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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 13, 2024, 1:15 p.m....from very high cell density suspension. Biotechnol Bioeng. 2021 Sep;118(9):3499-3510. doi: 10.1002/bit.27776...Schöneich C, Freund E, Ricci MS, Carpenter JF, Lengsfeld CS. Do not drop: mechanical shock in vials causes...
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An Introduction to Adenovirus
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m....viruses, with a linear genome between 26–45 kb in length. Human adenovirus type 5 (hAdV-C5) can be considered... like other viral vectors, though significant challenges remain (Wold & Toth, 2013). While the pre-existing... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....transcriptase (RT) is present in the capsid, as the engineered, recombinant genome is (thankfully) gutted of...2008). Pseudodiploid Genome Organization Aids Full-Length Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 DNA Synthesis... -
New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m....bypassing these issues. CRISPRi libraries utilize an engineered Cas9, which contains multiple point mutations...Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9 complex." Nature517.7536 (2015): ... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m....success” of the journal club. This can be a challengingly vague metric but there are a few things you ...scientists of all types to stay up to date and engaged with new advances in published science. They also... -
CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 31, 2020, 12:30 p.m....major players in the CRISPR field. Just a year after Feng Zhang’s lab identified Cas13a (C2c2) (Abudayyeh ...) displayed robust editing with various spacer lengths from 30-84 nucleotides, and designated this system... -
Tips for arabidopsis transformation
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m....). Additional resources on the Addgene blog Engineering the plant genome using CRISPR/Cas9 Using pSiM24...pSiM24 for simplifying plant genetic engineering Using arabidopsis in the classroom Resources on Addgene.org... -
Negative Can Be Positive: Open AAV Data with Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... peripheral nervous system presents a special challenge to scientists. What works well in one cell or ...vectors in neuroscience Let’s consider my first challenge when I started working with AAV vectors. I wanted... -
Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m....negative sense RNA strand approximately 19 kb in length. It contains short promoter sequences at its 3’...replication and transcription, as it would for a full-length viral genome (Figure 2). While it is technically... -
Cpf1: A New Tool for CRISPR Genome Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m....Cpf1-mediated cleavage are 42-44 nucleotides in length, about the same size as Cas9’s, but with the direct...Figure from Kleinstiver et al., 2016. Cpf1’s strength may lie in its low off-target editing rates, determined... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m....from flow cytometry experiments can be a little challenging to understand if you’ve never done any flow. ... showing frequency of events on the Y axis and strength of signal read on the X axis may be presented.... -
Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m..... During a transient leaf transformation, the engineered Agrobacterium strain is brought into contact ..., 2006. 225-229. PubMed PMID: 16739580. Li, Jian-Feng, et al. "The FAST technique: a simplified Agrobacterium-based... -
Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....repair (HDR) (Glasser et al., 2016). For TREE they engineered a BFP variant that undergoes conversion to GFP...TLDR: TREE from the Wang and Brafman lab uses an engineered BFP variant that converts to GFP after a base... -
Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2020, 1 p.m....distinguish between Zika and a closely-related virus, Dengue from multiple sample sources. SHERLOCK could also...://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf5573 Broughton JP, Deng X, Yu G, Fasching CL, Servellita V, Singh J, Miao... -
An Inside Look into Addgene's Dev Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 23, 2020, 2:45 p.m....Addgene blog Learn about what went into our search engine update Find all Addgene news Resources on Addgene.org... Sophia K. Cheng... -
Lab to Office Culture Shock
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 5, 2019, 1:04 p.m....counter-intuitive, but I find office work more mentally challenging than lab work at times.” Sometimes a desk job...to non-scientists can be a fun and gratifying challenge. You’re also getting the opportunity to learn ... -
Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m....response to requirements that emerged from intensive engagement with a wide range of people at the University... The two guiding principles emerging from the engagement with the Wisconsin research community were to... -
Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m....Central PMCID: PMC384129. Aizenman, Einat, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, and Gad Glaser. "An Escherichia coli chromosomal...PMID: 12718874. Yang, Junjie, Weihong Jiang, and Sheng Yang. "mazF as a counter-selectable marker for unmarked... -
Career Insights: Technical Support Specialist
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 9, 2017, 2 p.m.... less time consuming and/or less technically challenging. Alongside there is a second-line team that takes...are just so many things which can go wrong in a lengthy protocol. And customers may tell all sorts of details... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....on-site, but now we were presented with a new challenge: automating the bioinformatics steps needed to... reviewing and testing several platforms for engineering pipelines, we selected Nextflow, a workflow management...