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  1. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    June 29, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...create a recombinant antibody.     Figure 2: Changes to the heavy chain or light chain genes within...Monoclonal” refers to antibodies that are all of the same isotype and specificity. In other words, monoclonal...recognize the protein even though it is present in your sample. Additionally, there is a lower likelihood that...antibodies that recognize many different epitopes on the same protein - are more likely to have off-target effects...produces high-affinity/high-avidity antibodies. The same hybridoma is then used to produce all lots of the...
  2. Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes

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    June 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...account when simulating a digest as depicted in Lane 2. Controlling methylation Finally, you can control... experiment? The answer to both questions is the same--methylation! Read on to learn about how DNA methylation...companion endonucleases that recognizes and cleave the same DNA sequence if not methylated (if it comes from...Although not all prokaryotic DNA is methylated to the same level, the potential for methylation should be considered...any) of those sites will be methylated. Using the same example plasmid as above (which has the XbaI site...
  3. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... ligands can elicit varying degrees of β-arrestin-2 recruitment to receptors, indicating their agonistic...fluorescent labels. In Nature Methods (Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 149–158). Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038...cytoplasmic background signals when used with the same protein (Hayashi-Takanaka et al., 2014). Other dyes...10.1038/s41592-021-01338-6 Grimm, J. B., Muthusamy, A. K., Liang, Y., Brown, T. A., Lemon, W. C., Patel...
  4. How to Deposit Your Plasmids with Addgene

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    Feb. 27, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...two options to begin your plasmid deposit. Figure 2: Choose to submit plasmid(s) online or by using a ...format. Figure 6: Add sequence, maps, and files. Step 2: Gene and Insert *Note: This page will not appear ... library is a set of plasmids all built with the same backbone and only differing in the gene/insert. ... Pro Tip! If you have multiple plasmids with the same gene or vector backbone, you can copy some information...
  5. Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control

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    Jan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... and transfer 100 µl of glycerol stock to each of 2 96-well microplates (identical copies, see image above... that consistently receives around 200 new DNA samples every week. Here we will provide an inside look...own plasmids. Staying organized With hundreds of samples coming through our doors, the first step to ensuring...our deposit process, and then we carefully track samples through our lab using barcoded tubes and plates...process. Always sequence verify Once the physical sample and its associated information are at Addgene, ... will catch any errors made during the cloning, sample handling, or sequence assembly steps. All of our...This means that we are sequencing from the exact same stock that we store and distribute from. Of course...
  6. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...created for the Brunello library is shown in Figure 2. You can use a small PCR product because the plasmids...point of reference, Addgene commonly prepares NGS samples using both pre- and post-amplification DNA and ...libraries, but any analysis script should return the same output: a spreadsheet of read counts. You can use...
  7. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    Aug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...wells with an experimental sample allows for detecting one protein from the sample. A direct ELISA has many...require scientists to detect proteins in their samples. One technique that relies heavily on antibodies...principle of an ELISA is that any antigen within a sample adheres to the well (either directly or by binding...antibodies coating the wells to capture antigen from a sample, whereas antigen is bound directly to the wells...protein you are interested in detecting in your sample. When an ELISA kit is ordered, the wells are typically...already coated with the antibody. Then, you add your sample to the wells, and the antibodies bind to your protein...
  8. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
    ..., N. and Hamilton, D. 1981. PubMed PMID: 6276558. 2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells...two loxP sites, which can be located either on the same or on separate pieces of DNA. Both 13bp repeat sequences... sites: Inversion: If the loxP sites are on the same DNA strand and are in opposite orientations, recombination... reversed.   Deletion: If the sites face in the same direction, the sequence between the loxP sites is...sites undergo recombination with other sites of the same type, but are not cross-compatible. Using different...
  9. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    May 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...(S) labeling of the cell population. Figure 2: Dense (c), intermediate (d), and sparse (e) labeling...allows for the labeling of a subset of cells with the same genetic makeup, overcomes all of these labor-intensive...
  10. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...articles, such as: Sander JD & Joung JK, Nature Biotech, 2 March 2014. Or browse the articles related to the ... similar to using a single chimeric gRNA. At the same time, the off-target effects are reduced because...
  11. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    Oct. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...closer to the clinic (Tsai and Joung 2016). Table 2: Unbiased Genotyping Options Technique Detection...PMID: 23792628. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3773023. 2. Vouillot, Léna, Aurore Thélie, and Nicolas Pollet...investigator can be relatively certain that their samples don’t have off-target mutations if they remain ...
  12. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    Aug. 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...perceived climate change risks. Nature Climate Change, 2(10), 732-735. doi:10.1038/nclimate1547 Kunda, Z. (...fitting that I’ve ended up (again) dispelling the same myths and misconceptions fifteen years later. What..., peer-reviewed study. The second group read the same abstract but with the names reversed, meaning that...
  13. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    Feb. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...small, helpful changes are endless.    Fig. 2: Blugene moves reagents from left to right as they...running it unchanged over and over again, and the same goes for your workflow. Next time you make a mistake... to match your plate layout can help you track samples as you add them. Moving your reagents from your...
  14. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    Nov. 3, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... tabular HTML formatted output. Surprisingly only 2 tools provide FASTA output. A few notable tools allow...Nature biotechnology(2014). PubMed PMID: 24880488. 2. Hsu, Patrick D., et al. "DNA targeting specificity...that the CRISPR system was involved. Today, that same laboratory enjoys a successful edit rate of over...later it became quite clear that others thought the same. Since January 2013 there have been 33 CRISPR software...knowledge from laboratories employing CRISPR on the same organism could be used as a proxy for this last ...
  15. RNA Extraction Without A Kit

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    March 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...156–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2 Chomczynski P, Sacchi N (2006) The single-step method...tissues, cells, plants, fungi, or bacteria, keep samples cold and work quickly to mitigate RNA degradation...180°C for at least 4 hours.   If your final RNA sample(s) are resuspended in water or TE buffer, store...requires a lot of time and depending on how many samples you may have, access to one or more large, expensive...thiocyanate-phenol-chloroform. In this method, samples are still homogenized and lysed in a guanidinium... above, working with RNA requires keeping your samples cold until homogenization and cell lysis. This ... market to choose from) on your resuspended RNA sample will help ensure DNA contamination is not an issue...
  16. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...closely mimicking the future application. In figure 2 we provide an example of the comparison of the practical...that are related to the imaging strategy and the sample. Practical brightness A protein with a high intrinsic... a reference protein that is translated from the same open-reading frame and separated from the protein...brightness for a set of fluorescent proteins (with the same reference protein) under identical conditions, a...
  17. Antibodies 101: Isotypes

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    Oct. 19, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...IgM, IgD, and IgG are deleted.     Figure 2: Isotype switching requires DNA recombination of the...of antibodies, although not all isotypes have the same ability to activate each of these functions: Recruitment...appropriate isotype control. An isotype control has the same constant heavy chain domain as your primary antibody...results in the B cell expressing an antibody with the same variable domain but a different heavy-chain constant...
  18. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...company culture.  It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking at...reason you can’t then ask that same question in your next interview. The same goes for answers interviewers...interview questions. Story telling shares many of the same elements as a STAR answer: a setting, a conflict...pay attention. Your interviewers will not have the same experiences as you, so set them up for success by...and your interviewers. You’re probably all in the same boat, but there are a few things you can do to make...
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