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  1. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    ...growing the cells on solid plates, where each transformant forms its own colony, uninfluenced by the growth... from both. These products are then purified, quantified, and sent for sequencing. Analyzing your sequencing...corresponding sequencing quality. Generally, you want to have 100x-1000x coverage of your library: in ...very similar to each other - that’s exactly what we want! At the end of the day, it’s up to you to decide...hope this post has helped clarify some of the important considerations when using, amplifying, and verifying...
  2. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ...great for lab life. These apps prevent you from constantly searching the interwebs for lab resources, and... Lab Archives by LabArchives The single, most important part of lab life is the lab notebook. Lab Archives...always comes first with research! It is always important to know what kind of reagents you work with in...MSDS for a lab chemical of choice. Now, I can’t guarantee every reagent in your chemical closet is in this...iGreenEarth AMINO is a very simple app that packs important biological information, amino acid abbreviations...
  3. Coomassie Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies Coomassie Purity Stain of Recombinant Antibodies You may also like...like... Antibody Plasmid Collection Antibody Blog Posts Antibody Guide Transfection for Recombinant Antibodies... . Prepare the recombinant antibody Dilute or concentrate purified recombinant antibody to a concentration...to determine purity and concentration of recombinant antibodies using ready-to-use biosafe Coomassie stain...Antibodies Recombinant Antibody Purification Protocol Introduction This protocol describes how to determine...determine the purity and concentration of recombinant antibodies using ready-to-use bio-safe Coomassie G-250...to determine purity and concentration of recombinant antibodies using Coomassie stain. Equipment Heat block...
  4. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    ... autophagy and, in a mouse model led to improved anti-cancer immunosurveillance and reduced tumor mass...on novel cancer therapeutics such as  (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) CAR T cells and PD-1 modulators. An ... et al. "Caloric restriction mimetics enhance anticancer immunosurveillance." Cancer cell 30.1 (2016):...PubMed PMID: 27411589. 2. Todoric, Jelena, Laura Antonucci, and Michael Karin. "Targeting inflammation in...: eaal3118. PubMed PMID: 28495700. 4. Zelenay, Santiago, et al. "Cyclooxygenase-dependent tumor growth...
  5. Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    ...most important resource that Addgene provides the scientific community? Katz: The most important resource...beyond. In your perspective, what do you think are important considerations for the future of open science?... on average 20 PhD’s a year and we have a very dominant presence in the biotech sector in both patent ...from Babson College. He is a certified public accountant (CPA), certified information systems auditor ...
  6. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications

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    ...several advantages over traditional vaccines, including 1) cellular responses in addition to antibody response...but this step can be engineered to be anything you want delivered to your target cells. This delivered DNA...the target cell or transiently expressed. It’s important to note that for all the applications we discuss...Gene expression control Researchers are always wanting to manipulate gene expression – turn it up, turn...
  7. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    ...Harvard. Roo wants to simplify access to academic resources among economically disadvantaged populations...graduate students. In order to gain a competitive advantage this cycle, consider the advice below:  1. Eligibility... and lighting for a smooth performance. Most importantly, make certain that everyone you live with is ...increase your competitive edge, they alone, are no guarantee of success. Don’t luck into an internship, prepare...
  8. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ... active variant, the phage is not infectious. The editing speed dictates which phage variants can propagate...complete ABE protein. If the phage delivers an active variant of the base editor, a functional gene III product...stringency PACE, resulted in the evolution of TadA variants with much higher base editing activity compared... TadA-7.10 enzyme. After testing numerous TadA variants, they identified TadA-8e, which edits 590-fold...
  9. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    ...however, did not improve at the same pace as the quantity and quality of the information. As a result, resources...different strategies for finding what they need, and we wanted to support all of them — searching, browsing, drilling... supported and combined?  Luckily, we had the advantage of a very specialized domain of information so...search engine to return only the filters that are relevant to a specific query and category. For example,...that make our new search engine unique. Most importantly, with this new implementation, we laid the foundations...
  10. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ...choose your own protein purification adventure. You want to purify your favorite protein (YFP). You have ...light-oxygen-voltage sensing domain from the oat plant (Avena sativa). In darkness, the AsLOV2 domain folds...15 kDa), single monomeric variable heavy chain antibody domain.  How do these components interact? When...binding ability of its nanobody partner, so it’s important to insert AsLOV2 at a spot in the nanobody that...tagged, which limits these approaches to use with recombinant proteins. Purifying an untagged protein with ...
  11. Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist

