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TypeBlog Post...promoters, origins, tags, and certain ORFs. Their sophisticated detection algorithm easily and precisely identifies...Sequence” tabs. Primers This tab contains a table listing commonly used primers detected in a given nucleotide...thanks to you (our community of scientists) for suggesting these changes, and the SnapGene and Addgene software...
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A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein
TypeBlog Post...an important feature of a fluorophore. The key question is how the brightness is best defined or determined... cells within the dish. This is caused by the stochastic nature of plasmid uptake by cells. To correct...precise determination of brightness in cells, under realistic experimental conditions. By determining the brightness... -
Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016
TypeBlog Post...began with only a few inventory items offered domestically, but by the end of 2016, we expanded our viral...vector developed by Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute (Sanjana et al., 2014). It is a dual-vector system... Carolina, Chapel Hill. These can be used to investigate the effects of activating particular signaling... -
REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods
TypeBlog Post...recombineering to create insertions, deletions, and substitutions - at the same efficiency as Gibson Assembly ... This method can work well, but poor template digestion can result in a high number of background colonies...fragment In vitro Assembly No No Yes Yes DpnI Digestion Yes Yes No No Purified Enzymes Required No No... -
How to Make Friends and Meet People at a Scientific Conference
TypeBlog Post...have something in common. Namely, the scientific question you are interested in and this is a great ice ...relationships. Make a list of experimental problems or questions you are pondering and be ready to talk about them...scientists your own age. Some will be friendly so stick with those. Don’t miss social opportunities, but... -
Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript
TypeBlog Post...? Sometimes, the funders of your research may stipulate that your article must be published in an open...scope of the journal you are sending it to. It’s wasting everybody’s time if you don’t. Add a clear cover...get writing! Let us know if you have any other questions about writing and publishing your manuscript, ... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog Post...discussion with resources. One of the most common questions I get is, “What are we going to talk about?” There...internet, but start by downloading my handy list of suggestions. Get started. Have regular meetings. Experiment...ideas from your own mentoring group or with any questions about mentoring. Read the other posts in the series... -
Summer SciComm: Preprints
TypeBlog Post... admittedly, somewhat meaningless) practice of listing “Submitted” articles in their CV or grant applications...directly alongside the preprint while the work is still in progress or awaiting a final publication in a...Motivations, concerns and selection biases when posting preprints: a survey of bioRxiv authors. bioRxiv... -
Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies
TypeBlog Post...there and what are they doing. To address these questions, biologists often use next-generation sequencing...microbiota and host biomarkers In clinical and diagnostic labs, deep sequencing and qPCR methods are too...Jeffrey Barrick’s labs at The University of Texas at Austin recently developed the Bee Microbiome Toolkit (... -
Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing
TypeBlog Post...core mission. Plasmid distribution is amazingly still growing at >9% every year (12% in 2018) since 2005... The viral vector team is publishing research, hosting conferences, and are expanding our catalog of materials...community of scientists who support us by depositing, requesting and spreading the word. Our blog and site ... -
Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments
TypeBlog Post...- These fragments are produced by proteolytic digestion that retains an antibody’s disulfide bonds within...resulting product is a mini-Y with both Fab regions still attached to one another. Size: ~110 kDa. Fab' - ...- These fragments are produced by proteolytic digestion above the hinge-region, which results in two independent... -
Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV
TypeBlog Post...target tissue, two weeks is the standard ballpark estimation. Once expressed, viral cargo is usually quite...a Postdoctoral Fellow in Connie Cepko’s Lab investigating neuronal circuits of the retina using viral ...12349826. Xiong, Wenjun, and Constance Cepko. "Distinct expression patterns of AAV8 vectors with broadly... -
The time and cost required to make a plasmid
TypeBlog Post... to make a plasmid. Doench’s lab in the Broad Institute has created hundreds of thousands of plasmids,...also a great way to get to know people doing interesting and relevant work in your field! However, there...my ability to tell. But even from these rough estimates, it’s clear that community engagement with and... -
Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox
TypeBlog Post...tet-off turns off constitutively expressed proteins while tet-on turns on constitutively silenced proteins...know what the job requirements are. Here are the questions you should be asking. What kind of control? On... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)
TypeBlog Post...initiates single stranded DNA degradation. Cas3 DNA digestion can proceed up to multiple kilobases, but only...that it generates staggered breaks, also known as sticky ends. Cas12a cleavage results in 5 bp overhangs...efficient, multiplexable RNA knockdown. Cas13 has also stirred up interest for its potential as a viral therapeutic... -
Developing Lab Management Software for Biology
TypeBlog Post...this though) about the fact that containers are distinct from their contents. You should be tracking both...tray or a freezer. Some are disposable, like a plastic tube. Talk with your lab team about how they would...getting up and running and more time working on interesting biotechnology code.There are valid technical ... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog Post...one-pot reactions with straightforward restriction digestion and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral...pool of lentiviral plasmids. Multiple rounds of digestion and ligation result in plasmid libraries containing...tailored to address the users’ specific research questions. CombiGEM has been successfully applied to functionally... -
A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
TypeBlog Post... be used for the development of vaccines and diagnostics (Hsieh et al., 2020). As the virus spreads around...also deposited plasmids for producing COVID-19 diagnostic enzymes. Plasmids in this toolkit include ones...starting point for SARS-CoV-2 researchers to investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog Post...to keep track of growing collections of music. I still have a shelf full of CDs that have been gathering...Therefore, researchers from over 100 scientific institutions have proposed a shift to recombinant DNA-based...enormous amount of wasted money and time, with an estimated $350M/year lost on low quality antibodies in the... -
Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More
TypeBlog Post...you can make big changes in your career path and still find comfort and happiness there. Read all of the...part of why they work at Addgene. I posed this question to all nine of my interviewees. Fabienne Furt,...people.” My absolute favorite response to this question came from Lucy Hammer, our Financial Operations...