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  1. PEI Calculator for Planning AAV Packaging Transfections

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    Jan. 23, 2018, 2:04 p.m.
    ... Preparation is a key step to any experiment and can help prevent future headaches. To help you plan PEI...you need to do a few calculations. This calculator can do the math for you and it’s simple to make adjustments...
  2. Countdown to Halloween @Addgene

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    Oct. 29, 2014, 5:26 p.m.
    ...there’s always nostalgia (old board games and movies can provide great character costumes). All of this costume... chose their favorite plasmid and replicated it. Can you guess each plasmid? Our lab paid tribute to ...Success is sweet – as sweet as all that Halloween candy you’ll gorge yourself on in the coming days. Hopefully...
  3. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...aerobe. It’s also a methylotropic yeast, meaning it can utilize methanol as its sole source of carbon and...industries as a protein expression workhorse. This yeast can also give more protein bang for your media buck -...media change into methanol and peroxisomal autophagy can be induced by removing methanol from the media. This...
  4. Summer SciComm Series: A PhD in Science Communication

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    Aug. 23, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...issues creates conditions under which misinformation can flourish. I’ve never forgot about all the anxious...helped run workshops where I showed people how they can make reusable cloth menstrual pads while we talked... the very least, believe – to be true so that we can tailor our communications to better meet the needs...controversial medical issues. Participants gave significantly more favourable ratings to the abstracts that...understand. Why should we trust something that we cannot read or verify for ourselves? Further, when science...
  5. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    April 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Addgene (Figure 1). Even aggregated this much, you can see the 2013 ‘bump’ related to the CRISPR/Cas papers...comprised 10 percent. Based on this new re-weighting, we can compare citations where an equal share of papers ...Microbiology  1.6% 1.2%  0.75   125.3 In figure 2, you can see the full impact from using these weighted numbers...journal. And so, while our quantitative analysis cannot rule out all other explanations, we do think that...used in this work. Samantha Zyontz is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is ...
  6. AAV Packaged on Request is Here!

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    Jan. 10, 2025, 1:01 p.m.
    ...service, has officially launched! As of today, you can request any of over 3,000 eligible AAV cargo plasmids...Packaged on Request With Packaged on Request, you can find your plasmids and your viral packaging service...
  7. Editor's Choice, October 2016

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    Nov. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...number of postdocs various academic institutions can afford to hire. It will be difficult for some of ...establishing a thriving graduate student community can make the ups and downs of graduate school much easier...
  8. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... kb in length. Human adenovirus type 5 (hAdV-C5) can be considered the prototype, although many viruses...available by this deletion from the genomic plasmid can be used to house a recombinant sequence (transgene...potentially because some of the wild-type viruses can persist as a latent infection in certain tissue reservoirs...using vectors, and immune inactivation of the vector can still occur even in the case of no previous immunity...basic research, like other viral vectors, though significant challenges remain (Wold & Toth, 2013).  While...Adenovirus Vectors for Gene Therapy, Vaccination and Cancer Gene Therapy. Curr Gene Ther, 13(6), 421–433. https...
  9. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    Aug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...zebrafish embryos, and they can be used to modify genomic loci that cannot be modified using wild-type...Nov 12, 2015 and last updated Aug 20, 2020. Cas9 can be used to modify any desired genomic target provided...Cas9 variants. These variants, named SpG and SpRY, can target NGN PAMs and NRN and NYN PAMs, respectively...) is about 1 kilobase smaller than SpCas9, so it can be packaged into adeno-associated virus (AAV).  At... D1135E variant is far more selective for the canonical S. pyogenes PAM sequence NGG compared to wild-...
  10. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    March 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...might affect your work, and how understanding it can be used for good.  First, why are plasmids incompatible...replication. However, in iteron-containing plasmids,  RepA can also bind to its own promoter and inhibit its own...., 2015).  It is also worth noting that plasmids can be symmetrically incompatible, meaning that both ...the other, usually a smaller, higher copy plasmid can more effectively titrate replication or partitioning... of replication, the negative regulation system cannot distinguish between the different plasmids. The...to an identification issue: the CBPs in the cell can’t tell the difference between plasmids if they have...
  11. Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing

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    March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
    ...this post we'll walk through a variety of ways you can use AAVs to improve your genome editing experiments...pAAV-SEPT-Acceptor and pAAV-TK-Acceptor) so that they can be easily adapted to edit your gene of choice. These...CRISPR components as ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) that can be supplied separately from the viral vector. This... a variety of cell types, now you know that AAVs can provide a powerful boost to genome editing experiments...AAV gene editing to introduce naturally occurring cancer-causing mutations into the endogenous allele of...Professor of Oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown School of Medicine. His research...consequences of cohesin gene inactivation in human cancer.     References 1. Russell, David W., and Roll ...
  12. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...gvpNJKFGWV marked with Emerald GFP. These plasmids can be used directly in transient transfection in rtTA...cell lines (such as HEK293-TETOn cells), or they can also be integrated into the genome by cotransfecting...of the cells to verify the mARG positivity, which can be observed under phase contrast microscopy and TEM...ultrasound imaging (Fig. 2d). Creating a cell line can be a time-intensive endeavor. That is why we also..., and nonlinear acoustic scattering. The best candidate for this was the Anabaena flos-aquae gas vesicle...
  13. 2022 and 2023: Reflections and Looking Forward

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    Feb. 23, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...research applications. Scientists around the world can upload AAV validation data, sharing what works and...community to maximize the positive impact that science can have on the world. ...
  14. Grad School Advice Part 1: Picking a Lab and a Project

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    Sept. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... graduate student life. Senior graduate students can sometimes be elusive or have a certain mystique that...our next episode, Niroshi and Ben discuss how you can leverage your graduate school community to help keep...beyond graduate school. Ben J. Vincent is a Ph.D candidate in the Program in Genetics and Genomics at Harvard...
  15. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    Dec. 30, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...titer as compared to previous lentiviral vectors. It can be used both to knock-out single genes in clonal ...need help cloning a gRNA into lentiCRISPR v2, you can take a look at the protocol kindly provided by the...used for includes work probing mTOR signaling in cancer cells, deciphering the mechanism of matrix metalloproteinase...
  16. Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging

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    Nov. 10, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... toolbox. As we’ve covered in Plasmids 101, tags can help you determine localization of a protein of interest... tags? Short epitope tags like FLAG, HA, and Myc can adopt a number of different conformations and thus...antibody. From their initial pool of candidates, they selected 12 candidate protein domains from non-vertebrate...
  17. OCaMP: A New Calcium Indicator for Neural Imaging

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    Aug. 19, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...change rapidly during neuronal activity, scientists can use GECIs to watch neurons fire under the microscope... multicolor experiments. With OCaMP, researchers can image multiple brain regions or cell types at once...The Lohman lab has a limited quantity of AAVs that can be requested by contacting Alexander Lohman (alex.lohman...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...components are used to package lab grown viruses. It can be intimidating at first to look at so many plasmid...). VSVG is a broad tropism envelope protein that can also be pseudotyped to alter infectivity. Next, the...While not required for lentiviral production, they can be helpful for certain applications and aid in ease...
  19. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...serum There are a few different ways the antibodies can be isolated from the serum. Protein A/G purification... the immunogen. A different type of purification can be performed to isolate antibodies only recognizing...different epitopes of the target protein. While this can increase background staining (see next section), ...
  20. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...world by storm. Like RNA interference, these enzymes can knock down RNA without altering the genome, but Cas13s..., the Cas13d orthologs described in these papers can independently process their own CRISPR arrays into... require a protospacer flanking sequence, so you can target virtually any RNA sequence! In bacteria, Cas13d-mediated...efficiency; where shRNA treatment produced 500-900 significant off-targets, CasRx displayed zero. Unlike Cas9...
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