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  1. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    ...3 plates at different densities for selection). A 2% agarose solution is then melted (and thereby sterilized...96-well assay plate. We generally freeze at least 2 ampules each of 4 clones with different levels of ...of agarose, which is then overlaid with the firmer 2% agarose gel solution discussed above for picking....incubator, additional growth medium is added to about halfway up each well. Tips for using the agarose cloning...Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User) The Challenges of Cell Culture Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors...

  2. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    ...therapy had fallen - plummeted really -  from grace 2 years prior with the death of Jesse Gelsinger in an... the whole field to a grinding stop and only now, 2 decades later, is it finally back in the limelight...the other hand, have broad tropism in the eye. AAV-2, the first identified serotype and the one used in...reading 1. FDA approves gene therapy for blindness 2. Gene Therapy emerges from disgrace to be the next... completing her PhD and medical training in Ophthalmology. Gene therapy was in its infancy, but the eye...

  3. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    ...procedure to be performed using a simple two-step, 2 hr protocol prior to transformation (Figure 1). As...Primer design Using specific primer design (Figure 2), IVA cloning can be used to perform any plasmid modification... for each type of modification is shown in Figure 2, and is discussed in more detail below. The main requirement...Biotechniques 10.1 (1991): 62-66. PubMed PMID: 2003926. 2. Bubeck, Peter, Monica Winkler, and Wilfried Bautsch... to amplify away from the insertion site. Encode half the new sequence at the 5’ end of each primer, with...

  4. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores

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    ... to DFHBI in the presence of that metabolite (Fig.2). Spinach eventually evolved into Spinach2, a more...PMID: 25713381. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4364232. 2. Baker, Monya. “RNA imaging in situ”. Nature Methods...emerging environmental pollutants.” Front Chem. 2014; 2: 41. PubMed PMID: 25019067. PubMed Central PMCID: ...biosensors.” TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry 27(2):108-117 · February 2008. 11. Svensen, Nina and Jaffrey...technology has been studied and used in assays for over half a century; the Addgene blog has an excellent primer...

  5. Predicting Adverse Reactions to Monoclonal Antibody Drugs

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    ...various components of the immune system. Figure 2: In-vitro models for immunogenicity prediction of ...drug reaction. This system would somewhat act like a 2-step verification. All approaches have their own limitations...Future Enhancements. Frontiers in drug discovery, 2, 952326. https://doi.org/10.3389/fddsv.2022.952326Joubert...Formation in Oncology: Clinical Relevance and Challenges. The oncologist, 21(10), 1260–1268. https://doi.org...

  6. Crowdfight, a Platform to Boost Scientific Collaboration During COVID-19 and Beyond

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    ...mammal called alpaca could neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. But while the early results were promising,...receiving dozens of requests every day.    Figure 2: When a researcher needs a collaborator for a specific...Crowdfight will: 1) Find an expert with the right skill; 2) Confirm the expert’s suitability and availability...lockdown forced us to put our research projects to a halt. None of us works directly with viruses or transmissible...

  7. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    .... The most common options are 4 °C overnight or 1–2 hours at room temperature (RT). Most people choose...overnight at 4 °C and their secondary antibody for 1–2 hrs at room temperature, which allows them to reduce...Tris-glycine 6–400 kDa Tris-glycine 100 V, 1–2 hours Easy and cheap to handcast Short shelf-life...–40 kDa Tris-tricine 30 V, 1 hour or 100 V, 1–2 hours Good separation, quality, and stability ...separation of proteins of different sizes.  Table 2: Recommended gel percentages for various protein sizes...are consistent and stable at room temperature for 1–2 years and are available in formulas specific to your...response over a broad dynamic range that typically spans 2–5 orders of magnitude, which includes a wide dynamic...

  8. Isolating a Monoclonal Cell Population by Limiting Dilution

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    ...Day 1: Seed individual cells in a 96-well plate Day 2–14: Monitor cells for growth and expand cells Day ...Biological Safety Cabinet 0.5–10 µL single channel pipette 2–20 µL single channel pipette 20–200 µL single channel...channel pipette 200–1000 µL single channel pipette CO 2 incubator Pipet controller Hazardous waste container...approximately 50–60% confluent. For 293T cells this is about 2 × 10 6 cells in a 10 cm dish. Each 10 cm dish should...the highest or lowest transgene expression ( Figure 2 ). Sample Data Figure 1: Generation of monoclonal ...inferred by the differences in colony size. Figure 2: Cas9 expression in monoclonal cell lines generated...medium at a reduced antibiotic concentration (e.g., half the concentration that was used for the initial ...

  9. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    ... qPCR is that the results can vary by a factor of 2. This means that if you set up two identical assays...amplitude measured for each droplet in each well (Figure 2). A clean ddPCR should have a clear separation between...as low as 1C/s. Increasing the elongation time to 2 minutes and the denaturation time to 1 minute has ...generating the standard curve for qPCR can be challenging to get right. Here at Addgene, we use a linearized...droplet digital PCR for vaccine evaluation in challenged monkeys and TB diagnosis." Emerging microbes ...

