...communicate the nuances of protein structure in a flat 2-D images. In the early days of structural biology,...BioMolecular Modeling and the CEO of 3-D Molecular Designs. Have you ever held your favorite protein in the...favorite protein in your hand? At 3D Molecular Designs, we create physical models of proteins using 3D...off a small, family-run business – 3D Molecular Designs – to commercialize some of the best instructional...reaction to this model on his blog. Or, for a description of how effective this model was in explaining... up close and personal, visit the 3D Molecular Designs web site. Or, if you are visiting a local classroom...check out our hands-on teaching tools that are designed to make the molecular world real for students....

...unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4...of 3’UTRs, the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically...specifically for C. elegans. This database provides detailed information about C. elegans 3’UTRs structures, ...imaging processing. The combination of these methods provides unique opportunities to develop computational ...Addgene In addition to the wealth of open resources described above, there were many plasmid tools presented...self-excise, and covalently ligate their flanking peptides together (Wang et al., 2018).” With the split ...continuously curated as we continue to receive plasmids designed for the worm so check back frequently for what...

... Cure for HIV/AIDS. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 13;24(2):1563. doi: 10.3390/ijms24021563 Resources on Addgene.org...introducing a desired edit, but this particular class of treatments has quite the opposite aim: to destroy. One...potential for treatment is no longer an accurate descriptor; progress in clinical therapy is more fitting...One treatment currently in clinical trials includes Cas3 (the shredder member of the Cas family) as part...CRISPR therapies have made significant clinical strides since we first wrote this blog post. The future...

...C-terminus of human codon-optimized  cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) from Arabidopsis thaliana. When exposed to ...soCoChR-expressing system. Taken together, Shemesh et. al. describe a novel system for the precise mapping of neuronal...the single-cell level. Various soCoChR plasmids described in this work including the soCoChR-GFP plasmid...information about spatial and temporal organization. The design use to detect PKA activity can be generalized to...choice for FRET assays where a dark acceptor is desired due to its very low quantum efficiency. ShadowY...

...156–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2 Chomczynski P, Sacchi N (2006) The single-step method...Allewell and Sarma, 1974). Additionally, ThermoFisher provides a protocol on how to integrate RNAlater® with ...

... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...ELISA is a modification of the sandwich ELISA as described here, the direct and indirect ELISA (more details...

... to remove this default setting. Timesaving Tip #2: blastx searches are inherently slower than blastn...terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs...matrix BLOSUM62, but you may want to check the description of the other matrices to see if another would...alternatives Depending on your sequencing result and desired analysis, BLAST may not always be your optimal ...

...more tips on using social media as a scientist here. 2) Public engagement - Participate in science festivals... Guardian, BBC Breakfast or the Londonist. BBC provides a peak into their day-to-day business with popular...Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) provides on-site courses in public engagement for institutions...

... Then he desribed how P. furiosus has systems to defend against both DNA and RNA viruses - 2 cas systems...plasmids, especially those of the CRISPR variety (see slides from my talk below). Largely organized by Dmitry...

...non-specific binding in our IHC condition.   Fig. 2: Schematic of the goldilocks antibody selection process...perform differently over time), compatible with the desired applications (such as immunohistochemistry (IHC...antibodies, we have developed a criterion that includes accuracy, strength, and reproducibility. We test...

... the Cas machinery where to cut.      Fig. 2: Heatmap indicating loci where SNPs reside on sgRNA... reference?  The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match...African descent have approximately 20% more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that map to guides in the...accounted for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’ genomes...modify the CRISpick algorithm to prevent guides from being designed that target regions with high genomic...coming through an unexpected source: the CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA,...x-axis) which SNPs map to thetargeting sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided ...

...of these issues are not particularly new. Chapter 2, “The Professional Scientist,” addresses the challenges... Zimmer provides several. In Part Three of the book, called simply “Old Science,” he describes the now...teaching and communicating science for over two decades, attempts to answer it in five paragraphs, with...recent resurgence of “Do-It-Yourself Science” described in Chapter 3, and of course the rapidly changing... science.”  The three chapters in this section describe the challenges of trusting science in a “fake ...changed significantly over the last decade. He describes the detection of gravitational waves--a story ...collaboration from scientists around the world. The paper describing the waves’ detection had over 1,000 authors. ...

