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...Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9 described the PAM specificity of Cas9s isolated from different..., and NGCG). Since then, the Osamu Nureki Lab described a rationally engineered Cas9, SpCas9-NG, which...Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu Lab similarly described xCas9, which displayed the ability to target multiple... also high off-target activity, which may be undesirable in many applications. At the time of our first...post on choosing a Cas9, the Feng Zhang Lab had described eSpCas9, while the Keith Joung Lab had developed...

...new receptors were termed Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs) (Roth, 2016...What do smell, taste and sight have in common, besides being one of the five senses? GPCRs or G-protein-coupled...photons or odorants, to elicit downstream signaling cascades.  So let’s break down the name "G-protein coupled...then induce or inhibit intracellular signaling cascades as a response to the extracellular stimuli. Ligand...

...to simply swap out several of the ribonucleotides for deoxynucleotides. A partially DNA gRNA is surprisingly...use in applications like siRNA and antisense oligonucleotides. Some of these synthetic modifications, specifically...photoactivatable and photocleavable gRNAs. Photocleavable guides are generated by introduction of a single photocleavable...Additional resources on the Addgene Blog  How to design your CRISPR gRNA CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein ...

...instance, your Desktop directory contains the folders and files that you see on your desktop. The location...immediately write a text document with a brief description of the directory contents, at a minimum. This...for a single use, save the script as originalName_descriptionOfEdit in the same directory where it was ...Your Next Experiment Find Our List of CRISPR gRNA Design Tools ...

...first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation in mind. “We had not managed...Konermann and her colleagues in Feng Zhang’s lab describe just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9...from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like tapping...instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With that new design in place, Konermann immediately saw an order of...consistency and validation with >80% effectively enriched guides per gene hit, and 100% validation of the top 10...

...element. This link provides a more extensive list of yeast auxotrophic markers and includes the associated...differ from the bacterial elements previously described. Why do scientists use yeast vectors? Yeast are... that come with working with prokaryotes. This includes but is not limited to: rapid growth, ease of replica...most commonly used selection markers in yeast and provides the element needed to overcome the auxotrophy ...

...protein innovations for therapeutic and vaccine design. We all want tools that expand what we can achieve...features with optimal biological performance are described as Click Biology (Howarth, 2025). Figure...nucleic acid sequence (Addgene can help with this!). Besides requiring stable covalent reactions, other required... Addgene. Addgene Link Click Biology Tag Description Humberg et al. (2025) Split inteins Cysteine-less...  Click Into Biological Building Click Biology describes the search for robust, reliable reactions, using...

...been common in fields like math and physics for decades (see: arXiv.org), but have been only adopted by...course, preprints don’t replace journals and other modes of scientific communication. Researchers often post...to receive deposits of plasmids that have been described in a preprint. In fact, over 1,500 plasmids in...Depositing plasmids that were used in a preprint provides all the same benefits as sharing those plasmids...resources on the Addgene blog Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series...

...different labs have recently published work that provides a solution to this problem. A miniature CRISPR-Cas...miniature CRISPR-Cas12f nuclease Quanjiang Ji’s lab describes an effective miniature Cas system that utilizes...Nature Biotechnology paper showcases an improved design of the guide RNA that caps the 3’ end with a structured...that mismatch repair (MMR) interfered with the desired resolution of prime editing intermediates. Building...sequence. As with other prime editing tools, the desired edits are templated by the 3′ extension of the ...

...protein-coupled receptor, one of the Designer Receptor Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs) (Armbruster...bottom). The images show examples of dendrites (blue shades) in the monkey amygdala. Red and green arrows point...deciding on the appropriate tag, the experimental design should be the main guidance. The results from our...Raper J, Hu X, Paré J, Bonaventura J, Richie CT, Michaelides M, Mueller SAL, Roseboom PH, Oler JA, Kalin NH...

...introducing a desired edit, but this particular class of treatments has quite the opposite aim: to destroy. One...potential for treatment is no longer an accurate descriptor; progress in clinical therapy is more fitting...One treatment currently in clinical trials includes Cas3 (the shredder member of the Cas family) as part...CRISPR therapies have made significant clinical strides since we first wrote this blog post. The future...