  10. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    ...(you generally don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification...TEV cleavage site (more on that in a moment), and 2 ProtA IgG-binding domains. TAP has since come to encompass...found in this paper (available at Addgene).   Table 2: Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags...purify proteins can face any number of technical challenges depending on their protein of interest. After...After several decades of trying to address these challenges, researchers have amassed a considerable molecular...

  11. Visualizing Translation at the Single Molecule Level

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    ...Find ribosome profiling plasmids at Addgene. 2. Halstead, James M., et al. “Translation. An RNA biosensor...the reporter mRNA is labeled by PCP-mCherry (Figure 2). The 3’ UTR also contains a CAAX sequence to bind...translation inhibitors cycloheximide and puromycin, Halstead et al. verified that translation is necessary ...translation is known to be important in development, and Halstead et al. used TRICK to examine translation of Drosophila...

  12. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    ...the fluorescent protein mOrange2 (Figure 2). Figure 2: OCaMP structure and mechanism of action...module_attribute "schema_version" is_json="true" %}{% raw %}2{% endraw %}{% end_module_attribute %}{% module_attribute...developed a new calcium indicator, OCaMP. The challenge: Expanding the fluorescent toolbox Modern neuroscience...

  14. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    ...recognize Fab fragments from the same species and 2) these fragments will be more likely to bind (and ...epitopes recognized by the secondary.   Figure 2: There are a few common solutions to avoid background...staining can be a challenge in the best of cases. But it can be particularly challenging when your only ...

  15. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    ... will repeatedly nose-poke at the active hole [1, 2].    Place preference/place aversion also models reinforcement...spend most of its times in the opposite chamber) [2]. Laser activation is usually controlled automatically...two different ways 1) your hypothesis is wrong or 2) there is some problem with the technical implementation...PMID: 21716290. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC3775282. 2. McDevitt, Ross A., et al. "Serotonergic versus nonserotonergic...than ICSS. The test chamber is divided into two halves that are distinguished visually through different...

  16. RNA Interference in Plant Biology: New Tools for an Old Favorite

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    ... analogs such as 2-fluoroadenine (2-FA), organisms with functional APT will convert 2-FA to cytotoxic ...selection of plants undergoing RNAi, and LIIbeta F 1-2 RNAi, which allows assembly of intron-spliced hpRNAs...nucleotides, resulting in death. In the presence of 2-FA, potent gene silencing of APT is required for survival...such as in the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana (Li et al., 2013; Zhang et al., 2018) and the ...

  17. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS

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    ... you can read more about them in review articles (2–4). You can also take a look at my recent paper to...Development 118, 401–15 (1993). PubMed PMID: 8223268. 2. J. B. Duffy, GAL4 System in Drosophila : A Fly Geneticist...two genes by one Gal4 driver will produce roughly half as much protein as overexpression of each gene individually...384–391 (2004). PubMed PMID: 15262411. 4. T. D. Southall, D. A. Elliott, A. H. Brand, The GAL4 System :...Marka, J. C. Kagan, Environmental Stress Causes Lethal Neuro-Trauma during Asymptomatic Viral Infections...

  18. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    ...ITR, which can either be “flip” or “flop” (Figure 2). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep...site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013). Figure 2: AAV2 wild type ITR in flip and flop orientation. ...Packaging, and Potency of AAV Vectors. Microorganisms, 12(2), 310. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms1202031038399714...10.1089/hgtb.2016.133. PMID: 28967288. Shitik, E. M., Shalik, I. K., & Yudkin, D. V. (2023). AAV- based vector...

  19. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    ...while increasing the standard mutation rate by only ~2-fold over nCas9 levels. Two sets of modifications ...10-3 mutations per nucleotide per generation, and (2) the addition of the thioredoxin-binding domain (TBD...components of EvolvR and its potential applications. Challenges of existing mutagenesis methods Several continuous...drawbacks with these approaches that makes it challenging for users to achieve targeted diversification...PMID: 30253789. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6154929. Halperin, Shakked O., et al. "CRISPR-guided DNA polymerases...

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

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    ... engineered components, like protein tags (Figure 2). Through the work of many groups, there are systems... in Addgene's repository (Table 1). Figure 2: Adding function to My Favorite Protein (MFP) through...Exchangeable HaloTag Ligands HaloTag Reversible binding of fluorescent ligands to HaloTag PCV-Cas9, Cas9...Plasmid Collection HaloTag Collection of research tools from Promega, including many HaloTag plasmids Exchangeable... tube or in cells. There are also SNAP-tag and HaloTag modules, which can connect proteins to any kind...SNAP-tags or CLIP-tags Tetbow SNAP-tag, CLIP-tag, HaloTag Based on the Brainbow system, adds Tetracycline...
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