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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...bicistronic vectors take advantage of an element called an Internal Ribosome Entry Site (IRES) to allow...use the 2A peptides instead of an IRES when stoichiometrically equivalent levels of expression are required...journal.pone.0018556. Epub 2011 Apr 29.) PubMed. 5. Scalable signaling mediated by T cell antigen receptor-...
  7. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...culprit for these unusual cases was either 1) a physiological effect of SARS-CoV-2 toward destabilizing one...Adenovirus (and/or to its partner, AAV) or 2) a sociological effect of the COVID-19 lockdowns causing a lack...Adenoviruses: General Features. In Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978...
  8. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    Dec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...not the case for knock-ins. Knock-in mutations typically require an exact DNA sequence to be incorporated...know that HR is often mutated in cancer cells, specifically in breast and ovarian lines commonly used in...common editing pathway for DNA repair. To tilt the scales in your favor for an HDR edit, you can try one ...
  9. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    Feb. 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...methods avoid many of the drawbacks of kits and typically follow the same principles: cells are lysed, RNAs...method described in Kim and Morrison is nearly identical to that of commercially available kits but instead...B., & Gillespie, D.A. (1979). Preparative and analytical purification of DNA from agarose. Proceedings...
  10. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...-55 °C for the homologous region (calculated using Oligo Calculator). Insertions - To insert short sequences...parental DNA (37 °C for 15 mins). This enzyme specifically cuts methylated DNA, so it will selectively ...
  11. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...Liang et al. 2017).  PEG-mediated methods, while technically less difficult to perform, often show low efficiency...ribonucleoprotein electroporation of zygotes." Journal of Biological Chemistry (2016): jbc-M116. PubMed PMID: 27151215...Cell-Type-Specific Gene Editing." Journal of the American Chemical Society 140.21 (2018): 6596-6603. PubMed PMID:...
  12. The Importance of a Fun Workplace: Company Culture at Addgene

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    Sept. 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... familial aspect of Addgene. As our size has drastically increased, it would have been a tight squeeze...event! Addgene company culture At Addgene we organically developed the philosophy of  “work hard, play...department) right in your breakroom. 5. Throw some physical activity into the mix It’s easy to sit around ...
  13. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    March 20, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
    ...community to help Involve family. If you don’t have local family to help, create “fake” family by forming ...help you do your job better. #8 Thou shalt enthusiastically foster independence Your partner can make ... fold their laundry, take public transportation, call a cab and remember their own school assignments,...
  14. Tips for Writing a Good Cover Letter

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    May 21, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...writing are key skills. Other fields, often highly technical or skills-based ones, may not use them very often...questions about your application. These could be logistical, like briefly explaining a gap in your job history...letter needs to be coherent and free of typos and grammatical errors. It does not need to be a literary masterpiece...
  15. Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations

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    July 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m.
    ...below. The GUS gene (β-glucuronidase) with histochemical GUS-staining is a very useful visual reporter...protein of interest to elucidate the subcellular localization of your protein of interest. Find all plasmids...see Figure 3). This method is probably the most scalable method. Transfer your plant into the dark 16 ...
  16. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...SpCas9 and SaCas9, Zhang’s group used an approach called BLESS (direct in situ breaks labeling, enrichment...post-injection. Livers from these mice were histologically normal and liver injury markers were not increased...enough to deliver with AAV. This system fuses catalytically dead dCas13b to the catalytic domain of RNA ...
  17. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    Aug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ... D1135E variant is far more selective for the canonical S. pyogenes PAM sequence NGG compared to wild-...novel CRISPR proteins has and will continue to dramatically increase the number of CRISPR applications. ...Wolfe SA, Sontheimer EJ (2018) NmeCas9 is an intrinsically high-fidelity genome-editing platform. Genome...
  18. Four Base Editing Reporters to Monitor and Enrich Editing in Real-time

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    July 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...are subject to excision and ssDNA cleavage by canonical base excision repair enzymes. At the same time...targeted by a cytidine deaminase base DNA editor. Specifically the BFP mutant (BFPH66) contains a histidine...markers, and other enzymes such as Cre-recombinase drastically expanding the base-editing reporter toolbox. ...
  19. Viral Production at Addgene

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    Oct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... relative to empty particles (black arrowhead). Scale bar = 100 nm.   AAV resources Browse AAV preps... a concentration step prior to being frozen. Specifically, lentiviral particles are collected from the... strain of E. coli. In addition, plasmids are typically prepared using endotoxin-free plasmid purification...
  20. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ...uses a “nicking” Cas9, in which one of Cas9’s two critical enzymatic residues has been converted to an alanine...deaminases edit A-to-G.) In short, the impaired Cas9 localizes the deaminase to where the edit is desired, and...to dCas9.  This technique has been exploited to localize factors such as transcriptional activators and...
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