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  1. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... is the genetic test used for sickle cell anemia (2). Southern blotting, in conjunction with restriction...program) can then reproduce the DNA sequence (Figure 2). Accuracy and accessibility led to the widespread...biology98.3 (1975): 503-517. PubMed PMID: 1195397. 2. Chang, Judy C., and Yuet Wai Kan. "A sensitive new...generating transgenic animals may choose Southern blotting to screen founder transgenic animals for the inserted.... In southern blotting, DNA is fragmented into smaller pieces, run on a gel, and transferred to a membrane...to screen multiple colonies before selecting a smaller subset to sequence. Sequencing gels and next-generation...for the extension of a DNA strand (8). Adding a small amount of a single radiolabelled ddNTP to a synthesis...
  2. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    Nov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...Table 2: Lab strains of E. coli Strain Natural resistance Primary Use Genotype ccdB Survival 2 T1R ...resistance to tetracycline Additionally, Table 2 provides a quick reference for some of the popular...designing your plasmid – you carefully selected the optimal promoter for your gene of interest, painstakingly...coli are mainly found in the intestinal tract of animals. There are many different naturally occurring strains...arabinose as a carbon source leuB β-isopropyl malate dehydrogenase inactivated Requires exogenous leucine...is non-functional. If a gene is deleted, it is normally noted with a Greek delta (Δ).  Additional resources...of Replication The Promoter Region – Let's Go! Mammalian Vectors Looking for More Plasmids 101 Articles...
  3. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...sites would confound your experimental results and 2) perform targeted off-target measurements at those...experiments where only localization of the Cas occurs. 2 gRNA approach Off-targets that come from mutations...perform downstream characterization of, isolating 2 or 3 distinct clones to perform key experiments on...typically 20 nts and the genomic locus must often be proximal to a PAM site for DNA cutting to occur. The RNA...experiment, at least one will likely be useful. Optimal gRNA selection With some CRISPR experiments, there...can reduce off-targets at a fundamental level. Optimal Cas selection Once you’ve selected a gRNA with ... off-target confounding your results should be minimal. For example, if your goal is to generate a knock-out...
  4. Troubleshooting and Optimizing a Western Blot

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    Sept. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Tables 1 and 2 in our Technical Design of a Western Blot post to make sure you have the optimal gel for your... that all look exactly alike.      Figure 2: Reagent gradient. Here, the lanes are lightly marked...guide. The gel is then removed from the membrane (2) and the membrane is cut so each lane is its own piece...the antibody’s dynamic range. Specifically, the 1:2, 1:1, and No dilution samples all have approximately...conditions are 4 °C overnight or room temperature for 1–2 hours, there is some evidence that antibodies may ...said, normalizing to total protein expression is preferable, and more accurate, than normalizing to ubiquitously...common (non-technical) issues with transferring are smaller proteins going completely through the membrane ...
  5. FastCloning: A Newer, Simpler Cloning Technique

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    Nov. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...vector:insert ratio is used in the DpnI digestion and 2 µL of digest product are used in the transformation...Biology 38 (2016): 145-154. PubMed PMID: 27391134. 2. Li, Chaokun, et al. "FastCloning: a highly simplified...confirm that the products were amplified by running a small aliquot of the reaction on an agarose gel. You should...
  6. Antibodies 101: Avoiding the Mouse on Mouse Mess in IHC

