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TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m....To respond to environmental conditions, cells must be able to detect extracellular stimuli. One way they...of the Rluc8 insertion within the Gα. Despite exhaustive refinement, it was not possible to generate an...
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Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 14, 2017, 12:40 p.m....temperatures, so to use them in thermophiles, bacteria must be grown at lower temps. This approach only works...interesting question: why engineer a new Cas9 when you can just find one that naturally occurs? This is different... -
The Stingy Scientist: How the Baby Gel Box Was Born
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 15, 2014, 3:11 p.m....apparatus until I settled on using glass slides. With just the right amount of agarose, I could pour a very... volume. So, I designed my own gel box (see illustration above) and bribed the guys in the hospital machine... -
Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m....transformation into E. coli is a fairly inefficient process– just 1 out of 10,000 cells on average! Without some means...bacterium's perspective – a plasmid-containing cell must replicate the plasmid in addition to its own chromosomal... -
Choosing a Good Mentor for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 16, 2014, 2:56 p.m....priorities will help in determining a good fit. Here are just a few suggestions for determining whether an advisor...information about the PI that concerns you, don’t just brush this away. Many scientists think, “Oh, but... -
Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2023, 4:15 p.m....particles have quite the outsized impact — and not just on the disease front. Viruses survive by hijacking...genomes have as much genome removed as possible, just to increase the viral vector’s carrying capacity... -
Antibodies 101: Chimeric Antibodies
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 25, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Depending on the cloning process, all constant regions, just the heavy chain constant regions or solely the Fc...plasmid backbone containing all constant regions, just the heavy chain constant regions or solely the Fc... -
Meet the New Addgene Board Members!
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m....scientific community gets captured,” he says. “It’s not just a reagent, it’s an annotated reagent.” He’s also... efforts in gene therapy either through direct industry collaborations, grants, or setting up commercial... -
Behind-the-scenes of the Isolation of the Thermostable IgnaviCas9 From a Yellowstone Hot Spring
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2019, 2 p.m....didn't run down. In September we arrived in YNP just as the weather was starting to turn chilly at the...useful? It can enable applications where reagents must be stored at elevated temperatures for long time... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m....allow researchers to understand bacterial gene clusters that produce useful natural materials, such as...., 2021. This TX-TL system is capable of robust expression of high G+C content genes, as validated... -
10 Great Guest Posts We're Thankful For
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 18, 2016, 3 p.m...., and a modified gRNA to direct a variety of customizable functions to your DNA sequence of interest. ... how the Casilio system works and how you can customize it for your experimental needs. Note: Casilio ... -
Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m.... being an editor at Science magazine. That one I just could not resist applying for. Not that I knew anything... have professional meetings, societies, networks just as do research scientists. There we meet others ... -
Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 23, 2015, 8:37 p.m....function or localization. Thus, the usefulness of CPPs must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. While setting...components in the buffer used for protein purification must be helping the untagged protein enter cells. Subsequent... -
Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2015, 4:21 p.m....inducible promoters. Far removed from the bio-industry’s vision of ‘biofactories’, most successes in metabolic...that lacks endonuclease activity coupled with a customizable single guide RNA (sgRNA) that bears complementarity... -
Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m....in one state, but not the other). “It’s quite a robust way to make a FRET sensor with a large dynamic ...10.1074/jbc.M110.124545. (Pubmed) Lindenburg et al. Robust red FRET sensors using self-associating fluorescent... -
Trading Spaces - Visiting Scientist Edition
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 22, 2023, 1 p.m....institute may have a piece of equipment that is custom-built, hard to find, or inaccessible to you for..., if you don’t have a formal connection, you can just reach out to start the conversation. Many researchers... -
K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2023, 1 p.m....recombinant proteins by the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as a protein expression workhorse. This yeast...beyond K. phaffii ) worth looking into whether you’re just dipping your toes into the yeast world or have risen... -
Virtual Science Conference Coming Up? Three Addgenies Share Their Experience
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m....side, you can attend conferences for just a little bit. You can just go to sessions that you find interesting... -
Improving Transduction Efficiency with Exosome AAVs
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 14, 2019, 1:54 p.m....vectors for shielding neutralizing antibodies and robust gene delivery in vivo." Biomaterials 35.26 (2014...et al. "Exosome-associated AAV2 vector mediates robust gene delivery into the murine retina upon intravitreal... -
FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 16, 2018, 1 p.m....efficiencies, additional references, etc...) and a more robust database structure was needed. It is also difficult...Users can “favorite” certain proteins, or create custom protein collections (such as a set of FPs that ...