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TypeBlog Post...very easy — our tech transfer team will communicate with your organization’s technology transfer office... ship the samples to Addgene and contact your technology transfer office about the MTA. Pro Tip! Download...
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5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog Post...biological tasks, both of which are factors in the technical challenges they can present. Many researchers ...hail Marys that have helped me troubleshoot some technical obstacles when working with virus: 1. Viral vectors... quantification as measured with branched-DNA technology." Journal of clinical microbiology 37.6 (1999... -
Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
TypeBlog Post...predicted off-target sites, Cpf1 does not mediate detectable off-target cleavage. Most gRNAs directed low-...specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384 Find plasmids...-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells." Nature Biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 27347757. Find plasmids... -
Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors
TypeBlog Post... Figure 1 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): Basic FLEx switch will express BFP in the... Figure 2 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): In the presence of Cre, GFP expression is... able to distribute materials containing FLEx technology. Read the genOway press release for more information... -
Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
TypeBlog Post...degradosome, which contains enzymes that cut RNA not protected by secondary structure. It is thought that poly... tail is important for stability of the mRNA, protection from degradation, and is integral to the nuclear...Controls Gene Expression Learn about New Cloning Techniques Read all of our Plasmids 101 Posts Resources... -
No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
TypeBlog Post...plasmid, using the fragment exchange (FX) cloning technique which uses Type IIS restriction sites (Geertsma...protein of interest. The Seeger lab used the ELISA technique described in their protocol because it is less...protein is added and after a few washes, binding is detected using a colorimetric reaction. After the ELISA... -
Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
TypeBlog Post...Advantages of the agarose cloning method The agarose technique should be useful to scientists who wish to rapidly... from a population of transfected clones. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of cell lines,...physiological properties. An advantage of this technique is the potentially large number of single clones... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog Post...understanding of the fast, deadline-driven pace of biotech. In other words, industry postdocs already have...Biogen, Amgen, New England Biolabs, Regeneron, and Genentech, among others, and the list is growing. Some post... a position open up. Other companies, such as Genentech, will not. The point is that each company has ... -
PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays
TypeBlog Post... on and so forth. This also serves as a light technical control - an RQ value of 1.5 means you have either...chemistry (see image, left, of droplet immersion technique, courtesy of CAR15.) Each droplet contains a primer...Molecular Biology Reference Molecular Cloning Techniques References Bell AD, Usher CL, McCarroll SA. ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators
TypeBlog Post... where rhodopsin functions as both the voltage detector and fluorescent signaler. The pro of this system...several targeting domains. The quencher and voltage detector in this system was dipicrylamine, a lipophilic...high-speed, bright, red fluorescent voltage sensor to detect neural activity. Sci Rep 9, 15878 (2019). doi: ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV
TypeBlog Post...Baiker, A. (2012). Universal real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of adeno-associated virus serotype...adeno-associated virus vectors with sensitivity sufficient to detect single infectious events. Human Gene Therapy, 15...addgene.org AAV Titration by qPCR Using SYBR Green TechnologyAAV Titration by ddPCRAAV Purification by Iodixanol... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog Post...the AAV production process. Either SYBR green technology or a TaqMan primer/probe set can be used and ...sample for the DNAseI digest. Use good sterile technique when handling your AAV plasmid standard and AAV...Baiker, A. (2012). Universal real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of adeno-associated virus serotype... -
Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression
TypeBlog Post...Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized the fields of molecular biology...discovery through the creation of innovative technologies. To date his group has develop several popular...catalytically active Cas9 nuclease." Nature biotechnology (2015). PubMed PMID: 26436575. PubMed Central... -
CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods
TypeBlog Post...updated Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing purposes...cheaper, faster, and easier than prior editing techniques. More and more CRISPR tools are being published...how you will evaluate the outcome: Will you be detecting insertions/deletions using a mismatch repair assay... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog Post...club occurs with a small technical team (single lab or team), a deep technical dive on single papers could...must stay current with literature and emerging technologies to remain competitive and relevant. Enter: the... -
AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS
TypeBlog Post...CNS and PNS.That is until the Gradinaru Lab at Caltech stepped up to the challenge. Find the PHP Plasmids...Recombinase-based AAV Targeted Evolution. In this technique, a pool of mutant AAV capsid (cap) expressing ...widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature biotechnology. 2016;34(2):204-209. PubMed PMID: 26829320. ... -
Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly
TypeBlog Post...experimental process. The majority of current cloning techniques involve the assembly of a circular plasmid in... 1991, Bubeck et al., 1993). But why did this technique fail to gain traction? It is likely that both ...ends on DNA using polymerase chain reaction." Biotechniques 10.1 (1991): 62-66. PubMed PMID: 2003926. 2.... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog Post...therapy. The year was 2001 and I started a job as a technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors... I quickly became fascinated by this emerging technology and its potential for the treatment of some genetic...research is being done to further improve the technology: engineering of new capsid variants, designing... -
Plasmids 101: Colony PCR
TypeBlog Post...key steps to colony PCR are: 1) design primers to detect the presence of your insert; 2) set up a standard...Running a no template control PCR reaction for detecting contamination is also a good idea. Analyzing....org Read about Choosing a Molecular Cloning Technique Learn to Perform a Bacterial Transformation Deposit... -
CRISPR Antimicrobials
TypeBlog Post...reduce this likelihood. The key problem with these techniques is efficient delivery, as the antimicrobial must...efficiently-delivered RNA-guided nucleases.” Nature Biotechnol. 32(11): 1141-5. (2014). PubMed: PMID 252409288...produce sequence-specific antimicrobials.” Nature Biotechnol. 32(11): 1146-50. (2014). PubMed: PMID 25282355...