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...fluorophores conjugated to molecular species with high affinity for endogenous molecular targets such as paclitaxel...conjugate, and the complexity of the system. A particularly desirable property for small-molecule labeling...removing excess dye from the sample, which is particularly important for samples where washing is difficult...and fluorogenic ligands. New fluorophores As a corollary to these innovative labeling strategies, several... these fluorophores are often bulky and contain polar groups (Figure 2b), which can preclude their use... and structure at the single-molecule level." Molecular cell 58.4 (2015): 644-659. PubMed PMID: 26000849...

...Molecular cloning requires some method of screening colonies for the presence of an insert. Traditionally...the insert site. A positive clone will produce a larger size product then a negative clone without the ...determine their size. Make sure to use an appropriate molecular weight standard for reference and to add a loading...-) will not. Backbone-specific primers (2) give larger sized products for positive clones (+) compared..., colony PCR is a useful tool to have in your molecular biology tool kit. Consider giving it a try next...Tips and tricks from the bench Don't pick too large of a colony. Too many bacteria can inhibit your ...Resources on Addgene.org Read about Choosing a Molecular Cloning Technique Learn to Perform a Bacterial...

... looking for some additional information or clarification on these vectors. Read on to find the answers...allow researchers to target transduction to a particular cell type or tissues; this is useful in gene ...therapy applications where a distinct subset of the cellular population needs to be targeted. Q6: Are transfer...self-inactivating, which is achieved by deleting a large portion of the 3'LTR in the transfer plasmid. The...not only the transgene but also that of adjacent cellular genes. Q7: Which genes are deleted or modified...through insertional mutagenesis. These risks are largely based upon the vector system used and the transgene...Library Resources on Addgene.org Addgene's most popular lentiviral plasmids Overview of Lentiviral Packaging...

...regions. PHP.eB, an enhanced version of PHP.B, shows similar transduction efficiency, but at a log lower dose...insertions and deletions (indels) most likely to have large phenotypic effects such as those that affected gene...pattern in the mouse brain.  Both labs then took similar routes to verify LY6A’s role as a receptor for ...transduce cells. The Wilson Lab generated results similar to the Deverman Lab when they looked at LY6A protein... B Transport across the Blood-Brain Barrier." Molecular Therapy 27.5 (2019): 912-921. PubMed PMID: 30819613... of AAV-PHP. B are limited to C57BL/6J mice." Molecular Therapy 26.3 (2018): 664-668. PubMed PMID: 29428298... across the blood-brain barrier: LY6A, a novel cellular receptor for AAV-PHP. B capsids." bioRxiv (2019...

...codons altogether.  So what does this mean for a molecular biologist who wants to express genes from one ...might want to optimize codons for expression in a particular organism. Why is codon usage important? Translation...tRNAs to build a peptide. Image from Mariana Ruiz Villarreal. By the late 1980s, scientists even created... vivo (Slimko and Lester, 2003).  Addgene has a large selection of codon optimized genes, so check out...information encoded in the primary sequence of a particular gene which could affect translation initiation...optimization in human therapeutics. Trends in Molecular Medicine 20:604–613  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molmed...Resources on Addgene.org Check out Addgene's Molecular Biology Reference Read about genetic code expansion...

...toolbox. However, both of these proteins are quite large — comprising approximately 1000–1400 amino acids...challenge for efficient delivery into cells, particularly via viral vectors. While viral delivery is a... cell types, it has a limited capacity to carry large DNA cargos. As a result, the search for smaller,... Cas12a, uses just one to cleave both strands. Similar to how Cas proteins require a PAM (protospacer ...capacity, which makes it difficult to accommodate the large coding sequence of commonly used nucleases like ..., Nasti, R. A., Vollbrecht, M., Starker, C. G., Clark, M. D., & Voytas, D. F. (2019). Plant gene editing...an Old Favorite A History of Genome Editing in Popular Culture Additional Resources on addgene.org Genome...

