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TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m....like adenovirus (Ad) or herpes simplex virus to facilitate efficient replication. The most common production...immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (Grimm et al., 1999), quantitative PCR (qPCR) (Aurnhammer et al., 2012), droplet...what Addgene uses, check out our ddPCR for AAV quantitation blog post. We generally do not recommend using...
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Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m....our requestors. However, we can again see quick adaptation and steady use of all types of libraries, once...categorized by year of deposit. Outlines show a representative proportion of CRISPR plasmids requested, categorized...total of 23,006 times, including 14,677 unique citations. CRISPR is a story that centers around the impact... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.... of many cellular mechanisms, there are some limitations to working with FPs. Overexpression of fluorescently...of normal protein function, and ultimately misinterpretation of the protein’s cellular role. One way to...However, CRISPR protein tagging does have its limitations, especially when trying to perform high-throughput... -
PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m....this process accounts for a percentage of the mutations seen with TALENs and CRISPR. MMEJ is active during...using much smaller regions of homology, which facilitates easier cloning. An overview of PITCh. ...possibilities MMEJ can enable. References 1. Sakuma, Tatsushi, et al. (2016). “MMEJ-assisted gene knock-in ... -
AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m....nothing’s ever perfect, neither is AAV. Its main limitation is the small size of its DNA cargo - 4.8 kb at...strategies are being optimized to overcome this limitation, with limited success so far. Luckily for patients...an ever-growing number of clinical trials for devastating genetic diseases such as hemophilia, muscular... -
MXS Chaining
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m....Cellular Structures Construct Fluorophore Excitation/emission maxima Tethering partner Subcellular...genes from organisms with high CpG dinucleotide representation. The specific restriction enzymes used in various... 3. The goal of high throughput cloning is to facilitate the construction of plasmids with many components... -
Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m....protein synthesis. The kan resistance gene, NPTII, facilitates phosphorylation of kan, which inactivates it....when not 100% inhibited, meaning it will induce mutations in the host/plasmid DNA during selection if it...good choice for experiments in which off-target mutations are undesirable. Pros: Works across many species... -
An Introduction to Adenovirus
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m....producer cells where there is E1 and E3 gene complementation. In target cells that are infected by the vector...persistent transgene expression in certain cell types (Tatsis et al., 2007), potentially because some of the ...doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05949-1. PMID: 36996871. Tatsis, N., Fitzgerald, J. C., Reyes-Sandoval, A., Harris-McCoy... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m....attend? What is the expectation on level of critique and detail? Who is/are the facilitator(s) of the journal...papers could be more important. Any slides, presentations, recordings, and other materials should be made... -
New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m....which contains multiple point mutations in the nuclease domain. These mutations result in an inactive RNA-...hits in genetic screens, they do have several limitations. CRISPRko results in a complete loss of function... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m....the new protocols.io beta platform for sharing, annotating, and storing life science protocols. Since we...simultaneously allowing scientists to actively comment, annotate, and edit protocols. After my introduction to ...lab-use tablet? The software also makes it easy to annotate protocols, make them public for others to use,... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Aptamer Fluorophores
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....acceptor FRET know-how with aptamers, aptabeacons (or aptatags) were born. Aptabeacons can be created in many...general premise is that an aptamer in its unbound state contains a fluorophore and a quencher in close proximity...brighter version of the aptamer, but it still had limitations in vivo. Using a combination of SELEX and fluorescence-activated... -
Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m..... In vivo, these recombination reactions are facilitated by the recombination of attachment sites from...attL-entry-TOPO vector. TOPO cloning adds short end(s) to facilitate cloning into an attL-containing entry vector.... to 4 DNA fragments, in a specific order and orientation, in one tube, into one Gateway vector to produce... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m....editors, PE6a–g, that overcome some current prime limitations and enable impressive editing efficiencies in...similar or better efficiency than PEmax, the current state-of-the-art. PE6b was very efficient for short, unstructured...transmission, and plasticity and is a popular marker of excitatory synapses in assays like IHC. In fact, Anti-PSD... -
Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m....inflammation, which can cause mesothelial cells to mutate and ultimately form cancerous tumors. This process...For example, multiple studies show that certain mutations of the BAP1 gene play a role in susceptibility...individuals, asbestos has not been banned in the United States and many other countries, and it is still imported... -
Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m....at the same time increasing interdisciplinary citations in their own work. Of course not all research ...ImpactStory, a website that helps researchers go beyond citation rates to measure the impact of their contribution...Archambault. "The decline in the concentration of citations, 1900–2007." Journal of the American Society for... -
Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 9, 2017, 2 p.m....get there: I had to send the company detailed documentation of my results, answer loads of questions, and...differences in customers’ personalities and their expectations. If you are willing to listen to a customer’...support roles. Examples are Technical Service Representative, Technical Support Specialist, Technical Support... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m....maintaining their friendships. I put “neutral” in quotations here because I would not have considered myself...handy: Empathy: If you often find yourself in confrontational situations with others because you simply cannot...competing, or accommodating, if you find yourself gravitating most frequently towards these approaches, you... -
Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m....training and experience, better align trainee expectations with job outcomes, and increase diversity in...need to know in order to even assess the current state of research became more clear throughout the various...information publicly available may realign trainee expectations with actual job outcomes and/or disincentivize... -
How to Negotiate a Successful Lab Start Up Budget
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m....research is dependent on a pathology microtome/cryostat, then making a careful decision on the condition...for suggestions to meet each others’ needs and limitations. Everything is negotiable. Try asking for discounts...research, then it’s worth working within their limitations. 3. Always provide value to others This is a ...