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  1. What's New in CRISPR - Winter 2018

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    ...dual-nuclease Cas9-Cas9 chimeras Scot Wolfe’s lab has developed dual-nuclease Cas9-Cas9 chimeras with higher...been many Cas nucleases developed for plants, it has been difficult to compare the performance of different...recently discovered in 2017. Now Dominik Niopek’s lab has adapted anti-CRISPR proteins for optogenetic control...
  2. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    ... disease once limited to small pockets in Africa has spread to urban areas and across the ocean. A nurse... considered unlikely to change – but the illness has been fatal in 70 percent of the most recent cases... in the New York Times and on his blog, where he has offered to answer readers' questions. If you have...
  3. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    ... and software development has caught up with it. The peer review process has been challenged with many...targetable NGG PAM sites whereas the human genome has about 300 million. With such a sparsely targetable...needs of each individual; the  community as a whole has yet to settle on any true kind of value. I’ve dubbed... genome editing tool, the CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been surrounded by a whirlwind of research activity...significant improvement. As a result, the software piñata has been filled with slight variations on a theme without...evaluate off-targeting, but currently no software has been designed for this purpose. This second area ...findings to help everyone else. CRISPR technology has reached into so many different communities that it...
  4. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    ...certain experimental setups. The brightness of NLuc has caught the attention of researchers wanting to perform...proteins can be excited by Nluc emission and the lab has dubbed these fusions LumiFluor Reporters. The LumiFluor...mNeptune2 through 33 mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield, brightness and improved maturation...with Luciferases can overcome these problems but has been hampered by dim signals from the coupled luciferase...ReNL; plasmid #85203) NLuc fusions. The Nagai lab has additionally deposited more than 25 fusions of the...Pairing NanoLuc® luciferase with fluorescent proteins has allowed researchers to make innovative tools not ... Technical Services Scientist, Kyle Hooper, PhD, has also worked with R&D for product development and ...
  5. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    ...foot shock that has become associated with a visual or auditory cue. The hippocampus has long been known...every other advanced technique in neuroscience it has a bit of a steep learning curve and many opportunities...within your own neuroscience sub-discipline that has published using the technique and ask if they would...sophistication of mouse transgenics. Everything that has been described is intended for the mouse; however... behavioral models. Beyond rodents, optogenetics has even been applied to other species such as non-human...
  6. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Easy Action Items

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    ...marketing campaign! MIT Green Labs has a lot of resources about this, and even has a list of biological samples...are stored long term at -70 °C. My Green Lab also has resources and even a freezer challenge that your ...
  7. Download Science-Themed Zoom Backgrounds from Addgene

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    ... backgrounds all year and want a change? Addgene has you covered. Today we’re releasing 11 bold science-themed...fan of Addgene or our very cute mascots!  Blugene has been helping us make Plasmids 101 videos and needed...background.           Maybe your viral research has taken you in the direction of COVID-19. We have a...
  8. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    ...by Neville Sanjana. This fantastic research tool has been requested from the repository nearly 1,000 times...provided by the Zhang lab. Even though lentiCRISPR v2 has only been available for a little over a year and ...and a half, a small sampling of the research it has already been used for includes work probing mTOR signaling...
  9. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    ...need new epitope tags? Short epitope tags like FLAG, HA, and Myc can adopt a number of different conformations...effects of GFP fusions to inntags or traditional FLAG, HA, and Myc tags. Impressively, IT6-GFP did not reduce...observed with IT5 and IT6 fusions. In contrast, Flag and HA tags had especially detrimental effects on cell size...
  10. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    ...avoid selecting for cells in which the construct has randomly integrated into the genome, a negative selection... opposed to screen for cells where recombination has occurred. Neomycin, puromycin, and hygromycin resistance...still functions normally because one of its exons has simply been replaced with the same sequence flanked...flanked by LoxP sites while the resistance cassette has been placed into an intron.    Figure 4: ...second the floxed exon.   After recombination has occurred, you'll first remove the resistance marker...
  11. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ... in NCBI’s numerous databases. As our repository has grown over the years (we now have over 60,000 plasmids...we analyze as part of our quality control process has steadily grown. On a busy week, we may need to analyze...our quality control process. Consequently our team has refined our use of the BLAST web browser interface...also enjoy seeing how our quality control process has changed with the introduction of next generation ...BLAST (blastp), and Translated BLAST (blastx). NCBI has a terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which...
  12. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    ... makes software good? Fortunately, that question has been thoroughly answered by experts in human-computer...specialized controls available when needed. SnapGene has been engineered to be easy and enjoyable to use. ...protein sequence match even when the DNA sequence has changed. Identifying plasmid control elements Coding... with these extensive efforts, such an algorithm has limitations. For instance, it could miss a common...
  13. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    ...Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds." Adam has also created a video to help scientists visualize...various flux imbalances. The conventional approach has typically been to either systematically delete/overexpress...introduce heterologous genes, but the trend of research has shifted in recent years toward tinkering with regulatory.... Since the technique relies on base pairing, it has promise to be host-independent, beyond the oft published...
  14. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    ...agent than BME and has a less… distinctive smell. BME smells like rotting eggs but has a longer shelf life... It doesn’t degrade during long-term storage and has both high binding capacity and high protein retention... specialty low-background PVDF membrane, it also has higher background noise than nitrocellulose membranes... other hand, doesn’t require any pre-wetting and has lower background than PVDF. It is a little quicker...quicker to use, with high binding capacity, though it has lower retention after binding and washes. It’s less...and need to be read fairly soon after the reaction has started. Types of chemiluminescence enzymes The two...darkroom and a developer. Film is highly sensitive but has a limited dynamic range, which means it may take ...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - Spring 2019