...of the Retroviridae or Retrovirus family, which includes the gamma-retrovirus and lentivirus genera, have...dividing and non-dividing cells. More detailed descriptions of the lentiviral elements and the 2nd and 3rd...#48201) This retroviral vector from the Gage lab encodes GFP and Cre-recombinase. The Cre-lox system is ...building block Entry vectors and 5 lentiviral Destination vectors. These vectors can induce combinatorial...single ecotropic or amphotropic MuLE lentivirus provides significant genetic power and allows high throughput...

...widely used in neuroscience. In this post, I’ll describe how rabies virus (RABV) can be used in the brain... by modifying the wild-type RABV genome, which encodes a single envelope protein called rabies glycoprotein... neurons integrated into the brain over time (Deshpande et al., 2013). The study found that at early time...Dec; 18(6): 617–623. Pubmed PMID 19349161.  2. Deshpande A, Bergami M, Ghanem A, Conzelmann KK, Lepier ...Pubmed PMID 26190977. 6. Osakada F, Callaway EM. Design and generation of recombinant rabies virus vectors...

...Plasmids designed to express genes in a given host cell type are generally broken down into two broad...post-transcriptional additional of multiple adenine (A) nucleotides to the tail of a messenger RNA transcript. The...structure of the hairpin-DNA complex is thought to destabilize the transcription complex, initiating cleavage...transcription of the template and initiating the desired cleavage event, although some engineered terminators...downstream elements. A high affinity terminator may be desired for multi-cistronic constructs where high termination...

... asking the panelists not to use any slides for the event. Slides are for presentations, not discussions...discussions. I will rarely work with a panel if slides are allowed. Don't put your panelists behind a table. ...organizations, I asked audience members to stand and describe unique nonprofit models that differed from the...around to meet and greet audience members. Having dessert, drinks and/or coffee available only after the ...

...., 2025). By co-delivering TRV1 with TRV2 that encodes ISYmu1 and an ωRNA under the same promoter, they...different applications require careful selection or design to ensure reliable readout and avoid biases. The...ex vivo HSC expansion cultures. A) Experimental design. B) UMAP of cell states in ex vivo expansion cultures...only at excitatory synapses; however, its modular design allows components to be swapped out, potentially... Huang, H., et al. (2025). ATLAS: a rationally designed anterograde transsynaptic tracer. Nature Methods...

...Cas11. Type I-E Cascades contains all five of these Cas proteins, while type I-C Cascades do not contain... 1: Schematic of Class 1 CRISPR types. Class 1 includes type I with a Cas3 effector, type III with a Cas10...CRISPR transposase systems utilize with type I-F Cascades. Figure 2: Cascade complex from CRISPR ...maximum efficiency of the process. Various labs have designed all-in-one Cascade plasmids — such as the Tomoji...

...(Are the inserts of different sizes?), and the desired coverage for the library (How important is it that...  The most important factor to consider is your desired library coverage, since this will help decide what...similar in size and composition as examples. Table 1 provides an overview of pooled library protocols you can...should always experimentally test the protocol you design to ensure that it works for your library before...Addgene. If you have any specific questions about designing your library amplification protocol, feel free...

...fluorescent output. The GEVI family of gadgets includes Ace, JEDI, and many more. They can be targeted...component as well as a small molecule which we will describe in more detail below. Types of Voltage Indicators...Drosophila to phosphatases from sea squirts. This design structurally separates the two components of the...membrane, a concern with several of the previously described systems. Several adaptations of this method have...voltage sensing component (i.e., rhodopsin naturally resides in the membrane), or both. Targeting these systems...

...addition to Taq DNA polymerase, PCR requires free nucleotides (dNTPs), template DNA to amplify from and unique...polymerases require an existing strand of DNA to add nucleotides to.  Using these reagents and a series of heating...protocol page, protocol video and reference on how to design PCR primers.  Types of PCR Since the invention ...  Digital droplet PCR or ddPCR is a method that provides ultrasensitive and absolute nucleotide concentration...Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Protocol: How to Design a primer  Molecular Biology Reference Molecular...