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  1. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ... sequences, such as mismatches, deletions, or insertions. We use blastp or blastx to compare our sequencing...database “Nucleotide collection (nr/nt)” as it contains a composite of GenBank, EMBL, DDBJ, and PDB sequences...result – blastx checks all six possible frames against the database. Another benefit is that a frameshift...Non-redundant protein sequences (nr)” database as it contains the largest number of protein sequences. Just ...customization. Similar to nucleotide sequences, proteins often have repeated or highly homologous regions... and free up more time for using your plasmids instead! All BLAST images are modified screen shots from...101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Plasmids 101: An Inside Look at NGS Plasmid Quality Control Learn about...
  2. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    May 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... things like genomic DNA, RNA, proteins, salts, ethanol, or endotoxins. The most common method for checking...to be free of contaminants, such as bacterial endotoxins, that could affect your culture’s viability. ...plasmids – If you’re extracting plasmids from yeast, instead of bacteria, a few manufacturers (such as Zymo ...struggling with a purification, reading the full instruction manual will help explain the rationale behind... helpful to select a kit with easy-to-follow instructions and extensive references for troubleshooting... compare kits at a quick glance, Table 3 below contains details regarding kits from a variety of manufacturers...is a large consideration for most labs. Many institutions have preferred vendors which may reduce costs...
  3. What’s in Your Tube?: A Quick Guide to Measuring DNA by Spectrophotometry

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    July 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...NanoDrop. The principles will apply to similar instruments from other companies, like the Implen NP80 or...Figure 1A). Thanks to the Beer–Lambert law, the instrument can calculate a sample’s nucleic acid concentration...downstream experiments. The usual suspects, such as proteins, phenol, or guanidine salts, exhibit their own... trying to remove from your sample is protein. Proteins absorb light to varying degrees across the UV ...Cantor, 2019). The 280 nm peak is more specific to proteins and why researchers traditionally use the A260...will yield “good” A260/280 and A260/230 ratios. Instead, phenol is more likely to shift the peak of your...! Be sure to review resources on the specific instrument you use and check out some of the references ...
  4. Deck the Lab 2022!

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    Jan. 17, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... contestants!           View this post on Instagram                     A post shared by Xi Chen...December 12, 2022          View this post on Instagram                     A post shared by 草方 (@gracie_fang...take photos, and then share them on Twitter or Instagram with #DeckTheLab and tagging us, @addgene to be...get you out of.           View this post on Instagram                     A post shared by Xi Chen...picture or video for either contest on Twitter or Instagram by December 31, 2022.  Follow @Addgene, use the...and reveal the winning entries on Twitter and Instagram! Happy decorating, all, and to all a good light...
  5. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    Dec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...diagnosed this year). Research efforts in mesothelioma instead rely upon private donations. Many people think ...However, there is no question that asbestos exposure remains the single-most important factor in developing ...do not work very well. The best option in such instances is palliative care, which helps patients manage...detection techniques and therapies emerge into mainstream use, they will have a much greater impact on ... good detection and treatment get, there still remains the problem of prevention. Asbestos exists pretty... and the president of the organization, Linda Reinstein – whose husband passed away from mesothelioma ...with Senator Barbara Boxer to introduce the Alan Reinstein Ban Asbestos Now Act of 2016 in the U.S. Senate...
  6. Antibiotic Resistance: An Old Solution but a New Problem

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    Nov. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...resistant to antibacterial drugs. Resistance can be intrinsic, meaning a basic characteristic that naturally...resistant somehow overtime. One fantastic example of intrinsic resistance would be Mycoplasma species’ resistance...possess cell walls. As a result, Mycoplasma are intrinsically resistant to this class of antibiotic. Acquired...DNA left behind after another bacterium died for instance). These three mechanisms of acquired drug resistance...be unharmed by the compound it produces (think intrinsic resistance), but surrounding microbes would be... time is needed for the drug to work… if the instructions for treatment aren’t followed closely, you could...in the Lab Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins Learn How to Use Our Microbiology Pages Additional...
  7. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...frequency of events, instead of relying on clustered dots. In a contour plot, each line contains the same number...machine reads/interprets the signals, the axis is instead divided into positive and negative signal at a ... a ‘gate’; it tells the machine that everything inside the gate is one population and everything outside...which measure light that “scatters” past the cell, instead of fluorescent markers. There are various types...to fluorescent markers and/or cellular dyes and stains. These will be used in a series of one- or two-...different populations using conjugated antibodies against CD11c and CD123. You can see that mDCs are CD11c...
  8. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...alkyne-phenol, to label proteins with an alkyne group for click chemistry reactions instead of biotin — a valuable...locations. C) Enrichment of dual-labeled proteins identifies proteins that had been trafficked from the “source...dual-enrichment and mass spectrometry workflow identifies proteins bearing both labels (which had therefore been ... light, catalyzing the biotinylation of nearby proteins. B) TransitID uses sequential labeling by TurboID...2023 bioRxiv (B-C). They were able to label proteins moving to and from the nucleus, ER, mitochondria...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources

