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TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m....one-pot reactions with straightforward restriction digestion and ligation steps to build barcoded lentiviral...pool of lentiviral plasmids. Multiple rounds of digestion and ligation result in plasmid libraries containing...tailored to address the users’ specific research questions. CombiGEM has been successfully applied to functionally...
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Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2020, 1:15 p.m....you can make big changes in your career path and still find comfort and happiness there. Read all of the...part of why they work at Addgene. I posed this question to all nine of my interviewees. Fabienne Furt,...people.” My absolute favorite response to this question came from Lucy Hammer, our Financial Operations... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m....option in early 2020 and eventually replace the existing version of PubMed. Key features This new version... for getting a quick summary of papers before investing the time to read them. Organizations: Accounts...AI-backed literature search developed by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Semantic Scholar ... -
Popular Retroviral Vectors and Their Uses in Scientific Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 24, 2018, 12:51 p.m....and 5 lentiviral Destination vectors. These vectors can induce combinatorial constitutive or inducible gene...produce their shRNA library to support functional investigations of the mammalian genome that can reveal how... -
A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m....You’ve done great research and made interesting discoveries. You’ve analyzed the data and generated beautiful...should be easily navigable and efficient; your questions, data, and conclusions should be clearly identified...spacing between them so that they are easily distinguished. The UCLA Library offers some Powerpoint based... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....highlighted new tools but also included time for questions and a group discussion on the best strategies ... the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign institute developed a 3’UTR database specifically for C.... to activation sequences upstream of genes to stimulate expression (Wang et al., 2016). In 2018, the lab... -
Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m....include Swiss Webster and Harlan (Hsd) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Swiss. Genetically engineered...injection of a targeting vector alone, some challenges still exist. Nucleases may cause off-target effects on...the transgene in specific cells or under certain stimuli. Cre recombinase catalyzes the recombination of... -
A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... be used for the development of vaccines and diagnostics (Hsieh et al., 2020). As the virus spreads around...also deposited plasmids for producing COVID-19 diagnostic enzymes. Plasmids in this toolkit include ones...starting point for SARS-CoV-2 researchers to investigate how the virus interacts with human cells. Addgene... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m....to keep track of growing collections of music. I still have a shelf full of CDs that have been gathering...Therefore, researchers from over 100 scientific institutions have proposed a shift to recombinant DNA-based...enormous amount of wasted money and time, with an estimated $350M/year lost on low quality antibodies in the... -
CRISPR in the Clinic
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m....Repair of CFTR by CRISPR/Cas9 in Intestinal Stem Cell Organoids of Cystic Fibrosis Patients." Cell Stem ...adult stem cells isolated from two patients with cystic fibrosis (Schwank et al). They were able to demonstrate... -
Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... instead that it is noninvasive and has longer-lasting effects. Building your chemogenetic system To set...they retain their intracellular interactions and still set off the same pathways, giving rise to the same... create ultrapotent PSEMS (uPSEMs) that have drastically increased potency. Download our chemogenetics... -
6 Tips for Grant Writing
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m....of expertise, equipment, or excellence of the institution). Likewise, if you’re staying in the same lab... applying for smaller grants from within your institute or a private funding body. Success breeds success...proof-of-principal study were very helpful in assisting me with applications for much larger fellowships... -
Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m....paternal grandmothers who experienced famine while still in their mother's womb passed on a trait to their...grandchildren; in this study,epigenetic changes were statistically significantly associated with reduced life-span...hybridization, methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme digestion, DNA adenine methyltransferase identification,... -
No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m....large heavy chains and two small light chains that stick out to form the “arms” holding the highly variable...the mRNA molecule, forming a ribosome complex consisting of the translated protein (sybody), ribosome,...constructed, they are used to produce a phage library consisting of phages that display the candidate sybodies... -
10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.... Khan Khilji, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Here are some tips...wiped with 70% ethanol immediately. Finally, avoid sticking pipettes into solution bottles directly, rather...soon be joining her PhD lab at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Sana is particularly... -
The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m....AAV and lentivirus have low immunogenicity, AAV still beats lentivirus. In mice, AAV is almost entirely...high degree. This is particularly helpful when investigating tissue-specific diseases, as you can target ...doi.org/10.1038/s41596-022-00700-y Hanlon, K. S., Kleinstiver, B. P., Garcia, S. P., Zaborowski, M. P., Volak... -
Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m....a minute, when it is only warm but not hot- and still liquid- it is rapidly poured onto the middle of ...individual cell clones with different expression characteristics from a population of transfected clones. The...two 48-well plates of clones) which enables investigators to identify specific clones with desirable properties... -
Plasmids 101: Knockout/Knock-In Plasmids
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m....One of the most powerful strategies to investigate a gene's function is to inactivate, or "knockout",...(Figure 4). When recombination occurs, the gene still functions normally because one of its exons has ...are located in intronic regions, this gene will still be expressed. You'd first screen for this specific... -
PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... In that case, an RQ value of one (or, more realistically, between 0.80-1.20) would mean you have one ...each reaction, math happens (this time, Poisson statistics), and the readout gives an absolute value of ...hg0721s80 Colborn JM, Byrd BD, Koita OA, Krogstad DJ. Estimation of copy number using SYBR Green: confounding ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m....sensing component, which separates them into two distinct categories detailed below. Voltage Sensitive Domain...fluorescence all have room for improvement. These sensors still have many useful applications, though, and if you...this two-part fluorescent system, and rhodopsin still functioning as the voltage sensor. FP-rhodopsin ...