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  1. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    ...researchers.  TALENs In 2010, transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) were engineered. TALENs... plague).  Base editors The major drawback of all the endonuclease-based gene editors (meganucleases, ...generate the prototypical base editor enzymes. The cytidine base editors (CBE) use a cytidine deaminase...the adenine base editors which can help accelerate the engineering of novel base editor proteins. She is... agricultural products. But it also made SciFi director Ridley Scott wonder what would happen if these...year after the discovery of meganucleases. The storyline involves the resurrection of dinosaurs by extracting...sequences is not ideal. For the early generation gene editors, new amino acid recognition sites had to be designed...
  2. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...plasmids use Rho-independent terminators, which include naturally occurring terminators, such as T7 and rrnB,...engineered terminators come close (>95%). For most purposes, however, any common terminator will suffice...suffice. Many commercial expression vectors use double terminators to reduce unwanted translation of downstream...require binding of termination factors. Although both are termination factor dependent, Polymerases I and...Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element Enhances Expression of Transgenes  Delivered by Retroviral Vectors. Journal...of yeast terminators of varying strength. A discussion of the effects of various terminators in the context...termination and polyadenylation? The role of the terminator, a sequence-based element, is to define the end...
  3. Kazuhiro Oka Lentiviral Vectors

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    ...Collections Gene Vector Core Viral Vectors Gene Vector Core Viral Vectors Lentiviral Transfer Vectors Adenoviral... transfer vectors and generating new viral vectors. Download the Lentivirus Transfer Vector Production...lentiviral and adenoviral vectors read our Lentiviral Vector Guide and Adenoviral Vector Guide Find more plasmids...Lentiviral Vectors deposited by Kazuhiro Oka from the Baylor College of Medicine Gene Vector Core Depositor...Adenoviral Transfer Vectors Resources Kazuhiro Oka and the Gene Vector Core (Link opens in a new window) of ...lentiviral and adenoviral transfer vectors with Addgene. Lentiviral Transfer Vectors Within this set of lentiviral...PGK promoter Adenoviral Transfer Vectors The adenoviral transfer vectors contained within this set are derived...
  4. Viral Vector Guides and Plasmids

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    ...Guides Viral Vectors Viral Vector Guides and Plasmids Selecting a Viral Vector Type Introduction to Viral...Viral Vectors Resources Viral vectors are popular tools for delivering genetic information to cells. These...and Plasmids Lentiviral Vector Guide | Lentiviral Plasmids Lentiviral vectors are versatile tools because...the host genome. AAV Vector Guide | AAV Plasmids Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are commonly used ... Gamma-retroviral Vector Guide | Gamma-retroviral Plasmids Gamma-retroviral vectors, often referred to...Retroviral vectors are popular for making stable cell lines or clinical use. Adenoviral Vector Guide | Adenoviral...applications as vaccines. Selecting a Viral Vector Type Each viral vector type exhibits different properties and...
  5. Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research

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    ...block Entry vectors and 5 lentiviral Destination vectors. These vectors can induce combinatorial constitutive...research purposes, retroviral vectors have been developed into ‘split-vector systems’ by separating viral...and expression of these vectors when used in experiments. Retroviral vectors make up a large toolbox ...Gamma-retroviral vs. lentiviral vector systems Gamma-retroviral vectors have a relatively high transduction... many more useful viral vectors available at Addgene: Follow our viral vector blog posts for updates on...tips for using retroviral vectors in your experiments. Gamma-retroviral vectors Popular gamma-Retroviral...Transfer Vectors   Expressing your gene of interest pMKO.1 GFP (Plasmid #10676) Retroviral vector for cloning...
  6. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - December 2019

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    ...ve added many new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have...pAAV.hSynapsin.SF-iGluSnFR.A184S Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors should be packaged and available ... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...few months. You can also browse our entire AAV inventory. Our new AAVs include: Optogenetics AAV Control...in new serotypes. See our Serotype Testing AAV inventory for the entire collection! Plasmid Serotype...norepinephrine Neuroscience research relies on accurate monitoring of neurotransmitters and we are excited to offer...
  7. Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene

