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  1. Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics

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    March 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...red-shifted Ace-mScarlet, a fusion of a voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin (Ace2N) with the red fluorescent... Ace-mScarlet is a fusion between the voltage-sensitive inhibitory rhodopsin Ace2N and mScarlet. Ace2N...existing green-fluorescent GEVIs and blue-light-sensitive channelrhodopsins. Find the Ace-mScarlet voltage...

  2. Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies

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    Dec. 21, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...antibody, this approach can greatly increase the sensitivity of an assay by increasing the number of signaling...place over multiple days. Increased run time is considered one of the major drawbacks of the indirect method...interest - the secondary antibody needs careful consideration before selection. If all the primary antibodies...

  3. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...advantage of polyclonal antibodies is that they are inexpensive. Their short production time and the bulk purification...labs. Polyclonal antibodies also have a high sensitivity to the target protein due to their ability to...or fixation (IHC). Because of their increased sensitivity, polyclonal antibodies are particularly useful...

  4. Transferable Skills Guide: Cross-team Communication

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    Nov. 21, 2019, 1:53 p.m.
    ...using words for their field or technology in a consistent way. Just creating a lexicon was not enough. ... using the same words with the same meanings consistently, meetings will be shorter and more productive...during your postdoc that you enjoy and have a propensity for cross team communication, that’s an important...

  5. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    Blog Post
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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ...sequencing and qPCR methods are too costly and time intensive to process a large number of microbiome samples...bumble bee and honey bee microbiome. The toolkit consists of modular parts that are assembled with Golden...microbial population dynamics in the gut can provide insight into how the microbiome responds to infection, ...

  6. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...negative regulation by using a promoter that is responsive to a repressor protein, the increase in expression... of repressor protein also increases thereby intensifying repression of the gene of interest and keeping...the increase in plasmid copy number during the transition to stationary phase, Segall-Shapiro et al. placed...

  7. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... dsDNA. It cleaves ssDNA with high fidelity - sensitive to even a single mismatch in the target sequence...This makes it particularly useful in generating transient edits of signaling molecules (RNA) as opposed ...for targeting mRNA and useful as a mechanism of transient knockdown of gene expression. This system could...

  8. Addgene's Tips for Plasmid Quality Control

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    Jan. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...that consistently receives around 200 new DNA samples every week. Here we will provide an inside look ...terminators. Detailed instructions on other factors to consider when designing your primers can be found here....

  9. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
    ...site-specific recombination events. The system consists of two components derived from the P1 bacteriophage...cyclization recombinase”), is a 38 kDa protein responsible for intra- and inter-molecular recombination ...sites are 34-base-pair long recognition sequences consisting of two 13-bp long palindromic repeats separated...

  10. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...significant plasmid elements. Which differences are considered a QC issue is reviewed yearly at a best practices...populations. All of these topics require additional considerations to resolve. Sequencing and assembly issues ...assembly in Geneious can still provide additional insights to resolve the assembly and determine if there...

  11. Viral Vectors 101: Virus Safety

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    June 22, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...article we will discuss general viral safety considerations and best practices for handling lab-grown viruses...replicate and continue the infection cycle once inside the host. While the virus can still enter (and ...into the host’s DNA. These viruses also have a propensity to integrate into proto-oncogenes, which can ...

  12. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    May 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m.
    ...faster assembly and disassembly dynamics, higher sensitivity to light, and better distribution of clusters...measure fluctuations of TagRFP-T fluorescence intensity due to interactions with photoactivatable fluorescent...By monitoring changes in TagRFP-T fluorescence intensity at different time points, the authors tracked ...

  13. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...position, I just had a phone interview. I also transitioned between different lab groups without having ...that have lots of general questions about job responsibilities, performance evaluations, professional development...difficulties. Have your presentation on a flash drive and consider bringing your own laptop as a backup, if the company...

  14. Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)

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    Aug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... this type of ELISA is extremely specific and sensitive to the target protein due to the use of multiple...concentrations of your protein of interest. The optical density (OD) - the measure of light absorbed by a solution...any experimental wells in that range of optical densities. If your standard curve does not have a linear...

  15. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...science and collaboration. The field already has comprehensive reference pages and curated databases for scientists... (CeNGEN) The CeNGEN goal is to establish a comprehensive gene expression atlas of every C.elegans  neuron...Scientists monitor the effects of RNAi using four-dimensional contrast interference (DIC) microscopy and computer...

  16. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ... publication, Mary Dunlop’s lab generated a photosensitive Cre, Opto-Cre-Vvd, by splitting and joining.... Opto-Cre-Vvd is precise, demonstrating low sensitivity to ambient light, and versatile as it can be ...be activated by both low and high-intensity blue light. Unlike other split-Cre systems which can take up...

  17. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Performance When targeting single genes, SAM consistently shows the highest levels of gene activation ...which are relatively large and are not expressed consistently throughout cells. VPR Description VPR fuses ... dCas9 to activate transcription. This complex consists of the VP64 activator used in other CRISPR activation...

  18. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...fluorescent in-situ hybridization, methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion, DNA adenine methyltransferase...living cells. Essentially this reporter construct consists of one substrate (the histone-derived peptide)... of these sites was controlled, the reporter consistently showed significantly different FRET levels between...

  19. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...vivo HSC expansion cultures. A) Experimental design. B) UMAP of cell states in ex vivo expansion cultures...fluorescent proteins just haven’t met your needs, consider trying mGold2s or mGold2t for your next experiments...

  20. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ... your viral supernatant. Baculovirus replicates inside insect cells, and its lifecycle ends in cell lysis...equipment. Hopefully this post has provided some insight on these differences in viral production and will...versus insect cells for viral production Consideration Mammalian cells Insect cells Viruses AAV and...
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