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  1. New Neuroscience Tool: The iGluSnFR3 Glutamate Sensor

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    ... glutamate release from neurons and other brain cells in vivo. Glutamate plays a variety of roles in synaptic...promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells hSynap: Human Synapsin-1 promoter. Good for neuronal...promoter, FLEXed for expression in Cre-expressing cells. hSynap-FLP: Synapsin-1 promoter, FLP-dependent ...sensor to the membrane and displays it on the extracellular side. In addition to the original PDGFR TMD,...
  2. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    ...electrocompetent cells in which the phage recombination machinery is induced using L-arabinose. These cells can be...Enzymes Required No No Yes Yes Lab Made Competent Cells Required Yes No No No Comparison of REPLACR-mutagenesis...
  3. Antibodies 101: Antibody Engineering and Directed Evolution

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    ...high-throughput screening techniques such as ELISA and cell surface display are common. ELISA enables quantitative...for comparing relative affinities across mutants. Cell surface display systems, such as bacterial, yeast...presentation of your mutant libraries on the surface of cells. This enables direct screening via flow cytometry...provide recombinant antibodies that target families of cell surface and secreted proteins (glypicans, integrins...therapies and improve their delivery methods to various cells. The wealth of smaller engineered antibody fragments...
  4. E11 Bio PRISM Collection

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    ... with the delivery of stochastic combinations of cell-filling antigenically distinct protein tags (or ...
  5. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    ...patterning of cells and tissues is fundamental to development. I'm interested in how cells find their way...competitive CV You don't necessarily need a Nature/Cell/Science paper. You do need multiple first/corresponding... optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. Erik is also an avid long distance...
  6. A Modular, Synthetic Origin of Replication

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    ...members of the same group cannot be used in the same cell at the same time. Starting from pMB1, we used a ...change in copy number (from ~1.6 to ~185 copies per cell). We also show that ligand-responsive genetic elements...
  7. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    ...Mutations. Berger AH, Brooks AN, Wu X, et al. Cancer Cell, 2016. PubMed PMID: 27478040. The lung cancer mutant... profiling of human gene and allele function via Cell Painting. Rohban MH, Elife, 2017. PubMed PMID: 28315521... of MAPK1/ERK2 Missense Mutants. Brenan L et al. Cell Reports, 2016. PubMed PMID: 27760319. PubMed Central...poorly classified function and a well established cellular signaling gene, thus providing a starting point...reference cDNA clones mapping to well-annotated cellular pathways). It wasn’t clear whether gene-agnostic...sequence-confirmed series of clones corresponding to known cellular signaling pathways as part of our Genetic Pathway...functional assays for these mutations and map other cellular functions and phenotypes. Since time is of the...
  8. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    ...toolkit in human cells. Nissim L, Perli SD, Fridkin A, Perez-Pinera P, Lu TK. Mol Cell. 2014 May 22;54(...tRNAs are among the most abundant molecules in a cell, this system is clearly also robust enough to ensure...advantageous to instead use a preexisting, conserved cellular machinery to process gRNAs. Hijacking tRNA processing...
  9. How Exercise Purges Stress and Keeps Depression at Bay

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    ... how it works. The findings in a recent issue of Cell demonstrate how PGC-1a1, a transcriptional coactivator... in a commentary about the new work published in Cell Metabolism. But, they note, there is plenty more...JR, Erhardt S, Lindskog M, Ruas JL. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.051. PMID: 25259918 Muscle over mind. Moon...
  10. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ... For most kits, the steps for lysing cells and removing cellular debris look very similar. However, keep...relative term — even armed with the highest-competency cells you will still struggle to get transformants if ...quantity) – Depending on the experiment, mammalian cell transfections can require quite large amounts of...your bacteria to release the plasmid, separate the cell debris from the plasmid, and then clean-up the plasmid...Kits can be optimized based on the plasmid size, cell model, or overall throughput needed. Large constructs...your plasmid; separate plasmid DNA from unwanted cellular “debris”; and then clean-up the plasmid DNA (Figure...
  11. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    ...with heterotrimeric G proteins on the intracellular side of the cell membrane. Heterotrimeric G proteins...Peroxidase-Catalyzed Proximity Labeling. Cell 169:338-349.e11 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.03.028 Roth BL (2016...small molecules to elicit a response in a certain cell type. Chemogenetics is similar to optogenetics but...induce or inhibit intracellular signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli. Ligand dissociation...to the seven alpha helices that transverse the cellular membrane. The receptor recognizes the appropriate...signaling is initiated when a ligand binds to the extracellular surface of the GPCR. This results in a conformational...
  12. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    ...Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038 Additional resources... also detect low-frequency cancer mutations from cell-free DNA fragments as well as health-related single...similar types of HPV, HPV16 and HPV18, from human cells, at atomolar levels, within one hour. DETECTR thus...of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Molecular Cell 60:385–397 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2015.10.008...
  13. Top Requested AAV of 2017: pmSyn1-EBFP-CRE

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    ... brain regions. You can partially control which cells are successfully infected by an AAV by altering ...control where your gene of interest is expressed.  A cell-type specific Cre can provide you with that control...
  14. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    ...multiple plasmids in one cell, it might be that you can't stably maintain them in the cell. This blog post features...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    ...mixture of two base editor enzymes in mammalian cells. Read the paper in bioRxiv Find Target-ACE   CRISPR...bionanoparticle Transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 in cells has advantages like reduced off-target activity ...
  16. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    ...pathways that are frequently implicated in cancer cell proliferation, survival, differentiation, and apoptosis...pathway. “The idea is that if you introduce them into cells one at a time, you could identify those that confer...
  17. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ... GFP, enabling you to select cells with high GFP expression. These cells have the highest levels of Cas9... on the same plasmid, you’ll make sure that each cell that gets the plasmid contains all of the desired...gRNA, which causes hypopigmentation, thus marking cells that have undergone genomic modification. In this..., et al. “Multiplex genome engineering in human cells using all-in-one CRISPR/Cas9 vector system.” Scientific...
  18. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    ...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_051 (for stable fly cell lines; attL and attR sequences for genome integration...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_052 (for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration...rapid assessment of emerging CRISPR technologies. Cell Genomics, 4(3), 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/...
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