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  1. History of CRISPR Cas - A tale of survival and evolution

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    Nov. 25, 2013, 10:12 p.m.
    ...clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats) Cas (CRISPR associated genes) system. This popular genome...polythetic classification based on evolutionary similarity (5). Type II CRISPR/Cas is the system that scientists...translatable to the other CRISPR subtypes. Still, the large and dynamic range of CRISPR systems between and ...
  2. Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability

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    Jan. 11, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...If you work in a lab that regularly does immunoimaging, there’s likely a large collection of antibodies...specific to denatured versions, or even to just that particular assay.      Fig. 1: A native protein ...that has been validated for an assay that uses similar sample preparation - for instance, if you cannot...
  3. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...talk about Z DNA that inspired her to major in molecular biology in college. She then pursued a PhD in ...not only got incredibly compelled by wet bench molecular research, but also became passionate about virology...of Viral Vectors Karen Guerin for the journal Molecular Therapy. Vandenberge is also the Grousbeck Family... Gene Therapy Center, Associate Director of the Ocular Genomics Institute, and an Associate Member at ...
  4. Fluorescent Biosensors for Measuring Autophagic Flux

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    Jan. 22, 2019, 2:41 p.m.
    ...fluorescence allows for clear distinction between vacuolar/lysosomal and cytoplasmic Rosella. When fused ...biosensor is the GFP-LC3-RFP-LC3ΔG probe. It’s similar to the mRFP-GFP-LC3 Tandem Fluorescent Protein,...Rosella: a fluorescent pH-biosensor for reporting vacuolar turnover of cytosol and organelles in yeast." ...measuring autophagy." International journal of molecular sciences 18.9 (2017): 1865.  PubMed PMID: 28846632...
  5. Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools

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    Sept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m.
    ... by Torsten Wittmann’s lab at UCSF to modulate cellular dynamics with light by modifying EB1. EB1 normally... opens novel ways in manipulating and studying cellular dynamics. The photoinducible control of protein...potential use for a wide range of applications in cellular biology. Van Haren J et al. Nature Cell Biology...the base editing podcast segment The increasing popularity of single base-editors has resulted in the rapid...
  6. CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair

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    Feb. 14, 2018, 2:36 p.m.
    ...to learn much more about cellular DNA repair pathways. An emphasis on cellular repair post-CRISPR cleavage...Twitter if you missed our live updates! My most popular tweet from the conference is shown above. The blog..., which alter genomic DNA without the need for cellular HDR.   Having had time to digest my notes, since...
  7. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    Oct. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...their name? In 1952, Joshua Lederberg set out to clarify the classification of these cytoplasmic inheritance...began to study other extrachromosomal particles, particularly Resistance or R-factors. Like F-factors, R-factors...especially lambda, was the tool of choice for molecular biologists wanting to study bacterial genetics...pSC101 became the first plasmid cloning vector and molecular biology was never the same. Over the next few ...
  8. Mentoring for Scientists: I Have a Mentor, What Now?

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    March 6, 2014, 7:12 p.m.
    ...meetings or calls regularly and don’t cancel, so that you drive progress with regular accountability checks...Mentoring for Scientists Guide.  You can use it to clarify and discuss values. The activity is just the start...Relevant, and Time-bound. It is a good idea to take larger goals (e.g. Figure out what I want to do after ...
  9. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

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    June 18, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...often have to choose the best serotype for their particular study, which includes comparing the transduction...samples are available in various serotypes of two popular control AAV encoding GFP. Check out our inventory...variant provides improved detection for tracking large populations of neurons in wide-field imaging (Dana...on availability date or to be notified when a particular catalog item is available for order please email...
  10. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...are responsible for the degradation of over 600 cellular components ultimately leading to cell fragmentation... scientists need a protease reporter that has a large dynamic range and high brightness. The Shu Lab from... pattern was consistent with TUNEL staining, a popular method to observe apoptotic cells. Lastly, the ...FlipGFP is a novel fluorogenic reporter that has a large dynamic range and high brightness. This reporter...
  11. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...levels for 6 days - after just 15 minutes of FUS.  Similar constructs to the one above can be made for expressing...But why might you need a second GFP antibody?  Similarities:  Generated against full length GFP and converted...the group rationally designed GFP variants with similar capabilities. If you’re looking for a super stable...hfYFP retains folding and fluorescence in high molarity GdnHCl, at high temperatures, and in the presence...
  12. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    July 17, 2018, 12:23 p.m.
    ...drastically alter your strategy. I realized that similar types of thinking go into developing gene therapy...PLASMID is a game where you need to apply basic molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology, genetic engineering... He is also founder and consultant at FRESCI particularly interested in advanced in vitro models technology...Resource Center Resources on Addgene.org Find molecular biology educational resources Find protocol videos...
  13. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    May 16, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...FPs are tremendously complicated entities with a large range of characteristics (color, brightness, photostability... a project written in Python & Django, using a popular database management system (PostgreSQL), that aims...use case for FPbase is finding information on a particular FP; this can be done directly using the search...your help!), I believe this represents one of the largest available online collections of FP spectra. Every...
  14. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    April 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...outlier, this story had us wondering: is there a larger trend here? Do papers associated with Addgene deposits...deposits are more highly cited, we went to one of the largest bibliographic databases available, Web of Science...Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Biochemical Research Methods. We ...at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is particularly interested in exploring how innovative tools...
  15. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...the cell, and potentially spread out over an even larger area, thus necessitating even higher retrograde...methods to improve AAV production.     References 1.Clark, K. Reed. "Recent advances in recombinant adeno-...Adeno-associated Virus Transduction and Integration. Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society ...anterograde transsynaptic tagging: mapping corticocollicular input-defined neural pathways for defense ...
  16. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...orchestrated movements of networks of proteins consuming molecular fuel sources. While the importance of understanding... realized that these mutations clustered in a particular region of the R-body. Further mutatgenesis of...penetrate other barriers (like vasculature or extracellular matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond...
  17. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    Sept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...enable the assembly of larger systems. The work of Schmidl et al. also represents a large step forward in optimizing...required per system. Applications of these systems The large dynamic range of these systems ensures that they...TCSs have been identified in bacteria, and with similar optimization methods, many of these systems could...
  18. Choosing Your Fluorescent Proteins for Multi-Color Imaging

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    Oct. 9, 2014, 3 p.m.
    ...contain all fluorescent proteins in common use (particularly not the most recently published ones), they ...if you know that your protein of interest has a similar spectrum. For example, here's a screenshot from...TagRFP excitation and the emission filter collects a larger fraction of the TagRFP emission than the mCherry...Fluorescein / Rhodamine / Cy5 (e.g. Semrock's) and the similar 4-laser combination on a confocal (405 / 488 / ...
  19. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    Dec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m.
    ...Elasticsearch to support the different usage patterns the larger team identified. The basic function of a search...scientific domain in general and of our data in particular and our deep understanding of Addgene’s customer...categorization of our information in order to more granularly customize the search engine, and a scoping mechanism...depositors (see below). Even if the user experience is similar, the way the software searches through our catalog...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    March 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...in the host. Adenoviruses can deliver relatively large cargo inserts (>8 kb). Adeno-associated viruses...subject delivery, as immunogenicity was previously a large barrier for gene therapy. In fact, AAV gene therapies...multiple diseases, including hemophilia B and spinal muscular atrophy.   Type of Virus Pros Cons Retrovirus...High Gene Expression Infects Non-Dividing Cells Large Packaging Capacity (>8kb) High Transduction Efficiency...
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