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  1. Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc

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    Aug. 21, 2014, 3:15 p.m.
    ... After all I was only going to be interviewed for 1 hour so having a broad enough insight was going to...Coordinator’ came up at Abcam. Unlike other job descriptions for marketing positions posted on recruitment...
  2. Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors

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    May 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m.
    ...variants. This resulted in the construction of redCALWY-1, a red-shifted FRET sensor for zinc using variants...beginnings of the field. Those engineered sensors were designed to replace synthetic calcium dyes, which had been...
  3. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...can also rank the plasmids by abundance, scaled to 1, to create a “cumulative wealth distribution” curve...next-generation sequencing (NGS). For gRNA libraries, you’ll design primers to create 200-300 bp sequencing products...
  4. Visualizing Genomic Loci with CRISPR-Sirius

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    April 18, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...loci in the genome and the guides are relatively unstable.   Figure 1: CRISPRainbow labeling. Two... the gRNA tetraloop and went through subsequent design iterations to increase stability and minimize misfolding...
  5. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    July 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ... genes with a single viral vector.   Fig. 1: Schematic of multiplex gene editing with DAP array...The natural CRISPR locus of a bacteria host encodes multiple guide RNAs (gRNAs) on a single array to ...applications, we provide detailed manual and online design examples of using Addgene plasmids hCtRNA_FT (#186715...
  6. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...as an endogenous RNA imaging tool.   Fig. 1: Csm, shRNA, and Cas13 were compared head-to-head ...effects, both of happen with Cas13. CRISPR-Csm degrades both nuclear and cytoplasmic mRNA with 90-99% ...crystalizing the hfYFP structure, the group rationally designed GFP variants with similar capabilities. If you...
  7. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...methods to improve AAV production.     References 1.Clark, K. Reed. "Recent advances in recombinant adeno-associated...if you end up concentrating your AAV above your desired titer and want to dilute it, err on the side of...less buffer than you would to achieve the exact desired concentration to avoid over-diluting, and make ...
  8. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    Sept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m.
    ...regarding what makes this group of researchers special: 1. Stem cell scientists care deeply about ethics Ethics...speakers from top minds in the stem cell field have described the Yamanaka paper as "life changing". Dr. Yamanaka...affordable. 4. Stem cell scientists are generous Besides some of the scientists I've already mentioned, ...
  9. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry Controls

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    June 6, 2024, 1:50 p.m.
    ...settings with experimental samples. Figure 1: Example flow plots for a single color control. A)...familiar with the basics of controls in experimental design, you’ll need a few controls specific to flow as...controls like FMO or isotype controls, which we’ll describe a bit later. Single Colors Single color controls...
  10. Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support

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    Feb. 4, 2014, 3:50 p.m.
    ...Networking 101-Building Relationships for Success”. Choose 1-2 tactics to try. One of my favorites is making the...mentoring questions I set out to answer. First, I will describe some of the many ways you can approach finding...Watch for my upcoming mentoring post in which I describe how to organize a successful peer mentoring circle...
  11. CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes

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    Jan. 25, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...and CasPEDIA have got you covered!     Fig. 1 – CasPEDIA Cas ID display information for a given ... is also documented. Experimental design When you are in the design phase of your experimental planning...CasPEDIA is an online, searchable resource that provides summary information on Class 2 Cas enzymes. The...The information is organized in wiki format and includes biochemical properties, previously established...relevant resources The homepage displays a graphic describing CasIDs and relevant properties of Cas enzymes...What other RNA components are required? CasPEDIA provides information on crRNA and tracrRNA requirements... also show you how multiplexed arrays would be designed, if that’s your end goal. CasPEDIA also features...
  12. Fluorescent CRISPR Reporters: SRIRACCHA and GEmCherry2

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    May 26, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...into the genome of mammalian cells.  Figure 1: The SRIRACCHA reporter construct. Image from Wen ...created SRIRACCHA in 2017 to enrich and identify desired CRISPR mutants (Wen et al., 2018). SRIRACCHA uses...constructs for the reporter to work and to make the desired genome edit:  A donor plasmid that contains a ...OH-T and doxycycline. A gRNA that targets your desired gene (whose sequence is also found in the reporter...well. The ratio of RFP to GFP expressing cells provides a real-time read out of Cas9 activity.  By using...integrated GFP reporter leaving you with just your desired genomic edit.  Find SRIRACCHA plasmids at Addgene...DSB is repaired by NHEJ which depending on the nucleotides inserted or deleted, can result in an in-frame...
  13. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    Nov. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
    ...sites that were previously unavailable. Figure 1: The PAM sequence that the Cas nuclease recognizes...Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9 described the PAM specificity of Cas9s isolated from different..., and NGCG). Since then, the Osamu Nureki Lab described a rationally engineered Cas9, SpCas9-NG, which...Nishimasu et al., 2018). The David Liu Lab similarly described xCas9, which displayed the ability to target multiple... also high off-target activity, which may be undesirable in many applications. At the time of our first...post on choosing a Cas9, the Feng Zhang Lab had described eSpCas9, while the Keith Joung Lab had developed...
  14. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    Feb. 28, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...accessible to practically everyone.     Fig. 1: Open source hardware builds   Since I started...provide the construction plans or CAD (computer aided design) drawings of their devices, which makes it very...has allowed the community to regularly replicate designs worldwide. Distributing hardware via globally established...similar way to the biological protocol, and assembly designs based around the use of commercially available ...users outside the project to modify the raw and design files, allowing the device to take on a community-driven...of work from universities and research centers provides a potential conflict between traditional IP-based...
  15. How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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    June 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...the output of the analysis performed in experiment 1. Use camelCase: In camelCase, each subsequent word...instance, your Desktop directory contains the folders and files that you see on your desktop. The location...immediately write a text document with a brief description of the directory contents, at a minimum. This...for a single use, save the script as originalName_descriptionOfEdit in the same directory where it was ...Your Next Experiment Find Our List of CRISPR gRNA Design Tools ...
  16. Pooled CRISPR Libraries Offer Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens

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    Feb. 24, 2015, 7:50 p.m.
    ...endogenous genes and it consists of three components: 1. A nucleolytically inactive Cas9-VP64 fusion; 2. A...first generation of CRISPR-Cas9 plasmids were not designed with gene activation in mind. “We had not managed...Konermann and her colleagues in Feng Zhang’s lab describe just such a system, which they call CRISPR/Cas9...from the structure to guide and improve activator design,” she said. “Before it was a little like tapping...instead of at the protein’s C terminus. With that new design in place, Konermann immediately saw an order of...consistency and validation with >80% effectively enriched guides per gene hit, and 100% validation of the top 10...
  17. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    Aug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...medRxiv.org) in the past few years.   Figure 1: Stand aside, CERN — it's a new age of accelerating...been common in fields like math and physics for decades (see: arXiv.org), but have been only adopted by...course, preprints don’t replace journals and other modes of scientific communication. Researchers often post...to receive deposits of plasmids that have been described in a preprint. In fact, over 1,500 plasmids in...Depositing plasmids that were used in a preprint provides all the same benefits as sharing those plasmids...resources on the Addgene blog Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series...
  18. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ... Effectors.” Cell (2018) pii: S0092-8674(18)30207-1. PubMed PMID: 29551272 Plasmids from this paper ...New work from Konermann et al. and Yan et al. describes new Cas13d enzymes that average only 2.8 kb in...Like other Cas13 enzymes, the Cas13d orthologs described in these papers can independently process their... high targeting efficiency, both of which are described below. Yan et al.: WYL-domain-containing accessory...produced very similar cleavage products even when guides were tiled across a target RNA, indicating that...
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