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  1. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...decorated with proteins and remain functional, 2) break membranes outside of their natural context or 3)...This demonstrates that R bodies can function to break membranes of different organisms. And finally, we.... & Silver, P. A. A Tunable Protein Piston That Breaks Membranes to Release Encapsulated Cargo. ACS Synth...
  2. How Addgene Creates Content

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    Nov. 17, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...know you wanted to know about, like research breakthroughs or cool new tools. And while this is in service...figures and images to help illustrate our points and break up walls of text. Since our guides are heavily used... updating our content to reflect the newest breakthroughs and standards. It’s always a work in progress...
  3. Antibodies 101: ChIP

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    March 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m.
    ...protein:DNA complexes together until you want to break them. Crosslinking is necessary for most ChIP experiences...need extra steps.  Fragmenting  The next step is break the DNA into random, small pieces of roughly equal...sonication, which uses high-frequency sound waves to break up the DNA, or enzymatic digestion. Sonication provides...
  4. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...a double-strand break in the genome anywhere you would like. Cells repair those breaks in one of two ways...target site. Also, any time you create double-strand breaks, there is a possibility of introducing a mutation...
  5. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...will proceed to generate a blunt DNA double strand break. Cas9 has been studied for genome engineering purposes...cleaving DNA at a defined site to form a clean DNA break, Cas3 locates its target sequence and initiates ...difference from Cas9 is that it generates staggered breaks, also known as sticky ends. Cas12a cleavage results...
  6. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...out there, it’s obvious that CRISPR is a ground-breaking technology that’s already had a huge impact on...technique for detecting genome-wide double strand breaks (BLESS), revealed that these mutants do not cause...Non-Homologous End Joining Repairs Double Strand Breaks Get Tips on Designing Your gRNA Browse Our CRISPR...
  7. CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Nov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...double-strand breaks, a new DNA sequence can be knocked-in, or introduced, into the break sites. Knock-...single guide RNA (sgRNA) to create a double-strand break works well because very small deletions and insertions...
  8. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... including those from Andrea Pauli and Julius Brennecke. They developed a method that uses loop-mediated... acids. Mammalian targets During the 2003 SARS outbreak, Hyeryun Choe’s lab identified that ACE2 is the...genome-wide CRISPR libraries, Brunello (knock out) and Calabrese (activation), from Addgene to better understand...
  9. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...10.1038/s41587-023-01756-1. PMID: 37095348. Breaking up is hard to do: Monomeric StayGold variants ...been working to produce monomeric versions that break up the dimerization without losing that brightness...best-performing variant, CAP-Mac, was effective at breaching the blood-brain barrier and delivering a transgene...
  10. The Scientific Conference Poster Session: Tips for Success

