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  1. A Tour of Addgene's Most Popular Pooled Libraries

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    ...knockout screening, sgRNAs guide Cas9 to cut targeted genes, creating mutations that prevent their expression...expression. The knockout cells can be used to identify genes that underlie a particular phenotype. Figure...knockout screens: sgRNAs to guide Cas9 to targeted genes. In these applications, however, nuclease-dead Cas9...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    ...coat (and envelope), has a “gutted” genome with genes central to the replication process removed. This... the viral vector, increasing both safety and usefulness of the tool. In fact, most gutted genomes have...vectors to reproduce when experimentally necessary, genes for the required proteins are packaged in separate...
  3. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    ...sometimes impossible) timelines—others are usually waiting Work is concentrated to business hours (mostly), ...with peer mentors, to discuss your strengths, weaknesses, interests and passions is another great way ...
  4. What the HEK?

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    ... HEK is it good for?   As one of the older cell lines in the research community, many cellular research...organism. This pipeline is utilized to transduce cell lines for basic science research all the way up to the...HEK is wrong with it?   All cultured human cell lines are susceptible to contamination by mycoplasma and...
  5. Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series!

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    ...communication itself, not the communication method, that determines if something is scientific or science communication...defined by any number of characteristics. Common ones include age range, familiarity with the subject,...audience to engage if they so wish. (And let’s be honest: are you more likely to closely read an email sent...
  6. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    ...fall into one of two categories: ones induced by the researcher and ones that happen naturally.  Sample ...working with native proteins instead of denatured ones - well, don’t relax just yet. Proteins often change...
  7. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    ... Bioblasts? Plasmagenes? In the 1940s and 50s, scientists were working to understand genetic cytoplasmic... as everything from parasites, to symbionts, to genes and the labels applied to them were vague or contradictory...biology was never the same. Over the next few years genes from different bacterial (and eventually mammalian...
  8. Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans

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    ...new method uses a selection cassette containing genes for hygromycin resistance and the Roller movement...testing, Dickinson et al. tested this system across 7 genes in parallel; when they injected 60-80 animals per...desired insertions on the first attempt for 6/7 genes. The data are clear - the SEC-based system is both...
  9. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    ...reporter that has a large dynamic range and high brightness. The Shu Lab from UCSF designed an improved apoptosis...reporter that has a large dynamic range and high brightness. This reporter achieves approximately 100-fold...the fluorescent protein collection Find empty backbones for fluorescent protein fusions Browse the fluorescent...
  10. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    ...scientists and the public together to build consensus guidelines, but there was never a specific timeline for ... not remembered kindly. However, despite many headlines questioning if He’s experiments prove otherwise...genetics this time?” She lives with her partner (in business and life) in an old Girl Scout Cookie factory ...
  11. Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection

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    ... on and off by binding proximal to their target genes. Since gene expression patterns determine everything...genetic and expression control systems to mimic illness on a molecular level. Atlas resource The TF map...from the library to further investigate specific genes and TF isoforms. Due to the size of the collection...
  12. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...treat AD using CRISPR/Cas9. They are targeting the genes responsible for both early onset and late onset ...diseases In 2013, a team led by Jinsong Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that mice with a dominant...efficiency. In 2022, despite the increasing effectiveness of CRISPR/Cas9, scientists are still looking...
  13. Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration

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    ...different institutes, disciplines, and cultural backgrounds.” This work outlines the need for clear communication.../doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030044 Wuchty S, Jones BF, Uzzi B (2007) The Increasing Dominance of Teams...
  14. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    ...potential human helpers of SARS-CoV-2 (especially the ones that are druggable) is a key step in our strategy...as a control. For easier portability, all viral genes are flanked by EcoRI and BamHI restriction sites...study - so you might want to be careful with these clones (and help us figure out what is going on there!...
  15. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...directed transcription from a given promoter. To harness the power of light, Christopher Voigt’s lab created...plasmids, with one RR (ompR) encoded chromosomally. Leakiness was also an issue; some promoter activity persisted...with other pathways. They also reduced system leakiness and increased dynamic range to around 100-fold...
  16. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ...is digested with either HindIII and BamHI alone (lanes 4-5), there is a single band of 7.3 kb representing...interpret the bands that you get in your sample lanes. Choose your ladder based on the expected band sizes...supercoiled, relaxed and nicked. If your digest lanes look like your uncut lane then there is something...
  17. Pouring LB Agar Plates

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    ...Plasmids can carry one or more antibiotic resistance genes, which confer resistance to a specific antibiotic...
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