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TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m....Tips for designing your poster Check conference guidelines To begin, you should always follow conference...we’ve just presented some standard formatting guidelines for making a scientific poster, you shouldn’t...
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Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.... C. elegans embryo when all essential embryonic genes are individually depleted via RNA interference (...that can bind to activation sequences upstream of genes to stimulate expression (Wang et al., 2016). In ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2023, 1 p.m...., and as we all know, a structural component of bones and teeth. It is an enzyme co-factor, a crosslinking...with other measurements, specifically fluorescent ones? Many of the available biosensors use a single GFP... -
Antibodies 101: Choosing the Right Isotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2023, 3 p.m....Since polyclonal antibodies contain a variety of clones and thus the potential to bind many different sites...secondary antibodies rather than generally reactive ones. And make sure to check for any reported cross-reactivity... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m....genomes, scientists can control expression of their genes of interest. While recombinases are powerful gene... knockout library that targets human epigenetic genes was deposited by Kivanc Birsoy. Find the library... -
The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m....fiber optics need to be polished to significant smoothness to prevent drastic loss of efficiency between...diamond polishing paper of sequentially increasing fineness helps to maintain a consistent stream of light... -
Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m....more I realized that it cuts across multiple disciplines, which really epitomizes what the makerspace ...Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) at the University of Minnesota has declared our makerspace an educational institution... -
PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m....and test them in their labs. Figure 2: Guidelines to predict pegRNA efficiencies with pridict.it...any prime editor experimentalist, and especially shines once large-scale prime editing experiments come... -
Pooled Library Amplifications
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m....other colonies containing smaller, recombined backbones that may replicate faster. For this reason, if...Screening pCMV-Rep78/68 Scanning Saturation Mutagenesis (SSM) Pooled Library 80,962 1866 bp, plus... -
Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m....CRISPR plasmids categorized by year of deposit. Outlines show a representative proportion of CRISPR plasmids...of tools seen in Figure 3, indicates that the usefulness of popular CRISPR tools is both enduring and ... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m....that could directly impact patients. And, to be honest, I’ve never enjoyed grant-writing. The more I talked...academia, however, writing papers and grants is an inescapable and essential part of being able to continue ... -
10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m....can be identified. Even if some mammalian cells lines have similar morphologies, being familiar with these...Twice a week often works for most fast-growing cell lines (such as HEK293, which multiplies every 16 hours... -
Plasmids 101: Protein Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m....proteins both transiently or through stable cell lines. Both methods produce high protein yields if transfection...cells) that allow for continuous expression of genes integrated into the insect cell genome. Both of ... -
Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m....SpCas9 (derived from the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes). Consequently, fewer genetic tools for targeted...nuclease-competent Cas9, obviating the need to generate new cell lines or transgenic animals expressing dCas9 as a means... -
Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m....provides the AAV replication (rep) and capsid (cap) genes. AAV replication uses the host’s polymerase, but... the pHelper plasmid which expresses adenovirus genes which help mediate AAV viral replication; and 3)... -
Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m....fewer transcripts of their antibiotic resistance genes and can therefore be cultured in media containing.... Spiking your media with supplements such as magnesium salts, buffering agents, and/or supplying additional... -
Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.... the hierarchy of web pages the plasmid page is nested in. You can see in the example above that the bread...Database has more information about common vector backbones. The backbone modifications listed can refer ... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....levels. BiFC quantification This is where BiFC outshines FRET — BiFC experiments only require that you ...This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly controlled. ... -
MXS Chaining
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m....derived from the tyrosine-protein kinase Lyn) Membranes 3 mCherry 587nm/ 610 nm human β-Actin Actin ... might not, however, be appropriate for cloning genes from organisms with high CpG dinucleotide representation... -
Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m....protocols and examples of applications from across disciplines now available. In this post, we’ll review the...example, cytoskeletal structures that form continuous lines in pre-expanded samples can sometimes take on a ...