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  1. Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing

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    ...you can usually see a director sitting in their chair not watching their actors live on set, but peering...about getting in close to mic them up. Monitor: I then set up a monitor connected to the wireless transmitter...camera, OR, monitor from that distance.  Build: We got a wheeled stand and mounted a monitor to it. It ... their mask. But while the camera is here, the operator is in a different room.   Design: The previous...peering at a 7-inch wireless monitor. Wireless video technology has gotten very impressive, but due to costs...the beating heart of Addgene. It’s why we exist, storing plasmids, and distributing them to labs that need...Cycle 5 - The Future! Figure 5: The mobile monitor and teleprompter being repurposed for a different...
  2. A Novice's Perspective on Neuroscience - SfN2017

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    ... addition, there was an entire story-telling session organized by Story Collider and which featured a ...new knockout mice, using adenoviral vectors to deliver IGF receptors to the brain, and probing how fatty...to make efficiently. For select viral vectors in the repository, you can instead have Addgene make the...the different parts of the brain stimulated by stories. In retrospect, I should have expected this given...helmets, gait tracking technologies, and brain monitors. Walking around the poster presentation area, ...available from Addgene. While super useful, these vectors require a bit of expertise and can be difficult... into neuroscience, you could look to our viral vector pages on the Addgene website and on the Addgene...
  3. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    ...one 30-minute reaction. The destination vector and entry vector(s) are placed in a single tube containing... appear in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary overhangs that...TGGA and 3’ overhang TCCG can be ligated into a vector containing those overhangs. Entry DNA overhangs...enzyme and ligase. Although the original destination vector + insert may spontaneously religate, this transient...for multiple DNA components (promoters, genes, terminators, etc) to be assembled in the correct order in...assembly of multiple DNA fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed to utilize...efficiently clone up to 7 gRNAs into one destination vector, making multiplexing easy.  Disadvantages of Golden...
  4. Lighting Up Cell Signaling with Photoswitchable Kinases

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    ... 1. Testing kinase inhibitors Zhou et al examined the ability of kinase inhibitors to alter Raf1-MEK-ERK...kinase inhibitors, psMEK1 and ERK KTR-mRuby2 expressing cells were incubated with an inhibitor of choice...signaling pathways, scientists frequently use growth factors or serum to stimulate a pathway of interest, but...endogenous ERK, and its localization serves as an indicator of MEK1 activity. When MEK1 is active, it phosphorylates...localization of ERK KTR-mRuby2 determined. If the inhibitor targeted MEK1 or its downstream target ERK, the...the KTR remained in the nucleus. But if the inhibitor targeted upstream members of the pathway (Raf1, ..., which frequently occurs when serum or growth factors are used as a stimulus. This system also allows...
  5. AAV Packaged on Request is Here!

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    ...  Expanding our viral vector service Addgene has offered in-stock viral vectors since 2016, with the goal...Packaged on Request, an expansion of our viral vectors service, has officially launched! As of today, ...3,000 eligible AAV cargo plasmids in the Addgene repository to be packaged in your choice of five different...easy access to high quality, commonly used viral vectors. Of course, many scientists also need easy access...access to high quality, not so commonly used viral vectors. That’s where AAV Packaged on Request comes in.... making it easier to go from selection to viral vector. To start the AAV packaged on request process, ...for you to dig into. Check our blog post on viral vector production and quality control, our AAV Packaged...
  6. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    ...Susanna Bachle, Addgene the nonprofit plasmid repository 49:45 0 1:18:45 - Reagent Development - Steven...Alex Tucker (Ginkgo Bioworks) Pamela Hines (Senior Editor at Science) Edward J. Hall (Professor of Philosophy...sequenced and quality controlled plasmids and viral vectors. When working with a plasmid from Addgene, you ...negative” data We all want to be able to tell a good story when presenting scientific findings. This makes ...of information and, from a SciComm perspective, stories with links of causation from initial hypothesis...validation are easier to understand. The need for great stories has, however, made it difficult to publish so-called...original hypotheses. Looking for novelty in our stories, we are additionally averse to producing papers...
  7. Hot Plasmids: Fall 2025

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    ...plasmids, antibodies, viral preps, and more in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. Here's what...cell mitochondrial transfer tracker Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi Micropeptide killswitch...doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510511103      Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi By Mike Lacy Many popular...popular genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) are available, but red GECIs have been limited compared...sensitive soma-localized red fluorescent calcium indicator for in vivo imaging of neuronal populations at...macromolecules to serve cellular functions. Along with collaborators, the Denes Hnisz Lab previously discovered that...the killswitch (GFP-nb–KS) is delivered using a vector that also expresses mCherry to mark transfected...
  8. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...industry, non-profit, and government sectors.  Within these sectors, you could start your own company, ...based on any or all the contents of this post.  An attorney should be contacted for advice on specific legal... as law, medical/technical writing, clinical, regulatory, product development, business development, consulting...career paths in academia as well as the non-profit sector are transferrable to industry such as technology...greater scientific field, potential customers, investors, or other relevant entities or individuals. A ...peer reviewer for journals, acting as a journal editor) of the work of those in your field. Original contributions...papers that you should start contacting journal editors to request to be a reviewer. Proactivity is very...
  9. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    ...including a handful of plasmids that have been in the repository for many years, has now grown into a collection... spike protein to bind ACE2, the host cellular receptor. To more easily study the spike variants, scientists...Choe’s lab identified that ACE2 is the functional receptor for SARS-CoV. The lab also found that cathepsins...have an important role in viral entry, which are inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during...pandemic, the Krogan lab at UCSF generated lentiviral vectors expressing SARS-CoV-2 open reading frames and identified...proteins which all but one are cloned into pLVX vectors (for lentiviral packaging) and contain an IRES-...above, some of these plasmids have been in the repository for many years while many were developed during...
  10. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    ...for drafting my stories. In total, I prepare 5-6 stories for an interview, since one story usually has more...Instead, I preferred to prepare stories to answer interview questions. Story telling shares many of the same...of the theme of my interview stories as the characteristic which the story demonstrates I possess.   Bullet...helpful for my interviews in industry. Prepare stories to tell in your interview The STAR interview method...answer: a setting, a conflict, and a resolution. Stories usually have a theme too, which is something not...of questions. Writing a rough outline of these stories helped me remember them for the interview.  Prepare...
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