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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...sequence for degradation. Viral introduction of shRNA plasmids can induce gene-specific silencing temporarily...inducibly depending on the vector and virus. Viral CRISPR-Cas9 tools have been engineered to introduce frameshift...transfection and random genomic integration of a plasmid. Viral transduction is also generally less toxic...Discuss Gene Therapy with AAV Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells...
  2. The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors

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    ... Requested Plasmid in 2015 Find Hot Plasmid Technologies Write about Your Favorite Plasmid Technology ... indicates that a plasmid has been requested 20+ times   A red flame means a plasmid has been requested...answering plasmid requests can be a time-consuming chore for labs that have popular plasmids but lack ... to distribute our plasmids via Addgene. Given the increasing popularity of CRISPR in the plant community...All plasmids deposited at Addgene enhance scientific sharing worldwide but a select few are particularly...particularly special. Over 1000 of our 60,000+ deposited plasmids have been requested more than 100 times each, ...to sharing epitomized by the creators of these plasmids with the first annual Blue Flame Awards. What'...
  3. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    ...realized we could apply the lessons learned from our plasmid lab to develop a reliable and robust high quality...offer many resources for producing vectors from plasmids — including the protocols we use in our lab — ...while viral vectors are not as easy to ship as plasmids, they still have a global reach. From 2016–2023...vectors in our repository are produced from only 413 plasmids containing a genetic payload. While AAV9 and AAV1... may recall our first 20th anniversary story on CRISPR, where we dove fairly deeply into the different...having reliable ready-to-use vectors made from plasmids in the Addgene catalog would be broadly useful...conditions. Sharing our experiences Addgene’s plasmid repository gave us the experience to launch a high-quality...
  4. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ...Tags in our Plasmids 101 Series. Get the Inntag Plasmids Tag endogenous proteins with CRISPR Fluorescently... in a scientist’s toolbox. As we’ve covered in Plasmids 101, tags can help you determine localization ...
  5. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. ...Explore our empty and EGFP retroviral plasmid set, our bacterial plasmid set for expressing tagged proteins...and AAV plasmid sets launching later this year!  Find Addgene's own Lentiviral backbone plasmids here! ... synaptic imaging applications. Find iGluSnFR4 plasmids here! Aggarwal, A., Negrean, A., Chen, Y., Iyer...powerful tools in a scientist's toolkit is the empty plasmid backbone: the DNA vector that contains everything... swap sequences effortlessly.  We built these plasmids for flexibility and speed, so you can design, ...editing, think beyond Cas9 with STITCHR: a combined CRISPR / retrotransposon system with the pithy name "site-specific...
  6. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    ... Tracing Read How CRISPR Can Be Used in Genome-Wide Screening Browse 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from ...for Your Research View our Hot Plasmid Pages to See the Latest Plasmid Technologies ... drugs in specific contexts, so he assembled a plasmid kit designed to do exactly that. As described in...It’s also possible you could make use of these plasmids in living animals, to explore pathways that confer...
  7. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here. Listen to the Hot Plasmids Podcast!  MarathonRT...’s lab at Yale University recently deposited a plasmid for expressing a novel reverse transcriptase (RT...polymerase processivity. Please find the MarathonRT plasmid here! Zhao C, et al. RNA. 2018 PubMed PMID:29109157... cell surface. Their toolkit includes a set of plasmids each containing an anti-GFP nanobody fused with...fluorophores. Find all of the nanobody toolkit plasmids here. Buser DP, et. al. PNAS 2018. PubMed PMID...
  8. 2023 and 2024: Reflections and Looking Ahead

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    ...18,359 viral items, and 166,247 plasmids. We welcomed 18,899 plasmids, deposited from 1,106 labs in 504...factor library, in lentiviral vectors. At 3500 plasmids, this represents the largest single deposit in...September, we released the fourth edition of our Plasmids 101 eBook. This updated version of one of our ...the recent release of the Spanish version of our CRISPR 101 eBook and the upcoming release of the second...to announce that we are now able to ship rabies plasmids in our repository to international requestors....
  9. Synthetic Biology, Artificial Chromosomes, iGEM & More - Interview with Tom Ellis

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    ...things like DNA synthesis, Golden Gate cloning, and CRISPR. The yeast synthetic genome project and constructing...Synthetic Biology Education Nonprofit BioBuilder Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning Learn About Working at...Michael Koeris Resources at Addgene.org Find Plasmids from the Ellis Lab Find Synthetic Biology Kits...
  10. Plasmids 101: Screening Strategies Used in Plasmid Cloning

