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...skeptical reader of historical fiction (I can personally attest to this!). Following history from the Ice Age...relevant science."     - Randall Carter, Contracts Administrator Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and ...and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini "This book is a smart and carefully presented...science of race."     - Joanne Kamens, Executive Director  I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong "Microbes are... Tsang, Science Communications and Marketing Coordinator Non-science favorites  The Mistborn series by...another secret."     - Marcy Patrick, Associate Director of Quality Control Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell...Norrell by Susanna Clarke "A quasi-historical/fantasy fiction. Two dueling magicians in the 1800s in England...

...you can usually see a director sitting in their chair not watching their actors live on set, but peering...about getting in close to mic them up. Monitor: I then set up a monitor connected to the wireless transmitter...camera, OR, monitor from that distance.  Build: We got a wheeled stand and mounted a monitor to it. It ... their mask. But while the camera is here, the operator is in a different room.   Design: The previous...peering at a 7-inch wireless monitor. Wireless video technology has gotten very impressive, but due to costs...the beating heart of Addgene. It’s why we exist, storing plasmids, and distributing them to labs that need...Cycle 5 - The Future! Figure 5: The mobile monitor and teleprompter being repurposed for a different...

... addition, there was an entire story-telling session organized by Story Collider and which featured a ...new knockout mice, using adenoviral vectors to deliver IGF receptors to the brain, and probing how fatty...to make efficiently. For select viral vectors in the repository, you can instead have Addgene make the...the different parts of the brain stimulated by stories. In retrospect, I should have expected this given...helmets, gait tracking technologies, and brain monitors. Walking around the poster presentation area, ...available from Addgene. While super useful, these vectors require a bit of expertise and can be difficult... into neuroscience, you could look to our viral vector pages on the Addgene website and on the Addgene...

... 1. Testing kinase inhibitors Zhou et al examined the ability of kinase inhibitors to alter Raf1-MEK-ERK...kinase inhibitors, psMEK1 and ERK KTR-mRuby2 expressing cells were incubated with an inhibitor of choice...signaling pathways, scientists frequently use growth factors or serum to stimulate a pathway of interest, but...endogenous ERK, and its localization serves as an indicator of MEK1 activity. When MEK1 is active, it phosphorylates...localization of ERK KTR-mRuby2 determined. If the inhibitor targeted MEK1 or its downstream target ERK, the...the KTR remained in the nucleus. But if the inhibitor targeted upstream members of the pathway (Raf1, ..., which frequently occurs when serum or growth factors are used as a stimulus. This system also allows...

...one 30-minute reaction. The destination vector and entry vector(s) are placed in a single tube containing... appear in the final construct. The destination vector contains sites with complementary overhangs that...TGGA and 3’ overhang TCCG can be ligated into a vector containing those overhangs. Entry DNA overhangs...enzyme and ligase. Although the original destination vector + insert may spontaneously religate, this transient...for multiple DNA components (promoters, genes, terminators, etc) to be assembled in the correct order in...assembly of multiple DNA fragments to create TAL effector nucleases. These plasmids were designed to utilize...efficiently clone up to 7 gRNAs into one destination vector, making multiplexing easy.  Disadvantages of Golden...

...  Expanding our viral vector service Addgene has offered in-stock viral vectors since 2016, with the goal...Packaged on Request, an expansion of our viral vectors service, has officially launched! As of today, ...3,000 eligible AAV cargo plasmids in the Addgene repository to be packaged in your choice of five different...easy access to high quality, commonly used viral vectors. Of course, many scientists also need easy access...access to high quality, not so commonly used viral vectors. That’s where AAV Packaged on Request comes in.... making it easier to go from selection to viral vector. To start the AAV packaged on request process, ...for you to dig into. Check our blog post on viral vector production and quality control, our AAV Packaged...

...plasmids, antibodies, viral preps, and more in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles. Here's what...cell mitochondrial transfer tracker Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi Micropeptide killswitch...doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0510511103      Red calcium indicators PinkyCaMP and FRCaMPi By Mike Lacy Many popular...popular genetically encoded calcium indicators (GECIs) are available, but red GECIs have been limited compared...sensitive soma-localized red fluorescent calcium indicator for in vivo imaging of neuronal populations at...macromolecules to serve cellular functions. Along with collaborators, the Denes Hnisz Lab previously discovered that...the killswitch (GFP-nb–KS) is delivered using a vector that also expresses mCherry to mark transfected...

