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  1. Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards

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    ...hydropersulfide that is then transferred to thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides modulate protein... biosensor can also be used along other thiol-containing acceptors in competition assays. “I believe that...photoconvertible fluorescent protein mEOS4a. Cells containing a sensor that shows a favorable outcome are then... to engineer many types of biosensors.   This screening method allowed Tian to optimize a red‑shifted ...neural microcircuits. “In the longer term, this screening platform may help us to create high-performance...
  2. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    ...audience’s mental bandwidth.  Jargon Learning, using, and retaining new vocabulary takes time and effort...others. But sometimes we’re unaware that we are leaning on an unspoken expectation of our audience knowing...concept to another which leads us to… Framework Learning to think like an immunologist, a geneticist, a...needed to remove a distraction, such as pausing or turning off the slide deck (or reminding them to put their...
  3. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    ... labeling using a noncanonical amino acid, azidohomoalanine (AHA). In the technique, AHA is incorporated...incorporated into newly synthesized proteins instead of methionine. The labeled proteins can be detected using click-chemistry...click-chemistry that covalently links the azido containing AHA to a fluorescent alkyne tag. The newly synthesized...determine the turnover of a specific protein by combining it with the proximity ligation assay (PLA). The...concerts and bake. you can contact her at rojas@ti2learning.org. References 1. Dieterich, Daniela C., et al...
  4. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    ...How Non-Homologous End Joining Repairs Double Strand Breaks Get Tips on Designing Your gRNA Browse Our ...RuvC groove, Slaymaker et al. made a variety of alanine substitutions throughout the groove in 32 separate...diminish off-target cutting (4). However, instead of weakening interaction sbetween the non-target strand and... in applied and/or therapeutic settings. Will combining the different mutations found in each of these...
  5. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    ...vigilant about these errors is an important part of maintaining the quality of reagents, especially shared ones... easy to edit, and easy to share. However, the cloning process — including the propagation of plasmids...these errors could cause the plasmid to stop functioning properly or be something completely different...process, we believe this to be non-negotiable. By maintaining a high standard of quality control, we have built... built a trusted plasmid catalog containing over 150,000 sequence-verified constructs to share with scientists...
  6. Engaging with science and society at pgEd

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    ...lesson plans that are made freely available online; running professional development (PD) workshops for teachers...organizing Congressional briefings in Washington DC; convening meetings of experts and leaders from academia,...number of different opportunities to broaden my training beyond the biological sciences, as well as to ...students. One of these organizations was pgEd. After obtaining my PhD and working in digital academic publishing...festivals, and getting experience in either giving or running these events will be important both in preparing...
  7. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    ...produced in E1-containing mammalian cell lines such as HEK293 cells. 1st generation AdV cloning capacity is.... 2nd Gen AdVs were designed to have increased cloning capacity, decreased  potential for the generation...deleted in 2nd generation AdVs, thereby increasing cloning capacity to ~12 Kb. The ever popular pAdEasy system... interest for gene therapy due their increased cloning capacity (up to 36 kb!), long-term transgene expression...
  8. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    ...sequence of the plasmid, we examine three things: Aligning the NGS result to a reference sequence to confirm...backbone elements.   Confirming the gene/insert by aligning to NCBI entry or using BLAST.   Confirming tags.... We’ll break down each of these steps below. Aligning the sequence The first step we take when performing...publicly available reference sequence or plasmids containing genes with many modifications. We look for point...-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening. Nat Protoc 12:828–863 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  9. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    ...treatment strategies for these disorders have involved turning on fetal hemoglobin to compensate for defects in...approach, editing patient cells ex vivo and then returning them to the patient. The first human trial involving...many, many pieces. Locus Biosciences is currently running this trial, with more updates expected in the coming...considerations for all CRISPR therapies, but especially concerning when using a systemic approach. Regarding effectiveness...difference, then the treatment will not work in a meaningful way. Delivery, especially for systemic approaches...
  10. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ..., Terns MP, White MF, Yakunin AF, Garrett RA, van der Oost J, Backofen R, Koonin EV. An updated evolutionary...transfer, analogous to traditional restriction enzyme cloning. Sticky-end mediated gene transfer would be particularly...homology-directed repair (HDR) over non-homologous endjoining (NHEJ). Cas9-mediated NHEJ usually destroys the...Essletzbichler P, Volz SE, Joung J, van der Oost J, Regev A, Koonin EV, Zhang F. Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease...
