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  1. Q&A with Karen Katz and Carl Paratore, the Newest Members of the Addgene Board of Directors

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    Feb. 19, 2019, 1:36 p.m.
    ...as help our students succeed whether that be academically or on the employment front. Paratore: I work...& Morning. Karen was a founding member of Mass Medical Angels, a venture mentor at MIT and served on the... the Greater Boston Food Bank and participates locally in Read To A Child's "Lunchtime Reading Program...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    Oct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are an important biological tool that allow scientists to express a gene ...with biorender.com. ITR structure  WT ITRs are symmetrical 145-nucleotide sequences that flank the ends ...serotypes vary in their gene transfer efficiency. Our practical knowledge of ITRs is still limited, but this area...
  3. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 3: Genome Engineering in Flies

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    July 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
    ...study it. The process is fairly straightforward. Basically, you place your gene of interest in a plasmid ...genetic crosses with balancer chromosomes to make genetically stable fly lines. After a few weeks of waiting... aware of at least some of the possibilities. Basically, if you can devise an experimental assay that ...
  4. Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?

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    March 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...North Carolina, Connie Cepko’s lab from Harvard Medical School, and Jonathan Ting’s lab from the Allen ...educational materials, and provides viral vector technical service (details about virus production protocols...word out about this new resource and providing fantastically useful educational content on viral vectors....
  5. Clear and Accessible Writing

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    Feb. 15, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ... reader accessing the information? This can be physical or digital. For instance, you would present information...most helpful to use a lot of jargon and have a technical, detailed approach. Other times, it is more helpful...thought it would be most helpful to highlight the technical details of collecting the purified AAV–that the...
  6. Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes

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    June 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...restriction endonucleases. A given prokaryote typically has genes encoding one or a few restriction modification...Well, even though Dam methylation sites are not specifically associated with any restriction modification... These specialized E. coli strains have been specifically engineered to be Dam and Dcm methylase-deficient...
  7. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...reprograming influence tumors development? Being pathological active regions, microenvironments shape a tumor...interested in science journalism and writing about biomedical issues. Follow her on Twitter @BrbaraPinho6. ...expression predicts early tumor recurrence and poor clinical outcome in human breast cancers." The American...
  8. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ... rate would need to be much, much lower before clinical applications could be considered. It is important... efficiency and applicability. Given moral and ethical concerns surrounding such research, it is crucial... experiments are needed before we can consider clinical applications for germline editing. Although this...
  9. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...developed cloning vectors to harness it. These vectors, called pKIL18 and pKIL19, contained the ccdB gene in frame...ccdB and therefore would die. This procedure dramatically reduces the number of clones that do not contain...and ccdB Survival strains have been developed specifically with ccdB-containing vectors in mind, any plasmid...
  10. Writing Scientific Manuscripts: Literature Searching, Reading, & Organizing

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    May 5, 2015, 3:54 p.m.
    ... year, narrow by article type (review, patent, clinical study, research article etc). There are also numerous...conclusions. In any case, the reader should give a critical eye to all results in the relation to how they... biochemistry instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University. She is...
  11. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    March 22, 2018, 1:28 p.m.
    ...bacteria through the mail due to laws concerning genetically modified organisms. Since Addgene is very proud...individually. Enter the BIOROBOT! This robot is called the Qiagen BIOROBOT Universal Platform and it suits... for a mini prep, except it does it on a larger scale. Using the BIOROBOT Universal Platform is ideal ...
  12. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...., 2021). Another version of the spike protein, called HexoPro, was developed by Jason McLellan’s lab....genome-wide CRISPR libraries, Brunello (knock out) and Calabrese (activation), from Addgene to better understand...bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as critical host factors modulating SARS-CoV-2 infection. ...
  13. CRISPR Activators: A Comparison Between dCas9-VP64, SAM, SunTag, VPR, and More!

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    Oct. 6, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... to be re-engineered for each gene, making wide-scale gene activation seem next to impossible. The development...methods greatly improved CRISPRa, expanding its practicality and popularity in research (Tanenbaum et al....JS, Nishimasu H, Nureki O, Zhang F (2014) Genome-scale transcriptional activation by an engineered CRISPR-Cas9...
  14. Meet an Addgenie: Insights into Grad School, Career Paths, and More

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    June 25, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Addgene’s Lab Manager, was taking classes at her local community college when she took her first job at... and hoping to pursue. The choice to not go to medical school was devastating. At the same time, she has...circumstance. She was working as a research and technical assistant, when her life changed––she had a daughter...
  15. 6 Tips for Grant Writing

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    Oct. 18, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...unintelligible to a lay audience. My lay paragraph typically includes a couple of sentences of introduction... rejected on some occasions. Strategize, choose calls that suit your career stage / research area, and...peers and collaborators can also help you get some critical insight into what you're doing wrong. All this...
  16. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...remarkable progress on establishing a system for the chemical replication of RNA in the absence of evolved enzymatic... about using CRISPR/cas to address the growing clinical problem of antibiotic resistant bacteria. See ... and Sun Yat-sen University presented two new technical developments. Using the Tet-on system, his lab...
  17. xCas9: Engineering a CRISPR Variant with PAM Flexibility

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    March 28, 2018, 6:52 p.m.
    ...edits or knock-ins. Editing efficiency decreases drastically once your cut site is more than 10 bp away from... mutagenesis plasmid (MP6) permits quick, large-scale mutation of the gene of interest. They created a... a selection phage (SP) to carry catalytically dead SpCas9 (dCas9) fused to the bacterial polymerase subunit...
  18. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ...but close together in terms of where they are physically located. DNA is then sheared into pieces small...on-target enrichment. 2. Determining the spatial and hierarchical organization of chromatin interaction networks...CAPTURE 2.0 is the construction of spatial and hierarchical chromatin interaction networks. Think of these...
  19. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    Feb. 7, 2019, 2:16 p.m.
    ...sequencing primers for quality control. At such a scale, automation is crucial, both for speeding things...to the same principles listed here. It employs biological best practices. For example, it ranks guides ...published on how to do it best. Scientists are typically advised to mutate the PAM to which the guide binds...
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