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  1. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... nerve and muscle function, hormone release, and cell signaling throughout the body. Because calcium levels...used simultaneously to monitor or control different cell types or signals in the brain. For this to work,... researchers can image multiple brain regions or cell types at once using existing indicators. For example...available through Addgene. Whether you're working with cell cultures, slice preparations, or in vivo imaging...
  2. Hot Plasmids December 2018 - C. elegans RNAi, TurboID, Detecting Viral Outbreaks, and Protein Binding Specificity Tools

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    Dec. 6, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
    ...interaction networks of specific proteins in living cells. Until recently, the enzymes most frequently used...but requires H2O2, which can be toxic in living cells. BioID was derived from biotin ligase and uses far...Alexander Green lab found a solution: a low-cost, cell-free detection assay that can be completed without...family, known to be involved in cytoskeletal control, cell growth, and endocytosis. Recently, the Sidhu group...to studying membranes, organelles, and other subcellular compartments is via proteomics--the study of ...
  3. Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers

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    July 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...also gives cells antibiotic resistance to neomycin so that you can select the population of cells with the...Only a small percentage of the proteins inside a cell have a commercial antibody against them. There’s...antibody. It’s an epitope not found in human or other cells. It was made artificially. That means you aren’t...
  4. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were injected into mice and imaged...to changes in intracellular calcium and is useful for direct imaging of events in cells and brain explants...packaged into a retrovirus for infection of host cells. The fluorescent moiety of the BRET reporter was...imaging multiple proteins at the same time in live cells using fluorescent proteins (FPs) can be problematic...available through Addgene (Plasmid #83926). Live-Cell Voltage Sensor  Ingaki and colleagues (8) were interested...including monitoring multiple cellular events such as the dynamics of subcellular structures and gene expression...other cellular proteins. BRET-based biosensors utilizing NanoLuc® luciferase Many intracellular sensors...
  5. Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation

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    March 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
    ...efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983–4002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039 Gupta, A.,...resulting deaminase edits. Applied in primary T cells, the method nominates over 460-fold more off target...suppressor tRNAs achieved ~30% protein rescue in cell models of Batten and Tay-Sachs disease. In vivo,...editing efficiencies were sufficient to prime robust T cell responses, converting immunologically cold tumors...APOBEC3B as an active driver able to reshape tumor cell biology and point to high APOBEC3B tumors as potential...demonstrated that even subclonal A3A expression (~10% of cells) can reshape entire ovarian tumors via IL 6–mediated... APOBEC3B-driven mutagenesis increases dendritic cell infiltration in head and neck cancer models, converting...
  6. The 12 Days of CRISPR

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    Jan. 3, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...function using transcriptional recording sentinel cells! 🎵 On the 11th day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me...activation and interference screens for primary human T cells🎵 On the 3rd day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: ...Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes🎵 On the 5th ...
  7. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    Aug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038 Find plasmids...are capable of cleaving genomic DNA in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos, and they can be used to modify... adapted for targeted RNA cleavage in mammalian cells. The REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable A to I...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:863–868 . https://doi.org/10.1038...specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:869–874 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
  8. Harnessing TnpB for Genome Editing: A Compact and Versatile Tool for Your Research

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    July 29, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...editing reagents into cells. Viral vectors, because of their natural ability to infect cells, have emerged as...which poses a challenge for efficient delivery into cells, particularly via viral vectors. While viral delivery...for gene editing and allows targeting of specific cell types, it has a limited capacity to carry large ...biolistic, or PEG-mediated transformation into plant cells. Conclusion & Future Directions TnpB represents...
  9. 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...
  10. 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 ...
  11. 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...
  12. 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...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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,...
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