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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...Retroviruses and cancer. Rev Infect Dis. 1982 Sep-Oct;4(5):1015-25. DOI: 10.1093/clinids/4.5.1015 Lee C.S....Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001 Maetzig...adenoviruses are known to cause respiratory disease across species, as well as cancer in hamsters, although...
  2. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ... Figure 4: AAV9-X1 and AAV9-X1.1 efficiently transduce brain endothelial cells across diverse mice...StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-02018-w. PMID:... et al. (2023). Functional gene delivery to and across brain vasculature of systemic AAVs with endothelial-specific...
  3. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    ...Kleinstiver et al. saw no decrease in Cpf1 activity with 4-6 base deletions at the 3’ end of the target sequence... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 4. Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Alkhnbashi OS, Costa F, Shah...and requires only one RNA rather than the two (tracrRNA and crRNA) needed by Cas9 for cleavage. Now, two...require HDR over NHEJ, so comparing HDR efficiency across CRISPR nucleases and NgAgo is an important next...
  4. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    ...microenvironment produce CTL associated protein 4 (CTLA-4), a receptor that turns off T cell function upon...immunology 3.11 (2002): 991-998. PubMed PMID: 12407406. 4. Weiner, George J. "Building better monoclonal antibody-based... produces modified dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages (M1 and M2) that help create welcoming environments...over-express CD47 to escape recognition by circulating macrophages. Tumor cells also downregulate the expression...
  5. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...populations at single-cell resolution. PLoS Biol. 23(4): e3003048. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003048...fusion protein using an anti-GFP nanobody (Figure 4). Once incorporated into a condensate, the killswitch...adenovirus particles (Zhang et al., 2025). Figure 4: Schematic of the killswitch-nanobody system. A cell...that can concentrate and sequester specific macromolecules to serve cellular functions. Along with collaborators...
  6. Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation

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    ...plasmids deposited as early as 2013 still account for ~4% of all 2025 distributions. At the same time, several...potentially scalable therapeutic strategy. Figure 4: Schematic of PERT. Reproduced from Pierce et al. ...for PM577a is on track for the first half of 2026. 4. RNA editing comes into its own RNA editing has moved...together researchers studying deaminase enzymes across disciplines: from structural biologists resolving...advancing base and prime editing toward the clinic. Across talks spanning mechanism, off-target biology, and...characterization of hundreds of base editor proteins across kinetics, editing windows, sequence preferences...premature stop codons. By screening 18,000 pegRNAs across all 418 human tRNAs, they identified the strongest...
  7. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ...sites interspaced with random sequences.   Strategy #4 (ProD): Create promoters with the help of epigenetic...different promoter designs, promoters from strategy #4 had the highest rate of targeted expression. Surprisingly...retinas. By comparing the performance of promoters across these three species, the Roska lab concluded that...
  8. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ...that should work well. Quickly after transfection (4-8h), cells start releasing viral particles into the...after transfection. This supernatant can be stored at 4 °C or can be directly added to your target cells. ...Dr. Ke Xu (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-539-6, InTech. 4. Walter, W., and U. Stein. "Viral vectors for gene...quiescent or terminally differentiated cells such as macrophages and microglia. This property makes the lentivirus...
  9. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ...peptide/protein analyses using ELISA. Peptides 72:4–15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peptides.2015.04.012... theory, and trouble shooting. North Am J Med Sci 4:429 . https://doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.100998 Additional...vary the acrylamide content of the gel. For small proteins, use a higher percentage of acrylamide to increase... protein mix by size Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) is the first...resolving gel composed of the crosslinked polymer acrylamide. In addition to the samples, a protein standard...Smaller proteins encounter less resistance in the acrylamide matrix and migrate faster through the gel. For... For large proteins, reduce the percentage of acrylamide. To further improve resolution, use a stacking...
  10. A Needle in a Base-Stack: Cas9 Structural Biology