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    ...Cas9-adenosine deaminase fusion Caixia Gao’s lab has developed a new plant base editor from an evolved...in diverse bacteria from various environments. It has the advantage of stable genomic integration and is...Cre or Flp recombinases used to excise markers. It has the advantage that CRISPR efficiency can be controlled...
  16. Making Career Development an Integral Part of the Science Training System

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    ...My son is an engineer and my daughter has a business degree. From the very start of their undergraduate...reduced impact of scientists and science. The pandemic has demonstrated that, more than ever, we need all of...at University of Massachusetts Medical School. It has been supported by a Steering Committee and working...
  17. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    ...– to specific sequences of DNA has become commonplace. This ability has opened up a world of possibilities...the original paper says). In their hands, BsaI-HF has produced less reliable results. She also notes that...
  18. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    ...specific field(s). Most anyone who has spent any time in academia has likely had the opportunity to attend... one that no one sees a purpose in attending and has lost both its focus and critical mass of participants...their own knowledge of the field. Perhaps interest has simply waned. When attendance slumps below a certain...rebooted or disbanded all together once their purpose has been served. I hope that with some of the information...
  19. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    ...Biotech in May 2016 (1), NgAgo has received much attention and the plasmid has been requested by labs around...THE ORIGINAL NgAgo ARTICLE DISCUSSED IN THIS POST HAS BEEN RETRACTED AND FOLLOW UP STUDIES HAVE FAILED ...spotlight and take a moment to remember that NgAgo has only been available for genome editing for a few ... synthesis, which could be less desirable if one has to target multiple sites in a single experiment. ...
  20. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    ...popularity. A yellow flame indicates that a plasmid has been ordered more than 20 times; red, more than 50...available through Addgene. Publication: If the plasmid has been published, the paper in which it was first used... their new plasmid.  The Addgene Vector Database has more information about common vector backbones.  ...plasmid number here. Gene/insert: This describes what has been inserted into the backbone, and provides information...gene or DNA element of interest. If the depositor has indicated that there is a particular mutation found...
  21. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    ...Counter-selection with sacB has revolutionized allelic exchange. Even now, only half our lab has switched over to..., 2014). In recent years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has also aided in the creation of scarless mutations,...isolated are those where the allelic exchange vector has undergone single crossover and integrated into the...to pTOX. However, we feel it has clear advantages, and are hopeful that continued development of allelic...the lab of Matthew Waldor at Harvard. Now that he has an efficient allelic exchange system, he is so excited...
  22. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    ...more commonly known: the fruit fly. The fruit fly has been used in scientific research for over a century... a transgenic mouse line. Over the years the fly has become an ideal model organism to study an array ...development, genetics, and the nervous system. The fly has also emerged as an important human disease model ... described in 1993 by Norbert Perrimon’s lab and has been continuously improved upon since then. If you...Zebrafish (Danio rerio) Since the 1960s, the zebrafish has gradually become an important model organism. They...Caenorhabditis elegans) The worm, Caenorhabditis elegans, has been used extensively as a model organism since the...
  23. March for Science

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    ...limit what policy can do and, in this way, science has always been related to government and, consequently...face of evidence” (4). Frustration among scientists has been rising as evidence of climate change, the safety...unwanted results (14). Some loss of trust, I fear, has already come to pass. It may only be by advocating... As of April 13th the March for Science homepage has amassed nearly 500,000 ‘likes’, while their website...scientific funding (17). Federal funding for science has been decreasing for the last five years and the first...for Science: The website for the March for Science has the details for the march in Washington as well as...
  24. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    ...abundance. If a scientist wants to know if an organism has a particular gene mutation, southern blotting can... DNA is complementary to the probe (for example, has the sequence of the mutated gene the researcher is..., two DNA fragments are observed because the DNA has the site where MstII cuts. In a patient with sickle...DNA fragment is observed. Today Southern blotting has been largely replaced by real-time PCR to answer ... large amount of high-quality DNA, real-time PCR has several advantages including easier automation, higher...questions (see below). Importantly, although their role has changed, restriction enzymes are certainly not dead...
  25. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    ...refined to create Brainbow 3.2. Brainbow labeling has also been applied to cell marking and lineage tracing...example, Brainbow-1.0 expresses RFP when the construct has not undergone recombination. This default state was...neuronal pThy1-Brainbow constructs, Addgene also has two Brainbow adeno-associated viral vectors (AAV)...Drosophila and zebrafish. Brainbow in Drosophila has aided in the mapping of neural circuits, such as ...neuromuscular junction. In zebrafish, the method has become very useful in lineage tracing; “Zebrabow”...Lichtman estimate that Brainbow’s colorful labeling has decreased the mapping time for a given section of...
  26. Flow Cytometry Readouts: Yes, No, and Everything in Between

