...General Counsel at Atalanta, an early-stage biotech company that is developing RNAi therapeutics to treat neurodegenerative...law. He said, “you know, the patent lawyer at my company seems to really like what she does.” I thought ...patent counsel and ran a group at two fairly large companies, Genzyme and Biogen. They’re very different jobs...corporate work, and negotiating contracts with other companies. It's one of those "every day is something different...

..., in vitro screens cannot faithfully model the complex spatial, cellular, metabolic, and cytokine microenvironment... cells, an important immune cell type, in more complex and physiological microenvironments. These screens...immunogenic, a necessity for in vivo studies; (3) is compatible with single gene KO and pooled screening approaches...facilitate the isolation of modified cells; and (5) is compatible with the introduction of unique molecular identifiers...

.... Nonetheless, Addgene’s annual Deck the Lab competition drew upon the creativity of the community, who...place-winning entry doubled as their lab’s decoration competition, and each lab member used an impressive variety... started last year: The Christmas Decoration Competition! #ScienceFun #ZoomParty @Addgene pic.twitter....bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Final tree with the complete #MicrobeAdventCalendar ornament set (plus more...

...Beth Kenkel To complement our RNA Extraction Without A Kit blog post, we've compiled five methods for...methods to do this. 5. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility by Leah Schiesow If you're thinking about ...features two mechanisms that cause plasmids to be incompatible. 4. RNA Extraction Without A Kit by Leah Schiesow...

...interviewed fellow Addgenies about their role in the company. One of the things I wanted to do was create content...were a part of the different departments of the company. I asked questions relating to their roles at Addgene...month, I can say with certainty that Addgene is a company that cares - not only in terms of its employees... Addgenies. I could take an active role in the company and not just feel like an additional person each...

...add another layer of complexity to imaging, as they allow one to monitor compartment/protein dynamics or... may not be appropriate for high-pH cellular compartments. Sattarzadeh et al. have shown that GFP can ...Drosophila, and mammalian cells. Photoconverted GFP is compatible with other FPs since its emission wavelength ...

...expansion, scientists will be able to request an AAV composed of an AAV plasmid in the Addgene repository and...by Addgene for legal approvals and technical compatibility with our production process. This process will...the service to be fulfilled and QC assays to be completed and reviewed. The timeline therefore will be as...follows:  Request review: 1–2 days Prep and QC completed: 6–8 weeks Average shipping time: 1–2 days (USA...

...recombination by KD, B2 and B3 resulted in complete or near-complete excision of the stop sequence. In contrast...toxicity, but with the caveat of partial rather than complete recombination. If you’re looking to use site-specific...this system. Gerald Rubin’s lab sought to make complex genome modifications in Drosophila using multiple...

... the clinic and cures. There is no doubt that companies are swarming to see what can be done with this...the insulin signaling cascades in only 4 months compared to a year or greater with older technologies. ... in the room. He offered the great analogy of comparing the CRISPR/Cas9 system to Norton Antivirus. Antivirus...the code of viruses to give information to the computer to fight the known viruses. Bacteria have figured...

...question is: how should the gRNAs be oriented in comparison to each other? The gRNAs must target different...different strands to create a DSB, but this can be accomplished with either a PAM-in or PAM-out orientation....preferences using HEK293 cells. They started by comparing D10A and H840A total editing efficiency in PAM-in...donor with 40 bp homology arms. The HDR efficiency compared favorably to using WT Cas9 with the left gRNA ...