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  1. Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening

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    April 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...CombiGEM lentiviral vector backbone pAWp12 (Figure 2). Cloning from the pAWp28 storage vector to the pAWp12... before beginning your experiments. Figure 2: Strategy for assembling barcoded combinatorial gRNA...PMID: 25114216. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4151723. 2. Doench, John G., et al. "Optimized sgRNA design to...genes essential for West-Nile-virus-induced cell death." Cell reports 12.4 (2015): 673-683. PubMed PMID:... (and multiple) genetic perturbations in single cells. Methods to scale up multiplexed CRISPR systems ... build and constantly improve gRNA libraries, excellent resources with effective gRNAs are publicly available...perturbations and applications in functional genomics, cell reprogramming, and beyond. For further details, ...
  2. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    Dec. 8, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...CcdB.” Biotechniques. 1996 Aug;21(2):320-3. PubMed PMID: 8862819. 2. Bahassi, EM., et al. “F plasmid CcdB... desired insert should not grow.   Figure 2: Image from http://teachline.ls.huji.ac.il/72682/tutorials... protein (CcdA) that protects the cell against the toxic CcdB. Cells that lose ccdA through the loss of...disrupted allowing cells expressing the recombinant plasmid to propagate. Any cells that contained non-recombinant...which is responsible for plasmid maintenance during cell division. ccdB codes for the toxic protein (CcdB...broken double stranded DNA and ultimately causing cell death. ccdA, another gene found in the ccd operon...Gateway takes advantage of the same principle that cells will not propagate while expressing the gene. Briefly...
  3. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ...Brainbow mouse neural labeling system. Brainbow-1 and -2 have been further refined to create Brainbow 3.2. ...M-CFP expression; these deletions are defined using 2 loxP variants (only identical loxP sites can mediate... each fluorophore. Third, Brainbow-1 and Brainbow-2 each contained a “default” state; for example, Brainbow...processes not previously visible with Brainbow-1 and -2. The general structure of Brainbow-1.0 is retained... brain, robust single-cell labeling is necessary to distinguish individual cells. The Brainbow-1.0 construct... May 5. PubMed. Zebrabow: multispectral cell labeling for cell tracing and lineage analysis in zebrafish... both of Harvard’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, harnessed these attributes of Cre-lox...
  4. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    July 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...promoter and terminator flanking the CDS, and a Level 2 multigene vector with two other independently regulated...the sequence you are trying to clone. Figure 2: MoClo assemblies depend on compatibility of four-...sequentially for your Level 0, Level 1, and Level 2 assemblies using the plasmid sequence files provided...after each transformation. This could be as few as 1–2 colonies if you’re an experienced MoClo user, but ... this, you can increase the volume of competent cells you plate after each transformation and/or use different...recommend transforming into chemically competent cells in a 96-well PCR plate. Always confirm your results...
  5. Enhancing CRISPR Targeting Specificity with eSpCas9, SpCas9-HF1, & HypaCas9

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    Dec. 16, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... (2,3). Stable strand separation is maintained by 2 sets of interactions : 1. Interactions between the...formed by the Cas9 HNH and RuvC nuclease domains 2. Interactions between the target strand and the gRNA... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Nishimasu, Hiroshi, et al. "Crystal structure of ... the EMX1 locus in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells, 11 of these initial mutants retained the on-target...off-target activity at multiple genomic locations in HEK cells. Further testing of two of the mutants, SpCas9(K855A... showed that these mutants are not toxic to HEK cells and that similar mutations can improve the specificity... researchers to make precise edits in mammalian cells and may decrease worries about off target effects...
  6. Plasmids 101: Expressing shRNAs for RNA Interference

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    June 17, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... References Bartel, D. P. (2004). MicroRNAs. Cell, 116(2), 281–297. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0092-8674...downstream genomic sequences (Figure 2B).   Figure 2: A comparison of an shRNA plasmid sequence and an ...module_attribute "schema_version" is_json="true" %}{% raw %}2{% endraw %}{% end_module_attribute %}{% module_attribute...miRNA-guided gene silencing. Nucleic Acids Research, 50(2), 617–634. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab1256 Lee...silencing complex. Molecular Cell, 82(1), 30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2021.11.026 Kilikevicius...miRNA and piRNA can be found endogenously in many cell types, while shRNA and siRNA are synthetic constructs...methods. shRNA processing Following delivery into cells using viral vectors or plasmids, shRNAs hijack the...
  7. Antibodies 101: Stripping and Reprobing Western Blots

