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  1. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    ...these proteins are FDA-approved or in clinical trials or preclinical studies already. We are following up...expand to other cell types, including more physiologically-relevant systems, to catch all the important... Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes an additional catalytically dead version of the viral protease, Nsp5. Our...Melanie Brewer (right) from the University of California, San Francisco. Manon Eckhardt and Melanie Brewer...
  2. 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 ...
  3. Networking Follow-up: I Met a Person. Now What?

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    ...understood what I was going through. (Parenthetically, when I called the lab to ask my benchmate to take...within a few days or a week) so they can easily recall the encounter. As a side note, my guess is that...; focus on the nice people who do respond. Don’t call or email multiple times if you don’t get a response...years ago using a now defunct (but fun) plug-in called Maps.  Figure 1: See a starfish? This is...
  4. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...several treatments are currently being tested in clinical trials. It is speeding the process of the discovery...saw these two papers,” said the University of California Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna. “They are the first...continue to be a primary preoccupation of her California lab and many others. “Those off-target effects...cleavage sites are repaired.” Those insights will be critical for scientists’ ability to influence editing efficiency...Application in Genetic Diseases: A Review.” Current pharmaceutical biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.2174/1389201021666200621161610...
  5. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

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    ...both perform an optimization-scale infection and at least one screening-scale experiment achieving the gRNA...Chavez, researcher at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and member of the Addgene... studying. You need to make sure your assay is scalable and robust. What you don't need to do is spend...particular, the Church lab at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Zhang and Doench...
  6. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ...four proteins Oct4, Sox2, Klf4, and cMyc (the so called OSKM factors). As the Yamanaka lab's primary Addgene...field has exploded so quickly, citing the first clinical trial with iPSCs with his collaborator Takahashi...picture perspective: Dr. Yamanaka talked about his clinical trial patients with advanced macular degeneration...Eggan presented work that is leading to promising clinical trials for ALS.   I have an uncle with Parkinson's...the first stem cell line that could be used in clinical trials. The quality control process alone takes...
  7. Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates

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    ...made of chemicals, which have an unfortunate tendency to react with other chemicals and biological structures...antibody out on the bench overnight. Do not panic! Typically, antibodies are okay if they’re left out overnight... fluorophores, which work not by reacting to a chemical, but by emitting a specific wavelength of light...
  8. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...nearly 50%, showing proof-of-concept for pre-clinical and clinical applications of dCasRx. The identification... with CasRx and AdmCas13d fused to a nuclear localization signal (NLS). In a HEK293 mCherry reporter assay...target essentially any RNA in a cell. Since catalytically dead dCasRx maintains its RNA-binding properties...enhancers. After AAV-mediated delivery to iPS-derived cortical neurons, dCasRx-mediated exon skipping improved...
  9. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    ...plasmids can be used to carry out any biochemical and biophysical study involving protein stability or ...degradation. Despite how easy these experiments are to physically set up in the lab, RNAi is often completely ineffective... most scientists use mutant animals that are genetically altered to overexpress endogenous RNAi pathways...facilitate protein-protein interactions and mediate biochemical processes. One of the largest and best characterized...
  10. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...Bryan Roth’s lab created an open source resource called PRESTO-TANGO (parallel receptorome expression and...activated downstream of GPCRs. This collection, called TRUPATH, allows researchers to identify specific...neurons and specific behaviors. Chemogenetics uses genetically engineered receptors to interact with small molecules... to optogenetics but instead of light, these genetically modified receptors are activated by small molecules...some GPCRs further to respond to specific, pharmacologically-inert, small molecules. These new receptors...
  11. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    ...professors, and mentors. Ask for specific guidance on grammatical errors, sentence structures, and overall format...support.        5. Application submission  Set a calendar reminder for every deadline and shoot to submit...Pierre is currently a doctoral candidate in the Chemical Biology Program at Harvard. Roo wants to simplify...simplify access to academic resources among economically disadvantaged populations. Roo is the co-founder...resources that can help their children thrive academically. Rose is the co-founder of STEAMid.     Additional...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    ...plasmid with the delivered cargo (often a gene) is called the transfer plasmid while the other plasmids with... with packaging or replication components are called helper plasmids. Below, we’ll breakdown the vector...viral experiments is to deliver a genetic cargo, typically an expression construct, to cells/organisms. This...yield dsDNA. Unlike LTRs, ITRs are perfectly symmetrical to allow for this pairing to occur. Like LTRs...gene, making it replication deficient. This is typically supplied by the production cell line (HEK-293)...
  13. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ...robust, with an eNL-based calcium sensor displaying a 500% signal change upon calcium binding. Suzuki et al...around these issues, but this solution wasn’t practical due to the low intensity of luminescent proteins... to previous publications. They also developed calcium, cAMP, and ATP sensors based on Nano-lantern, showing...not alter cellular physiology in your system. Optical sectioning cannot be conducted with luminescence...
  14. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ...transcription factors, starting with an established method called ChIP-seq. ChIP-seq relies on antibodies to recognize...We’ve been doing that for years using this assay called ChIP-seq, but it’s really hard for lots of transcription... the second plasmid inserts a small epitope tag called FLAG at the end of the transcription factor. It...have good antibodies. The results look almost identical. Addgene: What advantages does your system have...happy to provide them, that never works on a large scale. The world is too big now. Mendenhall: So many groups...
  15. CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining

