Skip to main content
Addgene
Open Menu

Enter a sequence to perform a BLAST-based search of Addgene plasmid sequence databases.

In Category

We narrowed to 938 results for: Kin

Showing: 231 - 240 of 938 results

  1. Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... from Leah Bury of Microscopic Art. I started thinking about this problem when I recently attended the...the transcription of a gene a megabase away, or looking at the histone methylation status at a double-strand...double-strand break that needs repairing. They may be looking at chromatin at the level of nucleosomes, loops... other areas of biological research. If you’re looking for resources that will help you study how chromatin...with Addgene, but you’ll find many great tools by clicking on the links below and visiting their associated...Sharon Dent Archa Fox Elaine Fuchs Kai Ge Robert Kingston Thoru Pederson Phil Sharp Julie Ahringer Alexander... listed here. If you don’t see the gene you’re looking for on this list, please consider searching directly...

  2. Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...organizations with similar ideas who were also thinking about reproducibility and shared similar desires...Fortunately, the eLife ambassadors group was already thinking about ways to tackle irreproducibility. Benjamin...organizational skills. Meanwhile, Addgene was also thinking about ways to address irreproducibility and thanks... post-workshop surveys, recording results, and tracking material downloads. This was particularly helpful...community. Lessons learned Instead of continuously talking about a problem and potential solutions, take actionable..., but how do you get them to connect? Through networking of course! Thanks to individuals in the group...right time. Be inclusive and seek solutions by working with communities, not for them - Another strength...

  3. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...aerosols that are generated (while talking or pipetting) during working in the laminar airflow are also ...providing proper training and guidance to the people working in the lab facility. This can be done by training...talk, laugh, sneeze or cough. Wear gloves while working and discard them after use. Human contact can spread... spread contamination when you are working without gloves or masks. Make sure to change the gloves and...inside the laminar airflow before and while you are working. Perform routine checks for mycoplasma contamination... should be cleaned regularly and dampness of any kind should be avoided. Distilled water provided to maintain...because you are not the first person to face this kind of problem. Educate others when you can and help...

  4. Design Tips for Prime Editing

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...tool of choice. Nicking sgRNAs PE3 and PE5: These tools use an sgRNA to guide nicking of the unedited...editors bound to sgRNAs only drive nicking (right). Start with nicking sgRNAs ~50 bp from the prime editing... Figure 7: Nicking sgRNAs can be designed to target edited DNA, so that nicking only occurs after... prevents the Cas9 nickase from re-binding and nicking the newly synthesized strand before heteroduplex...BioRender.com. PE3b and PE5b: In this approach, the nicking sgRNA is designed to bind only after the edit is...

  5. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... to worm motion. Working on the Cat Microbiome Project Another project we are working with is the cat ...computer scientists, engineers, and biologists working together on a variety of projects including the...cat microbiome project. This is a project looking at the makeup of the bacterial species in the gut of the...expensive to make it practical - but we have members looking at how to re-use it as a platform for monitoring...makerspace somewhere near you. The place to start looking for your local space is the Hackerspace website...Victoria. After a decade at Microsoft Research working on speech recognition, he returned to school to...manufacturing tools – a 3D printer, a laser cutter, woodworking tools, and a metalshop. After two summers in ...

  6. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...provide constructive criticism, and ask thought-provoking questions. For example, if you’re a virologist...help build your presentation. For example, when thinking about discussing a figure, jot down the question...poster where the presenter spends the entire time talking to the poster, as opposed to engaging with you?...Even the most prepared of us can find ourselves talking to our posters, so if you find yourself in this...let them know while you appreciate the thought-provoking question, you are unable to answer it at this ...give the “elevator pitch,” of his/her project – kindly let the presenter know you are very interested ...interested in viewing which has drawn a large crowd, making it difficult to see the actual poster or interact...

  7. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...while still working towards your degree. For me, experimenting with the career and networking opportunities...workshops and networking events. I took advantage of as many of these resources as I could. Networking and learning... I liked – well, I was used to experiments not working, so just like in lab, I sucked it up and moved ... like a great way to share some of the research taking place at our university with the community. I even...and David Shiffman @WhySharksMatter and see what kind of content they share and produce and how they interact...wanted to do. A few weeks into volunteering, I was talking to a little girl about fossils. After we talked...

  8. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

    Type
    Blog Post
    ...very small homology regions (5-25 bp) for repair, making it easier to construct targeting vectors. Addgene...copies the sequence from a repair template with flanking sequence homology for error-free DSB repair. NHEJ...MMEJ uses regions with 5-25 bp of microhomology flanking a DSB to repair DNA. The DNA ends are chewed back...figure above, short (5-25 bp) regions of homology flanking a double-stranded break yield precise deletion... is likely to introduce additional nucleotides flanking the insertion. If the DNA ends anneal incorrectly...5’ and 3’ microhomology to the insertion locus flanking the GFP-Puro cassette. Three double stranded breaks...sets of microhomologies (5’ and 3’) to anneal, knocking the GFP-Puro cassette into the locus (see figure...

  9. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

    Type
    Blog Post
    ... unbiased potential to find things you are not looking for, but there are also benefits gained by lowering...differentially expressed genes can be the next stage in making sense of such data. These targeted screens can ...ligand (such as when a component of a microbe or a cytokine is added to a cell). With a custom CRISPR screen...example, one could study the cellular response to a cytokine known to cause the up-regulation of an important...cell). In this screen, known components of the cytokine signaling pathway could be targeted. Cells failing...the transferred cells is followed. A benefit of working with surface proteins is also that such proteins...eleven published libraries are embedded. These were kindly donated by six different research constellations...

  10. Fueled by Coffee at #SfN14

    Type
    Blog Post
    ..., D.C., we must be making a dent in the global coffee supply… My back-of-the-napkin calculations put the...attendees. And for those of you presenting, working, and networking at SfN, remember there are only 2 days ...community pulls off such an inspiring, thought-provoking, collaborative event – all while keeping the party...CRISPR-Cas tools into neuroscience experiments. Speaking of CRISPRs, we were excited to have Feng Zhang...we've spoken with are excited and passionate about making such tools open-access. Though it is time for me...
Showing: 231 - 240 of 938 results