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  1. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...screens can be carried out using a few different methods — in vivo, in vitro, and ex vivo. The general process..., so having an efficient and effective delivery method is vital for the best outcomes. The go-to in vivo...vivo option AAV has become the preferred delivery method for in vivo CRISPR screens. AAV vectors can be ...that is unmatched by other viral vector delivery methods. Lentivirus has limited packaging options, with...
  2. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...(Anzalone et al., 2019; Chen & Liu, 2023). This method uses a prime editor (typically a Cas9 H840A nickase...pegRNAs in one experiment (Figure 1). Through this method, we found key determinants of prime editing efficiency...Koeppel et al., 2023), their predictive power is sometimes limited across different targets due to variations...Parallel; Akhtar et al., 2013; Schep et al., 2021) method to link prime editing efficiency to chromatin data...
  3. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Yamamoto’s lab has harnessed MMEJ to create a new method for CRISPR gene knock-in, termed PITCh (Precise... MMEJ: An Introduction There are three primary methods for repairing DNA after a double-stranded break.... These results indicate that PITCh is a robust method for genomic insertion. PITCh can also be adapted...where HDR is downregulated, MMEJ represents another method for making targeted modifications. A recent publication...
  4. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 1: Getting Started with Flies

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    July 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...mother. Inside the pupal case, the larva will metamorphose into its adult form. In all, it takes roughly...homozygous alleles, others cannot. Geneticists need a method for maintaining stable lines of genetic mutants...recombine chromosomes during meiosis. This can sometimes be a handy feature when setting up genetic crosses...symbol”. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Methods for Site Specific Recombination in Drosophila Learn...
  5. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ... genome engineering parameters via a library-on-library approach." Nature methods 12.9 (2015): 823-826...RNA-guided gene regulation and editing." Nature methods 10.11 (2013): 1116-1121. PubMed PMID: 24076762....genome editing, activation and repression." Nature methods 12.11 (2015): 1051-1054. PubMed PMID: 26344044....
  6. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...yields by stabilizing rate-limiting enzymes. In this method, the major capsid protein VP1 is co-expressed with...Cheah et al., 2021.   After validating this method through monitoring GFP degradation, this protein...acid, suggesting that MPyV system can improve metabolic pathway yields by encapsulating a single enzyme...pathway, the MPyV system provides a simple, efficient method for protecting a single enzyme that drives biosynthetic...
  7. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    Dec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...engineered nucleases. Nat Methods 11:1051–1057 . https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3075 Lukashev AN, Zamyatnin...Scientific Reports paper introducing the delivery method in 2014, Manuel Goncalves lab report that AdV-mediated...lab found in a second paper published in Nature Methods the same year that delivering RNA-guided nucleases...
  8. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...luminescence, which require UV lamps, fluorometers, or luminometers, chromoprotein detection can be done...taken up the plasmid. Of course, other follow up methods like sequencing are more definitive, but visual...before taking on more time consuming and expensive methods. While techniques such as  blue-white screening...
  9. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...grad student, I thought that “negotiation” was something that I would mainly do over the price of a used...unprepared. Mainly, I thought of negotiation as something done not by people wearing a lab coat, but instead... argument but felt bad afterwards). Or worse, sometimes there’s no agreement at all and everyone leaves...example provides a scenario where both people get something valuable. Importantly, as the third example shows...
  10. 3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9

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    Oct. 17, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
    ...company is “…where molecules become real”.  We sometimes forget that the models we create are around 30...interrogation process, they will almost invariably say something like “Oh,…I didn’t quite appreciate that….” For...determined electron density, have been known to say something silly like “See there, arginine 53 really is right...them to slow down and focus their attention on something tangible. Under the guidance of a trained educator...
  11. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    June 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
    ...switching to Golden Gate is a conceptual barrier. Sometimes people don’t know how to start. They might want...Most Sainsbury scientists are active on Twitter. Sometimes it’s a good way to find out what’s happening in...experiences, articles about women in science, and the sometimes stupid or uncomfortable things that have happened...plant science. I think their chances of doing something amazing will be equally high as for those who ...
  12. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ... BLAST button, consider the Program Selection parameter, as this will affect the amount of time to perform...BLAST button, you may have noticed the “Algorithm parameters” link. Click on this link to view advanced BLAST...such as when you attempt to verify the starting methionine of a gene but the blastx results start the alignment...have to remember to adjust any blastp algorithm parameters. We use the default scoring matrix BLOSUM62, ...
  13. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...experimental parameters (e.g. excitation light intensity, pH, or temperature). pH Stability: This parameter is ...Photostability can be affected by experimental parameters (e.g. excitation light intensity, pH or temperature... short as 100ms (EBFP) or as long as 1 hour (mAmetrine1.2). However, for most FPs it is a few seconds ...
  14. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    Dec. 12, 2013, 3:35 p.m.
    ...computer-programming languages? That's trickier. Sometimes it's the developers. But, it turns out over time...signals. Let's say I wanted to detect every primary metabolite in a cell. The only way to do that at scale right...can now forward engineer a 10-gene system to do something. We know from our testing of these parts that ...transcription and translation initiation." Nature Methods. 10, 354-360 (10 March 2013). ...
  15. Better Dyeing Through Chemistry & Small Molecule Fluorophores

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    Sept. 8, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...general method to improve fluorophores for live-cell and single-molecule microscopy." Nature methods 12.3...cell biologists talk to chemists? One reason is something called “the photon budget”: each sample has a ...self-labeling tag systems (Figure 1b) are perhaps the best method for live cell labeling and the easiest switch from...
  16. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    May 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...potential to become resistant to? CRISPR may provide a method for doing just that. While challenges remain in...resistance will be slow. CRISPR may be just the method needed to jumpstart the fight against antibiotic...certain bacteria, just like the CRISPR targeting methods. Phage cocktails could be used to target multiple...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog CRISPR Methods for Bacterial Genome Engineering Treating Muscular...
  17. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ...floral drip or dip transformation method. The general steps for this method include: Cloning and transforming...Harrison, S. J. et al. (2006) ‘A rapid and robust method of identifying transformed Arabidopsis thaliana...seedlings following floral dip transformation’, Plant Methods. BioMed Central, 2(1), p. 19. doi: 10.1186/1746...
  18. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ... or even a synthesized gene. PCR is the primary method to produce the linear fragments, as desired modifications...C for 15 mins). This enzyme specifically cuts methylated DNA, so it will selectively destroy the template...Jones, Douglas H., and Bruce H. Howard. "A rapid method for recombination and site-specific mutagenesis...5 factors to consider before choosing a cloning method Check out all of our blog posts on plasmid cloning...
  19. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...The One Method to Rule Them All, consider the following four questions to figure out which method(s) work...proficiency.  What kind of content are you sharing?  Sometimes your subject matter will drive the kinds of communications... lot of trouble in the long run.  Selecting the method Once you’ve answered the above questions, you can...
  20. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...immunoprecipitation (locus-specific ChIP). These methods consist of insertional chromatin immunoprecipitation...to describe?  Fujii: I believe that "Biology is Method", i.e. new technologies often lead to big discoveries...oligoribonucleotide (ORN) interference-PCR (ORNi-PCR) method to suppress PCR amplification of specific DNA sequences... they don't stop, they may be able to achieve something that may change the rules of the game. In this...
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