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  1. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    April 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Hongkui Zeng Additional Resrouces on the Addgene Blog  Read about Other Means of Genome Engineering Using...

  3. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Makerspace is composed of computer scientists, engineers, and biologists working together on a variety ... case.   Funding Makerspaces One of the main challenges when starting a new project at a makerspace is...

  4. 7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors

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    Jan. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m.
    ... of your supervisor’s management style, bring challenges to his or her attention as soon as you can. It...mutually beneficial solutions. If you package your challenges with your supervisor into learning opportunities...

  5. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    Oct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
    ...discussions with both panelists and audience fully engaged. They can also be dull and painful to sit through...well-planned approach to making the event interesting and engaging. Long before the event... Choose a moderator ...

  6. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...identified in nature, while many more have been engineered in labs. This vastly increases the possibilities...S. E., Muller, A., Sousa, A. A., Tsai, S. Q., Bengtsson, N. E., Lööv, C., Ingelsson, M., Chamberlain, ...

  7. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...Come From and What Do They Mean? Overcoming the Challenges of Lentivirus Production Tips for Titering Your...recombinant proteins and viral vectors. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389...

  8. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...determinants of prime editing efficiency such as the length of the RTT overhang, the GC content of the primer... pridict.it. This approach leverages the strengths of PRIDICT/PRIDICT2.0 while accounting for some...

  9. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...and protein turnover rates. Additionally, by engineering FP fusions associated with cellular organelles...the tag for each insertion. Also, it remains challenging to screen for the genetically modified strains...

  11. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...experiments, and prepared your reagents. You’re going to engineer the best thing since CRISPR; you are ready to ...technologies currently available, you now face the challenge of trying to figure out what system might work...

  12. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    Aug. 29, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...entire time talking to the poster, as opposed to engaging with you? Be sure to use your poster as a visual...they are following along. This will not only re-engage you with those who sought out your poster, but ...

  13. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...natural. Creative negotiation skills will help you strengthen relationships with your colleagues and supervisors...help you get more of what you want and can also strengthen your relationships with others who know that ...

  14. Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids

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    Dec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...mouse knockout lines should increase. New genome engineering tools also offer hope for the creation of new...models in species that were previously difficult to engineer, like rats. If you have tools for creating knockout...

  15. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...daily, yet obstacles remain. One of the biggest challenges facing researchers today is the complexity of... of the latest resources? In response to this challenge, Addgene has launched an initiative to curate ...

  16. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    Aug. 13, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...from very high cell density suspension. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2021 Sep;118(9):3499-3510. doi: 10.1002/bit.27776...Schöneich C, Freund E, Ricci MS, Carpenter JF, Lengsfeld CS. Do not drop: mechanical shock in vials causes...

  17. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ...success” of the journal club. This can be a challengingly vague metric but there are a few things you ...scientists of all types to stay up to date and engaged with new advances in published science. They also...

  18. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...). Additional resources on the Addgene blog Engineering the plant genome using CRISPR/Cas9 Using pSiM24...pSiM24 for simplifying plant genetic engineering Using arabidopsis in the classroom Resources on Addgene.org...

  19. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    Oct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
    ...bypassing these issues. CRISPRi libraries utilize an engineered Cas9, which contains multiple point mutations...Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex." Nature517.7536 (2015): ...

  20. CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13

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    July 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
    ...major players in the CRISPR field. Just a year after Feng Zhang’s lab identified Cas13a (C2c2) (Abudayyeh ...) displayed robust editing with various spacer lengths from 30-84 nucleotides, and designated this system...

  21. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...viruses, with a linear genome between 26–45 kb in length. Human adenovirus type 5 (hAdV-C5) can be considered... like other viral vectors, though significant challenges remain (Wold & Toth, 2013).  While the pre-existing...

  22. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    July 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...transcriptase (RT) is present in the capsid, as the engineered, recombinant genome is (thankfully) gutted of...2008). Pseudodiploid Genome Organization Aids Full-Length Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 DNA Synthesis...

  23. Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene

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    Sept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... peripheral nervous system presents a special challenge to scientists. What works well in one cell or ...vectors in neuroscience Let’s consider my first challenge when I started working with AAV vectors. I wanted...

  25. Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Oct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Cpf1-mediated cleavage are 42-44 nucleotides in length, about the same size as Cas9’s, but with the direct...Figure from Kleinstiver et al., 2016. Cpf1’s strength may lie in its low off-target editing rates, determined...

  26. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand if you’ve never done any flow. ... showing frequency of events on the Y axis and strength of signal read on the X axis may be presented....

  27. Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist

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    Nov. 9, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ... less time consuming and/or less technically challenging. Alongside there is a second-line team that takes...are just so many things which can go wrong in a lengthy protocol. And customers may tell all sorts of details...

  28. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...distinguish between Zika and a closely-related virus, Dengue from multiple sample sources. SHERLOCK could also...://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5573 Broughton JP, Deng X, Yu G, Fasching CL, Servellita V, Singh J, Miao...

  29. An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team

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    Jan. 23, 2020, 2:45 p.m.
    ...Addgene blog Learn about what went into our search engine update Find all Addgene news Resources on Addgene.org... Sophia K. Cheng...

  30. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...counter-intuitive, but I find office work more mentally challenging than lab work at times.” Sometimes a desk job...to non-scientists can be a fun and gratifying challenge. You’re also getting the opportunity to learn ...
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