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  1. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    ... of low-toxicity RNA editing tools.   Fig. 1 Schematic of luciferase RNA knockdown assays using.... Eugene Koonin and Kira Makarova, longtime collaborators of Omar and Jonathan and experts in CRISPR evolution...
  2. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    ...email Ryan at [email protected]   References 1. Larivière, Vincent, Yves Gingras, and Éric Archambault...learn about how researchers are using “big data” to look at Lyme Disease in new ways. Or learn about the...ot­her disciplines, are even less likely to read about our work. We therefore must discover new ways to.... Only on occasion do we then have time to read about research from other disciplines, or from other countries...communication through video     Video abstracts about research, especially published research, have grown...researchers have Facebook pages, few share any details about their research itself. Pinterest is also a favorite...created a new platform for sharing video abstracts about research: www.WeShareScience.org. WeShareScience...
  3. 5 Reasons to Use Reddit for Science Communication

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    ...first foray into Reddit. Here are some reasons why: 1. Reddit has a large and active community of people...not too worried about selling yourself and really do just want to get information about yourself and your...where users can participate in forum discussions about a wide variety of topics. Individual forums are ...where users can ask designated scientists anything about a particular topic. Given Joanne’s expertise in... is well moderated. One of our original worries about sharing science advice on Reddit was that we’d be...answering questions. r/Science has pretty strict rules about not being too sales-y in posts which falls in line...any scientists to refer to if they have questions about science careers, women in STEM, work-life negotiation...
  4. Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone

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    ...conference for any reason was a Singleton. Figure 1: The Binning Singletons logo. Image: James et al.,...noticed Holly Bik live-tweeting about topics I needed to know more about. I caught up with her outside ...me for coffee and spent an hour with me talking about the tools I could use, and some experimental hurdles...other folks at the meeting. I didn’t know anything about these people at the time, but I met some very accomplished... my mind because we’d had discussions in my lab about whether or not to keep DNA sequencing singletons...singletons out, and there is healthy debate online about this (our lab keeps singletons). I felt like anyone...scientific conferences Read our ECR Toolbox blog post about using social media as a scientist ...
  5. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ... over again. Here’s that process!   Figure 1: The Design-Build-Test-Learn cycle adapted for video... Production Specialist, I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve our productions to deliver the best...four months after I started with Addgene, I was about to have a check-in with my boss Jennifer. I had ... would be a couple months. Jennifer and I spent about an hour that morning scrambling. Everything we had...someone to be comfortable on camera while thinking about things like lighting, camera angle, and shot composition... allowing people to sit without having to worry about getting in close to mic them up. Monitor: I then...first video in our Intro to the Lab Bench series about PPE! We made this with a combination of in-lab filming...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    ...yourself in a creative rut, read on!   Fig 1: Blugene using creative problem-solving in the lab...brainstorming sessions.  Allow the group time to think about the problem before you meet. This holds the dual... meetings run smoother when people have thought about the issue ahead of time. Encourage dissent. The ... decisions while encouraging the group to think about alternative options. When a devil’s advocate is ...a few minutes every month dedicated to thinking about the future will improve your ability to innovate...to be able to continue our experiments. Thinking about these plans before you’ve run out of consumables...
  7. Adenovirus Guide

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    ...to an antigen. AdEasier-1 cells BJ5183 E. coli cells containing the pAdEasy-1 packaging plasmid. Adenovirus...icosahedral capsids and build new virions. Figure 1: Wild-type adenovirus and its genome. Genes over or... This construct is then transformed into AdEasier-1 cells (Addgene #16399) , which are BJ5183 E. coli ... viruses. The adenoviral backbone plasmid pAdEasy-1 (Addgene #16400) is suitable for most purposes. For...production system. Figure is based on the use of pAdEasy-1. Created with BioRender.com. AdMax™ AdMax™ is another...landscape . Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 6 (1), 53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-021-00487-6 (...as a Zika virus vaccine . Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 3613. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60238-5...
  8. Chemogenetics Guide

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    ...Addgene's Chemogenetics Plasmid Collection . Figure 1: General overview of a chemogenetics experiment. Early...bidirectional control of neuronal activity. Table 1: Descriptions of DREADDs and their activity in neurons... while PSAMs and LMOs have an effect for only 0.5–1 hours after delivery. Chemogenetic Ligand The chemogenetic...Causal Cellular and Neuronal Biology. Physiol Rev, 98 (1), 391–418. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00009.2017...Neurophotonics 11 (2), 021005. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.NPh.11.2.021005 PMID: 38450294 Coward, P., Wada, H... Gi-coupled receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 95 (1), 352–357. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.1.352 PMID... 451–460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-004-2017-1 PMID: 15765260 Farrell, M. S., Pei, Y., Wan, Y., Yadav...
  9. Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication

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    ...levels of DnaA to get the job done.   Figure 1: DNA melting by DnaA and IHF is the first step of ... negative regulators. The genome of E. coli is about 4.6 million base pairs long and contains a single...copy number and compensating for the additional metabolic cost imposed on the host with a beneficial function.... On the other hand, they also impose a lower metabolic cost on cells and produce lower amounts of protein...
  10. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    ...indel formation and phenotypic changes as early as 1 week post-injection. Livers from these mice were histologically...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...
  11. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    ...complex. So how exactly does this work? Figure 1: APOBEC- and Cas9-mediated editing (ACE) reporter ...for base-editing activity The reporters mentioned above all rely on GFP fluorescence and cell sorting using... Additional resources on the Addgene blog Read about other CRISPR reporters Browse our CRISPR blog posts...
  12. Lentiviral Vector Guide