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    Aug. 1, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...incubation at 37 °C. Wash the membrane for 5–10 minutes 2–3x in fresh wash buffer such as PBS or TBST. Stringent...Purpose Tris HCl 62.5 mM Buffer SDS 2% (w/v) Detergent Β-mercaptoethanol (βME) 100...minutes at 50 °C. Wash the membrane for 5–10 minutes 2–6x in fresh wash buffer such as PBS or TBST. Note ...better than a nitrocellulose membrane. If you have already run your blot using nitrocellulose, you may decide...protein of interest in a complicated solution like cell lysate. But they can be a lot of work — and what...instructions for the membrane you are using. Dry nitrocellulose membranes are brittle, so proceed with caution...
  8. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    April 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... 1 2010 3 Nature  3.3% 10.5%   3.2  9.6 2 2010 167  Nature 3.3%  10.5%  3.2  534.1 3...Microbiology  1.6% 1.2%  0.75   125.3 In figure 2, you can see the full impact from using these weighted...plasmids deposited at Addgene still accrue on average 2 to 3 times as many citations as other papers in the... most relevant to plasmids: Genetics & Heredity, Cell Biology, Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology, Biochemistry...
  9. Using Phosphoserine to Study Protein Phosphorylation

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    June 23, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...phosphorylation." Nature cell biology4.5 (2002): E127-E130. PubMed PMID: 11988757. 2. Hornbeck, Peter V., ...phosphorylation events in the proteomes of higher mammals (2). How can we begin to understand the importance of... the open reading frame (ORF) of interest (Figure 2). 1. The phosphoserine OTS The backbone of the phosphoserine...optimized Sep-OTSλ and can recommend its use (6).  2. C321, a specialized bacterial host strain for pSer-incorporation...commonly cited that approximately one-third of cellular proteins are modified through phosphorylation ...translation of many stop codons and detrimental effects on cell growth. The C321.ΔA strain was genomically recoded...is particularly interested in the intersection of cell signaling, metabolism, and the mighty mitochondrion...
  10. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ... living plant cells." (2013). PubMed PMID: 24194740. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3810607. 2. Bajar, Bryce... fluorophore excitation by absorption of a photon 2. Energy transfer from the excited donor directly to...PubMed PMID: 10500161. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC18018. 2. Miyawaki, Atsushi, et al. "Fluorescent indicators...fluorescent proteins available. Fortunately, several excellent reviews have collated data from various papers... alters the FRET efficiency. Detecting certain cellular changes with an intermolecular probe is often ...Miyawaki et al., 1997), was designed to measure intracellular calcium and published in 1997. Since that time...of labs to answer sophisticated questions about cellular processes. Currently, FRET experiments can probe...
  11. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ... the gene Prohormone convertase 2 (pc2) labels the central nervous system. Evaluating Gene function by... characterized in an unrelated worm (C. elegans) [2]. Delivering dsRNA matching a specific mRNA sequence...223). Link: http://abt.ucpress.edu/content/79/3/208 2. Fire, S. Xu, M.K. Montgomery, S.A. Kostas, S.E. Driver...stain the cells that contain this mRNA-riboprobe-antibody complex and, as a result, these cells turn blue...specific cell types or entire organs in planarians. For example, the gene Piwi labels neoblast cells and the...techniques to alter gene expression or to label specific cells, but there are too few resources to teach students... in tissue. This is useful for labeling specific cell types and for viewing how gene expression changes...
  12. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...lately (1, 2), depends on knowledge of the structure(s) a given phage will recognize on a host cell. To make...per plate) across 20 fresh selective plates. Step 2: Express random phage DNA fragments in E. coli Now...microbiology 23.4 (2015): 185-191. PubMed PMID: 25708933. 2. Cooper, Callum J., Mohammadali Khan Mirzaei, and ... biology 34 (2015): 69-77. PubMed PMID: 26275959. 2. Weigele, Peter, and Elisabeth A. Raleigh. "Biosynthesis... cloned into E. coli cells, isolated colonies will be lifted onto nitrocellulose membranes and exposed... proteins directly onto the nitrocellulose for subsequent probing for cell-binding activity.  First, cut...with live host cells Now you can proceed with incubating this membrane with your cells of interest and...
  13. Viral Vectors 101: Inverted Terminal Repeats

