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  1. Lab to Office Culture Shock

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    Feb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
    ...was applying. I probably did not respond to her question as well then as I would now. I would have to repress... repress laughter if I was asked that question today, because I sometimes wish for a stretch of time that...me, “I find that at a desk, it is much easier to stick to timelines. This is probably because you don't...careers and desk jobs “alternative careers.” Realistically, based on the numbers of PhDs and available ...into science in the first place. Finally, if you still find the idea of not holding a pipette again upsetting...
  2. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...full length gene and/or protein is reconstituted. One way to reconstitute a split protein like Cas9 is to...allow for more room for regulatory sequences while still fitting Cas9 and its gRNAs into one AAV, Cas9 must...confirming its suitability for in vivo studies. Testing AAV-SaCas9 in vivo To test the efficiency of AAV-SaCas9...Nogales E, Doudna JA (2019) CasX enzymes comprise a distinct family of RNA-guided genome editors. Nature 566...
  3. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ... 1–9 (2017).Walton, R. T., Christie, K. A., Whittaker, M. N. & Kleinstiver, B. P. Unconstrained genome... effects. The SpG variant, discovered by the Kleinstiver group has a PAM of NGN (Walton et al., 2020)....Don’t want to permanently modify the genome but still want to affect gene expression? dCas9 can be used... and antibody-activator fusion proteins. The Synergistic Activation Mediator complex, generally the strongest...
  4. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ..., black pellet was sent to the AbuGoot lab for testing, they weren’t sure what they would find… but it...new CRISPR effector protein they named Cas7-11. Testing showed that Cas7-11 cut RNA with unprecedented ...insertions, and deletions. But CRISPR’s uses were still limited to small deletions and small insertions,...that gap. Consider, for instance, a disease like cystic fibrosis, which can be caused by thousands of different... Yarnall, Cian Schmitt-Ulms, Rohan N. Krajeski, Justin Lim, Lukas Villiger, Wenyuan Zhou, Kaiyi Jiang,...
  5. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...range of logistical barriers. Addgene worked to identify, reduce, and remove these logistical barriers...for people depositing plasmids and for people requesting them. Prior to this, many plasmids were available...packages navigated customs and arrived at their destination in a timely manner and at the correct temperature...to scientists across the globe?” By asking this question, and by listening to the answers from our community...
  6. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    July 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... during the early stages of the process. Some questions to start with are: Is your sequence of interest...opposite (reverse) orientation? The answers to questions like these will determine which acceptor vectors...assembly efficiency. This can be done through domestication, which is the modification of a DNA sequence... the synonymous mutation of a codon. You can domesticate the sites yourself using PCR, but gene synthesis...gene synthesis, you can request the sites to be domesticated through the process, and request your sequence...
  7. Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors

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    May 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... plasmid is delivered to your target cells, you still need to select for the cells that contain it. Antibiotic... approach in a mammalian cell experiment should still include an antibiotic resistance gene for growth...express your protein of interest. However, you do still need a species-compatible promoter for expressing... consider the viral vectors themselves to be a distinct gene delivery method. We focused this post on ...between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Conclusion I still think it’s pretty incredible that my cells “speak...
  8. Tips for Using FRET in Your Experiments

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    Nov. 5, 2014, 3:41 p.m.
    ...the way we apprehend molecular complexes and is still a very useful tool.    Like a guitar hero (that ...SYFP2A, mTurquoise/mVenus and others. CFP-YFP is still one of the best and most used pairs to measure FRET... is difficult to address especially when you investigate unknown molecular complexes. But it is a parameter... faster measurement systems, this technique has still many good days and good “gigs” ahead...No offense...Chemiluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer    Interesting Articles About FRET: Piston DW, Kremers GJ. ...
  9. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...potential for therapeutic drug discovery as it is estimated that 75% of disease causing genes in humans have...Stainer group determined that there are actually two distinct populations of β-cells that originate in different...other model organisms. Worms have been used to investigate an array of biological systems and processes ...PubMed PMID: 9486653. Hesselson, Daniel, et al. "Distinct populations of quiescent and proliferative pancreatic...19706417. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2736433. Howe, Kerstin, et al. "The zebrafish reference genome sequence...
  10. Quick Guide to Near-Infrared Fluorescent Proteins

