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  1. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    ...features with optimal biological performance are described as Click Biology (Howarth, 2025). Figure...probes with different functionalities, such as fluorescence or triggering new cellular behavior like degradation... Addgene. Addgene Link Click Biology Tag Description Humberg et al. (2025) Split inteins Cysteine-less...Tetracycline (Tet) transactivator to increase fluorescent protein expression C234-E25: attB2r-SNAP-attB3...HaloTag Ligands HaloTag Reversible binding of fluorescent ligands to HaloTag PCV-Cas9, Cas9-PCV HUH-tag...  Click Into Biological Building Click Biology describes the search for robust, reliable reactions, using... fused to other effectors from nanobodies to fluorescent proteins. So, I hope you will take full advantage...
  2. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    ...when paired with appropriate fluorescent optics. Existing red fluorescent voltage indicators, however,...31937940. Detection of neural activity using a red fluorescent genetically encoded voltage indicator Article...voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin (Ace2N) with the red fluorescent protein (mScarlet) with either a seven or eight...manipulations when combined with existing green-fluorescent GEVIs and blue-light-sensitive channelrhodopsins...zebrabow. In this system, cells express various fluorescent proteins controlled by Cre recombination. Each...variety of colors depending on the combination of fluorescent proteins expressed. CreLite-mediated recombination...
  3. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    ... an “assist peptide” that facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral sgRNA expression...colleagues identified a highly bright and stable fluorescent protein, StayGold. Although it quickly saw wide...dimerization while maintaining the bright and stable fluorescence of the original (Ivorra-Molla et al., 2023)....Ivorra-Molla, E., et al. (2023). A monomeric StayGold fluorescent protein. Nature Biotechnology, 1–4. https://doi.org..., et al. (2023). Bright and stable monomeric fluorescent proteins derived from StayGold. ResearchSquare...mature marmosets. CAP-Mac also robustly expressed fluorescent reporters in green monkeys and cultured human...injected three weeks later, that LY6A transgene rescued the enhanced brain potency of AAV-PHP.eB.    ...
  4. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    ...grandfathers who had experienced famine before their adolescence passed on a heritable trait to their grandsons...techniques include chromatin immunoprecipitation, fluorescent in-situ hybridization, methylation-sensitive ...facilitated by the flexible linker) that brings the fluorescent units of the FRET pair together and causes an...signal. Subsequent demethylation separates the fluorescent units and so lowers the FRET signal back again...Jao, and Alice Y. Ting. "Genetically encoded fluorescent reporters of histone methylation in living cells...the Ting Lab plasmids at Addgene Browse More Fluorescent Protein Biosensors Read Our Tips for Using FRET...Experiments Post Read Other Blog Posts about Fluorescent Proteins  ...
  5. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...either produce a colorimetric product or are fluorescent. While dyes usually spread unidirectionally, ...biotinylated dextran amines (Veenman et al., 1992) or fluorescent molecules like rhodamine-isothiocyanate (RITC...germ agglutinin WGA, Schwab et al., 1978) or fluorescent molecules such as Fluoro-Gold (Schmued and Fallon...high and neuron-specific transgene expression. Fluorescent proteins are widely used for tracing and their...with an AAV9 vector expressing a Cre-dependent fluorescent marker. Injection into a conditional mutant mouse...., 2017) that express one of a few different fluorescent proteins (red, green, blue). If a researcher ...neurons at different ratios, making these neurons fluoresce in different colors. An individual neuron can ...
  6. Polymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications

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    ... thermocycler to measure that fluorescent output. With this fluorescent dye, the concentration of the ...which measures the fluorescence amplitude of each droplet. The fraction of fluorescent PCR-positive droplets... qPCR requires the addition of a probe based fluorescent dye that intercalates with any dsDNA and the ...reaction cycles is continuously detected via a fluorescent signal. The signal increases proportionally to...concentration of the starting template DNA the fluorescent signal throughout the reaction is compared to...
  7. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ...comparing the threshold fluorescence of the viral DNA to the threshold fluorescence of a standard - a set...plate and measures the fluorescence amplitude of each one. Droplets that fluoresce contain the amplified...been read, the software outputs an image of the fluorescence amplitude measured for each droplet in each ...droplet readers have a few channels for detecting fluorescence so that it is possible to measure the concentration...After additional rounds of amplification, your fluorescence amplitude will increase, leading to greater ...
  8. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    ...may not actually help. Ultimately, if you cannot describe the likely outcome with some specifics, the search...cannot either. Therefore, you need to be able to describe experimental approaches in terms of the question...approach, anticipated outcomes, and preferably a description of the payoff if the aim is successful. Note ...the aims and clarify what type of aim you are describing. It's easy to be overly ambitious – a common ...accomplished in 5-10 years? You need to be able to describe what success looks like. If you are successful...includes the overview and the individual aims. Describe the question, the bare minimum of background needed...in the Endoplasmic Reticulum, optimization of fluorescent proteins,  and live cell imaging approaches. ...
  9. Hot Plasmids: February 2026

