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TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 23, 2020, 1:15 p.m....organizations to share materials more broadly to accelerate COVID-19 research: Sinai Health System ... available to industry? Over the past 8 years, several organizations have made their plasmids available...Shop’ for Fluorescent Proteins, and plasmids from several labs at Florida State University became openly ...
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An Addgene Summer Internship
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 8, 2024, 7:22 p.m....back from other summer programs. Amy took into consideration just how busy I was and ensured that my decision...and the insert size should be a max of 500 bp (preferably). I compiled a list of three options from the...Through Addgene, I learned the basics of lab safety, general work skills — such as using Google workspace — ... -
Plasmids 101: Gene, enhancer, and promoter trapping
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2023, 1 p.m....needs to integrate within an exon of a gene to generate a transcriptional fusion. This may disrupt the...reading frame, in fact, they can be activated a considerable distance away from a gene which can make identification...there are many ways to insert your construct to generate a collection of monitored genes and mutants - ... -
Plasmids 101: Walkthrough of Addgene’s Snapgene-Powered Quality Control Process
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 1, 2018, 3:07 p.m....seqWell and going into detail about how we use next generation sequencing results to perform quality control... We’ve also talked about how our new Snapgene generated maps provide improved feature detection with an...is always to send prepped plasmid DNA for next generation sequencing. We then copy the contents of the ... -
Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m....developed by Thomas Clandinin’s lab, and incorporates several common genetic tools in Drosophila (Fig. 1): ...Ribozyme), a self-cleaving ribozyme. In the second-generation SPARC2 system, HDVR is placed upstream of the...organisms including mouse and fish, SPARC is likely generalizable to other systems as well. References: del... -
The Open Repository of CRISPR Screens: CRISPR Screen Data in One Place
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2020, 2:30 p.m....resource developed by the Biological General Repository for Interaction Datasets (BioGRID) in order to increase... Users can cross-interrogate screens from the literature for a drug, disease, or condition of interest... -
Sensing Neuronal Dopamine
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m....associated with the brain’s reward circuits are generally linked to dopamine (DA), a well-known reward chemical...more mysterious. Thus, scientists have developed several ways to sense dopamine. Methods for measuring Dopamine...Pavlovian conditioning Find the GRABDA sensor here! Overall these sensors are powerful new developments in ... -
Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Recycling
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 14, 2019, 2:35 p.m....familiar with the alarming amount of waste that is generated. This is a systemic problem that we need to address...account for an estimated 2% of global plastic generation. Less than 9% of plastics are ever recycled, ...boxes). We get these boxes a lot when receiving temperature-controlled reagents. Expanded polystyrene will... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2022
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m....EF1ɑ-driven viral vectors (AAV1) - and you can also find several other constructs in plasmid form. Fig. 1...neuroscience-related proteins, but we recently added several broadly useful antibodies for detecting protein... of the human proto-oncogene c-Myc. Since the generation of the first anti-c-Myc [9E10] (Even, et al.,... -
Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2015, 8:37 p.m....Addgene is a non-profit, we can focus more on generating blog content that scientists will find useful...giving it a high five. While screaming can be therapeutic and I’ve certainly done my fair share of venting...management, information distillation, etc) are transferable to many different fields. If you start thinking... -
Plasmids 101: Antibiotic Resistance Genes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 30, 2014, 3:29 p.m....inefficient process– just 1 out of 10,000 cells on average! Without some means of quickly determining which...resistance! What are antibiotics? Antibiotics are generally defined as agents that kill bacteria, or inhibit...lab, their mechanism for killing bacteria, and general working concentrations. For instructions on how... -
Viral Vectors 101: Transductions
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m....biological tools, and with the right safety considerations, they aren't dangerous for controlled lab usage...and episomal expression will last ~2-7 days at moderate levels. With regard to target cells or organism...Transduce on! Resources Resources on Addgene.org Generating Stable Cell Lines with Lentivirus Virus Handling... -
Science Careers: Unruly Interests Feed Many Paths
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 26, 2017, 12:12 p.m....unfold, absorbing the stochasticity of molecular interactions and embedding individual diversity to get from...than what fits for applied research. I focus in general terms on a couple of very broad topic domains, ...networks, as much as with technical knowledge. I leverage a breadth of knowledge to put diverse aspects ... -
Antibodies 101: Epitope Availability
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2022, 2 p.m....find some proteins of interest for which you have several antibodies in stock. Why are there so many options...let’s think about induced conformation changes. Several types of assays, such as ELISAs and Westerns, frequently...complex if you’re looking for proteins that are interacting with one another, or if you’re looking for a ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m....highlights from the past couple months including several pooled libraries: Cas13X and Cas13Y, two compact...It was designed based on MYC-ChIP-seq data from several MYC-dependent cancer cell lines. It can be applied...the new viral preps from recent months: Second generation GRAB dopamine sensors from Yulong Li’s lab are... -
Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 25, 2021, 2:29 p.m....screening, and next-generation sequencing of hybridomas have opened the door for a new generation of recombinant...Animal-based methods for antibody production have several drawbacks. Polyclonal antibodies produced in animals... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m....fluorescent dyes for DNA-protein interaction studies? Kyubong Jo's lab generated fluorescent protein fusions...lentiviral vectors the iBARs can be detected by next generation sequencing. In order to avoid a high false-positive... -
Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m....translate to a desire to do the research itself. Several years of exclusively writing lab reports and empirical...busy point of the first semester in which I had several projects nearing deadline (an animated video depicting...chance to carry out a comprehensive review of the literature informing the notion of “heading” in soccer as... -
Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 17, 2016, 3:30 p.m....testing at Addgene meaning they come ready made to accelerate your research. Why distribute virus? Plasmid...This service will further enable scientists and accelerate research." What viral preps are available...expression of a gene under the control of the tet operator. AAV AAVs are the workhorses of both chemo- and... -
Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 25, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... due to a few limiting factors. To start, the average health science startup requires a great deal more...those ideas into commercial products and next generation companies. We launched in the early spring of...(CFO). As CEO, I am responsible for internal operations and building external strategic partnerships ...