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  1. Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors

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    ... linked to a certain behavior. It is a very old branch of science, dating back several hundred years, ...genes. A popular method uses Cre recombinase on transgenic flox animals to introduce modifications at the...Timing: High expression levels of the viral vector trangenes typically occur two weeks after injection. Therefore... after several weeks which may also depend on transgene or promoter choice. Behaviors you can study using...Stoica L, Ahmed SS, Gao G, Sena-Esteves M. Gene transfer to the CNS using recombinant adeno-associated ...
  2. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    ... 0.07 ml Skill required: advanced Intranasal instillation Intranasal instillation is very similar to its...behind the eye. IV injections are used for a broad range of substances, as it circulate what is injected ...target the lungs. The main differences are that intranasal is easier, less invasive, and only requires a...Anesthesia Trachea 20–23 (tubing) < 0.07 mL Advanced Intranasal Anesthesia Nose n/a < 0.05 mL Beginner Oral...
  3. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    ...generate a classic double-stranded break, while modulators regulate transcription and chimeric efforts make...Countries shown are the top 10 requesting countries. FR=France; KR=South Korea; CH=Switzerland; AU=Australia.  ...Pyhtila et al., 2023). Our thanks to Rodolphe Barrangou for his authorial contributions to, and support...References Pyhtila, B., Kasowitz, S., Leeson, R., & Barrangou, R. (2023). The Expanding Dissemination and Distribution...
  4. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ... are sensitive to pH. Anything between orange and light orange usually indicates that the cells have grown...culture media contain the pH indicator phenol red (pH range 6.0 (yellow) - 8.0 (red)). Blood pH normally lies...too young and should not be used for important transfection experiments right after they’ve been thawed.... spent organizing, an hour is earned (Benjamin Franklin)! It’s good practice to label your plates and/...
  5. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ... work has always been focused on gene transfer, from transgenes to plants, chloroplast to the nucleus,...to expand the toolkit. We have included a wider range of terminators than are commonly used as we have...well in plants and give similar stability to transcripts as the ones that people use all the time. Now...Plant SynBio Reading: Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids  ...
  6. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ...requires more photons. For example, moving from transient overexpression of protein fusions to gene-edited... lipoic acid ligase, biotin ligase, phosphopantetheinyltransferase) – These enzymes catalyze the covalent... tag (Figure 1c). Click chemistry (e.g., transcyclooctene–tetrazine)– Nonnatural amino acids can be ...improved brightness, photostability, and spectral range. Nevertheless, these fluorophores were designed ...analogs without sacrificing their small size and membrane permeability (Figure 2c). These cell-permeable...
  7. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    ...best gRNA Figure 1: Validation of double strand break (DSB) mediated homology dependent repair ...repair (HR, homologous recombination; SSA, single strand annealing) took place and reconstituted the EGFP...site. (c) The pCAG-EGxxFP target plasmid was co-transfected with pX330 plasmids containing sgRNA sequences...efficacy of your gRNAs is then a simple matter of transfecting HEK293T cells with your modified pCAG-EGXXFP...fluorescence, the better that gRNA is at causing a double stranded break at the target site, allowing the two halves...
  8. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ...PRIME, PASTE relies on single-stranded nicks instead of the double-stranded breaks used in other insertion...target. In addition, when they looked at the transformed E. coli expressing Cas7-11, they found no evidence...broadly similar to shRNA and Cas13 systems in a range of mammalian cell lines. However, in those same ... of landing sites via Cas9-directed reverse transcriptases, followed bylanding site recognition and integration...
  9. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    ...to be translated into Modern Greek to be easily accessible today. Roughly speaking, we translated our software...see these improvements, you are benefited with reassurance your plasmids will not get lost in a freezer ...Another advantage of Scrum is that it provides transparency to everyone involved about the status of each...accelerating research and discovery. We work with transparency, gladly share our knowledge, and love to collaborate...
  10. Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist

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    ...high-impact journals, and the requirement for a high grant success rate. At this point, candidates are highly...requirements (and maybe also the proposed salary range) should help. In smaller companies, technical support... The benefit is that these skills are highly transferable and will help you enter other roles in project...departments such as research and manufacturing, quality assurance, product management, marketing, and sales (to ...drive to help others. These roles offer an easy transition from an academic lab to industry without being...
  11. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    ...methods of ‘horizontal gene transfer’. Resistance can also arise from random mutations in the genetic sequence...didn’t develop, either through random mutation or horizontal gene transfer, means to defend themselves from...bacterium sharing genes with another, an accidental transmission of genes from one bacterium to another through...
  12. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    ...examples I’m personally interested in include: intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) and place preference...(viral expression, efficiency of laser light transmission to the target neurons, appropriate stimulation...optogenetics is performed in this species. However, transgenic rat technology is improving and may one day reach... reach the sophistication of mouse transgenics. Everything that has been described is intended for the...References 1. Stuber, Garret D., et al. "Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates...
  13. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    ...supporting datasets must be logically annotated and arranged, as in an actual publication and not require interaction...responsible for storage.  If datasets are too large to transfer to a journal repository, they are likely too large...albeit unintentional, tendency to work against transparency. This opens science to charges of elitism and...opportunities for research as well as increasing transparency. Thank you to our guest blogger! Jim Woodgett...Will Pay for Public Access to Research Data? - by Francine Berman and Vint Cerf (Science, August 2013) PLOS...
  14. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    ...software in order to generate signals in a reasonable range. If colleagues in your group already have experience...experimentally-specific gates. Two-dimensional staining (quadrant gating) For our last example plot, I will show...cells (CD8+) from dendritic cells (CD11b+) using a quadrant gate. Within my “lymphocyte + single cell + live... two stains in relation to each other. Using a quadrant gate, I can divide my cell population into DN,...for each stain respectively). (B) Instead of a quadrant gate, I am free to use multiple individual gates...
  15. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ...generating long overhangs which allows the single stranded regions with homology to anneal a polymerase, ...hour or so, the sample is immediately ready to transform into competent cells. The master mix of enzymes...Gibson assembly master mix for 1 hour, and then transform into competent cells. The success rate of this...if the ends of the fragments have stable single stranded DNA secondary structure, such as a hairpin or ...would directly compete with the required single-stranded annealing and priming of neighboring assembly ...
  16. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...strong transcriptional terminator BBa_B1002 (from IGEM) upstream of the MCS to reduce transcriptional readthrough...rely on exogenous enzymes, require multiple transformation and plasmid curing steps, and can generate ...worked too. Rhamnose induction relies on the transcriptional activator rhaS. To allow manipulation of bacteria...Anirudh S. Channarasappa, and Howard M. Salis. "Translation rate is controlled by coupled trade-offs between...
  17. A Control for All Seasons

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    ...across samples and equal protein transfer from the gel to the membrane. A loading control is critical for...identically, used to assess naturally occurring random biological variability. If one were studying the...purple) and nonspecifically through the Fc region (orange). The Preimmune serum control will not bind to .... Always probe the loading control on the same membrane that the target protein was measured on.    Flow...
  18. Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab

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    ...the department? Are they successful at getting grants and funding? Beware of bullying Your mental health...careers?    Will you be encouraged to develop transferable skills by attending career events or being involved...your aspiration? Will you help or at least observe grant writing? Get equipment quotes? Understand administrative...consider less expensive, portable areas of research (transgenic mice—out, zebra fish—in) Team attitude vs. dog...resources on the Addgene blog Check out our transferable skills guide Learn about careers in science ...
  19. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ..., and effective for wide range of mycoplasma. These methods cannot guarantee complete removal of mycoplasma...the media after autoclaving hence, there is no assurance of the serum being contamination free. The aerosols...commonly infecting mycoplasmas are used. A broad range of primers encompasses almost all the infecting ...filters, for media filtration. There is no 100% assurance that this process can avoid contamination but ...
  20. Addgene Stands with the Scientific Community

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    ...collaborates with NIH-funded researchers and utilizes grants to support our own initiatives, Addgene is deeply...developments. These abrupt changes threaten to slow transformative biological discoveries and life-saving medical...archiving their biological materials during funding transitions. Enabling resource sharing: Our operating model...services can be listed as direct costs from a CRO in grant applications, addressing the new funding structures...
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