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    ...variants of red fluorescent protein mScarlet3 By Mike Lacy One of our most popular red fluorescent proteins ...longevity boost! mScarlet3 is the brightest red fluorescent protein, but its modest photostability limits.... (2026). A highly photostable monomeric red fluorescent protein for dual-color 3D STED and time-lapse...Fu, Z. (2025). A highly stable monomeric red fluorescent protein for advanced microscopy. Nature Methods...Addgene! All four have been tested in IPI's immunofluorescence-based specificity assay, which tests the ...Addgene #237812). Each graph depicts the mean fluorescence intensity of Anti-Neurexin-3-beta labeling for...
  10. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ... determine if CRISPR/Cas9 escape occurs in an animal model. If these escape mutations are frequent, the...HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy...their results, Wang et al. showed that HIV-1 could escape from CRISPR/Cas9-induced modification targeting...either the LTRs or essential genes. Many of these escape mutations were located near the Cas9 cut site, ...1 infection, which would make it easier for an “escape” virus to propagate and infect adjacent cells. ... Inhibit HIV-1 Replication and Accelerate Viral Escape. Cell Rep. 2016 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 27068471. Ramanan...
  11. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    ... friends on the Cambridge 2010 iGEM team that describes the basics of Gibson assembly as a parody of “...assembly The Gibson assembly technique was first described by Dr. Daniel Gibson and colleagues at the J. ...combined with the popular CRISPR technology and is described in a recent publication by the Lockey lab (Wang...followed by the standard Gibson assembly techniques described above, this resulted in the direct and seamless...using Gibson Assembly along with CRISPR was also described recently (Jiang et al. 2015), in which very large...challenging. Other homology based technologies We've described Sequence and Ligation Independent Cloning (SLIC...homology based assembly methods that have been described--CPEC (circular polymerase extension cloning) ...
  12. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    ...The SunTag system uses an scFv to amplify the fluorescence intensity of a tagged protein. SunTag has two...bind the SunTag scaffold, the intensity of the fluorescent signal is boosted and enables single molecule...contains an HA-binding scFv that’s fused to a fluorescent protein such as GFP. The HA frankenbody works...anti-digoxin single-chain Fv analogue produced in Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of ...A, Sivaccumar JP, Ruvo M (2020) Evolution of Escherichia coli Expression System in Producing Antibody ...frankenbodies, an anti-HA scFv-based probe for fluorescent imaging. Learn more about antibodies  Read about...SunTag system which uses an scFv to amplify the fluorescence intensity of a tagged protein. Resources on...
  13. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    ...were named after Dr. Theodor Escherich, the scientist who first described them in 1885. E. coli are mainly...right tags to your gene, and may have even put a fluorescent protein downstream, separated by an IRES element...process of replicating your new plasmid: the Escherichia coli bacteria. It’s hard to count the number ...commercial lab strains of E. coli used today are descended from two individual isolates, the K-12 strain ...mutations found in E.coli strains Gene(s) Description Functional Consequence dam DNA adenine methylase...Expression Systems. Check out our companion post describing protein expression strains, where we go over ...
  14. What's New in CRISPR - March 2020

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    ... in yeast Base editing CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Multiplexed gRNA for human pluripotent stem cells... base editor plasmids CRISPRi in Caulobacter crescentus Figure 1: Serial dilutions of CRISPRi in...adapted from Guzzo et al., 2020. Caulobacter crescentus is a popular model organism for studying the ...stem cells Lindy Barrett’s lab developed new fluorescently labeled piggyBac vectors to deliver uniform ... lines with AAVS1-integrated, inducible, and fluorescent dCas9-KRAB and dCas9-VPR for quantifying and ...that express both the dCas9 construct and the fluorescently-labeled gRNA multiplex. Read the paper in Scientific...
  15. Zebrafish as a Model for Behavior: Swimming into the Optogenetic Spotlight

