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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    ...interest from its production site to its final destination. As an example, most secreted proteins are produced...pathway to their subcellular or extracellular destination. At the end of their life cycle, proteins may... about the subcellular structures your protein resides in and potentially which other proteins it forms...in Figure 2 (adapted from 4) - Dunn et al. 2011 provides an in-depth review of quantitative colocalization...
  2. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    ...results can be affected by DNA quality and primer design, particularly for amplicons under 100 bp (Ma, 2015... concern, look for the lowest-cost option that provides you confidence in the results you need.  Whichever...by running the product on a gel. And only ddPCR provides absolute quantitative data, instead of relative...Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Protocol: How to Design a primer  Molecular Biology Reference Molecular...
  3. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    ...die from cancer-related complications each year. Despite these grim statistics, new strategies for attacking...cancers, especially those of the pancreas and colon. Despite the prevalence of Ras mutations in a variety of... enabled researchers to begin discovering and designing molecules that are showing some promise in their...in the screenshot below). Currently, the page includes interactive maps for the Ras, mTor, and p53 pathways...
  4. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...researchers must co-transfect cells with 5’-P-ssDNA guides and an NgAgo expression plasmid to edit a gene ...Try NgAgo for Yourself On the other hand, the widespread success of CRISPR-Cas9 across multiple model ...vector or in vitro synthesis, which could be less desirable if one has to target multiple sites in a single...of the supposedly alien 5’-phosphorylated ssDNA guides, which might be rapidly degraded by the cellular...
  5. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...whole field to a grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later, is it finally back in the limelight. On ...(such as viral vectors) without triggering a destructive inflammatory immune response. At the time, adenoviral...follow in the footsteps of Luxturna™. However, despite promising results in preclinical studies some potential...technology: engineering of new capsid variants, designing expression cassettes to regulate and optimize ...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    ...they wrote the job description. You check off all the boxes - you have the desired degree, you have mastered... gaps in scientists' transferrable skills. In describing the limitations of the study, the authors noted...over email. Examine your current and past job descriptions. Scan through all the things for which you are...
  7. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    ...transfecting cells with a plasmid, such as PX459, which encodes Cas9 and contains a site for inserting a custom...targeted approach using RNPs has recently been described in vitro, with the hope of eventually using this...expertise. Final thoughts The Cas9-gRNA RNP method provides scientists with an additional means to deliver...other CRISPR delivery techniques Find tips on gRNA design Resources on Addgene.org Browse all CRISPR plasmids...
  8. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ...with various spacer lengths from 30-84 nucleotides, and designated this system REPAIRv1. Using next-generation...introduced through non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). Designing an RNA editor The Zhang lab envisioned a two-component...that interact with duplex RNA, they hoped to destabilize ADAR-RNA binding to decrease off-targets. Of ...
  9. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    ...are no exception to this effect -- meticulously designed experiments in labs around the world were put ...requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests over 6 years for 35 papers...into two components: 𝜃x(t) and 𝜓z(t). 𝜃x(t) describes the exponential decay process we observed, while...model for each region using stochastic gradient descent in Pytorch, which gave us the maximum likelihood...
  10. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ... on single papers could be more important.  Any slides, presentations, recordings, and other materials...those who were unable to attend. We capture the desktop and audio recordings of the meeting using teleconferencing... ensure that the journal club is useful for the widest audience, you should get feedback from those who...served. I hope that with some of the information described above you feel empowered to start your own journal...
  11. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    ...that’s suitable for PCR amplification using pre-designed primers. By using this library to infect an animal...isolate DNA from the infected animal and use the pre-designed primers to determine which version(s) of the capsid... (figure 4f) of the tTA inducer virus, but the desired sparsity of labeling is achieved with lose doses...Cre-dependent selection yields AAV variants for widespread gene transfer to the adult brain. Nature biotechnology...
  12. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    ...those seen when using a plasmid backbone that was designed specifically for transient expression (find some...expression of viral constructs is a useful tool as it provides a means to quickly check that a construct is functional...3rd-generation transfer plasmids have a chimeric 5'LTR that includes a CMV or RSV promoter as well as a portion of ...those three genes plus tat. The envelope plasmid provides a heterologous envelope for pseudotyping and is...
  13. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    ... meliloti, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, R. capsulatus, Rhodopseudomonas spheroides, Salmonella spp., Serratia...Brevibacterium methylicum, Caulobacter crescentus, Desulfovibrio vulgaris, Erwinia carotovora, E. chrysanthemi...meliloti, R. leguminosarum by. viciae, Rhodobacter sphaeroides, Salmonella typhimurium, Vibrio cholerae, Xanthomonas...
  14. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...The hardest part of any revolutionary discovery, including CRISPR, is turning potential into impact. ...two pieces: a single protein, computationally described as a fusion of four Cas7 proteins and a putative...RNA editing methods — streamlining experimental design and its potential for clinical applications. Specifically...high-fidelity rate. Both Cas7-11 and PASTE open up multitudes of possibilities at the bench and potentially...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    ...pseudotyping allows these viruses to infect neurons. Besides altering the host tropism of your virus, there ...neurons. However, VSV-G’s broad tropism can be undesired for in vivo studies since there’s the potential...VSV-G is also toxic at high concentrations as described above and is inactivated by the complement system...proteins that can be used for specific purposes as described previously (Table 1, Gutierrez-Guerrero, et al...
  16. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    .... After months, or years, of grueling effort to design, fund, and conduct a research project, the vast...provide more than enough time for researchers to describe their science, and for viewers to decide if reading...is of interest. In his research, Scott Spicer concludes that “… the emergence of the video abstract genre...websites). WeShareScience is a social platform that provides links to the videos, keeping the copyright and...
  17. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    ...client might need help with the intricate task of designing a strategic vision for a portfolio of candidate...content-rich, easy-to-understand set of PowerPoint slides. What are some of the more challenging parts of...enjoy the challenges of healthcare consulting for decades, others go on to work with commercial teams at ...nature of the job and the ways to prepare for it. Besides those conversations, reading online healthcare ...
  18. CRISPR Activation: A Practical Guide

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    ...whichever guides are closest to the transcription start site (TSS). We recommend targeting the guides to a ... you should also be ready to test three or four guides directed towards that gene as there can be a large...transcription. That being said, we generally pick guides by putting the promoter of the gene into a gRNA...
  19. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...the time of manuscript submission. The rationale includes increasing the ability of reviewers (and, once...issue by requiring ever more condensed methods descriptions, legends and limiting numbers of figures such...could be mitigated by on-line services such as SlideShare, Figshare and Dataverse. Just as Addgene helps... raise the alpha isoform of GSK-3 to the same (deserved) stature as the beta isoform. Follow him on Twitter...
  20. Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down

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    ...cofactor binding proteins as described above. The smallest tags are peptides that are engineered to bind...homology domains can be used to detect specific phosphoinositides (Varnai and Balla, 2008) (Figure 2). RNA production...Péter, and Tamas Balla. "Live cell imaging of phosphoinositides with expressed inositide binding protein domains...
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