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    Oct. 19, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...ITR, which can either be “flip” or “flop” (Figure 2). Additionally, the ITR contains a 4-nucleotide Rep...site for Rep proteins (Savvy et al. 2013). Figure 2: AAV2 wild type ITR in flip and flop orientation. ...Packaging, and Potency of AAV Vectors. Microorganisms, 12(2), 310. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms1202031038399714...allow scientists to express a gene of interest in a cell or animal model. AAV plasmids contain several important...Integrity on rAAV8 Production Using the Baculovirus/Sf9 Cells System. Hum Gene Ther Methods, 28(5), 277–289. https...
  14. Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase

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    Feb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...the system outlined in Schmid-Burgk, J.L., et al (2). In this post, I’ll cover two great applications ...molecularly evolved from mNeptune2 through 33 mutations and 2 deletions. CyOFP1 has a higher quantum yield, brightness...luciferin 24 hours later demonstrated a more than 2-fold brighter signal from Antares as compared to Fluc...PMID: 22894855. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3501149. 2. Schmid, J.L., et al. (2016) CRISPaint allows modular...successfully infected/expressing cells by flow cytometry. The isolated cells were injected into mice and imaged...including monitoring multiple cellular events such as the dynamics of subcellular structures and gene expression...other cellular proteins. BRET-based biosensors utilizing NanoLuc® luciferase Many intracellular sensors...
  15. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...red in the spreadsheet (Figure 2) and are described in Table 1. Some cells have drop-down options for you...our deposit spreadsheet to complete Step 1. Steps 2 and 3 are usually very easy — our tech transfer team...Filling out and sending the deposit spreadsheet Figure 2: Example of the deposit spreadsheet showing the first... question about what should go into a cell, hover over the cell and instructions will pop up. When you... into the appropriate full and partial sequence cells. *Note: If you believe you need to deposit a collection...
  16. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    May 22, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ... DC. 2. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology [PCAST] (2012). Engage to Excel: Producing...research experiences to undergraduate students (1, 2), but educators face significant challenges in designing... by western blotting in other experiments (Figure 2).   Complementation reveals conservation of function...lack uracil, but contain methionine. (This allows cells carrying nonfunctional as well as functional MET... is available at our Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Website. Many thanks to our guest blogger...right) has taught courses in biochemistry, molecular cell biology and genetics at Boston College. She is particularly...
  17. Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies

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    Nov. 27, 2019, 2:03 p.m.
    ...neuroscience see Table 1 from the paper. 2. Manipulate your cell of interest: Cell-type specific expression of molecular...specific cell type. Find some transduction characteristics of select AAV serotypes in Table 2 from the...in their cell bodies. Optical stimulation in a different brain area can then reveal the cells bodies of...with AAV: 1. Getting your viral vector into your cell of interest: AAV tropism and route of administration...transduction, the viral capsid proteins bind to the target cell’s surface proteins and this interaction determines...by restricting expression to genetically defined cell types. Specific transgene expression can be also...different approaches can increase the specificity of cell targeting even further. For example, injecting AAVs...
  18. Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap

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    Oct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m.
    ...digestion of the destination vector with SapI yields 2 sites- the first site accepts the sgRNA target sequence...marker, and connector to be released (Fig. 1, Step 2-3). Since donor plasmids of the same type will produce... gRNA vector that targets the gene of interest, 2) a plasmid to specify the reading frame of the insertion...and function of cellular systems. FPs have been used to track protein localization, cell structure, intracellular...associated with cellular organelles, scientists have been able to study many cellular processes, including...to fluorescently tag markers of cellular structures in mammalian cells. These plasmids use fluorescent...Depletion in Human Cells by Auxin-Inducible Degron Tagging with Short Homology Donors.” Cell Rep.15(1) (2016...
  19. How Dry Ice Affects Viral Vector Sample pH & How to Avoid It

