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TypeBlog Post...infects a snail’s eyestalks. Once ingested by the snail, the larvae reach the eyestalk and transform them...fish (Lutjanus guttatus) by a parasitic isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda)." Copeia 1983.3 (1983): 813-816. Gilbert...
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Seeing Red: Simple GFP Photoconversion
TypeBlog Post... that purified GFP could be imaged in the green state after excitation at 488 nm, photoconverted with ...with 405 nm light, and then captured in the red state after excitation at 561 nm. This imaging process worked...Hazelwood KL, Davidson MW, Looger LL. A bright and photostable photoconvertible fluorescent protein. Nat Methods... -
Scientific Sharing in the Time of COVID-19: Databases and Resources
TypeBlog Post...sharing as the scientific community strives to understand COVID-19. While the specific motivations vary...scientific community can make progress towards understanding this disease. Figure 1: Scientists are...investigate COVID-19, and once universities reopen and restart other research, scientific sharing will remain ... -
SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture
TypeBlog Post...circulating tumor cells, we found that the binding stability really mattered for efficient capture. We wanted...Andrews discovered the domain. It is small, highly stable and has this amazing chemistry locking the domain...(CTCs) is going to have a big impact on our understanding and treatment of cancer. It is clear that one... -
The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog Post...cell biology, Michael Davidson’s lab at Florida State University has been the go-to place. In 2012, his...every fluorescent protein under the sun, from the standard oldies but goodies (e.g., EGFP and YFP) to the...Democrat in a story about his life’s work and the stage IV lung cancer that has now prompted him to deposit... -
CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors
TypeBlog Post...specified by the Cas protein These elements were the starting point towards the development of the first cytosine...divisions, indicating that this method produces stable edits. However, this system is also subject to ...cytosines in the base editing window, reducing bystander editing (Wu et al., 2025). Adenine base editors...DNA before the edit is made. Using ABE7.10 as a starting point, Gaudelli evolved the base editor into 40... -
An Addgene Summer Internship
TypeBlog Post...program, teaching me the basics of physics and sustainable design while allowing me to do my internship ...during the first three weeks that we had made a mistake by not having the right concentration of a reagent...running on a time crunch and knew that if we were to restart the procedure we would not have enough time. During... -
Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database
TypeBlog Post...ever been the target of an ‘-omics’ study or is resistant to specific compounds, links to publication references...down the hall who got it from some technician downstairs who got it from who knows where), now is as good...surprising, and important, findings being shared. For instance, recently Cellosaurus received a report that HT... -
Five Questions to Ask If You're Deciding Between a Master's or PhD Program
TypeBlog Post...work. 5. Do you enjoy bench work? It’s easier to stay at the bench longer (or for your whole career) with...often technical career tracks for PhDs who want to stay at the bench. So if you enjoy wielding a pipette...hopefully the questions in this blog post can help you start to figure out if a master’s is a good fit with your... -
CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions
TypeBlog Post...during an initial fixation step. This serves to stabilize DNA-protein interactions for subsequent sheering... of the limitations of ChIP-seq. CUT&RUN, which stands for ‘Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease...likely that this technique will quickly become a standard method alongside ChIP. Many thanks to our guest... -
ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights
TypeBlog Post... For instance, long before a study with multiple patients was published, Zika researcher Christa Osuna... and good for science ReFigures are published instantly and are editable by the author at any time. Insights... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors
TypeBlog Post..., does the fluorescent tag need to be pH stable or withstand a particular solute concentration or temperature...biosensors track cellular characteristics like pH, redox state, and voltage across membranes. These sensors generally... -
Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Product Development
TypeBlog Post...slight detour, and a bit of luck. This journey started not at the end of her PhD but rather at the beginning...upon eScience by luck, by chance, by complete happenstance. It was on Indeed or one of the job search sites...Iowa really opened the door for me at eScience.” Stay tuned for part two of Caitlin’s interview where ... -
Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs
TypeBlog Post...of the societies within a university set up stalls or stands on campus and recruit students to join their...-industry networking to promote the creation of start ups and biotech spin offs. The Synthetic Biology... -
Viral Vectors 101: Transductions
TypeBlog Post..., most of the nucleic acid transfected will not stably integrate (unless you used a transposon system,... think. We have protocols available to get you started and information on the specific viruses available... Resources Resources on Addgene.org Generating Stable Cell Lines with Lentivirus Virus Handling and Storage... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog Post...biology tool. These systems allow researchers to understand bacterial gene clusters that produce useful natural...selection marker, Thy1.1, in addition to puromycin resistance. The MYC-CRISPR library targets E-boxes genome-wide...base editors to disrupt gene function by targeting start codons, splice acceptor and donor sites, and introducing... -
Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource
TypeBlog Post...Addgene prides itself on being financially self-sustaining through distributions of research materials, ...Bradbury A, Plückthun A (2015) Reproducibility: Standardize antibodies used in research. Nature 518:27–29...AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B, Aldred SF, Bestagno M, Burrone O, Maynard J, Ferrara F, Trimmer JS... -
In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins
TypeBlog Post... the fusion protein includes an AviTag and a 6X HisTag for affinity purification (see plasmid map and ...dramatically increased accessibility of the AviTag and HisTag, which were “buried” in a few of our proteins that...proteins - but it would remove both the AviTag and HisTag. We were surprised that we couldn’t find an all-in-one... -
Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux
TypeBlog Post...limitations because it turns a dynamic process into a static measurement and it provides limited information...mammalian dual-emission autophagy biosensor. Its resistance to lysosomal proteases is key to its pH-dependent...in acidic environments, while mRFP is relatively stable and fluorescences even at the acidic pH found in... -
Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools
TypeBlog Post...high processivity enzymes and the structural understanding thereof have the potential to provide improvements...conventional antibodies: they are small (12-15 kDa), stable, highly soluble, and non-immunogenic yet are still...telomere, and hope it can be used to expand our understanding of proteome localization in future studies of...