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  1. 10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For

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    ...fuel sources.” In her work, Dr. Polka made R-body mutants that respond to different pH’s and some that are...School describes how AAVs function and indicates important things to consider if you’re getting started with...through Addgene.  Thanks again to all of our fantastic depositors and guest writers. Your contributions...
  2. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    ...teenager in high school, I knew that this is what I wanted to do,” Stegmeier says He began this journey in...wealth of resources on Addgene’s website and blog important. “The experience from the scientific community... either through direct industry collaborations, grants, or setting up commercial and nonprofit companies...
  3. Viral Genome Sequencing - A One Stop Shop for AAV Identity and Serotype Confirmation

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    ... of the main tenets of our quality control (QC) mantra is to do our utmost to ensure that scientists are... containing just the expression cassette that we want, it also includes a small amount of spurious DNA...packaging plasmids. We decided to use this to our advantage by designing a Python script that looks for pre-defined...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    ...is the biological outcome you want to achieve? For example, do you want the nucleic acid cargo to be integrated... If you know the basics but are here because you want to know the intricacies of transductions, we've ...
  5. Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm

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    ...I didn’t truly address the question of what I wanted to do when I grew up until I was all but finished... I was struck with the realisation that I didn’t want a career in neuroscience—whatever that entails. ... this subject allowed me to engage in findings relevant to my background (neuroimaging, biomechanics, ...
  6. A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light

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    ...cultures in the shakerTurn the LEDs onAnd when you wantYou can just turn them offNo need for any washNo need... aureochrome1 (VfAu1), led to functional BLADE variants, too. The team tested different linkers between...light without the need of any cloning.     What advantages does BLADE have over AraC? When compared to the...
  7. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    ...be it an organic dye or FP) is one of the most important steps in the design of an imaging experiment.  ...Goedhart on the Addgene blog – outlining various important considerations when choosing a FP, but much of...valid email address).  One may also simply attach important references that serve to further characterize ...
  8. With Our New Viral Service, We're Taking CRISPR Further!

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    ... worthwhile. Particularly if in the end all they want to do is to quickly generate a single cell line ...." If you ever run out of ready-to-use virus and want to make new lentiviral preps on your own, fear not...excited to provide this new service for researchers wanting an easier way to use CRISPR and would love to hear...
  9. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ...be of secondary importance (or tertiary, or non-existant). On the very first night of the iPSC symposium... the stem cell community for addressing these important questions that the scientific method cannot address... it took the joint effort of five post-docs to implant human kidney progenitors into a pig. In stark contrast...
  10. Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic

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    ...SARS-CoV-2 were developed for broad use and are now important for accelerating research into this virus. One...scientific community. Addgene was awarded a Fast Grant to ensure that the scientific community will continue...Deposits of new reagents, policies from journals and granting agencies requiring materials to be deposited into...
  11. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    ...CRISPR tools, without compromising their strategic advantages in gene editing, while keeping the system to ... array with a given tRNA (derived from human or plant source), by tuning the length of 5’ leader sequences...outperformed other tRNA candidates (either from human or plant sources) in both the strength as a promoter and ...
  12. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    ...screen and transform your work into a paper or a grant. Here’s a list of tools and resources that might...differences between these two citation managers. If you want more tips on finding and organizing papers, check...post: Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers. These are only a few of the many writing...
  13. Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key

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    ...get more done. There are also a host of other advantages to practicing effective delegation skills: ...responsibility if things go wrong. Here are some important criteria for delegating tasks appropriately: ... and accountability? What types of issues do you want to know about right away? Provide adequate support...
  14. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    ...understanding of the topic will give you some advantage over other candidates. Write about your transferable...research. For example, did you help put together a grant application? Are you familiar with the publishing...whether to stay in academia or not, it is even more important to start early. Think about your plan for the ...
  15. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    ...immunogenicity. But these studies also identified other advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins... makes WYL proteins an intriguing counterpart to anti-CRISPR proteins that negatively modulate the activity...efficiency; where shRNA treatment produced 500-900 significant off-targets, CasRx displayed zero. Unlike Cas9...
  16. Improved Plasmid Maps Powered by SnapGene

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    ... a variety of common plasmid features such as antibiotic resistance genes, selectable markers, promoters... files Once you’ve identified a plasmid that you want to learn more about, updates to our sequence analyzer...used to indicate them on the map, direction (if relevant), and types. Types listed are standard GenBank...
  17. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    ...  Multiplexing Method Delivery Method Advantages Disadvantages References Yamamoto Lab Golden Gate ...Multiplexing crRNA expression with Cpf1  The key advantage of multiplexing crRNA expression with Cpf1 is ...
  18. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    ...self-supporting service so that Addgene is not dependent on grants. Aiming to operate under a similar model for our...word out about this new resource and providing fantastically useful educational content on viral vectors.... Addgene’s Legal Team acquired permission from relevant plasmid depositors and their institutions to distribute...
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