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  1. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI

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    March 28, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... and the linkage of intra- and extracellular environments. Found on nearly every cell in the human body...membrane, physically connecting the extracellular environment and the cytoskeleton. Most integrins have three...responses to mechanical forces in the cell’s microenvironment. The actin cytoskeleton exerts tensile force... by the ligand embedded in the extracellular environment. This further stabilizes the extended open integrin...integrin inhibitors and natural ligands, such as fibronectin, to block receptor function, e.g., cell adhesion...

  2. March for Science

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    April 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...aspects of research at National Aeronautics and Space Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the ...Additionally, interest groups are often pandered to when strong or overlooked when small, but data is not going...Science face deep cuts in Trump’s first budget Environmental Science and Technology: Crossing The Imaginary...having evidence’ on Trump’s wiretap claim The Chronicle of Higher Education: “March for Science” Organizer...

  3. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...reviewer’s concerns, you are making your hypothesis stronger. When you share data at a conference poster session.... It can be extremely toxic in a lab or work environment if left unchecked. Substantive conflict occurs...handy: Empathy: If you often find yourself in confrontational situations with others because you simply cannot...Empathizing with people, especially people with whom you strongly disagree, is a critical component of conflict ...will be considered in the right, and one in the wrong. If you arbitrate, one party might get exactly what...

  4. Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium

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    Nov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m.
    ... increase diversity in the academic research environment. The “how many?” question lies at the base of... fact that training in the academic research environment is setup to prepare trainees for further work...receive as postdocs is not transferrable to other environments. Slide from Paula Stephan’s Talk (All slides...succeed in publishing in the current academic environment. Some great tips from this panel included:  ... the structural problems within the research environment itself. At Addgene we hope that all parties involved...

  5. Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE

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    Nov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... the midst of a rapidly changing, globalized environment re-emerging from international financial struggle...but also nurture a supportive and protective environment where individuals are empowered to productively...opportunities that truly exist outside their immediate frontiers. Moreover, sharing a culture/country of origin...work? IMP Pilot Program 2015-2015 Scholars need strong proactive mentors who have relevant expertise and...and entrepreneurial visions thereby opening new frontiers for young talent around the world. The wealth ...

  6. A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research

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    June 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...climate change to study plant and marine biology, environmental microbiology, or biofuel production. There’s...Research requires dedication and effort, so building a strong understanding of what you’re getting yourself into...all just people. I’ve found that in the right environment and with supportive mentors, being open and vulnerable... what I don’t know yet has helped me cultivate stronger relationships with my labmates. Sometimes what...the vital things to look for is a supportive environment—it makes all the difference in a lab experience...

  7. Let There Be LITE Plasmids

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    Nov. 21, 2013, 3:56 p.m.
    ...now available in Addgene’s repository for use in neurons, both in culture and in living brain tissue. “The...explained. “It helps us adapt to influences in our environments. We are able to react and learn. All of this... the LITEs to control gene expression in mouse neurons and in the brains of living mice both quickly and... want to apply LITEs for the transformation of neurons, she offers a tip: save yourself some time by making...

  8. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    Dec. 17, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
    ...fluorescent tags in neurons. Their toolkit named ORANGE (Open Resource for the Application of Neuronal Genome Editing...CRISPR/Cas9-based toolkit for epitope tagging in neurons Harold MacGillavry’s lab developed a CRISPR-based...targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons.  Read the paper in bioRxiv Find the ORANGE toolkit...

  9. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Jan. 2, 2014, 3:44 p.m.
    ...notebooks and binder on your desk. Arrange them in chronological order (or by project, if that works better for...can easily spot the colors and text. Tip 2: Use electronic to-do lists to access your tasks on the go Never...could easily lend one to another labmate? Though electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) have gained traction with...to borrow most frequently. Copy these into an electronic file sharing tool, such as Google Drive or Dropbox...

  10. New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR

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    Dec. 12, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Detection of Norepinephrine. Neuron, 102(4), 745-761.e8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.02.037 Kagiampaki... B, Representative images of HEK293T cells and neurons expressing nLightG or nLightR before/after application...dashed lines. Scale bars, 10 μm (HEK293T), 20 μm (neurons). Figure and caption adapted from Kagiampaki et...

