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  1. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    ...fluorophore-conjugated antibodies that attach to a specific target. By using a mix of different antibody-fluorophore...a conjugated antibody to detect CD45, and I'll need to choose the fluorophore my antibody is conjugated...the Addgene blog Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry...Cytometry Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's Antibody Guide Ready-to-use ...Ready-to-use antibodies in the Addgene repository Antibody Protocols ...distinguishing live from dead cells. The combination of antibody-fluorophores, fluorescent reporters, and/or dye...excitation and emission wavelengths, it is also important to know the brightness of individual fluorophores...
  2. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    ...use two antibodies - one against your target of interest and a second against the first antibody. When ...same species as your primary antibody are present, your secondary antibody recognizes both the endogenous...endogenous IgGs and your primary antibody, resulting in significant background staining (Figure 1A). Not all...because the secondary antibody is not able to distinguish between the primary antibody and endogenous IgGs...secondary antibody bind endogenous IgGs? Don’t use one. If it is possible, using a primary antibody that is...and secondary antibody complexes (Figure 2B) Some labs have found that you can significantly decrease background...samples as homogeneously as a single antibody. Using a secondary antibody that is a Fab fragment, single-chain...
  3. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    ...competitive ELISA use antibodies coating the wells to capture antigen from a sample, whereas antigen is bound directly...as a reference antigen — that can also bind to that antibody. Then, the protein-antigen mixture is added...multiple secondary antibodies can bind to a single primary antibody. The secondary antibody is conjugated ...blog Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of using monoclonal antibodies. Read about other techniques...that any antigen within a sample adheres to the well (either directly or by binding to an antibody that is... coated with the antibody. Then, you add your sample to the wells, and the antibodies bind to your protein...is the addition of a detection antibody (typically a monoclonal antibody) that also recognizes the same...
  4. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    ...Fragments. Antibodies 2:193–208 . https://doi.org/10.3390/antib2020193  Khantasup K, Chantima W, Sangma...Comparison between the IgG antibody and scFv.   What are the advantages and disadvantages of a scFv vs. a monoclonal... monoclonal antibody? Advantages of scFvs: scFv’s advantages are rooted in their size. Being smaller means...the ways antibodies are. scFvs are even used to screen for new antibodies. To do this, antibody variable...vector encoding the antibody constant domain scaffold to convert the scFv into an antibody.  The ability to... Prospects of Antibody Fragments. Antibodies 8:28 . https://doi.org/10.3390/antib8020028  Bird R, Hardman...When you think of antibodies, you probably think of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). mAbs have been around...
  5. Plasmid Grant to Aid Cervical Cancer Screening in Ghana

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    ...third Addgene/Seeding Labs plasmid grant and plans to use the grant to order plasmids she can use as positive...the Addgene/Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant to a third round of applicants at the start of 2017 and would like...in PCR-based cervical cancer screens. This third grant represents the continuation of our efforts to provide...Bengyella and Kwabena Duedu who were awarded similar grants back in June, Gladys will be using plasmids in ...caused by persistent infection of HR HPV types, predominantly HPV 16 and 18.” HPV plasmids as positive controls...Superhero 5k Find New Cancer Resources Learn About Our Grants to Rare Disease Research Resources on Addgene.... seeding labs plasmid grant...
  6. Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones

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    ...these enzymes implies that even a minute quantity can significantly reduce the operational time for a given...efficiency.  Finding recombinant psychrophilic enzymes for the host The expression of recombinant proteins for... contained cold tolerant chaperones (the Cpn 10/60 isolated from Oleispira antarctica, and the P. haloplanktis... psychrophilic proteins. The primary problem we wanted to overcome was inefficient protein folding at ...well under suboptimal conditions. This means recombinant proteins can aggregate or precipitate out as ...would allow the stable folding and expression of recombinant psychrophilic proteins. As the figure below shows.... And thus was born ELSA - our happy lil’ cold-tolerant E. coli! Additionally, we’re also working towards...
  7. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers

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    ...about and jumping into the discussion! Semantic Scholar Semantic Scholar is an AI-backed literature search...Intelligence. Semantic Scholar analyzes publications and figures using machine learning to extract important features...return results that are more relevant to your search terms. Key features Semantic Scholar has several ways...millions of them. The real challenge is finding relevant papers. The latest installment of the Early Career...to find papers  You’ll need to start following relevant accounts in order to turn Twitter into a paper-finding-machine...keywords. It’s sort of like a keyword search that’s constantly updated. This Twitter list contains >300 Twitter...at the top of this filter. A unique feature of Semantic Scholar search results are the topic pages, which...
  8. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    ... What are toxin-antitoxin systems? These toxic substances are part of toxin-antitoxin systems that are... while the antitoxin is unstable, meaning that the cells must continually produce antitoxin to avoid cell...will still inherit some toxin and antitoxin. However, the antitoxin will be degraded leaving the cell ...applications. The discovery of toxin-antitoxin systems Toxin-antitoxin systems were first discovered in 1983.... The encoded toxin-antitoxin system consists of CcdB (toxin) and CcdA (antitoxin) where CcdB inferes ...higher percentage of transformants contain the ccdB-less construct. Other toxin-antitoxin systems and their...-based toxin-antitoxin systems. One of the most well known protein-based toxin-antitoxin system is MazE...
  9. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...some plant-specific changes to CRISPR components are necessary to enable genome editing in plant cells... allow for the use of CRISPR in plants, and outline the various plant genome engineering tools that are...system in plant cells. Like other model systems, expression of S. pyogenes Cas9 or Cas9 variants (hereafter...question. In plant cells, gRNA expression is achieved by placing the gRNA downstream of a plant-specific ...optimized Cas9 variants have been created in an effort to increase translation in a particular plant species ...target genes in plant cells, respectively. Cas9 expression is commonly driven by plant-derived RNA pol... editors have been developed for plants and prime editing for plants has been developed for rice by Yiping...
  10. Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses

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    ....  In conclusion, it is important for you to establish in advance how you want to utilize your plasmid...purifying a plasmid from a bacterial culture, it is important to consider your experiment.  It will dictate ... a set of techniques that are used to insert recombinant DNA from prokaryotes or eukaryotes into a synthetic...approach you choose ultimately will influence the quantity of DNA that is required and, as a consequence,...To allow efficient and flawless cloning it is important that the preparation is pure from other nucleic...(genomic DNA and RNA), proteins and chemical contaminants that have been used during the purification ...scientists an indication of purity versus protein contaminants. The 260 and 230 nm ratios should fall ~2 - ...
  11. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ...requires the presence of dsRNA. In plants, CRISPR technologies are predominantly used to disrupt function at ...from an easy method to identify and quantify actively silencing plants. Non-destructive methods, most popularly...silencing plants can be easily identified and have readily observable phenotypes quantified. Fluorescent...designed and widely implemented in plants, such as in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Li et ...possible in plants outside of limited, single cell protoplast analysis. Instead, microscopic plants must be...consuming, as RNAi mutants with a reduced growth phenotype will require additional plants to have enough ...MicroRNA Screens for Effective Gene Silencing in Plants. Plant Cell 25:1507–1522 . https://doi.org/10.1105/...
  12. The Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank: Over 25 Years of Antibody Sharing

