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  1. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    May 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...infect (or not infect) different cell types with some specificity. There are a lot of AAV serotypes, many...expressed, viral cargo is usually quite stable and in some mammalian tissues has shown expression for several...host genome and therefore the transduced gene is episomal and does not divide and replicate in the same ...
  2. Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment

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    Sept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...to troubleshoot the cloning experiment. Here are some tips that will help you with your cloning project... Before diving into the experimental work, spend some time outlining the construction of the plasmid and...plasmid troubleshooting guide, you hopefully have some new strategies to tackle that tricky cloning project...
  3. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    Sept. 4, 2018, 12:53 p.m.
    ...number by introducing genes of interest into the chromosome. But this has its own set of problems. Rapidly...is expressed from a plasmid as opposed to the chromosome. Let’s take a look at how the stabilized promoters...levels of expression between a plasmid and the chromosome The team also showed that the levels of gene ...
  4. RANbodies: Reporter Nanobody Fusions

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    April 10, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...reporters stain cultured cells and tissue sections, some reporters are better suited for particular applications... 10 HA or 10 MYC tags built into a GFP scaffold. Some GFP nanobodies  stain poorly when tagged with a ...secondary Enzymatic reactions on tissues can be cumbersome Tyramide reagents can be expensive Can only stain...
  5. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    April 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m.
    ...carry CRISPR circuitry, it can slow their growth. Something has to be done about that.  The second problem...variation. The first one worked in each case. Sometimes in CRISPR people talk about off-target interactions...genetic designs of that scale could be created. Someone could take on an engineering project including ...
  6. A Look at Addgene's QC Process

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    May 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the plasmid to stop functioning properly or be something completely different than what was originally ... other critical functional components. Fun fact! Some older plasmids in our collection do not have a full...based on SnapGene’s “Common Feature” library — with some additional features added by the QC team — and allows...
  7. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...forward to where it is today. Below we will review some of the CRISPR-based editing therapies that are currently...CRISPR CAR-T treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, and some solid tumors are currently in early-phase clinical...CRISPR-HIV therapy currently in clinical trials is somewhat similar (Hussein et al). It employs Cas9 to cut...
  8. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...to quickly identify underlying genetic causes of some human conditions, opening up new avenues for therapeutics...that are responsible for integration into host chromosomes, further minimizing potential activation of innate...example, prevalence of neutralizing antibodies against some AAV types, AAV1, 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be as...
  9. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...traditionally introduced in Caenorhabditis elegans on extrachromosomal arrays can lead to artifacts due to overexpression...collection to provide ready-to-use viral preps. Here are some of the new viral preps from recent months: The ...hSyn1-SIO-stGtACR1-FusionRed is a Cre-dependent, soma-targeting inhibitory channelrhodopsin. It’s now ...
  10. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...methods vary in their transcriptional activators: some methods rely on fusion proteins while others re-... exhibits modest levels of gene activation, with some genes experiencing around 2-fold activation levels...method has shown higher activation levels than SAM in some loci across Drosophila cell lines (Sajwan et al....
  11. Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More

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    June 25, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...patterns throughout the project where it solidified some concepts that are heard often during undergrad. ...huge interest in data science,” which she’s taking some classes on and hoping to pursue. The choice to not... does. Her parents told her that if she found something she loves to do, she would never work a day in...
  12. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    March 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... initiating the desired cleavage event, although some engineered terminators come close (>95%). For most...presence of the poly(A) tail targets the RNA to the degradosome, which contains enzymes that cut RNA not protected...types of RNA: Polymerase I is responsible for ribosomal RNA, Polymerase II is responsible for mRNA and...
  13. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...and sequencing is being organized and funded by someone else (KittyBiome has been incorporated as a non-profit...bioinformatics pipeline. It’s possible that we’ll find something interesting and contribute it back to the kittybiome...And if not, I suspect you can find a makerspace somewhere near you. The place to start looking for your ...
  14. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...may be transported through the vesicles to the lysosome where they are finally degraded (2, 3). Once you've...software tools can be used for colocalization analysis. Some examples include the ImageJ plugins JACoP and Coloc...limitations and well-executed experiments require some consideration of FP properties. It is important ...
  15. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editing performance, we suggest that users select some of the best designs (e.g., top 5) and test them ...strengths of PRIDICT/PRIDICT2.0 while accounting for some of the inherent inaccuracies of computational prediction...Koeppel et al., 2023), their predictive power is sometimes limited across different targets due to variations...
  16. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...achieve. Most pooled library protocols aim for somewhere between 30x and 200x coverage, meaning that you...Rinehart Lab Iterative Synthetically Phosphorylated Isomers (iSPI) Libraries ~11,000–110,139 144-188 bp...closer to your own pooled library. Be aware that some older libraries may not have amplification protocols...
  17. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...visualizing cellular components (nucleus, endosomes, lysosome, golgi, ER, inhibitory synapses, and cytoskeleton...Every few months we highlight some of the new plasmids, antibodies, viral preps, and more in the repository...
  18. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Every few months, we highlight some of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository...function of the distance between measured pixel and the soma. The initiation site identified in panel (C) is ...-independent versions that are trafficked to the soma via the Kv2.1 targeting motif as well as a pan-membrane...
  19. Antibodies 101: Conventional vs Spectral Flow Cytometry

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    Aug. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...be distinguished using conventional flow can (sometimes) be distinguished using spectral flow since the...signal, even for rare cellular markers, beads can sometimes distort the fluorescent signature upon antibody...Although there are a few aspects of spectral flow that some users may find more difficult compared to conventional...
  20. Addgene's Cancer Collection Pages Connect the Research Community

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    Sept. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... cellular proliferation. We have appreciated for some time the causes of this uncontrolled proliferation... in place to protect us from rogue cells when something does go awry. The process of programmed cell death...discovering and designing molecules that are showing some promise in their ability to inhibit Ras. Stephen...
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