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    Nov. 14, 2017, 2 p.m.
    ... apply for the position. This post on Business Insider nicely summarizes good job fair practice. Career...get online and take a look at the company or institution’s career page, where you’re likely to find current...conference or job fair, or it may be someone at your institution’s career center. Alternatively, it might even ...other graduate students and post-docs from your institution have gone, and try sending them a professional... professional development, not count on your institution, program, or adviser to do it for you. Expose...if one exists. Get online! Review company and institution career pages. Make yourself visible on LinkedIn... Reading and Outside Resources http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-job-fairs-2014...
  10. Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone

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    Feb. 18, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Singletons in their bins.  The next component of Binning Singletons is when we bring all the bins together at ...invaluable to me as a bench scientist working at an institution where training opportunities weren’t always available...their own labs.  Fried chicken with a side of inspiration  I look back at the meeting with such fondness...for DNA that group similar sequences together in bins, we thought that binning Singletons together would... and time mentors spend with Singletons in their bins. We also sought expertise from many with experience...media. Joe is a lapsed marathon runner, father of twins (AND a singleton), and is proudly "too weird to ...
  11. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    Dec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
    ...reprogramming efficiency through the expression of a shRNA against p53, a modified reprogramming factor cocktail, ...are preferred. This is to avoid the chances of insertional mutagenesis, which is the integration of transgenes...disruption of functional genes at the site of insertion and which can potentially promote tumorigenesis... been recorded in past gene therapy trials and remains a safety concern in the clinical field [4]. Three...Antigen-1 (oriP-EBNA-1) system where each vector contains a viral origin of DNA replication, OriP and the... pCXLE-hOCT3/4-shp53-F 27077 OCT3/4 and shRNA against p53 pCXWB-EBNA1 37624 transient EBNA-1   ...Road Ahead." Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism 6.5 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27882265. PubMed Central...
  12. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...approach, which focuses on validating antibodies against markers of the human blood leukocyte populations...cases, we would recommend a knockdown approach instead. In this approach, you’re looking for an antibody...permanent knockdown, consider using shRNA vectors instead. With both siRNA and shRNA, it can be difficult...induce/suppress the expression of many related proteins, not just your protein of interest, which can ...interest, which can be difficult to find for many proteins. In practice, it was necessary for us to combine...primary blood leukocytes. The file shared also contains information about the labeling pattern of several...on human blood leukocytes, including antibodies against these markers. The 371 CD markers characterized...
  13. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    July 26, 2018, 12:46 p.m.
    ...Kinases: they regulate many proteins, with ~1/3 of human proteins predicted to be phosphorylated on at...swapping of fluorescent proteins and multiplexing is simple when fluorescent proteins with limited spectral...FRET reporters are comprised of two fluorescent proteins with very specific spectral properties that limit... and the orientation of the donor and acceptor proteins, which can be difficult to predict. Slower Dephosphorylation...
  14. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...the ability to generate full libraries of mutant proteins. Researchers from the Whitehead lab developed ... Gibson Assembly: An easy-to-use technique that joins homologous DNA fragments in a single-tube reaction...using Gibson assembly is that the longer the oligo insert used, the more likely it will contain random synthesis... enzymes leads to a buildup of uracil and the insertion of uracil into newly synthesized DNA. This labeled...synthesized DNA strand. Each degenerate primer set contains three consecutive randomized bases (NNN) at a ...that the BbvCI enzymes nick the DNA strand that contains their respective recognition site. This means ... matter? Most of the time no, but there are 2 instances where it does. 1) When the backbone vector has...
  15. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...plasmid, into which the GOI is inserted, and a Ti "helper" plasmid, which contains Vir genes necessary for T-DNA...gRNA scaffold sequence and allow researchers to insert targeting oligos with minimal cloning required....Dicot Genome Editing Kit from the Stuttmann lab contains a variety of Agrobacterium-compatible, Cas9 containing... T-DNA processing and insertion into the plant genome. B) The Ti plasmid and helper are transformed into...the Vir genes on the helper plasmid and used to insert the intervening region into the plant genome. Created...- promoters used, precise protein sequences or domains, and methods of delivery - the underlying technique...
  16. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    Sept. 16, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... directed evolution to get them to work on DNA instead. However, they retained a small amount of RNA-editing... mutation. To tackle this problem, Benjamin Kleinstiver’s lab engineered new variants of S. pyogenes Cas9...came out on top. Narrowing PAM preferences The Kleinstiver lab also worked on the opposite project: engineering...tested mutations produced efficient editors, the Kleinstiver set performed best when paired with the V106W...Silverstein, R. A., Hille, L. T., Ogul, A. N., Robinson-Garvin, N. A., Small, J. C., McCague, S., Burke...Urbina, E. O., Dahl, G. A., Correia, B. E., … Kleinstiver, B. P. (2025). Custom CRISPR-Cas9 PAM variants... R. T., Christie, K. A., Whittaker, M. N., & Kleinstiver, B. P. (2020). Unconstrained genome targeting...
  17. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...MTRIA for short), where a fluorescent protein is inserted into one of the loop regions of any G-protein-... Figure 1: MTRIA biosensors are generated by inserting a circularly-permuted GFP into an intracellular...calcium reporter Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent proteins promise better performance for in vivo use and...indicator using small monomeric NIR fluorescent proteins (miRFP670nano and miRFP720) and the Ca2+-sensing...structure-guided engineering of potassium binding proteins, they developed a family of fluorescent potassium...et al. 2022). By fusing two bright fluorescent proteins with different thermal quenching rates (mNeonGreen...Additional resources on the Addgene blog Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Biosensors Resources on Addgene.org...
  18. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence

