... before being distributed to customers. Details about our production protocols, titering methods, and ...either in-house by Addgene scientists or through collaboration with viral vector manufacturing facilities, ...generated from lentiviral preparations (described above) that are subject to a concentration step prior ...

...enable accurate labeling of neurons. As discussed above, weakly expressed proteins in particular are difficult...resembles images of the deity (see comparison image above). The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is ...tags. 4. High-resolutions microscopy As indicated above, smFPs can be used with conventional microscopes...

...Generating a transgenic plant takes even longer, is more labor intensive, inefficient, and often not reproducible... region is transferred into the plant. In the laboratory we can utilize this natural process by replacing...system. The vectors mentioned in this blog post above are ready to use vectors, but with the MoClo system...

...usage bias Read more about plasmids in our Plasmids 101 blog series Learn more about trends in synthetic... out Addgene's Molecular Biology Reference Read about genetic code expansion Browse our plasmid collection...

...Addgene Blog Learn more about Cas9 Variants and the Expanded CRISPR Toolbox Read about CRISPR enzyme Cpf1 ... and specific? The two AAV strategies described above showed successful target modification, indicating...

... plasmids you need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.  Here's... a cell. The Goedhart lab, Gadella lab, and collaborators have an ongoing effort to improve genetically..., that are optimized for excitation wavelengths above 1,000 nm and enable two-color imaging with red fluorescence...

...much information as possible from depositing laboratories and associated publications, but our quality...the process. Another design choice we appreciated about Nextflow was how effortless it was for us to switch...interface. In our next post, we’ll share our story about how we used Nextflow Tower to augment our pipeline...

...proteins or nucleic acids. Read on to learn more about this versatile technique.  Immunoprecipitation ...proteins in an IP are not denatured (learn more about antibodies here!) When using Protein A/G to immobilize...eluted by boiling the beads in SDS. (To learn more about Western blotting check out our blog post The Basics...

...of the important considerations you should think about when developing optogenetics behavioral experiments...scientific research is that the field benefits from collaboration and the exchange of ideas. The rapid spread ...versatility and standardization of genetic tools in the laboratory mouse, most optogenetics is performed in this...

... more about CcdB, the toxic key to efficient cloning Read all Plasmids 101 blog posts Read about knockout...with the other toxin-antitoxin systems described above, one part of the pair is more stable than the other...

...following unanswered questions about CRISPR screen design. Unanswered questions about genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9...Morgens et al drew some generalizable conclusions about off-target activity, demonstrate safe-targeting ...

...successfully to derive iPSCs from PBMCs. Most laboratories use Sendai virus to reprogram PBMCs efficiently...establishment of virus-free hiPSCs usually require about 5-10 passages. Furthermore, working with Sendai ...source of somatic cells. This translates to only about 16 hiPSC colonies per 100 ml of starting blood sample...

...or postdoc forever, and you need to be thinking about what comes next. To that end, one of the most important...personal connection; the importance of which will be elaborated on later. As for what job fairs to consider, ...the specific position he or she originally called about, you can keep in touch and reach back out when you...

... on the Addgene Blog Learn More about FLEX-vectors Learn More about Cre-Lox Check out Retrograde AAVs...expression have been developed. Read on to learn more about FLP-FRT, Cre-lox, and how combinations of FLP and...

...How does inducible expression work? As mentioned above, many expression plasmids utilize inducible promoters...see protein overexpression? The strains described above should generate sufficient expression levels for...may help with solubility issues. We want to hear about your favorite protein expression tips and tricks...

...abundant in a sample. Whereas Southern blotting is labor intensive and requires a large amount of high-quality...DNA technologies that are now commonplace in laboratories. As scientific technologies rapidly progress...PMC4411503. Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn More about Restriction Cloning Get Tips on Analyzing DNA Sequencing...

...the annealed and filled-in gaps The great part about this mix of enzymes is that they can all work at...the standard Gibson assembly techniques described above, this resulted in the direct and seamless cloning...Blog Browse All of Our Plasmids 101 Posts Read About Other Cloning Techniques Additional Resources on...

...estimated that very little dystrophin correction (about 4%) is needed to see muscle improvement, with only...diseases we’d like to treat with CRISPR. As seen above, DMD can be treated with “one-size-fits-most” NHEJ-mediated.... Precision genome editing faces the challenges above and more. One chief challenge is upregulating HDR...

... a sucrase that converts sucrose into a toxic metabolite. Cells that have undergone a double crossover...confirmation of successful single crossover – after about 48 hours, the resulting colonies turn subtly blue...blog posts Find our CRISPR blog posts Learn more about Lambda Red recombineering Resources on Addgene....

...in eukaryotic cells as an intermediate of heme metabolism (Shemetov et al, 2017). Modern state-of-the-art...reporters and biosensors NIR reporters can tell us about cellular events via  fluorescence changes occurring...NIR-GECOs were developed based on mIFP6. Learn more about the characteristics, performance, and applications...