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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...experimental design and its potential for clinical applications. Specifically, efficacy rates of Cas7-11 were...place, while increasing the number of potential applications. But they weren’t done engineering quite yet... at the bench and potentially in therapeutic applications. The potential of CRISPR has yet to fully taken...
  2. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    ... done and we’re onto the next story. Figure 1: Addgene’s Agile Approach Sharing is caring There...diverse group of ethnicities, cultures, genders, educational, and professional backgrounds. Sometimes this... information. It is quite possible that the clarifications lead to the story being scrapped or broken ...While writing the code, we may need additional clarification and again we collaborate with the Product Team...
  3. Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias

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    ...inclusion bodies and is folding properly. References 1. Angov, Evelina, et al. "Heterologous protein expression...ribosome may therefore stall at inappropriate locations or fail to make it through the entire transcript...generally segregate with the cell pellet during purification procedures. Even if you produce a large amount...
  4. Chemogenetics Guide

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    ...Nat Rev Methods Primers, 3 (1), 93. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-023-00276-1. Magnus, C. J., Lee, P. H...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...
  5. 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. AdMax™ AdMax™ is another well used rAdV vector production...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...
  6. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ...commandments for making it all work – most of the time. #1 Thou shalt find enjoyment in your work If you are ...other activities. Take care of yourself. Take a vacation alone with your partner – no kids. Get a massage...
  7. 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...described above showed successful target modification, indicating that AAV is a good delivery vehicle for... with AAV. This system fuses catalytically dead dCas13b to the catalytic domain of RNA deaminase ADAR2...overall packaging capacity but necessitating purification and co-infection of two AAVs. Cas9 orthologs...Streptococcus thermophilus and a rationally-designed truncated Cas9. Unfortunately, certain drawbacks limit the...that limits the number of targetable loci, and truncated Cas9 has much lower efficiency than its wild-type...the AAV-SaCas9-sgRNA constructs mediate genome modification, but they did so without a substantial immune...
  8. 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...be part of the answer. Problems with written publications Online tools like ResearchGate, GoogleScholar... that the big breakthroughs in my discipline, education, will come from ideas garnered from research in...from the science of others. Improving science communication through video     Video abstracts about research... to be that video is the future in terms of communicating ideas. In 2012, for example, 3 billion hours...scientific videos were for entertainment or basic education (i.e., learn why water freezes) there was a growing...video usurps the written word as the means for communicating research. Short videos of 3 to 5 minutes provide...
  9. 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...resources you’ll need ahead of time and mute your notifications during. (Boyes, 2019) If you’ve taken the time... particularly relevant to you. Elect a devil’s advocate. This is the person whose job it is to disagree...think about alternative options. When a devil’s advocate is elected, others may feel they can share opposing...dissenting opinions or ideas. While the best devil’s advocate is one who truly disagrees with the group (because...adamantly for their solution), selecting a devil’s advocate is a good option for any meeting in which the ...other way,” you probably have reason to continue advocating for your idea. Our product team has implemented...
  10. Lentiviral Vector Guide

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    ...typically ranges from 8–10 kb, encoded on RNA (Figure 1). This RNA is reverse transcribed into the provirus...been removed or mutated for increased safety. Figure 1: Wild-type lentivirus genome. All retroviruses use...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. Feature...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...
  11. 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...Creating great educational science videos is tough. Is the content accurate? Are we conveying complex... had set up involved multiple people in tight locations. Conference rooms for on-screen presenters! Labs...wasn’t going to work for the majority of our educational videos. In addition, it’s really asking a lot...receiver, to beam the camera’s image to my remote location, live. After doing a bit of looking, I found an...
  12. Transferable Skills Guide: External Collaborations

