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...Addgene’s Science Video Production Specialist, I’m constantly thinking about ways to improve our productions...going to be out of the office for longer than anticipated, we had to think of something else.   ...talking to their webcams.  Build: I sent the participants interview questions they could answer, and I...directing. Everyone’s schedules were busy, so it was important for me to let people record at their leisure. ...for our other videos. For starters, I hadn’t anticipated nearly every webcam recording only 1280x720 resolution... were still many restrictions in place, most importantly, masks.  Besides the muffled voices beneath masks...with them. I knew from my previous cycles that I wanted to be able to talk to people and direct them. For...

...format meant that the posters could be viewed publicly and stored in one place if the participants used ...involvement and how much time you want to spend with the conference. “If you want to have the same experience...first sent a pre-workshop questionnaire to the participants to learn about what they were looking to learn... content. In the middle of the workshop, the participants took part in a protocol drawing exercise. The...workshop also used a shared note-taking doc where participants could share their notes together. Figure...session you’re presenting is eye contact. “It’s important to keep your video on and look into the camera...there are many creative ways to adapt and take advantage of the new conference format. Additional resources...

.... Sacks, Musicophilia includes case studies of relevant neurological atypicalities, including a patient...and fascinating, all without compromising on the relevant science."     - Randall Carter, Contracts Administrator...Microbes are everywhere and this book emphasizes the important roles microbes play in our ecosystem, examining...relationships between microbes and insects, mammals, and plants, among others. I particularly enjoyed the emphasis...series is the first 3 books of a larger epic of fantasy novels. Set in a world where 1000 years ago the... Norrell by Susanna Clarke "A quasi-historical/fantasy fiction. Two dueling magicians in the 1800s in ...launching this one. On a purely selfish level, I wanted to be challenged to read some books outside of ...

...the controversial medical issues. Participants gave significantly more favourable ratings to the abstracts... none of the participants had preconceived opinions about “adeolitis.” The participants in my study were...biochemistry, microbiology, epidemiology, and bioanthropology. Studying human health science made me happy...approached me for advice on her baby’s health but adamantly refused to get them vaccinated. A classmate told...told me that they never finish a course of antibiotics, choosing instead to save a few days’ worth of ... affirm or challenge their beliefs. I asked participants to read short abstracts comparing the mortality...texts were otherwise identical. Likewise, when participants read an abstract for a study with findings that...

... your least abundant proteins, with the blue and infrared channels used for more abundant proteins or ...compatible with your microscope optics, you will want to compare the excitation and emission spectra of... microscope. Ideally, you would like to have substantial overlap between the excitation and emission filters...lecture at iBiology. Commonly used filter sets & relevant fluorescent proteins Commonly used filter sets... are mTagBFP2, EGFP or one of the improved GFP variants, mRuby2 or TagRFP-T, and an infrared fluorescent...In mammalian cells, one of the improved folding variants of EGFP like mEmerald or Clover is probably best...measurements. Here, EGFP outperforms the improved folding variants, presumably due to the lower growth temperature...

...available. Table 1 compares some general advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Table 1: Properties...nighttime displays, these insects have contributed an important tool to the scientific community: luciferases,...levels and improved signal sensitivity. Another advantage: luciferase reporters aren’t susceptible to photobleaching...Japanese firefly (Luciola cruciata), and more. These variant proteins offer different kinetics, substrate requirements...luminescent substrate. This approach preserves the advantages of luminescent assays (low background, no photobleaching... that produce different colors or have other advantageous properties. This approach can improve live-cell...measurements of luminescence from live cells. Luciferase variants with incompatible substrates can also allow multiplexing...

...macromolecule density is equal to the buoyant force of the solution. Contaminants of lower densities are captured...Iodixanol Gradient Ultracentrifugation First, you’ll want to identify the reader’s goal. Why are they reading...What is the goal, who is my audience, and what do I want to be different for them when I’m done? What are...wait!  Done? Excellent! We asked our workshop participants to do the same thing, and even though only about...between layers are muddled due to the passage of supernatant through each layer. The right panel illustrates...before and after ultracentrifugation. The viral supernatant migrates through increasingly dense layers until..., and we’d love to hear yours as well.  More importantly, you can use these four steps for any type of...

