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  1. Is this the right place for me? 8 tactics for choosing a lab

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    Oct. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...hard work and talent for many years (at a very low salary I might add). You have a right and responsibility...are always traveling, or too busy to interact regularly with the newer lab members. You must get an idea... the lab head? Are meetings with the lab head regularly scheduled or only ad hoc? Does the mentor keep... and learn. Graduate students and postdocs in particular must care about this. The training you get now...at your data and suggest follow up experiments regularly? Can you work on some experiments of your own ...
  2. PEI Calculator for Planning AAV Packaging Transfections

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    Jan. 23, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ...plasmid molar ratio you would like to use for your AAV packaging transfection. In my lab we regularly use ...requires transfecting three plasmids at specific molar ratios. To get these ratios right, you need to do... Vitro and In Vivo Use." Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (2007): 16-25. PubMed PMID: 18265393. ...
  3. Editor's Choice, July 2016

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    Aug. 5, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...Choice" series. Each month, I'll summarize the most popular post of the month and point out one or more additional... ranging from new tools you can use to monitor cellular perturbations to how CRISPR has made it much easier...surrounding anything to do with CRISPR, our most popular post in July (with over 700 views) was an update...showing that Cpf1 has lower off-target editing and similar on-target editing when compared to the most commonly...
  4. Ghanaian Researchers to Receive Plasmid Awards from Addgene and Seeding Labs

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    June 15, 2016, 1:30 p.m.
    ...Bengyella’s work has focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms behind interactions between crops like...around the world. Kwabena O. Duedu Dr. Duedu’s molecular biology work has focused on using various cloning...plasmids he acquires through Addgene to produce molecular biological tools like Taq polymerase, T7 polymerase...heavy focus on teaching. He hopes to teach his molecular biology students about the functions of these ...
  5. A Practical Guide to Optimizing AAV DIO and FLEx Vector Expression

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    Nov. 2, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...indicates that the amount of leaky expression can largely be attributed to the level of spontaneous recombination...) promoter for catecholamine neurons or glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) for astrocytes it is important...tested in the researcher's system before beginning large scale experiments. This will help to ensure the ...10.1371/journal.pone.0076310 Burger C, Gorbatyuk OS, Velardo MJ, Peden CS, Williams P, Zolotukhin S, Reier PJ...Different Regions of the Central Nervous System. Molecular Therapy 10:302–317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....
  6. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... you only look at 2 or 3 pairwise comparisons. Similar to family-wise error, is the false discovery rate... to reduce false positive rates and control for large numbers of comparisons. The Bonferroni does this...arranging all calculated p values from smallest to largest and ranking them (1 being the smallest value). ...calculates the cut off for significance by finding the largest p value where its rank divided by the total number...positives/negatives, but they all generally yield a similar result and are appropriate to use if all sample...
  7. Plasmid Preps: Different Purity, Different Quantities, Different Uses

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    June 16, 2020, 1:25 p.m.
    ... Read the molecular biology reference Find plasmids for your research Brush up on molecular biology protocols...as pure as for other uses.   Cloning grade DNA Molecular cloning includes a set of techniques that are ...consequence, the preparations for this technique must be larger scale, to allow the extraction of enough plasmid...
  8. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    Dec. 29, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools by Beth Kenkel There's a lot of free molecular biology tools out...post. 8. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments by Jennifer Tsang Chromoproteins...generate color! They've been adapted for many molecular biology methods such as allelic exchange, FRET...
  9. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    Nov. 21, 2013, 3:56 p.m.
    ...limited to particular model organisms or cell types. “This tool is really flexible and modular,” Konermann... vitro by a factor of 10 to 20. A flexible and modular optogenetics tool The researchers also showed just...novel mode of optogenetic control of endogenous cellular processes." The LITE system can now be applied...
  10. From our Table to Yours: An Inside Look at Lunch at Addgene

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    Nov. 27, 2013, 2:54 p.m.
    ...food on special occasions. However, employees regularly bring in baked goods and we have a few unique ...During Hack Days, teams at Addgene will forgo their regular To-Do lists (other than emergency items) and focus...United States, I look forward to gathering around a large table for a meal with my family. I am thankful for...things, and one is that I get to gather around a large table to eat with my Addgene family every day. Do...
  11. Tag Your Favorite Yeast Genes with Ease

