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  1. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...unlike CRISPR. Early CRISPR labeling techniques allowed researchers to visualize nearly any single genomic...

  2. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ...hairpin that can be designed to bind and detect nearly any RNA sequence. Downstream of the hairpin is ...26615910. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4674677. Ronda, Carlotta, et al. "Metagenomic engineering of the mammalian...

  3. Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing

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    Jan. 14, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
    ...better serve the community. We are delighted at the early outcomes and the ecstatic reception by scientists...worry about getting support from depositors. We regularly hear how much they see the value in depositing...

  5. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...School. We want to give a special thanks to the early-adopter scientists, who trusted Addgene before we...— 10,000 plasmids deposited and available — and nearly seven before we had 1,000 depositing scientists...

  6. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    May 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... also be used to ensure specificity; this is particularly helpful when wanting to target specific neuron...Dystrophy. InTech. doi: 10.5772/53023 Veldwijk, Marlon R., et al. "Development and optimization of a real-time...

  7. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Cas12a cleavage results in 5 bp overhangs and is particularly convenient for targeting experiments requiring...it targets RNA instead of DNA. This makes it particularly useful in generating transient edits of signaling...

  8. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    May 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.
    ...Why study neural connectivity? One of the early lessons many of us learned in biology is that the body...Deshpande et al., 2013). The study found that at early time points, most of the projections to these new...

  9. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ... to prevent dCas9 tethering to DNA. Since these early anti-CRISPR studies, scientists have discovered ...can increase the chance of off-target editing particularly after the majority of on-target editing has ...

  10. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    Aug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... direct ELISA, aside from the detection step. Similarly, the protein antigen is coated onto the wells ...calculate the protein concentration. Image from Jagarlamudi et al., 2015.   The maximum OD that most ...

  11. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...could be repurposed for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection. Early in the pandemic, labs around the world have been...  Expression of SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins In the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Krogan lab at...

  12. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    Blog Post
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    May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...differences are considered a QC issue is reviewed yearly at a best practices meeting, where the QC team ...pipeline. There are regions of plasmids that are particularly difficult to sequence and assemble using the...

  13. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Zibitt et al. 2021). Mutating splice sites is particularly effective as it can result in the retention ...used to target lncRNAs with high specificity, particularly in applications requiring smaller delivery systems...

  14. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    Oct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m.
    ...your questions, data, and conclusions should be clearly identified and interpreted in less than a couple...these colors so that your text is easily read. Similarly, be cognizant of audience members that are color-blind...

  15. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    Blog Post
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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ... close to the hood so you can view your cells regularly (both before entering the hood and when putting...Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Sana is particularly interested in Glycobiology and Immunology. You...

  16. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    Blog Post
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    March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
    ...xCas9 3.7. Base editor variants with xCas9 are similarly flexible. Like the xCas9 3.7 nuclease, xCas9 3.7... and base editing, to more loci. Although these early data are exciting, there’s a lot we still don’t ...

  17. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    Nov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m.
    ...experience, the more I heard that getting into industry early would only help. Like any major life decision, ...could be laid off while you’re there. Of course, similarly, an academic advisor could also lose their funding...

  19. PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays

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    April 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...dsDNA in most starting materials, and is not particularly sensitive. The fluorescent signal can be affected...be affected by DNA quality and primer design, particularly for amplicons under 100 bp (Ma, 2015.) A schematic...

  20. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...may be too constraining for some experiments, particularly in vivo ones. In those cases, AAV vector screens...your CRISPR screen to a high degree. This is particularly helpful when investigating tissue-specific diseases...
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