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  1. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...thought that they function as a kind of armor to protect their host from predation (Petroni et al 2000)....the Addgene Blog Read About Other Hot Plasmid Technologies Read Other Synthetic Biology Posts  Suggest ...

  2. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...fluorescent proteins whose spectra overlap, there are techniques, like spectral unmixing, which can be used to...green and red proteins are generally the most detectable and so should be used to tag your least abundant...

  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferase

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    June 24, 2014, 3:59 p.m.
    ...indicator of transcription within cells, where detection of the reporter protein or its enzymatic activity...regions on gene expression can be determined by detection of the reporter in a specific assay, which ideally...

  4. Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors

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    March 25, 2014, 3:15 p.m.
    ...introduction of DNA into bacterial cells); however, the techniques and reagents vary. Plasmid transfection into ...positive selection; however, negative selection techniques can be used in conjunction with positive selection...

  7. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    March 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Without these scientists and the support of their technology transfer offices, Addgene would not be able to...educational materials, and provides viral vector technical service (details about virus production protocols...

  9. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    May 26, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...use DNA sequencing or other molecular cloning techniques to determine CRISPR/sgRNA efficiency of an experiment...editing, regulating and targeting genomes. Nature Biotechnology 32:347–355 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2842...

  10. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    May 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Tim Miles, PhD, Director of the CLOVER Center at CalTech? If so, you may have submitted a question that ...with no more ado, the questions!  AAV Prep and Technique Q1: Is there any way to deliver a long gene (>...

  11. Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype

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    April 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...also activating or inhibiting gene expression, detecting neuronal signaling, or manipulating any other ...Others have noted a lack of transduction in catecholamine pathways from the spinal cord (Wang, 2018, Metcalfe...

  12. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    Feb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...most helpful to use a lot of jargon and have a technical, detailed approach. Other times, it is more helpful...thought it would be most helpful to highlight the technical details of collecting the purified AAV–that the...

  14. Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes

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    June 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...restriction modification systems that prokaryotes use to protect themselves from foreign DNA. The other component...Addgene Blog Keep up with the Latest Cloning Techniques Learn to Troubleshoot Your Sequencing Results...

  15. REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods

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    Feb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...For insertions, it’s possible to use the same technique just using a large primer known as a megaprimer...Addgene Blog Read about Other Plasmid Cloning Techniques like SLIC and Golden Gate Cloning Learn How to...

  16. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...overview of general molecular biology knowledge and techniques. If you are interested in reading more, you can...Addgene Website Choose the Best Molecular Cloning Technique for You Browse Addgene's curated list of Bacterial...

  17. dTAG - You're it!

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    June 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
    ...exciting strategy, it is difficult to apply this technique to oncoproteins that lack selective small molecule...author on the recent paper describing the dTAG technology. Follow him on twitter @behnamnabet.   References...

  18. Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment

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    Sept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...the steps you will have to take. Decide which technique you are going to adopt (i.e. restriction cloning...Find how-to videos for molecular biology and lab techniques ...

  20. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    March 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...laboratory situation or tissue collection method, so biotechnology companies have marketed several products that...These products, namely RNAlater®  from Thermo and RNAProtect® from Qiagen, are ammonium sulfate-based solutions...

  21. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    Nov. 21, 2019, 1:53 p.m.
    ...involved “plates,” and our scientists and lab technicians always knew from context what a “plate” was. ... the lab to be using words for their field or technology in a consistent way. Just creating a lexicon ...

  22. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ... the open windows in the middle of your talk. Technical difficulties turn your slide deck into a chalk...everyone! Everybody makes mistakes, encounters technical difficulties, and runs into unexpected stumbling...

  23. To Each HIS Own

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    March 2, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Proteins with a Novel Metal Chelate Adsorbent. Bio/Technology. 1988; 6: 1321–1325. Janknecht R, de Martynoff...growth factor I from culture medium of E.coli. Bio/Technology. 1987, 5:379-382. Bornhorst JA and Falke JJ. ...

  24. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    Sept. 5, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... will not recognize a Fab fragment. In order to detect a Fab fragment, it either needs to be directly ...identified by a double-label immunofluorescence technique for monoclonal antibodies.  J Histochem Cytochem...

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

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Cas14 makes it a promising detection tool for rare, often hard to detect variants such as single nucleotide...

  26. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...Tools for studying bioelectricity Dyes and other technologies are now available for fluorescent reporting ...synthetic bioengineering." Current opinion in biotechnology 52 (2018): 134-144. PubMed PMID: 29684787. Oviedo...

  27. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...error rate of current NGS approaches allows for a detection limit of roughly 0.1%. Thus, rare, pre-existing...prior to treatment, there are small (previously undetectable) populations of cancer cells that are resistant...

  28. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ...control. But even with the advent of CRISPR/Cas9 technology, inserting large tags into a precise location...plasmid into the cells we use electroporation, a technique that briefly destabilizes the cell’s outer membrane...

  29. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...network of your peers. Furthermore, using new technologies to solve a problem can allow you to approach...different labs during your career; you learn new techniques and interact with new people. If you are looking...

  30. Adenoviral Vector Production and Troubleshooting

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    June 14, 2018, 11:44 a.m.
    ...hexon proteins. The viral genome DNA is further protected by histone-like proteins forming the nucleocapsid... assays are commercially available for faster detection of RCA. 2nd Gen AdVs were designed to have increased...

  32. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    April 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
    ...Partnering with seqWell, we are using the plexWell technology to easily and quickly create Illumina sequencing...tags, fusion proteins, and selectable markers by detecting common features using Snapgene. If we find information...

  33. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...10.1021/acssynbio.9b00395 O’Brian, SP, et al., Biotechnol J.  2014. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24390935...as time-lapse imaging or with high light power detection of molecules.  Lee, J. et al., Science Advances...

  34. Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team

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    Jan. 30, 2018, 2:42 p.m.
    ...to avoid mistakes due to miscommunication and to detect trouble. I’m not comfortable with awkward silences...someone more experienced to guide you - is valuable. Protect your team Make you team feel safe. Your team members...

  35. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Yoshimi, K., & Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications with the type I CRISPR system...for genome engineering in human cells. Nature Biotechnology, 37(12), 1471–1477. https://doi.org/10.1038/...

  36. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Lots of scientists work to invent novel techniques or to engineer improved tools for familiar applications...expressing good ol’ EGFP — showed a slight but detectable change in fluorescence when a small magnet was...

  37. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    Oct. 17, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
    ...physical models of proteins using 3D printing technology. The tagline for our company is “…where molecules...effective this model was in explaining CRISPR technology to 4th graders, check out Jennifer Doudna’s new...

  39. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    May 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...your plasmid prep We'll discuss the following techniques to increase plasmid yield. Keep in mind that ...that you might need to use multiple techniques for a particularly stubborn prep. Check the bacterial strain...

  40. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...expressing GFP from a given promoter, and the technique can be adapted to other transgenes. It’s important...dominance over HDR in this species. As CRISPR technology continues to develop, it’s become clear that ...
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