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  1. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    Aug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...controlled by collections of neurons that are intricately wired into circuits through synaptic connections...connections to that population. Limitations of common genetically encoded neuronal tracers Neuronal tracers such...neurons. As compared to epitopes tags, FPs are intrinsically fluorescent and can therefore be used in live.... Indeed, to create the smFPs Looger’s team strategically inserted 10 to 15 copies of single epitope tags...darkened chromophores. These probes are both intrinsically fluorescent and can be detected with highly ...photostable than GFP. In addition, antibody-based amplification of their signals is weak and increases background...postsynaptic cell adhesion protein that plays a critical role in neural development. It belongs to a huge...
  2. 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.
    ... well as neural development. Specifically, SHH is a morphogen, a chemical signal that diffuses down a ...exhibit abnormal segmentation during embryogenesis. Typically, regularly spaced denticles (bristles) outline...on the spindle of a spinning wheel but also a biological transposon system. Sleeping Beauty is a synthetic...transposon system including those from the original publication, Ivics et al 1997. Spaghetti Squash, a regulator...contract depending on the context. Contraction is critical for processes such as cell movement/motility, ...bunch of cookie monster eyes.”  Check out the publication to see for yourself. We have one plasmid in our...embryo (Azplazu and Frasch, 1993). Tinman is specifically involved in the formation of the heart amongst...
  3. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...range of logistical barriers. Addgene worked to identify, reduce, and remove these logistical barriers...’ve turned the available into the accessible. Physical access Addgene is located in the USA, but our ...Beijing Zhongyuan 2012 China Summit Pharmaceuticals International 2013 Japan Leehyo Bioscience... items to countries with a distributor. Arrows indicate the year we entered into an agreement with a distributor...Systems AAV Plasmids Blogs Origin of Replication What is a Plasmid? How to Design Your gRNA for...Digest Analysis We also introduced guides — practical primers to help users get started with tools like... country are represented in blue; darker blue indicates more views from that country.   While written ...
  4. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ... approach for experimental therapies and medical applications.  Find DIRECTED plasmids here! Strebinger...efficient for short, unstructured templates and significantly reduced undesired edits (indels, etc.), while...Figure 1: Choosing the best PE6 variant for your application. Image reused form Doman and Pandey et al., 2023... CreVLPs, and eVLPs for in vivo and in vitro applications.   Figure 2: Modular features of DIRECTED...delivery by modular envelope design. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467...interactions or map a local proteome, but some applications have been challenging or inaccessible. The Ting...control over when and where the enzyme is active, drastically reducing background labeling caused by the biotin...
  5. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ...Young is a Medical Writer with a PhD in reproductive biology and genetics. She loves to communicate the latest...method for selecting the guide RNA, validating its efficacy in vitro, and using it in mouse embryos to generate...control, 1; very dark). Brighter fluorescence indicates a more successful gRNA design. Adapted from Mashiko...plasmid using standard cloning techniques (The XX indicates where your target is inserted, disrupting the ...plasmid, see Mashiko et al., 2013). Testing the efficacy of your gRNAs is then a simple matter of transfecting...effective ones to increase your chances of gene modification in vivo. Find Plasmids for Testing Your gRNAs...et al., 2014). The plasmid is sturdier than the delicate RNA and therefore there has less chance of contamination...
  6. Advice for Choosing a Research Project

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    April 17, 2014, 2:45 p.m.
    ...graduate students and postdocs to think analytically and critically. Passion fuels the drive to continue ... Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School) , and Dr. George Church (Harvard Medical School) for taking the...people (especially you!) care about. Have you critically evaluated your plan? Have you read the relevant...write a grant for this project, what would be your critical experiments and why? What techniques and skills...help move your project forward? Most projects typically require a diverse set of skills. It is important...direction of the project? What is your timeline? A typical research project can take several years to complete...time to generate new ideas and think about them critically before diving in. Research projects are designed...
  7. Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools

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    June 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m.
    ...transcriptase (RT), MarathonRT. Reverse transcriptases are critical tools for many fields of biology and enable the...MarathonRT, isolated from Eubacterium rectale, significantly outperforms other RTs in this regard and is ...Nanobodies are single domain antibody fragments typically engineered from heavy-chain only antibodies found...makes them more adaptable to a broad range of applications. Recently, the Spiess lab developed a set of... with specific genomic loci. He made use of catalytically inactive dCas9 by fusing it to an engineered...isolated and analysed. In this work, the authors specifically investigated protein binding at the TERT gene...his group from the University of Massachusetts Medical School have developed a group of plasmids (here...
  8. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...  After identification of ABE activity, XMAS-TREE can also be used to purify these modifications and work...system by using a stronger promoter and different biochemical secondary energy sources to increase protein ...DNA of interest, and cell extract.    Graphical Abstract: Schematic representation of cell-free...ABE-targeted cells By Ellie Adams Single base modifications through ABE or CBE's have the potential ability...point mutations. They allow single-nucleotide modifications to edit DNA without requiring a double-stranded...difficult to modify in the past.   Figure 1: Identification and enrichment use of XMAS-TREE. a) Cells are...mCherry and GFP expression to check for ABE’s. b) Quantification of base-editing efficiency using XMAS-TREE-...
  9. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ..., soon directed himself to finding “immunological and virological solutions to crises like those and ended...Therapeutics, which was acquired by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical in 2017. As one of the original employees at...learned more about Addgene. “The mission to share critical reagents such as plasmids and viral stocks for...depositor. KSQ uses a CRISPR-Cas9 platform to systematically test the function of all 20,000 genes in disease...Target Discovery at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research. Drug development was something Stegmeier...genetics.” As a postdoc in Stephen Elledge at Harvard Medical School, he developed the first lentiviral microRNA-based... interference. In the first two months since publication, the lab got over 100 requests for the plasmids...
  10. Plasmids 101: A Brief History of Plasmids and an Improved eBook!

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    Oct. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...1952, Joshua Lederberg set out to clarify the classification of these cytoplasmic inheritance factors. He...hereditary determinant”. His proposal, however, was basically ignored. A separate term, “episome”, defined as... plasmids have greatly impacted many areas of biological research and have been key in advancing our knowledge... as bacterial conjugation and recombination, replication and topology, and cloning and gene expression...National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110.39 (2013): 15521–15529. PMC. PubMed PMID: 24043817...Joshua. "Cell Genetics and Hereditary Symbiosis" Physiological Reviews 32.4 (1952) 403-430. Pubmed PMID: 13003535...PMC2134509. Cohen, Stanley N. et al. “Construction of Biologically Functional Bacterial Plasmids In Vitro.” Proceedings...
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