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  1. Suggest A Plasmid You'd Like to Find at Addgene

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    March 16, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
    ...reach out to the corresponding potential depositors. 2. Tweet at us! Tweet @Addgene with #suggestaplasmid...suggestaplasmid, the name of the plasmid and a publication where we can find the plasmid. While we cannot guarantee...
  2. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    Sept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m.
    ...Interview with Stem Cell Researcher Darrell Kotton 2. Stem cell scientists care about patients As any grad... Yamanaka explained that it took 50 people nearly 2 years to create the first stem cell line that could... have profound impacts on the development of applications with the potential to save lives. While most...
  3. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...represent a favorable state for tumor progression (Ref 2). Future treatments may need to target this immunosuppressive...cell 30.1 (2016): 147-160. PubMed PMID: 27411589. 2. Todoric, Jelena, Laura Antonucci, and Michael Karin...Immunosurveillance and Defense With increasingly sophisticated visualization techniques it is possible to follow...
  4. 7 Tips to Secure a STEAM Internship This Summer

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    Feb. 2, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...and scholarships in different subject areas!    2. Resume and cover letter know-how  Tailor your resume...4. Letters of recommendation wisdom  Reach out to 2-3 individuals in your professional circle to vouch...your application a whole week before the deadline. The day of submission, review your application with... their dream.  To help students focus on the application process, and simplify access to academic resources...Scrutinize every opportunity prior to starting an application to assess your eligibility, interest, and career... detailed. Beyond the resume, a cover letter communicates your interest in a specific program, and institution...February represent peak season for internship applications. Thus these noble individuals are inundated ...
  5. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...animal is given additional booster immunizations every 2-3 weeks to increase the antibody titer. The titer ...level of antibodies is reached - typically within 2-4 months. After the animal has the desired level of...from the serum. Protein A/G purification Protein A or Protein G purification is one common method. These...reagent that works for your species. Affinity purification Only up to 5% of the IgG antibodies produced...specific for the immunogen. A different type of purification can be performed to isolate antibodies only ...inexpensive. Their short production time and the bulk purification steps keep the cost low compared to other antibody...are particularly useful for certain research applications. Many secondary antibodies are polyclonal, as...
  6. Advice for Starting a Biotech Company from a Grad Student turned Entrepreneur

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    July 10, 2014, 7:17 p.m.
    ...go anywhere. The team should initially consist of 2-3 individuals that are aligned in vision and outcomes... the technology. This transition takes around 1 – 2 years. The product is the measure of success. Technology...competitions. After much learning, the focus of the application was changed, but Sample6 still leverages the ...fit for this set of technologies, effectively communicating the advantages embodied, and driving the enterprise...He explained that entrepreneurs must clearly communicate their idea at various levels of complexity and...backgrounds how amazing their idea is. While communication styles in academia and industry vary drastically...biggest challenge during this time was learning to communicate effectively to non-scientific audiences. "There...
  7. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...preexisting resistant subpopulation 2. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would have different labels...medicine 21.5 (2015): 440-448. Pubmed PMID: 25849130. 2. Hata, Aaron N., et al. "Tumor cells can follow distinct...summarized in a recent Nature Medicine paper. In the publication, Bhang and coworkers used the ClonTracer library...propagated it, separated it into roughly identical replicate groups, and treated these groups with the same...below): 1. Resistant cells among the separate replicates would contain the same labels - i.e. they would... Looking at barcode abundances among multiple replicate populations, they found that similar barcodes ...populations were shared by at least one other replicate; prior to treatment, there are small (previously...
  8. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...per cell increases 4-5 fold (for pUC plasmids) or ~2 fold (for p15a, R6K, and ColE2 plasmids) as cell division...biotechnology 36.4 (2018): 352. PubMed PMID: 29553576. 2. Kittleson, Joshua T., Sherine Cheung, and JChristopher...rounds of replication are initiated before the cell has divided. This means that genes located near the...problems. Rapidly dividing cells initiate genome replication more than once per cell division and thus, genes...genes closer to the origin of replication will be overrepresented compared to those further away. As a...maximal gene expression near genomic origins of replication, the stabilized promoters created by Segall-Shapiro...the control of IPTG. Because RepA is a plasmid replication initiator protein, they could alter copy number...
  9. CRISPR 101: Epigenetics and Editing the Epigenome

