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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m....postdoctoral issues first at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and then Boston University (institutions...them. As a committee member, I volunteered for various tasks as things came up. For example, I updated...
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Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m....recommend the use of an electronic pipettor with variable spacing (such as the Viaflo from Integra Biosciences... clones. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of cell lines, from HEK to CHO cells to neural ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m....well-characterized marker proteins tagged with FPs to highlight various subcellular structures. Please see Figure 1 for... Lab can be used to fluorescently label a wide variety of gram negative bacteria (West Virginia University... -
Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m....human disease. However, the rate of transfer was variable. They measured transfer rates by comparing the... of a constitutely expressed RFP reporter, was variable across bacterial strains, ranging from an ~8 to... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Managing a Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2018, 2:42 p.m....researchers feel that they lack formal training in a variety of transferable skills. At Addgene we've set out...you want to be! References Becoming the boss. Harvard Business Review, January 2007. Three Rules for ... -
No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....stick out to form the “arms” holding the highly variable regions that bind to specific antigens. In contrast... Cloning System for Characterization of Enzyme Variants. In: Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press... -
Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m....improved kinetics and responsivity in screening ASAP3 variants. B) Electrical and optical recordings of spontaneous...assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in varying conditions, revealing context-dependent responses... -
Common Injection Routes in Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m....factors. You have to weigh the pros and cons of various methods and choose what is best for you — and the...array of purposes, but mainly for the delivery of various therapies and viral vectors. This injection sounds... -
Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m....are Sf9 cells, which are derived from the pupa ovarian tissue of fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda...protein production. Titration of baculovirus can vary depending on the protocol used. Plaque assays are... -
Plasmids 101: Degron Tags
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m....destabilizing domains which will be identified by various enzymes and sent to the proteasome for degradation...protein levels aren’t limited to ‘on’ and ‘off’; varied levels of drug concentration can yield intermediate... -
Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m....viral genome in eukaryotic cells.1,2 Since then, a variety of IRES sequences have been discovered - many from... reporter gene). Addgene's collection offers a variety of plasmids to express two or more genes, some ... -
CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m....generating single or multi-gene knockouts in a wide variety of cell types, gene editing using homology directed...performing CRISPR experiments using RNPs is the variety of methods that can be used to deliver a Cas9-gRNA... -
Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m.... antibodies, frequently of the mouse or rabbit variety. While antibodies certainly aren’t “broken,” their...that nanobodies come in 1x and/or a 3x cysteine varieties. This refers to the number of cysteine sites the... -
INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m....between genomes, and have been adapted for a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic..., 2020). VchINT was also shown to be active in various gram-negative bacterial hosts of interest, including... -
Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....we just made the sample bigger? In ExM, and its various derivatives, biological samples are enmeshed in...Damstra, et al. 2022; Yu, et al. 2020). With any variation, your samples can tear or expand unevenly, introducing... -
Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... plasmid quality and transfection efficiency may vary between labs, initial titration experiments might... of both basic virology and the functions that various viral components play in disease. Tessa Cressey... -
Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m....SaCas9. As seen with Cas9 orthologs, Cpf1 efficiency varies widely with gRNA sequence. Both groups used multiple...Cpf1 is also sensitive to single mismatches, but variably so, with Kleinstiver et al. reporting that Cpf1... -
Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m....us to express the CRISPR complex much easier in various cells, including primary mouse cells. We believe...will allow researchers to use enChIP in a wide variety of biological systems. We are currently developing... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m....within each color also exist with only slight variations separating them. Please note that many fluorescent...fluorescent biosensors has been designed to detect a variety of intracellular conditions, including ion (such... -
Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m....collection of lentiviral plasmids created for a variety of applications including cDNA expression, shRNA-mediated...breaks down the biosafety concerns associated with various aspects of lentiviral transduction along with suggestions...