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    Oct. 5, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...GFP-like probes by supplying a single gene to cells. Still in bacteria, which do not produce BV, an additional...mouse. Image courtesy of Axel Nimmerjahn (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Multiple uses: From...applications.  There is a whole set of spectrally distinct (e)miRFPs available. The numbers in (e)miRFP names...occurring due to protein synthesis, degradation, or reconstitution (reviewed in Shcherbakova et al., 2018). For...developed based on mIFP6. Learn more about the characteristics, performance, and applications of near-infrared...
  11. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...epigenetic editor consisting of dCas9 fused to a DNA methyltransferase — that can drive lasting transcriptional...cofactor fused to a histone tail to recruit and stimulate the endogenous methyltransferase. The strategy...H3K4me0 on D3L, releasing the autoinhibition and stimulating the methylation of nearby CpG sites on the target...expression off. Plus, DNA methylation is a long-lasting repressive marker, allowing the team to develop...
  12. Plasmids 101: Common Lab E. coli Strains

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    Nov. 7, 2014, 2:56 p.m.
    ...article is to provide enough background for you to distinguish the features of any common lab strain and determine...them in 1885. E. coli are mainly found in the intestinal tract of animals. There are many different naturally...hsdR(rk-, mk+) Unmethylated DNA not degraded, cell still can methylate DNA   hsdS(rk-,mk-) Unmethylated... Hte   High transformation efficiency deoR constitutive expression of genes for deoxyribose synthesis...strains; however, these tables are by no means exhaustive! For a more comprehensive list and additional...
  13. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...ve reduced the chance of off-target effects, you still need to do your due diligence to ensure they are...here. For some applications, this is ok, but it still must be controlled for and acknowledged as a potential...downstream characterization of, isolating 2 or 3 distinct clones to perform key experiments on is a good...principle holds true - the higher the number of distinct editing events, the lower the likelihood of an...transduction control, a different gRNA would have distinct off-target sites, eliminating its effectiveness...
  14. Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo

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    July 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...chemical input to an RSM drives expression of a distinct large serine recombinase that recognizes its own...demonstrates an example of a register that enters distinct states when treated with different combinations...designs, we have observed that certain GRSMs may still not perform as expected, perhaps due to idiosyncrasies...the same gene regulation program. We recommend testing multiple register designs for the same gene regulation...described in the literature (5, 6) and may be substituted for one another in an RSM. The predictability...
  15. Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    July 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...was fascinated by CRISPR and rushed to test it. I still remember the day, March 16, 2014, that I got my ... in to repair the damage. If all they can do is stitch the two broken ends together through non-homologous...transmission of the transgene, this technique is still in need of improvement. Also when working with CRISPR... discovered in an obscure bacterium and that we still have much to learn from biology in all its forms...editing.     Haoyi Wang is a professor at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he...
  16. PiggyBac-ing Through the Genome Editing Field

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    May 31, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... transcription factors, or when the gene is constitutively-active or a dominant-negative mutant. Reducing... TALENs, and ZFNs). However, several challenges still remain, such as making gene edits completely seamless...researcher may subsequently kill off any cells that still contain the donor plasmid after excision by PBx,... technology using a site-specific nuclease to stimulate homologous recombination and Footprint-Free™ removal...and I. M. Verma, “Functional Gene Correction for Cystic Fibrosis in Lung Epithelial Cells Generated from...
  17. Alex Chavez on MD PhDs, CRISPR, Gene Drives, & More

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    Nov. 15, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Fellow in the Church and Collins labs at the Wyss institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Alex is...CRISPR during his postdoc 12:01 - 13:21 : The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and why .... 13:22 - 22:07 : Alex's projects at the Wyss Institute - New CRISPR tools and the importance of moving...26 - 33:08 : Plans for future work at the Wyss Institute. 33:09 - end : How Alex hopes to help Addgene ...
  18. Countdown to Halloween @Addgene

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    Oct. 29, 2014, 5:26 p.m.
    ...far? Do you have any suggestions for this year’s teams that may be procrastinating choosing their costume...these. Addgenies have been organizing Halloween festivities for years – searching our photo archives I found... ultimate prize – a glorious trophy. Sure it’s plastic and you have to share 1 trophy among 6 people, ...
  19. Addgene’s Newest Way to Speed Your Research: The Cloning Grade DNA Service

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    July 28, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...service and is ready to use out of the box. We estimate that providing cloning grade DNA could save scientists...Plasmids offered as cloning grade DNA As we begin testing out this service, we’re starting with 210 plasmids...molecular biology experiments such as cloning, digestions, PCR etc. and/or directly long term storage. ...service in the future using the Cloning Grade DNA Suggestion Form.  Additional resources on the Addgene blog...
  20. AAV Packaged on Request is Here!

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    Jan. 10, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
    ...our in-stock service: ddPCR, purity testing, and sterility testing, plus viral genomic sequencing to confirm...webpage to get started with your browsing and requesting. If you’re curious about the service, read on...on Request AAVs are a big deal, so if you have questions, we have plenty of information available for you...
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