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  1. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    ...details of collecting the purified AAV–that the interfaces between layers are blurred after centrifugation...the syringe needle is inserted bevel-up at the interface between the 40% and 60% layers. Putting them all...iodixanol gradient after ultracentrifugation. The interfaces between layers are muddled due to the passage...collect purified AAV, insert a syringe at the interface of the 40% layer containing the virus and 60% ...
  2. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    ...computation, but they will serve you well as you perform analysis after analysis after analysis… Treat ...background on other analyses that have inspired you to perform this analysis. Having a clearly stated, specific...the scripts and input files that will be used to perform each task. Conclusion: Always, always, write ...know that the file is the output of the analysis performed in experiment 1. Use camelCase: In camelCase...
  3. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    ...you need quickly.  Through the years, we have perfected processes to curate the data our depositors share...down, and zooming out — with an intuitive user interface.   The team approached the issue from multiple... search, our updated search engine is now more powerful, intuitive, and searches across all of our content...built our new search engine atop Elasticsearch, a powerful open-source search engine that can scale to search...
  4. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    ...antibody. Perform a second series of wash steps. Activate the signaling molecule and perform the assay...antibodies to bind to a primary antibody without interfering with the hypervariable region, where an antibody...sample with the primary (unconjugated) antibody. Perform a series of wash steps to remove any unbound or...
  5. Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing

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    ... work was performed that could influence the results? The peer-review process is not perfect, so even ..., statistics, clarity in images etc)? Did they perform all of the appropriate controls? Refer back to ...misinterpretations. After all, the science was performed, written and evaluated by humans. Keeping up with...
  6. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    ...BioRender.com.     Many biologists can lead perfectly blissful, productive lives without thinking about...conjugated antibody will have been verified to perform the same as its unconjugated version, but if you...that you will need to confirm your antibodies’ performance after the reaction.  If you are looking to conjugate...the antimicrobial agent sodium azide, which can interfere with conjugation reactions. If needed, you can...
  7. Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options

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    ...of Medicine. Optogenetics and chemogenetics are powerful tools to modulate the activity of neurons and ... be the best option. Fluorescent proteins can interfere with fused protein function Under some circumstances...found that the fluorescent proteins can, indeed, interfere with the correct function of the protein of interest...transgene of interest. In our studies, mCherry interfered with the transport to the membrane of the DREADDs...
  8. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    ...after, we learned about organs and the jobs they perform. This became foundational later on when we studied...genetically engineered neurotropic viruses emerged as powerful tools for visualizing neural connectivity (Nassi...with restricted TVA and G protein expression is a powerful development in neural tracing. Using these technologies...outputs. In general, RABV monosynaptic tracing is a powerful tool that can be used to reveal brain circuitry...
  9. Synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type specific expression in retinal cells

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    ... containing the active promoters at Addgene. Performance of synthetic promoter AAVs in mice All of these...promoter plasmids! Comparing synthetic promoters performance in mouse, monkey, and human retinas Next, the...in monkey and human retinas. By comparing the performance of promoters across these three species, the ...vectors References Juettner, J., Szabó, A., Gross-Scherf, B., Morikawa, R.K., Rompani, S.B., Hantz, P., ...
  10. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    ...throughput cloning efficiency measurements. We performed additional efficiency measurements using similarly...of the 5-, 12- or 24-fragment test systems was performed by setting up assembly reactions in which a single...re-engineered to provide improved Golden Gate performance, a series of optimization experiments for these...these more complex assemblies were performed. It was found that high efficiencies and accurate assembly...
  11. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    ...tested in yeast5. Ecological confinement involves performing experiments in a geographic area where escaped...such as malaria and dengue are currently being performed in regions that don't have resident populations...very few gene drive experiments that can't be performed with two or more confinement methods. Since molecular...scientists could not be trusted to handle such a powerful technology responsibly. An accidental release ...
  12. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    ...of your prep. Many plasmid prep kits recommend performing an extra wash step to remove endonucleases (see...the binding matrix could clog the matrix when performing filter based plasmid prepping. Be sure to stay...yield as these factors are generally, but not perfectly, correlated. Typical growth times for high copy... to Do a Bacterial Transformation Learn How to Perform a Diagnostic Restriction Digest Additional Resources...
  13. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    ... has refined our use of the BLAST web browser interface to be as efficient as possible. If you find yourself...sequences is probably the fastest BLAST search to perform and will save you time compared to other types ...parameter, as this will affect the amount of time to perform the search as well as the overall alignment results...correct!]  Since Sanger sequencing reactions are imperfect and sequence near the beginning or end of a reaction...
  14. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    ...LwaCas13a, which must be stabilized by monomeric superfolded GFP and averages only ~50% RNA knockdown. In ...resulted in 15% C-to-U editing activity. They then performed sixteen rounds of directed evolution across the... cytidine deaminase activity. While RESCUE can perform C-to-U edits, the authors note that it retains ...whole-transcriptome RNA-sequencing, the authors performed rational mutagenesis and identified that a S375A...
  15. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    ...company benefits from their policy! Perfectionism When we reach for perfection, our work stalls. We become so...seems impossible to start at all. This is why perfectionists tend to also be procrastinators.  If you fall...timeframe. Tell yourself they don’t have to be perfect or even good. The goal is simply to throw out ideas...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    ...you may have been a little surprised at how this powerful tool is in such a small package. But don’t let... be skipped or whether selecting colonies and performing Sanger sequencing will suffice…and the answer...mostlibrary requests specifically to allow scientists to perform functional titering and optimize transduction efficiency...finally!) ready to use your transduced cells to perform your pooled library screen…but that’s a blog post...
  17. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...multiplexing to multiscaling NIR-shifted spectrum is perfect for use in spectral multiplexing (Shcherbakova ...the monomeric state of a probe leads to less interference with the oligomeric state of a fusion partner...mIFP6. Learn more about the characteristics, performance, and applications of near-infrared calcium indicators...state-of-the-art NIR fluorescent probes and in choosing the perfect one for your experiment!   Thank you to our guest...
  18. Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR

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    ...constructs), in functional analysis of proteins (to perform alanine scanning mutagenesis or targeted substitution...). Such non-complementary bases at the 3’-end interfere with plasmid reconstitution, and consequently ... of primer duplications), final validation is performed by sequencing functional regions of the plasmid... at extremely low frequency), and these could interfere with the function of the resulting construct. ...
  19. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    ...inhibition of AcrB multidrug efflux pump by novel and powerful pyranopyridine derivatives." Proceedings of the...However, it can be difficult to compare their performance, as most translation initiation sequences are...translation system. The gene set was carefully chosen to perform statistically relevant benchmarking of cell-free...size and expression level can be conveniently performed through the N-terminal eGFP tag carried on all...
  20. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    ...selective transgene expression. While this is a powerful experimental strategy, one of the most common ...is to know how the AAV vector you intend to use performs in your system. This includes a thorough testing...experiments requires a full understanding of vector performance in your system. It is very rare for a methods...known and unknown factors that affect vector performance in each and every system and cell type. Therefore...
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