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  1. Plasmids 101: Positive and Negative Selection for Plasmid Cloning

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    ... cells containing the plasmid construct you’re seeking. Fortunately, there are many ways to do this involving... a successful uptake of your DNA of interest by taking advantage of bacterial characteristics such as ...for specific amino acids. When plated on media lacking the essential amino acid, the bacteria will only...
  2. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    ...also involved in reinforcement learning, decision making, and motor control.  What do we understand about... 100 nm) of DA. In addition, they exhibit fast kinetics (10 ms on and 100 ms off), enabling detection ...magnitudes of fluorescent responses. Studies on the kinetics of these sensors showed rapid response (60 or ...
  3. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Product Development

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    ...bunch. They don’t really know where I came from.” Working at eScience Labs, an educational company that creates...that provides scientific editing services. “I was working during the day and editing at night. It was not...moved out here, I was still editing from home and looking for a job.” But Caitlin’s persistence paid off:...
  4. SunTag and Fluorescent Imaging

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    ...fluorescent signal and enables single molecule tracking  within living cells without affecting protein...managed to track run lengths of the motor protein kinesin across microtubules. Tanenbaum et al. then tested...photobleaching Simplified, long-term single-molecule tracking Caveats of SunTag Very large size: a 24x scaffold...
  5. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    ...expressing a selection cassette with 5′ and 3′ flanking sequences matching the sequences upstream and ...to be assayed (e.g. pPD95_86 and pPD57_56), or knocking down YGOI through RNA-mediated interference (e.g... applications used to study gene function. From making transgenic animals, gene targeting and genome modifications...
  6. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    ... used at high concentrations (and vice versa). Looking around the lab, you'll likely find many of the ...mammalian cells.   Name Class Mode of Action*   Working Concentration** Kanamycin aminoglycoside Binds...their mechanism for killing bacteria, and general working concentrations. For instructions on how to prepare...
  7. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    ...replication machinery room to come in and get busy making copies.     Types of origins of replication ...compatibility with one or more other plasmids. Generally speaking, plasmids with the same ori are incompatible because...chloramphenicol – make sure your growth conditions aren't working against you!  The culture inoculum Freshly ...
  8. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    ...Addgene started dealing with this new reality of working remotely, scientists around the world mobilized...took to make all this happen with 80% of the team working remotely. We’re extremely proud of the work we’... maintain our workforce for when we need to be working at full capacity to serve the scientific community...
  9. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...around the world who would otherwise have difficulty making or getting these reagents is profound.” Frank Stegmeier...Library, a library that “enables the high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug...became passionate about virology,” he says. He was working in an HIV lab and based on that experience, soon...
  10. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...frequently with little notice or choice Always working on a team/in a matrix - can be frustrating for ...but good performers move around easily  Table 1: Taking it a Step Further - Big Company v. Small Company...on what paths to pursue. Spend some time really thinking about your motivations and what parts of being...
  11. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    ...species). This feature is advantageous if you’re working with small capacity viral vectors such as AAV. ... “recovering” its original sequence. If you’re looking to disrupt gene function via indel formation, this...targets. Are you using NgAgo? Let us know how it’s working in the comments section! Read About NgAgo User'...
  12. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    ...In its simplest form, PCR based cloning is about making a copy of a piece of DNA and at the same time adding...restriction site (GAATTC) to the 5’ end of this primer, making our Forward Primer 5'-GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC... get PCR amplification. We can start similarly, taking the final 18 bases of the ORF, including the stop...
  13. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    ... Why and Where Do I Find One? If you need help making a transition into a new job or maybe to an entirely...gene delivery, but have limited packaging capacity making them difficult to use with CRISPR as the cargo..... 10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids Need help thinking about the types of controls you’ll need for your...
  14. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    ... apart sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to...Zealand’s multiple Covid-19 lockdowns, I held mask-making workshops in my community. I brought along printed... to better meet the needs of the people we are talking to. Emma Harcourt is a PhD student in the Department...
  15. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    ...hot plasmids articles. Think we missed something smokin'? You can pitch a Hot Plasmids section (antibodies...heatshock promoter) drives expression of the tumor-seeking CAR (chimeric antigen receptor), whereas a ubiquitous... variants with similar capabilities. If you’re looking for a super stable FP for your next microscopy ...
  16. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    ...Check out this post for a refresher on AAV titers Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV ... this type of vector to such a high titer when looking for effective gene expression. How do you achieve... Hanley is a Research Team Lab Tech at Addgene working on methods to improve AAV production.     References...
  17. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    ...“reading”) of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects ...library prep. As part of our mission, we’ve been working with Addgene to develop and apply our plexWell™...read level, and because custom primers or "primer-walking" reactions are completely unnecessary for sequencing...
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