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  1. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...your insert, DpnI digest away the templates, and transform the PCR products into E. coli. Ligases within ...Otherwise you let your E. coli do the work for you. Traditional restriction enzyme and ligase based cloning is...at a price of a few dollars per reaction for traditional restriction cloning. Sequence and Ligation Independent...to pick the right enzymes, optimize reagent concentration, or purify DNA fragments from gels. If you’re...11.1 (2011): 92. PubMed PMID: 21992524. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3207894.  Additional Resources on the...
  2. Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR

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    April 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...generate a classic double-stranded break, while modulators regulate transcription and chimeric efforts make... community. The rapid adoption of new tools, illustrated in Figure 2, and the longevity of tools seen ...FR=France; KR=South Korea; CH=Switzerland; AU=Australia.  It probably comes as no surprise that the...plasmids. But many other countries, from Japan to Australia, are significant depositors and requestors. CRISPR...
  3. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...developing generic strategies for detecting cloned genes (Munro and Pelham, 1984). The strategy they landed ... available - aka peptide tagging.  Key to this strategy was the existence of high quality antibodies for...an amide group added to its C-terminus post-translationally, which turned out to be critical for antibody...that Munro and Pelham were devising their tagging strategy, another group of researchers was working on isolating...
  4. PhD Applications After COVID

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    Jan. 5, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...financial and logistical stress that accompanies traveling for campus visits. This is definitely an advantage...lab, research, and provide them with a CV or transcripts if requested Thank them, and eagerly await a ...financial aspects that are confusing? During a traditional campus visit, many students will have questions...the online format, I didn’t have to worry about traveling during an already stressful time, and I was more...universities change their format of interview from a travel day to an online call in response to challenges...
  5. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... lab has created a novel nanocompartment for transporting proteins in yeast by using murine polyomavirus...providing enzyme protection while still allowing substrates and products to diffuse freely into or out of...photocleavable gRNAs within seconds. A CRISPR-based lineage tracing tool captures rare clones that represent 0.001%...where gRNA expression is induced by anhydrous tetracycline. Three new anti-CRISPRs were identified that...expressing GCaMP6f with this promoter. Image calcium transients in PV interneurons with AAV-S5E2-GCaMP6f are ...
  6. Interview: Nicola Patron on Plant Synthetic Biology, MoClo, and More

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    June 12, 2014, 3:30 p.m.
    ... work has always been focused on gene transfer, from transgenes to plants, chloroplast to the nucleus,...well in plants and give similar stability to transcripts as the ones that people use all the time. Now...coding sequence to the MoClo system. It’s quite straightforward really and we’ll be producing an instructional...Plant SynBio Reading: Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis with GreenGate Plasmids  ...
  7. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...needed. Traditional media formats are quite competitive while digital can be oversaturated. Transition from...activity using elephants than it is to design one demonstrating mitosis.   Consider also the amount and type...Visually compelling and flexible. Can be used to illustrate things that cannot be seen with the naked eye...Static. Often requires both artistic and scientific training. Cartoons may be read as “for children” or may...
  8. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...PRIME, PASTE relies on single-stranded nicks instead of the double-stranded breaks used in other insertion...target. In addition, when they looked at the transformed E. coli expressing Cas7-11, they found no evidence...worked with it, the more they found evidence contradicting their initial assumption. Eugene Koonin and ... of landing sites via Cas9-directed reverse transcriptases, followed bylanding site recognition and integration...
  9. Binning Singletons: Tackling Conference Networking When You Don’t Know Anyone

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    Feb. 18, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...within a bin as Horizontal Transfer. This comes from horizontal gene transfer, which occurs when bacteria...bench scientist working at an institution where training opportunities weren’t always available. Even more...Singletons logo. Image: James et al., 2020. Help me stranger - Finding mentors for the meeting Just like analysis...people within similar fields (ASM Microbe has eight tracks), something we didn’t have enough people to do ...
  10. Interview with Bart Newland, Addgene’s Newest Board Member

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    Aug. 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... school for microbiology, and I ended up going straight to law school. This was in the early 80s, and ...What is your day-to-day like? BN: I've made the transition now to being general counsel of a small start-up...to do, general corporate work, and negotiating contracts with other companies. It's one of those "every... you enjoy doing outside of work? BN: I love to travel and that's been difficult this past year and a ...
  11. What's New in CRISPR - Winter 2018

