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  1. Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)

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    ...of Revolution Bioengineering.  Last year we started a company. Revolution Bioengineering is two responsible...so hard that we upended our lives and took this daring risk? What moment changed our whole outlook on ... We both had an applied science bent, so the engineering aspect of this job appealed to us. However, since...thinking about how we could bypass the establishment hiring system altogether. We had a lot of ideas about ...molded the whole thing into a marketable product. During this process, we had an idea that survived the ...outside of Washington D.C. and has always enjoyed exploring the outdoors and experiencing nature first-hand...

  2. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ...2023). Uncovering the functional diversity of rare CRISPR-Cas systems with deep terascale clustering. Science...interest in bacterial and archaeal immune systems. During this time, scientists discovered many related immune...keep increasing, as efforts using large-scale clustering and discovery algorithms find new candidates ... L. A., & Zhang, F. (2013). Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/CAS systems. Science, 339(6121),...1027. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0180 Harrington, L. B., Burstein, D., Chen, J. S., Paez-Espino..., K. V. (2021). Type III CRISPR-CAS systems: deciphering the most complex prokaryotic immune system. Biochemistry...(2015). Co-transcriptional DNA and RNA Cleavage during Type III CRISPR-Cas Immunity. Cell, 161(5), 1164...

  3. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ...experiments simultaneously measuring the activities of CaMKII and RhoA during induction of structural plasticity...type. To this end, they constructed AAV plasmids bearing one of the distal-less homeobox 5 and 6 (Dlx5/6...“caged” by fusion to specific domains thereby rendering them inactive in the cytoplasm. The authors use... Segment on PhoCl LSSmCherry1 & RDSmCherry1: Engineering and directed evolution of new RFP variants The... length with TZAP Multiplexible plant genome engineering toolkit The Voytas Lab at the University of Minnesota...used for either TALEN or CRISPR -based genome engineering across a variety of plant species. This toolkit...variety of promoters for versatile and robust engineering. These components are provided in Golden Gate...

  4. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    ...significant activity on some mismatch-containing pairings. During Golden Gate assembly, ligation of mismatched... assemblies that enable biosynthetic pathway engineering and optimization. However, current best practices...redesign was guided by both advances in the re-engineering of the original BsaI-HF® Type IIS restriction...efficiency and identification of mismatch-prone pairings. Using these 4 bp overhang observations, accurate...and a Development Group Leader overseeing a team bringing new products to market, New England Biolabs, Inc...comprehensive profiling of T4 DNA ligase fidelity and bias during DNA end-joining." Nucleic acids research (2018)...

  5. Polymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications

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    ... first identified in the late 1960s during research at hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.  In addition...Using these reagents and a series of heating (denaturing) and cooling (annealing) steps Taq polymerase... common for dNTPs and other reagents to run low during the final cycles which would slow or stop PCR amplification... as real time PCR is a PCR technique used for measuring a starting DNA concentration using PCR. qPCR requires...this fluorescent dye, the concentration of the DNA during the PCR reaction cycles is continuously detected... Variations Quantifying low abundance targets Monitoring subtle changes in target DNA levels Multiplex...

  6. 8 Great Depositor Research Stories

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    ...you to our depositors for sharing your science with us! Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody...editing and multiplex prime editing (requiring minimal payloads!) Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research...antibodies for use in mice and human brain IHC and sharing the data on the mAb3D atlas website.  The iGluSnFR3...Beroukhim labs to write a post on their paper uncovering ancestral bias in CRISPR guide library design...

  7. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...becoming an ever more ubiquitous tool for genome engineering, and studying its structure can help us understand...nucleotides 1-10 of the guide RNA, prearranged for base pairing with a complementary DNA strand. These 10 nucleotides...Figure 3 crystal structure, reflecting the less stringent recognition mechanism that can tolerate mismatches...mismatches in the next 8-10 bases after perfect pairing in the seed sequence.   Figure 6: Electron...stabilizing the active conformation of the HNH domain, ensuring all binding partners are in place before cleavage...still being uncovered, and different techniques all bring their own advantages—and blind spots—to these questions...better understand how to manipulate it. Happy CRISPRing!   Molecular graphics and analyses performed with...

  8. Celebrating One Million Plasmids Shared!

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    ...Reaching one million plasmids shared might have you wondering how many plasmids leave Addgene headquarters every...Joanne Kamens, Addgene’s executive director, said during our celebratory lunch, it’s hard to picture one... September 13, 2018 This massive scale reagent sharing led us to calculate how much time we have saved...would have saved 5 million hours through reagent sharing. How much is 5 million hours? A colossal 547 years...plasmids to the repository and for the scientific sharing community (check out the infographic below for ...the past month, we’ve enjoyed seeing scientists sharing their contributions on social media as well the...

  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    ... Career Planning Resources. The key to ensuring success during graduate school and beyond is to live in...transferable skills while working in the lab and by offering advice on areas where you might need some help...on what I have found to be especially beneficial during my own graduate career – and in fact, some of the... a job fair! Similar to a conference, job fairs bring you face-to-face with working professionals, with...the ACS career fair, which are larger meetings offering resources for students seeking employment within...graduate schools will even pay for you to attend!), exploring a job fair, and utilizing your local career development...

  10. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    ...well. Making the transition from the bench can be jarring for the unprepared, and unfortunately, there aren...who referred to her lab as her family three times during a 10 minute conversation. Leaving a tight-knit ... “I’m a scientist.”    What should you expect during the lab → office transition? I’ve already provided...sure, but it also eliminates that feeling of floundering one can have when starting in an academic lab...science,” and virtually every person you talked to during the day was also a scientist. But now you also ...upsetting, there are ways to get back to the bench during your off hours. DIY bio labs are cropping up in...organizations like Science from Scientists, which try to bring real scientists into schools to provide students...

