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  1. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    ...overhangs, three or four base-pair sequences, and exclude or include specific overhang sequences, allowing it ...parameters. For even more specificity, you can exclude specific sequences or set a narrow search window...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...DREADDs DREADDs DREADDS, or designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs, are G protein-coupled...al., 2016).   DREADD ligands Several DREADDs, including hM3D(Gq), have been derived from muscarinic receptors... Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs. ACS Chemical Neuroscience...
  3. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ...nearly 100% in some cases) and minimal toxicity, including in clinically-relevant lines such as CAR-T cells...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but ...recombinant antibodies as well? Our collection includes a mouse and a chimeric rabbit (original mouse ...
  4. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...the quality of other services that we provide, including viral preps and pooled libraries. As anyone who...throughout the library preparation process and includes Picogreen quantification of various intermediate...particularly difficult to sequence and assemble, including GC rich regions. For example, the CAG promoter...
  5. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ... of infection and rare, but severe, symptoms, including the development of fetal microcephaly and Guillain-Barré...seven institutions involved in the effort. This inclusive and open approach by all involved definitely contributed...transformed the assay’s capabilities. Specifically this includes primer directed isothermal RNA amplification, ...
  6. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...series of single- and double-tagged constructs (including "CLAP", combining an N-terminal CLIPf tag and ...detect action potentials and subthreshold events, including miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (...triggered by endogenous GPCR. Example applications include large-scale pharmacological profiling or interrogation...
  7. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    ... mice. While not an exhaustive list, these can include what’s being injected, the type of experiment, ...method. Many different substances can be injected, including cells, drugs, DNA, viral vectors, and viruses.... the name suggests, in the muscle. Common uses include administering vaccines, pain meds, or other drugs...
  8. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    ... transferable into multiple bacterial species including several involved in human disease. However, the...every ~100 to 1,000 colonies, but some bacteria, including E. faecalis and P. mirabilis, had only ~1 transfer...Mobile-CRISPRi expands CRISPRi to non-model bacteria including pathogenic strains and environmental isolates....
  9. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ...the ATCC Declutter! Keep the hood clean Hoods should not be used as storage cabinets. Clutter not only...ll be brought under the hood with 70% ethanol, including your glove-covered hands! You should additionally...
  10. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...NgAgo optimization before we can make any major conclusions: That said, many people are having difficulty...Some great places to get your results out there include: Google Groups - I've specifically set up a forum...Medicine (CRM), Edinburgh. His research interests include optimizing genome-editing methods in brain cells...
  11. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...this, scientists use a multitude of techniques including co-transfection of two or more plasmids, the use...course multicistronic vectors do not have to exclusively be used as a means of detection; they are useful...note that IRES and 2A peptides are not mutually exclusive elements. Labs have successfully utilized 2A and...
  12. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ...terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs...regions” filter unchecked so that these regions are included in the search to maximize the alignment length...sequence alignments that BLAST is unable to handle, Clustal is our frequent choice for pairwise or multiple...
  13. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...addressed in a somewhat cursory manner, their inclusion here adds much needed context to understand every...state of science would be complete without the inclusion of some interesting case studies, and Zimmer provides...who originally isolated the GFP gene but was not included amongst the Nobel prize winners for developing...
  14. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    ...mind that access and availability to resources (including the internet!) can vary depending on factors like...your best to understand what kind of resources - including your time - will be required to produce an outcome...naked eye or to make things more accessible by including, highlighting, or omitting details. Digital or...
  15. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...current genome engineering applications of CRISPR including: generating single or multi-gene knockouts in ...) that harbors two surface exposed cysteines, including the native C547, allowing for ligation to pyridyl...Senior Scientist at Addgene.  Andrew's interests include genome engineering and microbiology.     References...
  16. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    ... Selecting crispr in Guides will return links including our CRISPR guide.  For a closer look at this new... deposit prior to publication and were able to include specific plasmid ID numbers. If you know the ID...suggest direct links to other types of searches including depositing labs and institutions. For example,...
  17. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    ...viral vectors in the lab. Advantages of lentivirus include a large genetic capacity and the ability to transduce...CRISPR plasmids are designed for lentiviral use, including Addgene’s top requested plasmid in 2015: lentiCRISPR... observed in small trials for other diseases, including the common hematopoietic disorders sickle cell...
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