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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....coronaviruses and enable the virus to enter host cells. To do this, they injected the spike protein from two different...effectively to protein targets, similar to how antibodies do. The structure of the common antibody is heftier ...
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A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....guanines). This limits the use of ABEs as DNA sites that do not contain a suitable PAM cannot be edited efficiently...While base editors are precise molecular tools, they do have undesired off-target editing effects. ABEs have... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m....Choosing a topic and gauging interest The first thing to do if you’ve thought about starting a journal club is...make. How often will you hold it? How many people do you expect to attend? What is the expectation on ... -
10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m....use. This will prevent spills, but, if any spills do occur, they should be wiped with 70% ethanol immediately...morphologies, being familiar with these morphologies and doing a quick check under the light microscope will help... -
AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m....they are present at a very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch all of these potential mishaps...expected hits, we always get hits to “random” genes. Do these hits always mean the sample is contaminated...users titrate their AAV vectors to find the optimal dose that allows for sufficient transgene expression ... -
Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m....and realize you need to apply different filters you do not need to start a new search. Simply click the ...purpose (e.g. CRISPR) Beyond search What can you do if you don’t have any specific search terms in mind... -
Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m....proteins to pathways - Ras as a model When mutations do arise and cancer ensues, traditional chemotherapies...and thousands of investigators studying them, how do we ensure that the research community has access ... -
Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m....Gal Haimovich of greenfluorescentblog. Be honest. Do you really know how fluorescent proteins glow? ..., you will not be able to use far red-FPs. If you do not have a filter that will pass blue light to the... -
Plasmids 101: Shuttle Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2025, 1:15 p.m....life. That’s convenient for researchers who want to do experiments in complex eukaryotic cells, but would...to express your protein of interest. However, you do still need a species-compatible promoter for expressing... -
Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m....five of these Cas proteins, while type I-C Cascades do not contain Cas6. Regardless of the subtype, the ...to the multi-Cas mechanism. These benefits of Cas3 do come at a cost — the previously mentioned issues ... -
Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m....components can interfere with conjugates. Make sure to do your research before conjugating at the bench. ...to distinct, non-overlapping epitopes so that they do not interfere with each other. The detection antibody... -
Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m....time, when scientists who support open science, but do not share their own data - which seems to be the ...members or colleagues: How much unpublished AAV data do you have sitting in computers and notebooks right... gene transfer to the rat CNS: AAV PHP.EB vector dose–response and comparison to AAV PHP.B. Gene Therapy... -
Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.... beads are particularly advantageous because they do not require centrifugation between washes which can...controls include knockout cell lines or tissues that do not express the protein. With this control set, you... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....cancer via insertional mutagenesis (which HIV does not do). Furthermore, molecular biologists working with ...in order to understand what these vector particles do once they come in contact with target cells (Fig.... -
Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....fluorescence microscopy (Dani, et al., 2010). How do you overcome this resolution limit? Electron Microscopy...Prakash K, et al. 2022). So what’s a researcher to do if they want to understand the ultrastructural relationships... -
To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m....offer tools to help with these decisions. So when do you want to codon optimize your gene of interest?...useful in expressing functional proteins in hosts that do not naturally express that gene. The protein you ... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....negative control to determine whether your PIPs actually do interact. Choosing the right negative control is ...scenarios that call for a simple, yes-no answer — i.e., do two proteins interact or not? — FRET is preferable...endogenous PIPs should decrease the BiFC signal in a dose-dependent manner. This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect...easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled. This is also theoretically... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m....but orthologs like LwaCas13a do not require a specific PFS. Cas13 enzymes do not contain the RuvC and HNH... -
New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m....interference), and CRISRPa (activation) libraries that do just that (Doench et al., 2016, Sanson et al., 2018... identifying strong hits in genetic screens, they do have several limitations. CRISPRko results in a complete... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....fluoresce, the Jaffrey lab asked: Could an RNA aptamer do the same thing? Using the HBI derivative 3,5-difluoro...recognition of ions or particularly small molecules that do not generate an immune response. Aptamers can be ...