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    Nov. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...where they bind to their targets, most commonly proteins. You can then use fluorescent microscopy to look...visualize their target. These antibodies are generated against a specific antigen and then conjugated with a fluorescent...but is not attached to a fluorescent molecule, instead a secondary antibody that targets the primary is...for each primary antibody could get out of hand. Instead, it is more efficient to generate a handful of ... multiplexing is that you can ask how multiple proteins relate to one another in the same sample. For ...see Im, et al. 2019.  Fixation Good fixation maintains sample morphology with minimal impact to the target...spectral properties match your available imaging instruments and the spectral properties do not overlap with...
  19. SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas

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    May 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...reaction that cleaves a nearby RNA sequence that contains a fluorophore that is quenched when intact and...improves sensitivity of the assay. This reaction also contains SSB, strand displacement DNA polymerase, recombinase...fluorescence visualization. In this technique, however, instead of using lateral flow strips to detect the cleavage...Reverse-transcribed RNA samples are amplified by PCR instead of RPA. Unlike RPA, this technique uses Taq polymerase... which is widely available and less expensive. Instead of using the typical PCR machines, the authors ...depend on collateral cleavage by the enzyme and instead relies on its activity on the target regions thus...COVID-19 using CRISPR diagnostics. https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/publications/special/COVID-19%20detection...
  20. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
    ...are only expressed when the targeting vector is inserted downstream of a functional promoter (gene traps...2008). While the biology behind this AAV effect remains unclear, it is likely not a coincidence that the...gene. pAAV-SEPT-Acceptor, the preferred vector, contains a promoterless splice acceptor-IRES-neoR gene,... CRISPR-based approaches for the generation of knockins via homologous recombination with a homologous...application - the creation of sequence-specific knockins - for which the AAV approach is most well suited... CRISPR-based approaches for the generation of knockins, it is not always ideal. Because of these limitations...devised methods to deliver CRISPR components as ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) that can be supplied separately from...
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