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    Nov. 19, 2013, 2:37 p.m.
    ...transformants. Addgene distributes several ready-to-use, modular plasmids, combining fluorescent tags, epitope tags.... John Pringle and Jürg Bähler have deposited a large collection of plasmids for genome modification in...at UNC Chapel Hill. Bähler et al.(2) describe a modular collection of plasmids for a wide variety of genome... to the collections featured above, many other modular yeast tagging systems have been developed in the...
  12. New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR

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    Dec. 12, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...alpha-1a adrenergic receptor; nLightG contains circularly permuted green fluorescent protein (GFP), and...green fluorescent proteins. nLightR did perform similarly to GRABNE, and having both colors allows for increased...AR. Selectivity Norepinephrine and dopamine are similar molecules, and cross-reactivity is a very common...continues to work on further improvements. In particular, they’re focused on generating variants with ...
  13. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...can help reduce off-target activity. Deleting a large region of the genome by removing the sequence between...Transcript Multiplexing Plasmids: These plasmids are similar to the Csy4 polycistronic system described above...Addgene. 4. Albers, Joachim, et al. “A versatile modular vector system for rapid combinatorial mammalian... genome editing in monocot and dicot plants.” Molecular Plant 8(8) (2015): 1274-1284. PubMed PMID: 25917172.... 11. Cress, Brady F., et al. “CRISPathBrick: Modular Combinatorial Assembly of Type II-A CRISPR Arrays...
  14. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    June 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
    ...control over neuronal activity. While they serve similar purposes, both techniques offer researchers different...have faster off kinetics and allow neurons to repolarize faster.  Chemogenetics does not offer the same...targeted to specific tissues, cell types or even subcellular regions of a neuron. Optogenetic approaches excel...with light accessible brains, such as zebrafish larvae. Mouse studies, however, require a permanent intracranial...
  15. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    Feb. 13, 2018, 2:51 p.m.
    ...Problems with Chip-seq ChIP-seq typically requires a large amount of input material, cells or tissue, to produce...with cell culture, because it is easy to harvest large quantities of cells. However, when working on specific...false-positives, as proteins may appear to be binding at particular genomic sites when in fact they are just non-...situations when it is technically challenging to collect large numbers of cells or when a high degree of signal...
  16. ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights

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    Dec. 13, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
    ...Plasmids with Addgene Find Molecular Biology Protocols and Videos Find Other Molecular Biology Resources ...paper and then another figure in another paper. A large fraction of readers cover the same ground again ...allows you to make meaningful collections from a large section of open access life sciences data. You can...
  17. New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap

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    Dec. 12, 2017, 3:13 p.m.
    ...easy to navigate. We also updated some our most popular CRISPR blogs to keep them current. Here are some...plasmid class covered on that page. To help you find popular plasmids, we’ve also added four new plasmid pages...mammalian systems, bacteria, plants, and yeast. Popular cytosine base editor pCMV-BE3 has been requested...only the specified RNA target. Bonus: It displays similar on-target activity to siRNA, but with far fewer...
  18. The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place

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    Jan. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...researchers and ready access to stably archived large-scale datasets by computational biologists. ...genome-wide datasets, which are often obscured in large supplementary data files, BioGRID ORCS makes it ... interest. In addition, users interested in a particular disease, cell type or drug treatment can browse...used to search the entire CRISPR database for particular screens of interest.   Figure 3: Each ...
  19. Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style

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    May 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...General Assembly has declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids. The declaration is intended to raise...antibodies in the serum of a camel and soon after found similar antibodies in llamas and alpacas (Figure 1). At... tissues. sdAbs can also be used to manipulate cellular functions, like in this early example we highlighted...
  20. Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene

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    July 2, 2015, 8:37 p.m.
    ...Addgene. This is particularly true in my position as an Outreach Scientist where I spend a large amount of my...pretty hefty bumps during my graduate training. I particularly think that too many young scientists are led...experience is key to my current position, I think it’s largely my work developing myself as a science communicator...
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