoter, gene, and terminator.   ...functional relevance following a set hierarchy. MoClo originally developed from Golden Gate Cloning, in which ...this category also includes promoters, UTRs, terminators, etc. Once selected, individual units can be ...modularity — many parts can be assembled into many combinations. Even with current technologies, it can be extremely... name implies, gene stacking is the use of a combination of multiple genes to achieve a desired effect...resistance. MoClo is a great tool to deliver many combinations of different candidate genes at once to identify...
  19. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...including "CLAP", combining an N-terminal CLIPf tag and a C-terminal SNAPf tag; see Figure 2), the authors...al., 2024). Their optimized strategy uses new combinations of PE protein components (Figure 1), an altered...negative-going GEVI that can be used in different illumination regimes with fast activation kinetics and high...://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.028. New recombinant antibodies for neurodegeneration research   By...-MAPT [AT8] and Anti-APP [6E10-A5]. Both are recombinant mouse monoclonal antibodies targeting the human...Immunohistochemistry with Addgene's Anti-APP [6E10-A5] recombinant antibody in human postmortem brain samples. Results...
  20. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024

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    ...Addgene. Anti-V5 [IPI-SV5-Pk1] is a recombinant version of the original V5 tag mouse monoclonal antibody,...different antibody-based applications.  IPI’s recombinant version is a fusion of mouse variable and rabbit...with the multiple myeloma drug mezigdomide and ubiquitination substrate Ikaros (IKZF1ZF2) (B). Image adapted...structure-guided drug design and studies of protein ubiquitination and degradation.   Find the CRBNmidi plasmid...4 protein, mScarlet3 was 50% brighter than the original worm-optimized wrmScarlet. mScarlet-I3, while ...104 times higher than traditional homologous recombination methods). By using mCherry for selection of ...
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