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  1. CRISPR 101: Homology Directed Repair

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    Jan. 26, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...repair fix DNA double-strand breaks?  In eukaryotic cells, repair of DSBs occurs primarily by two pathways...used, however, these are generally more toxic to cells than their plasmid counterparts. Another consideration...how to fix a broken relationship. Pardo B, et al. Cell Mol Life Sci (2009). PubMed. Regulation of DNA...break repair pathway choice. Shrivastav M, et al Cell Research (2008). PubMed. Mechanisms of DNA double-strand...Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells Resources on Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids...double-strand break (DSB). DSBs can be caused by intracellular factors such as nucleases and reactive oxygen...

  2. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and Protein Modifications in Cells and Tissues in Situ. Curr Protoc Cell Biol 89:e115. https://doi.org... like proximity ligation, immuno-PCR, and single-cell applications (Hegazy, et al., 2020; Niemeyer, et...epitope and transcriptome measurement in single cells. Nat Methods 14:865–868. https://doi.org/10.1038...

  3. Giving gRNAs a Facelift - Synthetic and Beyond

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    Oct. 20, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...slightly more efficient and less toxic to mammalian cells (Allen, et al., Frontiers in Genome Editing).  Some...enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells. Nat Biotechnol 33, 985–989 (2015). https://doi....Enhance CRISPR Genome Editing Systems in Mammalian Cells. Frontiers in Genome Editing, 28 (2021). https:/...deactivation with photocleavable gRNAs. Molecular Cell 81, 7, 1553-1565 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016...evolved ways to prevent degradation of important cellular RNA molecules with post translational modifications...transfection efficiency and even track localization in cellular experiments. There are many suitable dyes to choose...

  4. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in transfected eukaryotic cells, allowing for them to be used as intracellular inhibitors.  Aptamers are...small enough to be expressed in bacterial and other cell systems. Since the majority of these alternative...the constant region. Nonspecific binding, caused cell receptors for the constant region, is also reduced..., peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ions, and cells. They can be used either with or as fluorophores... may sound. Validated antibodies are still an excellent option for many applications, and frankly, if ...

  5. Tagging Optogenetics and Chemogenetics Receptors: Fluorescent Proteins and Other Options

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    May 11, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... be expressed in the same cell, but not necessarily at the same subcellular compartment as the opsin or...modulate the activity of neurons and other brain cells. Since the opsins or chemogenetic receptors used...neuropil conceals identification of opsin-expressing cells). For other things to keep in mind when making fluorescent...cerevisiae by use of an epitope addition method. Mol Cell Biol 8:2159–2165 . https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.8.5.2159...

  6. Plasmids 101: FLEx Vectors

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    April 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...delivered using AAV injection, the majority of the cells surrounding the injection site will become infected... ensure that the reporter remains silent until a cell or tissue-specific Cre is provided. Since the FLEx...used to study the physiology or behavior of certain cell populations.  Acknowledgement:Through a partnership...FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit mapping...for monitoring Cre-mediated recombination at the cellular level in the mouse. 2003 PubMed PMID: 12665802...

  7. Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017

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    July 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...plasmids to upregulate their expression in specific cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular...molecules targeting SMN1 and its partners in mouse cell lines. Dr. Di Schiavi hopes that these studies will... of ~30 patient derived peritoneal mesothelioma cells lines and assess their tumorigenesis. These experiments...

  8. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ... question about what should go into a cell, hover over the cell and instructions will pop up. When you...spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down options for you to choose from, while... into the appropriate full and partial sequence cells. *Note: If you believe you need to deposit a collection...

  9. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    March 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Plasmids designed to express genes in a given host cell type are generally broken down into two broad categories...purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but polyadenylation generally serves to promote...additionally act as a quality control mechanism to rid the cell of mis-folded RNAs. Eukaryotic termination and polyadenylation...efficient rabbit beta-globin mRNA 3' end formation. Cell. 1987. PMID: 3568131.  Hager S, Frame FM, Collins... thought that poly(A)s are used to control the cellular concentration of regulatory RNAs and may additionally...signal by using in vitro analyses. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1992. PMID: 1333042. PubMed Central PMCID...

  10. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...genes should be ‘read’ by the cellular machinery. This is how most cells in the body contain the same ...visualise changes in histone methylation in living cells. Essentially this reporter construct consists of...recognise lysine 27 methylation. When tested in living cells where methylation of these sites was controlled,...fluorescent reporters of histone methylation in living cells." Journal of the American Chemical Society 126.19...complex of DNA and histone proteins that compacts cellular DNA into chromosomes and reduces the risk of dangerous...the more compacted it becomes. This prevents the cellular machinery from physically interacting with the...