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    ...for the flow plots discussed in this post, voltage has been adjusted appropriately and compensation performed...baseline expression of a protein while the green (top) has an upregulated expression (shift to the right). The...overlaps with the baseline suggesting this sample has a comparable expression to the baseline/negative ...allow for better interpretation. Priyamvada Prathima has a research background in protein mutagenesis and ...
  27. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ...CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field. It has the possibility to treat... applications.” Li’s team noted that CRISPR/Cas9 has been used to generate mutations in a wide range of... expanded organoids. “CRISPR in adult stem cells has huge potential, because the genomes of adult stem...
  28. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    ... first publication in 2012, the Nagai laboratory has assembled a collection of multicolored nano-lanterns... low luminescence By itself, Renilla luciferase has a low quantum yield, and when transiently expressed...using chemiluminescent proteins for imaging, but it has precluded widespread adoption of the technology. ...Nano-lanterns and your experiments The Nagai laboratory has a done a wonderful job characterizing Nano-lanterns...
  29. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    ... safe to assume that anyone reading this article has a smartphone nearby. We tailor these devices to our...and a couple of other nice features. This app also has a great educational section. This section holds the...this MSDS app. The Chemical Safety Data Sheets app has a search function that allows the user to find an...memorized, but the structures are another story. AMINO has been very helpful when I’ve had to explain the properties...
  30. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    ...modified version of CAG promoter that the Zhang lab has tested in a variety of mammalian cell lines. Cas9...effective in certain cell lines. This point mutation has been corrected in V2.0. pSpCas9(BB)-2A-Puro (PX459...that, upstream of the Cbh promoter, this plasmid has a U6 promoter followed by BbsI restriction sites ...
  31. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    ... animal moving around to explore the environment has a different motivation (and brain areas associated... certain forms of drug addiction. When an animal has been exposed to morphine or other stimulating drugs...involved in locomotor sensitization? Previous research has shown that regions such as the nucleus accumbens ...dark compartment (Howerton at al. 2014). Addgene has several recombinase-expressing ready-made AAV vectors... tests.    Forced swim test The forced swim test has been used since the 1970s to test the efficacy of...
  32. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    ... in a town with a good public school system that has made strong efforts in the last 5 years to incorporate...curriculum. Our Parent Teacher Association (PTA) has been instrumental in supplementing that curriculum...some quick tips to get things going: If your PTA has a general meeting and a means to request funding ...without them! If you live in a school district that has a lot of parents in STEM careers, chances are they...nearly every talk I’ve given in the past 20 years has been aimed at grad students, postdocs, and other ...
  33. Isolating Genomic Regions of Interest with the CRISPR System

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    ...While much of CRISPR research has focused on genome editing, numerous discoveries have been made using...cleave the DNA. Much of the research using dCas9 has focused on transcriptional activation using a fusion...CRISPR-mediated purification of a specific genomic region has also recently been adapted to isolate genomic loci...tag systems including Protein A, 1xFLAG, 2xAM, and HA have been reported, as well as affinity purification...for many other CRISPR techniques, this method also has great potential for improvements and adaptations ...
  34. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    ...Cas9, but the ever-expanding repertoire of CRISPR has brought many other Cas effectors to light. One lesser-known...effector, and type IV with an unknown effector. Type I has subtypes A through G, with different compositions... Thanks to this complex, developing Cas3 tools has been challenging. It can be difficult to ensure comparable... job — Cas see DNA, Cas chop DNA. Cas3, however, has two jobs, one as a nuclease and one as a helicase...easier to work with than Cas3. Future targets Cas3 has the potential to be incredibly useful in therapeutics...
  35. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    ...altering the sequence of the protein. As DNA synthesis has become quite cost-effective it seems easy for scientists...optimize your gene of interest? Codon optimization has become extremely useful in expressing functional ...neurons in vivo (Slimko and Lester, 2003).  Addgene has a large selection of codon optimized genes, so check...which have even been linked to some diseases. It has been reported that 5-10% of human genes contain a...//doi.org/10.1093/nar/15.3.1281 Slimko EM, Lester HA (2003) Codon optimization of Caenorhabditis elegans...
  36. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    ...decades, recombinant Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has been widely used to deliver genetic tools to the ...The most famous ones are influenza hemagglutinin (HA), myelocytomatosis viral oncogene (myc), simian virus...limitations of epitope tags and fluorescent proteins, it has been crucial to develop new tracers that enable accurate...are known to be notoriously difficult to label. It has also been shown that dendrites in the stratum oriens... provided better labels than fusions to 3 or more HA tags. 4. High-resolutions microscopy As indicated...
  37. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ...technology has been studied and used in assays for over half a century; the Addgene blog has an excellent...new aptamer also has a higher melting temperature than its Spinach ancestors, and has a lower magnesium...initially still unstable in eukaryotes, the Jaffrey lab has since developed new RNA-based scaffolds to contain...
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