... to impress the judges on your ability to tell a compelling narrative that is positive, and forward-looking...size, legibility, and more). Tips on drafting a stellar resume and cover letter can be found on the Addgene...recommenders based on your relationships to the person as well as their current sphere of influence. In other words... for them, the likelier you will end up with a stellar letter of support.        5. Application submission...landscape beyond college. They will also serve you well when you are applying for an entry-level position... as you apply for internships, scholarships, fellowships, and entry-level positions post graduation. ...

...want to learn more about Synthetic Biology. Can you tell me where to start?” is a question more and more ...2011, BioBuilder is the brainchild of Dr. Natalie Kuldell from MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering...from her 20 years of college teaching experience, Kuldell sought to create a program that would capitalize...contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days in the classroom are...plan or outstanding test scores.  As a result, Kuldell launched the BioBuilder Educational Foundation ...of Professor Richard Murray. Murray’s lab uses cellular extracts to perform transcription and translation...develop and test hypotheses. Students then use cellular extracts as a means to rapidly prototype DNA circuits...

...toolkit in human cells. Nissim L, Perli SD, Fridkin A, Perez-Pinera P, Lu TK. Mol Cell. 2014 May 22;54(...effect of gene knockout in vivo and in vitro, as well as to insert targeted mutations through homologous...advantageous to instead use a preexisting, conserved cellular machinery to process gRNAs. Hijacking tRNA processing...tRNAs are among the most abundant molecules in a cell, this system is clearly also robust enough to ensure...examine the frequency of both indels at each locus, as well as large deletions. They detected fragment deletion...characterized the system in plants, PTGs will likely work well in many different biological systems. Size is also...

...timeline from transformation to testing and a lack of well-characterized genetic tools make it challenging ...challenging to engineer a specific function in these multicellular organisms. However, the rewards are great if ...pathways involved in central anthocyanin metabolism are well understood. Additional work has also identified ...tools facilitates plant science. Challenge #3: Intellectual property There is another challenge associated... agricultural companies and carry associated intellectual property concerns – patents and licensing agreements...Biochemistry Department at the University of Manchester as well as the Biology Department at CSU. When not pursuing...enjoys spending time with her husband and two Jack Russell Terriers. More SynBio Reading: Learn more about...

...assemble a crack team of Addgenies that includes: Michelle, the Senior Scientist who coordinates all kit ....” There was a time in human history when an intelligent, motivated person really could know a little ...any favors by trying to go it alone. The help of fellow lab members and collaborators will not only get...will ultimately improve the quality of the work as well. Social interaction is a good thing Part of you...communication Few people actually like meetings, but run well, meetings can be a critical part of any successful...team could have a strong sense of purpose, an excellent leader, and perfectly clear lines of communication...myth. The original Dr. Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s novel worked alone, but even the movie makers ...

... in the embryos, as well as whole exome sequencing of embryo derived-ES cells.They also conducted whole...ssODN repair template in induced pluripotent stem cells made from the patient. With the first gRNA, they...homology-directed repair (HDR) taking place in 41.2% of edited cells. The results were even lower for the second gRNA...13.1% targeting efficiency with only 13% of edited cells employing HDR. Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA...babies.” The differences in editing between iPS cells and embryos make a case for conducting research ...analysis is not possible with IVF, as most of the cells are needed for proper development. Ma et al.’s experiments...

...Deletions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Using Type I CRISPR-Cas. Molecular Cell, 74(5): 936-950.e5 (2019). 10.1016...a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system. Cell, 163(3): 759-771 (2015). 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038 Harrington, B., ...is shared by other Cas enzymes outlined below as well. Cas12a also has significant therapeutic promise... Cas13 are 1). non-specific RNA cleavage and 2). cell toxicity. Cas7-11 does not display collateral RNA...cleavage and is significantly less toxic to mammalian cells than Cas13 (likely due to the lack of collateral...

...in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used as intracellular inhibitors.  Aptamers are...small enough to be expressed in bacterial and other cell systems. Since the majority of these alternative...the constant region. Nonspecific binding, caused cell receptors for the constant region, is also reduced...binding strength, half-lives, and/or specificity as well. They’re more difficult to source, may not be readily..., peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells. They can be used either with or as fluorophores... may sound. Validated antibodies are still an excellent option for many applications, and frankly, if ...