...comparison of different enzymes. CasPEDIA is meant to be a constantly updating database which serves as a resource... Links to relevant resources The homepage displays a graphic describing CasIDs and relevant properties...field has exploded with dozens of Cas enzymes and variants available. Without a comprehensive resource, it... What are the features? CasPEDIA has collected relevant information on all the Cas enzymes you know and... know for viral packaging limitations. Maybe you want to read literature on the less common applications...experiment. Perhaps you are a structure junky who just wants to learn about Cas domains. CasPEDIA either directly...CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 18(2), 67–83. https...

...function in terms of its regions. But equally important is the way the brain connects across these regions...is connected to itself across these regions is important for understanding how the brain functions. The...neurons that receive information from a region (anterograde tracer, Fig. 1B). Tracers are typically delivered...the soma (neuron cell body) toward the axon (anterograde tracer) or upstream from the axon terminals to...University of California, Berkeley engineered an AAV variant that efficiently infects neurons, directs high-...defined population of neurons. For example, say I wanted to access all the neurons that signaled from the... spinal cord (Wang, 2018, Metcalfe, 2022) and substantia nigra (Tervo, 2016). Discrepancies in transduction...

...cells you want to deliver to, and how you’ll be measuring your experimental output. You’ll also want to keep...serotypes can be transported retrogradely and/or anterogradely along the axon. Others, like AAV1 and AAV9, ...going to be working in several different systems or want to transduce a large number of different cells. ...et al., 2014; Nieuwenhuis et al., 2021). It is important to note that this expression pattern can be affected...however, increases with the size of the region you want to cover - and as your titer changes, so may your... is one that optimizes gene expression where you want it and minimizes expression where you don’t. The...Nonhuman Primates after Intramuscular Injection of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus. Journal of Virology, ...

...the hM4Di, we used primary antibodies against mCherry, and secondary antibodies coupled to nanogold particles...Fluorescent proteins can also be identified using antibodies and immunohistochemistry techniques. Thus, these...transgenes of interest. Furthermore, fluorophore variants (for example green and red fluorescent proteins...Replacing the mCherry with the HA tag resulted in abundant expression of hM4Di in plasma membranes in both...results indicate that the tag protein may have an important influence on the expression of the transgene of...plasma membrane. Note that the use of the HA tag significantly improves the transport of hM4Di to the plasma...studies suggest that non-fluorescent tags may be advantageous over fluorescent proteins when the fluorescence...

...Taking advantage of Golden Gate cloning, the Haynes lab’s Protocols.io protocol describes an elegant system...also be applied to other fluorophore/antibody pairs. Because the anti-GFP nanobody cross-reacts with BFP...length can and should be varied as it can have important implications for the fusion protein effectivity...GFP on the surface and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on the cell surface. When the cells...both spatiotemporal protein degradation and quantification of this depletion using imaging-based measurements... the degradation of the AID-tagged protein. To quantify protein degradation the Ward lab used fluorescent...levels of dCas9 expression and contain different antibiotic resistance markers. New CRISPR pooled library...

...with a deletion-mutant rabies virus. Retrograde neuronal tracing with a deletion-mutant rabies virus. Pubmed...that the body’s architecture and plumbing are important. We started with learning the head is connected...neural connectivity (Nassi et al. 2015). The recombinant viruses typically used in neuroscience research...transmitted transsynaptically). This is because the recombinant forms of these viruses typically used in research...monosynaptically from these cells. These modifications take advantage of the fact that RABV is an enveloped virus. In... (Watabe-Uchida et al., 2012). They could also quantify the strength of the inputs by counting the monosynaptic...characteristics of a G-deficient rabies virus recombinant: an in vitro and in vivo study. J Gen Virol. ...