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    June 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...pH visible at the sample interface upon thaw (Fig. 2). Before thawing, all the samples were at the control...showed that AAV infectivity was not altered by a short 2-hour exposure to pH as low as 2.5 (Potter et al., ...Methods. 2013 Apr;10(4):278-9. PubMed PMID: 23538862. 2. Potter M, Lins B, Mietzsch M, Heilbronn R, Van Vliet...measure the pH of our samples, we used a solution of cell culture medium, which is buffered and contains the...
  20. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of components, such as your CRISPR enzyme or Pol 2 promoter. The options available in each class, or ...overhang specific to the type of module it is (Pol 2 protomer, Cas protein, ect...). Whatever individual... (KO, CRISPRa, CRISPRi, editing)   Figure 2: Selecting module fragments on the Fragmid website...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_051 (for stable fly cell lines; attL and attR sequences for genome integration...Drosophilia Plasmid pRDB_052 (for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration...rapid assessment of emerging CRISPR technologies. Cell Genomics, 4(3), 100519. https://doi.org/10.1016/...
  21. Cpf1 Update: Comparison to Cas9 and NgAgo

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    July 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell. 2015 Sep 23. pii: S0092-8674(15)01200-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038...single RNA-guided endonuclease of a class 2 CRISPR-Cas system." Cell (2015). PubMed PMID: 26422227.   ... Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Kleinstiver, Benjamin P., et al. "Genome-wide specificities...particularly helpful for targeting non-dividing cells, which are difficult to modify through homology-... Cpf1 orthologs known to be active in mammalian cells, LbCpf1 and AsCpf1. In both reports, on target editing... (RNPs) failed to induce off-target editing in a cell culture model. What we still don't know about Cpf1...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 27272384...
  22. CRISPR 101: Anti-CRISPR Proteins Switch Off CRISPR-Cas Systems

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    July 23, 2020, 1:20 p.m.
    ...base pair to another base pair at a specific site. 2. Temporal, spatial, or conditional control of CRISPR...difficult-to-engineer Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 (Mayo-Muñoz et al., 2018). Only viral particles that...Editing of Sulfolobus islandicus Rod-Shaped Virus 2. Viruses 10:695 . https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120695...Inhibitor of CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 170:1224-1233.e15 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.037 Li C, Psatha...Off-Switches for CRISPR-Cas9. Cell 167:1829-1838.e9 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.11.017 Shin J, Jiang...concern is that the longer Cas remains active in a cell, the greater chances there are for off-target edits...within the first six hours. When added to human cells six hours after the introduction of Cas9 RNPs, AcrIIA4...
  23. Mapping the 4D nucleome with CRISPR/Cas9

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    Aug. 11, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...resolved loci with physical map distances of 75 and 2 Mbp, with the calculated fluorescent distances correlating...established physical map. In comparing pairs of targets ~2 Mbp apart, they noticed that they could evaluate the...be applicable to studies of cell cycle progression, epigenetics and cellular reactions to external stimuli...Weissman JS, Qi LS, Huang B. Cell. 2013 Dec 19;155(7):1479-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.001. Pubmed. Find...LS, Weissman JS, Vale RD. Cell. 2014 Oct 23;159(3):635-46. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.09.039. Epub 2014 Oct...labeled Cas9 to label multiple genomic loci in live cells. While other systems can be used to label loci, ...CRISPR/Cas9’s ease of use and ability to label live cells make this system truly advantageous. This new technique...
  24. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...the mixed sample in our pipeline (see Figure 2, sample 2). When we blindly analyzed AAV-68544, we were...look for potential contaminants. The analysis is a 2-step process using Geneious software: First, the individual...our viral service to continue our mission of accelerating scientific research. To make sure that adeno-associated... check viral transgene expression in transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow...fragments of DNA from the helper plasmids or the cell genome can be packaged inside the vectors during...earlier, it is common to find DNA from the packaging cell genome, bacterial genomes, cloning vectors, and ...
  25. Antibodies 101: Flow Compensation

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    May 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Figure 2, following compensation. Figure 3: Flow plot for a double positive sample. The cell population.... Let's look at an experimental example in Figure 2. Figure 2A shows the sample prior to compensation.... line with the other populations.   Figure 2: Compensation example based on experimental sample... make it difficult to properly gate your desired cell population. By compensating between fluorescent ... your fluorescent markers are staining for. If a cell is positive for both markers, it will show up as...learning! Ashlyn has a research background in CD8+ T cells and cancer immunotherapies. She is currently a research...
  26. Avoiding the Dark Side of Fluorescent Protein Fusions with mOX FPs

