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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...considered if size constraints are an issue. Adenovirus Adenovirus has a linear, double stranded DNA genome...serotypes of human-infecting adenovirus have been identified so far! Adenovirus generally has high immunogenicity...viruses are roomy: some adenoviruses pack up to ~35 kb of space for cargo! Adenovirus is an effective option...used lab viruses: gamma-retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated virus. Gamma-retrovirus...mammals, and even the avian population. Some adenoviruses are known to cause respiratory disease across... the other viruses discussed in this article, adenovirus has the highest maximum titer, a plus for production... genomic integration. While the expression of adenovirus cargo is high, it’s generally not as long lasting...
  2. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...’s lab in Novartis Oncology.  Bhang did her PhD work at Johns Hopkins and came to Novartis for her post-doc...research. When she came to Novartis, she was happily surprised that “Novartis was actually really research...This article is based on an interview with Novartis researcher, Carrie Bhang. The ClonTracer Library,...investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis Oncology, is an exciting new tool that allows ... and says that she decided to do a post-doc at Novartis because she wanted first-hand experience in industry...investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis Oncology, Bhang has been working on using the ...developing more potent ABL1 allosteric inhibitors at Novartis. The ClonTracer library has been distributed all...
  3. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    Jan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...However, if we think of creativity as a form of innovation, it’s clear that creativity is absolutely a transferable...Creativity is required to develop new projects and test novel approaches, a necessary skill set for any scientist...ll delve into strategies you can use to foster innovation. If you identify as a non-creative or if you ... by an email or sidetracked by a colleague. To innovate, you’ll have to focus. Find yourself a block of...starting point, the ideas generated were hardly novel. When told to use a roller skate as a starting point...but the idea behind the study holds. To generate novel ideas, start with an out-of-the-box concept and ...As a result, the product team is an incredibly innovative group. Our entire company benefits from their...
  4. Tips for Working in Industry & Success in Management: Interview with Crystal Shih

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    Oct. 5, 2017, 1:13 p.m.
    ...scientific teams at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research to develop novel biologics for the treatment...Crystal Shih is an Investigator III at Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland.... Crystal now works on protein therapeutics at Novartis - listen to learn more about Crystal’s exciting...Crystal's educational background and position at Novartis. Chapter 2: What's a lab group in industry? The...empower people Chapter 3: How Crystal advanced at Novartis, and how to prepare yourself for success by having... The types of science that Crystal works on at Novartis, how she's learned to prioritize projects, and...listings. Mobility between different positions at Novartis. Chapter 7: How Crystal developed her science ...
  5. Hot Plasmids - March 2019 - Anti-CRISPR, 2in1 Cloning, Fluorescent Voltage Indicators, and Photoswitchable Proteins

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    March 19, 2019, 1:31 p.m.
    ...fusion protein inhibitor CASANOVA for “CRISPR-Cas9 activity switching via a novel optogenetic variant of...AcrIIA4.” CASANOVA responds to blue light quickly. Within minutes of inactivating the CASANOVA complex,...Plasmids! Optogenetic control of CRISPR-Cas9 by CASANOVA Article contributed by Cary Valley  Listen to ...observed binding telomeric DNA. What’s great about CASANOVA? It works with the S. pyogenes Cas9, dCas9-effector...genetic targeting and editing experiments. Find the CASANOVA plasmids here! Bubeck F et al., Nature Methods...characteristics they wanted, the team identified Archon1, a novel opsin-based fluorescent voltage indicator. Archon1...technique using small scaffold proteins to identify novel binding proteins that bind to either the light- ...
  6. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...✓ reflects an innovation always included in the indicated tool. ~ reflects an innovation that may optionally...repair system, and more recent prime editing innovations have improved the odds of mismatch repair favoring... C-terminus of Cas9 H840A nickase (PE1). But innovations by the Liu lab and others have led to a variety...base-pair editing window cannot edit within what Fyodor Urnov refers to as “PAM deserts” in the genome. More versatile...cells with 1-10% indels. Since then, further innovations have continued to improve the maximum efficiency...expression and activity In addition to the numerous innovations that streamline the process of prime editing,...reduced editing efficiencies, likely because both innovations aim to solve the same problem. Both approaches...
  7. Hot Plasmids - October 2022

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    Oct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...this post: Improved voltage indicator: JEDI-2P Novel class of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins...https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.07.013.   Novel class of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins...labs of Mingshan Xue and John Spudich identifies a novel class of light-gated potassium channelrhodopsins...fungus-like protist Hyphochytrium catenoides (Govorunova et al. 2022). The authors show that HcKCR1 and...photoactivation of HcKCR1. Images adapted from Govorunova et al. 2022.     HcKCRs represent a long-...performance of HcKCRs. Find HcKCR plasmids here!   Govorunova EG, et al. Kalium channelrhodopsins are natural...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools

