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TypeBlog Post...these people you meet will review your papers or grants in the future, and don’t be surprised to know that...personally Scientists in your field will know about grants and projects that might help your work Tenure can...they have to give you theirs! Think about how you want to introduce yourself and what you do. You can probably...night poker games at Gordon Conferences). You don’t want to be so exhausted that you can’t get a lot from...
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CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!
TypeBlog Post...depending if you want to use wildtype cas9 or double nickase). For example, if you want to target two genomic...et al. (2013) Science paper. For example, if you want to use double nickase, you could express two spacers...the two plasmids together into your cells. If you want to use double nickase, you need to have four spacers...refer to Cong et al. (2013) for more details. One important note is that this ‘split RNA’ design is not as... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving
TypeBlog Post...in my more recent positions outside of the lab. Granted, I currently work on the Scientific Support Team...thesis as it is for helping your team reach an important milestone at work. While I was in graduate school...work through it. Ask yourself if you missed any important details. Or challenge yourself to think of more...that this skillset is a part of your toolkit is important. Paired with your other skills, both technical... -
What's New in CRISPR - November 2021
TypeBlog Post...newest CRISPR plasmids available at Addgene. If you want to read more content related to CRISPR technology...making it well suited for AAV packaging. Most importantly, this CasMINI system was shown to be effective... the cellular MMR machinery is disrupted via a dominant negative mutation in MLH1 (PE4 = PE2+MLH1dn and...improve gene editing performance at therapeutically relevant gene targets and expand the application to the... -
The time and cost required to make a plasmid
TypeBlog Post...doing interesting and relevant work in your field! However, there’s no guarantee you’ll get a response...to make plasmids that already exist, and we significantly reduce costs of producing plasmids with high-throughput...always faster to order from us!) Ask the PI If you want a plasmid for free, you can always reach out to ... -
The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015
TypeBlog Post...biomedical workforce. Quotes taken directly from participants (summarized in 2) touched upon many problems...better solution would be to reduce the number of entrants into PhD programs to more closely reflect the ...Labor Market. On this topic it is clear that many important questions, areas for informed discussion, debate...Among other involvements, he helped to establish grants through the Sloan foundation for postdoc-related... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET
TypeBlog Post...decision easier. 1. Müller, Sara M., et al. "Quantification of Förster resonance energy transfer by monitoring...monitoring sensitized emission in living plant cells." (2013). PubMed PMID: 24194740. PubMed Central PMCID...) or would perturb the endogenous state that you want to measure (overexpressing a gene or protein after...detect cellular processes and signaling cascades, quantify mechanical tension (a molecular “spring”) (Meng... -
Overcoming the Challenges of Lentiviral Production
TypeBlog Post...cells are incubated and after several days the supernatant is collected, filtered, and titered. A major ...number of harvests will all impact the titer. Importantly, optimized conditions for one transfer plasmid...generally a good place to start. If you don’t anticipate that you will need large volumes of lentivirus...producing lentivirus, it is time to titer. One important consideration when titering a lentivirus is the... -
Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research
TypeBlog Post...undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing suitable projects. In...because the S. cerevisiae deletion strains are ∆ura3 mutants and cannot grow without uracil supplementation ... Students who participate in the course show significant gains in both content knowledge and research ...PMCID: PMC4012490. 4. Hoffman, C.S., Wood, V., & Fantes, P.A. An ancient yeast for young geneticists: A... -
A Look at Addgene's QC Process
TypeBlog Post...subsequent conclusions. Being vigilant about these errors is an important part of maintaining the quality...elements, and nucleotide indels or mismatches in significant plasmid elements. Which differences are considered...This post was written by Alyssa Shepard, with significant contributions from Alyssa Cecchetelli, Cary Valley... -
Tips for Technical Support Calls
TypeBlog Post...could have wanted to know was just buried beneath someone's lunch. Many times, I’m pleasantly surprised...should not) answer your questions about an Abcam antibody. Have your catalog number ready. I've attempted...last digit: An answer should come soon, but not instantly. Addgene tries to get back to customers within... -
Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
TypeBlog Post... transposon methylation underlies the mantled somaclonal variant of oil palm." Nature 525.7570 (2015):...study,epigenetic changes were statistically significantly associated with reduced life-span, but no changes...controlled, the reporter consistently showed significantly different FRET levels between unmethylated and... -
Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization
TypeBlog Post...management skills but a longer term and more substantial experience can be achieved by volunteering for...national issues. I applied and was successfully granted a travel award to attend the annual NPA meeting...decide to remain here. In a time when it is so important for postdocs and graduate students to think about...blogger Juliet Moncaster! Juliet Moncaster is an Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers
TypeBlog Post...expressed, they predominantly fluoresce one color but slowly mature until they predominantly fluoresce a ...FP timers can be used in any situation where one wants to understand the relationship between the age of...3. Verkhusha, Vladislav V., et al. "An enhanced mutant of red fluorescent protein DsRed for double labeling... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog Post...the thousands of other scientists using pLKO.1 variants learn about those updates? This is a problem many...resources can be found in our Plasmids 101 blog series. Want to learn more about sharing your plasmids via Addgene...looking to streamline your lab management and you want the works: organizing reagent storage and inventory... plasmid features, and reference tables (i.e. antibiotic concentrations, commonly used primers). We also... -
CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line
TypeBlog Post...repairing DNA double strand breaks – (HR). HR is the dominant homology-directed repair (HDR) pathway in mammalian...higher HR frequencies than quiescent cells. It is important to know that HR is often mutated in cancer cells...recognition sequence in the donor DNA, you can guarantee there won’t be re-targeting after HDR. If your...your cells. Enrich S-phase cells HR operates predominantly in S and G2 phase of the cell cycle, when a ... -
Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview
TypeBlog Post... popular and useful viral vectors in the lab. Advantages of lentivirus include a large genetic capacity...Figure 2). The HIV genes that do remain are very important for viral production: Gag (structural precursor...transduced with a lentiviral vector containing an antisense sequence against the HIV-1 envelope. As of 2013...contain a deletion in the 3’ LTR that prevents aberrant activation of nearby genes. These safer vectors... -
Tips for Screening with Yeast Two Hybrid Systems
TypeBlog Post...activator (1a) or a repressor (1b). Scientists took advantage of these discoveries to create a new system for...mating two single haploid yeast fusion plasmid transformants into a diploid strain for screening), or arrayed...increase the stringency of your binding. And most importantly: Independently validate identified binding partners...ensure that your setup works. The last thing you want is to run your lovely library screen only to find... -
Plasmids 101: Codon usage bias
TypeBlog Post...at a lower rate than proteins encoded by highly abundant, charged tRNAs. For example Tuller et al. found...ribosome will move quickly along regions calling for abundant, charged tRNAs but will stall at regions calling...! I should just choose the codon with the most abundant pool of charged tRNAs in my host organism for ...normally found at low abundance in E. coli. The advantage of producing additional tRNAs is that you can ... -
Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego
TypeBlog Post...comparable (within r2=0.96) to that of NGS data. Advantages of ICE Determine Editing Efficiency and Types... ICE uses Sanger sequencing data to produce quantitative, NGS-quality analysis of CRISPR editing - enabling...guide design tool, guide validation tool, and guaranteed editing with the CRISPR Gene Knockout Kit. Please...featured topic page xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with Pam Flexibility RNA Editing with Cas13 and...