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  1. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    ...AAV8 for kidney cells — can help improve infection rates in your experiment. Figure 2: Visual representation...important to note, however, that while AAV rarely integrates into the genome, CRISPR may increase this rate..., nor is it a global occurrence, as integration sites seem to only occur in the target cells or tissues...
  2. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    ... learn what motivates them (keep in mind that it can be very different from what motivates you!), know...moment while reviewing the results of my Myers-Briggs test:  my undergrads were different people! More specifically...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    ... (green or blue) within a population of timer indicates the age of the pool: the higher the ratio, the...differentiation revealed by temporal cell labeling." Diabetes 58.8 (2009): 1863-1868. PubMed PMID: 19478145....programmable synthetic lineage-control network that differentiates human IPSCs into glucose-sensitive insulin-...
  4. Tips to Make the Most of a Scientific Conference

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    ...you’d like to go to. During the conference Take notes during talks. If you have questions during the talk...poster.” Have a notebook handy so you can jot down notes or questions from your poster viewers and trade ...whenever you have a small break), write down some notes on the card so you remember who they are and what...
  5. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    ...career path long ago. Use your analytical mind to test and discover what career suits you best I began ... make a trophy for the winner. We promoted the contest for about two months, and we got one submission...girl about fossils. After we talked for about ten minutes, she said, “Boy, I love science,” and I realized...
  6. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    ... the expression system you choose in many ways dictates the best method for introducing those CRISPR components...will want to invest some time in optimizing and testing the efficiency of CRISPR delivery. There are a ... at Addgene that have been published as CRISPR testing tools: Traffic Light Reporter System: Can evaluate...
  7. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...endonuclease gene within its own cut site1. In heterozygotes, the endonuclease cuts the wild-type chromosome...Both methods are easy to implement and have been tested in yeast5. Ecological confinement involves performing...area where escaped organisms won't be able to find mates2. For example, ongoing experiments attempting to...
  8. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) Guide

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    ...available inside of the small AAV capsid and directly correlates to the size of the DNA removed from the viral... transfer plasmids may have limited restriction sites or may only be compatible with certain cloning methods...is crucial for efficient AAV replication as it activates the necessary cellular machinery to produce large...Random integration of rAAV genomes in non-homologous sites of the host genome can occur, although at a low ...a slash (e.g. AAV2/5), where the first number indicates the serotype of the genome and the second number...specific cell types of interest has been to create and test capsid libraries with random mutations or insertions... PNS (e.g. AAV-PHP.S) in rodents and non-human primates. Read our blog post on systemic capsids for more...
  9. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    ...to ~4-10x linearly! This expansion physically separates molecules while maintaining their relative positions...understanding of neuronal synapses, centrosomes, parasites, and more (Bertiaux, et al. 2021; Gambarotto, ...new insights into the cytoskeleton of malaria parasites including the conservation of a conoid. PLoS Biology...
  10. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...Komagataella phaffii (a.k.a  Pichia pastoris) because it secretes fewer of its own proteins, making the purification... the efficacy of our antibodies through stress testing. An aliquot of our recombinant antibodies is stored...aliquots frozen immediately post-harvest. Stress-tested antibodies that are not equally effective are shipped...
  11. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...detection of the product. As an added benefit, replicates are built into the technology. One well (containing...Have a dedicated bench with a dedicated set of pipettes for ddPCR set-up. Prepare the master mix in a ...low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has been ...
  12. Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research

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    ...dependencies detected. Given this new information, Misek notes that in theory, if the DepMap analysis had an equal...and references References Germline variation contributes to false negatives in CRISPR-based experiments...Appelbaum, Bege Dauda, Anna Di Rienzo, Agustin Fuentes, Stephanie M. Fullerton et al. Getting genetic ...
  13. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    ...to spend their days microinjecting fluorescent conjugates into cells. Fortunately, over the last 20 years... cognate protein. In some cases this property eliminates the need for removing excess dye from the sample...refinements to these systems—smaller tags, brighter conjugates, higher fluorogenicity, photoactivation etc.—...
  14. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    ... is received in the lab, although this number fluctuates throughout the year (see graph below). Addgene.... Each plate has numbers and letters to give coordinates, from A1 through H12. Each plate is also barcoded...rack that contains five levels that can hold five plates on each level. This rack is located in one of five...
  15. Adenovirus Guide

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    ... inside of the adenoviral capsid and directly correlates to the size of the DNA removed from the viral... transfer plasmids may have limited restriction sites or may only be compatible with certain cloning methods...with rAdV vectors, or to verify that the infection rates are equivalent across multiple viruses. The adenoviral... preferentially infect certain tissues, which correlates with the specific diseases they cause. Ad5 and...a slash (e.g. Ad5/35), where the first number indicates the serotype of the genome and the second number...protein-coding genes and complex gene expression cassettes are often too big to be packaged in rAAV vectors...) vectors have also been developed as vaccine candidates for multiple infectious diseases and prostate...
  16. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    ...demonstrated that targeting dCas9 to transcriptional start sites was sufficient to repress transcription by blocking...of activators include the SunTag system which facilitates recruitment of multiple activation domains to...2020). Moreno-Mateos, M. A. et al. CRISPR-Cpf1 mediates efficient homology-directed repair and temperature-controlled...
  17. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    ...” and AIBS uses it to find potential enhancer candidates. To use these sequences for making functional...the brain. Figure 2: Selection, prep, and testing of AAV enhancers in mice. Adapted from the Allen...collaborative effort that the Allen Institute contributes to. Enhancing science How research is conceived...
  18. QC Sequencing Technologies at Addgene

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    ... the most popular options. Nanopore sequencing deviates from the synthesis-based sequencing methods (Figure...are highly repetitive, such as those containing cassettes of the same gene multiple times.  Bioinformatics...  Addgene’s de novo assembly pipeline usually generates the correct plasmid sequence. However, if there...
  19. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    ...HDR-mediated gene editing is most efficient when target sites are located in close proximity to the region to ...editing than wild-type SpCas9, even when targeting sites that are known to produce off-target editing with...engineering was Cas12a (formerly Cpf1), a nuclease that generates double strand breaks in target genes resulting...
  20. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...base-pair mCherry insertion. Editing of these motifs generates lesions that are subject to excision and ssDNA...-Beier et al., 2019. The team put TREE to the test by infecting HEK-293 cells with the BFP variant,...al., 2020. As a proof of concept the Dow lab tested their hypothesis with GFP fluorescence. To do this...
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