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    ...the sequence isn’t in place yet.     Figure 4: S. pyogenes Cas9 in the apo state (PDB ID 4CMP, top...641–656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00739-4 References Bravo, J. P. K., Liu, M.-S., Hibshman, ...sequence. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 29(4), 395–402. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-022-00756...with a guide RNA — whether it’s an sgRNA or a crRNA:tracrRNA duplex — Cas9’s two lobes move toward each ...the image. Stem loops 1 and 2 extend horizontally across both lobes. The guide RNA in this structure does...
  11. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    ...641–656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-022-00739-4 More resources on addgene.org  Addgene's CRISPR Guide...CRISPR is a sleek acronym for a real mouthful of a phrase: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic...parts! If you’re still a bit confused by CRISPR acronyms, this post is for you. We’ll cover the common ... of CRISPR. The bacterial chromosome encodes a tracrRNA (in some systems including Cas9), Cas proteins...here). The repeat sequence base pairs with the tracrRNA, and the spacer sequence is used to target complementary...laboratory settings, an sgRNA includes the crRNA and tracrRNA sequences in a “single-guide RNA” that performs...uses to track down its suspect—the target DNA. tracrRNA: A “trans-activating CRISPR RNA” base pairs to...
  12. Hot Plasmids: February 2026

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    ...usually coded by UGG) through wobble pairing (Figure 4). Now, through a massive effort of protein and genome...single codon (Grome et al., 2025). Figure 4: Summary of the changes from wild type E. coli to ...photostability than mScarlet3, respectively. Although they sacrifice some brightness (~20–30% as bright as mScarlet3... backbones and consistently observe high yields across a wide range of transfer plasmids. Figure...unknown function that is nevertheless conserved across mammals. TimeVault works through a fusion of an... and also takes into account variations in the tracrRNA, the structural sequence of a gRNA. The Jacquere...(2022). Accounting for small variations in the tracrRNA sequence improves sgRNA activity predictions for...
  13. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    ...lentiviral packaging as a single payload (Figure 4). Figure 4: ONE-GO biosensors measure the formation...authors used this platform to assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in varying conditions, revealing...
  14. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...:3499-3510. doi: 10.1002/bit.27776. Epub 2021 May 4. PMID: 33811659. Pace CN, Vajdos F, Fee L, Grimsley...absorption coefficient of a protein. Protein Sci. 1995 Nov;4(11):2411-23. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560041120. PMID: 8563639...as measured by the Edelhoch method. Int J Biol Macromol. 2015;77:260-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2015.03.027...
  15. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    ... better labels than fusions to 3 or more HA tags. 4. High-resolutions microscopy As indicated above, smFPs...2009.12 (2009): pdb-top63. PubMed PMID: 20150100. 4. Shaner, Nathan C., George H. Patterson, and Michael...Rizzo, 2009). With many different FPs that emit across the visible spectrum, researchers can also use ...
  16. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    ...with the crRNA, (3) three transposase proteins, and (4) the donor DNA. By using a multi-spacer CRISPR array...Using an Engineered CRISPR/Cas System. ACS Synth Biol 4:723–728 . https://doi.org/10.1021/sb500351f Dong C...diverse bacteria with Mobile-CRISPRi. Nat Microbiol 4:244–250 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-018-0327-...et al., 2015). pCRISPomyces-1 includes Cas9, a tracrRNA, and a CRISPR array, while pCRISPomyces-2 contains...BbsI. This system results in 80-90% RNA knockdown across multiple gRNAs per gene (Singh et al. 2016). Sarah...
  17. Plan Your Experiment

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    ...2431–2468. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00724-4 PMID: 35941224 Gilbert, L. A., Horlbeck, M. A., Adamson...(2023). Elongation roadblocks mediated by dCas9 across human genes modulate transcription and nascent ...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Integrase-Deficient Lentiviral Vectors

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    ...local hotspots. Cell, 110(4), 521–529. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0092-8674(02)00864-4. PubMed PMID: 12202041...molecular biology for over three decades. Widely used across various research applications, they have become...lentiviral vectors, the lentiviral genome is distributed across multiple plasmids. For simplicity, we’ll use the...
  19. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...and isolated.  Following a gating strategy Figure 4 shows a gating strategy from a published experiment...are very close to each other.        Figure 4: Gating strategy used in Barlow-Anacker et al., 2017... the X axis may be presented. A horizontal line across the peak will indicate the cut-off value for a ...
  20. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    ...mice via adeno-associated viruses. Nat Biomed Eng 4:97–110 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0501-5...Commun 10: .https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08224-4  Swiech L, Heidenreich M, Banerjee A, Habib N, Li ...efficiency of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing varies across targets, they tested two genes in mice. For both...
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