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  1. Control AAV Preps

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    ...repository. Browse our control AAV collection, including fluorescent proteins, spaghetti monster, and more...
  2. CRISPR Plasmids - Tagging

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    ... vector assembly, and the remaining 5 plasmids include Cre and FLP expression vectors, a general cloning...
  3. Optogenetics AAV Preps

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    ...repository. Browse our optogenetics AAV collection, including channelrhodopsins, halorhodopsins, and more....
  4. Retrograde AAV viral preps

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    ... these viral vectors undergo quality control, including AAV titering by SYBR green qPCR , confirmation...
  5. Genetic Code Expansion

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    ...full length protein is only made when the ncAA is included. For any and all questions you have while designing...
  6. Validated gRNA Sequences

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    ...article (listed below by PubMed ID). These factors include: Does a given gRNA sequence exactly match your ...
  7. A Control for All Seasons

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    ... antibodies, include controls where each primary is omitted but all secondaries included to uncover secondary... shifts indicative of tau phosphorylation. By including the positive control, you will be able to confirm... addition to experimental samples (?). B, The inclusion of biological replicates such as multiple mice...Replicates can be technical or biological and are included to improve the precision and accuracy and therefore...repeated measurements of the same sample and are included to assess variability in the experimental protocol...: Microscopy-based antibody experiments should include a primary antibody specificity control, secondary...antibody. The secondary antibody control should be included with each experimental run (Burry 2011). Autofluorescence...
  8. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    ...instead of vortexing. Include proper controls To ensure accurate data analysis, include a complete set of ... by denaturing proteins and dissolving lipids including those of the cell membrane. In some cases, this...whole blood sample will contain a mix of cells including granulocytes, lymphocytes, and monocytes. Due ...cytometry experiment depends on a variety of factors including sample preparation, staining procedures, and controls...staining.  If you’re using antibodies for detection, include an unstained control with cells that went through...cell type or that has arisen from fixation. Also include an isotype control, an antibody that does not bind...an indirect staining protocol, you should also include a secondary antibody control in which the primary...
  9. March for Science

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    ...them. Other popular reasons to march include: General inclusion of science to inform policy (17). The...6). Many of the new administration’s actions, including taking down the climate change page on whitehouse.gov... consequences of a march. Three of these risks include: 1) Lost trust Perhaps the greatest risk is that...with one unifying interest (the advancement and inclusion of science) they come from many different places...see and understand data themselves can come to conclusions themselves instead of depending on scientists...that ‘facts’ are subjective or alternative. Inclusion of data informing policy specifically related ...the most profound impact (15). Diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering and mathematics...
  10. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...you have many career options available to you including careers in academia, industry, non-profit, and... to maintaining a status in the United States including green cards that are well-tailored to meet the...specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor including but not limited to biotechnology, chemistry, architecture...publications, and plan for future activities; including the interest of the greater scientific field, ...entities or individuals. A successful NIW case should include evidence such as proof of US government grants ...fact is best proved through objective criteria including awards, media attention, citations to your work... discuss your work. Participating as a judge (including as a peer reviewer for journals, acting as a journal...
  11. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ... an array of post-translational modifications including protein folding, formation of disulfide bridges...for protein production and purification. These include mammalian, insect, bacterial, plant, yeast and ...summarize some of the more common expression systems including their advantages and caveats to keep in mind before...Some drawbacks of insect cell expression systems include that virus production can be quite time consuming...produced by bacteria become insoluble, forming inclusion bodies that are difficult to extract without harsh...requirements as mammalian cell expression systems, including the majority of complex post-translational modifications...been used to express a wide range of proteins including antibodies and pharmaceuticals, specifically interleukins...
  12. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ...2022 AAV.MaCPNS2 PNS, including ENS (mice) PNS (rats) CNS; PNS, including ENS (adult marmosets, infant...vector, which determine the vector’s tropism, including its ability to cross barriers like the BBB.)  ...application is dependent on a number of factors, including species, strain, age, sex, area of interest, and... with unique tropisms are now available. These include variants with broad CNS or PNS transduction, cell...expression control. (c) Viral delivery methods include focused ultrasound (FUS), intracorporeal (IC), ...expression or activity can be achieved using switches, including riboswitches and optogenetic and chemogenetic ...more effective than AAV9 in many other strains, including FVB/NCrl, 129S1/SvImJ, DBA/2J, and C57BL/6J, the...
  13. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    ...adding a triple nuclear localization signal or including fusions with Histone 2A or 2B can result in bright...however the nanobody proteins tend to get stuck in inclusion bodies. Takayuki Iwaki, Kimiko Hara, and Kazuo...described a simple method which alleviates the inclusion body problem and makes nanobody production in ...inducible promoter. The gRNA piggyBac plasmids include a mRFP reporter. With this system, they could quantify...Addgene The MoClo CRISPR/Cas Toolkit for plants includes 95 plasmids consisting of CRISPR/Cas nucleases... uses CRISPRi to control gene expression. This includes a CRISPRi-based synthetic oscillator, bistable...of norepinephrine. These norepinephrine sensors include GRAB_NE1h (high affinity) and GRAB_NE1m (medium...
  14. 15 Hot Plasmids from 2017