  11. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...school at MIT. “I read some of the seminal papers on cell cycle discovery from Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse...genetic screen to identify the factors that regulate cell division. And that really got me hooked on genetics...high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells under drug treatment.” Stegmeier especially finds...

  12. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    Oct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...two-photon microscopy. Cell, 18, 3408 - 3425.e29. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.013.   ...voltage fluctuations. Image credit: Liu Z, et al. Cell. 2022.  Find JEDI-2p viral preps here (and here...specific for human c-myc proto-oncogene product. Mol Cell Biol. Dec;5(12):3610-6.(1985). doi: 10.1128/mcb.5.12.3610...

  13. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    March 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...graduate student studying plant development and cell-cell communication in the Nimchuk Lab in the Biology...untransformed seedlings or callus (undifferentiated plant cell culture), which is great for a wide variety of applications...

  14. Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping

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    May 2, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...fluorescent protein (GFP) was the reporter gene and green cells were observed in the kidneys at a specific developmental...genes of interest may not be expressed in the tissue/cell line you are working with. Development-specific...10.7554/eLife.67667 Springer, S. P. Gene Traps. Plant Cell. (2000) 12(7): 1007-1020. DOI: 10.1105/tpc.12.7.1007...

  15. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), allowing for enrichment of successfully targeted cells that can be used...investigating genetic mechanisms related to morphogenesis, cell fate specification, and human disease.     Sun,...

  16. Addgene Protocols Go Viral: AAV Purification and Titration

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    June 13, 2019, 12:19 p.m.
    ...Mammalian cells provide scientists with the means to study biological processes on the cellular level instead...with tissue culture The cultivation of mammalian cells in the lab, or tissue culture as it is commonly ...

  17. The Advances Behind The World's First Personalized CRISPR Treatment

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    Sept. 16, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...). The Heroes of CRISPR. Cell, 164(1), 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.041  Musunuru, K....birth. Within a seven-month whirlwind of developing cell and mouse model systems, testing base editing variants...reporting genome editing by CRISPR in mammalian cells appeared in 2013 (Cong et al., 2013; reviewed in... The first ABE was about 50% efficient in human cells on average, but its effectiveness varied depending... the chromosomal location, sequence context, and cell type. Multiple labs worked to improve its effectiveness...would be tested for their base-editing efficacy in cellular models of KJ’s CPS1 mutation. Every genetic target...base editors that could target KJ’s mutation in cellular models tested both the SpG and SpRY variants of...

  18. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... edit A → Y (Y = T or C) in 67.17% of screening cells (Tong, Wang, et al., 2023). Based on this promising...Cas9 nicks the non-edited strand to encourage the cell to repair the DNA using the edited strand as a template... efficient A•T-to-C•G base editing in mammalian cells and embryos. Nature Biotechnology, 42(4), 638–650...programmable T-to-G and T-to-C base editing. Molecular Cell, 84(7), 1257-1270.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j....efficient T-to-G and C-to-G editing in mammalian cells. Nature Biotechnology, 42(10), 1538–1547. https:...the base editor. Black arrows indicate natural cellular processes. Created with BioRender.com. The...

  19. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...two-photon microscopy. Cell. 2022 Aug 16. pii: S0092-8674(22)00916-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.013 pYtags...Calcium Indicator. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Jun 29;10:880107. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.880107. KRaION potassium...sensor relies on a change in localization to the cell membrane and not a direct change in the fluorescent...of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling in living cells. bioRxiv 2022.08.13.503850; doi: 10.1101/2022.08.13.503850...better-matched to the potassium concentrations in cells than existing sensors. Using genome mining and structure-guided...fluorescence unit fused with TRansmembrane region-to-IntrAcellular loop linkers” (MTRIA for short), where a fluorescent...inserting a circularly-permuted GFP into an intracellular loop of various G-protein-coupled receptors....

  20. A Control for All Seasons

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    Oct. 5, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to detect dead or dying cells so that you can base your analysis on living cells only (for example, propidium...This tends to be most problematic when staining cells or tissues that are the same species as your primary...propidium iodide only stains dead cells). Compensation controls address the spectral overlap that occurs...Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy.” Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 185, no. 7, Rockefeller University...
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