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  1. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    ...-orbital AAV injection at 4 weeks. Cortical layers (L1-6) and scale bar are indicated. B) Specificity,... core, 2–4 glycosaminoglycans (GAG), and are (typically) tethered to the cell surface by a GPI-anchor.... types in the brain can be a challenging — but critical — factor for successful experiments or therapies...enhancer-AAV vectors targeting specific classes of cortical and striatal interneurons (Furlanis, Dai, Leyva...PV-positive cells out of all BiPVe3-dTom cells. C) Confocal stack of a biocytin-filled cell expressing BiPVe3...
  2. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    ...one be interested in state machine technology? Biological research has produced a massive amount of information...processes that are influenced by temporally ordered biochemical events. How do RSMs work? The state of an RSM...prescribed region of DNA termed the “register”. Each chemical input to an RSM drives expression of a distinct...to record all permuted substrings of a set of chemicals. Specific examples of arrangements that should... record all permuted substrings of up to seven chemical inputs are given in Table S2 of our paper. The... He is broadly interested in biocomputing and biological circuits.     References 1. N. Roquet et al.,...
  3. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    ...Translocation Reporters (KTRs) whose cellular localization serves as a proxy measurement of kinase activity...KTRs) Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) are genetically encoded fluorescent kinase reporters. A KTR is...which is further fused to a bipartite nuclear localization signal (bNLS) and a nuclear export signal (NES...phosphorylatable. Prior to phosphorylation, the KTR localizes to the nucleus, but following phosphorylation ...breakdown (without the nucleus, there’s no nuclear localization to monitor). Whether you’re looking for a ready-to-use...
  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins

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    ... first, which he called aequorin, gives off a faint blue light when it binds calcium ions, and the second...second, which we now call GFP, absorbs that blue light and glows green. In the late 1980s, another researcher...gene transcription, as well as to track protein localization. And as it turns out, he was right! He began.... He even obtained samples of certain ones from local pet shop aquariums in Moscow where he lived! His...
  5. Editor's Choice, September 2016

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    ...re tired of calculating dilutions or you can’t quite remember the hazards of that chemical in your obscure...surpassed 60,000 views for the month of September! Historically we do better in September than in the summer..., Lianna Swanson, and researcher at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. This post highlights a rare disease, Fibrodysplasia...can find the rest of our September posts in chronological order here: Four Things I Learned at the 10...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...depositors; Gizela, the lab member who knows how the physical kits are made and shipped; Chiara, the tech transfer...repository, performing quality control, and providing technical customer service. Team members are highly trained...problem? Test a hypothesis? Whether you officially call it a “project team” or not, most scientific collaborations...But this is a blog post, so here are just a few critical features based on my own experience: Leadership...should be on the team. As a team leader, I’ve (diplomatically) booted people off teams. I’ve also kicked ...like meetings, but run well, meetings can be a critical part of any successful team. For reasons I don...
  7. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...human speech near the laminar airflow, the human scalp, sneezing, coughing, etc. Also, a constant in-flow...contamination Detection of mycoplasma by naked eyes or optical microscope can be very difficult, so how do you...cells detect mycoplasmas, they trigger a series of chemical reactions and this induces a noticeable color ...contamination, before using the cell lines for assay or analytical purposes. Use 0.1-micron filters as are they ...Fumigate the laminar airflow and the lab facility periodically. The CO2 incubators, used for maintaining cell...cleaned regularly and checked for contamination periodically. For more tips, check out Addgene's video Getting...
  8. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...by the use of AAVs? 1) Combined functional and anatomical mapping of circuits In our lab, we use AAV-DREADD...these complexes are so robustly expressed that anatomical assessments can be easily performed too. While...identified this feature of AAVs as a new tool for neuroanatomical tracing (11). With the ability to produce neuron...Retrograde AAV Preps at Addgene 2) Comparison of genetically engineered receptors (i.e. chemogenetics vs. ...should strengthen its appeal for the scientific and medical communities. Many thanks to our guest blogger ... Floris G., et al. "A fourth generation of neuroanatomical tracing techniques: exploiting the offspring...
  9. Are Hybrid Guide RNAs Right for Your CRISPR Application?

