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TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m....to essentially any DNA sequence desired. This technology allows you to create a pair of designer proteins...on traditional homologous recombination. That technology had been used for decades to generate knock-out...That’s the revolutionary aspect: TALENs take a technology that was difficult for all but the most experienced...
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Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 23, 2018, 2 p.m.... by the reliance on pH-based biosensors used to detect the maturation of neutral vesicles to more acidic...For further reading on fluorescent microscopy techniques, the first author of this article, Dr. Douglas...with classical gene overexpression and knockout techniques. Find the plasmids from Aranda-Díaz et al. Aranda-Díaz... -
Hot Plasmids - March 2020 - base editors, GEVI, MoClo, and optogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m....Biomedical Engineering, 2020. PubMed PMID: 31937940. Detection of neural activity using a red fluorescent genetically...encoded voltage indicators (GEVIs) are proteins that detect and output the voltage changes in neural activity..., has increasingly been recognized for its biotechnological applications including conversion of CO2 into... -
Antibodies 101: Selecting the Right Antibody
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 15, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... an antibody that is directly conjugated to a detection substrate, such as a fluorophore, or a conjugated...do you know about the vendor and the vendor’s technical support? An antibody from a vendor that you use...frequently, with a responsive and knowledgeable technical support team, is a safer bet than one from a large... -
Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m....experiments that require multiple antibodies that each detect a different antigen. To pre-adsorb the antibodies...section), it may be advantageous if you are trying to detect a protein in low abundance or whose conformational...Overlooked benefits of using polyclonal antibodies. BioTechniques 65:127–136. https://doi.org/10.2144/btn-2018... -
CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m....it, his lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been “working on new experimental and theoretical... collision that’s taking place between CRISPR technology and synthetic biology, the tools he’s making ...all heading? Voigt: The top products out of biotechnology today are things like butanol - very simple ... -
Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m....very easy — our tech transfer team will communicate with your organization’s technology transfer office... ship the samples to Addgene and contact your technology transfer office about the MTA. Pro Tip! Download... -
Rabies and Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2018, 1:51 p.m.... of us learned in biology is that the body’s architecture and plumbing are important. We started with ...oxygenates the body. However, in neuroscience, this architecture is frequently still an open question. The connections...powerful development in neural tracing. Using these technologies in combination with molecular tools (e.g., optogenetic... -
Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m....described above, and not any particular cloning technique. Though rarer, you can find MoClo that relies ...assembled into many combinations. Even with current technologies, it can be extremely hard to predict how a single... if you want to learn more about this cloning technique! Many thanks to Rob Hurt for his help on this ... -
CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m....updated Jul 23, 2020 by Jennifer Tsang. CRISPR-Cas technology is constantly evolving. Variants of Cas proteins...be engineered to “armor” therapeutic phages to protect them from pathogenic bacteria’s CRISPR-Cas system... applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies. Nat Methods 17:471–479 . https://doi.org/10.1038... -
Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... school when she was hired full time as a Lab Technician. “I was so tired of being in school so I just... is not true at all. Racheal Komuhendo, a Lab Technician, dreamed of becoming a doctor. After taking a...circumstance. She was working as a research and technical assistant, when her life changed––she had a daughter... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2019, 12:55 p.m....of our mouse modeling blog series, we covered techniques that can be used to introduce genetic modifications...conditional knockin or knockout mice. While these techniques are each useful for introducing one modification...) and using PCR with the appropriate primers to detect your targeting vector or gene of interest. 2. Breed... -
Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2023, 3 p.m....antibodies and found that across suppliers there was a detection bias of IgG2a>IgG2b>IgG1 (Manning 2012). ... the anti-mouse secondary antibodies used for detection bind to non-target immunoglobulins naturally present.... Chapter 15 Postembedding Immunocytochemical Techniques for Light and Electron Microscopy. In Methods... -
Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m....there were unusual patterns of DNA methylation detected in a human disease: cancer (Feinberg & Vogelstein...the original methylated strand is diluted to undetectable amounts: ergo, DNA demethylation! With optimization...repeat and scFv–TET1 catalytic domain fusions. Nat Biotechnol 34, 1060–1065. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3658... -
CRISPR in the Clinic
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m....There can be no doubt that CRISPR/Cas9 technology has been a breakthrough for the genome-editing field... obstacles for future CRISPR therapies CRISPR technology is rapidly evolving, and many of the challenges...taken advantage of what our current delivery technologies are suited for. For example, lipid nanoparticle... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m....biological tasks, both of which are factors in the technical challenges they can present. Many researchers ...hail Marys that have helped me troubleshoot some technical obstacles when working with virus: 1. Viral vectors... quantification as measured with branched-DNA technology." Journal of clinical microbiology 37.6 (1999... -
Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....predicted off-target sites, Cpf1 does not mediate detectable off-target cleavage. Most gRNAs directed low-...specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384 Find plasmids...-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells." Nature Biotechnology (2016). PubMed PMID: 27347757. Find plasmids... -
Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... Figure 1 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): Basic FLEx switch will express BFP in the... Figure 2 (modified from Schnutgen et al. Nat Biotech 2003): In the presence of Cre, GFP expression is... able to distribute materials containing FLEx technology. Read the genOway press release for more information... -
Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m....degradosome, which contains enzymes that cut RNA not protected by secondary structure. It is thought that poly... tail is important for stability of the mRNA, protection from degradation, and is integral to the nuclear...Controls Gene Expression Learn about New Cloning Techniques Read all of our Plasmids 101 Posts Resources... -
Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m....Advantages of the agarose cloning method The agarose technique should be useful to scientists who wish to rapidly... from a population of transfected clones. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of cell lines,...physiological properties. An advantage of this technique is the potentially large number of single clones...