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  1. Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments

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    Oct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...examples I’m personally interested in include: intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) and place preference... a behavioral experiment in which an animal is trained to “freeze” upon anticipation of a mild electric...(viral expression, efficiency of laser light transmission to the target neurons, appropriate stimulation...mistakes. The easiest way to learn optogenetics is straight through the source - find a lab within your own...optogenetics is performed in this species. However, transgenic rat technology is improving and may one day reach... reach the sophistication of mouse transgenics. Everything that has been described is intended for the...References 1. Stuber, Garret D., et al. "Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates...

  2. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...increases when target DNA strand separation is stabilized (2,3). Stable strand separation is maintained...and therefore destabilize basal strand separation. This decreased strand separation combined with the weak... Figure 1: Strand separation and target DNA binding to the Cas9 nuclease. Stable strand separation is...the non-target strand and the HNH/RuvC groove, and interactions between the target strand and the gRNA....interactions : 1. Interactions between the non-target strand and a positively charged groove formed by the Cas9...nuclease domains 2. Interactions between the target strand and the gRNA (see figure below) Because off-target...by a technique for detecting genome-wide double strand breaks (BLESS), revealed that these mutants do ...

  3. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    Nov. 27, 2019, 2:03 p.m.
    ... cell types. Specific transgene expression can be also achieved in nontransgenic animals by using cis ...population.  Combinatorial strategies can also be used for retrograde tracing: visualizing neurons that...delivery by increasing transgene cargo capacity, enhancing anterograde transport efficiency, and engineering...and Development workshop aimed at brainstorming strategies for using combinations of AAV-based molecular... cell of interest: AAV tropism and route of administration AAV tropism is defined by the viral capsid ...proteins that determine the AAV serotype. During transduction, the viral capsid proteins bind to the target...serotype used for a specific cell type. Find some transduction characteristics of select AAV serotypes in Table...

  4. Finding Your Science Policy Path

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    Sept. 22, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...STPF) at the Veterans Health Administration, I could never get one straight answer about what science policy...early demonstrates not only your interest to future positions, but will also make your transition from ...Technology Policy Fellow at the Veterans Health Administration. “But, seriously, what even is science policy...first few decades of my life following a very straightforward conveyor belt from high school to college to...professionals that entered the field from a more traditional policy background, learning the science part ... or LinkedIn to learn more about their career trajectory. If there’s one thing everyone loves, it’s talking...through convening activities, formal lobbying, or strategy setting.  The “little p” policy is non-governmental...

  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors

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    May 18, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...enzyme or transcriptional activation, conformational changes, translation, and protein translocation. Targeting...be expressed. Are you looking at an intracellular or extracellular molecule? By fusing a biosensor to ...biosensor, you first need to decide the best way to track or measure the process you’re interested in. Depending... reaction, you could measure consumption of a substrate OR production of a product OR enzyme activity....biosensors Addgene has many sensors that measure the concentration of small molecules like arabinose or hydrogen...fluorescent protein fused to a domain that senses the concentration of a given ion - we’ll use calcium biosensors...triggers CaM/M13 interaction that increases FRET transfer between the fluorescent proteins. FRET is highly...

  6. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ...would be transcribed and translated. For an N-terminally tagged protein, we used the same strategy, inserting... copy. The coding sequence for GFP is transcribed and translated along with the gene, producing both a...destroyed by CRISPR/Cas9 during transfection. Making the double strand break and introducing the tag through...Science Plasmid Collection Fluorescent tagging strategy Figure 1: Gene editing is the addition ... plasmid Figure 2: Donor plasmid design strategy. A donor plasmid contains 1 kb homology arms matching...base pairs on each side, in fact. Later, when we transfect the cells, these large regions of homology enable...directed repair (HDR) process following the double strand break CRISPR/Cas9 makes at the target site. The...

  7. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...any of these standard strains, choose other, indicate strain in the “Growth Strain Other” field, and contact...easy — our tech transfer team will communicate with your organization’s technology transfer office or other...room temperature. Growth Strain Please indicate which growth strain Addgene should propagate your...Survival strain. For plasmids that contain the R6Kγ origin of replication, choose the Pir1 strain. If your... you send your samples to Addgene pre-transformed in this strain. Hazardous If the plasmid will ... Send plasmid information to Addgene Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) approval  Send plasmids to Addgene...nourseothricin (clonNat), spectinomycin, streptomycin, tetracycline, combinations of the above, or other. High...