  11. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    May 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...waste. If you are looking to reduce your lab’s environmental impact, check out Addgene’s blog post on bringing...some less obvious improvements that reduce the environmental impact. Using non-silica-based purification ...GenElute™ kits were all specifically designed with environmental sustainability in mind (Table 2). Table 2: Sustainability... Other Minimized amount of silica ACT environmental impact factor label Non-silica based, avoids...purifying! This blog post was written by Ashley Waldron, Hannah Dotson, and Nyla Naim. Resources Additional...

  12. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    March 25, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...refresher if you ever lose track of which acronym is which. Acronym Full name Notes CRISPR terms gRNA... of CBEs and ABEs. This post includes a lot of acronyms, so we’ve included a glossary at the end if you...activity, and they are sometimes processed by error-prone non-homologous end joining (NHEJ). To mitigate this...edit. NHEJ Non-Homologous End Joining An error-prone cellular process to repair DSBs. Base Editing ...

  13. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    Sept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m.
    ...transcript You can also multiplex gRNAs via a polycistronic transcript. Rather than being transcribed from...option described below, plasmids for making polycistronic gRNAs are also available from the Yang lab for...Plasmids: These plasmids are similar to the Csy4 polycistronic system described above, except that they use...gRNAs are flanked by glycine tRNAs to create polycistronic glycine tRNA-gRNA (PTG) constructs. Eukaryotic... Find plasmids from this paper at Addgene. 12. Ronda, Carlotta, et al. (2016). "CRMAGE: CRISPR Optimized...

  14. An Addgene Summer Internship

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    Aug. 8, 2024, 7:22 p.m.
    ...potential as a scientist. But I expected something wrong. My capstone project was based on plasmid cloning...successful clones because the bands were all in the wrong place. Except for one. My manager speculated that...my very own research project! Coming from an environment with limited opportunities and support, puts ...puts into perspective just how much one’s environment changes them. Addgene gave me the chance to become ...

  15. Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Recycling

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    Feb. 14, 2019, 2:35 p.m.
    ...our lab’s environmental impact, but we can all do more to make research more environmentally friendly.... to address, but is often ignored in the lab environment. I recently attended the Go green! Innovative...institute! What should I do in the lab to help the environment? Well, you could: Collect the NEB and/or Millipore...

  16. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Technologies and Methods for Targeted Neuronal Manipulation. Front Neuroanat 13: . https://doi.org/10.3389...different levels of expression. For example, CAG is a strong promoter that drives very high, ubiquitous expression...expression, while the human synapsin 1 promoter is neuronal specific (Haery et al., 2019). Most AAV transfer...

  17. Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!

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    March 5, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... paper in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy and summarized some considerations for precise neuronal targeting ...Considerations For Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies Using AAV for neuronal tracing Resources...

  18. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...available with one sgRNA per operon or gene. The sgRNA pool can also target core operons in other pneumococcal...group optimized their initial system by using a stronger promoter and different biochemical secondary energy...AAV tools to selectively control parvalbumin interneurons from the Dimidschstein Lab More GCaMP8 ready-to-use...

  19. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...leaves patients incredibly sensitive to sunlight and prone to developing metastatic melanomas and other cancers...,” McSweeney said. “But, it is still sometimes wrongly diagnosed as a seizure disorder.” In 2012, researchers...sodium-potassium pump expressed specifically in neurons of the brain. McSweeney says they now think that...that mutations in the gene may prevent neurons from returning to basal conditions normally after periods...

  20. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - June 2019

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    June 18, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...improved detection for tracking large populations of neurons in wide-field imaging (Dana et al., 2018). See ...Plasmid Serotype Name 119036  AAV1  pAAV-hsyn-flex-Voltron-ST DREADDs / Chemogenetics AAV We have also ...chemogenetic AAV for activating and inhibiting neurons. Minimally-tagged DREADD AAV from the Richie lab...with Cre for intersectional control of specific neuronal populations. We now offer a Flp-expressing AAV...