...transgenic animals, embryonic stem cells, and/or tissue-specific cell types: Cre-lox recombination. What.... How can I use Cre-lox? The Cre/lox system is a well-established research tool, especially in the field...downstream of promoters that are active only in certain cell or tissue types, during certain stages of development... recombinase can be expressed only in specified cells or at specified times. Combining this with some ...has been used to successfully introduce Cre into cells of interest. What if I need two separate recombination...2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells by the Cre recombinase of bacteriophage P1. Sauer...

... in vivo conditional gene rescue experiments, as well as for improvement of optogenetic adeno-associated...delivered using AAV injection, the majority of the cells surrounding the injection site will become infected... ensure that the reporter remains silent until a cell or tissue-specific Cre is provided. Since the FLEx...used to study the physiology or behavior of certain cell populations.  Acknowledgement:Through a partnership...for monitoring Cre-mediated recombination at the cellular level in the mouse. 2003 PubMed PMID: 12665802...FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit mapping... Michelle Cronin...

...establishment of in-house sequencing capabilities and Seqwell’s plexWell technology, we can now perform NGS at Addgene... check viral transgene expression in transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow...fragments of DNA from the helper plasmids or the cell genome can be packaged inside the vectors during...earlier, it is common to find DNA from the packaging cell genome, bacterial genomes, cloning vectors, and ...future plans How did AAV-68544 become contaminated? Well, we purposely mixed another AAV vector with AAV-...Tasissa M, Kostman M, Tillgren M, Makana Hanley L, Mueller I, Mitsopoulos A, Fan M (2020) A Novel Next-Generation...

...Single-Domain Camelid Antibodies. Cell 181:1004–1015.e15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.031 Zimmermann ...coronaviruses and enable the virus to enter host cells. To do this, they injected the spike protein from...camelid antibodies that bind to the spike proteins in cell culture, and inhibit these viruses.  But llama ...hidden in the molecular crevices proteins on the cell surface. Figure 1: Comparison of common antibody...Graham BS, Callewaert N, Schepens B, Saelens X, McLellan JS (2020) Structural Basis for Potent Neutralization...blog Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification RANbodies: Reporter...

...transparent are enabling microscopes to visualize the cellular architecture of whole tissues in 3D with unprecedented..., CST, spinal cord and cranial nerve afferents labelled with a AAV8 expressing eGFP under the human ubiquitin... (2007). Nature Methods, 4, 331–336. Pubmed. P. Keller, M.B. Ahrens.  (2015) Neuron, 85, 462-483. Pubmed... Weber, M. Mickoleit, J. Huisken. (2014) Methods Cell Biol.123, 193-215. Pubmed. W. Spalteholz. (1914)...296, 541-545. Pubmed. A. Ertürk, C.P. Mauch, F. Hellal, F. Förstner, T. Keck,  K. Becker, et al. (2011... Jährlin, C.P. Mauch, C.D. Hojer, J.G. Egen, F. Hellal, F. Bradke, M. Sheng, H.-U. Dodt. (2012). Nature..._the_OpenSPIM_Wiki http://www.janelia.org/lab/keller-lab http://www.physikalischebiologie.de http...

...with a great story to tell? Let us know by emailing us at [email protected] or tell us on Twitter and Facebook...amazing stories to share. I spend a lot of time telling scientists about Addgene’s repository, and explaining...better day at the office but for stronger science as well. This blog is our way of continuing the conversation...whether you’re a graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, lab manager, research technician, or Principal...conversation! Do you have a question about culturing iPS cells? Confused by which system to use for genome editing...

...benefit, replicates are built into the technology. One well (containing thousands of droplets) can be sufficient...fluorescence amplitude measured for each droplet in each well (Figure 2). A clean ddPCR should have a clear separation...negative (gray) droplets. The no template control wells should have very few positive droplets. In the image... copy per microliter in the no template control wells. You’ll also notice a reduction in the number of...cross contamination into a no template control (NTC) well is common. Here are some steps you can take to achieve...applications for the technology.  Droplet digital PCR is well suited for the detection of low copy numbers. For...used in the detection of rare sequences and single cell analysis. It is also being used in the detection...