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    ... the Chi-Bin Chien lab (Kwan et al., 2007) and includes four promoters, six fluorophores with nonoverlapping...promoters for cell types directly linked to disease, including motor neurons (-3mnx1/Hb9), pan neuronal (elavl3...CyOFP1), some of the exciting properties of mCyRFP1 include a redshifted-emission spectrum compared to that...The set of CyRFP constructs available at Addgene includes bacterial and mammalian mCyRFP1 or CyRFP1 expression... was initially limited by off-target effects, including the conversion of other cytosines near the target... cassette via Cre recombination. Each knockout includes unique barcodes and universal priming sites to...essential in B. subtilis 168. Each individual strain includes a xylose-inducible dCas9 paired with a single,...
  15. The Many Reasons for Irreproducible Research- and a Vaccine to Eradicate It

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    ...reasons that research can be difficult to replicate. Unclear methods Until someone attempts to replicate the...Cancer Biology, where reported methods may not include how many tests were conducted on how the results...important.  If we eliminate the problems above: unclear methods, QRPs, and small samples, then when replications... do we make research more reproducible? Combat unclear methods with open data, materials, and code Only...reporting guidelines can also help remind us to include all of the essential details. These items rarely...right before data collection starts, and should include a specific plan for how data will be collected,...that may be the result of noise, p-hacking, or unclear methods. Many thanks to our guest blogger David...
  16. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    .... Conclusion: Always, always, write a brief conclusion of your analysis, even if your conclusion is ...is “this approach is not ideal because…” Including a conclusion for each analysis or task will keep you... approaches to analyze large data sets (myself included) and we are faced with finding the best system...begin, briefly state the goal of the analysis, including background on other analyses that have inspired...where you also record your goal, approach, and conclusions (see above). Keep original files in a separate...
  17. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    ...The CRISPaint toolkit includes several donor plasmids for protein tagging, including luciferase (NanoLuc...regulatory sequences, including protein enhancers and repressors, can be included in the repair template...have been able to study many cellular processes, including mitosis, mitochondrial fission/fusion, nuclear...accepts the homology arm repair template. SapTrap includes a prebuilt donor plasmid library containing several... tagging genomic loci in other model systems, including mammalian cells. CRISPaint (CRISPR-assisted ..., thanks to the modular arrangement of vectors included in tagging systems like SapTrap, scientists will...
  18. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    ...(Figure 4), our catalog includes vectors in a variety of serotypes, including the retrograde AAVrg and...and resources. As editor of Addgene’s eBooks — including the recently released Viral Vectors 101 2nd edition...system can be affected by any number of factors, including the age of the model organism, injection site,...resources for producing vectors from plasmids — including the protocols we use in our lab — being able to...engineered ligands (Figure 2). Biosensors, which include calcium and voltage sensors, are the broadest category... for vectors in the “controls” category, which includes things like viral vectors that deliver GFP. ...community. Thoughtfully prioritizing which preps to include in our service allows us to make ready-to-use viral...
  19. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    ...choose, it is essential to include proper controls. As a positive control, include a sample that is known ...working and should always be included.  For a negative control, include a sample that does not contain... the target!) and use them in numerous fields including research and development, diagnostics, drug discovery...background staining. Antigen-containing samples often include undesirable molecules that may bind non-specifically...specific than other methods. In addition, the assay includes both primary and secondary incubation steps, increasing... protein, especially one with tags, be sure to include a sample that expresses the endogenous protein,...
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