  8. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...certainly possible to select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding approaches, these techniques... cells. In contrast to homology directed repair, these methods do not involve double strand break (DSB...variants (hereafter referred to as Cas9) and a single stranded guide RNA (gRNA) is sufficient to modify the genome...variants have been created in an effort to increase translation in a particular plant species or cell type (Belhaj...CRISPR components can be expressed stably or transiently depending on the delivery method and cell type...CRISPR components can be delivered and expressed transiently using a standard detergent, Polyethylene Glycol... More information on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation can be found in this blog post. The pDGE Dicot...

  9. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... less selective if used in intracellular labeling because the intracellular compartment may contain cross-reacting...using: different blocking reagents; titration of antibody concentration (this can also save money!); and ...method is transfection of short interfering RNA (siRNA). Knockdown caused by siRNA is also transient, and ...interest. This approach often involves the transient transfection of expression plasmids in a given cell ...for other sample types and for non-surface (intracellular) antigens. Unfortunately, antibodies frequently...commercially available. Various proteomic and transcriptomic datasets can be used to select a candidate ...This can involve cell surface labeling and/or intracellular labeling (or both). It is important to test ...

  10. Hot Plasmids - December 2019 - CRISPR pooled library, LipoGlo, CRISPRa, and Voltage Imaging Tools

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    Dec. 10, 2019, 1:58 p.m.
    ...activation of transcription in bacteria by co-opting σ54-based transcription. Transcription from σ54 promoters...enables researchers to maximize the chance of transducing a only a single gRNA per cell. The viral DNA ...genomic DNA. However, some cell types are poorly transduced by lentivirus, and thus screening with available...not possible. Primary murine T cells cannot be transduced by lentivirus and have been difficult to manipulate...Yusa Lab. This retroviral library was used to transduce T helper type 2 (Th2) cells from mice that constitutively...screening of cells that are refractory to lentiviral transduction, now enabling forward genetic screens in cells...cholesterol). However, size distribution and concentration of ApoB-LPs has been shown to have a strong ...

  11. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...false positive colonies. Transformation - the linear fragments are transformed into E. coli and plasmid...common lab cloning strain has failed so far. What is most important is the transformation efficiency of the...assembly of a circular plasmid in vitro, before transforming it into E. coli for propagation. However, while...pathway that is present even in common lab cloning strains. This intrinsic bacterial recombination pathway...recombination reported in all laboratory E. coli strains tested so far. The use of this pathway as a cloning...1993). But why did this technique fail to gain traction? It is likely that both vector amplification with...using a simple two-step, 2 hr protocol prior to transformation (Figure 1). As this approach requires no special...

  12. Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025

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    June 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...al., 2025). In retrotransposon insertion, a combined endonuclease-reverse transcriptase uses homology ...fused to a shortened R2Tocc transposon protein, and can "retarget" the transposon to new loci in the genome...genome. The modified transposon RNA has untranslated regions (U, blue) on the outside of the homology arms...is one of the most important and abundant neurotransmitters, but it is challenging to monitor because ...rapidly taken up by postsynaptic receptors and transporters. The intensity-based Glutamate-Sensing Fluorescent...Image courtesy of IPI.   Repurposing retrotransposons for DNA editing By Emily P. Bentley For RNA-guided...beyond Cas9 with STITCHR: a combined CRISPR / retrotransposon system with the pithy name "site-specific target-primed...

  13. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ..., the strategic use of whole phages as therapeutics, which is also gaining a lot of new traction lately...below). This initial transformation should be performed using a highly competent strain that you can use ..., scrape up, pool and extract plasmid DNA directly from the colonies. Transform the resultant plasmid ...homology-based searches return no candidates. Our strategy: Express random fragments of the phage genome ...enzymatic digestion, however, a physical fragmentation strategy is preferable. Nebulization involves forcing DNA...certain modifications to DNA bases.  Ligate and transform your resultant plasmid libraries into chemically...chemically competent E. coli and analyze transformants for appropriately sized inserts. We consider a library...