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    ...rest). Sequence mismatches in the seed sequence dramatically reduce CRISPR efficiency, and DNA substitutions...genomic DNA at all. Instead, the Cas protein specifically recognizes its folds, especially the repeat:...of RNA in this region, and DNA substitutions dramatically reduced cleavage (Kim et al., 2020). For Cas9...editing therapies with hybrid guide RNAs. Nature Biomedical Engineering, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551...editing with reduced off-target activity. Nature Chemical Biology, 14(3), 311–316. https://doi.org/10.1038...
  10. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    ...The biomedical field is often concerned with understanding the cause of diseases and how to treat those...optimization is performed to take the drug to the pre-clinical and human trial phases.   So how does CRISPR factor...enables researchers to select and generate physiologically relevant models. In complex diseases, it can...standard is to test the drug on models which are genetically proficient and deficient for the target. CRISPR...discovery – it’s an exciting time to be in the biomedical research field! References and Resources References...
  11. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    ...published data by biomedical researchers and ready access to stably archived large-scale datasets by computational...new freely available resource developed by the Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (...CRISPR screen results available to the entire biomedical research community, but also allows cross-interrogation...relevant to screen result interpretation. The analytical method for score assignment and significance ...
  12. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    ... developed an improved voltage indicator (GEVI) called JEDI-2P. Using a custom, high-throughput screening... the protein sequence of the predecessor GEVIs (called ASAP 1 and 2), they found an indicator that is ...approach and outcomes of the screen for improved genetically-encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) based on the...optogenetic silencer in experiments with mouse cortical neurons, far out-performing previous attempts ...selective for K+ over other Na+ and other cations. B) Cortical slice of HcKCR1-EYFP and tdTomato expressed layer...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...also have a lipid bilayer surrounding the capsid, called an envelope. Viruses without an envelope are referred...non-enveloped, while viruses with an envelope are called enveloped viruses (Figure 1). Like bacteria, only...individual viral particles. A single viral particle is called a virion. Finally, viral vectors, which are used...labs. Viral vectors are viruses that have been genetically modified to either limit or completely eliminate...Viral Applications Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements...
  14. Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies

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    ...constant regions are identical for antibodies within certain classification groups called isotypes.  Why does...that of a different group (Fig. 1). This process, called isotope conversion, gives users the flexibility...antibodies are plasmid-based and are created synthetically or derived from hybridoma antibody sequences...antibodies affects binding properties. In Journal of Biological Chemistry (Vol. 269, Issue 17, pp. 13048–13055...
  15. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    ...antibodies in your lab. Perhaps you’re even in that mythical place where antibodies are well-organized, documented... sample prep. This involves using heat and/or chemicals to break some of the bonds keeping the protein...epitope (right). Created withBioRender.com.   Biological Processes  If you’re feeling relieved that you...the available epitopes could be affected by, or critical to, the assay.   Next, look for antibodies that... also working for a Western because they both typically use denatured protein samples. If, however, you...
  16. Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource

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    ...reproducibility and an inability to improve upon these critical research tools. Addgene is excited to announce...reagent resource for the neuroscience community called NABOR (Neuroscience AntiBody Open Resource). We...partnered with Dr. James Trimmer of the University of California Davis School of Medicine on this grant. Dr. Trimmer...in neuroscience research today, but there is a critical unmet need for an open-access, molecularly defined...such as plasmids and viral vectors. However, it typically takes a few years for a new project to reach a...
  17. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    ...hereditary determinant”. His proposal, however, was basically ignored. A separate term, “episome”, defined as... plasmids have greatly impacted many areas of biological research and have been key in advancing our knowledge...Joshua. "Cell Genetics and Hereditary Symbiosis" Physiological Reviews 32.4 (1952) 403-430. Pubmed PMID: 13003535...PMC2134509. Cohen, Stanley N. et al. “Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids In Vitro.” Proceedings...Nomenclature for Bacterial Plasmids: A Proposal.”Bacteriological Reviews 40.1 (1976): 168–189. PubMed PMID: ...
  18. Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup

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    ...Harvard Medical School and runs everything science (CSO). Clinton is a cost analyst at Dow Chemical (a Fortune...a company in the health sciences without those critical three letters after your name (P-H-D).  Finally...two projects, including one led by a talented biomedical engineering team from MIT.   I would like to ...connections and finding mentors -- well, it's time you call upon these people for guidance.  Before even beginning...
  19. Custom CRISPR Screens & the Green Listed Software

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    ...has a maximum of one gene knocked out. In this genetically heterogeneous population, cells behaving differently...knockout mice for (all of the genes involved as I recall). The lab then used these knockout mice to show...cells we study are migratory, and their exact localization is important for their function. Their migration... you could majorly accelerate progression into clinical trials. Secondary screens  If you have generated...genes you’d like to test for phenotypic effects. Typically the phenotype would be studied in vitro, but there...The different labs use different algorithms to calculate which would be the best gRNAs. Interestingly, ...
  20. Unique and persistent IDs for improved reproducibility: Addgene now supports RRIDs and compact identifiers for all plasmids

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    ...to identify and reference documents, files, or physical reagents. What are persistent identifiers? Perhaps...persistent and exist online indefinitely. PIDs historically referred to objects that exist online, but this...approach has been adapted for the identification of physical materials that we use in our labs, including plasmids...Bourges for editing this post and sharing her technical expertise in persistent identifiers. Additional...Identification Initiative Compact identifiers for biomedical data How Addgene works to enhance scientific ...
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