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  1. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...Institute and Harvard Medical School. Scientists making transgenic organisms with Cas9 should be aware ...should be conducted with extreme caution. Why does making transgenic organisms with Cas9 risk creating a ...and single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) with appropriate flanking homology into a germline cell can create an RNA-guided...mosquito species. Reproductive confinement involves working with laboratory organisms that can't reproduce ...
  2. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...accurate, as these peptides are thought to function by making the ribosome skip the synthesis of a peptide bond...cleavage efficiency. How do I get started? If you are looking to co-express your gene of interest along with ...with a plasmid that has multiple cloning sites flanking the multicistronic element(s), or you could replace...within the same multicistronic vector, effectively making a construct that expresses multiple unique genes...
  3. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ...11326284. 4. Bennett J, 2017. Taking Stock of Retinal Gene Therapy: Looking Back and Moving Forward. Molecular...pioneer in the field, Dr. Jean Bennett started working on ways to deliver genes to correct genetic conditions.... Jean Bennett (UPenn) that resulted in the groundbreaking 2001 study showing that AAV-mediated delivery...
  4. Getting to Know Expansion Microscopy

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    June 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., are right around 250 nm, making it difficult to study the inner workings of the synapse by conventional...caused by loss of protein during digestion, or masking of epitopes during sample anchoring and gel polymerization...et al. 2019). Perhaps it’s the tool you’ve been looking for too!     References and resources References...
  5. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...stem cell research initiative at the King Abdulaziz University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Bioinformation, ...markers are read in parallel.  Let’s imagine we’re looking for cells in a sample that are negative for marker...controls. You can usually tell where this point is by looking at the different populations. In the case of Figure...
  6. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...each sample by clicking on the sample name or on its corresponding bar graph entry. Clicking to initiate ...engineering has revolutionized the gene editing field by making experimental workflows considerably easier, faster... download the entire analysis as a ZIP file by clicking the Download Analysis Data button on the bottom...
  7. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...as well as high spatial and temporal resolution, making it ideal for visualizing gene expression in vivo...ultrasound contrast. We (the authors) are currently working on improving and optimizing ARGs, with Marjorie...They also did not scatter ultrasound nonlinearly, making them difficult to distinguish from background tissue...intraperitoneal doxycycline injections to enable their tracking with ultrasound imaging (Fig. 2d). Creating a ...
  8. Sonic Hedgehog? Sleeping Beauty? Learn About the Genes Behind Addgene’s Conference Room Names

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    April 2, 2019, 1:44 p.m.
    ...such as cell movement/motility, development, cytokinesis, and muscle contractions (think skeletal muscle...contexts within the fly including oogenesis and cytokinesis. Why name this protein after a vegetable substitute...encoded by spaghetti-squash, a gene required for cytokinesis in Drosophila." Cell 65.7 (1991): 1177-1189. ...resources on the Addgene blog Read our Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Read our Plasmids 101 blog series...
  9. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    March 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...replication by binding to the origin of replication and blocking replication machinery (del Solar, 1998). As the... on each plasmid and pair the plasmids together (akin to sister chromatids coming together in eukaryotic...centromere-like region, and the NTPases end up “walking” the same plasmids to one daughter cell, instead...occurs for several reasons, including one plasmid blocking replication of another and one plasmid outcompeting...
  10. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    July 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...process was working as expected, we moved forward with creating the next process and linking the output...needs of the user. Thus, a key criteria we were looking for was the ability to re-use or borrow existing... end of the script or by opening the files. By working on one process at a time, and testing a small set...
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