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    ...production in the laboratory, and many have been removed or mutated for increased safety. Figure 1: Wild-type...typically ranges from 8–10 kb, encoded on RNA (Figure 1). This RNA is reverse transcribed into the provirus...genes (for example, vif , vpr , vpu , and nef for HIV-1). The LTRs flank all of these genes, and anything ...transgene and LTRs (chimeric 5’ LTR) Packaging plasmid 1 — contains gag and pol Packaging plasmid 2 — contains...and third-generation systems, please refer to Table 1. Figure 4: Third-generation lentiviral plasmids. Created...heterologous enhancer/promoter such as CMV or RSV Table 1. Summary of key differences between second- and third-generation...More Lentiviral Vector topics Addgene Protocols pLKO.1 - TRC Cloning Vector Protocols Lentiviral Vector Production...
  13. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    ...’re not one of these people yourself.  Fig 1: Quote from Michael Ende, courtesy of morefamousquotes.com...rely on what I know about those particular teams at that given time. I think about how previous iterations...disagreements. In fact, conflict resolution isn’t just about resolving conflicts between other people, but resolving...normally get along well with each other disagree about a specific decision, direction, or goal. Resolving...of lapsed communication. Making some assumptions about how something should be communicated is necessary...confusion around... Ownership: Misunderstandings about who is responsible for what tasks or projects is...conflicts.  Transitioning a conflict into a collaboration may not be the easiest resolution to accomplish...
  14. Modular Cloning Guide

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    ...gene, and a terminator, as in Figure 1). Next, up to six Level 1 modules can be assembled into a Level...consists of three sets of cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, and 2) which can be used in successive assembly steps... 0 parts are directionally assembled into a Level 1 vector creating a single transcriptional unit (for...maintain the final plasmid after transformation. Figure 1: Overview of the MoClo Toolkit components and assembly...Learn about modular cloning (MoClo) and find MoClo kits deposited with Addgene, including the MoClo Toolkit...building synthetic genetic circuits, engineering metabolic pathways, assembling gene-editing tools, and more...editing, functional genomics, and more complex metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, compatible ...
  15. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    ...and biotin plasmids at Addgene!     Figure 1: Indirect detection of target markers can be achieved..., you may want to look at other methods. In the above cases, a good alternative is using a two-protein... region of the primary antibody (Figure 1b). As above, the advantage of this system is increased flexibility...
  16. CRISPR Guide

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    ...changing the target sequence present in the gRNA. Figure 1: Overview of the basic CRISPR mechanism. CRISPR was...from Staphylococcus aureus ) has a coding sequence ~1 kb shorter than SpCas9 while retaining the same basic...lentiviral transfer vectors (Figure 8B). Libraries come in 1-vector systems, in which Cas9 is included in the gRNA-containing...efficiency and fidelity. Nature Communications , 13 (1), 1425. PMID: 35301321 Edraki, A., Mir, A., Ibraheim...interrogation by SpRY-Cas9. Nature Communications , 15 (1), 3663. PMID: 38688943 Hsu, P. D., Scott, D. A., Weinstein...increase its specificity. Nature Communications , 9 (1). PMID: 30082838 Maddalo, D., Manchado, E., Concepcion...CRISPR-Cas9 with Bacteriophage Proteins. Cell , 168 (1–2), 150-158.e10. PMID: 28041849 Sakuma, T., Nishikawa...
  17. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...mycoplasma can even escape 0.2-micron filters. Figure 1: Contamination! Tissue culture media often have indicators...mycoplasma contamination in your cell culture or you are about to begin a new cell culture project. If mycoplasmas...that are difficult to trace. These include the laboratory personnel, the serum, the cell culture media,...accounts for the largest source among those mentioned above. The contaminants can spread through dirty clothing...proliferating shortly. Once they are present in the laboratory environment, they are difficult to eradicate....
  18. Optogenetics Guide

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    ...algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii . Channelrhodopsin-1 (ChR1) is excited by blue light and permits nonspecific...based on the LOV2 domain of Avena sativa phototropin 1 LOVETRAP reversibly sequester and release proteins...diversifying and extending optogenetics. Cell, 141 (1), 154–165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2010.02.037...limitations and future developments. Exp Physiol, 96 (1), 19–25. https://doi.org/10.1113/expphysiol.2009.051961...Biol, 1408 , 141–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3512-3_10 PMID: 26965121 Yizhar, O., Fenno, L... to permit CIB1 binding. As shown in the figure above, this light induced binding can be utilized to control...dimerization. In addition to the applications described above, both LOV and Dronpa can control activity of a fused...
  19. Promoters

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    ... or coding strand of the transcribed gene (Figure 1). The coding strand is the DNA strand that encodes...that is transcribed by the RNA polymerase. Figure 1: Simplified promoter region during transcription. ...Mammalian Strong promoter from human elongation factor 1 alpha PGK Constitutive Mammalian Promoter from phospholycerate...Learn about bacterial and eukaryotic promoters, including transcription and the transcription complex...your gene of interest is expressed. Promoters are about 100–1,000 base pairs long and are adjacent and typically...Inducible by arabinose Promoter of the arabinose metabolic operon trp Repressible by tryptophan Promoter ...
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