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    ...not be important for a good friend, but if you are making a professional inquiry, you always want to read...many academic scientists are starting to see the advantages of using social networking to start, build, and...the easiest ways to help is to connect people that want to meet or that you think might be helpful to each...Do not post or comment on anything that is not relevant to business or volunteer organizational work. ...
  12. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    ...can be both sorted using FACS and isolated with antibiotic selection. The team tested this system in vitro...the addition of standards, the assay is semi-quantitative and can approximate mRNA concentration within...bacteria of clinical significance and four clinically relevant host biomarkers. The lab validated their platform...host-range of the plasmids and suitability of various antibiotic resistance markers, promoters, and inducible ...microbiome responds to infection, dysbiosis, and antibiotic treatment. To facilitate these studies, Pamela...
  13. Reproducibility for Everyone: Lessons from an Open Science Collaboration

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    ...slides, handouts, and resources were hosted on the Plantae website blog post written by Ben Schwessinger, ...I realized that not all the materials would be relevant to everyone at this specific conference, and I...’s How-to-guide covers everything that you would want to know before, during, and after organizing such...was also recently awarded a Mozilla Science mini-grant, which will fund a project to support a dedicated... and impactful opportunities - There are many brilliant minds out there, but how do you get them to connect...
  14. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...base editors in vivo and achieved therapeutically relevant editing efficiencies in the mouse brain, liver...voltage indicator Article contributed by Shreya Vedantam Genetically encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs)...McCormick lab generated knock-out and knock-in mutants, determined protein expression levels from different...the CyanoGate kit at Addgene. Vasudevan et al., Plant Physiol 2018. PubMed PMID: 30819783. Light up CreLite...PIF6, phytochrome-like fusion proteins from the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. In the presence of red light...
  15. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...added using PCR-based amplification (Option 2). Advantages of Golden Gate cloning Golden Gate cloning is...potential clones. Golden Gate assembly has a few advantages over other cloning methods. Exonuclease-based...destination vector, making multiplexing easy.  Disadvantages of Golden Gate cloning Golden Gate cloning is...may not be amenable to "domestication", you might want to consider using an alternative method like Gateway...Gateway cloning or Gibson assembly. Another important consideration is the design of flanking overhangs...
  16. Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing

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    ...other references to scientific literature to substantiate the facts upon which it builds. This means you...your area. When you are in ‘writing-mode’ for a grant or a scientific manuscript, the reading will likely... you an overview of the topic and point you to relevant primary research articles. Then just start reading...key words and download what seems interesting or relevant. Harness the power of the Google search engine...Google Scholar will send you daily updates with relevant literature. Organizing the literature As a scientist...
  17. Working with Nuclear Receptors

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    ...‘core’ complex is composed of a tightly-bound invariant group of proteins, whereas the more loosely bound...acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature afforded by coactivator complexes...comprehensive datasets that collectively address many important and fundamental questions in nuclear receptor ...states, their circadian regulation, as well as in important physiological states such as adipogenesis and ...coregulators. We look forward to growing this important relationship with Addgene for the benefit of the...
  18. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    ...altogether different. They are filled with blind anticipation. Their trust in the quality of the content is... manuscript could only have been viewed as a significant improvement. As a result, the software piñata...those engaging in CRISPR design, but it is a significant hurdle made worse by an ever increasing marketplace...for this purpose. This second area is extremely important and given the lack of attention to it, it is an... interact with the software. This category is important for users wishing to select tools based on their...Matchmaker, it provides a list of terms I think are important to define for the CRISPR software space. It is...
  19. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    ...Outbred strains of mice are useful for comparing dominant and recessive traits and their impact on diseases... case, a positive selection marker such as an antibiotic resistance gene is also included to select for... are injected into a blastocyst which is then implanted into a female animal for gestation. Nucleases ...are microinjected into a zygote, which is then implanted into a female mouse for gestation. All three can...nucleases to generate an engineered mouse model has advantages over the injection of a targeting vector alone...
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