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    Dec. 18, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...Find the anti-CRISPR plasmids Tagging human transcription factors with GFP Kevin White’s lab recently ...deposited a set of CRISPR plasmids to tag human transcription factors with GFP. As part of the Encyclopedia...these donor plasmids will help researchers map transcription factor localization and binding via ChiP-seq...ChiP-seq. Learn more about ENCODE Find the transcription factor tagging plasmids If you have a new CRISPR...
  12. Michael Koeris' Journey from Grad Student to Entrepreneur: The Story of Sample 6

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    Jan. 21, 2016, 4:52 p.m.
    ...Novophage's successful transformation into Sample 6 and Dr. Koeris' own transition from graduate student... why? 24:41 - 29:00 : Dr. Koeris compares and contrasts being a graduate student with being an entrepreneur...37-36:53 : Was It difficult for Dr. Koeris to transition from developing therapeutics to developing a ...
  13. What's New in CRISPR - Spring 2019

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    March 21, 2019, 12:47 p.m.
    ... °C but preferentially nicks the non-target DNA strand. The lab then found gain-of-function mutations ...mutations that allows it to be repurposed for double strand breaks at target sites. Read the paper in Nature... of stable genomic integration and is easily transferred via conjugation.   Read the paper in Nature...plasmids CRISPR-based method for cell lineage tracing Valcyrie is a CRISPR-based marker excision method...
  14. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    Oct. 24, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...many tables were set up with various science demonstrations, and students could walk around and ask scientists...to convince me to spend a Saturday in the tourist-trap nightmare that is Times Square. But I made the sacrifice...we talked.  That's a win. Mark Lucera is a PhD trained scientist at the University of Colorado, Anschutz...Jennifer Stancill I am a research biologist by training, so of course I felt compelled to participate ...name is Erin and I have spent the last 15 years training as an academic scientist. I’ve worked tirelessly...
  15. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    Dec. 17, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
    ...gRNA ribonucleoproteins for transient expression. They replaced the tetraloop of the sgRNA scaffold with...base editor variants using a protein-truncation strategy with reduced RNA-recognition capabilities.  Read...delivery by lentiviral capsid-based bionanoparticle Transient expression of CRISPR/Cas9 in cells has advantages...
  16. Editor's Choice, August 2016

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    Sept. 2, 2016, 1:32 p.m.
    ...vacation in August (for another part of my job, I travel around the country and set up meetings with PIs...CRISPR-based technique to generate C->T or G->A transitions in a target sequence in live cells. This technique...endonuclease (dCas9) fused to a deaminase to make the transitions at target sequences specified by gRNAs. Caveats...Epigenomics 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions Single Base Editing with CRISPR Cas9 Activators...
  17. Modulate the Activity of 17 Signaling Pathways with One Kit!

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    March 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4353587. Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn How the Clon Tracer Library...that confer resistance to drugs,” in a rapid, straightforward, and scalable manner, Wood said. Thankfully...Library Has Been Used in Cancer Lineage Tracing Read How CRISPR Can Be Used in Genome-Wide Screening Browse...
  18. From our Table to Yours: An Inside Look at Lunch at Addgene

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    Nov. 27, 2013, 2:54 p.m.
    .... As our organization grew, we continued this tradition. We now have over 30 full-time employees, so we...baked goods and we have a few unique lunchtime traditions that might be fun to incorporate into your own...think these random lunches would be a wonderful tradition for university departments to establish, with ... my Addgene family every day. Do you have any traditions that you share with your labmates, be they food...
  19. A new platform for fast functional characterization of potentially cancerous mutations

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    May 7, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...figure). Most of the mutations were found to be “neutral,” having no significant effect on cell viability...drivers of tumor formation. Being able to parse out “neutral” passenger mutations from the “active” drivers ...(2018): 450-462. PubMed PMID: 29533785. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5926201.  Tsang, Yiu Huen, et al. "Functional...7 (2016): 10500. PubMed PMID: 26806015. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4737758. Additional resources on the ...
  20. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    June 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
    ...not possible to elicit an immediate response or track the exact time of activation. Receptor activity ...turned off. In chemogenetics, while different concentrations of ligands can be injected, this is not as ... Mouse studies, however, require a permanent intracranial implant to be surgically installed to allow ...receptors Invasiveness Mice require permanent intracranial implant Noninvasive Controlling Stimulation...
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