...Susanna Bachle, Addgene the nonprofit plasmid repository 49:45 0 1:18:45 - Reagent Development - Steven...Alex Tucker (Ginkgo Bioworks) Pamela Hines (Senior Editor at Science) Edward J. Hall (Professor of Philosophy...sequenced and quality controlled plasmids and viral vectors. When working with a plasmid from Addgene, you ...negative” data We all want to be able to tell a good story when presenting scientific findings. This makes ...of information and, from a SciComm perspective, stories with links of causation from initial hypothesis...validation are easier to understand. The need for great stories has, however, made it difficult to publish so-called...original hypotheses. Looking for novelty in our stories, we are additionally averse to producing papers...

...industry, non-profit, and government sectors.  Within these sectors, you could start your own company, ...based on any or all the contents of this post.  An attorney should be contacted for advice on specific legal... as law, medical/technical writing, clinical, regulatory, product development, business development, consulting...career paths in academia as well as the non-profit sector are transferrable to industry such as technology...greater scientific field, potential customers, investors, or other relevant entities or individuals. A ...peer reviewer for journals, acting as a journal editor) of the work of those in your field. Original contributions...papers that you should start contacting journal editors to request to be a reviewer. Proactivity is very...

...including a handful of plasmids that have been in the repository for many years, has now grown into a collection... spike protein to bind ACE2, the host cellular receptor. To more easily study the spike variants, scientists...Choe’s lab identified that ACE2 is the functional receptor for SARS-CoV. The lab also found that cathepsins...have an important role in viral entry, which are inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 entry and become upregulated during...pandemic, the Krogan lab at UCSF generated lentiviral vectors expressing SARS-CoV-2 open reading frames and identified...proteins which all but one are cloned into pLVX vectors (for lentiviral packaging) and contain an IRES-...above, some of these plasmids have been in the repository for many years while many were developed during...

...for drafting my stories. In total, I prepare 5-6 stories for an interview, since one story usually has more...Instead, I preferred to prepare stories to answer interview questions. Story telling shares many of the same...of the theme of my interview stories as the characteristic which the story demonstrates I possess.   Bullet...helpful for my interviews in industry. Prepare stories to tell in your interview The STAR interview method...answer: a setting, a conflict, and a resolution. Stories usually have a theme too, which is something not...of questions. Writing a rough outline of these stories helped me remember them for the interview.  Prepare...

...time: Functional genomics research in an introductory laboratory course. CBE-Life Sci. Educ. 17, ar1. (2018...experiences to undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing suitable...could provide the basis for student projects in introductory labs. Genome projects use computational methods...research questions. The idea is straightforward. Instructors first select a multi-gene pathway to study and...yeasts are thought to have diverged from a common ancestor ~350 million years ago. Over time, the two genomes...species into the pYES2.1/V5-His yeast overexpression vector. This plasmid contains origins of replication and...research skills (8). A complete set of student and instructor resources is available at our Investigations ...

...proteins for use as FLIM-FRET acceptors  Listen to the FLIM-FRET acceptor podcast segment Article contributed...FLIM-FRET acceptors here. See Addgene's FRET reference page for many other common FRET vectors. Murakoshi...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...termied soCoChR, by fusing a fragment of the kainate receptor subunit to the C-terminus of the protein. Unlike...soCoChR-expressing cells. Finally, using synaptic receptor blockers to distinguish real and artifactual postsynaptic...placesTagRFP-T and Dronpa in close proximity. By monitoring changes in TagRFP-T fluorescence intensity at...Murakoshi lab has developed two new FLIM-FRET acceptors, ShadowG, a novel dark green fluorescent protein...

...primers that target the common features of viral vector backbones; once validated these universal primers...higher than for functional assays depending on the vector backbone. When using qPCR based methods for viral...plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing vector deficient in reverse transcriptase will produce...the number of target cells that are positive for vector encoded transgene expression following transduction... prep. This method is particularly useful when vectors carrying fluorescent markers are used as it eliminates...significantly higher than the same prep that has been stored in the freezer. If you plan to freeze a batch of...titration of pseudotyped HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors."Nature protocols 4.4 (2009): 495-505. PubMed PMID...

