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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    Oct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...among the most important are the inverted terminal repeats (ITRs). ITRs are the elements that make an AAV ...guide AAV Viral Preps References  Earley, L. F., Conatser, L. M., Lue, V. M., Dobbins, A. L., Li, C., Hirsch...2019). A User’s Guide to the Inverted Terminal Repeats of Adeno-Associated Virus. Hum Gene Ther Methods...the B-B’ and C-C’ regions of inverted terminal repeats reduces rAAV productivity but increases transgene...
  2. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... from that of wild cats with the goal of optimizing the health of domesticated cats and learning about...data for analysis. And, well, cats... everyone knows the internet loves cats! This is mostly a project to...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...endothelial cells (mice, rats); CNS neurons (infant rhesus macaques) Mice, rats, rhesus macaques No ... Mice, rats No (mechanism unknown) Krolak et al., 2022 AAV.MaCPNS1 PNS (mice and rats) CNS; ...mice) PNS (rats) CNS; PNS, including ENS (adult marmosets, infant rhesus macaques) Mice, rats, marmosets... not effective in NHPs (Liguore et al., 2019; Matsuzaki et al., 2018; Huang et al., 2023). However, several... mouse strains. **AAV1-X1 has not been tested in rats. For more information on reagents and protocols,... Reference AAV-PHP.B* CNS (broad) Mice, rats Yes (LY6A) Deverman et al., 2016 Hordeaux et...for inhibitory versus excitatory neurons Mice, rats Yes (LY6A) Chan et al., 2017 Brown et al, 2021...
  4. Unique and persistent IDs for improved reproducibility: Addgene now supports RRIDs and compact identifiers for all plasmids

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    Nov. 20, 2018, 8:17 p.m.
    ...recommend or require authors to use specific PID formats. For example, several journals like eLife, Nature...are supported by SciCrunch. Other well known PID formats are resolvable compact identifiers, which are Compact...identifier for every plasmid. In case these PID formats are new to you, we’ll go through examples to highlight.... Despite their differences, both of these PID formats for lenti-Cas9-VQR contain the Addgene ID # and...Addgene. How to cite options using the different PID formats The instructions for how to cite any Addgene plasmid...citing with resolvable compact identifier and RRID formats. Let’s go back to our example plasmid, lenti-Cas9...happy to support the RRID and compact identifier formats. Acknowledgments Many thanks to Daniela Bourges...
  5. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., and genetic similarities with humans. However, rats have some key differences in physiology, intelligence...edge as a disease mode (Iannaccone et al., 2009). Rats are larger than mice making them more useful for...research (Ellenbroek and Youn, 2016). For these reasons rats were once the most used mammalian model in medical... perfect. One of the most limiting attributes of rats is their difficult to manipulate genome and limited... have vastly improved scientists’ ability to use rats as disease models.  Check out Addgene’s collection...nature02426 Iannaccone, P. M., & Jacob, H. J. (2009). Rats! Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2(5–6), 206–210. https...
  6. 2018 #DeckTheLab Contest Winners

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    Jan. 15, 2019, 2:19 p.m.
    ...parkinsonsdisease A post shared by Ladies in labcoats (@ladiesinlabcoats) on Dec 19, 2018 at 4:36am PST Buddy..., 2018 Eppi the red nosed reindeer from @ladiesinlabcoats Many teams recycled lab materials into holiday...up about sustainability in the lab!). The @ladiesinlabcoats used a pipette tip box and microcentrifuge...love your Insta!! #LILCChristmas . . #lab #ladiesinlabcoats #Christmas #labchristmas #cute #reindeer #...
  7. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ... Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Jake Watson is a postdoctoral...This post was contributed by Jake Watson and Javier García-Nafría from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular...receptor function.     Follow them on Twitter @jakefwatson and @JGarciaNafria.  References 1. Jones, Douglas...PMCID: PMC331480. 3. García-Nafría, Javier, Jake F. Watson, and Ingo H. Greger. "IVA cloning: a single-tube...
  8. Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications

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    Aug. 5, 2014, 6:51 p.m.
    ...issue of proprietary data formats. Many instruments store raw data in formats that require specific (expensive...software that evolves over time such that prior formats are no longer supported/readable. Is the author...their host institution expected to provide data in formats exported to common file types? And how long should...
  9. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
    ...for a ligase? DNA ligases generally prefer fully Watson-Crick base-paired dsDNA substrates to those containing... base-pair size nearly indistinguishable from a Watson-Crick base pair, are joined with nearly the same...allowed screening of all possible base combinations (Watson-Crick and mismatched) around the ligation junction... (2013): 1415-1422. PubMed PMID: 23463388. 18. Hommatsu, Manami, et al. "Development of a PCR/LDR/flow-through...
  10. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    July 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. That contrast of simplicity and complexity is ... of these arrays, with alternating spacers and repeats, was the original impetus for studying CRISPR. ...array, these sequences are called protospacers. Repeats: Bacterial DNA that appears between each spacer...
  11. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ... et al used four oligos that consist of direct repeats and crRNA.  Similar to a jigsaw puzzle, the oligos... reverse the orientation of the crRNA’s direct repeats when expressing the Cpf1 multiplex system from ...This undoes the original reversing of the direct repeats, leading to expression of a crRNA array that can...
  12. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...This MazF-ZeoR cassette is flanked by two direct repeats which can be used for marker removal so that the...second recombination event between the two flanking repeats. In cells where recombination has not occured, ...8650219. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC39188. Kamada, Katsuhiko, Fumio Hanaoka, and Stephen K. Burley. "Crystal...
  13. Plasmids 101: Using Transposons in the Lab

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    July 6, 2021, 1:28 p.m.
    ...types of Class 1 TEs: those with long terminal repeats (LTRs) and those without (non-LTR TEs). LTR retrotransposons...transposase enzyme binds the transposon’s long terminal repeats (LTRs), induces a double-stranded break, and excises...generate transgenic animals, including zebrafish, mice, rats, and rabbits (Sandoval-Villegas et al., 2021).  ...
  14. Celebrating One Million Plasmids Shared!

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    Sept. 25, 2018, 2:39 p.m.
    ... community (check out the infographic below for stats on our plasmid deposits and requests). Over the ...on social media or around the office. @Addgene congrats for 1 million orders. @RothLabUNC accounts for...
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