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  1. New Videos: Addgene Lab Tips

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    Feb. 15, 2018, 2:41 p.m.
    ...the lab running like a well-oiled machine. Lab tip #1: Glove trick Putting on lab gloves can sometimes be...With barcode tracking, you will always be able to locate materials quickly and easily. Learn more about ...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog New Educational Resource: The Addgene Videos Page 5 Science Rap...
  2. How to Prepare for an Industry Interview

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    July 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...company culture.  It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking...to take notes after each interview.   Tailor your 1-hour presentation to your audience Start by asking...accomplishments and demonstrate your science communication skills. Know your audience. Connect your prior...codes for interviews. You can also ask HR for clarification on the dress code for the interview. Greet each...
  3. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...writing and hopefully increase your success rate. 1. Submit your grant early! First off, and perhaps the...involved so it’s important not to throw in the towel if 1 or 2 funding bodies say no. If possible, get feedback...Series 4. Become a science communicator More and more fellowship applications are asking for a 200-300 ...good quality application. Even following this advice, only about 50% of my grant applications have been ...do need to be able to research and write your application, then give it to someone else to read and / or...it). It’s easy for reviewers to spot when an application is rushed (whether the idea isn’t properly researched...researched / developed or the application is full of typos) and these are unlikely to get past the initial...
  4. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...self-assembly for applications in health, energy, and sustainability.   References 1. Pardee, Keith, et...detects samples at clinically relevant concentrations (1-3 fM; 1x106-fold lower than before), and our combined... journal Cell just six weeks later. The Zika publication timeline I think we can speak for all the authors...research, but the urgent need for the test did catalyze our resolve to get the work done as quickly as... dozen versions of the toehold switches and amplification primers. This helped make sure that we had a...this includes primer directed isothermal RNA amplification, new toehold switch designs, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated...our electronic reader that provides portable quantification of diagnostic results.  Our approach now detects...
  5. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...: it’s dCas9… with no modifications). Ready to get started?   Figure 1: Break free from the ball...?  Dividing cells depend on DNA methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) to copy methylation marks from parental to... when DNMT1 methylates the genome during DNA replication, it doesn’t methylate sites blocked by dCas9....for dCas9 to interfere with DNMT1 even through replication. The dCas9 also needs to be removeable, otherwise...vivo using dCas9–peptide repeat and scFv–TET1 catalytic domain fusions. Nat Biotechnol 34, 1060–1065. ...
  6. Antibodies 101: Fab Fragments

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    Sept. 5, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Fragment? Consider the classic IgG antibody (Figure 1): it is composed of four peptide chains (two identical...that actually bind antigens.      Figure 1: IgG antibody structure with important features labeled...fragments described above can be used for similar applications and have similar advantages, though with some...
  7. Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots

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    Aug. 1, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Glycine-HCl 25–200 mM SDS 0.1%–1% (w/v) Tween 20 (optional) 1% (v/v) HCl Adjust to pH 2.0... tool to identify a protein of interest in a complicated solution like cell lysate. But they can be a ...
  8. 5 Science Rap Videos & Their Creator: Tom McFadden

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    Feb. 9, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...forms of science communication. Click here to listen to the interview with Tom McFadden!   1. Rosalind Franklin... from Addgene.      Check out more science education tools like Verse Two and Fill in the Planck at...with us. Tom McFadden is a YouTuber and science educator looking for creative ways to implement the next...next generation science standards and communicate science. Learn more about Tom on his youtube channel ...Community Check out All of Our Podcasts Find Great Educational Content in our Plasmids 101 Series Additional...
  9. Imaging Tools and Following a Passion for Basic Biology: Interview with Joachim Goεdhart