...We’ve dug into the data from our repository to find our most requested plasmid in 2015. In line with ...that the plasmid most requested from the Addgene repository in 2015 was... lentiCRISPR V2   LentiCRISPR...fantastic research tool has been requested from the repository nearly 1,000 times in 2015! If you haven’t already...suggests, lentiCRISPR v2 is a lentiviral transfer vector used to deliver both Cas9 and your gRNA of interest...lentiviral titer as compared to previous lentiviral vectors. It can be used both to knock-out single genes ...is available from Addgene both as a single empty vector and in pooled libraries containing thousands of... has already been used for includes work probing mTOR signaling in cancer cells, deciphering the mechanism...

...variant can then be fused to effector domains such as transcriptional activators or repressors. These fusion...cut either strand of DNA. Traditional Cas9 regulators In addition to its utility in making targeted...to DNA, Cas9 can be reprogrammed to serve as a regulator of gene expression. Its catalytic domains can ...hairpin, that is capable of recruiting additional effector domains (4). Taken together, these minor gRNA ... generate a potent Cas9-based transcriptional regulator without making any functional changes to Cas9....adapter capable of recruiting a transcriptional activator, robust regulation of gene expression is observed...the truncated gRNA recruits a transcriptional activator to the Cas9-gRNA complex. When this complex is...

...recently we have also been using Addgene CRISPR vectors to generate cell lines with knockouts of specific...specific genes. Many years ago, people in the laboratory became frustrated with using glass cloning rings ...sterile truncated pipet tips. Indeed, an experienced operator can pick 48 clones from a 10 cm dish in 15- 20...medium containing serum in each well. A 200 ul pipettor is set to 200 ul, wiped down with 70% ethanol,...individually punched out, gently sucked up into the pipettor, placed into wells, and partially dislodged from...YouTube video. Before returning the plate to the incubator, additional growth medium is added to about halfway.... We highly recommend the use of an electronic pipettor with variable spacing (such as the Viaflo from...

... and other viral vector tools in the years to come. We’ll make many more viral vector tools and resources... Service Page Browse Additional Viral Vectors Find Viral Vector Protocols ... retrograde (the most popular form), this viral vector is used to deliver DNA encoding Cre recombinase...be sure to check back often! To find more viral vectors available through Addgene, be sure to check out...out our viral service page and browse our viral vector blog posts for many more tips and ideas on how to...thanks to Hongkui Zeng’s lab for providing this AAV vector! Additional Resources AAV Titers: Where do they...for Gene Expression in Mammals Subscribe to Viral Vector Blog Posts Additional Resources on Addgene.org...

...the Tapscott Lab identified regulators of DUX4, a transcriptional regulator that when inappropriately expressed...activation using a fusion to a transcriptional activator such as VP64 (Gilbert et al., 2013), or repression...region to inhibit association of transcriptional activators (Qi et al., 2013). However, the fusion of dCas9...specific genomic region In 2013, the Hodaka Fujii Laboratory first described a method to purify a specific...interest, the promoter region of the transcription factor IRF-1. Immunoprecipitation, using an antibody targeting...lab is CRISPR affinity purification in situ of regulatory elements (CAPTURE) (Liu et al., 2017). This system...miR483) that binds to the promoter of the growth factor IGF2 open reading frame to relax imprinting (Zhang...

...catalytic protein and its cofactor VP35. VP30 is a transcription enhancement factor. When used to study minigenomes...Addgene.org Browse Our Viral Vector Plasmids Read Our Lentiviral Vector Guide Read Our AAV Guide  ...producing infectious virus (similar to lentiviral vectors) because they do not encode all of the necessary...changing the minigenome cis-acting sequences and monitoring effects on genome replication and transcription...Microbiology, National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories.  She is interested in genome replication and...Karl-Klaus Conzelmann. "Generation of bovine respiratory syncytial virus (BRSV) from cDNA: BRSV NS2 is...on the Addgene Blog Read Other Posts on Viral Vectors Check out Our Scientist's Guide to Ebola Contribute...