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  1. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    ...also is also called Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC). 8 points to keep in mind when choosing...divided by 1000. In many cases the brightness is compared to that of EGFP which is set as 1. Some proteins... BD bioscience. ilovegfp – a site with very comprehensive data sheets on many FP variants Plasmids 101...
  2. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...No examination of the state of science would be complete without the inclusion of some interesting case...Prashers will find it increasingly difficult to compete (for funding, etc.) with that produced by the confident...the U.S. environment, and a decline in the competitiveness of U.S. science and technology.” This last ...
  3. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...engineered DNA-binding molecule such as the CRISPR complex is expressed in cells to be analyzed, the Fujii...another "in vitro" form. In this form, the CRISPR complex, consisting of a recombinant dCas9 protein and ... a genomic locus through a specific gRNA-dCas9 complex. When combined with next-generation sequencing,...
  4. Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence

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    ...your samples, the relationships between cellular components, and the accessibility of your target epitope...work by dehydrating and precipitating cellular components. This method of fixation is good for epitopes...away your target (for example, some cytoskeletal components) and you want to fix and permeabilize in one ...
  5. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ...cells can decrease the number of fluorophores, compromising the photon budget. Likewise, the switch from...labeling chemistry easier and more functional in complex biological environments such as live cells and ...brightness of the resulting conjugate, and the complexity of the system. A particularly desirable property...
  6. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    ...importance of the entire GFP protein, which is almost completely required to maintain fluorescent activity; very...may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising common fluorophores Fluorescent Protein Mutations...chromophore to form with an indole rather than phenol component (cyan derivatives) Y66H Blue-shifts the wavelength...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ... amplify well and others don’t. The size and composition of your library can drastically impact what conditions...suffice…and the answer is no. Due to the size and complexity of pooled libraries, NGS is the best way to validate... plasmids didn’t amplify after your screen is completed!  Producing Your Lentiviral Library Once you've...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...are differentially inactivated by nonspecific complement mechanisms in serum. Sometimes this is due to...sugars end up in the envelope and are targets for complement-based killing by anti-alphaGal antibodies. The... as described above and is inactivated by the complement system in serum (DePolo et al., 2000). Other ...
  9. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    ...decreased p-values of known ricin regulation genes compared to results generated using non-targeting guides...full-length (19-20 bp) or short (17-18 bp) guides. When comparing the toxicity of guides that have 1-bp mismatch...off-target sites, short guides had reduced toxicity compared to full-length guides. Reduced toxicity of short...
  10. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...the anticodon,  a three nucleotide sequence complementary to the mRNA sequence. The 3’ end of  the tRNA...resources (Athey et al., 2017) and many DNA synthesis companies, such as IDT, Genewiz and GenScript, offer tools...the other while other codons are under expressed compared to others. Image from Hiss et al., 2017. Most...
  11. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    ...C) installation by base editors. Pathways that compete with the desired outcome are not pictured. ...Plant base editor platforms and their molecular components. Adenine base editors for plant We developed...editors. Plant CBE and ABE with expanded PAM compatibility All of the base editors mentioned above are...
  12. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    ...both Addgene’s founding and our growth into the company we are today. As part of our 20th anniversary celebration...pages allowed researchers to easily access and compare their options for tools such as empty backbones...Addgene YouTube channel to add a strong visual component to our educational resources. From 2013–2023, ...
  13. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...laser cleavage and an RNA aptamer that bound the compound malachite green (MG) to create a non-protein based... 4-hydroxybenzylidene imidazolinone (HBI)-like compound allowing it to fluoresce, the Jaffrey lab asked...production have also made aptamers an important component of high throughput assays with microarrays and...
  14. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...ordering the sgRNA is simple and easy. Several companies supply gRNA sequences, such as GenScript, ThermoFisher...order them yourself through whatever DNA supply company you currently use. You can also find many previously...explored and it allowed control over each individual component of the system. However, it is easier to directly...
  15. The Challenges of Cell Culture

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    ...line identity and purity making it easier for comparable studies to be performed on a cell line even decades...passage number, cell line, and date, which you complete each time you passage the cells (as well as recording...through working for a variety of pharmaceutical companies including GSK, AstraZeneca-MedImmune, and Infors...
  16. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    ...needs a standard against which the results can be compared; results from an experiment lacking the proper...baseline/standard against which other samples can be compared. The Empty Vector Control (mentioned above) could... where expression of that gene is knocked out completely. These controls may or may not be plasmid-based...
  17. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    ...promoter present in your plasmid backbone must to be compatible with the type of RNA that needs to be made: if...speaking, promoters in bacteria are less diverse and complex, having fewer parts than those in eukaryotic cells... repression in the presence of glucose or by competitive binding of the anti-inducer fucose Weaker. Commonly...
  18. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    ...recombination intermediates can then resolve to complete the DNA repair process Homology directed repair...is elongated and ligated to fill the gap, thus completing SDSA.   Break-induced repair (BIR) pathway BIR... uses reverse transcriptase to generate the complementary ssDNA. Easi-CRISPR was shown to increasing editing...
  19. Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus

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    ...then following transduction, the partial genomes complement each other to restore the full-expression cassette... has equal or higher transgene expression when compared to using a single over-sized vector, but not always... one of the transgene’s endogenous introns or comprised of non-endogenous sequences, such as a 77bp long...
  20. 10 Steps to a Perfect Science Talk

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    ...get people to remember you). What better way to accomplish all of these things naturally than to give a ...simplicity of their slides and how the slides complement the spoken message. Learn from their level of... topics that are unfamiliar to you because the company you are visiting works on them. Of course, if some...
  21. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    ...regularly. Dystrophin and genome editing Since complex oligonucleotide treatment comes with many challenges...desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR components would only need to be expressed for a short period... with vastly reduced inflammation and necrosis compared to unedited animals. In grip strength, specific...
  22. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    ...system, Sanes and Lichtman also developed a complementary Flpbow construct that is functionally similar...technique will provide important insights into the complicated physical organization of the brain and other ...Intestinal crypt homeostasis results from neutral competition between symmetrically dividing Lgr5 stem cells...
  23. Viral Vectors 101: Optogenetic Tools

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    ...stimulation. GPCR signaling GPCR signaling is a complicated process involving many downstream signaling mechanisms...applying optogenetic tools derived from direct comparative analysis of microbial opsins. Nature Methods,...
  24. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    ... a post-program self-assessment, participants completed follow-up self assessments and program evaluations...knowledge and skills had improved significantly when compared to their pre-program self-assesment. Achievements...other countries. In 2016, we expect the program to comprise over 2000 participants (mentors and mentees). ...
  25. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...transfer expert who understands the somewhat complicated Material Transfer Agreement process that kits...function. Project team A Project Team is assembled to complete a series of tasks with precisely defined goals...organization on the planet, in which case whoa! Mission accomplished! One example of a mission-based team in academia...
  26. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...In 1976, the world’s first genetic engineering company, Genentech, was founded.  This commercialization...instead of recognizing nucleotide triplets, the components recognize individual nucleotides. This imparts...intracellular pangenesis to the rediscovery of Mendel. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences - Series III ...
  27. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    ...Gene knockout with CRISPR technology is usually accomplished by Cas9-mediated dsDNA breaks: following a cut... accessibility due to chromatin status). No computational prediction is ever perfect, but this can decrease...to conduct genetic screens, however, a library composed of the latter would likely be more effective, ...
  28. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...validation is so important. Antibodies are a critical component of the researcher toolkit due to their ability...will bind to - particularly when you start using complex samples such as whole cell lysate or tissue sections...BioRender.com.     Orthogonal Strategies This approach compares target expression of antibody-independent approaches...
  29. Pouring LB Agar Plates

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    ...autoclave. Pro-Tip Once your autoclave cycle is complete, we recommend opening the door to the autoclave...
  30. Western Blot

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    ...proteins >150 kDa. Select Start Run. When the run is complete, select Done. Section 5: Blocking Prepare 1X TBST...
  31. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    ... However, many scientists operate in a hyper-competitive environment where getting hired hinges on performing...research biologist by training, so of course I felt compelled to participate in one of the satellite Marches...funding, and teaching experience that it takes to complete your resume, without ever thinking that research...
  32. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...attached fluorophore. However, since tRNA suppression competes with natural chain termination at stop codons,...contrast can be improved using disulfide-containing compounds such as British anti-Lewisite (which was originally...Vilensky & Redman, 2003]). Most importantly, these compounds cross cell membranes, thus enabling FRET measurements...
  33. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...system, developed by the Zhang lab, which has comparable efficiency to the optimized chimeric design but...Where are double strand breaks (DSBs) induced, compared to where the target site sequence (protospacer...how closely homologous the off-target sites are compared to the on-target site, the specific site sequence...
  34. Hot Plasmids Podcast Episode 2: New RFPs, AAVs, & More

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    ... this segment Hot Plasmid 1: The Tol2 Gateway-Compatible Toolbox for quickly generating zebrafish transgenic.... Listen to Our Segement on the Tol 2 Gateway-Compatible Toolbox  Hot Plasmid 2: AAV Vectors for tageting...
  35. DIY DNA Ladders from Penn State University

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    ...Get Tips on Verifying Your Plasmid Table 1: Comparing Typical Comericial Ladders with the PSU Ladders...1000 Lanes Cost $200-$500  <$10 $20-30 Cost Comparison: While convenient, commercial ladders cost between...
  36. Antibody Data Repositories and Search Engines

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    ...experiment. Search engines let you easily find and compare available antibodies from many vendors, while data...Search engine May include validation data  Biocompare Any Any Search engine     Are we missing...
  37. Streaking for Single Colonies: The Streak Plate Challenge

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    ... 1. Lab B needs a redo :-( @SandTBioSci #CompetitiveStreaking @Addgene pic.twitter.com/mk44J4Gcj9 — Dave...species for the challenge, but one species always outcompeted the other species.  When he found the chromoprotein...
  38. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    ...genome usually for a research or applied goal. Components of CRISPR: gRNAs: Sequences of RNA that direct...single base changes in the DNA sequence without completely cutting the DNA. RNA Editors: CRISPR nucleases...
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