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    June 24, 2020, 5:45 p.m.
    ... for targeted removal of H3K4me1/2 and H3K9me2 histone modifications. Like the TALE-LSD1 system described...Discovery 2: . https://doi.org/10.1038/celldisc.2016.9 Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene...form or as ready-to-use lentivirus. Figure 2: dCas9-Tet1 demethylates cytosines at promoters and...epigenome (the sum of epigenetic modifications across the genome) has been implicated in disease states, and targeting...DNA sequences. Non-editing CRISPR applications direct catalytically dead dCas9 fused to a variety of epigenetic... the catalytic domain of p300 acetyltransferase increases levels of H3K27ac histone modification at specified...Preps for Epigenetic Modification Why use epigenetic modifiers? Epigenetic modification is certainly not ...
  10. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...be decorated with proteins and remain functional, 2) break membranes outside of their natural context ...PubMed PMID: 3759909. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC213417. 2. Schrallhammer, M. et al. Tracing the role of R-bodies... modified to extend at different pH levels. Domesticating R bodies We have shown that all three of these...actuators that could be used in a variety of applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells...matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond these applications, purified R bodies could also perform as actuators...PubMed PMID: 26814170. Find Plasmids from This Publication at Addgene 4. Petroni, G., Spring, S., Schleifer...
  11. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    March 17, 2020, 1:32 p.m.
    ... systems to engineer better and faster ABEs (Fig. 2). These systems allow for rapid continuous protein...and less stringent phage selection. Figure 2: Phage-assisted evolution of base-editing activity... specific DNA base changes and consist of a catalytically impaired Cas protein (dCas or Cas nickase) fused... SpCas9. In order to expand the gene-editing applications and targeting scope of ABEs David Liu’s lab ...through many rounds of mutations, selection, and replications per day.  The PACE and PANCE systems use M13...
  12. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    July 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...certain states of interest. For example, in Figure 2 below we present a two-input, five-state GRSM register...linking RSM inputs to endogenous gene expression (2). Our paper (1) explains how to arrange attB-attP...Science. 353, aad8559 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27463678. 2. Green, Alexander A., et al. "Toehold switches: de-novo-designed...and attP recognition sites on the register and catalyzes their recombination, thereby changing the state...performed on one register at a time. If a particular application makes it difficult to isolate single registers...state read-out method may not be suitable for applications that require minimal cellular perturbation. ...The input plasmid (high copy, ColE1 origin of replication), contains large serine recombinase genes downstream...
  13. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...metabolic engineering applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197-214. PubMed...immediate early gene expression. Genes Dev. 1988 Jun;2(6):718-29. doi: 10.1101/gad.2.6.718. PMID: 2843425...Targeted Gene Expression in Drosophila.” Genetics 186(2) (2010): 735-55. PubMed PMID: 20697123. PubMed Central... also been developed which don’t fit in either category, but those are a subject for a future post! ... GAL80 under different promoters and create sophisticated patterns of UAS-driven gene expression. To further... PMCID: PMC2942869. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. del Valle Rodriguez, Alberto, Dominic... PMCID: PMC2883883. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter...
  14. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...without leaving behind any accessory DNA sequences [2], [3]. Simply put, the piggyBac™ transposon containing...with a Footprint-Free™ genome edit.   Figure 2: Editing DNA using the piggyBac™ transposon selection...PMID: 26211958. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4663986. 2.  A. M. Singh, V. V Adjan Steffey, T. Yeshi, and D...piggyBac™ technology can be used for numerous applications, including transgenesis, gene-trap screens, ...of the piggyBac™  transposase/transposon gene modification system and the scarless, Footprint-Free™ removal...technology that may be used for a variety of research applications, including making transgenic cell lines and ...PMCID: PMC2567143. 6. S. Radecke, F. Radecke, T. Cathomen, and K. Schwarz, “Zinc-finger nuclease-induced...
  15. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ... pCRISPomyces-2 contains Cas9 and a gRNA cassette. The simpler system of pCRISPomyces-2 displays a higher...and a subsequent curing protocol that requires only 2-3 hours incubation. E. coli and T. citrea scarless...four major components including (1) a CRISPR RNA, (2) four proteins forming the QCascade DNA-targeting ...for successful modifications, efficiency can be low, especially for larger modifications. What’s the solution...several potential CRISPR applications. First, CRISPR can be used to target locations in the genomes of pathogenic...tools available for bacteria and some of the applications for which they’ve been used. The beginnings ... of Enterobacteriaceae, without the need for modification. This finding suggests that the system may be...
  16. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ... tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9 in the mouse brain. PLoS One. 2013 ...PMID: 24086725. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3785459. 2. Krashes MJ, Koda S, Ye C, Rogan SC, Adams AC, Cusher... preps. Cas9 is the headliner of most CRISPR applications and can be expressed from your cell line of ...Find Ready-to-Use Lentivirus Find Ready-to-Use AAV Catch up on Chemogenetics ...
  17. 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...setting. CRISPR is often used for animal germline modification, to repair or add in disease-causing mutations...that AAV-CRISPR does not cause obvious germline modification, an important finding given the controversy ...Blog Learn How CRISPR Could Be Used to Treat Cataracts and Cystic Fibrosis Read How Homology Directed...
  18. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    Oct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... engineered components, like protein tags (Figure 2). Through the work of many groups, there are systems... in Addgene's repository (Table 1). Figure 2: Adding function to My Favorite Protein (MFP) through...peptide (SpyTag) and protein (SpyCatcher) SnoopTag/SnoopCatcher SpyTag/SpyCatcher Rapid covalent bond formation...small, fast split intein SpyTag003/SpyCatcher003 SpyTag/SpyCatcher Rapid covalent bond formation between...SnoopTag) and protein (SnoopCatcher); no cross-reaction with SpyTag/SpyCatcher, allows for iterative expansion... expansion DogTag/DogCatcher SpyTag/SpyCatcher Rapid covalent bond formation between a genetically encoded...protein (DogCatcher); ideal for protein loop regions CRISPaint Gene Tagging Kit SpyTag/SpyCatcher CRISPR-assisted...
  19. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    Feb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m.
    ...The groups in these programs typically consist of 1-2 mentors and 3-5 mentees who meet together for an 8... together. If you all work at the same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not...This is a chance to practice leadership and communication skills. The leader also provides materials such...
  20. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...residues, which can be found throughout the antibody. 2) Endogenous cysteines, such as those that make up ...Detecting antigens by quantitative immuno-PCR. Nat Protoc 2:1918–1930. https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2007.267 ...These properties allow for efficient signal amplification, making biotin conjugated antibodies good options...especially if you start to consider clinical applications). But there are a few other classes that we ...proximity ligation, immuno-PCR, and single-cell applications (Hegazy, et al., 2020; Niemeyer, et al., 2007...also conjugate antibodies directly to beads for purification purposes.  Coupling up - antibody conjugation...added to antibodies post-translationally. 4) Modifications made to antibodies, such as inclusion of non-canonical...
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