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    ...collaborations, keep these jobs in mind! References 1. Sinche, Melanie, et al. "An evidence-based evaluation...hesitation to ‘approach strangers’ and learn how to communicate outside my scientific expertise. Organizing a...will lead! Read our blog post about fostering communication in remote collaborations! Stay in touch: Maintaining...connection is to make sure you keep open lines of communication with colleagues who move on to new organizations...
  13. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    ...therapies to clinical trials in 2021. Figure 1: Schematic of the human MECP2 locus and MECP2 protein...detrimental as too little, resulting in MECP2 duplication syndrome or Rett Syndrome, respectively. One ...Efficient and Precise CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated MECP2 Modifications in Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells. Front..., Hector RD, Cobb SR, Bird A (2017) Radically truncated MeCP2 rescues Rett syndrome-like neurological ...
  14. 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 ...2019). TREE is a real-time, fluorescent based identification system for the isolation of base-edited cell...to BFP Conversion: A Versatile Assay for the Quantification of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated Genome Editing. Molecular...Harris RS (2018) A fluorescent reporter for quantification and enrichment of DNA editing by APOBEC–Cas9...
  15. 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...standard, including chloramphenicol-resistant level 1 vectors. Mobius Assembly Vector Toolkit Bacterial ...protein purification tags and fluorescence proteins for use in E. coli for a variety of applications. EcoFlex...Modular Cloning Blog: Plasmids 101 Modular Cloning Applications and Kits Blog: Plasmids 101 Golden Gate Cloning...
  16. Sequencing Primers

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    ...GGGAAACGCCTGGTATCTTT Human U6 promoter Forward LKO.1 5' (U6) GACTATCATATGCTTACCGT Human U6 promoter Forward M13 Forward...TTTTGGCAGAGGGAAAAAGA Rabbit beta-globin polyA region Reverse CAT-R GCAACTGACTGAAATGCCTC 5' end of chloramphenicol ...LacZ Reverse LexA CGTCAGCAGAGCTTCACCATTG 3' end of LexA DNA binding domain Forward LKO.1 5' (U6) GACTATCATATGCTTACCGT... GCTGTCCTCTAAGCGTCACC Mouse metallothionein 1 promoter Forward mU6-F CAGCACAAAAGGAAACTCACC Mouse U6 promoter... plasmid verification, Addgene has used a number of primers for Sanger sequence verification over the ... AC5 ACACAAAGCCGCTCCATCAG Drosophila Actin 5C promoer Forward Alpha-factor TACTATTGCCAGCATTGCTGC Alpha...Bglob-intron-F CTGGTCATCATCCTGCCTTT Rabbit beta-globin intron Forward Bglob-intron-R TTTGCCCCCTCCATATAACA Rabbit...
  17. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    ...and biotin plasmids at Addgene!     Figure 1: Indirect detection of target markers can be achieved...labeling can be subdivided into two categories, depending on the location of the targeted markers. Some commercially...proteins, such as receptors, or post-translational modifications on those proteins, like glycosylation patterns...Depending on the research question and downstream application, one or several of those techniques can be used...your flow analysis. However, certain downstream applications, like an in vivo adoptive transfer of those ...labeling Oftentimes, a marker of interest is not located on the cell membrane but inside the cell. Due to...but preserving the cellular state (think of mummification). Permeabilization, as the name suggests, perforates...
  18. 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...conflict is not always what was communicated but how it was communicated. The next step is to come up with...of lapsed communication. Making some assumptions about how something should be communicated is necessary...skill in and of itself. Conflict can also be categorized as either “personal” or “substantive”. A personality-based...traced back to one of a few trouble spots:  Communication (or lack thereof): Information sharing gets ...organization gets, and creating new avenues of communication can create as many problems as it can solve....meeting? Different teams frequently prefer to communicate in different ways, so the source of the conflict...
  19. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    ...30, 2018 and updated April 16, 2020. Figure 1: Comparison of SHERLOCK and DETECTR nucleic acid detection...activated” Cas13 produces a quantifiable signal that indicates the presence of your targeted nucleic acid. To...amplified using RPA (recombinase polymerase amplification) or reverse transcriptase (RT)-RPA, respectively...RNA for subsequent detection by Cas13. This amplification step in combination with the ssRNA reporter ... introduced in 2017 so the lab made further modifications to improve their detection system. They named... SHERLOCKv2 uses far less primer in the pre-amplification step allowing for greater quantitation without...hour. Find the SHERLOCK plasmids at Addgene! Applications of the SHERLOCK detection system The Zhang lab...
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