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  1. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...Kishor Jadhav. Mycoplasmas can remain in the dry state for a longer time. When they come in contact with... is required in this process because result interpretation might be difficult. The low density of mycoplasmas...by these bacteria can hinder correct result interpretation. Also, the signals from the nuclear area make...
  2. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...Location, location, location! What do buying real estate and using AAVs have in common? The three most important... location, location! Just like this common real estate mantra, the choice of serotype (which determines...identified with AAV2 (5), AAV6 (6) and AAV5 at excitatory connections (3). These facts beg the question...
  3. Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags

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    ... most often consist of an enzyme that has been mutated to block its catalytic activity and instead become... later work showed that introducing a Leu28Cys mutation in eDHFR does lead to covalent binding of the ...work in certain applications — the most common limitation is that certain probes are not very good at crossing...
  4. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...biochemist, a geneticist, a microscopist, a biostatistician, and that one golden-handed technician who ...Andrew, the team’s founder, to create a mission statement in the first few meetings and we’ve volunteered...like kudzu. Think of a soccer player who gets a reputation for taking risky shots at the goal rather than...
  5. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ... to assemble several DNA parts in a specific orientation using Type IIS restriction enzymes (Weber et ... researchers to expand the Fragmid toolkit to facilitate other lentivirus- and AAV-based studies. Unified...acssynbio.3c00423. Pérez-González, Ana, et al. “Adaptation of the GoldenBraid Modular Cloning System and...
  6. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...previously-designed tyr gRNA, which causes hypopigmentation, thus marking cells that have undergone genomic...recombineering, with 96-99% efficiency for point mutations and 66% efficiency for small insertions. Multiplexing...degradation tag (LVA tag) to achieve specific point mutations in E. coli. gRNAs are delivered on a different...
  7. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...Although it was a huge innovation, there was a limitation to this approach. CBEs and ABEs are base transition...repair (BER), the cellular process that catches mutated U’s in DNA and ideally converts them back to Cs... Cas9s that recognize different PAMs. Their computational tool for predicting CGBE editing outcomes and...
  8. Optogenetics + CRISPR, Using Light to Control Genome Editing

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    ... had the lowest background activity in the dark state and highest fold induction at 31X. By using a slit...by blue light (470nm), paCas9-1 induced indel mutations via NHEJ (frequency of 20.5%) and induced modifications...significantly alter the system’s efficiency at generating mutations when activated with light and lowered background...
  9. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...sequence cells to verify excision didn’t introduce mutations Adenovirus Non-integrating Low Medium Generates...and/or oncogenes, potentially leading to the presentation of a cancer-like phenotype in infected cells...stringency test for mouse iPSCs, tetraploid complementation, involves injecting tetraploid blastocysts ...
  10. We’re Going Viral This Week!

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    ...Hub in this blog post. Alongside our efforts to facilitate the sharing of reagents and data, we’re also ... first paper came out last year on sucrose supplementation to increase AAV2 yields and we’re eager to ...
  11. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    ...Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology at Michigan State University with the backing of a prestigious Fulbright... : Kingdom's biotechnology research at Michigan State University 9:36-10:29 : Kingdom's transition back...
  12. Celebrating One Million Plasmids Shared!

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    ... community (check out the infographic below for stats on our plasmid deposits and requests). Over the ... the lookout for new ways to help researchers facilitate and accelerate scientific discovery. How can ...
  13. Grad School Advice Part 1: Picking a Lab and a Project

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    ...student? 4:50 - 8:00 : How did you approach doing rotations? 8:01 - 11:25 : How did you decide what lab to...50 : What is the number one question you think rotation students should ask senior graduate students? ...
  14. Addgene Stands with the Scientific Community

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    ...The recent sweeping cuts to science funding, limitations to facilities and indirect costs, and increased...scientific research ecosystem, not just in the United States but around the world. As an organization that directly...
  15. 500,000 Plasmids Shipped and Counting!

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    ...Addgenies! Our team recently grew big enough to necessitate an office move. We've got ~50 Addgenies working...with institutions and tech transfer offices that facilitate MTAs. The great feedback from scientists who ...
  16. More Data for You: Find Articles Citing Addgene Plasmids

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    ...then you'll find the plasmids listed below the citation. An example of these "Associated Plasmids" is ...increasing your work's visibility Help us improve our citations lists We are still growing our "Articles Citing...
  17. A Conference By Postdocs For Postdocs: Future of Research

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    ... in some form? There is a lot of talk about the state of scientist training in the US and around the world...postdoc-driven biotechnology clubs such as Penn State, Berkeley and Harvard. Students also partner with...
  18. Science Communication for Everyone

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    ...sci-art that would ultimately give a visual representation of science to our audience. How can researchers...extensively use Google search. Be careful about hidden connotations behind a word. Non-scientists interpret terms...
  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...the Pacific Ocean, off of the coast of Washington state. Using these samples, he was able to isolate two... protein’s structure and also discovered many mutations that alter and improve its function and shift ...
  20. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    ...this blog post. 9. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation by Kate Harten DeMaio We made the switch to...blogger Shravanti Suresh who studies CRISPR at Iowa State University detailed five methods for using CRISPR...
  21. Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training

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    ...you need to, go to ESL classes Practice your presentation skills (as much as you can), form a peer mentoring...content-useful website, write a blog Pursue speaking invitations by inviting others (be on a speaker committee...
  22. Why Do I Need an MTA Anyway?

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    ...pride in facilitating the exchange of not just the physical samples, but also the legal documentation that...
  23. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    ...players in normal biological processes and disease states. While LITE plasmids have clear application to ...mammalian endogenous transcription and epigenetic states." Nature. 500, 472–476 (22 August 2013).   , ...
  24. Editor's Choice, August 2016

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    ...personal experience, is a quick way to generate many mutated plasmid constructs. The second post was contributed...specificity issues, and other means of generating mutations in live cells are all discussed further in this...
  25. Editor's Choice, September 2016

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    ...guest blogger Sean Stacey from Eastern Tennessee State University and provides a brief rundown of Sean’...phage are super cool and have considered getting a tattoo of my favorite molecular biology tool, P1 phage...
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