...contributed by Kutubuddin Molla, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University. Imagine you...Later the resultant U-G pair is either repaired by cellular mismatch repair machinery making an original C-G...’ to ‘I’ (inosine), which is treated as ‘G’ by cellular polymerases. Subsequently, an original genomic... is converted to a G-C pair (Figure 1). As the cellular inosine excision repair is not as active as uracil...Figure 2: Plant base editor platforms and their molecular components. Adenine base editors for plant.... Currently Kutubuddin is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University, University...· T to G· C base editing in the rice genome." Molecular plant 11.4 (2018): 627-630. PubMed PMID: 29476916...

...A similar genetic code is used by most organisms on Earth, but different organisms have different preferences...reasons include: Metabolic pressures - it takes cellular resources to produce tRNAs that recognize different...contains a gene that’s been codon optimized for a particular organism, this will sometimes (but not always... purification procedures. Even if you produce a large amount of protein in your expression host of choice...cotranslational folding." Nature structural & molecular biology20.2 (2013): 237. PubMed PMID: 23262490...bias as a means to fine-tune gene expression." Molecular cell 59.2 (2015): 149-161. PubMed PMID: 26186290...featured topic page Resources on Addgene.org Molecular biology reference pages Genetic code E. coli strains...

...publications Online tools like ResearchGate, GoogleScholar, Academia, ORCID, and MyScienceWork all help... especially published research, have grown in popularity over the last decade. Research by Scott Spicer...abstracts identified. The journal Cell had the largest average view count per video abstract at 2,947 ...being used to share science. TedTalks are very popular, though they focus mostly on highly innovative ...even use a computer.  Currently, two of the more popular biology videos are:     “Singing” Fish Rely ...Ryan at [email protected]   References 1. Larivière, Vincent, Yves Gingras, and Éric Archambault. ...and case study." Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 2.2 (2014): 2. Additional Resources...

...scientific or scholarly research contributions in the field Evidence of authorship of scholarly books or articles...should not be relied upon for legal advice in any particular circumstance or fact situation.  The information...agencies to propose reforms to the H-1B visa system. Large firms and firms that work on projects with an international... extraordinary ability category The EB-1A - is similar to national interest waiver criteria however the...showcases (not usually applicable to scientists). High Salary –not relevant to most postdocs. Commercial successes... articles (in scholarly journals with international circulation) in the field EB-1Bs historically have...documents that are not in English. Create a Google Scholar account Sanitize your LinkedIn, Facebook profile...

...Biology have shown similarly disappointing rates of reproducibility. These alarming results are due, at...publications and funding. If any of these three pillars crashes, the lab's success and the careers of its...effective, and our schedules more organized. From the alarm in the morning, to the daily news briefing, to quick...solution that fits the most labs, our team conducted a large study which focused on the adoption of ELNs in labs...talking about ELN costs and limited budgets, “a large percentage of survey respondents indicated that ...support that. In addition, if you are working for a large institution or company, site licenses might be available...

...to efficiently deliver large repair templates for applications that require large gene fusions. The current...vehicles for episomal gene expression and are particularly useful for gene delivery to the nervous system...is composed of single stranded DNA, which is particularly well suited for strand invasion, a key step ...edit your gene of choice. These vectors are very similar, both with polylinkers for the addition of gene-specific...gene targeting in human pluripotent stem cells." Molecular Therapy20.2 (2012): 329-338. PubMed PMID: 22108859...Matthew H. Porteus. "CRISPR-mediated integration of large gene cassettes using AAV donor vectors." Cell reports...

...plasmids together on a tight budget. To help popularize our kit resources,  we’re highlighting just a...seven-repeat proteins: Sjuts, Hanno, et al. "Molecular basis for inhibition of AcrB multidrug efflux ...open (2016): bio-017129. Hsia, Justin, et al. "Modular Synthetic Inverters from Zinc Finger Proteins and...translation initiation sequences are optimised for a particular system. The Alexandrov lab at the University ...University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience has provided a solution for this problem by developing...changes in enzyme function can lead to surprisingly large fitness effects during adaptive evolution of antibiotic...specific RNA bases. By swapping out these different modular repeat segments, you can create a PUF protein that...