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    Oct. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
    ...PMC2875081. 2. Snapp, Erik Lee. "Fluorescent proteins: a cell biologist's user guide." Trends in cell biology...imaging in a variety of cellular compartments including the secretory pathway (Figure 2), the inner membrane...properly exiting the ER and fluorescing (see Figure 2) [5].  When using FPs containing two cysteine residues...numerous cell biology assays. However, there has been a pervasive view that most FPs in a cell will fold...fluorescent fusion proteins in cell biology."Current Protocols in Cell Biology (2005): 21-4. Pubmed PMID...Fluorescent proteins in cellular organelles: serious pitfalls and some solutions." DNA and cell biology 32.11 (...-fusions on quantitative imaging experiments and cell physiology in general. Pitfalls of Fluorescent Protein...
  27. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ...the result in Figure 1 could look like this: Figure 2: Expression of Plasmid B (as internal control) This...down expression of Gene X but, as shown in Figure 2, this was likely due to the original transfection ...PMID: 20074371. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2817684. 2. Replicates and repeats—what is the difference and...untreated cells—but can we be certain? Do we know whether the plasmid delivered into the cells successfully...amount of DNA transfected into the cells and the ability of the cells to express the protein.   In analysis...Gene X in backbone Y) was transfected into human cells. From this result one could simply conclude that...didn’t work, as the expression level of Gene X in cells treated with Plasmid A is similar to the expression...
  28. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2025

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    Aug. 28, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...RNA guide (known as an omega RNA, or ωRNA) (Figure 2), but TnpB is small enough to be carried by viral ...than a third of the size of Cas9). Figure 2: Comparison of TnpB (A) and Cas9 (B) genome editors...Figure 5: Mechanism of ATLASCre. VAMP2 = synaptobrevin 2; At = ALFA-tag; BACE = β-secretase; AF = AMPA.FingR...epithelial cells, liver, CNS (limited penetration), retina, hematopoietic cells, and immune cells. B) AAV11...Sanchez, P. S., & Rodriguez-Fraticelli, A. E. (2025). Pre-existing stem cell heterogeneity dictates clonal...the acquisition of leukemic driver mutations. Cell Stem Cell, 32(4), 564–580.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016...therapy and ex vivo cell engineering applications and is especially well-suited for lung cells via airway administration...
  29. The AAVantages of AAV in CRISPR Screens

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    Feb. 4, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...AAV8 for kidney cells — can help improve infection rates in your experiment. Figure 2: Visual representation...handled at BSL-1, while lentivirus requires a BSL-2 setup. This requires a less involved setup when working..., 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12449-2 Pupo, A., Fernández, A., Low, S. H., François, A.,...same: Deliver CRISPR library to cells of interest. Select for cells of interest (positive or negative...infect specific cell or tissue types. Using serotypes that have a known tropism for your cells of interest... a host cell’s genome. In this state, AAV cargo can be stably expressed in non-dividing cells for long...mice are involved. Ex vivo starts with transducing cells with the CRISPR library in vitro before transplanting...
  30. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    Aug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...and standard neuronal tracers. 2. Visualization of neuronal sub-cellular structures GFP is limited in its...proteins. For example, N-cadherin (cadherin-2) is a postsynaptic cell adhesion protein that plays a critical...PMID: 25915120. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4573404. 2. Shepherd, G.M. (2004). In "The synaptic organization...ability to interact with protein partners within the cell. However, antibodies can have low affinity for these... generally bright, stable and well tolerated by cells. They can be used for protein localization, isolation...trigger protein aggregation which is toxic for the cells and affects the labeling of small structures like...team, an ideal probe should combine the solubility, cell tolerance, and optional fluorescence of FPs with...
  31. The Future of Research Symposium Boston 2015

