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  1. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...activity to a transcriptional activation domain (Fig 1). Two ways to use CRISPRa for your research CRISPRa... Stucka R, Hauber J, Lange UC (2016) Targeted HIV-1 Latency Reversal Using CRISPR/Cas9-Derived Transcriptional... organisms (Chavez et al., 2016). To learn more about the different types of Cas9 activators, check out...covering VP64, Suntag, SAM, and VPR. Worry less about off targets Unlike Cas9 cutting activity, off target...of the Addgene Scientific Advisory Board. His laboratory at Columbia University is focused advancing scientific... Variant for Your Next Experiment Find out More about Genome-wide Screens with CRISPR/Cas9 Learn How CRISPR...
  2. Grad School Advice Part 2: Building Community

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    ...great advice on all of these topics. Listen to Part 1 Here Listen to Part 2 here! Time : Topic 0:00 - 0:...How did you hear about post grad opportunities and when did you start thinking about them? 18:30 - 19:... top if you leverage your community, think hard about picking a good mentor, and begin considering career...19:54 : How to think about picking a post-doc project 19:55 - 22:40 : Improvements that can be made to ...
  3. Synthetic Biology, Artificial Chromosomes, iGEM & More - Interview with Tom Ellis

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    ...school to a startup and back to academia. Chapter 1: How working at a startup prepared Tom for an academic...synthetic yeast chromosome. Listen to learn more about Dr. Ellis, synthetic biology, synthetic chromosomes...Additional Resources from the Addgene Blog Learn about the Synthetic Biology Education Nonprofit BioBuilder...BioBuilder Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning Learn About Working at a SynBio Startup in Our Interview with...
  4. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...Figure 1). Clustered events are called a population.                             Figure 1: While...series of one- or two-marker plots, like in Figure 3 above, until the population of interest has been successfully...  Of course, there are many more things to learn about when diving into flow cytometry data. There’s different... ways to use FSC and SSC, as briefly alluded to above. There’s many variations in how one can gate, select...
  5. Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View

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    ...single neurons in the living brain   Figure 1: Plasmid mix to label neuronal morphology (eYFP) and...genOway press release for more information. References 1. Atasoy, D., Y. Aponte, H. H. Su, and S. M. Sternson... on the Addgene Blog Learn More about FLEX-vectors Learn More about Cre-Lox Check out Retrograde AAVs...expression have been developed. Read on to learn more about FLP-FRT, Cre-lox, and how combinations of FLP and...
  6. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    ...folding, and deal with sub-optimal codon usage (Table 1) A few mutations are common to all or most expression...curated list of Bacterial Expression Systems Table 1: E. coli expression strains  Note: All strains are...How does inducible expression work? As mentioned above, many expression plasmids utilize inducible promoters...see protein overexpression? The strains described above should generate sufficient expression levels for...may help with solubility issues. We want to hear about your favorite protein expression tips and tricks...
  7. Addgene's Website Update

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    ...straight to your materials of interest!   Figure 1: The new search bar.   Pro tip! You can use a manuscript...straight from the new search bar, but the menu just above it can help you quickly and easily navigate to educational...down? You’ll find Blugene, as well as information about Addgene, our mission, links to our deposit, request...
  8. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    ...forward to another great year of sharing!   References 1. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout...cells are avaliable for distribution. To learn more about pooled library screening, read our recent blog post...the Addgene Blog Browse Our CRISPR Posts Learn about Using CRISPR to Generate Knockouts Read Some Common...
  9. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ...older epitope tags - only time will tell! References 1. Georgieva, Maya V., et al. "Inntags: small self-structured...takes a lot of time and energy, Martí Aldea and collaborators have created a set of “innocuous tags” (inntags...Pubmed PMID: 23435261. Resources at Addgene Read about other Protein Tags in our Plasmids 101 Series. Get...
  10. How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

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    ...PGC-1 plasmids from Addgene. References: Skeletal muscle PGC-1α1 modulates kynurenine metabolism and...Institute on Aging in a commentary about the new work published in Cell Metabolism. But, they note, there is plenty...diseases.” I don’t know about you, but I think I could use a good run right about now. And, if you are looking...be important to identify the key proteins and metabolites that are dynamically secreted by muscle during...
  11. The Addgene Antibody Data Hub

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    ...an antibody performed in an experiment.   Figure 1: The front page of the Addgene Data Hub.   Antibody... antibody worked under the conditions described above, and a short description of how the antibody performed...
  12. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...sequence on either side of the desired mutation (usually 1-3 mismatched bases) is sufficient for your primers...researcher at Cornell University.       References 1. Breslauer, Kenneth J., et al. "Predicting DNA duplex... Brush up on Your Cloning Techniques Learn More about Plasmids in Our Plasmids 101 Series Use CRISPR to...
  13. Why Do I Need an MTA Anyway?

