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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m....Plasmids 101 Learn about genome-wide screening with CRISPR and Lentivirus Read about the ClonTracr Library... the proper cell line is used; several common laboratory cell lines including 293 were immortalized with...
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CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m....In our last post, we talked about the first base transversion editors: CGBEs, or C → G Base Editors. ...apyrimidinic sites and abbreviated as AP sites. A collaborative team from the David Liu and Dali Li labs reported... CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors Read about four base editor reporters Resources on Addgene.org... -
Hot Plasmids: Fall 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m....more feasible, the lab of Alessio Ciulli and collaborators developed CRBNmidi (Kroupova et al., 2024). ...stepwise, achieving mutation efficiencies of up to about 9% of colonies (102 to 104 times higher than traditional...Bentley Time to get flexible! Alex Dunn’s lab and collaborators have deposited a new mechanosensor called PILATeS... -
Plasmids 101: Stringent Regulation of Replication
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... negative regulators. The genome of E. coli is about 4.6 million base pairs long and contains a single...copy number and compensating for the additional metabolic cost imposed on the host with a beneficial function.... On the other hand, they also impose a lower metabolic cost on cells and produce lower amounts of protein... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m....series of one- or two-marker plots, like in Figure 3 above, until the population of interest has been successfully... Of course, there are many more things to learn about when diving into flow cytometry data. There’s different... ways to use FSC and SSC, as briefly alluded to above. There’s many variations in how one can gate, select... -
Viral Production at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... before being distributed to customers. Details about our production protocols, titering methods, and ...either in-house by Addgene scientists or through collaboration with viral vector manufacturing facilities, ...generated from lentiviral preparations (described above) that are subject to a concentration step prior ... -
Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m....enable accurate labeling of neurons. As discussed above, weakly expressed proteins in particular are difficult...resembles images of the deity (see comparison image above). The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is ...tags. 4. High-resolutions microscopy As indicated above, smFPs can be used with conventional microscopes... -
pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m....successfully to derive iPSCs from PBMCs. Most laboratories use Sendai virus to reprogram PBMCs efficiently...establishment of virus-free hiPSCs usually require about 5-10 passages. Furthermore, working with Sendai ...source of somatic cells. This translates to only about 16 hiPSC colonies per 100 ml of starting blood sample... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Career Planning Resources
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2017, 2 p.m....or postdoc forever, and you need to be thinking about what comes next. To that end, one of the most important...personal connection; the importance of which will be elaborated on later. As for what job fairs to consider, ...the specific position he or she originally called about, you can keep in touch and reach back out when you... -
Bioinformatics at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m....much information as possible from depositing laboratories and associated publications, but our quality...the process. Another design choice we appreciated about Nextflow was how effortless it was for us to switch...interface. In our next post, we’ll share our story about how we used Nextflow Tower to augment our pipeline... -
Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m....proteins or nucleic acids. Read on to learn more about this versatile technique. Immunoprecipitation ...proteins in an IP are not denatured (learn more about antibodies here!) When using Protein A/G to immobilize...eluted by boiling the beads in SDS. (To learn more about Western blotting check out our blog post The Basics... -
Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m....Addgene Blog Learn more about Cas9 Variants and the Expanded CRISPR Toolbox Read about CRISPR enzyme Cpf1 ... and specific? The two AAV strategies described above showed successful target modification, indicating... -
Hot Plasmids - August 2020
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... plasmids you need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here. Here's... a cell. The Goedhart lab, Gadella lab, and collaborators have an ongoing effort to improve genetically..., that are optimized for excitation wavelengths above 1,000 nm and enable two-color imaging with red fluorescence... -
Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m....Generating a transgenic plant takes even longer, is more labor intensive, inefficient, and often not reproducible... region is transferred into the plant. In the laboratory we can utilize this natural process by replacing...system. The vectors mentioned in this blog post above are ready to use vectors, but with the MoClo system... -
Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.... more about CcdB, the toxic key to efficient cloning Read all Plasmids 101 blog posts Read about knockout...with the other toxin-antitoxin systems described above, one part of the pair is more stable than the other... -
Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m....following unanswered questions about CRISPR screen design. Unanswered questions about genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9...Morgens et al drew some generalizable conclusions about off-target activity, demonstrate safe-targeting ... -
To Codon Optimize or Not: That is the Question
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 12, 2020, 2:15 p.m....usage bias Read more about plasmids in our Plasmids 101 blog series Learn more about trends in synthetic... out Addgene's Molecular Biology Reference Read about genetic code expansion Browse our plasmid collection... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m.... on the Addgene Blog Learn More about FLEX-vectors Learn More about Cre-Lox Check out Retrograde AAVs...expression have been developed. Read on to learn more about FLP-FRT, Cre-lox, and how combinations of FLP and... -
Important Considerations in Optogenetics Behavioral Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2015, 2:30 p.m....of the important considerations you should think about when developing optogenetics behavioral experiments...scientific research is that the field benefits from collaboration and the exchange of ideas. The rapid spread ...versatility and standardization of genetic tools in the laboratory mouse, most optogenetics is performed in this... -
Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m....How does inducible expression work? As mentioned above, many expression plasmids utilize inducible promoters...see protein overexpression? The strains described above should generate sufficient expression levels for...may help with solubility issues. We want to hear about your favorite protein expression tips and tricks...