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  1. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ...amplification and verification processes we use to ensure high-quality library distribution. You can also use these...amplification 101 Library amplification seems straightforward: E. coli bacteria are transformed with the ...a typical library, Addgene usually does four to eight electroporation reactions using a total of ~400ng.... Analyzing the reads is, again, seemingly straightforward – you need to count how many times each of ...
  2. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider

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    ...involves measuring the absorbance/transmission of light through a liquid to determine the concentration ...liquid. Molecules absorb different wavelengths of light to different degrees and many molecules have a specific...method takes more time to set up in the lab, you might not have to do the calculation yourself as many ...disadvantages of each method and when one method might be more suited than another. Additional resources...
  3. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    ...is not just a question of being honest and straightforward, it’s an important part of being a “good scientific...work to figure them out. But, when they come to light, it’s clear that what the researchers thought was...still missing is a clear alignment of incentives. Right now, researchers are not strongly rewarded for being.... But it ought to be possible, and if we get it right, everyone in the scientific enterprise will benefit...
  4. Addgene Welcomes John Doench to the Advisory Board

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    ...protocol, get a result and hope it’s close to the right answer because if it’s not, well, your grade is ...the data look like... when it looks good, that’s a high that can last for several days.” Working with CRISPR...Doench thinks that the future of CRISPR will be in high throughput functional characterization of specific...plasmids, figure out what they do and what they might be able to do and to organize it and catalogue it...
  5. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    ...have purified plasmid DNA, this method can be done right in your lab in less than a day. Diagnostic restriction...sequence if necessary. The example plasmid on the right has a total size of 7.3kb, including a 1.2 kb insert...recognition sequence. Most enzyme manufacturers make High Fidelity versions of the endonucleases and/or supply...you to visualize the DNA under ultraviolet (UV) light. Don’t forget to add loading buffer to your digest...
  6. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    ...labeling tubes never takes longer than 5 minutes, right?) As a result, I’d always end up stressed and rushing...add in personalized steps like “check drawers for light-sensitive reagents” or “re-sterilize now.” Have ...Moving your reagents from your left side to your right as you use them can help you remember what's been... Fig. 2: Blugene moves reagents from left to right as they use them.    Prevent Interruptions If...
  7. Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon

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    ...succeed in communicating. Even the most rigorous, insightful, and novel scientific research will be wasted...your past work has prepared you to contribute at a high level to their team.  When you're writing a grant...anyone else in the world to do it.  In the lab, it might mean persuasively articulating why the results you've...to be reviewed by interdisciplinary panels.  And highly successful scientists need to communicate with ...
  8. A Deep Dive into BioBuilder

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    ...BioBuilder Educational Foundation in partnership with high school teachers to boost interest and understanding...what started in Cambridge with a handful of local high school teachers receiving training modules in synthetic...fall:  The BioBuilderClub BioBuilderClub engages high school teams around the world who combine engineering...and STEM-loving students include The BioBuilder High School Apprenticeship, preparing local (Massachusetts...
  9. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    ...instrumental in helping us establish consistent, high-quality protocols for lentiviral production. Bryan...Janelia Research Campus have provided valuable insight into AAV production. Finally, we are blessed to...surveyed hundreds of scientists about various ways we might expand Addgene’s services. There was an overwhelmingly...helps scientists and allows us to maintain Addgene’s high quality standards?” Under the leadership of Addgene...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...Viral integration of a construct is also reliably higher than traditional transfection and random genomic...transfection method. This is because viral systems have a high infection frequency and the viral titer (the number...responses in addition to antibody response 2) very high immunogenicity 3) and long-lasting immune response...treatment and gene therapy have also been in the limelight. The FDA approved the first oncolytic viral therapy...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...sequences are from AAV2 because they demonstrate high promoter activity (Earley et al. 2020), but non-...downstream AAV applications.  Tips & FAQs Due to their high GC content and hairpin structures, ITRs are prone...rapidly replicate in a growth culture and result in a high percentage of plasmid DNA with mutated ITR sequences...Next-generation sequencing and Sanger sequencing might fail to correctly read through ITR sequences. GC...
  12. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    ...sensitivity. Wild-type Cas9 exhibits high on-target activity, but also high off-target activity, which may ...et al., 2018) and found that Sniper-Cas9 showed a high degree of both specificity and sensitivity across...Evolved Cas9 variants with broad PAM compatibility and high DNA specificity." Nature 556.7699 (2018): 57. PubMed...
  13. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    ...disease. CRISPR has made genomic SDM relatively straightforward, but plasmid-based SDM has lagged behind. While...well, but poor template digestion can result in a high number of background colonies carrying the unmodified...plasmid is not maintained. Recombination efficiency is high enough to negate the need for selection usually ...introduce mutations. Using commercially available high-fidelity polymerases such as KOD and Phusion, which...
  14. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    ...Mendenhall: The benefits are two-fold: CRISPR/Cas9 offers high efficiency of inducing double strand breaks and ...weeks. CRISPR saves you a couple of months. It’s higher throughput and faster. It’s also easy to run things...transcription factors, but there are many reasons you might want a system like this. It’s actually surprising...with this antibody problem. We thought it was the right thing to do to put these out there. It’s a simple...
  15. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    ...interested in following? Someone you admire for their insight and way of expressing it in meetings? The more ...advice. Your family and friends know you well and might have good ideas for who you should connect with....cautious and make sure to choose one that comes highly recommended from someone you trust. A good coach...compliment to ask someone to share their wisdom and they might just not have the time. Thank them anyway and move...
  16. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    ...that wildtype Cas9 with optimized chimeric gRNA has high efficiency but has been shown to have off-target...prefers a 'G' at the transcription start site to have high expression, so adding this G could help with expression... culture unless the targeting efficiency is very high. Q6: How should I design experiments for multiplexed...but the efficiency will be lower, although this might still be okay if you are introducing a selection...10.1016/j.cell.2013.08.021  Ran, F. A., Hsu, P. D., Wright, J., Agarwala, V., Scott, D. A., & Zhang, F. (2013...
  17. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ...RNA! Double stranded? Well, that’s just for DNA – right? RNA performs almost all of its biological functions...replication process. dsDNA viruses yield dsRNA through a slightly different mechanism thought to be associated with...always around. R-loops are particularly enriched in highly transcribed regions and repetitive regions, such...RNA:DNA hybrids levels are allowed to reach very high or low levels, possibly due to dysregulation of ...
  18. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    ... edition of “What’s New in CRISPR” - where we highlight a few of the newest CRISPR plasmids available ...cells. The “V4” version (named CasMINI) had the highest activity for gene activation  and base editing,... not modify the Cas12f1 enzyme. The result is a highly efficient Cas system with very compact genome editors...
  19. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    ... is weaker than reporter staining. Picking the right reporter for your RANBody While all three reporters... fluorescently labeled tyramide molecule into a highly reactive radical, which is then covalently linked...antigens. Spaghetti Monster Spaghetti Monsters are highly antigenic tags that have 10 HA or 10 MYC tags built... plasmids from Penn State Need help picking the right fluorescence microscopy technique to use? Check ...
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