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    ...a monoclonal antibody against a target antigen. This contrasts with polyclonal antibodies, which are mixtures...a repository for monoclonal antibodies, distributing over 3,000 antibodies and associated hybridoma cell...distributing monoclonal antibodies at cost. We distribute over 65,000 antibody units per year from our...monoclonal antibodies, which are each produced by a single B cell. To create a monoclonal antibody cell line... of monoclonal antibodies obtained from serum.  Our most popular monoclonal antibodies include those ...Monoclonal Antibody Research Institute dedicated to: 1) developing new ways of generating antibodies, for example...through the use of less toxic adjuvants; 2) generating complex antibody chips that allow assessment of...
  13. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    ... genomes so as to make plants, and agricultural crops in particular, resistant to disease. They also devise...them. The MoClo Plant Kit makes it really easy to clone genes for expression in plant cells. Sylvester... lot. The problem in plant science is there is a paucity of resources. We wanted to expand the toolkit...also gives quantitative data for regulatory elements, which has not been available for plants. Addgene:...tools for editing plant genomes. We will definitely plan to share those tools with the plant community. We...Remember plants. Every time you look at your plate, think about how much that’s on it are plants, and the...animals you eat ate plants too. Think about how many people are starving. I think plant biology is massively...
  14. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    ...gene of interest and keeping its expression level constant. In the case of the stabilized promoters from ...expressed. What’s the use of stable gene expression? Constant gene expression can enable more confidence in ...Christopher A. Voigt. "Engineered promoters enable constant gene expression at any copy number in bacteria...
  15. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    ... address the growing clinical problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria. See the picture to the left for... drug resistantance genes in the bacteria thus making the bacteria sensitive to known antibotics. These... able to participate when the organizers of the Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015 conference invited...scientists still working at the bench. It was a fantastic opportunity to talk to so many scientists who ... of plasmid requests from Addgene. Addgene - Canton Nucleic Acids Forum 2015 from Joanne Kamens, PhD...mammals, expressed in neurons, and are especially abundant in neuronal synapses. shRNA silencing of one circular...his list of the bacterial species that “ESKAPE” antibiotic treatment resulting in major problems in hospitals...
  16. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    ...Jennifer Tsang. CRISPR-Cas technology is constantly evolving. Variants of Cas proteins can be used for genome...proteins. Discovery of anti-CRISPR proteins That is, until the discovery of anti-CRISPR proteins in 2012...DNA. Since these early anti-CRISPR studies, scientists have discovered over 50 anti-CRISPR proteins that...they block can be found here. How do anti-CRISPR proteins work? Anti-CRISPRs proteins are highly diverse...2012 (Bondy-Denomy et al., 2012). Anti-CRISPR (Acr) proteins are phage-derived small protein inhibitors...the Sontheimer and Davidson labs discovered three anti-CRISPRs for a type II system in Neisseria meningitidis...genome editing. In this study, the labs found that anti-CRISPR prevents Cas9 activity in HEK293 by reducing...
  17. Arabidopsis in Education: How the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Brings Plant Science to Life

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    ...Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as ‘plant blindness’ - the tendency for students...resource or you want to introduce Arabidopsis to your class for the first time – we want to hear from you...classroom Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9 pSiM24: Simplifying Plant Genetic Engineering Resources...Addgene.org Find Plant Vectors at Addgene Find Simple Protocols for Introductory Lab Work MoClo Plants Parts Kit...Biological Resource Center and the Center for Applied Plant Sciences at The Ohio State University. Established...year. Introducing Arabidopsis Arabidopsis is an important model system for research and is used by scientists... to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers’ preference for using animal...
  18. Addgene-Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant: Accelerating Science Globally - 5 Scientists, 4 Countries & 3 Continents!

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    ...Plasmid grant this year. These scientists work on projects spanning from the identification of plant compounds... has worked with both animal and plant viruses. Now focusing on plant biology, she coordinates the Network...Cowpea, a knowledge database for this important agricultural plant. Her current research focuses on endophytes...reside within living plants and that produce compounds with various antimicrobial activities (1). She ...Optogenetic Tools Like pDawn  Making cassava plants resistant to cassava mosaic virus Dr. Fiona Robertson... to increase the potential for this drought tolerant plant, Dr. Robertson aims to make use of the CRISPR...technology to engineer plants that are able to destroy DNA viruses, similar to the anti-phage CRISPR effect...
  19. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - Protein Variants, a Serotonin Sensor, and an Artificial Leaf Replica System

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    ...Bernach. Melissa Chiasson: Quantifying the abundance of thousands of protein variants simultaneously  With ...effects of sequence variants on abundance simultaneously called VAMP-seq, for Variant Abundance by Massively...the abundance of a protein variant library is monitored by fusing the variants to eGFP followed by an internal...the target of the anticoagulant drug warfarin. In past research, several VKOR variants have been found ...University of Canterbury where he studies how bacteria interact with each other and plant surfaces. His...individual’s genome. But when they find genetic variants, what does that mean? Previous research shows ...approximately 75% of all protein-coding pathogenic human variants are decreased in protein abundance, possibly due...
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