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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2023, 3 p.m....a look at the secondary antibodies that your lab has on hand and choose a primary antibody that will work...secondary antibody pairing such that each target has a unique species or isotype that can be probed with...polyclonal primary antibodies. I hope this post has explained when and why antibody isotypes matter and...
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Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m....version of PubMed. Key features This new version has an improved search algorithm which was trained on...your search terms. Key features Semantic Scholar has several ways to focus your search results. A bar ...paper’s entry, the number of citations that paper has is displayed at the top of the page, as well as the... -
Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m....the idea that DNA methylation is linked to disease has now become much like the 1980s song “Don’t Stop Believin...none existed. Recently, however, a particular tool has gained widespread popularity – and notoriety – as...may later be excised by Cre recombinase. Addgene has several great options: pLV hUbC-dCas9-T2A-GFP for... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m....Cas12a. This is in part due to the fact that it only has a single active site. The RuvC active site in Casɸ...rely on multiple active sites. In addition, Casɸ has a minimal PAM requirement. For instance, for Casɸ...library here A new SaCas9 ABE variant (microABEI744) has improved on-target editing efficiency and reduced... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....community has always emphasized the need for open science and collaboration. The field already has comprehensive...first virtual organism in a computer.” This project has produced various resources for the worm community... -
Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... a raise in salary, particularly given that this has precipitated increases to the NIH recommended pay...both of these changes share a common thread that has the potential to profoundly shift the academic science...rather than as trainees in a special category, as has been the ‘labor-of-love’ philosophy of academic science... -
Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m....Epigenetics has recently been hitting the headlines, with sotires like the potential devastation of the...them. Global hypomethylation, on the other hand, has also been implicated in the development and progression...difficult to overcome until now. Alice Ting’s lab has developed a new, plasmid-based biosensor to visualise... -
The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... In the video above, Channelrhodopsin 2 (Chr2) has been expressed in the motor cortex of a mouse. Upon...appropriate wavelength to stimulate your opsin. Each opsin has an excitation spectrum (use the resources discussed...controlled. As discussed above, each opsin variant has slightly different activation/inactivation kinetics... -
7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m....your supervisor’s expectations Every supervisor has their own management style. A hands-on supervisor...agree with all of your ideas, but he or she probably has reasons for it. Do not take criticism personally ... of Finish Your Thesis, an online community that has supported thousands of graduate students since 2009... -
Editor's Choice, August 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 2, 2016, 1:32 p.m.... Our Editor's Choice Blog Posts The Addgene Blog has had quite the up-tick in views over the month of ...recommend taking a look at all of our posts as each one has something great to offer, I just need to get back... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....developed for use in mammalian cells, this system has also been implemented in a variety of other organisms...Drosophila cells. Work by Wei et al. from Kang Shen’s lab has also shown that the Q system is also functional in...elegans. Subsequent work by the Luo and Potter labs has refined the Q system and introduced the second generation...multiple genes in synthetic systems. Recent work has even used all 3 in a single modular vector for ease... -
Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 8, 2021, 2:41 p.m....top of the resolving gel. A stacking gel typically has a different ionic strength and lower pH and acrylamide...Choosing your primary antibody Once the membrane has been blocked, it is stained with a primary antibody...the vendor’s website and choose an antibody that has been validated for immunoblotting. Different immunoassays..., cytoplasm and nucleus. We hope that this blog has provided you with a good overview of the western ... -
Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 8, 2020, 1:15 p.m....facilities, tissue culture labs and every cell culturist has to deal with this problem. It is estimated that mycoplasma...this induces a noticeable color change. This method has high sensitivity but low specificity (Degeling, 2012...affect the cell growth and viability. If mycoplasma has made permanent damage to the cell culture it is irreparable...Institute of Biosciences and Technology in India. Jadhav has a Master's degree in Molecular Biology (University... -
Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m....the group? Has it grown over time? If not, why not? It may not be a bad thing if the lab has stayed that...purpose, but it could also be a sign that the lab head has trouble attracting scientists. To get a better idea...intervenes if there are interpersonal conflicts PI has no idea who is dating whom Expanding your skillset... -
CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m....last updated Dec 22, 2020 by Benoit Giquel. CRISPR has taken the genome engineering world by storm owing...that regulate a desired phenotype. In fact, CRISPR has already been used to engineer the genome of many ...to protoplast cells (plant cells whose cell wall has been removed). Another common delivery method is ...developed for plants and prime editing for plants has been developed for rice by Yiping Qi’s lab and for... -
Inside Addgene's 10 Year Anniversary Gala
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 3, 2014, 3:48 p.m....sharing plasmids has become simplified through Addgene. Looking back, Addgene’s journey has been a tough ... -
From our Table to Yours: An Inside Look at Lunch at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 27, 2013, 2:54 p.m....Hack Day lunches These days everyone is busy and has a To-Do list long enough that there is no hope of...Cross-team “Random Lunches” With more employees, Addgene has naturally divided into smaller functional teams. ... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m....interference (CRISPRi) has been limited to lab-adapted bacteria because it has been challenging to introduce...the bacterial Tn7 transposon system. This system has two parts: a plasmid expressing the Tn7 transposition... -
CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2019, 2:16 p.m....looked hard at existing tools. As has been written here on Addgene, there has been a Cambrian-like explosion...high-throughput design and analysis of CRISPR experiments. It has certainly boosted our productivity in the Biohub.... -
Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Triton X-100, Tween-20, or saponin. Each detergent has different chemical properties that will impact the...always look at your antibody datasheet to see if it has been tested in IF and if a protocol is available....an effective strategy. (This article on fixation has some more examples to help choose which fixative ...