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    ...missing or damaged nucleotides that are common to biological sources of DSBs, and which need to be processed...generated in the course of repair by NHEJ are typically small (1-10 bp) but extremely heterogeneous. There.... NHEJ can also be engaged by variants of the canonical Cas9 approach. A pair of CRISPR guides that flank...Translocations in Human Cells Are Generated by Canonical Nonhomologous End-Joining. Molecular Cell 55:829...CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens        ...
  16. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    ...donating and receiving labs)” — Jim Woodgett, biomedical researcher at Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute...reagents and protocols so easy!” — Nina Jain, Harvard Medical School. We want to give a special thanks to the...decade. We did this the old-fashioned way: through physical outreach, visiting organizations, knocking on ...standardized agreements and electronic signatures to dramatically speed up MTA approvals. In 2013 we were thrilled...for being Addgene. You guys rock." — Andrew York, Calico Life Sciences. Most of all, we’re incredibly thankful...
  17. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ...ribonucleoprotein, and AAV.  Read the paper in Nature Chemical Biology Find the AsCas12f1 plasmids   Selective... Mike Lacy The retroviral-like protein PEG10 specifically binds its own mRNA to facilitate its packaging...of cargo sequences in the capsid, in an approach called Selective Endogenous eNcapsidation for cellular... the prime editor, yielding PEmax, to work synergistically with epegRNAs and PE4 and PE5. These enhanced...systems improve gene editing performance at therapeutically relevant gene targets and expand the application...
  18. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...present in the cell, it can also introduce non-physiological RNA-protein interactions due to sample processing...its rate of biotinylation. The improved enzyme, called BASU, is derived from a BirA* homolog found in ... interactions in events that occur on a short timescale, such as during drug action or cell signaling....t be used to study endogenous RNAs at their physiological expression levels; however, knock-in of BoxB... by 90%, suggesting that QKI is a host protein critical to Zika replication. Human genetic disease. RaPID...
  19. Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing

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    ...and success. Customer and technical support Our customer and technical service brands continue to ... We score ~99.9% helpful and the customer and technical service teams put 100% effort into helping our...positive, supportive culture, we are attractive to the local employee pool and we get a lot of successful candidates...connections and even via Twitter. We love working with local organizations like Just-a-Start, the Northeastern...
  20. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    ... department at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. We are working with postdocs at other institutions... and all 6,000+ postdocs at the University of California, who had a contract - negotiated by their union... December 1st. Salary inconsistencies across geographical regions When we originally started gathering...salaries. Postdocs at the Salk Institute in La Jolla California are not getting a raise. Meanwhile, in less densely...changes in science. Follow him on Twitter @BiophysicalFrog and Future of Research @FORsymp.   Additional...
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