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  1. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ...non-trivial, however, as FPs are tremendously complicated entities with a large range of characteristics...decision remains spread across literature in publications that introduce these tools. Years ago, Kurt...collection pages can be kept private, or shared publicly (so feel free to moderate your own version of ...incorporate FPbase data in their own projects and applications, a REST API allows programmatic retrieval of...
  2. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    ...protein-protein interactions. Beyond these common applications, researchers are finding new ways to apply fluorescent...Zhou and Fatima Enam. There were many excellent applicants but Xin and Fatima stood out for their creativity...utility of these FLiPs in a variety of research applications and particularly notes their ability to be precisely...Update (7/17/2018): Check out Fatima's recent publication on her HMO work in Cell Chemical Biology! Additional...
  3. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    ...databases available, Web of Science. For each publication, Web of Science provides basic bibliographic ...Science, PLOS One, and PNAS. We then broke the publications from these journals into two groups: those containing...differences in citations due to the journal of publication. Table 1 provides an example calculation of the...Addgene in them. The adjustment is done within publication years. What do we find once we do this adjustment...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    ...Luciola italica)Southern Russian firefly(Luciola mingrelica) 562 64 Luciferin ATP No Jamaican click beetle...which luciferases have been cloned from include click beetles (Pyrophorus plagiophthalmus), railroad worm...
  5. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    ...Scientists can also use electroporation, the application of an electrical charge to cells, to increase... properties. The phagemids are packaged into replication-incompetent phage particles with assistance from... found on an episome, a piece of DNA that can replicate on its own or be integrated within a bacterial...Multiple phases of competence occur during the Helicobacter pylori growth cycle." FEMS microbiology letters...
  6. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    ...historical standard. Specifically, in our recent publications, we used the cancer plasmid collections listed...Cancer Variants Identifies Oncogenic Alleles. Kim E, Ilic N, Shrestha Y. et al. Cancer Discovery 2016. PubMed...pathway reference collection is described in this publication We also wrote an extensive review on the exciting...data generated from these alleles in the above publications), it will be possible for many others to perform...
  7. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    ...cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We are knocking out genes that have been implicated in disease or, ...to understand the basis for cardiovascular and metabolic human diseases. They do that by studying patients...less than a month's time. Addgene: What are the implications of this kit in terms of understanding human ...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    ...experiments. Recombinant AAVs (rAAVs) The primary application of AAV is delivery of genetic cargo to a host...transduced gene is episomal and does not divide and replicate in the same way the host DNA does. Because of ... since you don’t have to wait for the host to replicate the DNA before expression. Now that you’ve got... S., et al. “Various AAV Serotypes and Their Applications in Gene Therapy: An Overview.” Cells, 12(5),...
  9. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency

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    ...aggregates. This property can be tolerated in some applications (e.g. labeling of cells or tracking promotor...promotor activity), but it is problematic in applications in which the fluorescent protein is used as an inert...During the experiment, the solution is diluted, complicating the interpretation. Because of this, these methods...aware that the fluorescent proteins reported in publications are only characterized under a limited number...
  10. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    ... PMCID: PMC3918502. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Ma, Hanhui, et al. “Multicolor...PMCID: PMC4364232. Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 3. Ma, Hanhui, et al. “Multiplexed...PMCID: PMC4864854. Find the plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 4. Kiani, Samira, et al. “Cas9 gRNA... PMCID: PMC4666719. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Additional Resources on the Addgene...
  11. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute

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    ...journalism.” She also interned two days a week on a public radio show. After graduating with a master’s, Susan...complete a certificate in Strategic Communications and Public Relations at the University of Washington and the...opportunities, such as writing for a student-led publication, are more readily available and it’s often easier...internship similar to Susan’s NEI internship. Application information can be found here Find tips for using...
  12. Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist

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    ...you’ll see the boxes that say “Connect.” If you click this box, it will send an unpersonalized, generic...change the option for sending LinkedIn messages to Click Send instead of Press Enter to Send. That way you...shoulder for the picture. It tends to look like a police photo if you look straight at the camera. Pro tip...not the platform for politics, family updates, or click bait of any kind. For more on inappropriate content...
  13. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...systems are easily adaptable to neuroscience applications, including optogenetics, and they should make...Tang note that their scaffold system is likely applicable to many types of proteins. For proteins with ... PMCID: PMC4096992. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Tang, Jonathan C.Y., et al. “...PubMed PMID: 26258682. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 3. Kirchhofer, A., et al. “Modulation...
  14. Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions

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    ... protein interactions (Alice Ting Lab 2020) Split-horseradish peroxidase (Alice Ting Lab 2016)  Split-...Image modified from Feng et al. 2017 under CC-BY license. Many split-FP fragments are named according...Split-Fluorescent Protein Tags Browse the table below, and click the Article link to find all the plasmids from the...
  15. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...for more complicated plasmids, like those that contain synthesized regions that have no publicly available...often find a few mismatches in the origin of replication or other common backbone elements. Since we’ve...chicken beta actin promoter, and rabbit beta-globin splice acceptor, contains sequence that is over 80% GC...
  16. Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production

