...years. But learn we did! From Addgene's very beginning, we had to consider digital accessibility for ...student using viral vectors for the first time and learning how to purify AAV.  Second, you’ll identify your...captured at the 17%, 25%, and 60% layers, and genome-containing virions are captured at the 40% layer. To collect...insert a syringe at the interface of the 40% layer containing the virus and 60% iodixanol layer, with the bevel...alt text in the comments! We learned a lot from listening to others' alt text descriptions, and we’d love...

...at my company was open to meeting with me and explaining more of her role, which eventually led me to ... problems that they are trying to solve. After learning more about the stakeholders, the product managers...next-gen sequencing (NGS), and high-throughput screening. While some developers had science backgrounds...audience. Additionally, in order to keep everything running smoothly, you’ll want to be really organized. Often... hours ahead, so I’m always catching up in the morning! 9:00 AM--Technical implementation review. The ...

... can be easily maintained when grown on media containing the missing nutrient. Scientists can exploit ...the host’s auxotrophy. When grown on media NOT containing the nutrient, the host cells will die unless ...weak. yes   LYS2 L-lysine yes - Grow on plates containing alpha-aminoadipate in the absence of a nitrogen...used in gene disruption experiments. MET15 L-methionine and overproduces hydrosulfide ions yes - Grow... L-leucine   S. pombe  no no   ade6+ purine (adenine)   S. pombe  no no   Considerations when using...

... 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...

...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...

...Addgene’s 20th anniversary on Twitter. In the beginning Let’s take a quick flash back to 2004. “Shrek ...business practices, like accepting e-signatures and designing a website users could easily navigate. This meant... make sharing reagents and protocols so easy!” — Nina Jain, Harvard Medical School. We want to give a ...requestors alike. We transformed this process by aligning institutions with standardized agreements and ...Addgene for the basics of molecular biology and cloning, since they have reasonable introductions to lots...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

..., 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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-...