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  1. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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

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    March 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...
  3. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    April 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 ...
  4. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 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...
  5. Rabies and Neuronal Tracing

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    May 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...
  6. Mouse Modeling, Part 2: Breeding and Crossing Mice

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    Aug. 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...
  7. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 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...
  8. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 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...
  9. Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More

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    June 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...
  10. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 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...
  11. Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype

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    April 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...
  12. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    March 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 ...
  13. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 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...
  14. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    July 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...
  15. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    April 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...
  16. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    March 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...
  17. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 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...
  18. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized the fields of molecular biology...discovery through the creation of innovative technologies. To date his group has develop several popular...catalytically active Cas9 nuclease." Nature biotechnology (2015). PubMed PMID: 26436575. PubMed Central...
  19. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    Nov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m.
    ...understanding of the fast, deadline-driven pace of biotech. In other words, industry postdocs already have...Biogen, Amgen, New England Biolabs, Regeneron, and Genentech, among others, and the list is growing. Some post... a position open up. Other companies, such as Genentech, will not. The point is that each company has ...
  20. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ...the AAV production process. Either SYBR green technology or a TaqMan primer/probe set can be used and ...sample for the DNAseI digest. Use good sterile technique when handling your AAV plasmid standard and AAV...Baiker, A. (2012). Universal real-time PCR for the detection and quantification of adeno-associated virus serotype...
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