... Orientation-Specific Tells you the orientation of the insert Tells you if the insert is present...product. Additionally, this type of primer only tells you if your specific insert is present but not if...without the insert. This type of primer pair can tell you if the insert is the correct size and whether...Insert-Specific Simple "yes or no" test results Doesn't tell you the orientation of your insert or if the insert...band (-) result as insert-specific primers but also tell you whether the insert has the correct directionality...clones you’ll need to send for sequencing, but won’t tell you if your products have any mutations.  There ...

...a review article on histone modifers in B and T cells with my adviser when I was a graduate student. Naturally...aspect of the field you plan to review. If it’s a well-researched field, you may need to get specific to...these themes, and also for articles from the active/well-known researchers in the field. I made sure to find... find information from genome-wide studies, as well as results from smaller and more specific studies....studies. I also did not limit myself to the well-cited or popular papers, but looked for papers from a wide ... change the sentences, make it flow, and start telling the story. Like any editing process, you will need...acetyltransferases and histone deacetylases in B-and T-cell development, physiology and malignancy." Genes &...

... attack the cell wall of bacterial cells; however, Mycoplasma species do not possess cell walls. As a ...bacteriophage (viruses that only infect bacterial cells), or a bacterium picking up resistance genes from...determining drug resistance status, it is a very common, well-trusted method that is frequently used in the clinical...conserved, non-negotiable process within the bacterial cell, antibiotic resistance is very likely to develop...globally: final report and recommendations." London: Wellcome Trust & HM Government (2016). 2. CDC Information...

...processing, the window shows a yellow checked circle. Typically, a yellow check mark indicates that a particular...score (KO-score) which represents the proportion of cells that have either a frameshift or 21+ bp indel. This...Following delivery of CRISPR components into target cells, genomic DNA from both edited and unedited (control...in front of that sample. You can hover over the yellow or red circles to gather details on the issues ... score. KO Score - Represents the proportion of cells that have either a frameshift or 21+ bp indel. This...vertical dotted line represents the cut site, and yellow + symbol on the far left marks the wild type sequence...

...homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway which occurs in cells at low frequencies and relies on the efficient delivery...Later the resultant U-G pair is either repaired by cellular mismatch repair machinery making an original C-G...editor. A massive protein engineering effort by Gaudelli et al. resulted in the successful evolution of...’ to ‘I’ (inosine), which is treated as ‘G’ by cellular polymerases. Subsequently, an original genomic... is converted to a G-C pair (Figure 1). As the cellular inosine excision repair is not as active as uracil...protospacer, ABE6.3 or ABE7.9 are better suited (Gaudelli et al., 2017). Our vectors have two Bsa1 sites...353.6305 (2016): aaf8729. PubMed PMID: 27492474. 3. Gaudelli, Nicole M., et al. "Programmable base editing ...

...lipopolysaccharide of the cell wall of Gram negative bacteria like E. coli that affects tissue culture cell line viability...introduces transformation grade plasmids into a bacterial cell. Transformation grade DNA  Transformation is ...transformation of chemically and electrocompetent cells is minimal (picogram range). It can be extracted...Figure 3: Need to introduce plasmids into mammalian cells? Use transfection grade DNA. Transfection is ...process of inserting an external plasmid in mammalian cells and it will likely require micrograms of plasmid...

...both Cas9 and your gRNA of interest to mammalian cells. It was designed to have increased lentiviral titer...knock-out thousands of genes in mixed population of cells as part of pooled library screens (1,2). The human...pooled libraries targeting both mouse and human cells are avaliable for distribution. To learn more about... includes work probing mTOR signaling in cancer cells, deciphering the mechanism of matrix metalloproteinase...Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening in human cells." Science 343.6166 (2014): 84-87. PubMed PMID: 24336571...Common Ways to Deliver CRISPR Plasmids to Mammalian Cells Resources on the Addgene Website Visit our Lentiviral...