  11. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...editing in rice. In Genome Engineering: The CRISPR-Cas Revolution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2018)....et al., 2016) invented CRISPR-base editors by tethering cytosine deaminase with Cas9 nickase (nCas9). ...to an adenine base editor. A massive protein engineering effort by Gaudelli et al. resulted in the successful...it with dCas9, and transformed it into E. coli harboring the defective CamR gene. Screening for surviving...colonies and subsequent rounds of evolution and engineering gave rise to a mutant TadA (TadA*) that satisfactorily.... Kang, Beum-Chang, et al. "Precision genome engineering through adenine base editing in plants." Nature...

  12. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...the host cell. Some of these envelope-receptor pairings are broad, allowing delivery into many cell types...allows these viruses to infect neurons. Besides altering the host tropism of your virus, there are many...reasons when you might pseudotype your virus:  Lowering cytotoxicity. Different envelope proteins have... up less of the virus and is less affected.  Altering sensitivity to serum. Different pseudotyped viruses...the TVA receptor in neurons using AAV and then delivering rabies dG pseudotyped with EnvA. This allows ...v12050513 Cronin J, Zhang X-Y, Reiser J (2005) Altering the Tropism of Lentiviral Vectors through Pseudotyping...Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus Get tips for titering your lentiviral preps Resources on Addgene.org...

  13. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    ...pEcCas/pEcgRNA system. This system works well for engineering single genome edits but the double strand breaks...Cas9, a temperature-sensitive replicon for self-curing, an arabinose inducible lambda-red gene, and an... E. coli B and W strains. The optimized plasmid curing method was much simpler and took only ~32 hours...sites edited. We optimized the strategy for plasmid curing, providing users with a complete editing process...interrupt genes (or gene clusters) in metabolic engineering. So far, we’ve used the MUCICAT system in two...compared to the industrial strain. In our metabolic engineering case study of N-acetylglucosamine biosynthesis... systems to choose from. Ready for metabolic engineering with improved cargo dedicated to gene (cluster...

  14. Synthetic Biology, Artificial Chromosomes, iGEM & More - Interview with Tom Ellis

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    ...Ellis does research in synthetic biology and bioengineering including a recent effort to construct a synthetic...Synthetic Biology and Innovation - A shared space for bringing synthetic biology to the UK with foundational ... SynBio. Chapter 3: Synthetic biology as the engineering of biology at the level of DNA using modular,...in the Ellis lab including yeast and E. coli engineering, microbial cooperation, and antibiotic production...lectures synthetic biology for the Department of Bioengineering. He graduated from Oxford University and then...supervision of Prof Jim Collins and specialising in engineering gene regulation in yeast. Dr. Ellis is now one...

  15. Q&A With Julie Cicalese, the Newest Member of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    ...Addgene has done a really good job at figuring out how to operate during the pandemic, but it’s important ... addition of Cicalese to the Board of Directors brings human resources experience and insight to the now... the near future? Right now it’s a matter of maneuvering through the impact of COVID-19. I think Addgene...which raises questions like “How do you start to bring people back to on-site work?” and “How do you start...not working so that I’m available to spend time caring for my mother. For fun, I enjoy pilates, jewelry...

  16. Science Communication Snapshot: DayCon 2015

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    ...other blog posts on sharing science: 10 Ways to Share Your Science More Scientific sharing posts! ...Here at Addgene, we’re dedicated to advancing and sharing science! In association with the Harvard graduate... a wide variety of programs, including fall and spring lecture series, science cafes, and Reddit AMAs.... sharing... Mary Gearing...

  17. The 10 Most Distributed Plasmid Technologies in Addgene's First 10 Years

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    ...you for inspiring us with your breakthrough research and your commitment to scientific sharing. In the... of plasmid sharing  Interested in more facts about Addgene's 10 years of plasmid sharing? Check out this...for mammalian gene silencing. TALENs - Genome engineering methods improved rapidly in 2011, from zinc finger...continue to improve our services and work to make sharing even easier. We can't wait to see what you put ...

  18. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...mapping to investigate DNA sequence content by comparing the fragments created by different restriction...breakthrough for determining the order of nucleotides in a string of DNA (7). Sanger sequencing uses modified nucleotides...become obsolete. For instance, the popular genome-engineering tool, CRISPR, may one day make techniques used...DNA strand as it slips through a tiny pore by measuring differences in ion flow caused by the different...under $1,000 (10). The future of sequencing should bring efficient, low cost methods for sequencing large... as both time and research progress. These will bring faster, higher throughput, and potentially more ...Andrew Cho, and Ashok B. Kulkarni. "Overview: engineering transgenic constructs and mice." Current Protocols...

  19. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    ...Methods for measuring Dopamine In vivo microdialysis The gold standard method of measuring DA and other...someone is awake, agitated, or asleep. Though DA firing patterns (or the frequency of its release) are ...brain slices Visualization of DA release dynamics during locomotion in freely moving mice Record DA dynamics... in live mice Report modulation of DA signaling during learning and reward consumption in live mice Find...of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...

  20. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    ... shift toward hiring and promotion practices that focus on reproducibility and ensuring the health of ... at Harvard University 29:31 - 49:45 - Reagent Sharing - Susanna Bachle, Addgene the nonprofit plasmid...of different types of replication in Nosek and Errington 2017 and Schmmidt 2009, but for our purposes we...experiment wrong. However, even simple procedures like pouring a plate or running a gel have intricacies that ...science Twitter is very active with many scientists sharing their unpublished data. There are blogs - both ...novelty and impact. Journals could also begin requiring reproducibility checklists that at least make ...
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