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TypeBlog Post...measured through their triglyceride or cholesterol contents (what is commonly called bad cholesterol). However... and localization in vivo. The LipoGlo system represents a new, intriguing approach to expand our understanding... and offers many advantages over traditional measurements such as patch clamp recordings. However, technical...
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Celebrate National Book Month with Addgene
TypeBlog Post...relationships between microbes and insects, mammals, and plants, among others. I particularly enjoyed the emphasis... their paths cross with each other and with the events of the times." - Aliyah Weinstein, Marketing...community know what your favorite book is in the comments! Additional resources on the Addgene blog Learn... -
New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019
TypeBlog Post...Recombinases And more! Control AAV For many AAV experiments, we recommend validating the serotype in your...vectors to more serotypes. We currently package four variants of these biosensors, which are optimized for specific... should improve the specificity of influence measurements by reducing photostimulation of the axons and... -
Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping
TypeBlog Post...a degron, a domain that induces degradation. In plants, auxin binds to TIR1 of the SCF-TIR1 ubiquitin ...versatility of the engineered SpCas9-NG and its variants can be used to engineer specific sites that were... factors developed thus far for these latter experiments, such as transcription factors tethered to dCas9... -
Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs
TypeBlog Post...cells (as demonstrated in different cellular environments such as retina or glioblastoma). They also found...classical purification protocol involving iodixanol gradients. The current purification protocols for isolating...decipher the mechanistic aspects behind these improvements. What have exosome AAVs achieved so far? Exo-AAVs... -
Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS
TypeBlog Post...Once you’ve identified some fly stocks and other reagents of interest, the next question to ask is what ...background. In other cases, YFG or one of its mutant variants will need to be overexpressed or knocked down....Although it’s often very easy to get GAL4 UAS experiments up and running with fly lines that are already... -
Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog Post...Darrell Kotton 2. Stem cell scientists care about patients As any grad student who has spent years studying...: Dr. Yamanaka talked about his clinical trial patients with advanced macular degeneration; Laurenz Studer...focused on translational research is encouraging. Patients are key to the research, but they are also the... -
Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
TypeBlog Post...) and are ready to dive into your functional experiments! Whether you’ve cloned the plasmid yourself or...determine the relative sizes of the resulting DNA fragments. Restriction digests are commonly used to confirm...longer to achieve good separation of larger DNA fragments. I hope these tips demonstrate that plasmid ... -
Antibodies 101: Buffers, Storage, and Conjugates
TypeBlog Post... and you’ll need to track it throughout your experiments. Now that that’s out of the way, you can put... reaction to understand if any of your buffer components could affect the reaction. For instance, sodium... - antibodies that are a good match for your experiments, and avoid the awkwardness of getting the right... -
Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns
TypeBlog Post...they successfully imaged multiple subcellular compartments over several minutes using Nano-lantern fusion...single molecule imaging. Nano-lanterns and your experiments The Nagai laboratory has a done a wonderful job...Addgene. Suzuki, Kazushi, et al. “Five colour variants of bright luminescent protein for real-time multicolour... -
New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020
TypeBlog Post...the N and C terminal segments respectively of a GFP dependent Cre. The two segments come together in the...transduction patterns empirically for their own experiments. To this end, we offer control AAV in smaller... -
Why and how to start studying chromatin (with Addgene's help)
TypeBlog Post...being depicted, we can’t forget that those other components are still there in real life. Certainly referring...specifically study it. They might be researching enhancer elements that control the transcription of a gene a megabase...versatile, small, sensitive immunohistochemical reagents. Yamagata M, Sanes JR Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Social Media for Scientists
TypeBlog Post...skills, while also learning about new scientific developments and helping scientists is a win-win for me. ...shared in the post. And the blog writing tips are elements I try to include in each post I write for the ...your research or career? Share your story in the comments below! Additional resources on the Addgene... -
Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur
TypeBlog Post...idea that would evolve into Sample6 as graduate students in Dr. Jim Collin’s Lab in 2009. From 2009 to ... an idea or product? Please let us know in the comments section! And read on for more great information...contributed by Julia Phillips and Fiona Beckman Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr. Mike Koeris (Co-founder and... -
To Each HIS Own
TypeBlog Post...wash steps removes excess proteins and other contaminants. The protein of interest is then eluted using...polyhistidine-metal ion interaction is not disrupted by denaturants (Hochuli, 1988). In some cases, proteins can ...more stringent wash conditions and remove more contaminants without losing your protein of interest. But... -
RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions
TypeBlog Post...reactions on tissues can be cumbersome Tyramide reagents can be expensive Can only stain with one HRP-RANbody...consider leaving a link to its sequence in the comments below. References Sanes, J.R., & Yamagata, M....versatile, small, sensitive immunohistochemical reagents. PNAS. PubMed PMID: 29440485. Additional Resources... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving
TypeBlog Post...Addgene, so troubleshooting molecular biology experiments was in the job description, but this skill is...broader research questions and designing future experiments. Being able to work through these types of bigger.... Know your strengths! Research experience presents ample opportunities to practice problem solving... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog Post...CRISPR-Cas systems SEND plasmids Prime editing improvements Miniature CRISPR-Cas systems By Brook Pyhtila... from Segel et al. 2021. Prime editing improvements By Angela Holmes Several labs have recently ...PEDAR is capable of correcting larger genomic rearrangements as demonstrated in a mouse model of tyrosinemia... -
Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options
TypeBlog Post...illumination in in vivo, ex vivo, or post-mortem experiments. Fluorescent proteins can also be identified ...transgenes of interest. Furthermore, fluorophore variants (for example green and red fluorescent proteins...and could even be beneficial in some types of experiments (for instance, when the fluorescence expressed... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog Post...such as RNaseZAP. When harvesting tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and work...the homogenate was loaded onto cesium-chloride gradients and ultracentrifuged for up to 20 hours to separate...instead of RNA separation using cesium-chloride gradients, water-saturated phenol, sodium acetate, and chloroform...