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    Aug. 29, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...also give you a chance to slow down and catch your breath before diving in to the next figure. Remember your..., but with a little preparation and a few deep breaths the day-of, you’ll handle them with ease. Anticipate...different question than the intended one. Take a deep breath, and if you don’t fully understand the question...
  11. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the potential to improve rapid and precise plant breeding. Find dicot prime editing plasmids here! Vu, ...Garcia-Marcos’ lab recently developed a collection of BRET-based ONE vector G-protein Optical (ONE-GO) biosensors...ONE-GO biosensors measure the formation of Gα-GTP by BRET. The biosensor consists of a YFP-tagged G protein...
  12. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...the AAV genome can integrate at double-stranded break points caused by CRISPR-Cas9 editing. The good news...., Corey, D. P., Aryee, M. J., Joung, J. K., Breakefield, X. O., Maguire, C. A., & György, B. (2019). ... AAV vector integration into CRISPR-induced DNA breaks. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/...
  13. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...deletions) without introducing DNA double-strand breaks (Anzalone et al., 2019; Chen & Liu, 2023). This...Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA. Nature, 576(7785), 149–157. https...chromatin context on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), ...
  14. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...endonuclease Cas9 to create a DNA double stranded break (DSB) at a genomic site specified by a guide RNA... sequence. Users can design gRNAs to induce the break at a specific genomic site and, using the endogenous...homology directed repair after a CRISPR/Cas9 induced break. Learn more about these constructs and the cell ...
  15. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ...multiple teams or to stay abreast of current trends in the literature, sampling a breadth of work from a field...subsequent meetings. The number of participants, breadth of the discussed topic, and level of general busy-ness...
  16. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    Sept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m.
    ...to account for the effects of Cas9-induced dsDNA breaks. Are off-target cutting patterns in genome-wide...control for the effects of guide expression and dsDNA breaks. Figure 2: Non-targeting vs. safe-targeting...inherent effects, or background noise, of dsDNA breaks caused by CRISPR. See supplemental figure 6 for...
  17. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR/Cas9 edits that rely on double strand DNA breaks. Due to this inefficiency it is crucial for scientists.../10.1093/nar/gkaa124 Martin AS, Salamango DJ, Serebrenik AA, Shaban NM, Brown WL, Harris RS (2019) A panel...s41598-018-36739-9 St. Martin A, Salamango D, Serebrenik A, Shaban N, Brown WL, Donati F, Munagala U, ...
  18. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ...single-stranded nick. In order to produce a double stranded break, two sgRNAs must be used to target two Cas9-nickases...achieve your precise edit without even making a break.  Base editors are dead Cas9 (dCas9) or nCas9 enzymes...converts a C to U without producing a double strand break.   Prime editors are the second generation of...
  19. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    Jan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...crunch, your break can be as simple as a few minutes of meditation or a walk to the break room for a sip...going throughout these challenging times.  Take a Break! If all else fails, one of the best things you can...
  20. Mesothelioma - Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment

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    Dec. 13, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...the abdomen. Long story short, when asbestos is breathed in (or less frequently, ingested), it can get ...like lung (about 224,000 diagnosed this year) or breast cancer (about 246,000 diagnosed this year). Research... to detect mesothelioma earlier than ever. From breath tests to blood tests, researchers are hopeful that...
  21. Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2

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    Sept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...the rat (Gibbs, et al., 2004). Additionally, breakthroughs in gene modification tools and methods such ...organism; they are relatively simple to maintain and breed and they have large, easily modifiable embryos, ...frog research is The National Xenopus Resource, a breeding facility for X. laevis and X. tropicalis, the ...
  22. CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9

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    Oct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...select for desirable traits using traditional plant breeding approaches, these techniques are cumbersome, often...repair, these methods do not involve double strand break (DSB) formation and do not require donor DNA, . ...Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew...
  23. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    April 5, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...you obtained the desired chimeric mice, you would breed them many times, hoping to produce a mouse with ...need to remove the selection marker, likely by breeding to a mouse line with a recombinase. If it turned... insert two loxP sites. Since two double-strand breaks are made, it is common to see deletions of the ...
  24. Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence

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    May 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...marker like the Hoechst stain for the nuclei. (See Brewer et al, 2022 for a sample protocol.)  Simultaneous... Nguyen, K., Van Der List, D., Murray, K. D., Engebrecht, J., & Trimmer, J. S. (2019). A toolbox of IgG... 8, e43322. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43322 Brewer, M., McDonough, L., Zhu, Y., Neumann, E., De Caestecker...
  25. An “elegans” Approach to Better CRISPR/Cas9 Editing Efficiency