... CRISPR’s therapeutic potential in mice with a dominant cataract disorder caused by a single copy of a...co-injection of Cas9 and a single-guide RNA targeting the mutant allele. When all was said and done, the researchers...therapies that are currently approved or have made significant progress in clinical trials.     Figure...almost all patients experiencing sustained and substantial relief from both disorders. As of publication...effectiveness, and delivery. Patient safety is important for allogenic therapies to prevent a graft vs....vs. host response. Off-target effects are also important safety considerations for all CRISPR therapies...Thus far, several targeted therapies have taken advantage of what our current delivery technologies are ...

...delivered using viral vectors! One of the most significant advantages of viral delivery is the potential for ...Calcium is arguably one of the most important metal ions in biology (sodium and potassium are up there...start by asking ‘What is the biological phenomena I want to observe?’ This information, along with a little...your experiment could be subtle or dramatic. You want to use a calcium sensor that is most sensitive to... than in the cytosol. Thus, for the ER you would want a low affinity calcium biosensor, so that the (1... with an extra apoCaM-binding motif to prevent aberrant binding of the biosensor to endogenous calmodulin...CEPIA) or through FRET sensors, can reduce these unwanted variables. Twitch is a FRET-based calcium reporter...

... as a successful applicant to the Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant. For this grant, we’re working with...about the Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid Grant Read about Plasmid Grant Recipient, Gladys Kaba Resources on...their research. Kwabena came across the plasmid grant in Seeding Lab’s Newsletter and recently visited...Kwabena applied for the Addgene, Seeding Labs plasmid grant. 7:12 - 7:11 : Kwabena's work in Christopher E. ... recipient of the Addgene, Seeding Labs Plasmid grant and is working on a variety of projects in Ghana...

...Technique Sequence Information Detection Limit Advantages Disadvantages Mismatch Cleavage Assay Not Provided... Technique Detection Limit Application Advantages Disadvantages GUIDE-Seq 0.1% Cell-based  Searches ... the University of Cambridge. One of the most important steps in the CRISPR experimental process is validating...silico prediction. These techniques differ in important ways, but can also complement one another by providing... amplicon sequencing (Hendel et al. 2015), a significant difference as CRISPR experiments move closer ...networks in biological systems. NGS will also play significantly into the realm of clinical therapeutic development...sequencing: a comparison of methodologies for KRAS variant detection." Biotechniques 53.3 (2012): 182-188....

...guest bloggers, Jae Lee and Pantelis Tsoulfas. Jae K. Lee is an assistant Professor at the University ...This post was contributed by Jae Lee and Pantelis Tsoulfas of the Department of Neurological Surgery ...arrows point the direction of the specimen, A= anterior, P= posterior, D= dorsal, V= ventral Developments... milliseconds to acquire one image, thereby significantly reducing the time it takes to image through ...Similar to light microscopy, there have been significant advances in tissue clearing techniques during...which is a hydrogel-based method that also allows antibody penetration for immunohistochemical labeling in...Medicine. Find plasmids from the Lee Lab here. Pantelis Tsoulfas is an Associate Professor at the University...

... using a dCas9 variant as well. Furthermore, they provide a high-fidelity (HF) variant of the BE3 that...Addgene depositor Luciano Marraffini’s lab took advantage of this lethality to design the first synthetic...the original pCas/pTargetF but has many other advantages including shorter plasmid curing time. pCRISPomyces... a mammalian cell line (Qi et al., 2013). Two important features of this early system are its regulatable...bacteria. The authors were able to engineer a dCas9 variant fused to bacterial enhancer binding protein required...could be genes, specific polymorphisms, including antibiotic resistance genes. This approach successfully ...Streptomyces Some of the most industrially and clinically relevant bacterial species reside in the genus Streptomyces...

...for AAV Quantitation by Kate Harten DeMaio We made the switch to droplet digital PCR to quantify AAV titers...development virtually. 6. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider by Jennifer... dominates DNA quantification discussions, but what about the other methods to quantify DNA? Here we cover...Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas by Shravanti Suresh Guest blogger Shravanti Suresh who studies CRISPR at Iowa...