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  1. Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone

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    Aug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m.
    ...expressing a selection cassette with 5′ and 3′ flanking sequences matching the sequences upstream and ...to be assayed (e.g. pPD95_86 and pPD57_56), or knocking down YGOI through RNA-mediated interference (e.g... applications used to study gene function. From making transgenic animals, gene targeting and genome modifications...

  2. Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes

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    Jan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m.
    ... used at high concentrations (and vice versa). Looking around the lab, you'll likely find many of the ...mammalian cells.   Name Class Mode of Action*   Working Concentration** Kanamycin aminoglycoside Binds...their mechanism for killing bacteria, and general working concentrations. For instructions on how to prepare...

  3. Plasmids 101: Origin of Replication

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    Nov. 11, 2020, 2:23 p.m.
    ...replication machinery room to come in and get busy making copies.     Types of origins of replication ...compatibility with one or more other plasmids. Generally speaking, plasmids with the same ori are incompatible because...chloramphenicol – make sure your growth conditions aren't working against you!  The culture inoculum Freshly ...

  4. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    Sept. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Addgene started dealing with this new reality of working remotely, scientists around the world mobilized...took to make all this happen with 80% of the team working remotely. We’re extremely proud of the work we’... maintain our workforce for when we need to be working at full capacity to serve the scientific community...

  6. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...around the world who would otherwise have difficulty making or getting these reagents is profound.” Frank Stegmeier...Library, a library that “enables the high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug...became passionate about virology,” he says. He was working in an HIV lab and based on that experience, soon...

  8. What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions

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    March 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m.
    ...frequently with little notice or choice Always working on a team/in a matrix - can be frustrating for ...but good performers move around easily  Table 1: Taking it a Step Further - Big Company v. Small Company...on what paths to pursue. Spend some time really thinking about your motivations and what parts of being...

  9. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    June 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...species). This feature is advantageous if you’re working with small capacity viral vectors such as AAV. ... “recovering” its original sequence. If you’re looking to disrupt gene function via indel formation, this...targets. Are you using NgAgo? Let us know how it’s working in the comments section! Read About NgAgo User'...

  10. Plasmid Cloning by PCR

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    March 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...In its simplest form, PCR based cloning is about making a copy of a piece of DNA and at the same time adding...restriction site (GAATTC) to the 5’ end of this primer, making our Forward Primer 5'-GAATTCATGTGGCATATCTCGAAGTAC... get PCR amplification. We can start similarly, taking the final 18 bases of the ORF, including the stop...

  11. Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015

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    Dec. 7, 2015, 6 p.m.
    ... Why and Where Do I Find One? If you need help making a transition into a new job or maybe to an entirely...gene delivery, but have limited packaging capacity making them difficult to use with CRISPR as the cargo..... 10. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids Need help thinking about the types of controls you’ll need for your...

  12. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    Aug. 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... apart sources of information they don’t like, looking for reasons to dismiss them. There’s evidence to...Zealand’s multiple Covid-19 lockdowns, I held mask-making workshops in my community. I brought along printed... to better meet the needs of the people we are talking to. Emma Harcourt is a PhD student in the Department...

  14. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...Check out this post for a refresher on AAV titers Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV ... this type of vector to such a high titer when looking for effective gene expression. How do you achieve... Hanley is a Research Team Lab Tech at Addgene working on methods to improve AAV production.     References...

  15. The Power Behind NGS Plasmid Validation: seqWell

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    April 19, 2017, 3:25 p.m.
    ...“reading”) of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects ...library prep. As part of our mission, we’ve been working with Addgene to develop and apply our plexWell™...read level, and because custom primers or "primer-walking" reactions are completely unnecessary for sequencing...

  16. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...hot plasmids articles. Think we missed something smokin'? You can pitch a Hot Plasmids section (antibodies...heatshock promoter) drives expression of the tumor-seeking CAR (chimeric antigen receptor), whereas a ubiquitous... variants with similar capabilities. If you’re looking for a super stable FP for your next microscopy ...

  17. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...biological motion (whether endocytosis, vesicle trafficking, or muscle contractions) are produced by orchestrated...the ciliate. It’s thought that they function as a kind of armor to protect their host from predation (Petroni...

  18. Components of CRISPR/Cas9

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    Feb. 2, 2016, 5 p.m.
    ...Cas9, and the tracrRNA which acts as a scaffold linking the crRNA to Cas9 and facilitates processing of...different components of CRISPR, It's time to start thinking about how you can used them in your experiments...experiments. Use the following flow chart to get you thinking about the types of experiments you're planning on...

  19. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    Aug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.
    ...idea to take some time to confirm that you are working with the correct construct, and verify that the...Consult the manufacturer’s manual for the optimal working conditions for each enzyme. Watch out for methylation...run control uncut DNA to ensure your enzymes are working. When uncut plasmid DNA is isolated and run on ...

  20. AAV Q&A with Tim Miles

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    May 17, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...question that didn’t get answered live - but he kindly took some time to address all your unanswered questions...astrocyte specificity and would like to get it working in microglia as well. A:  We are not aware of any... tail vein injections but would like to avoid "leaking" into the brain, would you recommend using the ...

  21. Antibodies 101: Monoclonal Antibodies

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    June 29, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., you may be curious about all of the different kinds of antibodies that are available. One common type...References Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B,...TA, Humphries MJ (2016) Ligand-induced Epitope Masking. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291:20993–21007...

  22. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...great? It produces a ~10 fold higher titer virus, making it ideal for CRISPR pooled library screening experiments...V2.0 was made available through Addgene in 2015, making this the most recently available plasmid in the... thank all of our depositors and requestors for making their reagents available and for supporting scientific...

  23. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...These enzymes also do not require a protospacer flanking sequence, so you can target virtually any RNA ...Cas13d enzymes have a median length of ~930aa - making them 17-26% smaller than other Cas13s and a whopping...and we at Addgene appreciate our depositors for making their tools available to the broader community....

  24. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into ‘making virus’ or what gag and pol stand for, we demystify...recombinant adenovirus is missing the endogenous E1 gene, making it replication deficient. This is typically supplied...discussed are compiled for reference below. Happy virus making!  References and Resources Kulanayake, S., Tikoo...

  25. Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype

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    April 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...can begin to understand how the brain works. It’s kind of like “the head bone’s connected to the neck bone... to the rest of the body. Therefore, by simply looking at how neurons are physically connected we can ...efficiently deliver genetic information or tools, making them useful tracers, but finding a virus that works...

  26. A Practical Approach to Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein

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    June 1, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...reference protein) under identical conditions, a ranking of the practical brightness can be made (Goedhart...repeating this with another fluorescent protein, a ranking of practical brightness can be made. This strategy...their practical brightness in a system closely mimicking the future application. In figure 2 we provide...

  27. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    May 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...high-throughput manner and therefore push us closer to making cancer precision medicine a reality. Challenges...Since time is of the essence in clinical settings, looking ahead, we’re starting to build saturating libraries... Institute of Harvard and MIT and is focused on making precision functional genomics a reality for future...

  28. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    Dec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m.
    ...— by directly typing terms in a search bar, by ticking some boxes, by selecting a suggestion — how should...resources. Filters We identified the most useful kinds of information per resource category to expose as...our search indices in order to support different kinds of matches: exact words, partial words, phrases,...

  30. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    July 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m.
    ...better fuels, feeds, foods, and fibers. And because working with plants can be challenging, there are a lot...construct our color changing flower we are carefully making our way through the IP landscape, using plant parts...novel pieces where applicable. We will also be working with open source, transformation technologies like...
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