...Reports 9: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41088-2 Magnus C, Lee P, Bonaventura J, Zemla R, Gomez J, ...DREADDs DREADDs DREADDS, or designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs, are G protein-coupled...Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs. ACS Chemical Neuroscience...Chemogenetics has become a popular tool in the field as it provides a noninvasive method for manipulating cell activity...Roth's and Takafumi Minamimoto's lab called deschloroclozapine (DCZ) shows promise as a CNO alternative ..., Ramirez M, Hu X, Galvan A, Basu J, Michaelides M, Sternson S (2019) Ultrapotent chemogenetics for research...Conditional expression and signaling of a specifically designed Gi-coupled receptor in transgenic mice. Nature...

...integrates into the trnS-leu2 locus.   Figure 2: Introducing Mobile-CRISPRi into bacteria. Top: A ... human gut flora. Guides targeted essential and non-essential genes with two guides per gene. The library...expressing guides that target essential genes were less represented while bacteria containing guides targeting... Jason Peters, Oren Rosenberg, and Carol Gross provides a streamlined suite of tools for using CRISPRi...existing bacterial CRISPRi methods. First, its modular design allows for customization with strain-specific promoters...s take a look at the essential gene folA which encodes the target for the antibiotic trimethoprim. When... modular nature allows for the customization of guides, promoters, selection markers, and different versions...

...) 12 (>100) xCas9(3.7)-ABE 69 (1.4) 43 (2) 21 (3) Not examined 16 (>100) Average percent...insertion site, the corresponding gRNA might be undesirable due to potential off-target sites or low predicted..., resulting in lower overall genome frequency. Despite the progress we’ve made, there is still a need ...bacterial polymerase subunit ω. This construct is designed to activate transcription from the accessory plasmid... stringency and promoting survival of only the broadest-targeting variants. For the final round of evolution...spectinomycin resistance. xCas9 3.7 showed the broadest PAM range, recognizing NG, NNG, GAT, and CAA PAMs...scaffold. With an NGG PAM, xCas9 3.7-VPR constructs modestly outperformed SpCas9-VPR in activating transcription...

... Dec; 18(6): 617–623. Pubmed PMID 19349161.  2. Deshpande A, Bergami M, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Lepier...widely used in neuroscience. In this post, I’ll describe how rabies virus (RABV) can be used in the brain... by modifying the wild-type RABV genome, which encodes a single envelope protein called rabies glycoprotein... neurons integrated into the brain over time (Deshpande et al., 2013). The study found that at early time...Pubmed PMID 26190977. 6. Osakada F, Callaway EM. Design and generation of recombinant rabies virus vectors...

...promising monoclonal antibody with high specificity. (2) Narrow down the specific epitope that your antibody...append their proteins of interest with unrelated peptides that already had high quality antibodies available...existence of high quality antibodies for well defined peptides. Munro and Pelham’s first published peptide tagging... tumorigenesis.  Using two different synthetic peptides corresponding to linear sequences within the middle...that perfect. One of the known limitations was described by Schüchner, et al., who published a paper showing...works and allow users to better troubleshoot and design experiments. It turns out that even with the most...

...overview of these new variants:   Figure 2: Inner mitochondrial membranes imaged with structured... They fused the Cas enzyme to cell-penetrating peptides and co-incubate it with an “assist peptide” that...with a 30-minute incubation, even with multiplexed guides. Figure 1: A) Cell-penetrating Cas9, fused...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but ...recombinant antibodies as well? Our collection includes a mouse and a chimeric rabbit (original mouse ...

...PMID: 25538079. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4353587. 2. Stephen, Andrew G., et al. "Dragging ras back in ...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...

...PMID: 27151215. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4938170. 2. Zuris, John A., et al. "Cationic lipid-mediated delivery...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...