  11. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    ... antibodies may have similar emission spectra, meaning they will emit fluorescent light at similar wavelengths...record the fluorescence for both at similar levels, meaning that your populations will ‘look’ similar on your...compensate in the top right corner of a flow plot, meaning that it should be double-positive for the two markers... what two markers your fluorescent markers are staining for. If a cell is positive for both markers, it...compensation values later. This can be helpful as you're learning! Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells...
  12. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    ...naked eye. This makes cloning quite a bit easier since you can see if your cloning experiment worked just...methods. While techniques such as  blue-white screening require X-gal, an expensive exogenously-added ...chromoproteins don’t require other substrates for screening. Thus chromoproteins can be used as markers in... between chromoproteins. In some cases, cells containing high-copy plasmid-borne chromoproteins lost color...
  13. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    ...collection of CRISPR tools has grown steadily, gaining approximately 2,000 plasmids/year from 2017 to ...to 2023. This growth is supported by new labs joining the Addgene CRISPR community, with approximately ...wanted to know, so we classified CRISPR plasmids containing a nuclease into three functional groups: nucleases...grown to 17,560 CRISPR plasmids. That’s almost a ninety-fold increase in size! From this collection, we...educational resources help scientists navigate that learning curve. As of 2023, our CRISPR guide has been viewed...
  14. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    ... of these resources as I could. Networking and learning from the careers of others were key to creating...productive partnership CINSO has had. Volunteer! The turning point in my graduate experience, the point at which...Dinosphere” almost every week. I gained experience explaining science to visitors of all ages, learned a lot...lessons they have learned during their scientific training and wrote about them in a blog post on Born to...to Science: Life Lessons from Scientific Training More and more voices of encouragement emphasize the...
  15. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ...delivery methods.   General considerations for planning your CRISPR experiment As with any experiment,... factors that need to be considered during the planning process. For CRISPR experiments, the following...viral delivery. Cas9 mRNA and gRNA Plasmids containing gRNA and Cas9 are used in in vitro transcription...as well as genome repair by non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) or HDR. EGFP validation of sgRNAs: Can evaluate...evaluate component delivery and sgRNA efficacy by cloning in genome target sequence into EGFP reporter. Target...
  16. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    ...standard in their bicinchoninic acid assay (BCA) to normalize samples before running a western blot. Standard...provide some general considerations for scientists planning to use them in their assays.  What is a standard... above 0.95.    Additional considerations When running assays that rely on a standard curve, it is critical...program. Summary Few things in the lab are more disheartening than seeing a potentially exciting result quashed...
  17. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ...discretionary money. They also usually have a good event-planning base and will know how to reserve space, time ...themselves as “scientists.” We had some accountants running our math tables!  Be realistic about what you...you can teach  5-10 year olds in a single evening. Grades K-5 cover a broad range of attention spans, skill... simple. I honed the complexity of the talk by running it by the teachers and sharing some slides on Twitter...Even the most ambitious teachers, who work hard maintaining a current, dynamic curriculum, would be hard-...
  18. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...detection had over 1,000 authors. The chapter on deep learning addresses the dilemma of creating a technology... “The most obvious future consequence of the undermining of the scientific process and the marginalization... the summer of 2020 that the consequences of undermining science are even more immediate and dire than...himself has written entire books about optogenetics. Defining science and summarizing its past, present, and...task to set oneself. As a scientist who enjoys learning a little bit about many different things (part...
  19. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    ...plasmid cloning blog posts Resources on Addgene.org Find protocols for molecular biology and cloning Read... use a phenol chloroform extraction to remove remaining proteins and RNase. Finally, DNA is precipitated...into this mixture to absorb the nucleic acids. Containinants bind cellulose less tightly than nucleic acids..., as detected by qPCR, but this did not reduce cloning efficiencies.  When compared to fresh columns, ...
  20. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    ... direct RNA-guided transposition. By natively combining the DNA integration capabilities of transposases...with Type I-F INTEGRATE using a single plasmid containing a multi-spacer CRISPR array. Workflow and...s41586-019-1323-z Peters JE, Makarova KS, Shmakov S, Koonin EV (2017) Recruitment of CRISPR-Cas systems by ...Ladha A, Gardner Z, Schmid-Burgk JL, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Zhang F (2019) RNA-guided DNA insertion with...science.aax9181 Strecker J, Ladha A, Makarova KS, Koonin EV, Zhang F (2020) Response to Comment on “RNA-...
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