...a ‘plasmid’. “p” is for plasmid. pXXXXX-XXXX Step 1: Backbone name Include the empty backbone name in ... eukaryotic cells). pBACKBONE-XXXXX Tip: For a catalog of published and commercially available empty backbones...considerations  If your insert contains a mutation or modification, this should be included in the plasmid name...

...package from Addgene.  Here are the details:   Contest 1: Deck the Lab - Classic Edition This edition of the...create a stack of wrapped gifts using life science catalog pages. Make your WFH space feel a little more festive...

...Time for the #BioSci3319 #StreakPlateChallenge part 1. Lab B needs a redo :-( @SandTBioSci #CompetitiveStreaking...blog posts on fluorescent proteins Check out educational resources on the blog Resources on Addgene.org...

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... necessary for advancing the field. References: 1. Internal initiation of translation of eukaryotic ... of a 2A peptide derived from porcine teschovirus-1 in human cell lines, zebrafish and mice. Kim et al...desktop. The Plasmids 101 eBook is designed to educate all levels of scientists and plasmid lovers and...

...alternative detection methods.      Figure 1: The four types of ELISA are direct, indirect, sandwich...conjugated antibody is not readily available. Table 1: Overview of the advantages and disadvantages of each...staining. Direct ELISAs also lack the signal amplification afforded by secondary antibodies and thus are...

...true reproducibility. The following are critical: (1) connectivity to other data sources used in research...engagement with the Wisconsin research community were to: (1) prevent vendor lock in by making it easy to get data... both accept deposit of data associated with publications into one of five general purpose open source...

...light-sensitive LOV2 domain of Avena Sativa phototropin 1 (AsLOV2). In the dark, this peptide is caged by the...iLID nano and 800nM to 47µM for iLID micro; Figure 1). With this great affinity range, these LIDs have ...Figure 2). They are all available now at Addgene. 1 Lungu et al., Chem Biol. 2012 Apr 20;19(4):507-17....Guntas et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2015 Jan 6; 112(1):112-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas. CRISPR-Cas9 optogenetic... al., BMC Molecular Biology. 2013 August 20th; 14(1). TRICK: A method for visualizing the first round...for a variety of experimental purposes including (1) single or multiple, constitutive or inducible, gene...the years. The authors optimized these systems by: 1) decreasing the number of plasmids required for each...

...sequence on either side of the desired mutation (usually 1-3 mismatched bases) is sufficient for your primers...researcher at Cornell University.       References 1. Breslauer, Kenneth J., et al. "Predicting DNA duplex...desired modification. Finally, the positive clones are sequenced to confirm the desired modification and ...polymerase activity (for amplification), 3’->5’ exonuclease activity (increases amplification fidelity), and no... genome modifications. Occasionally, multimerization of the PCR primers can cause duplication of the primer...the desired modification have been identified (and confirmed to be free of primer duplications), final validation...and the absense of additional modifications.   Site-directed mutagenesis of Plasmids. A) Generation...

...Figure 1). Clustered events are called a population.                             Figure 1: While...done using side scatter (SSC) and forward scatter (FSC), which measure light that “scatters” past the cell... the plot that divides it into four, using the location of the cell populations as a guide  (Figure 3....be used for this purpose.  Pro tip! The forward scatter is a proxy for diameter and volume of the cell,...the exclusion of doublets and debris. The side scatter roughly measures granularity, a proxy for nucleic... will have numbers by gated populations; this indicates the percentage of total events contained in the... gated population. Heat maps are often used to indicate the relative density of cells. You can see both...

...folding, and deal with sub-optimal codon usage (Table 1) A few mutations are common to all or most expression...curated list of Bacterial Expression Systems Table 1: E. coli expression strains  Note: All strains are...expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3) pLysS...expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F- ompT lon hsdSB (rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3) pLysE...Expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F- ompT hsdSB(rB- mB-) gal dcm (DE3) pRARE2 (...Expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication fhuA2 [lon] ompT gal (λ DE3) [dcm] ∆hsdS/ pLemo...Expression vector cannot have p15A origin of replication F-, Φ80ΔlacM15, thi, lac-, mtl-, recA+, KmR Expression...