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    ... in. Let’s take a look at All_in_one_CRISPR/Cas9_LacZ, a CRISPR gRNA plasmid from Lynne Postovit’s lab...once in the plasmid backbone and another enzyme that cuts within the insert. If the plasmid contains the... PCR product if the plasmid contains the insert and no PCR product if the plasmid does not contain the...resources on the Addgene blog Get all the plasmid basics in our Plasmids 101 series Find more molecular biology...If you’re cloning a plasmid, you’ll need a way to find the needle in the haystack: the one perfect clone...clone that contains the plasmid you’re looking for out of the many cells that don’t. One way to begin ... how to use positive and negative selection in plasmid cloning.  But oftentimes, a selection strategy...
  11. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...increasing the size of the AAV donor template for CRISPR-mediated homology directed repairs (HDR). Split...sequential homology directed repairs (HDR) with CRISPR/Cas9. Donor A contains: 400bp homology arms to ...single step and serve as donors for two consecutive CRISPR-mediated HDR events which results in the integration....org/10.1172/jci34316 Bak RO, Porteus MH (2017) CRISPR-Mediated Integration of Large Gene Cassettes Using...therapy Learn about the parts of an AAV transfer plasmid Resources on Addgene.org: Check out the Addgene...
  12. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    ... of CRISPR/Cas9 Tips for a first time AAV user Resources on Addgene.org Find Adenovirus Plasmids Adenovirus.... The continued development of more and smaller CRISPR tools is an exciting area for future AAV application...
  13. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ...underrepresented plasmids (plasmids that were lost or “dropped out”) and overrepresented plasmids (plasmids that ...In addition to single plasmids, Addgene also distributes pooled plasmid libraries containing hundreds...library contains many plasmids, care must be taken to ensure that all of these plasmids are amplified and ...diversity. If the various plasmids in the library are differently sized, smaller plasmids may be amplified preferentially...hundreds, thousands, or even a million plasmids. These libraries are some of Addgene’s most exciting and versatile...harvested, much like one would prep an individual plasmid. However, lots of library DNA is needed for screening...100 to 1,000 bacterial colonies per individual plasmid in the library. Bacterial growth must also be optimized...
  14. Editor's Choice, September 2016

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    ...Enterprise in Flux CRISPR Kinome Libraries Available: Pooled and Individual Plasmid Formats Better Dyeing... Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene Savvy Advocates...Addgene supporters who spoke with me and deposited plasmids on this trip. Here’s to hoping that October is...
  15. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ... used for plasmid-based experiments. What are control plasmids? Generally, control plasmids help to ensure...follow an example of a plasmid-based experiment, delineate its requisite control plasmids, and discuss why ...proper control plasmids would address and answer these questions. Types of control plasmids Part of planning...conditions and plasmids should produce a null effect (i.e., no phenomenon is observed). In any plasmid-based experiment... and not some other unintended factor. Control plasmids are used to minimize any effects of the non-independent...variables.  To illustrate the importance of control plasmids, we will take a step beyond discussion in the ...why these control plasmids are critical for the correct design of the experiment.  The Experiment: Knockdown...
  16. Sleeping Beauty Awakens for Genome Engineering

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    ....12137. PubMed. Find the Plasmids at Addgene Kowarz Lab plasmids Izsvak Lab plasmids  ...the gene of interest (blue) in a plasmid backbone. A separate plasmid contains the transposase gene (red...). The original plasmid is empty following the removal of the transposon; the plasmid is then degraded...for insertion in the correct orientation. These plasmids use a novel synthetic RPBSA promoter, which is...therapy. SB is a valuable tool and an alternative to CRISPRs for genome engineering whose use is only likely...
  17. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...RNAi to knock-down expression of your target or CRISPR/Cas9 to create mutations that essentially eliminate...the gene for your protein has been mutated using CRISPR/Cas9. You check the mutation and it causes a large...interest endogenously and transfect them with a plasmid encoding your protein of interest. Then you should...target protein in a Western blot. You acquire a plasmid encoding your protein of interest, known as Gene... In parallel, you transfect cells with another plasmid not encoding this protein, which we will call Negative...band from the cells transfected with the other plasmid. Your antibody works! Multiple (Independent) Antibodies...Antibodies blog post!  Resources on Addgene.org Find plasmids encoding antibodies at Addgene Stay tuned for ...
  18. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...pool and extract plasmid DNA directly from the colonies. Transform the resultant plasmid DNA into E. coli...DNA bases.  Ligate and transform your resultant plasmid libraries into chemically competent E. coli and... you’re using a pET vector) and antibiotic for plasmid selection. Remove air bubbles between the membrane...they expressed well, the proteins encoded by the plasmids in the library will remain attached to the membrane...PMC2258639. Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn How CRISPR Can Be Combined with Phage for Antimicrobial Purposes...Systems to Probe Protein-Protein Interactions Use CRISPR For Genome-Wide Screens Resources on Addgene.org...of Expression Vectors Deposit Your Microbiology Plasmids ...
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