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TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2024, 1:15 p.m....to the right indicates a higher signal, or upregulation, and a peak to the left indicates a lower signal...case for you, switching to a contour plot should indicate where the two populations diverge. The smear ...
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CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 25, 2024, 2:15 p.m....strandedness) along with its action on the substrate (nick, bind, cleave, mixed). This information represents the...Considerations section on each enzyme page, you'll find a link to search Addgene's collection for plasmids...embedded in the References lists on every page you can find direct links to plasmids from the article if they're... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....have moderate to high immunogenicity, meaning they induce an immune response in the host. So why use a gamma-retrovirus...also has low immunogenicity, meaning it does not induce the same high immune response as retroviruses. ...immunogenicity, but some strains have been engineered to induce a lower inflammatory response within hosts. Relative... -
Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2023, 2:15 p.m....and/or opportunities) to modify the device for individual experiments. Manufacturers rarely provide the...for use, or they can modify and optimize the code, find and fix security-critical bugs, and contribute to...produced quickly with the printer, act here as a kind of "teleporter," since a part developed in Germany... -
Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m....nuclease. This can be determined by measuring the indel frequency at a target site. A specificity ratio ...the Addgene blog Read our CRISPR 101 blog posts Find more information about Cas proteins Download the...plasmids and resources page Read our CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids for mammalian systems ... -
Channelrhodopsins with improved light sensitivity for minimally-invasive optogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 3, 2020, 2:15 p.m....generates an action potential (Figure 1). This light-induced excitation can take place in a tissue culture dish...ChRgers and ChR2(H134R) both reach the brain, but individual neurons do not express as many copies of the ...available at Addgene Visit our viral vectors guide Find our chemogenetics and optogenetics science guides... -
RNA Extraction Without A Kit
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m....do to combat this issue. First and foremost, be mindful of your extractions- if you need really clean RNA...blog Read blog posts related to plasmid protocols Find protocols for purifying DNA without a kit Resources...Addgene.org Check out our molecular biology protocols Find protocol videos on our website Read our Molecular... -
Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... provide detailed evidence of knowledge new to mankind. And you probably understand how much faster it...class. Even so, it’s quite easy (and common!) to be blind to the cognitive load you’re placing on your audience... as pausing or turning off the slide deck (or reminding them to put their phones away), or maybe I was... -
Addgene: The First Twenty Years
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m....20th anniversary was about all the amazing years behind us, as much as it as about the amazing years in...item, and had a cumulative 120,000 citations of individual items in our repository, a tribute to how many...sharing their plasmids. It’s been a privilege to find and share what stories we can, and to hear the stories... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 20, 2023, 4 p.m....middle of my presentation, lost in a sea of data, my mind went completely blank. After several seconds of ... classmates so they could understand it. When my mind went blank, my options were to stop talking until...removal service slams dumpsters outside the open windows in the middle of your talk. Technical difficulties... -
Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m....contributed by guest blogger Londa Schiebinger, PhD, Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University...most of the results were positive, the analysis did find 263,000 more osteoporotic fractures. The overall.... To remedy this, Shah et al. provide a table indicating the sex of the most commonly used cell lines ... -
CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m....You can create an almost limitless number of DNA binding proteins with Cas9 guided by different promoters...large as natural regulatory networks. Addgene: What kinds of things could we do as genetic circuits become... Thank you to Chris Voigt for speaking with us! Find the Plasmids: Plasmids for multi-input CRISPR/Cas9... -
A Look at Addgene's QC Process
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 6, 2025, 1:15 p.m....Potential points where DNA errors can be introduced, indicated by exclamation marks. Error points include places... frame shifts, missing elements, and nucleotide indels or mismatches in significant plasmid elements. ...bioinformatics. Through their efforts, the QC team finds errors in 30% of deposited plasmids! We are committed... -
CRISPR 101: Targeting Non-Coding RNAs with CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2024, 2:15 p.m....nature20149 Jiang Q, Meng X, Meng L, et al. Small indels induced by CRISPR/Cas9 in the 5’ region of microRNA... unexpectedly affect nearby genes (Figure 1A-C). Find CRISPR plasmids at Addgene! Knock-in: Introducing... -
Polymerase Chain Reaction Overview and Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2021, 1:15 p.m....from and unique single stranded DNA primers that bind upstream (5’) and downstream (3’) of the DNA region...polymerase is also stable at this temperature and can bind to the primers. Extension- The temperature is then... can learn all about ddPCR for AAV titration and find helpful tips and tricks in our blog post “Droplet... -
Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPR
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 18, 2024, 1:15 p.m....editing! CRISPR functions in use But exactly what kind of editing are people doing with all these CRISPR... modifier. We used these categories to see what kinds of CRISPR tools people were depositing and requesting... and the longevity of tools seen in Figure 3, indicates that the usefulness of popular CRISPR tools is... -
CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m....appropriate? If you already have an end product in mind, steps 1 and 2 will generally be straightforward...links to a CRISPR forum where you may be able to find information regarding your system of choice. The...driving Cas9 expression can be constitutive or inducible. U6 promoter is typically used for gRNA. May contain... -
CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m....techniques Find tips on gRNA design Resources on Addgene.org Browse all CRISPR plasmids Find validated... and stability of the Cas9 protein in the host. Indeed, research has shown that a Cas9 protein from Geobacillus... -
SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m....networking at the time, but that means it was the best kind of networking! Since nearly every talk I’ve given...their interest. I won’t claim that I blew their minds, but I think many of the students learned something...Addgene.org Check out our comprehensive CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids and resources ... -
INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m....their diverse utility, DNA transposons have been hindered by their limited programmability: depending on... crRNA, QCascade complexes survey the genome and bind target DNA sequences using RNA-DNA base pairing....Resources on Addgene.org Visit the CRISPR guide Find CRISPR plasmids for bacteria ...