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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...and their functions are more intuitive than you might think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into...polymerase II promoter and terminator regions and are slightly different in sequence. Both LTRs do share common...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    July 6, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...proteins of interest such as actinin. When tension is high vs. low in the cell the donor and acceptor of a ...on changes to the structure of actinin in low vs. high tension. These systems are powerful tools to measure...
  3. Viral Vectors 101: Gamma-Retroviral Packaging Systems

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    Aug. 6, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...however, they are different viruses and thus use slightly different isoforms of these packaging components...research to reduce promoter interference and/or drive high expression of a transgene from an internal promoter...
  4. GPCRs: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?

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    Feb. 11, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ... and Andrew Hempstead. What do smell, taste and sight have in common, besides being one of the five senses...Chemogenetics is similar to optogenetics but instead of light, these genetically modified receptors are activated...
  5. Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR

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    Feb. 21, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...middle) and extends from the 3' end of the nick (right), occasionally introducing mutations (red nucleotide...EvolvR with a targeted mutagenesis rate ~9-fold higher than the original nCas9, while increasing the standard...
  6. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...is typically cytotoxic, which makes generation of high titer Cas9 lentiviruses challenging. This cytotoxicity... Bähr M. Human synapsin 1 gene promoter confers highly neuron-specific long-term transgene expression ...
  7. Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists

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    Feb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m.
    ...mentoring group Find 5-8 colleagues that you think might be interested and willing to commit to the group...same place, a 1-2 hour lunch on a regular schedule might work. If not, perhaps a 3 hour breakfast once a ...
  8. dTAG - You're it!

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    June 21, 2018, 2:06 p.m.
    ...mouse models. The dTAG system The dTAG system pairs highly selective small molecule FKBP12F36V degraders (...observed little to no toxicity with dTAG-13 at doses as high as 20 µM (see Figures 3 and 5 in Nabet et al., Nature...
  9. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    May 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ....7 kb. Co-infection rates for AAVs are generally high enough for this approach to work, although it’s ...time. Though the time delay until expression is highly dependent on the serotype and target tissue, two...
  10. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting high quality reagents, and we realized we could use the...Addgene’s support, could fill a community need for high-quality service, open data, and increased reproducibility...
  11. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...microenvironments and what encircles a disease is highly prone to affect it. While tumors may be the stars...surroundings and being shaped by them. Another set of highly influential microenvironment cells are Cancer-Associated...
  12. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    Jan. 16, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
    ...amino acids. The use of radioactive materials is highly regulated, requires designated work areas and come...passionate about communicating science to all audiences. Right now, she is a science instructor at The Innovation...
  13. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...are a multitude of known AAV serotypes that have slight variations in their viral capsids. Novel forms ...AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as high as 70% among the human population. These pre-existing...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ...1948 as a variation of the more commonly observed light emission by fluorescence. The widespread use of ...distances that are too miniscule for conventional light microscopy. Don't FRET - Use these FRET resources...
  15. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    March 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...of large-scale assembly useful, you may ask? You might be surprised by how multi-purpose it can be. Let... Plant Parts Kit Resources on the Addgene blog High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD Interview...
  16. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    Aug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... is biotin-conjugated, streptavidin (which has a high affinity for binding biotin), is conjugated to the...interest. The optical density (OD) - the measure of light absorbed by a solution - of these wells is plotted...
  17. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for these RNA sequences (3 nM), however, was quite high and above what would be expected in patient samples...daunting. It took a true team effort and many late nights, not unlike most research, but the urgent need ...
  18. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ...fold (Davis et al., 2002). However, polybrene is highly sensitive to freeze-thaw cycles and should be stored...resistance marker expression following transfection, higher-level expression after approximately 72 hours is...
  19. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...expression can change as well. The more frequently and tightly bound DNA is to histones, the more compacted it...occurs at CpG islands (regions of the DNA with a high frequency of C and G nucleotides). The conversion...
  20. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    Oct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
    ...my experience the best set-up is panelists in a slight semi-circle (so they can see each other) on comfortable...redirect the conversation. The person you cut off might be miffed but the other 200 audience members will...
  21. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ...think I need. Unlike lentivirus, AAV requires a higher number of viral particles for efficient gene transfer...only harvest the cell pellet. My yield would be higher if I used PEG precipitation, but for my experiments...
  22. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...bp, but pay attention to the sequence’s Tm, as a higher Tm give more efficient recombination. We normally... two colonies for simple cloning procedures. Use high fidelity DNA polymerase This will minimize random...
  23. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    July 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Gamma-retrovirus genome (left) and an HIV lentiviral genome (right.)  HIV seems an unlikely candidate for use as...genomes in one retroviral particle: pseudodiploidy and high rate of genetic recombination. Proceedings of the...
  24. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ...wanted to think more closely about the wealth of high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data we generate and...the aim of the journal club is to begin building a high level understanding across multiple teams or to ...
  25. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cumbersome to use and lead to lower viral titers due to higher plasmid number. For more information on the key...Lentiviral particles with the VSV-G envelope have high infectivity in a wide range of cell types, so they...
  26. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...professionals identify grant opportunities with the highest likelihood of funding and develop a strategy and... project management, and program evaluation are highly transferable. Use your experience and your passion...
  27. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...around 2010 and found the scheme very nice at first sight in that Addgene takes care of everything including...research to realize their vision. Their progress might be slow, but if they don't stop, they may be able...
  28. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    Jan. 3, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
    ...This post was contributed by Kutubuddin Molla, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University...Cuttack, Odisha, India. Currently Kutubuddin is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania State University...
  29. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ..., cells that retain the ccdB gene die off and a higher percentage of transformants contain the ccdB-less...great additions to constructs that are used to drive high protein expression in vivo. Expression plasmids ...
  30. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...to Cas9, which requires that each DNA target have high sequence identity to the spacer sequence and contain...to detect single molecules of an RNA species with high specificity (Gootenberg et al., 2017). This system...
  31. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    May 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...eukaryotic ribosome. One resistance gene on your vector might require two different selection molecules! It all...protein, to visualize vector uptake. These reporters might be used as markers for automated cell sorting or...
  32. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Although AYBE, AXBE, and ACBE do not approach the high product purity of CBEs and ABEs, they could be useful...transversion editors, this editor had relatively high indel rates ranging from 4.7% to 30% at tested sites...
  33. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...which help a researcher understand if a material is right for their experiment.     Table 1: Most popular ...learned to clone from the Addgene website.” We delight in seeing our resources shared via social media...
  34. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    July 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... was to ensure the scientific community obtained high-quality data for our DNA-based reagents. Not only..., one of our first problems was deciding on the right system for us to start using. Prior experimenting...
  35. To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question

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    Nov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...? Let’s take a look at codon usage and when you might want to optimize codons for expression in a particular... on the codon usage frequency in a reference of highly expressed genes (Sharp and Li, 1987). In 2000 the...
  36. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ... method, they found that SaCas9 did not display higher levels of off-target activity than SpCas9, confirming...editors. While using AAV to deliver large transgenes might seem daunting, it’s actually a challenge that the...
  37. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ... you are trying to repress a gene, your control might be a system where expression of that gene is knocked...selection of the positive control plasmids should be highly specific to the experiment and the interrogation...
  38. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...plasmids expressing variants with optimal function. High-throughput DNA sequencing is then used to measure...mutant strand: A mix of degenerate primers and the high-fidelity Phusion polymerase are used to introduce...
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