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    ...science stories. Here are some of our favorite spooky science stories. Six spooky science stories Zombie...Plasmid pumpkins, team costumes, and spooky science stories. Yes, please! At Addgene, we love finding ways ...Vampire bacteria Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus is a predatory bacteria that attaches to the cell wall of green...forcing it out of hiding to become exposed to predators. Hungry birds spots the “caterpillar” and then... "Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus." ...
  8. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    ...ve added many new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have...Testing AAV inventory for the entire collection! We are expanding our entire control AAV inventory to give...Calcium Sensors). We are expanding the inventory of these vectors to more serotypes. We currently package...GCaMP7s. See all our biosensors inventory, and check out our latest vectors below: pGP-AAV-syn-jGCaMP7f-...addition to our inventory of Cre-dependent GABA sensors. See all our GABA sensor AAV inventory here. pAAV.hSynap.iGABASnFR...support by growing our inventory of recombinases and recombinase-dependent vectors. We recently released...pENN.AAV.hSyn.Cre.WPRE.hGH (105553-AAV5) Dre vector AAV phSyn1(S)-DreO-bGHpA (50363-AAV5) Flp vectors pAAV-EF1a-mCherry-IRES-Flpo...
  9. The Golden Stopwatch Award: Recognizing Facilitators of Research

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    ...guarantee certain rights and protections for depositor and requestor alike. That’s why Addgene works closely...closely with TTOs to help protect our depositors’ intellectual property, and to help requesting institutions...California Institute of Technology Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute  Fred Hutchinson...
  10. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

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    ...ve added many new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have...pEF1a-DIO-FLPo-WPRE-hGHp Other new viral vectors New optogenetics inhibitors Plasmid Serotype Name 99039 ...AAV1 pAAV-ihSyn1-DIO-tTA Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors listed below should be released at... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...few months. You can also browse our entire AAV inventory. Our new AAVs include: Control AAVs for serotype...always excited to add new control AAVs to our inventory since we know that scientists need these tools...popular control AAV encoding GFP. Check out our inventory of serotype testing AAV New control AAVs Plasmid...
  11. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019

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    ...ve added many new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have... used in conjunction with optogenetic activators and inhibitors that respond to blue light. We recently...GABAergic interneurons. These vectors can also be used as the control vectors for experiments encoding a ...pAAV-hSyn-mCherry at Addgene. Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors listed below should be released at... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...far in 2019. You can also browse our entire AAV inventory! Our new AAVs include: pGP-AAV-syn-FLEX-jGCaMP7b-WPRE... Addgene. GABA sensor AAV GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in vertebrates, but methods ...
  12. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    ...once using existing indicators. For example, you might want to use OCaMP to monitor Ca2+ signals, while...while using  iGluSnFR4 to monitor glutamate in green/yellow and RdLight to monitor dopamine in red.  However...past few decades, genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) have become a vital tool in neuroscience...toolbox, our team recently developed a new calcium indicator, OCaMP. The challenge: Expanding the fluorescent...multiple fluorescent tools are used simultaneously to monitor or control different cell types or signals in the... the brain. For this to work, each indicator needs to emit a different color of light and be compatible...FPbase.org. Scientists have developed calcium indicators spanning nearly the entire visible spectrum (...
  13. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    ...Cytosine Base Editor Converts C → T; the first type of base editor invented. ABE Adenine Base Editor Converts...Adenine Base Editors CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors Read about four base editor reporters Resources...about the first base transversion editors: CGBEs, or C → G Base Editors. CGBEs first convert a cytosine ...site. But what if an editor could excise other bases? Could other transversion editors be close at hand? ... 2024). They called their initial editor AXBE, for A → X base editor (X = any nucleotide). To create a...transversion editors. Red arrows indicate a conversion directly catalyzed by the base editor. Black arrows...base editor allows guanine transversions And further development was on its way! All base editors up to...
  14. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    ...two classes of base editors were cytosine base editors (CBEs) and adenine base editors (ABEs). CBEs mediate... first cytosine base editors from Alexis Komor and the first adenine base editors from Nicole Gaudelli...cytidine deaminase portion of the base editor to create SpCas9 base editors with editing windows as small as...Fourth-generation cytosine base editors The fourth-generation base editors, BE4, reduce the undesired C→... base editors The beginnings Nicole Gaudelli from David Liu’s lab created an adenine base editor that ...obtained four adenine base editors (ABEs). ABE7.10 is the most active editor, displaying an average editing... adenine base editor with improved nuclear localization and expression. This base editor was named ABEmax...
  15. Addgene is Expanding Our Viral Vector Service!