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    Dec. 17, 2020, 1:30 p.m.
    ...homology arms of 35-80 bp, and DNA double-strand breaks up to 54 bp from the desired insertion site result...knock-in efficiency, presumably by channeling DNA breaks into the homologous recombination repair pathway...interesting to note that recipients for the 2015 Breakthrough Prize included Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle...
  26. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... is usually accomplished by Cas9-mediated dsDNA breaks: following a cut, the error-prone nature of non-homologous...although this is rarely done). When targeting a dsDNA break for HDR, the choice of target site is far more constrained...which makes DNA changes in the absence of dsDNA breaks (Rees et al., 2018). For C>T and A>G base editors...
  27. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...protein, first block the Golgi apparatus with Brefeldin A to inhibit secretion and then follow the typical...NK) cells.   Tips for flow cytometry success Break up cell clumps Success in a flow cytometry experiment...the sample through a nylon mesh cell strainer to break up clumps before running on the instrument. To sustain...
  28. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...development (Grimm & Lavis, 2022). With the wide breadth of fluorescent tools that have been developed throughout...is an important consideration for assay design (Breen et al., 2016). When selecting dyes, it's important...21842. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78827-9  Breen, C. J., Raverdeau, M., & Voorheis, H. P. (2016)....
  29. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...al. 2022. Image created with BioRender.com. Abbreviations: AAV, adeno-associated virus; GRE, gene regulatory.../ENEURO.0373-21.2022 Brown, D., Altermatt, M., Dobreva, T., Chen, S., Wang, A., Thomson, M., & Gradinaru...Kumar, S. R., Miles, T. F., Chen, X., Brown, D., Dobreva, T., Huang, Q., Ding, X., Luo, Y., Einarsson, P... Kumar, S., Miles, T. F., Chen, X., Brown, D., Dobreva, T., Huang, Q., Ding, X., Luo, Y., Einarsson, P...
  30. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...HDR), the pathway for resolving DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) preferred by researchers. Compared to non-homologous...Base editors chemically modify DNA bases without breaking the DNA backbone, sidestepping the problem of ...converts a C to U without producing a double strand break. UGI = uracil DNA glycosylase. Created with BioRender.com...
  31. CRISPR Methods for Bacteria: Genome Engineering, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, Base Editing, and More

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    Sept. 28, 2020, noon
    ...other organisms, CRISPR-induced double stranded breaks are lethal because the non-homologous end-joining...ineffective in bacteria, CRISPR-induced double stranded breaks (DSB) are lethal. Addgene depositor Luciano Marraffini...genomic locations, and introduces double strand breaks, the bacteria are unable to resolve them, and the...
  32. Addgene’s New Way to Help You Share Science

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    Nov. 14, 2013, 4:10 p.m.
    ...talk to scientists from around the world making breakthrough discoveries!” I knew right then I had found .... Summaries of the latest technologies and breakthrough research. Insights about how to navigate through...
  33. Podcast: A Malawian Professor's Path to Biotech Research

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    May 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Horticulutre Biotechnology, he did his PhD in Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology at Michigan State...collaboration across the globe. Listen here! Podcast Breakdown (Time: Topic) 0:00-1:00 : Intro 1:01-3:48 : Kingdom...
  34. New Podcast Segment: Hot Plasmids

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    May 17, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...We’re breaking into more audio and video on the Addgene Blog and Addgene website. As we push forward ...plasmids through this podcast segment. Below, we break down each of the Hot Plasmids segments into its ...
  35. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    Oct. 16, 2014, 3:01 p.m.
    ... five strains of Ebola representing the latest outbreak and earlier ones, along with links to the relevant...content. -And the latest updates on the ongoing outbreak from the CDC and WHO. - For anyone interested ...
  36. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2016!

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 8:47 p.m.
    ...most CRISPR systems and generates double strange breaks at target sites 5' of the 5'NGG3' PAM sequence ...which nicks DNA rather than creating double stand breaks and may better facilitate homology directed repair...
  37. Reflections and Looking Ahead

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    Feb. 25, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...empowering researchers worldwide. Countless breakthroughs enabled by shared resources. As we step into...shared, every collaboration formed, and every breakthrough enabled brings us closer to making an impact...
  38. Top 10 Open Science Developments of 2013

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    Dec. 19, 2013, 3:46 p.m.
    ...gather the results of Myriad's genetic tests for breast and ovarian cancer risk directly from customers...favorite ways to share science. Image credit: Judy Breck, via flickr  ...
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