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  1. Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR

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    ...   Fig. 1: SpCas9 has sparse PAM coverage in the human genome. SpRY Cas9 has PAM sites covering the... a PAM with no sequence constraints, or at least has looser or different requirements. Luckily, there ...alternative PAM requirements (Zhao et. al, 2023). xCas9 has been shown to be less effective at NGH PAMs, though...
  2. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    ... development and function. To date, gene therapy has been used to treat 10 infants with this disease. ... nucleic acid cargo (DNA or RNA) to target cells has been challenging. A variety of vector delivery technologies...AAV is not associated with any pathogenicity and has a low immunogenic profile. AAV was first discovered...Harshana S De Silva Feelixge is a researcher whose work has focused on gene therapy for viral infections. She...
  3. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...to see if anyone has published a protocol that would work for your system. Addgene has depositor submitted...Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing purposes because...Mammalian CRISPR expression systems Each model system has its own best practices for efficient delivery of ...
  4. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...single-cell level. CRISPR libraries CRISPR screening has become a popular tool for probing cellular pathways...than knockout screens. The Jonathan Weissman lab has deposited genome-wide CRISPR activation (CRISPRa)...to browse. Our Guide to Plasmid Pooled Libraries has tips on using these libraries and designing screens...
  5. CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair

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    ...KSgenome and seeing the intricacies of DNA repair has emphasized how essential these studies are to improving...alternative non-homologous end joining (Alt-NHEJ), has been harnessed for CRISPR knock-in applications. ...29266098 Creating knock-in mouse models with CRISPR has been challenging, with protocols using dsDNA templates...
  6. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    ...for mapping where a protein binds genome-wide, and has been widely applied in many model organisms and cell...proteins (Figure 1). Importantly, since Protein A has weaker affinity for mouse IgG, it is helpful to incubate...prior to the addition of Protein A MNase. Once MNase has been localized to target sites, the nuclease is briefly...
  7. The Strength of Story Telling

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    ...Show that as the story has progressed, you or your lab or science or your CV has grown as well. Find your...Task, Action, Result) interview technique, which has been addressed in much better pieces than I’m able...
  8. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    ...measuring DA and other neurotransmitters in the brain has been in vivo microdialysis of extracellular fluid... dLight1 dopamine sensor In 2018, Lin Tian’s lab has developed dLight1, a molecular tool to detect and...here! The GRABDA dopamine sensor Yulong Li’s lab has created the GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy...
  9. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...AAV5  pOTTC1596 - pAAV SYN1 HA-hM3D(Gq) 121538  AAV5  pOTTC1484 - pAAV SYN1 HA-hM4D(Gi) 119741  AAV5 ...iGABASnFR GABA sensor (pAAV.hSyn-FLEX.iGABASnFR) has good membrane localization and brightness. The F102G...
  10. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    ...The UN General Assembly has declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids. The declaration is intended... antibody libraries to generate new sdAbs. There has also been some interesting work done developing transgenic...al., 2021.   The single-domain antibody field has come a long way since the serendipitous discovery...
  11. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    ...channelrhodopsins. HcKCR1 has a maximum absorption of 540 nm and two-photon excitation around 1,040 nm, has larger photocurrents...anti-c-Myc [9E10] (Evan, et al., 1985), the Myc tag has become one of the most commonly used protein tags...
  12. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    ...require heavy optimization. Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating...showed that the receptor-based fluorescent biosensor has a high sensitivity (50 nM-500nM range) and a high...recent months: Our selection of GCaMP8 AAV preps has expanded. Check out the new selection of ready-to-use...
  13. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...inhibitory GABA-ergic interneurons, Gordon Fishell’s lab has developed a new AAV approach using regulatory elements...fluorescent protein - mScarlet! The Dorus Gadella lab has recently developed a synthetic red fluorescent protein... imaging and in protein fusions. The Gadella lab has deposited all mScarlet constructs with Addgene. ...efficiency Blue flame depositor Yannick Doyon’s lab has developed a new method to increase CRISPR editing...increases the probability that the locus of interest has also been edited! Thus, ouabain selection enriches...coselection are available at Addgene, and the Doyon lab has also provided a detailed protocol at Protocol Exchange...Essential gene Knockdown library. Although B. subtilis has a fully sequenced genome, many applications in biotech...
  14. Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning

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    ...and insert a linear fragment of DNA (insert) that has been cut by compatible restriction enzymes. An enzyme...one found on the left side of the image below. It has a promoter (blue arrow) followed by the restriction...finished plasmid   Once it looks like your ligation has worked, you will need to pick individual bacterial...purpose. Ideally, once you know that your plasmid has an appropriately sized insert, you should send it...plasmid for more details. Once your complete plasmid has been verified, you’re ready to get experimenting!...
  15. Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G

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    ...! Lentivirus envelope vector pMD2.G This plasmid has been requested nearly 6,000 times (over 800 orders...broad usefulness of pMD2.G and VSV-G. This plasmid has been used in studies of the secretome, ubiquitin ...
  16. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    ...Not the case, as I’ve discovered.) As someone who has now seen both sides of the postdoc experience, I’... lab is closely involved with clinical trials or has ties to industry, the drug discovery process can ...Genentech, will not. The point is that each company has a unique approach, and some might suit your needs...currently a Postdoctoral Scientist at AstraZeneca. She has a background in cell and developmental biology and...
  17. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...community has access to all of the latest resources? In response to this challenge, Addgene has launched... why recent work in the field of cancer research has focused on picking apart the complex cellular pathways...at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee has already demonstrated that a number of novel small...
  18. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    ...host cells immediately prior to their transduction has been shown to increase AAV transduction efficiency... such cationic reagent that is commonly used and has been shown to increase transduction efficiency by...single-use aliquots. Never use a polybrene solution that has been thawed more than once. Fibronectin is another...polybrene (e.g., hematopoietic or primary cells), and has been shown to increase transduction efficiency by...
  19. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...regulatory elements. To solve this problem, the Zhang lab has previously used SaCas9 (1053 aa/3.2 kb) with AAV ... these options (2.7 kb with 24 nt guides), so it has the potential to eclipse any of the CRISPR nucleases...THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE DISCUSSED IN THIS POST HAS BEEN RETRACTED AND FOLLOW UP STUDIES HAVE FAILED ...be the best option for HDR, but this possibility has not been experimentally confirmed. Researchers have...
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