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    Sept. 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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... apply your primary and secondary antibodies as normal. Ideally, your secondary will only bind to your...
  7. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    July 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... as muscular dystrophies, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes, across four different types of human cells...(#186715) and hCtRNA_VT (#186716).   Fig. 2: Comparison of previous representative dual-gRNA architectures...MBE) and multiplex prime editing (MPE) with only minimal payloads. DAP array  Although CRISPR-Cas12a, with...advantages in gene editing, while keeping the system to minimal size. To do so, they harnessed the tRNA processing...any cell type or organisms of interest with only minimal genetic payloads. Different from existing multiplex...
  8. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    April 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...that the signal to noise ratio can be increased from 2-fold (by CRISPRainbow) to 3-fold with CRISPR-Sirius...CNV) analysis of the U2OS cells.   Figure 2: CRISPR-Sirius tricolor labeling. (A) Diagram of sgRNA-Sirius...based multicolor labeling system to visualize chromosomal loci in human cells (Ma et al., 2015). To do ...aptamers are nucleic acid sequences that bind to the small molecule, DFHBI-1T to induce its fluorescence. They...Hanhui et al. “Multicolor CRISPR labeling of chromosomal loci in human cells.” Proceedings of the National...
  9. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Marcotte EM, Voigt CA. Nature. 2005 Nov 24;438(7067):441-2. PubMed. Find the plasmids from this publication ...Levskaya A, Voigt CA. J Mol Biol. 2011 Jan 14;405(2):315-24. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.10.038. Epub 2010... biological processes. Chemical effectors are suboptimal for a number of reasons, including their potential...number of plasmids, with one RR (ompR) encoded chromosomally. Leakiness was also an issue; some promoter ...transcription factors, for which low expression levels are optimal. These tools are compatible with many strains of...
  10. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    Feb. 4, 2014, 3:50 p.m.
    ...article in the Addgene Blog Mentoring series will cover 2 of the 7 mentoring questions I set out to answer. ...101-Building Relationships for Success”. Choose 1-2 tactics to try. One of my favorites is making the ...Broaden your network Take advantage of formal programs A formal mentoring program can be a great way to...year. Some click and some do not. These are all normal outcomes. If you have a broad range of mentors ...
  11. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...about a month later, the animal is given additional booster immunizations every 2-3 weeks to increase the...antibodies is reached - typically within 2-4 months. After the animal has the desired level of antibodies ...Polyclonal antibodies are generated by injecting an animal with an immunogen, then isolating and purifying....com. To generate polyclonal antibodies, an animal (such as a rabbit or a goat) is injected with an...retrieved first by drawing blood from the immunized animal. The red blood cells and the serum are separated...different affinities for IgG subtypes from different animals so it’s important to choose the reagent that works...Only up to 5% of the IgG antibodies produced by an animal are specific for the immunogen. A different type...
  12. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...represent the preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would...medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-448. Pubmed PMID: 25849130. 2. Hata, Aaron N., et al. "Tumor cells can follow distinct...infected a non-small cell lung cancer cell line containing an activating mutation in epidermal growth factor...researchers to individually label millions of mammalian cells through lentiviral infection and to monitor... other replicate; prior to treatment, there are small (previously undetectable) populations of cancer ...combination treatment with multiple drugs reveals even smaller preexisting populations with resistance to both...distinct evolutionary paths to become resistant to epidermal growth factor receptor inhibition." Nature medicine...
  13. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...parts: (1) β-strands 1-9 (β1-9) and the one ɑ-helix, (2) β-strand 10 (β10), and (3) β-strand 11 (β11). Each...activating caspase-3, and detected fluorescence within 2 to 5 hours, a time consistent with previous methods... difficult to detect, and thus quantify, due to small fluorescence changes of the donor and acceptor after...spatio-temporal dynamics of apoptosis in living animals. To do this they modified a different self-assembling...fluorescence was dependent on protease activation. Normally, β10-11 are antiparallel. To prevent binding, ...the sequence, β10 and β11 can rearrange to their normal antiparallel position and fluoresce. FlipCherry... a beta strand of GFP for imaging apoptosis in animals." Journal of the American Chemical Society (2019...
  14. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    Feb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m.
    ...of 1-2 mentors and 3-5 mentees who meet together for an 8 month formal program. After the formal program... together. If you all work at the same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not...supporters and advisors? I tried to start a more formal mentoring program at my company, but there weren't...awkward to ask someone for the time commitment of a formal mentoring relationship or there aren’t enough senior...for one another (trainees never get to present formally often enough) and give honest, critical feedback...
  15. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment, they found the ... cells throughout the body, especially stem cells 2. Remove any immunogenicity of the AAV vector Once ...Science. 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169 2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H...in a clinical setting. CRISPR is often used for animal germline modification, to repair or add in disease-causing...recessive disorder affecting approximately 1 in 5000 males. DMD is caused primarily by frameshift mutations... reading frame, leading to the production of a smaller, but at least partially functional protein. Individuals... of the dystrophin gene would take place, with minimal risk of off-target editing. In order for the therapy...
  16. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...is always best to have options.      Fig. 2: Addgene’s western blot for mEGFP-HRas (from Plasmid...the presence of oxidizing agents. Adapted from Fig. 2 Campbell et al, Nature Methods   Find YFP plasmids...alternatives - RNAi and Cas13. CRISPR-Csm doesn’t degrade proximal RNAs nor does it have high levels of off-target...changes of non-target genes and RNA-seq of a nuclear (MALAT1) and cytoplasmic (CKB1) RNA target. Adapted from...
  17. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ...form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Figure 2: dCas9-Tet1 demethylates cytosines at promoters and...pX330a dCas9-LSD1 for targeted removal of H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me2 histone modifications. Like the TALE-LSD1...approach for targeted DNA demethylation. Cell Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids...functions in mammalian expression systems.   Christopher Newgard’s Lab has fused LSD1 to the smaller nuclease-dead...specified loci. Charles Gersbach’s lab has deposited mammalian expression constructs including pcDNA-dCas9-p300...Tet1-CD for targeted cytosine demethylation in mammalian cells. This plasmid is used with pcDNA3.1-MS2-...DNMT3A-PuroR for targeted cytosine methylation in mammalian cells. Co-expression markers EGFP and PuroR enable...
  18. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry

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    April 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... intensity of the cell’s illumination (see Figure 2). H describes the maximum signal strength, while W...SSC-A, so most people use that setting. Figure 2: As the cell passes through the laser beam and causes...scale in proportion (while H and W do not; see Figure 2), single cell events will show up in a straight line... a homogenous cell population in culture, it is normal to observe diversity in cell size, marker expression...s origin mainly stem from cell debris and other small fragments. Where exactly a given cell population...
  19. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...China, Korea, Japan, Brazil, India, and Mexico. Table 2: Addgene distributors Distributor Partnership...distribution after we partnered with them (Figure 2). In others, the distributor helped solve an issue...temperature for the duration of their journey. Figure 2: Annual distribution of items to countries with a ...website, we’ve learned about the importance of smaller, systemic changes, like using alt-text, captions...
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