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...particularly excited about the dTAG system as we can use it to evaluate the effects of rapid and selective...approaches. In addition, the dTAG system is versatile and can be used in both cell-based assays and mouse models...protein-of-interest, it is important to determine which terminus can accommodate the FKBP12F36V tag without disrupting...disrupting protein function. A literature search can help determine which terminus is favorable for tagging. However...terminus should be tagged, the dTAG lentiviral plasmids can serve as a rapid means of comparing functionality...Behnam Nabet, a postdoctoral fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Targeted protein degradation In the ...PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a chemical biologist interested...

...what appears to be a funky old garage, but looks can be deceiving. Step into this building and you will...volunteers. Transforming citizens into scientists Anyone can become a member of BosLab and previous laboratory...environment, and openly publish protocols so that anyone can engineer yeast to do similar things. The focus is... To learn more about what we’re up to or how you can help BosLab, visit our website and follow us on twitter...

...-inducible Proteins (FLiPs) Fluorescent proteins can be applied in a long list of creative ways. In her...photoswitchable fluorescent proteins to create enzymes that can be turned on and off with light.  Xin hypothesized...presented her work at the 2017 Winter qBio Meeting. You can learn more about Xin’s work with photoswitchable ...expression of GFP from the lac operon. GFP expression can then be used to determine the amount of HMO originally...Zhou and Fatima Enam. There were many excellent applicants but Xin and Fatima stood out for their creativity...

...record yourself. You can watch yourself to critique and figure out what to improve. You can share it with others...charge before others do”. Candidates who have “started something” which they can share on their resumes ...There are many different kinds of grants that you can apply for. If you are in a lab, your PI is likely...to work-from-home and just now realizing that we can’t bide our time and wait for it to be over to work...roles but for almost every position, we look for candidates that have demonstrated initiative. In fact, hear...have a definite advantage in our process. We see candidates who have done the following types of things: ...relationships when you are more desperate or needy so you can’t wait until you imminently need a job. Start now....

...microelectronic fibers made from thermoplastic polymers that can work with all the bells and whistles. The fibers ... molecules.   Fun fact: A 1 cm block of polymer can generate many meters of fibers!     Fig...its associated fibers across multiple channels and can also record tissue temperature proximal to the implanted...a rechargeable battery, is relatively small, and can be detached easily whenever necessary. This is all...

...this can lead to wasted time or retractions. Using a catalog number for identifying a reagent can be helpful...specific Addgene ID # listed in a publication, you can quickly pull up the associated plasmid page on the...87155 ; RRID:Addgene_87155).” So when citing, you can copy and paste the text attributing the PI who generated...

...protein are overexpressed in cells, microtubule growth can be switched off with blue light which causes LOV2...recently developed “Riboglow,” a set of tools that can be used to visualize RNA localization in mammalian... tags using the same number of fluorophores. You can find plasmids containing the cobalamin binding riboswitches...APOBEC1. Finally, they show that the ACE reporter can also quantify Cas9 cleavage, thus exhibiting its ...This paper demonstrated that the migration of a cancer cell line equipped with photodissociable EB1 could...

...calcium sensors, which are available at Addgene, can be used for ratiometric in vivo imaging. Griesbeck...on" in the presence of calcium. This color change can be observed under a microscope using commercially... beginners Griesbeck says his calcium indicators can be used in mouse, Drosophila, C. elegans, and zebrafish...and his colleagues took to optimize sensitivities can now be applied to dozens of other published FRET-...

...recommends to seek out advice from seasoned PIs who can offer support. “It is an exciting and emotional time... not rush when growing your lab. “One bad choice can be counter-productive." He also emphasizes the point... at about 65,000 messages and dealing with email can be half of my day sometimes.” He points out that ... to companies.” Take home message Starting a lab can be a challenging process. Each PI emphasizes the ... team so getting everyone talking to each other cannot be undervalued.” Connie Cepko points out the limited...

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...DNA sequencing troubleshooting and analysis 1. You can use any of the following programs to view your .ab1...all inclusive service some companies offer), you can purify the product either via the Sodium Acetate/...strongly recommend using a silica spin column. They can be pricey, but well worth it. 6. Edit your DNA ...