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    ... and allow for noninvasive live imaging with fluorescent tags and activation of light sensing proteins...distinct behaviors such as spontaneous swimming and escape reflex. These traits, coupled with short generation...zebrafish at 5 days post fertilization, including escape behavior and spontaneous swimming. When startled...zebrafish react by performing a distinct C-bend to escape possible danger (see figure). Larvae also perform...in response to any specific stimulus. While the escape response neural pathway is well characterized, ... kind of swimming behavior, spontaneous swim or escape, was elicited when these different neuron groups...
  16. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    ...categories: antibiotic/herbicide resistance and fluorescent proteins. Selection using resistance genes usually...would only then kill the desired plants! PCR or fluorescent markers are currently used in these situations...from heterozygous individuals. Only 1/4 of the descendants of the heterozygous plants, therefore, are useful...   I can do this by expressing a gene that rescues the mutations, using RUBY as a selection marker...mutation but lacking both RUBY and the construct that rescues the mutation. I will be able to easily choose the...could be achieved much easier than by PCR or a fluorescent microscope. First, red CRISPR-positive transformants...
  17. Pouring LB Agar Plates

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    ...that way for ~10 min. This will allow any steam to escape from the autoclave and will cool your gel-mix slightly...
  18. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    ...and instead are conjugated to reporters (i.e. fluorescent dyes, HRP, etc. ) after purification. Antibodies...signal amplification occurs when HRP converts a fluorescently labeled tyramide molecule into a highly reactive...linked to residues within close proximity thus fluorescently labeling them. HRP RANbody staining results ... ≥100-fold increase in signal over intrinsic fluorescence. Increased signal is likely due to lower background...and tissue sections Amplifying weak signals of fluorescent protein (i.e. GFP, RFP) Detecting GFP reconstitution... from Penn State Need help picking the right fluorescence microscopy technique to use? Check out this ...
  19. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    ...study a wide variety of in vivo conditional gene rescue experiments, as well as for improvement of optogenetic...additional uses for FLEx switches: Conditional rescue of a gene knockout: To test if the phenotype you...by coding sequence of the gene you would like to rescue with in the antisense orientation (let’s call the... to test whether or not expressing GeneR alone rescues the phenotype being studied. Introduction of ...functional mutation in vivo: Similar to a conditional rescue experiment with a wildtype copy of a gene, you ...presence of Cre, GFP expression is lost, allowing for rescued expression of GeneR.   Sometimes also referred...
  20. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    ... in bacteria CRISPR-Casɸ mGold, a new yellow fluorescent protein New CRISPR plasmids New items from the...32675376/ mGold, the most photostable yellow fluorescent protein to date By Justin Ng High-throughput ...High-throughput screening methods, such as fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) helps researchers sift through...million cell types expressing variants of Yellow Fluorescent Protein (YFP). The team identified a new YFP ...Resources page.  CDDR (CRISPR–Cas9-based Dual-fluorescent DSB Repair) is a double-strand break repair assay...the introduction & resolution of two DSBs in a fluorescent reporter. Find the plasmids here Yongsub Kim...
  21. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    ...in this post: Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent protein mGold2 Viral delivery of TnpB for plant...connections with ATLAS Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent protein mGold2 By Mike Lacy Get your sunglasses...these proteins are bright! Most current yellow fluorescent proteins tend to photobleach rapidly, which hinders...St-Pierre recently developed a pair of new yellow fluorescent proteins: mGold2s and mGold2t (Lee & Lai, et ...using mVenus or mCitrine, or if existing yellow fluorescent proteins just haven’t met your needs, consider...et al. (2025). Bright and photostable yellow fluorescent proteins for extended imaging. Nature Communications...
  22. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    ...plasmid, how will it be sent to me? Description: This describes how the plasmid or other product (kit...useful to me? Plasmid purpose: This is a brief description of what the plasmid was designed and used for...vector’s plasmid number here. Gene/insert: This describes what has been inserted into the backbone, and ... sequencing. Growth in Bacteria: This section describes how to grow the bacterial strain in which the ...associated, such as when a plasmid contains certain fluorescent proteins. Finally, for many plasmids you can ...
  23. Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox

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    ...Western blots. ELISAs. Immunofluorescence. What do all of these techniques have in common? They all typically... distance between the target antigen and the fluorescent label, which can reduce the potential image resolution... resolution of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Their size also limits their ability to penetrate...penetration and decreases the distance between a fluorescent tag and the target antigen to about 2 nm, which...review. If you just want to use the nanobodies described in Pleiner et al, the key steps for generating...: Purified nanobodies are then tagged with a fluorescent dye or HRP via maleimide-labeling. Maleimide-...
  24. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use? Plasmids 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Fluorescent Protein...Plasmids 101 has covered GFP and its related fluorescent proteins, which are sometimes used as tags for...LVPRGS Cleaves between Arg and Gly residues PreScission LEVLFQGP Cleaves between the Gln and Gly residues...examples. The tables list more common tags than are described in the post, but have been categorized to help...
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