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  1. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    ...calculators These links can help you calculate how much insert and backbone you need for different types of cloning...method. You can select from five different insert:backbone ratios. In-Fusion cloning molar ratio calculators...IHC.  FPbase: A data repository for fluorescent proteins and their properties.  Expasy: Bioinformatics ...
  2. Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database

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    ...were excited when Amos Bairoch from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics reached out to us to tell us...surprising, and important, findings being shared. For instance, recently Cellosaurus received a report that HT...out the Cellosaurus FAQ! References Lorsch JR, Collins FS, Lippincott-Schwartz J. Cell biology. Fixing...
  3. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    ...systems. As a part of this effort, members of the Rawlins Lab have compiled a new toolkit for performing ...SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive fluorophore (LSSmOrange) as an internal control...in tobacco protoplasts, the enzymatic biosensor retains its catalytic activity.  As SLs are also known ...
  4. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    ...activation to behaviors. Scientists continue to engineer opsins to operate at increasingly faster kinetics. The...by working with organisms with light accessible brains, such as zebrafish larvae. Mouse studies, however...permanent intracranial implant to be surgically installed to allow for light delivery. Chemogenetics poses...
  5. What's the Best Way to Elute and Store Your Plasmid DNA?

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    ...favoring the separation of the two helixes. Low pH instead results in the breakage of the ester bonds responsible...the gene endA. Nowadays, the most common E. coli strains used for plasmid amplification are endA negative...mutated to neutralize the nuclease activity. For strains that still carry this gene, there are usually extra...
  6. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    ...bacteria. Until recently the only available Cas9 proteins were isolated from mesophilic (medium heat loving... as Streptococcus pyogene’s SpCas9. These Cas9 proteins don’t work well at high temperatures, so to use...when incubated in diluted human plasma. GeoCas9 remains active after being incubated in up to 30% human...
  7. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    ...use two antibodies - one against your target of interest and a second against the first antibody. When.... (C) A third solution is to use Fab fragments against the sample species to block the binding sites on...
  8. Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!

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    ...this is a much-needed community resource. Instead of painstakingly searching for experimental details in ...serotype, promoter, or tool type and each entry contains an image along with key experimental details (...
  9. Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc

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    ... to carry out a yeast-2-hybrid library screen; instead I thought they would focus on “Has this person ...the Harvard Business Review or some Chartered Institute of Marketing reviews, I would have struggled. ...interviewed for 1 hour so having a broad enough insight was going to help me push both my scientific and...
  10. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ...platform to help researchers working on COVID-19. Its origins trace back to March 2020, when the first coronavirus...use this potential to make a difference not just against COVID-19, but also in other areas of scientific...Hernández-Sánchez is a postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Salamanca (IBSAL...
  11. Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop

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    ...was robust, capable of generating a wide range of insert sizes and also produced high yields of quality ... an NEB drawstring backpack and a double wall insulated glass to take home with us. Tips to to get the...being overwhelmed by all the new information, and instead allow me to pay attention and answer my key questions...
  12. Cultivating Community Science at BosLab

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    ... became our bacterial transformation guru and instructor for our intro to biohacking courses. Our members...initiated a soil microbiome project. This project was inspired by previous city-wide genomic studies and our ...DIY bio If you’re not in the Boston area but are inspired to get involved, check out the local groups page...
  13. How Dry Ice Affects Viral Vector Sample pH & How to Avoid It

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    ... of cell culture medium, which is buffered and contains the pH indicator phenol red. We froze samples ...der Geer P, Manning MC, Fitchmun MI. Protein instability following transport or storage on dry ice. Nat...10(4):278-9. PubMed PMID: 23538862. 2. Potter M, Lins B, Mietzsch M, Heilbronn R, Van Vliet K, Chipman...
  14. Components of CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...DSB) Cas9 and its variants have two endonuclease domains: the n-terminal RuvC-like nuclease domain and the...conformational change that positions the nuclease domains to cleave opposite strands of the target DNA. Thus...refer to this RNA complex as the “gRNA”. The gRNA contains both the 20 nucleotide target sequence to direct...
  15. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...system less bulky and easier to use with other strains of E. coli, Schmidl et al. condensed the system...ensures that they can be used with many types of proteins, including Cas9 and dCas9-transcription factors... optimal. These tools are compatible with many strains of E. coli, as well as with other plasmid-based...
  16. Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab

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    ...available from your institution, your department, and online. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) offers... to an end and your next professional adventure begins. While many career pathways exist for scientists...
  17. CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes

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    ...Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the Innovative Genomics Institute. What is CasPEDIA? CasPEDIA is an online, searchable...structure junky who just wants to learn about Cas domains. CasPEDIA either directly has this information ... More resources from the Innovative Genomics Institute      CRISPRpedia IGI’s digital resources in...
  18. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ... ABEs are only weakly compatible with many Cas domains beyond SpCas9. In order to expand the gene-editing...The latest ABE from the Liu lab is ABE7.10 which contains the deoxyadenosine deaminase, TadA-7.10 (Gaudelli... of naturally occurring enzymes and functional domains speed up the development towards faster and more...
  19. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    ...protocols for educational resources, and labs and institutions for depositors (see below). Even if the user...well as related items (for example, a kit that contains a plasmid with the catalog ID). Depositor suggestions...suggestions provide shortcuts to matching PI labs and institutions. There are many more technical details that ...
  20. Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon

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    ...succeed in communicating. Even the most rigorous, insightful, and novel scientific research will be wasted...research proposal is the perfect fit to their institutional focus and that you're better equipped than anyone...with ComSciCon, find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instragram, or send an email to [email protected]. Many...
  21. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

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    ...at the level of nucleosomes, loops, chromosomal domains, or how stretches of DNA on different chromosomes...for the structure of paraspeckles. Clemson CM, Hutchinson JN, Sara SA, Ensminger AW, Fox AH, Chess A, Lawrence... Eric J. Perkins...
  22. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    ...interaction between neuroscience and other fields. For instance I met one researcher studying how the microbiome...’ve developed in your current work to make new insights in neuroscience. Even if you're currently a synthetic...select viral vectors in the repository, you can instead have Addgene make the virus for you. Neuroscientists...
  23. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    ...impractical for small projects. Most researchers instead turn to so-called “mismatch nuclease” assays (e.g...then performed to amplify the target using PCR. Instead of tracking the reaction progress as in real time...your genome edits, this paper provides detailed instructions on how to design such assays, in addition to...
  24. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    ... to make a plasmid. Doench’s lab in the Broad Institute has created hundreds of thousands of plasmids,...Table 1.   Of course, this is for the simple insertion of a PCR product into a vector. The time it takes...your experiment. Make your work “high-throughput” Instead of making one plasmid at a time, try constructing...
  25. Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?

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    ...participating in science and engineering. “Fix the Institutions” promotes gender equality in careers through...the importance of analyzing sex, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now requires that sex be included...curricula. Corporations need to integrate these insights into product design. But eyes have been opened—and...
  26. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...disease and cultured cells. For example, in 2013, Jinsong Li and colleagues chose to explore CRISPR’s therapeutic...allogenic “off-the-shelf” treatment. In short, instead of using the patient’s own cells that have been...tract infections. The Cas3 enzymes target several strains of E. coli and lethally chop their genomes into...
  27. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    ...replicate and continue the infection cycle once inside the host. While the virus can still enter (and ...into the host’s genome. However, some adenovirus strains are known to cause respiratory diseases in humans...your centrifugation speed, to cover the centrifuge bins. These have to be added and removed in a biosafety...
  28. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    ...go over caps and push them into micronic tubes instead of pushing them in one by one. It seems very simplistic...Addgene would love to move forward and automate. For instance, vial labeling would be much easier with a Tube...which air brushes the information onto the vials instead of requiring us to put a label on each tube by ...
  29. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...remodeling. Chromatin is a complex of DNA and histone proteins that compacts cellular DNA into chromosomes and.... 3. Kaati, Gunnar, Lars O. Bygren, and Soren Edvinsson. "Cardiovascular and diabetes mortality determined...Experiments Post Read Other Blog Posts about Fluorescent Proteins  ...
  30. 7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors

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    ... 5) Listen to your supervisor’s viewpoint and brainstorm about mutually beneficial solutions Your supervisor...Look at the problem from their viewpoint, and brainstorm about solutions that will meet both of your needs...important issues in person or over the telephone instead of email. As you cannot see a person’s body language...
  31. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...AAV does not integrate into the host genome. AAV instead relies mainly on episomal expression. Episomes ... Even more creative options involve generating strains of mice that stably express Cas effectors in specific...doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00700-y Hanlon, K. S., Kleinstiver, B. P., Garcia, S. P., Zaborowski, M. P., Volak...
  32. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ...precise modifications of DNA (replacements, small insertions, and deletions) without introducing DNA double-strand...screens such as PRIDICT/PRIDICT2.0 provide valuable insights into pegRNA editing efficiencies for specific ...Parts, L. (2023). Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair...
  33. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    ...price point, which should be carefully balanced against the limitations of the assay.      Fig....immersion technique, courtesy of CAR15.) Each droplet contains a primer and probe set for both the gene of interest...only ddPCR provides absolute quantitative data, instead of relative quantification.  Even though no one...
  34. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    ...cochlea in 3D. The basic configuration of the instrument used in this reconstruction lay the foundation...cleared whole-mount specimens, such as whole mouse brains expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) (6)....solvent cleared organs) method of imaging rodent brains and spinal cords by combining Ultramicroscopy with...
  35. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...concentration of a serially diluted standard is plotted against its OD560 measurements and the trendline y = 0.6561x...the minimum and maximum detection limits of the instrument being used to measure the response. The dynamic... to set yourself up for success!  Study the instruments and specific assays you will be using ahead of...
  36. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ... Cas13 enzymes do not contain the RuvC and HNH domains responsible for DNA cleavage, so they cannot directly...functional A->G change. They fused ADAR deaminase domains (ADARDD) to dPspCas13b, but observed low RNA editing...perform C-to-U edits, the authors note that it retains its adenine deaminase ability. The authors then...
  37. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...using water-oil emulsion technology. Each droplet contains the ingredients for amplification of the target...experiment. The process to titrate AAV by ddPCR begins with diluting the virus. It is important to note...containing approximately 20,000 droplets. Each droplet contains the material required for a mini amplification...
  38. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...Our Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has been instrumental in supplementing that curriculum. It’s through...little intimidating. Too simplistic and I would insult the students. Too complicated and I would quickly... Eric J. Perkins...
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