...It’s well known that exercise can help fight stress and depression, and now researchers have reported... how it works. The findings in a recent issue of Cell demonstrate how PGC-1a1, a transcriptional coactivator... press release. “We actually found the opposite: well-trained muscle produces an enzyme that purges the... in a commentary about the new work published in Cell Metabolism. But, they note, there is plenty more...including psychiatric and cognitive conditions as well as neurodegenerative diseases.” I don’t know about...JR, Erhardt S, Lindskog M, Ruas JL. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.051. PMID: 25259918 Muscle over mind. Moon...

...Addgene Outreach Scientist and fellow blogger Caroline LaManna put it well: "Wow, custom mutations in monkeys...RNA-Mediated Gene Targeting in One-Cell Embryos. Niu Y, et al. Cell. 2014 January 30. (Pubmed) Programmable...correct disease mutations, both in mice and in human cells. But that important advance was quickly followed...  David S. Weiss of Emory University summed it up well in that New York Times feature when he said, “All...

...By Justin Ng and Alyssa Cecchetelli Science is a constantly evolving and demanding field, requiring a...rats have some key differences in physiology, intelligence, and human correspondence that give them an ...routinely used in an array of neuroscience research (Ellenbroek and Youn, 2016). For these reasons rats were ...transgenic axolotls for an array of different studies. Elly Tanaka’s lab has constructed several vectors for...are often used to study vertebrate embryology and cell development. One major resource for frog research...Organism to Study and Model Human Genetic Disease. Cells Tissues Organs, 205(5–6), 303–313. https://doi.org...https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.50651 Vieira, W. A., Wells, K. M., & McCusker, C. D. (2019). Advancements to...

...activity which cleaves the supplied fluorescently labelled ssDNA substrates. Upon cleavage, the fluorescence...complementarity between the gRNA and a given fluorescently labelled substrate, gets activated and performs non-specific...strips to detect the cleavage of fluorescently labelled RNA, the authors employ a P51 cardboard fluorescence... with streptavidin coated beads. Fluorescently labelled dCas9 complexes containing sgRNA that have no ...Shravanti Suresh is a PhD candidate who investigates cellular aspects of CRISPR/Cas immune systems in the Sashital...2020.04.07.028167 Broughton JP, Deng X, Yu G, Fasching CL, Servellita V, Singh J, Miao X, Streithorst JA, Granados ...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0513-4 Kellner MJ, Koob JG, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Zhang...

... by guest blogger Natalie Niemi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison...commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation ...translation of many stop codons and detrimental effects on cell growth. The C321.ΔA strain was genomically recoded...in stability of the p-Ser incorporated protein as well as context-specific effects of UAG suppression, ... Niemi! Natalie Niemi, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Morgridge Institute for Research in Madison...is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling, metabolism, and the mighty mitochondrion..."The origins of protein phosphorylation." Nature cell biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757...

...Farewell 2019, and hello 2020! As we're gearing up to start a new decade, we’re also looking back at ... by Alyssa Cecchetelli The introduction of nucleic acids into bacteria or eukaryotic cells is a common...Photoswitchable Proteins by Cary Valley, Shreya Vedantam, Michelle Cronin, and Angela Abitua Thanks to a team effort.... 5. Five Popular Model Organisms by Alyssa Cecchetelli and Lukas Morgan There are many model organisms...

...Or you don’t know how well your assay will scale. Or you don’t have enough cells to execute genome-wide...spreadsheet of random numbers that’ll leave you, well, #sad. Learn More About CRISPR Pooled Library...genome is limited by definition, the kinome is a well-annotated collection of genes that can provide a...lentiGuide expressing only an gRNA, for use with cells that already have Cas9). Each library consists of...be useful when screening for phenotypes, such as cell-non-autonomous effects, that do not lend themselves...

...How do you celebrate your lab’s achievements? Tom Ellis highlights the importance of acknowledging his teams...-off via a gift, card, and trip to the pub. Dr. Ellis adds “we probably don’t celebrate enough... I’ll... pizza or pub.” The Cepko Lab celebrates any fellowships, jobs, or paper submissions with dinner and champagne.... What does your lab do for fun as a group? The Ellis Lab self-organizes cinema nights, game nights, and...retreat. How do you manage work-life balance? Tom Ellis reveals “I don't. Ask me again in five years and...from you! Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr. Tom Ellis (Imperial College London), Dr. Connie Cepko (Harvard...