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TypeBlog Post...it like winter tires in different conditions: the more flexible rubber of winter tires give a better grip...recombinant proteins for industrial or research purposes requires stable host cells (the simplest example would ...
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Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools
TypeBlog Post...display-based directed evolution to create APEX2. They have now applied the same directed evolution technique... tagging proximal proteins within minutes, but requires H2O2, which can be toxic in living cells. BioID... -
OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging
TypeBlog Post...activity, scientists can use GECIs to watch neurons fire under the microscope. To add another tool to our...developed calcium indicators spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (Figure 1). The GCaMP series (... yellow and red fluorophores, allowing it to be paired with green, yellow, and/or red sensors in multicolor... -
Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems
TypeBlog Post...tropism. Briefly, different envelope plasmids can direct the production of virus with various tropisms. ...therefore, reduces the number of plasmids that are required in the transfection step of the viral packaging...incompetent? Yes, as with lentiviruses, the genes required for γ-retroviral packaging and transduction are... -
Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors
TypeBlog Post...biological phenomena by generating an output which is directly proportionate to the amount of a given factor ...either factors as proxies for a cellular process or directly measure a cellular process. Cellular phenomena...type of cells the viral particles infect. This can direct your biosensor to specific tissues or cell (sub... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog Post...transfect’, such as primary cells. They can also be directly injected into hard-to-reach organs, such as the...like replication incompetent viral particles, are required. We will be covering these safety measures in ...dividing cells, as their access to the host genome requires breakdown of the nuclear envelope, which occurs... -
How Addgene Creates Content
TypeBlog Post...truly believes that sharing speeds science, and our entire mission is to enable that process. Our repository... made most of the Antibody Guide figures. This requires a fair amount of communication between our content...of date as techniques and knowledge changes and require updating or retiring. CRISPR/Cas9, for example,... -
AAV Q&A with Tim Miles
TypeBlog Post...catch our April AAV webinar with Tim Miles, PhD, Director of the CLOVER Center at CalTech? If so, you may...trans-protein splicing. Note, however, that this will require co-delivery of two AAVs at a high MOI, often resulting...1x1012 vg/mouse is more standard) and reflects a desire for very high MOI on top of very high coverage.... -
Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Writing for a Research Institute
TypeBlog Post...because “it kinda sucked to work remotely. I was also tired of the contracting life where you do a little bit... was helping cover social media while the Hutch hired a full-time social media manager. “I usually start...magazine. Getting pulled in all of these different directions is sometimes at odds with the space needed to... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog Post...RNA, a fast, strong protein denaturant would be required- something that broke down RNases before RNases... effective at isolating total RNA, this method requires a lot of time and depending on how many samples...without a kit!) As mentioned above, working with RNA requires keeping your samples cold until homogenization... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog Post...sufficient for certain patterning activities of entire tissue types or even organs. In frogs, ectopic ...electrical communication is briefly inhibited in the entire worm during regeneration, the worm creates two ... artificial intelligence," says Michael Levin, Director of the Allen Discovery Center. The future of this... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog Post...Much of today's biological research requires a close examination of specific proteins within a system...tags, however, tended to be very large and often required the incorporation of a cleavage site and a post-purification...no cut or dried answer. Successful purification requires the tag to be accessible to the metal ions once... -
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog Post...to read a formulaic fiction story that doesn’t require any detailed retention of information or formulation...something verbally. Sometimes a group was just really tired and needed a slower, simpler presentation than I... I had planned; other times students were fired up and enthusiastic and needed a faster presentation with... -
Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?
TypeBlog Post...sex, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) now requires that sex be included as a biological variable ...variable in all NIH-funded research. Janine Clayton, Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, emphasizes...gender in science and technology and currently directs the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health... -
Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control
TypeBlog Post...with multiple inserts or internal mutations that require more than two sequencing reactions. In the more...to ensure uniformity of the culture. Sequencing directly from the glycerol stock saves us the step of purifying... Each sequencing service will have different requirements for volume and concentration, and not all providers... -
Career Coaching for Scientists: Why and Where Do I Find One?
TypeBlog Post...new job skill? Finish your thesis? Knowing your desired outcomes will help you assess if the coach you ...coach usually will be a clear communicator and make direct suggestions for improvement and change. Work ...relationship has been successful – what are the desired outcomes? Ask openly for clear information on... -
Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
TypeBlog Post...asymmetry in the core sequence gives the loxP site directionality, and the canonical loxP sequence is ATAACTTCGTATA-GCATACAT-TATACGAAGTTAT...reversed. Deletion: If the sites face in the same direction, the sequence between the loxP sites is excised...cerevisiae FLP-FRT recombination system is another site-directed recombination technology very conceptually similar... -
Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells
TypeBlog Post...effectively utilize the host cell’s inherent homology directed repair (HDR) process following the double strand...break and introducing the tag through homology directed repair To introduce the fluorescent tag to the...on the Addgene Blog Learn More about Homology Directed Repair Learn More about Non-Homologous End Joining... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021
TypeBlog Post...active sites. In addition, Casɸ has a minimal PAM requirement. For instance, for Casɸ-2 the PAM sequence is... is expected to contribute to experiments that require high photostability, such as time-lapse imaging...Leopold Parts. This library delivers 2 randomly paired guides per construct and allows a reduced scale... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog Post...laboratory, a high level of experimental control is required, because seemingly tiny external factors can have...overexpress a gene that alters neuronal function directly such as receptor subunits or neurotrophic factors...smaller and may be preferable if wider diffusion is required. On the other hand, lentiviral vectors are superior...