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    March 9, 2018, 2 p.m.
    ... Joachim Goedhart Podcast breakdown Intro Chapter 1 - How Joachim ended up at the University of Amsterdam...Twitter and has helped us update many of our educational resources. Listen to hear all about Professor...speeds science. Chapter 8 - The importance of communicating research findings through social media and other...
  10. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    March 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
    ...phosphorylated DNA termini to 3 ́-OH DNA termini (1-4). In vitro, ligases (notably T4 DNA ligase) are ... enzymology of DNA repair enzymes.     References 1. Shuman, Stewart, and Christopher D. Lima. "The polynucleotide...thermostable DNA ligase-encoding gene." Gene 109.1 (1991): 1-11. PubMed PMID: 1756968. 7. Lauer, G., et al. "Cloning...or DNA base pair mismatches (8-11). For some applications, there cannot be any end-joining activity, and...regions. Why use a high fidelity ligase? Numerous applications have been developed to take advantage of the...Taq and other thermostable DNA ligases. These applications detect specific nucleotide sequences with high...rounds of melting and annealing allows linear amplification of the probe ligation product. With the right...
  11. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    July 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m.
    ...found climbing mountains or playing with his two cats. Keira Havens grew up in Hawaii where she was fascinated...challenges involved in plant synthetic biology. Challenge #1: Public perception of synthetic biology One of the...biotechnologists face is public perception of genetic modification (GM) and synthetic biology. The mistrust and...cannot build what we do not understand, and the complicated and unique metabolic processes of plants are ...
  12. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    April 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR tools.  Distributing and depositing In Figure 1, you can see cumulative numbers of CRISPR plasmid ...new CRISPR depositors each year.    Figure 1: Addgene CRISPR distribution and deposits. (A) Cumulative...estimated scatterplot smoothing. (C) Number of requests per year for pooled libraries, categorized by function...insertion via a chemical modifier. We used these categories to see what kinds of CRISPR tools people were... pooled libraries, although we used different categories (Figure 2C). Note that in Figure 2, the numbers...Cumulative number of deposited CRISPR items, categorized by CRISPR function, by year. (B) Number of requests... years.  Libraries are divided into different categories based on function: knockout (KO), activate, inhibit...
  13. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...interrogated by the optical system (Figure 1).   Figure 1: Cells expressing a particular surface ...populations of cells in a complex tissue or sample (1). When combined with cell sorters, this technology... it passes through and scatters in different directions. The degree of scatter is captured by detectors...Light that scatters sideways to the path that it was initially traveling is called side scatter (SSC) and...granulocytes in a plot of forward scatter (FSC) versus side scatter (SSC). Users can gate around their...protein composition. It is used for a variety of applications such as measuring target protein expression ...expression levels, assessing post-translational modifications, determining cell health, analyzing cell cycle stages...
  14. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editors (ABE) mediate A•T-to-G•C base changes (Figure 1), but it can be challenging to make these base changes...dCas to the genomic DNA of interest  Figure 1. When ABEs are in action they bind DNA so that the... from E.coli, named TadA7.10 in ABE7.10)  a catalytically impaired Cas protein (dCas or Cas nickase)  ...accidental insertions and deletions (indel) by the catalytically impaired D10A nickase from ABE7.10 can be a ...the authors created ABE8 constructs using a catalytically “dead” S. pyogenes Cas9 (dC9-ABE8.x-m/d). The...these variants, ABE8 could target many additional locations in the genome. Compared to ABE7.10, NG-ABE8.xm... reduced off-target editing frequencies. For applications that require high DNA editing specificity, for...
  15. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...fluorophores are constantly being engineered. Table 1 lists a few common fluorescent proteins and their ...definitions found in Table 2 may not apply. Table 1: The specific mutations comprising common fluorophores...transgenic mice. Purification: GFP can be used as a general epitope tag for protein purification and a number...their experimental needs, and some of the common applications in the lab. Why Green Fluorescent Protein?...to maintain fluorescent activity; very little truncation is tolerated, however, point mutations are acceptable...Re-engineering GFP to increase its range of color and application Almost as soon as its sequence was elucidated...others) Neutral mutations    A multitude of applications Due to its size and ease of use, GFP and other...
  16. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ...cleavage (Harrington et al., 2017). Figure 1: Anti-CRISPR proteins (Acr's) can block CRISPR activity... ways to anti-CRISPR proteins in your experiments 1. Reduce off-target effects Prolonged Cas activity ..., 2018). For example, AcrIIA4 mentioned above indicates that it’s the fourth Acr protein discovered that...viral particles that have the gene deletion could replicate when challenged with the S. islandicus CRISPR-...B, Bondy-Denomy J (2020) Anti-CRISPR protein applications: natural brakes for CRISPR-Cas technologies....light-inducible Cas9 activity? Check out these these plasmids Catch Up on Your CRISPR Background with Our Guide Pages...
  17. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...crevices proteins on the cell surface. Figure 1: Comparison of common antibody, HCab, and nanobody...Humana Press, pp 133–148. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-293-3_10 Walter J et al. (2020) Synthetic nanobodies...Starting with libraries and a biotinylated (for purification purposes) protein target of interest, the protocol...-30) of sybody candidates are sequenced for identification. All unique sybodies can be subcloned into ...2020) Generation of synthetic nanobodies against delicate proteins. Nature Protocols 15:1707–1741. https...Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions Plasmids...
  18. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...Updated Jun 1, 2021 by Meghan Rego. Reproducible data are key to science, so scientists are used to repeating...the DNA packaged inside the viral particles (Figure 1). Briefly, packaged DNA is extracted from purified...These impurities cannot be removed during the purification step because they are inside the virus itself...very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch all of these potential mishaps before distributing...Guerin et al., 2020).  In addition to genome identification, we developed custom open-access Python scripts...
  19. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...used in way more applications.   Fig. 1 Making a Protein Tag (Abridged) (1) Locate a promising monoclonal... by its antibody without additional chemical modification steps and when the epitope was within the tagged...
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