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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m....mutations through homologous recombination. To further increase the utility of CRISPR/Cas9, it will be necessary...that enhance pol III transcription, potentially increasing the levels of gRNA expression. Since tRNAs are... of multiple gRNAs targeting a single gene can increase the likelihood of gene knockout, or multiple gRNAs...
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3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m....funding and time. While institutions that focus on creative problem solving like the Howard Hughes Medical...plant research, more initiatives are needed to increase the body of knowledge. Organizations like Open...research and effectively carry out their mission of creating new forums and opportunities for open innovation... -
Dos & Don'ts When Publishing a Scientific Manuscript
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 22, 2014, 4:02 p.m.... the world of science publishing, and an ever increasing number of journals and publishers to choose from...them needing a subscription to the journal. An increasing number of funding bodies insist that the research...is beneficial for both the referees (as they get credit for their time and effort) and the scientific community... -
Summer SciComm: Preprints
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m....publishing has a number of drawbacks, especially the increasingly growing time from submission to publication....for their efforts, inspire future research, and increase their impact. Open access and transparency Another...journal publication or an updated preprint, further increasing their findability. Now, go out there and finish... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m....electric! After attending this meeting I had an increased appreciation for the role of ion channels and ... the entire worm during regeneration, the worm creates two heads. Subsequent cutting results in a two-...pHLuorin fluorescent protein. This GEVI features increased brightness and improved plasma membrane specificity... -
Seven Tips for Using LinkedIn as a Scientist
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 1, 2019, 1:21 p.m.... viewed your profile.” The latter is much less creepy. If we’ve met before, I’d be much more likely to...borders on my first rule of networking--”If it feels creepy, don’t do it.” It’s just not a useful way to build...rules of good resume writing. Include examples of concrete accomplishments in both the technical and “plus... -
The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m....cells in the microenvironment. This results in increased expression of transforming growth factor-β signaling...signaling, possibly inducing the secretion of growth promoting proteins, such as human growth factor, vascular... (Kogure et al., 2011) believes that miRNA may decrease the expression of TAK 1, an enzyme that controls... -
New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m....figure out how to optimize protocols for in vivo screening with lentiviral pooled shRNA libraries. Later,...reagents.” Here at Addgene, we’re excited to see the creative new ways you put the ClonTracer library to use... Blog Learn about the Sabatini and Wood Drug Screening Kit Find Out How to Best Utilize Our Cancer Resource... -
Engaging with science and society at pgEd
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 20, 2018, 12:17 p.m....this through a variety of activities, including creating educational materials and lesson plans that are...sterilization of women in marginalized communities have created a legacy of distrust between these communities ...communities, including those by researchers hoping to increase community participation in new precision medicine... -
Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m....response to blue light. This tool, CRY2clust, was created by adding a 9-residue peptide to the C-terminus...regions. To overcome this issue, Shemesh et. al. created a soma-targeted derivative of the opsin CoChR, ...within the cell. Their Fluorescence fLuctuation INcrease by Contact (FLINC)-based biosensors measure fluctuations... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m....available on our FRET Resource page and can be used to create fusions with a gene of interest. These plasmids...biosensors too, as another laboratory may have already created the sensor that you need. FRET biosensors designed...multiple FRET biosensors simultaneously would further increase the amount of correlated information available... -
6 Tips for Grant Writing
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m....tips to improve your grant writing and hopefully increase your success rate. 1. Submit your grant early...are unlikely to get past the initial round of screening. I STRONGLY recommend that you ask a PI or mentor...taxes or charitable donations) so there is an increasing realization that, if we want people to keep contributing... -
Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m....Mammalian expression plasmids are primarily used to create mRNA and the commonly used mammalian terminators...below) releases the mRNA from the polymerase and creates a free 3' end which is now available for polyadenylation...Internal Polyadenylation Signal Substantially Increases Expression Levels of Lentivirus-Delivered Transgenes... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... 2017). In vitro selection allows scientists to create antibodies to targets that may not work well in... laboratories and companies have already begun creating plasmids encoding affinity reagents. These include...open plasmid sharing, the CRISPR community has created hundreds of useful variants of Cas9. By providing... -
Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m....using the plexWell technology to easily and quickly create Illumina sequencing libraries. From start to finish...ask the depositing laboratory to review the discrepancies. If the depositing laboratory confirms that ...-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening. Nat Protoc 12:828–863 . https://doi.org/10.1038... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.... Neurogenetic alchemy: CAP-Mac unleashes the secrets of primate brains with brilliance By Hridaya Patel...authors used a multispecies approach to generate and screen a library of AAV9 variants (Chuapoco et al., 2023... Figure 3: Overview of library generation and screening that led to identification and characterization... -
CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m....specially engineered sgRNAs to increase transcription. This is done through creating a dCas9/VP64 fusion protein...CRISPRa systems recruit transcription factors to increase gene expression. CRISPRa methods vary in their... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m....growth or decline of interest in a field over time. Creating an alert for a search term helps automate your...is not a traditional search engine. Instead, you create your own research feed by entering keywords, concepts...new papers that contain these terms. You can also create intersects in your feed which means only papers... -
Plasmids 101: The Wide World of Natural Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 8, 2024, 1:15 p.m....Figure 1: Common functions of natural plasmids. Created with BioRender.com. Resistance (R) plasmids...resistance genes to help cells survive their own secretions. Pro tip! Historically, colicin-producing plasmids...years, and new classifications are still being created as whole-genome sequencing becomes more relevant... -
Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m....activation or repression, transgenic mouse line creation, and in vivo gene editing of mice, with the potential...cationic polymer. Polybrene has long been used to increase retroviral transduction efficiency by neutralizing...Nanoblades CRISPR has also been extensively used to create transgenic mice by microinjecting zygotes with ...