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    ... maintain high standards for both our depositors and requestors.  Requesting Plasmids available for Packaged...through a distributor?  Yes! Packaged on Request service will be available through our distributor partners...excited to announce that we are expanding our viral vector service to include a Packaged on Request option...AAV composed of an AAV plasmid in the Addgene repository and their choice of five different serotypes....requesting and ordering a Packaged on Request viral vector prep.    Excited? So are we! This expansion...ordering high-quality materials from the Addgene repository. Read on to learn more.  What will be available...available?  Over 3000 AAV plasmids in the Addgene repository will be available for Packaged on Request service...
  16. Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks

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    ...Therapeutics, co-founded by Harvard Investigators and Addgene depositors David Liu, PhD, Keith Joung, PhD...to Rett Syndrome, this blog post describes the history of Rett Syndrome research, the role of the MECP2...exhibit slow head growth, develop seizures, cardio-respiratory dysfunction, distinctive hand movements, and ...& Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have suggested ...neurological deficits observed in Rett Syndrome. Restoring the MECP2 gene by excision of the Stop cassette...precise amount of protein to each brain cell to restore physiological levels. Much research is now focused...researchers developed adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors for the targeted delivery of a functional MECP2...
  17. Depositor Week 2020 is Happening Now. Join us!

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    ...plasmid tools! Thank you depositors! In fact, this year, Addgene depositors quickly stepped up to make... as an example). Depositor Week will be fun for everyone, whether you are a depositor or not. We will ...Tuesday: Depositor features (plasmid deposits and blog posts showcasing the work of depositors) Wednesday...for some Addgene depositor fun facts for a quick way to grasp the big impacts depositors have on science...your calendars for November 16-20, 2020 for #DepositorWeek on Twitter!  That’s today through Friday. There...scientists who make a big impact in open science. Depositors consistently contribute to our collection so ...COVID-19 related plasmids currently in Addgene’s repository which have been requested about 1,500 times from...
  18. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ...deposited into repositories, and financial support to maintain repositories’ capacity for storing, validating...through a repository, they remain accessible during these times. Centralized reagent repositories, also known...dedicated facilities and manpower that a repository provides. Repositories around the world facilitate the rapid... the scientific community can support repositories. Repositories are essential for the advancement of ...original sources. Figure 1: Biological repositories that distribute mouse strains, plasmids, cell...Culture Collection (ATCC) is a private, nonprofit repository for a variety of materials for life science research... sharing and distribution of cell lines from repositories on opposite sides of the world shows that science...
  19. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - May 2020

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    ...ve added many new tools to our inventory of ready-to-use viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV and lentiviral...Serotype Testing AAV inventory for the entire collection! Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor 27056 AAVrg pAAV-Ef1a-DIO...pAAV-EF1a-Flp-DOG-NW Connie Cepko Viral vectors coming soon! These vectors listed below should be released at... of our viral vectors blog posts Find tips for preparing AAVs Download our viral vectors 101 eBook Resources...mDlx enhancer element. Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor 75470 AAV1 pAAV-CAG-FLEXFRT-ChR2(H134R)-mCherry...promotes neuronal firing. Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor 44361 AAV1 pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM3D(Gq)-mCherry Bryan...also available in AAV1. Plasmid Serotype Name Depositor 69570 AAV1 pAAV-EF1a-N-CretrcintG Connie Cepko...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...blog Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping Viral Vectors 101: Systemic...and are required for replication, packaging, and vector persistence. They work in conjunction with the ...retained with the gene in a recombinant AAV (rAAV) vector (Figure 1). Everything else outside the ITRs gets...gets left behind.    Figure 1: Recombinant AAV vector with ITRs that flank the gene cassette, which contains... bp version is used in most plasmids. In an AAV vector plasmid, they flank the gene of interest. A single...of the most important elements of AAV and rAAV vectors, modifications can affect gene transfer efficiency...an ITR with a sequence containing transcription factor binding sites can increase transgene expression...
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