  21. 25 Work From Home Tips for Scientists

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    March 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...photos of our pets. #SocialDistancing may send a wrong message for some people. We should recommend #PhysicalDistancing...the COVID-19 pandemic, check out Care For Your Coronavirus Anxiety and Taking Care of Your Behavioral Health...home, the STEM career exploration site Inventing Heron has a radio reporter challenge, and code.org has...necessarily to chat, but to mimic your usual work environment.  Be kind to yourself. This is a challenging ...

  22. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    Nov. 7, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
    ... chow, a different water filtration system, environmental stability in an incubator), but there’s a lot...for a transparent and collaborative research environment. Journals as enforcers Currently, most of the... formatting can feel like yet another hurdle in front of publication when all they really want to do is... of incentives. Right now, researchers are not strongly rewarded for being transparent in their communication...

  23. Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers

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    Dec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m.
    ...presented chronologically. With a resume however, most often people choose a reversed chronological style ...you did. Emphasize the skills. If you studied astronomy or bioinformatics data, then the chance is that...Communications Coordinator for the Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia. Originally on...

  24. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    July 6, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...The calcium is strong here….I can sense it….sound like a plot to an biology scifi movie? Or maybe it’...contraction, and calcium channels are activated for neuronal action potentials; it’s an ion of interest for...monitor calcium specifically in their favorite neurons. This specificity is feasible partially because...Neuromodulation: Engineering and Applications. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 2019 Oct Vol. 13; 1662...

  25. 15 Years of Addgene: The Top 15 Plasmids

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    Jan. 8, 2019, 1:54 p.m.
    ...generation lentiviral packaging plasmid from the Didier Trono lab that expresses the HIV gag, pol, rev, and tet...pMD2.G. Find psPAX2. pMD2.G - Also from the Didier Trono lab is pMD2.G, a VSV-G envelope expressing plasmid...generation lentiviral packaging plasmid from the Trono lab contains the rev gene. It’s meant to be used...generation lentiviral packaging plasmid from the Trono lab that contains the gag and pol genes. It also...

  26. Hot Plasmids - May 2022

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    May 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...flexibility for in vivo proximity labeling Increased neuronal expression using Cre-mediated AAV Targeted Evolution...flexibility for in vivo proximity labeling   By Ashley Waldron Proximity-dependent labeling has become a powerful...doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00969-4.   Increased neuronal expression using Cre-mediated AAV Targeted Evolution...found at least two variants that display increased neuronal expression in the brain while having decreased...

  27. Plasmids 101: Blue-white Screening

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    June 4, 2015, 1:03 p.m.
    ...beginning. The well-characterized bacterial lac operon contains a gene called lacZ that encodes for the...the enzyme β-galactosidase. Expression of the lac operon is induced by lactose, and also by a lactose analogue...completely accurate, IPTG binds and inactivates the lac operon repressor, thereby allowing lac expression). When...in the medium to ensure transcription of the lac operon.   Tips for blue-white screening Use a good control...

  28. Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs

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    June 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m.
    ...separated by 28 base Csy4 recognition sites from a polycistronic transcript. Although this method shortens construct...requires coexpression of Csy4 with Cas9 and the polycistronic transcript. As nucleases may have off-target... of gRNA cleavage.   Xie et. al constructed polycistronic glycine tRNA-gRNA genes (PTGs) in the forms ...Bacteria and viruses have illustrated the power of polycistronic gene organization, and its translation to CRISPR...

  29. Antibodies 101: Conjugation

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    March 26, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...capable of producing a visible signal, but it has a strong affinity for avidin and streptavidin, both of which...modifying the antibody sequence or that rely on strong protein-protein interactions with other peptides...of non-canonical amino acids or peptide tags. 5) Strong protein-protein interactions with other peptides... Ashley Waldron...

  30. Plasmid Tools for Microbiome Studies

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    June 27, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
    ...difficult to culture outside of their natural environment. Thus, the Harris Wang lab at Columbia University...gut microbiome members in their native habitat (Ronda et al., 2019). They called their method Metagenomic...19465049. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2752045. Myhrvold, Cameron, et al. "A distributed cell division counter reveals...PMID: 26615910. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4674677. Ronda, Carlotta, et al. "Metagenomic engineering of the...

