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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....college I studied development and evolution of histone genes in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, the spiny...Discovering ways to culture, propagate, transform, store, and share all of these new organisms continues ...promiscuous and the gene that is responsible is understood. It’s possible to actually silence this gene ...
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Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 2, 2019, 1:44 p.m....vaguely resemble a bagpipe and historically, bagpipes were made using the stomachs of different animals. Check...originated from. Let’s take a look at some of the stories behind the names. We also have many plasmids in... -
To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m....different codons that encode 20 amino acids and three stop codons, meaning that the same amino acid can be ...codons that encodes the 20 amino acids and three stop codons. (B) Example of codon usage among different... References Athey J, Alexaki A, Osipova E, Rostovtsev A, Santana-Quintero LV, Katneni U, Simonyan V... -
An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m....at the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), a Boston-based, nonprofit protein research institute, partnered...will also work in immunoprecipitation and immunohistochemistry. Table 1: IPI antibodies Antibody ...integrin antibodies comes from IPI’s work with the Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard-based lab of Tim... -
Filming Science Videos in the Age of Social Distancing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m....a room, but still have control over focus, zoom, stop/start record, and allow me to see an image. Remote...control some basic functions, including starting and stopping recording). Test: It was unbelievable how well...the beating heart of Addgene. It’s why we exist, storing plasmids, and distributing them to labs that need... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: When GFP lets you down
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 23, 2018, 12:05 p.m....modification with fatty acyl chains. For instance, myristoylation requires an N-terminal consensus sequence (...variants and check the functionality of the fusion (Mastop, 2018). Summary GFP is an all-round useful genetically...21619590. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3129320. 18. Mastop, Marieke, et al. "A FRET-based biosensor for measuring... -
Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 10, 2018, 1:08 p.m....to capture ideas, write down certain notes or brainstorm, but we have to admit that paper-based record... and included hundreds of researchers. The full story is available here. Our questions focused on researchers...all types of data, which enables researchers to store everything in one place. From pictures to excel ... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....2006): 703-9. PubMed PMID: 16582903. Potter, Christopher J., et al. “The Q system: a repressible binary...from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling...s41598-022-07852-7 De Boer, Herman A., Lisa K. Comstock & Mark Vasser. “The tac promoter: a functional... -
Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m.... in your specific experimental context (Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than...and references References Aydin S (2015) A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory...://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(81)90281-5 Pillai-Kastoori L, Heaton S, Shiflett SD, Roberts AC, Solache ... -
Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m....the recombined product, you’d microinject into blastocysts to be implanted in pseudopregnant female mice...s a guide that directs cleavage right before the stop codon! Figure 3: How to design a C-terminal...guide would be selected, since it cleaves at the stop codon TAG. Design your repair template with ... -
Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m....and whose structures are just beginning to be understood. Therefore, in addition to their utility in the... strain that you can use for long-term library storage. After overnight growth, scrape up, pool and extract...during one of these steps is also a convenient stopping (ie. going home and eating and sleeping) point... -
Finding Your Perfect Job After University
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m....adapt. By the end of my three months, I fully understood why parasitology roles in the field require experience... available at a small science non-profit doing customer service (recruitment agencies often don’t tell...I was also surprised to learn that I enjoy the customer service side of my job. Because of my background... -
Antibodies 101: Validation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2022, 1:15 p.m....This is a good option for applications like immunohistochemistry on human tissues, when (1) other strategies...correspond to protein levels, so you perform immunohistochemistry with your antibody on these tissues (B)....mean it’s a bad antibody but more that it’s misunderstood and it could work great in another context! ... -
When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m....specific base sequences, but are sensitive to distortions in helix shape (22). Large purine:purine mismatches...enzymes. References 1. Shuman, Stewart, and Christopher D. Lima. "The polynucleotide ligase and RNA capping...Jayakrishnan, Pravin A. Nair, and Stewart Shuman. "Last stop on the road to repair: structure of E. coli DNA ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 28, 2017, 2 p.m....Meselson-Stahl, Hershey-Chase...Who was I to dispute history? And boy did I make the right decision. If I’d ...performing quality control, and providing technical customer service. Team members are highly trained, and ...Jefferson dined alone.” There was a time in human history when an intelligent, motivated person really could... -
Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.... viruses were produced in high-titer retroviral stocks generated by the transfer of a retrovirus into ...gene (packaging plasmid), and 3) the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) that improves the stability...24h after transfection. This supernatant can be stored at 4 °C or can be directly added to your target... -
FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m....Despite its relatively recent development, the history of optogenetics begins almost 50 years ago with...Archaea, the third in green algae (Oesterhelt and Stoeckenius, 1971; Matsuno-Yagi and Mukohata, 1977; Foster...PMID: 22480664. Oesterhelt, Dieter, and Walther Stoeckenius. "Rhodopsin-like protein from the purple membrane... -
Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m....workhorse yeast — K. phaffii (formerly known as Pichia pastoris). If your goal is protein isolation, then the ...more MoClo? Check out Addgene's MoClo Guide! Customizing MoClo for your needs As you probably realize ...et al. “A Modular Toolkit for Generating Pichia Pastoris Secretion Libraries.” ACS Synthetic Biology, vol... -
Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 19, 2021, 2:15 p.m....Antibodies can be used to visualize tissues (immunohistochemistry) or cells (immunocytochemistry). This could...bind to and inhibit the function of a protein to stop its effect within the body, or they can be used ...Arbabi-Ghahroudi M (2017) Camelid Single-Domain Antibodies: Historical Perspective and Future Outlook. Front Immunol... -
CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m....leads to the first base transversion editor The story of base transversion editors starts with researchers...the SOX2 activation domain (SAD), which recruits histone acetyltransferase to open chromatin, improved editing... newly synthesized, templated sequence. And the story still isn’t over! Keep an eye out for our next post...