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    ...is here to help. Contact us at [email protected] or +1 617-225-9000, or check out our MTA reference pages...Agreement (MTA) matters: Science thrives on collaboration (it’s the heart and soul of Addgene’s mission...scientists are sharing their materials. Questions about intellectual property rights, pending publications...
  14. March for Science

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    ...concerned about possible unintended consequences of a march. Three of these risks include: 1) Lost trust...education, government, and civilization in general (1). Science and politics? Science is an apolitical process... with a testable hypothesis - an educated guess about how some part of the world functions. Experiments...governments exist in reality and science is how we learn about reality. Formally, a government can be defined ... More concretely, scientists gather information about reality informing people and their governments on...Democrats more often than Republicans, the March is not about Democrats or Republicans (16). This is a Pro-Science... have more weight than how any one person feels about it. And yet research shows that thoughts on some...
  15. Microbes: Look, Listen, and Tell

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    ... learn more about Science communication check out these SciComm blog posts. References 1. Bourdeau, Raymond...When you think about going to a scientific conference, you may think about sitting amongst a sea of chairs...After learning about using sound to visualize bacteria in the lab, I was excited to learn about creative approaches... at different ultrasound frequencies. Read more about ‘Using ultrasound to image bacteria in vivo: acoustic...Protein Resources and get started!  I learned a lot about creative ways to do science communication and outreach... Methods for Bacterial Genome Engineering Learn about Science Communication using Twitter  Resources ...
  16. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    ...may contribute to more in the future. Figure 1: A timeline of CRISPR base editing advances that led...Lander, E. S. (2016). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041...Baby KJ” was diagnosed with a rare and dangerous metabolic disease shortly after his birth. Within a seven-month...successful base editing intervention was created. Only about half of babies with KJ’s disorder survive long enough...effort was only possible because of a massive collaboration between research hospitals, universities, private...an astounding feat of public investment and collaborative scientific effort. As we like to say at Addgene...activity of adenine base editors The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its...
  17. A Control for All Seasons

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    ...compare the experimental group.     Figure 1: A, Most biological experiments will benefit from ... Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, vol. 59, no. 1, SAGE Publications, Jan. 2011, pp. 6–12. Crossref,...subjected to the experimental condition. In the example above, a negative control could be a third group of mice...in the experimental protocol. In the experiment above, you could repeat the tau western blot several times...Baseline secondary signaling levels In addition to the above-mentioned safeguards, you’ll need to test the secondary...Flow cytometry In addition to the controls listed above, viability and compensation controls are recommended...technique before starting. For more information about antibodies and antibody-based experiments, check...
  18. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...in the crystal jellyfish Aequorea victoria (Figure 1) in molecular detail. On the underside of the “umbrella...ways scientists have adapted them for use in the laboratory. The discovery of GFP The story of how fluorescent...particularly interesting. Although humans have known about bioluminescent organisms and their characteristic...sequence. Soon after that, in 1994, Prasher’s collaborator Martin Chalfie expressed GFP in exogenous organisms...studying it grew. In particular, studies in the laboratory of UCSD biochemist Roger Tsien resulted in much...for you, so if you’re interested in learning more about fluorescent proteins, I invite you to download our...
  19. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ...at a low angle (FSC) or large angle (SSC) (Figure 1). FSC values depend on the cell's size, while SSC ... or ask experienced colleagues.   Figure 1: The laser pulse illuminates the cell and is scattered...lymphocytes in a mouse tumor sample You made it! So much about the theoretical background. Let’s dive into the ...often choose a looser gate here. I am not worried about including irrelevant events in my analysis, as these...population, acquired from the previous gating pipeline, about 53% of my cells are dendritic cells and ~13% are...ve covered in this blog post. First, you learned about the types of scattering that occur when a cell is...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ... remains fluorescent in acidic organelles (Figure 1), showing that its acid tolerance is maintained in...follow him on twitter: @joachimgoedhart.   References 1. Zacharias, David A., et al. "Partitioning of lipid-modified...deleting residues. Only about 10 amino acids can be deleted from the C-terminus and about 5 from the N-terminus...cylinder with a length of 4.2 nm and a diameter of about 2.4 nm (Hink et al., 2000). The complete beta-barrel...based on cofactor binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered...
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