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    ...prevent the formation of replication competent lentivirus (RCL). Replication competence can arise from...end-users, size of the transgene, and downstream applications should all be considered when choosing the correct... as resources available, cost and downstream applications. For example, while the PEG precipitation method...
  17. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ... in situ hybridization experiments. A recent publication [1] from the Sánchez lab describes the plasmids...the deposit) are described in the Sánchez lab publication [1] so that the students performing these experiments...Phagocata gracillis, the process is a little more complicated. These strains are more picky eaters and refuse...easily investigate in planarians. References 1. Alice Accorsi, Monique M. Williams, Eric J. Ross, Sofia...
  18. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    ... become very different due to a whole genome duplication and extensive rearrangements in the S. cerevisiae...overexpression vector. This plasmid contains origins of replication and selectable markers that allow students to...functional MET genes to grow.) Students then use replica plating to determine if expression of MET/Met genes...undergraduate courses and in communicating science to the public. You can find out more about Clare at the Biology...
  19. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    ...setting—especially if job applications require teaching experience or high numbers of publications, which may take...people involved is staggering. The process is complicated. If you’re interested in the drug discovery process... proprietary compounds or information. Where publication is expected, the process is similar to academia...
  20. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    ...T4 DNA ligase. Inserts, either precloned or in amplicon form (shown above) are flanked by BsaI sites in...efficiency measurements using similarly sized Lambda amplicon inserts to control for any suppression of background...Kucera is a Principal Development Scientist of Applications & Product Development focusing on DNA cloning...Optimization of Golden Gate assembly through application of ligation sequence-dependent fidelity and bias...
  21. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    ... original CAPTURE and CAPTURE 2.0 methods.   Applications of CAPTURE 2.0 CAPTURE 2.0’s increased rate ...identified with the multiplexed CAPTURE 2.0 largely replicated interactions previously identified with the original... of chromatin interaction networks  A second application for CAPTURE 2.0 is the construction of spatial...temporal changes in chromatin interactions A third application for CAPTURE 2.0 is detection of temporal changes...
  22. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    ... feeling of conflict many of us associate with negotiating (check out more about conflict resolution)....examples of negotiation have been: A job offer conflicts with a pre-planned vacation I’m looking forward...blog More from the transferable skills guide: Conflict Resolution Time management Managing a team Leadership...
  23. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ... as a helicase. Following recruitment by Cascade, Cas3 nicks the non-target strand. The helicase domain...After these initial steps, Cas3 can perform its helicase and nuclease functions simultaneously, by continuously...Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications with the type I CRISPR system. Gene and Genome...
  24. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    ... in learning more about any one of them, please click on the links throughout the text or see the “Additional...cloning. Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC) could also be a great choice, because the T4 polymerase...The ligation-independent methods like Gibson and SLIC are also quite efficient; although efficiency often...some of the homology based methods, like Gibson or SLIC, since one can pool the components and define their...
  25. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ... millions of people die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics, new...non-cancerous cells, such as those within hair follicles and lining the digestive system, causing discomfort...any of these genes through several different applications such as fluorescent protein fusion studies and...of interest to their laboratory. A single mouse click on a gene of interest will direct the investigator...
  26. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...early I’m fortunate to live in a town with a good public school system that has made strong efforts in the...simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated and I would quickly lose their interest. I won...opinion, it was more important to communicate the applications of CRISPR over the details of how it worked....examples I used in my presentation had only become public in the previous two weeks, which demonstrated to...
  27. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests ...14%). Spikes in plasmid requests correspond to publications of popular papers. Figure 1: Plasmid requests...effects fairly well. However, we observed one complication in the China data – there is a period of 1 month...fundamental scientific discovery and high-impact applications.       Alvin Hsu is a graduate student at Harvard...
  28. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...with an abundance of protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this...experiment or evaluating ExM images in a new publication.         Why Expansion Microscopy?  Traditional...Tissue expansion is not compatible with in vivo applications and there’s just not much to be done about that...are typically easier to expand than mouse brain slices, which are easier to expand than, say, a C. elegans...
  29. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ... and have been adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (... The process also creates a 5-bp target-site duplication (TSD), a hallmark characteristic of the Tn7-family...at one or multiple desired genomic loci. Many applications of these systems have already been demonstrated..., 2020), to multi-copy genomic integration of metabolic cassettes (Zhang et al. 2020); however, the technology...
  30. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    ...describe this technology and some of its potential applications? Fujii: We generated a series of retroviral ...the peer-review system of journals and grant applications, for example. However, at the same time, it'.... So, young researchers need to publish good publications in a short period of time and may need to do...available. Visit Hodaka Fujii lab's Addgene page and click the "Subscribe to Alerts" link in the Addgene Alerts...
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