...cell genome can be packaged inside the vectors during production. These impurities cannot be removed during...capabilities and Seqwell’s plexWell technology, we can now perform NGS at Addgene to sequence all the DNA.... In most cases, the source of the contamination can be identified, and we will discard any AAV prep we...developed custom open-access Python scripts that can perform a deeper analysis of the data. Our serotype...Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a powerful tool that can be used to identify DNA contaminants in AAV preparations...

...tools.  Distributing and depositing In Figure 1, you can see cumulative numbers of CRISPR plasmid distribution...categorized by function, from 2014 to 2023. As you can see, nucleases, the original CRISPR tool, remain ...the most popular with our requestors. However, we can again see quick adaptation and steady use of all ...categorized by “age” or year they were deposited, you can see that from 2013 and on, popular CRISPR plasmids...ordering the plasmids is the easy part; using them can be a bit more challenging. Addgene’s free educational...other countries, from Japan to Australia, are significant depositors and requestors. CRISPR tools are developed...

...were first designed in 2005. The DNA-binding domain can be engineered to target specific DNA sequences while...then induces a double strand break. These breaks can then be repaired by homologous recombination with...triplet and when several ZFNs are strung together, it can read many base pairs simultaneously to increase specificity...geneticist named Zobrist who designs a virus that can potentially kill one-third of the human beings (just...rely on the cellular DNA repair machinery, which can lead to high frequency of indel formation in the ...called pegRNA (prime editing RNA), the prime editor can install all possible point mutations, delete short... understanding of the adenine base editors which can help accelerate the engineering of novel base editor...

...variants are more permissive: SpG can target NGN PAMs, while SpRY can target both NAN and NGN PAMs effectively...base editing doesn’t necessarily mean researchers can fix any problematic C or A mutations in the genome...retained a small amount of RNA-editing activity, which can cause off-target effects in a variety of RNA transcripts...right PAM Expanding PAM preferences Base editors can only access a short sequence, between four and eight...preference for specific PAMs. Though near-PAMless Cas9s can broadly target many sites in the genome, they also...double-stranded breaks in the DNA backbone, making them significantly less prone to indel mutations that plagued CRISPR...scientist who uses Addgene to share their tools. We can’t wait to see what you create next!   References...

...critical control in biological experiments. Replicates can be technical or biological and are included to improve...such as bovine serum albumin. Secondary antibodies can also react with endogenous antibodies naturally present...in mouse tissue. Such species-on-species staining can be partially addressed with stringent staining protocols...way to reduce, if not eliminate, the noise. This can be done either by modifying the blocking conditions...autofluorescence, also interferes with data interpretation and can be addressed with a label control. In a label control...allows you to detect dead or dying cells so that you can base your analysis on living cells only (for example...results, the signal from your target needs to be significantly higher than the background noise (Waters 2009...

... to specific subcellular regions, laser ablation can damage other cellular structures, and genetic mutations...Restricting the effect to a specific time or location can be critical when, say, the gene is essential during...with dozens of family members and many functions it can be difficult to unravel their specific roles. Zebrafish...using directed evolution (Tei et al., 2023).  PLD can hydrolyze phosphatidylcholine (PC), the predominant... membrane lipid, to phosphatidic acid (PA) or it can swap phosphatidylchonine’s choline head group for...to plasma membrane or lysosomes and its activity can be monitored by phosphatidic acid probe GFP-PASS....

.... ScFvs can also be fused to cellular toxins, radioisotopes, cytokines, and enzymes for cancer, autoimmune...scFv that binds cancer-related antigens, binding of the scFv part of the receptor can activate T cells...are the smallest unit of an antibody molecule that can bind antigen. While they may seem unfamiliar, scFvs...both VL-linker-VH and VH-linker-VL configurations can generate functional scFvs; however, some individual...scFvs are easier and cheaper to make because they can be expressed in bacteria, while mAbs generally require... Power., 2019). Their rapid clearance from blood can be a drawback for therapeutic applications where ...cells to kill cancer cells. scFv’s small size also allows for their delivery by viral vectors like AAV, which...