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TypeBlog Post... blue, indicating that your IPTG and x-gal are working as they should be. Don't rush the process: It...between blue and white colonies. Take care in making your plates: X-gal is light and temperature sensitive...
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Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs
TypeBlog Post...conserved cellular machinery to process gRNAs. Hijacking tRNA processing to make gRNAs In a recently published...Cas toolkit in human cells. Nissim L, Perli SD, Fridkin A, Perez-Pinera P, Lu TK. Mol Cell. 2014 May 22... -
Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors
TypeBlog Post...of the same technical advantages that come with working with prokaryotes. This includes but is not limited...selection rather than antibiotic selection when working with yeast, due to high rates of spontaneously ... -
Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System
TypeBlog Post... cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. We are knocking out genes that have been implicated in disease...about the history. How had investigators done this kind of work before? Musunuru: In the "olden days," not... -
AAV Production in HEK293 Cells
TypeProtocol...After 2 months, discard the tube and thaw a new working stock. 40% POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG) 8000 solution... -
Summer SciComm: Preprints
TypeBlog Post...unpublished results at a conference? Post your working manuscript as a preprint too and you can share ...American Society for Cell Biology in a position working with preprints in life sciences. He also posted... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog Post...proteins in your assay. Narrowing the field After working your way through the above steps, you may find ...an antibody website. In 2016, the International Working Group for Antibody Validation proposed 5 pillars... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog Post...developed by engineering the Cas12f scaffold gRNA and making strategic mutations in the DNA binding cavity of...half the size of the Cas9 or Cas12a based systems, making it well suited for AAV packaging. Most importantly... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog Post...colleagues are working on developing new surface display vectors to improve expression and trafficking of these... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog Post...people knew how to access Addgene, and that we were making it possible for scientists to both deposit and ...through physical outreach, visiting organizations, knocking on doors, and attending conferences. And when ... -
Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools
TypeBlog Post... STED nanoscopy Article contributed by Eric J. Perkins Listen to Endosomal pH Sensors podcast segment ...approach allows minute-by-minute analysis of the kinetics of chromatin regulation and subsequent mathematical... -
Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9
TypeBlog Post...out there, it’s obvious that CRISPR is a ground-breaking technology that’s already had a huge impact on...nuclease itself. Design and testing of eSpCas9 Looking at the structure of the Cas9 nuclease (PDB ID: ... -
Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing
TypeBlog Post...something that is actually useful to you. When embarking on a new literature search, try to find a recent... on in any given research area. Unless you are looking for a particular protocol or are trying to replicate... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2020
TypeBlog Post... ability to study and understand the complex interworking of the 86 billion neurons in the human brain... opens the door to in vivo experiments such as tracking the synaptic maturation pattern of hippocampal... -
Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene
TypeBlog Post... to own the process entirely remains a large undertaking. Priority number one was to ensure that this ... load it on to our new MiSeq and set up the run making sure to note the appropriate barcode for each sample... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...specific gene or brain region. When it comes to making the genetic manipulation, there are two main decisions...should be used? Modifying gene expression Generally speaking, one may want to achieve either inhibition or ... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
TypeBlog Post...engineered mice: transgenic mice, knockin and knockout mice, and conditional knockin or knockout mice. While these... -
BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development
TypeBlog Post... been working with the Rare Genomics Institute to provide plasmid grants to researchers working on rare... -
Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques
TypeBlog Post...or their translation disrupted through physical blocking of the translation machinery. In the Sánchez lab...planarians. Depending on which planarian species one is working with, the protocol will slightly differ. For example... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog Post...fluorescent protein Dronpa. The authors tracked protein kinase A (PKA) activity at the plasma membrane in living...artifacts, it has better folding and maturation kinetics than other dark fluorescent proteins, it has good... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog Post...detection We and other members of the lab had been working on advancing the paper-based platform toward a ...when we needed additional expertise. Perhaps most striking is that there were seven institutions involved... -
The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments
TypeBlog Post...has slightly different activation/inactivation kinetics. For example, the light-gated cation channel, ...protein-coupled vertebrate rhodopsin in cerebellar Purkinje cells. The Journal of biological chemistry. 2011... -
Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells
TypeBlog Post...and could be useful to labs wishing to create this kind of animal models. Start using adenoviral vectors...and also Adeno Cas9 and Adeno EA. Or if you're looking for a broader range of CRISPRs plasmid tools, find... -
The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens
TypeBlog Post...setup. This requires a less involved setup when working with mice and slightly less red tape for approval...has psuedotypes. Psuedotyping is the process of making a hybrid AAV, with the genome from one serotype... -
Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream
TypeBlog Post... fluorescent proteins. Currently, the team is working to identify how MagLOV’s structure changes under...starting point for much more. If you’re interested in working on these questions or collaborating, the York Lab... -
Pooled Library Amplifications
TypeBlog Post...bacteria can grow and compete in the same container, making it easier for a smaller, recombined plasmid to ...developing your amplification protocol! We recommend looking at protocols used for libraries that are similar... -
xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility
TypeBlog Post...binding distinct PAM sequences. Now, Hu et al., working in David Liu’s lab, have gone one step further,...Once you’ve tried it, let us know how xCas9 is working for you in the comments section! References Hu... -
Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo
TypeBlog Post... side, successful indel generation and epitope knockin was achieved by a few respondents suggesting that...inconvenient. Another possible reason for the trickiness of NgAgo is the inability of mature NgAgo protein... -
CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods
TypeBlog Post...more CRISPR tools are being published each month, making CRISPR a great choice for your next experiment!...ties directly back to your specific goal. When thinking about step 3, however, you may be surprised at... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog Post...don’t require a PAM sequence at the target locus, making them more flexible than Cas9/Cpf1. Some Cas13 enzymes...prefer targets with a given single base protospacer flanking site (PFS) sequence, but orthologs like LwaCas13a... -
The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data
TypeBlog Post... are likely to order several plasmids at once, breaking the statistical independence assumption of the... biology. David R. Liu is Director of the Merkin Institute and Vice-Chair of the Faculty at the ... -
DNA Purification Without a Kit
TypeBlog Post... bonds with water molecules and coaxes it into sticking to the hydrophobic glass filter. Each glass filter...depending on the size of bacterial culture you’re working with. Overall, the glass syringe filter method ... -
Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies
TypeBlog Post...culture experience. Let’s go over the basics of making rAbs. Production Recombinant antibody production... because it secretes fewer of its own proteins, making the purification process simpler. Due to its high... -
Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene
TypeBlog Post...Ampicillin, often just called amp, is the historical king of the antibiotic resistance realm. Amp is a semisynthetic...period after transformation (the dreaded 60 minutes shaking at 37 degrees) can be shortened since the plated... -
MXS Chaining
TypeBlog Post...475nm Lyn-tag (derived from the tyrosine-protein kinase Lyn) Membranes 3 mCherry 587nm/ 610 nm human ...Anderson JC, Dueber JE, Leguia M, Wu GC, Goler JA, Arkin AP, et al. BglBricks: A flexible standard for biological... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog Post...the transformation efficiency of the strain: when asking the cell to perform multiple recombination events...recommend Phusion or Q5. Speed up your life Rather than making up your PCR mix every time, pre-made aliquots of... -
CRISPR Between the Genes: How to Experiment with Enhancers and Epigenomics
TypeBlog Post...emerging family of sequencing techniques function as a kind of “GPS for the genome” to compute coordinates for...coffee shops near your house, excluding Starbucks. Taking a nerdy perspective, you might denote your search... -
Plasmids 101: Colony PCR
TypeBlog Post... insert-specific sequence. This is a “yes or no” kind of test, with a positive clone amplifying a product...this type of primer pair anneals to a sequence flanking the insert and one primer anneals to the insert... -
CRISPR Antimicrobials
TypeBlog Post...and public health and medical organizations are working to help educate the public about proper antibiotic...observe any mutations at the target site. In a mouse skin colonization model, phagemid treatment decreased... -
Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems
TypeBlog Post...library screen only to find the system itself is not working because your reporter protein doesn’t function ...Rajagopala S.V., Stellberger T., Uetz P. Exhaustive Benchmarking of the yeast two-hybrid system. Nature Methods... -
A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional
TypeBlog Post...and develop an area of expertise. Whether you’re seeking a full-time job or want to be an independent grant...a mentor, find your people Find someone who is working or has worked as a Grant Professional to mentor... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
TypeBlog Post...optogeneic actuators and sensors at Addgene. Cell marking/selection: Expression constructs like plasmids ...Because of its stability, GFP can be used in lineage tracking capacities in cell fate studies. It can also be... -
Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered
TypeBlog Post...many questions from scientists all over the world looking for some additional information or clarification...functional before investing time and resources into making a stable cell line. When expressing a viral construct... -
Hot Plasmids - August 2020
TypeBlog Post...the yeast extracellular surface) which enables tracking of protease activity with a fluorescent protein...that the best motif was from the Lck gene. For marking microtubules of mammalian cells, the author found... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog Post... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING (SHERLOCK and SHERLOCKv2) (Gootenberg et al., ... Specific High Sensitivity Enzymatic Reporter UnLOCKING Cas13 (C2c2) was first identified in 2016 by the... -
New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE
TypeBlog Post...tools for cellular targeting. Lately, they’ve been working on two tools that expand and exploit CRISPR, both...Jonathan and experts in CRISPR evolution, were also working on the project. Using computational observations... -
Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier: PHP.B Enters the Central Nervous System Via the LY6A Receptor
TypeBlog Post...independently identified LY6A as a receptor for PHP.B by looking for a unique sequence of DNA that was present in...galactose and the AAV receptor (AAVR). Cell lines lacking galactose were still transduced by PHP.B but only... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog Post...clear plans to connect Genotype to Phenotype thus making progress on the NSF “G to P grand challenge.” Creating...like people. This is actually rare in the animal kingdom. Gasterosteus aculeates (Dan Bolnick) A paper on... -
Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview
TypeBlog Post...research vision uninterrupted and then you will begin working through your aims over the next 45 minutes. The...salient details. Make the most of your limited speaking time. Beyond the information you seek to convey... -
Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them
TypeBlog Post...The assay only uses one antigen binding antibody, making it less specific than other methods. In addition...positive control will confirm that the procedure is working and should always be included. For a negative...