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  1. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ... would release them into the cytosol. Fig. 2: Endogenous sources of duplexed RNA DNA:RNA hybrids...systems can lead to local dsRNA production. In the same vein, genotoxic stress, such as chemotherapy treatment...dsRNA finds its way outside of the mitochondria, the same inflammatory response can activate. These types ...
  2. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...interferon gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development... 35. Academic Press, 2015. PubMed PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of...multiple immunotherapy targets can be utilized at the same time. A combination of tolerance marker blockade...
  3. To Each HIS Own

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    ...take care when using this method.      Fig 2:  A, The polyhistidine tag is a string of histidine...metal ions are immobilized on a bead or resin and a sample containing the protein of interest flowed through...interest and the metal ions.      Fig. 1: A sample containing a polyhistidine tagged protein of interest...tags are also recommended if you need a very pure sample. Because binding strength is proportional to the...
  4. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    ...protocols 4.4 (2009): 495-505. PubMed PMID: 19300443. 2. Geraerts, Martine, et al. "Comparison of lentiviral...titers measure the amount of viral particles in a sample and are usually based on the presence of a viral...however, is that a p24 ELISA measures all p24 in the sample regardless of whether or not it is incorporated...lentiviral prep may be significantly higher than the same prep that has been stored in the freezer. If you...
  5. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    .... Find Plasmids from the publication at Addgene 2. Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed...high and above what would be expected in patient samples (e.g.: blood, urine). Adapting toehold switches...pathogen’s genome as unique barcodes to identify samples containing the virus. Of the 48 sensors, targeting... diagnostic results.  Our approach now detects samples at clinically relevant concentrations (1-3 fM; ... look at viral load in patient blood and urine samples; we showed that we can detect the virus directly...Interview with Previous Collin's Lab Member and Sample 6 Cofounder Michael Koeris Learn How Minigenomes...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    ...Reports 9: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41088-2 Magnus C, Lee P, Bonaventura J, Zemla R, Gomez J, ... results (Goutaudier et al., 2019). Using PSAMs PSAMs PSAMs, or pharmacologically selective actuator modules...interactions and still set off the same pathways, giving rise to the same cellular responses. The cellular...working with PSAM receptors, your impact on the cell is determined by what IPD your PSAM is combined with... will promote hyperpolarization. PSAM ligands The advantage of PSAMs lies in their ability to be specifically...manipulate. It is important to consider that the same receptor can elicit different responses depending...currently used in chemogenetics are DREADDs and PSAMs. Using DREADDs DREADDs DREADDS, or designer receptors...
  7. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...beginning Let’s take a quick flash back to 2004. “Shrek 2” was the most popular movie in theaters, the Razr ...Because we have a resource like Addgene to all get the same virus.” — Grad student visiting Addgene’s booth ...quality reagents, and we realized we could use the same principles to provide recombinant antibodies, another...
  8. Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs

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    ... enrich the microvesicles containing AAVs (Figure 2). Since the development of the exo-AAV isolation protocol... have a higher transduction efficiency, i.e. the same number of AAV particles is able to infect more cells...
  9. Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors

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    ... 293HEK Inhibits termination step of translation 2-10 ug/mL G418/Geneticin neo HeLa, NIH3T3, CHO, 293HEK... for cells that have taken up the plasmid in the same way. Selection methods, described below, are typically...
  10. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    ...contain the expected plasmid features.  Figure 2. Addgene’s basic QC process. Created with BioRender.com...ensure the entire team is using the same rubric and making the same decisions when analyzing the wide variety... that is provided, each deposit goes through the same QC process to ensure all plasmids pass our high-...
  11. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ...improve the brightness of previous Nano-lanterns by 2-4 fold and permit five-color fluorescent imaging! ...external light source. Therefore, especially thick samples may not be appropriate for use with Nano-lantern...
  12. Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon

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    ...aspects of the work you presented may also be unclear. 2. Make the audience your primary focus When writing...suggests a change to a slide, think about whether the same principle applies to other slides in your deck.  ...
  13. Of Myc and Men

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    ...promising monoclonal antibody with high specificity. (2) Narrow down the specific epitope that your antibody...between endogenous and exogenous versions of the same target. In the 1980s, Munro and Pelham set out to... ideal.  Unexpected connections Right around the same time that Munro and Pelham were devising their tagging...from this year.  But are we all really using the same antibody developed almost 40 years ago? Well…kinda...distributing monoclonal antibodies derived from the same hybridoma developed by Evans, et al. In other cases...
  14. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    ...al (Nature. 1988 Jul 28;334(6180):320-5.) PubMed. 2. A segment of the 5' nontranslated region of encephalomyocarditis...simultaneously express two or more separate proteins from the same mRNA. We've discussed promoters before so in this...expressing your gene as they are both derived from the same transcript. Of course multicistronic vectors do ...anytime you want to express multiple genes in the same cell. Although it is possible to drive co-expression...expression cassettes, having the genes expressed from the same cassette is sometimes advantageous, particularly...produce equimolar levels of mulitple genes from the same mRNA. The term "self-cleaving" is not entirely accurate...successfully utilized 2A and IRES elements within the same multicistronic vector, effectively making a construct...
  15. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...rate of 10-55% - the PASTE system.     Fig. 2: Schematic of programmable gene insertion with PASTE...lab often tests samples of new bacteria from anywhere they can find, whether the samples are from a rain...was safe to say the sample had their attention! They isolated DNA from the sample, amplified the CRISPR...range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same comparisons, the AbuGoot lab reported no detectable...thousands of different mutations, all found in the same gene. If we only have small, directed editing abilities...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001 Maetzig...low immunogenicity, meaning it does not induce the same high immune response as retroviruses. This virus...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    ...PubMed PMID: 8491198. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC413431. 2. Bukrinsky MI, et al. “Active nuclear import of human...designed to make you sick…well, you feel it. But the same features that make these familiar viruses such a...
  18. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    ... high-priced commercial devices.     Fig. 2: Workflow for open software (left) vs. open hardware...very difficult to adapt the device to one's own samples and limits the use of microscopy in open science...
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