  31. Hot Plasmids April 2018 - Protein Degradation, Nanoscopy, FIRE-Cas9, and Yeast Expression Tools

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    April 23, 2018, 2 p.m.
    ...the appropriate ligand - estradiol for hER or progesterone for hPR - leads to nuclear localization, binding...controlled transcription factor and a ZIF268/progesterone controlled transcription factor as well as reporters...with various concentrations of estradiol and progesterone and showed that reporter expression is dependent...cognate inducer. Since induction via estradiol and progesterone do not affect each other, these systems can ...

  32. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...autophagy. Morphological assays Electron microscopy: Electron microscopy is a traditional method for...at various stages of degradation. Additionally, electron microscopy analysis is time consuming. GFP-tagged...will fluoresce green unless it’s in an acidic environment like the vacuole or lysosome. See Table 2 for...

  33. Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?

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    July 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...sex and gender analysis important? Doing research wrong costs lives and money. According to the US General...treated, and other hormonal, immunological, and environmental factors. How to include sex in experimental ...Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment—a project aimed at harnessing the creative power...Evoloving Check Out Extracurricular Activities for a Strong Science Career Path Additional Resources Check...

  34. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...effective at editing cytosines preceded by guanine (Thuronyi et al., 2019). Following the development of adenine...created a dual-deaminase editor called SPACE (synchronous programmable adenine and cytosine editor) by ...high product purity and low off-target editing Thuronyi et al., 2019 evoAPOBEC1-BE4max   Improved editing... K. T., Eton, E., Lapinaite, A., Newby, G. A., Thuronyi, B. W., Wilson, C., Koblan, L. W., Zeng, J., Bauer...891. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0453-z Thuronyi, B. W., Koblan, L. W., Levy, J. M., Yeh, W.-H....

  35. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...in green monkeys and cultured human neurons, with broader neuronal expression than AAV9. This new capsid...-brain barrier and delivering a transgene, with neuron bias observed in young macaques and vascular bias...Recombinant anti-FLAG tag antibodies By Ashley Waldron Of all the epitope tags we know and love, the FLAG...

  36. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...and Memory Formation. Neuron 79, 6 P1086-1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.08.032.  Morita S...enzymatic fusions, such as dCas9-TET, can, like the iron ball-and-chain that they resemble, actually impede...unmethylated CpG to behave naturally in the nuclear environment. One good system to balance these needs is the...

  37. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    Sept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    .... Pulse generation (TTL pulse) is a standard electronics protocol not specific to lasers or optogenetics... Use of channelrhodopsin for activation of CNS neurons. Current protocols in neuroscience / editorial ... Kim TI, et al. Injectable, cellular-scale optoelectronics with applications for wireless optogenetics... et al. A simple head-mountable LED device for chronic stimulation of optogenetic molecules in freely ...

  38. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    Oct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
    ... relaxed phone call than when first confronted on a stage in front of a crowd. The moderator will then...logistics To make a really lively discussion, I strongly suggest asking the panelists not to use any slides... turnout). This gets people to sit close to the front so the interactions are better. Have a good microphone...

  39. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    April 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ...species, such as the human gut bacteria B. thetaiotaomicron, Mycobacterium, Pseudomonas, and E. coli. ...CRISPRi in many types of bacteria: lab-adapted, environmental isolated, and disease-associated. Mobile-CRISPRi...non-model bacteria including pathogenic strains and environmental isolates. For example, Peters and colleagues... remained constant, with fitness effects more pronounced at 12 doublings than at 6. Key takeaways of Mobile-CRISPRi...

  40. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - May 2021

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    May 18, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... to combat severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus may acquire mutations...CRISPR/Cas9 constructs. zCas9i is a high efficiency intron-optimized SpCas9-coding gene. SlugCas9 is a compact...selectively in Parvalbumin containing cortical interneurons. We now provide ready-to-use AAV vectors expressing...this promoter. Image calcium transients in PV interneurons with AAV-S5E2-GCaMP6f are now available as a...
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