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    March 21, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...mammalian research: 𝛄-retrovirus, lentivirus, adenovirus, and adeno-associated virus (AAV). While each...higher end. Adeno and adeno-associated viruses Adenoviruses infect non-dividing cells but they do not permanently...integration causing mutagenesis in the host. Adenoviruses can deliver relatively large cargo inserts (...non-dividing cells. AAVs primary advantage over adenovirus is their low immunogenicity, which means they...cells Insertional Mutagenesis Possible Adenovirus Remains Episomal (Little Risk of Insertional... adenovirus...
  9. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Dumas, Lercher, Spicer, & Davis, 2015). By using a novel aminoacyl tRNA synthetase/tRNA pair, a researcher...engineered into a desired site. During translation, the novel tRNA/unnatural amino acid finds the UAG codon in...continually being developed, so don’t be afraid to try novel, unpublished combinations of labeling strategies...experimental design lends itself to creativity and innovation, valuable commodities in any NIH grant application... understanding of your protein that can lead to novel insights about its biology and its behavior. See...in Boston, MA. His interests include developing novel fluorescent tools for labeling reagents and structurally... of ryanodine receptor type 1 structure using a novel site-specific labeling method." PloS one 4.10 (2009...
  10. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    Nov. 3, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...did we get here in the first place? How CRISPR innovation affected software development CRISPR, like the...it, offers an interesting view into how rapid innovation affects the research community. I’ve likened ...That’s just 3 to 4 years ago. It is a bubble of innovation (a piñata), and software development has caught...separate sgRNA design tools into database and de novo solutions. Database tools allow us to view and get...community in order to succeed. With respect to de novo sgRNA design, I again separate it into two categories...future of CRISPR software is promising. Rapid innovation in this space has put us in a good position to...
  11. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    Nov. 5, 2024, 8:32 p.m.
    ...produce, so most labs opt to purchase adenoviruses from dedicated adenoviral production labs or companies. Production...available. The viruses Lentiviruses, AAV, and adenoviruses can all be produced in mammalian cells. However...make lentiviruses and AAV in-house. High-titer adenoviruses are difficult and time consuming to produce,...transformation of human neuronal cells by human adenoviruses and the origin of HEK 293 cells. The FASEB Journal...
  12. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ...Non-integrating iPSC delivery methods Viral Vectors Adenovirus: Adenoviral vectors infect dividing and nondividing...verify excision didn’t introduce mutations Adenovirus Non-integrating Low Medium Generates transgene-free...polycistronic transgene or with four different adenoviruses, each expressing one factor. These vectors don...less likely to cause insertional mutagenesis, adenoviral vectors are considered a safer way to express...Minoru Iijima, Manami Ohtaka, and Mahito Nakanishi. "Novel Strategy to Control Transgene Expression Mediated...
  13. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    March 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik, 1987).  Antisense RNAs encoded on the plasmid ...plasmid for replication or partitioning machinery (Novick, 1987). In cases where one plasmid outcompetes ...incompatibility to combat antimicrobial resistance. Using novel plasmids based partly on plasmid incompatibility.../j.1472-765x.2008.02426.x Pubmed PMID: 19241516 Novick RP (1987) Plasmid incompatibility. Microbiology... 25873913 Uraji M, Suzuki K, Yoshida K (2002) A novel plasmid curing method using incompatibility of plant...
  14. Celebrating the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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    Oct. 17, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...we’ve seen so far!). They started by designing a novel topology, then iteratively generated 3D models and...Although Top7 was designed simply to be stable and novel, the principles that created it have been applied...the Baker Lab and others. The introduction of de novo designed proteins also helped researchers understand...Stoddard, B. L., & Baker, D. (2003). Design of a Novel Globular Protein Fold with Atomic-Level Accuracy...
  15. A History of Genome Engineering in Popular Culture

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    Feb. 25, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...animal testing and modifications. The premise of the novel involves Dr. Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids... writer Jack Williamson who used it in his 1951 novel Dragon’s Island. In 1976, the world’s first genetic...against a genetically engineered superhuman Khan. The novel, Inferno (2013) and the movie version (2016) stars...editors which can help accelerate the engineering of novel base editor proteins. She is particularly interested...Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ (2011) Targeted Genome Editing Across...
  16. Michael Koeris' Journey from Grad Student to Entrepreneur: The Story of Sample 6

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    Jan. 21, 2016, 4:52 p.m.
    ... changed its name from Novophage to Sample 6. To learn more about Novophage's successful transformation...Koeris and Lu founded the biotech startup company, Novophage. As you'll hear Dr. Koeris explain however, the...firm, Flagship Ventures, Koeris helped change Novophage's focus. The company went from developing therapeutics...
  17. Reflections and Looking Ahead

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    Feb. 25, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...our partnership with the Institute for Protein Innovation (IPI), we expanded a growing collection of thoroughly...enter 2025, your feedback continues to guide our innovation.  In response to a demand for more AAV viral ...extensive plasmid database — because we believe that innovation flourishes when data are shared. The scientific...look ahead, I am excited to continue to grow and innovate with your help and guidance. Every plasmid shared...
  18. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    .... https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.04.076067    Novel fluorescent enzyme biosensors provide direct, specific...optimization. Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating a SL-insensitive...parasitic Striga hermonthica SL receptor HTL7. This novel type of biosensors could be used in high throughput...As a result, agricultural applications of these novel biosensors could have a major economic impact.   ...
  19. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...of the company.  Ultragenyx’s goal is to develop novel products for the treatment of rare and ultra-rare...was the Head of Oncology Target Discovery at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Drug development...are less common, they can be very impactful. At Novartis, Stegmeier deposited the ClonTracer Barcoding ...built create inefficiencies that ultimately make innovation and science slow,” Vandenberghe says. “The continuous...
  20. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    Dec. 20, 2018, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., founding bioethicist of Rogue Bioethics. On November 25, the MIT Technology Review dropped a bombshell...forward” is the June 2012 report on the ethics of “Novel techniques for the prevention of mitochondrial DNA...Nuffield Council began their research into both novel and previously established ethical issues raised...industry to inform her work on emerging issues in novel technologies, including self-driving vehicles, synthetic...
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