...$47,476 and the date for implementation was set for Dec 1 2016. In order to be exempted from the need to pay... these institutions (populations potentially from 1 to 5761, according to the NSF data) and therefore ...Labor’s general guide to the effect on higher education, you can see that those in teaching roles (such...frankly quite surprising. Consortia of higher education institutions submitted letters to the Department...centrally administered, which leads to many complications, including the inability of some institutions...paid. Institutional salary policies are one indicatator of how salaries may changes due to the FLSA. ...of the postdoctoral workforce. Based on our communications with and research on these institutions, we...

...older epitope tags - only time will tell! References 1. Georgieva, Maya V., et al. "Inntags: small self-structured...immunoprecipitation applications, but none of the traditional tags were suitable for both applications. To prove...from non-vertebrate systems. Preliminary testing indicated that inntags IT5, IT6, and IT10 expressed well...and the chaperone Ydj1, both of which display sophisticated interactions with multiple other proteins. Again...detrimental effects on cell size and growth rate, indicating that they compromised protein-protein interactions...These tags are easy to use in multiple common applications. Due to their limited effects on native protein...particularly in single-molecule or high-throughput applications. Perhaps IT5 and IT6 will even replace our older...

...an antibody performed in an experiment.   Figure 1: The front page of the Addgene Data Hub.   Antibody...very little data on which might work in your application. It can be quite difficult to decide on which...be searched and sorted by gene/target, name, application, pass/fail rating, sample species, antibody species... how the antibody performed in the submitted application, along with a brief description of the experiment...experiment. If that data was included in a publication, you'll find that information in the report as well... section will vary slightly depending on the application — flow cytometry, western blot, immunohistochemistry...data showing how the antibody worked in your application. The submission process is easy, with simple,...

...straight to your materials of interest!   Figure 1: The new search bar.   Pro tip! You can use a manuscript...and easily navigate to educational resources, tools, collections in our catalog, and the Addgene Help ...search bar. And if you’re in the mood to browse our catalog, you can use the links under the search box to ...scrolling up and down the page.  Figure 3: The Education & Tools menu Further down What happens if you ... mission, links to our deposit, request, and educational resources page, and previews for our three most...

...know that most cephalopods die after they lay their 1 clutch of eggs? Propagation is thus quite difficult...organism blog posts: Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 1 Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2 ... their organismal systems for scientists and educational programs for K-12 students. You can see why I...parenting strategies and make important ecological indicators since species live in water and on land. Current...which have been used to treat heart disease. Caterpillars that eat milkweed generate cardenolides that... poisonous) for bird predators - birds eat a caterpillar once, vomit, and never do it again. Cichlids ... expensive. They are using a cool fluorescent indicator system to rapidly identify recombinants. Arthropods...

...by insertion and deletion frequency. Fig. 1: Overview of TIDE. The input is sequencing trace files...keep your product to knock-in size ratio below 10:1. Small knock-ins Is your knock-in edit small, with...how many copies you are looking for. Secondly, categorize your edit – is it any frameshift mutation? A ...enzyme screening for resistivity to digestion, indicating targeted edits.   Interested in this method...a manageable number of the higher probability locations. If you’re worried about off-target effects, you...Tao Chen, Jos Jonkers, Bas van Steensel. Easy quantification of template-directed CRISPR-Cas9 editing. (...and variant-aware in silico off-target site identification for CRISPR genome editing. (2019) Bioinformatics...

...single neurons in the living brain   Figure 1: Plasmid mix to label neuronal morphology (eYFP) and...genOway press release for more information. References 1. Atasoy, D., Y. Aponte, H. H. Su, and S. M. Sternson... gives you a single level of control without modification - either Cre is there or it’s not. Cre-mediated... sites can lead to excision, inversion, and translocation of DNA in a similar fashion as between loxP ...37 °C). Smart molecular evolution led to the identification of FLPe which has a temperature optimum of ...-LDB domains of the fusions allowing Cre/FLP translocate to the nucleus where they exert their recombinase...

...school to a startup and back to academia. Chapter 1: How working at a startup prepared Tom for an academic...foundational research, training, startups, and real applications of SynBio. Chapter 3: Synthetic biology as the...synthetic genome project and constructing ever more complicated biological devices. Chapter 6: - Making research...Addgene Blog Learn about the Synthetic Biology Education Nonprofit BioBuilder Plasmids 101: Golden Gate...

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