...relatively low postdoc salaries as opposed to Staff Scientists Increase the Starting Salary for Postdocs to ...organizers wanted to touch on in organizer David Riglar’s blog post. Essentially the goal was to determine... base of all these questions as there is not particularly good data on how many post-docs there are in...positions outside of academia Require that postdoc salaries be paid on fellowships instead of grants such ...to $50,000 (the current median postdoc starting salary as reported by Paula Stephan is $40,000) Increase... Found Here Resources at Addgene  Read David Riglar's FOR Boston 2015 Blog Post Read Our Career Blog...

...personnel salary ranges, go to online job information sites (like, indeed.com, or salary.com). Search ...institute is located. For example, salaries in Kansas versus salaries in NYC will vary widely. Therefore...institution/funding source. Major equipment includes large centrifuges, sequencers and analyzers, and any ultra...candidates, and, more importantly, it’ll help you define salary costs. 4. Ascribe a cost structure associated to...Therefore, start up awards should reflect salaries in the region you’ll be working. At this point, your budget...

...Double-Strand Break Repair in Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 18(1), 93–101. https://doi.org...search for "CRISPR", short-hand for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, in Pubmed...Matt Ferenc, to organize the CRISPR forum's most popular questions and answers. Designing your CRISPR genome...introduce cleavage of the target site with efficiency similar to using a single chimeric gRNA. At the same time...with the Cas9/sgRNAs vector (like PX330). For large changes (>100 bp insertions or deletions), we typically...lab typically use PAGE purified long oligos. For large changes (>100 bp insertions or deletions), the Zhang...Addgene blog CRISPR Cheat Sheet Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects Visit the CRISPR...

...possibilities enabled by this highly modular AAV - that’s probably why it’s so popular! We’re excited to see how ...serotypes AAV1, AAV5, and AAV retrograde (the most popular form), this viral vector is used to deliver DNA...specific Cre can provide you with that control in a modular way. For example, say you would like to label ...Cre-controlled gene of interest makes pmSyn-BFP-Cre highly modular. Further uses of pmSyn1-EBFP-Cre Of course there...there are also more complicated ways to use this particular AAV. For instance, you might use it as part of...

...reinventing the wheel is inefficient. An effective team regularly seeks expertise wherever it can be found. Listen...allies" – these are employees in your group that regularly step up to give feedback and fill you in on percolating...constructive input from your team: Solicit feedback regularly and often A one-time event doesn't work to get...in non-public settings. Ask over coffee.  Have regular 1:1 meetings with team members (don’t become known...experts recommend using anonymous surveys with regular frequency. Anonymity can be a great way to get ...patience, pause; A = ask at least one question to clarify the situation; C = confirm that you have understood...

...scientists want to transfer large genes, smaller binary vectors with a larger cloning capacity would be ... of DNA that will be transferred to the plant, similar to viral vectors’ terminal repeats. It’s a lot ... most first-generation binary vectors are quite large (>10 kb.) Since transformation efficiency is inversely...pKYLX vectors, respectively, making it ideal for large gene transfer. The M24 promoter provides constitutive... the plasmid can also be customized due to its modular structure. Two multiple cloning sites (MCS's) flank...

...cells infected with malaria or other parasites. Addgene: Do you have any particular tips or tricks for ...generating new tools to manipulate biology based on molecular features found in nature, with the ultimate goal...improve the diagnosis of disease, and cancer in particular. They recently introduced the SpyTag/SpyCatcher...What is the advantage of peptide tags for building larger protein assemblies? Howarth: Peptide tags can be...systems and they shouldn’t get in the way much. Particularly we wanted to be able to build assemblies through...