  14. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    Jan. 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Research in Australia I then travelled abroad to work at the University of Queensland in Australia, this was...companies which are reliant on contracts with clients is that, when those contracts fall through or are cancelled...entitled to a Work-Travel VISA, which means I can gain employment for up to 6 months in Australia or another ...position in your field of interest before you dive straight into a full-time position. For my part, I really...with individuals who had very strong beliefs in traditional medicine, especially when I knew that there was... cheap and easy treatment for a disease that traditional medicine couldn’t fight effectively. I had to...(SOP’s) and every item I tested was constantly tracked with barcodes and spreadsheets. It was great to...

  15. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...video abstracts identified. The journal Cell had the largest average view count per video abstract at 2,947...antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections. The video abstracts provide a brief introduction to ... in many disciplines has been a long brewing frustration for me. I read a variety of psychology, business...science communication through video     Video abstracts about research, especially published research,...Scott Spicer at the University of Minnesota helps illustrate this: “In terms of total view count and videos... views) rounded out the top four average video abstract view counts.” For researchers looking to garner...garner more attention for their work, a video abstract may be a useful tool for turning video views into ...

  16. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...AAV5, AAV8) enable different patterns of transduction and transgene expression across different cell types..., Rumpel S. Analysis of transduction efficiency, tropism and axonal transport of AAV serotypes 1, 2, 5...expressed from your cell line of choice after transduction with this virus. While various Cas9 mutants ...classic Cas9 nuclease, which introduces double stranded DNA breaks, can be expressed from lentiCas9-Blast...single stable Cas9-expressing cell line and then transduce this line with lentiviruses expressing various...experiments and over time (as compared to separate transductions with a single-vector system). Tips for using...is used to attain cell-specific expression in transgenic animals, where cre expression is restricted to...

  17. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    Aug. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...but it is for a scaleable lab. When you need to track the location, quality, growth, and legal status ... that everything is grown successfully, we must track and manage all of these steps. Unfortunately, biology...they needed to, they’d have to individually keep track of any failures and do troubleshooting on their ... it’s monumentally difficult without software. Tracking lab procedures also gives you access to hard data...t have a system through which she could easily transfer her instructions for dealing with the samples ...repeated. We also now have a good interface to begin tracking analytics data for lab procedures. With this data...work more efficiently. Get on that barcode gravy train Buy a barcode label printer. Buy barcode scanners...

  18. CRISPR 101 eBook...en español

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    Jan. 18, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...emocionados! Después de recibir la traducción, Addgene contrató a una traductora científica profesional, L. Denise...receiving the translation, Addgene contracted with a professional scientific translator, L. Denise Roche...CRISPR 101 ya está disponible en español! Esta traducción fue regalada a Addgene por Daniel Mejías Sánchez...herramienta de edición ahora es parte oficial de nuestra colección de libros electrónicos. Descargar CRISPR...tiene una gran audiencia internacional, incluido trabajando con distribuidores de todo el mundo para ayudar...Muchas gracias a: Daniel Mejías Sánchez, PhD, traductor  L. Denise Roche, PhD, MD, editora, ldeniseroche...101 eBook is now available in Spanish!  This translation was gifted to Addgene by Daniel Mejías Sánchez...

  19. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...single targeting strand, with the extra strand usually being degraded. The target strand binds to the mRNA...mature siRNA. siRNAs are delivered via transient transfections and are handy for quick in vitro experiments...gene is achieved through the delivery of a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) that matches the mRNA target sequence...delivered as any type of small RNA and can occur via transfection or viral delivery of a plasmid. RNAi is an umbrella...processing (Figure 1). The shRNA sequence is transcribed to produce hairpin shRNA structures that are ...fact! Endogenous miRNA production starts with transcription of the miRNA to create pri-miRNA, which is then...the mRNA — the bound miRISC can simply block translation machinery. The composition of the RISC varies...

  20. Plasmids 101: Biotinylation

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    Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
    ...purification of tagged transcription factors in mammalian cells and transgenic mice.” PNAS 100.13 (2003...and decarboxylases. These enzymes catalyze the transfer of carboxyl groups to organic acids to produce...lipogenesis, amino acid metabolism and energy transduction. Biotinylation is the general process by which...is responsible for this highly specific post-translational protein modification. Most organisms have less...the reporter signal and easier detection. This strategy is referred to as the Avidin-Biotin Complex (ABC...surface labelling Attaching polypeptides to a substrate Flow cytometry/fluorescence-activated cell sorting...to attach proteins or polypeptides to a solid substrate (Holden and Cremer, 2003). References 1. Chapman-Smith...
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