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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Era of Personalized Medicine. Genes Dis. 2017 Jun;4(2):43-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.gendis.2017.04.001 Maetzig...about a specific virus? We have you covered with guides on lentivirus, retrovirus, adenovirus, and AAV....
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Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m....improvement in muscle physiological performance. 2. Trans-splicing Overview: For trans-plicing, splice...doi.org/10.1002/emmm.201302948 Trapani I, Toriello E, de Simone S, Colella P, Iodice C, Polishchuk EV, Sommella...physical size of the genomes is still ~4.7kb. But despite this, larger functional transgene products were...HDR event can’t occur. Lastly, depending on its design, donor A may be capable of expressing a truncated... -
Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m....signal separately for each target. Figure 2: Examples of simultaneous multiplex IF labeling of... Brewer, M., McDonough, L., Zhu, Y., Neumann, E., De Caestecker, M., Gutierrez, D., & Spraggins, J. (2022...between the targets. Or, it might be sufficient to describe or classify the labeled structures visually; for...will vary depending on your specific experimental design. Like selecting an antibody, some of the requirements... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m....beginning Let’s take a quick flash back to 2004. “Shrek 2” was the most popular movie in theaters, the Razr ...business practices, like accepting e-signatures and designing a website users could easily navigate. This meant...Read the Addgene guide: https://www.addgene.org/guides/crispr/” — SirHamhands, responding to a request... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m....inside the cell,” says Pedre Pérez. Figure 2: Micrographs of the biosensor expressed in the human...sulfurtransferase (MPST) which catalyzes the desulfuration of 3-mercaptopyruvate and generates an enzyme-bound...transferred to thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides modulate protein activity and have important... -
How to Prepare for an Industry Interview
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m....company culture. It’s also a good idea to prepare 1-2 unique questions for each interviewer by looking at...method seems simple, I found it hard to remember to describe all four parts of a STAR answer once the interview... because sometimes companies have relaxed dress codes for interviews. You can also ask HR for clarification... -
Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m....main decisions to make: 1. Which modification? and 2. Which viral vector should be used? Modifying gene...behavioral neuroscience, and address experimental design considerations used in all behavioral studies. ...ion channels. Similarly, chemogenetic tools are designed channels that are chemically activated. Both are... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m....strain (which will be covered in more detail in part 2 of this blog series) controls the cell types in which...reporter gene, which replaces the targeted gene and provides a way to track successfully engineered cells. ...genotype each animal to identify the ones with the desired genotype. Inducible and conditional systems Conditional... -
Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m....protocols 4.4 (2009): 495-505. PubMed PMID: 19300443. 2. Geraerts, Martine, et al. "Comparison of lentiviral...virus will not only ensure that your infection is designed in the best possible way, but it may also save...the transgene itself. Many researchers prefer to design primers that target the common features of viral... -
3D Printing Meets CRISPR Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 17, 2017, 12:55 p.m....communicate the nuances of protein structure in a flat 2-D images. In the early days of structural biology,...BioMolecular Modeling and the CEO of 3-D Molecular Designs. Have you ever held your favorite protein in the...favorite protein in your hand? At 3D Molecular Designs, we create physical models of proteins using 3D...off a small, family-run business – 3D Molecular Designs – to commercialize some of the best instructional...reaction to this model on his blog. Or, for a description of how effective this model was in explaining... up close and personal, visit the 3D Molecular Designs web site. Or, if you are visiting a local classroom...check out our hands-on teaching tools that are designed to make the molecular world real for students.... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust GAL4...of 3’UTRs, the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically...specifically for C. elegans. This database provides detailed information about C. elegans 3’UTRs structures, ...imaging processing. The combination of these methods provides unique opportunities to develop computational ...Addgene In addition to the wealth of open resources described above, there were many plasmid tools presented...self-excise, and covalently ligate their flanking peptides together (Wang et al., 2018).” With the split ...continuously curated as we continue to receive plasmids designed for the worm so check back frequently for what... -
CRISPR in the Clinic
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... Cure for HIV/AIDS. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jan 13;24(2):1563. doi: 10.3390/ijms24021563 Resources on Addgene.org...introducing a desired edit, but this particular class of treatments has quite the opposite aim: to destroy. One...potential for treatment is no longer an accurate descriptor; progress in clinical therapy is more fitting...One treatment currently in clinical trials includes Cas3 (the shredder member of the Cas family) as part...CRISPR therapies have made significant clinical strides since we first wrote this blog post. The future... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m....C-terminus of human codon-optimized cryptochrome 2 (CRY2) from Arabidopsis thaliana. When exposed to ...soCoChR-expressing system. Taken together, Shemesh et. al. describe a novel system for the precise mapping of neuronal...the single-cell level. Various soCoChR plasmids described in this work including the soCoChR-GFP plasmid...information about spatial and temporal organization. The design use to detect PKA activity can be generalized to...choice for FRET assays where a dark acceptor is desired due to its very low quantum efficiency. ShadowY... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....156–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(87)90021-2 Chomczynski P, Sacchi N (2006) The single-step method...Allewell and Sarma, 1974). Additionally, ThermoFisher provides a protocol on how to integrate RNAlater® with ... -
Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 24, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... adapted to a competitive format. Figure 2: Overview of using Competitive ELISA to quantitatively...ELISA is a modification of the sandwich ELISA as described here, the direct and indirect ELISA (more details... -
Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.... to remove this default setting. Timesaving Tip #2: blastx searches are inherently slower than blastn...terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs...matrix BLOSUM62, but you may want to check the description of the other matrices to see if another would...alternatives Depending on your sequencing result and desired analysis, BLAST may not always be your optimal ... -
Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 9, 2022, 1:15 p.m....non-specific binding in our IHC condition. Fig. 2: Schematic of the goldilocks antibody selection process...perform differently over time), compatible with the desired applications (such as immunohistochemistry (IHC...antibodies, we have developed a criterion that includes accuracy, strength, and reproducibility. We test... -
Science communication: 9 Strategies to Get Your Foot in the Door
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 27, 2017, 1:23 p.m....more tips on using social media as a scientist here. 2) Public engagement - Participate in science festivals... Guardian, BBC Breakfast or the Londonist. BBC provides a peak into their day-to-day business with popular...Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) provides on-site courses in public engagement for institutions... -
Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.... Then he desribed how P. furiosus has systems to defend against both DNA and RNA viruses - 2 cas systems...plasmids, especially those of the CRISPR variety (see slides from my talk below). Largely organized by Dmitry... -
Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m.... the Cas machinery where to cut. Fig. 2: Heatmap indicating loci where SNPs reside on sgRNA... reference? The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed to have a perfect match...African descent have approximately 20% more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that map to guides in the...accounted for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’ genomes...modify the CRISpick algorithm to prevent guides from being designed that target regions with high genomic...coming through an unexpected source: the CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell’s DNA,...x-axis) which SNPs map to thetargeting sequences of guides across 8 CRISPR libraries. Samples are divided ...