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    Oct. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Quotes taken directly from participants (summarized in 2) touched upon many problems in this area: “ [The] ...PMID: 24733905. Pubmed Central PMCID: PMC4000813. 2. McDowell, Gary S., et al. "Shaping the Future of ...A fair deal for PhD students and postdocs." Elife 2 (2013): e01139. Pubmed PMID: 24137543. Pubmed Central...following panel members: Jonathan Dinman, Chair of the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Department at University...
  32. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This string can then be used as input for the prediction...top 5) and test them in their labs. Figure 2: Guidelines to predict pegRNA efficiencies with pridict.it...Biotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02268-2 Schep, R., Brinkman, E. K., Leemans, C., Vergara, ... systems in multiple cell types. Cell, 186, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.03.034 Resources...Integrated in Parallel. Cell, 154(4), 914–927. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CELL.2013.07.018 Anzalone, A....epigenetic manipulation of prime editing. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.020 Mathis, N., Allam, A... balance. Molecular Cell, 81(10), 2216-2230.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MOLCEL.2021.03.032 Yu, G., ...
  33. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
    ...channelrhodopsin-2, ChR2) fused to a reporter gene (e.g., mCherry) to easily detect opsin-expressing cells. The resulting.... "A FLEX switch targets Channelrhodopsin-2 to multiple cell types for imaging and long-range circuit ...the correct orientation to be transcribed (Figure 2) (Sharma and Zhu, 2014). How does FLEx enable strong... Abdallah, Khaled, et al. "Adeno-associated virus 2/9 delivery of Cre recombinase in mouse primary afferents... specific cell-type promoter. Once injected into the brain, the viruses infect all the cells with an inactive...energy conversion or the induction of intra- or intercellular signaling pathways (Ernst et al., 2014). Microbial...proteins control the flow of electric charges across cell membranes and maintain membrane potential in response...
  34. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...resistance to the herbicide chlorsulfuron (Homo line 2) or wild type (WT), two weeks after herbicide was ... CLIPf tag and a C-terminal SNAPf tag; see Figure 2), the authors developed a cost-effective expression... when associated with microtubules. Figure 2: CLIP-SNAP fusion proteins for single-molecule FRET... primary cells. The authors used this platform to assay dozens of GPCRs across many cell types in...biosensor platform. Cell, 187(6), 1527–1546.e25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.028. New...Prime editing (PE), initially developed in human cells, has been uniquely challenging to apply in dicotyledonous...labeling approach using these constructs in HEK 293 cells (Smith et al., 2024). They then used single-molecule...
  35. "What Makes a Good Mentor?" and 6 More FAQs About Science Mentoring

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    Dec. 17, 2013, 2:47 p.m.
    ...portion of our careers. In that time we may have only 2-3 formal supervisors that will provide guidance and...be challenging – is advice and guidance from only 2 people enough?  For many years I’ve been organizing...Apparently, a good Jedi does not necessarily an excellent mentor make. Are your current mentors/advisors...What Kind of Mentor Do I Want To Be?” In this excellent essay Acclimatrix, an assistant professor at a...
  36. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...(you generally don’t want more tag than protein), 2-3 tags is increasingly common. Tandem affinity purification...TEV cleavage site (more on that in a moment), and 2 ProtA IgG-binding domains. TAP has since come to encompass...found in this paper (available at Addgene).   Table 2: Protease recognition sites commonly used with tags...not generally in a cell’s best interest to overexpress a protein. Energy and cellular resources are being...being spent to make something the cell doesn’t need to make. Eukaryotes and some bacteria deploy proteosomes...proteosomes to degrade what the cell might consider junk protein. Though there are a number of chemical and...same manner as it would have in the context of a cell. FLAG tags can be cleaved by enterokinase, which...
  37. Deep Dive: qPCR

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    Sept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...indicating primer dimers. (c) A double peak indicating 2 amplicons. Image credits (respectively): Zuzanna K...details for reproducibility’s sake!   Fig. 2: Setting up triplicates in multiple configurations...used method is the Standard Curve method. See Table 2, (adapted from Wong, 2018) for a comparison of different...Statistically defined log-linear phase   Table 2: A comparison of different qPCR analysis methods. ... for RNA quantitation. Biotechniques. 2000 Aug;29(2):332-7. doi: 10.2144/00292rv02. PMID: 10948434.Taylor... that your reference genes are suitable for your cell lines and/or tissue types.  Please do note my oh-so-subtle...reference genes to save on plate space. For many cell lines and tissue types, appropriate reference genes...
  38. Spurred by COVID-19, Addgene Bridges Plasmid Sharing Between Academia and Industry

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    June 23, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...untagged expression of SARS-CoV-2 proteins in bacteria, yeast, and mammalian cells. We teamed up with Ginkgo...approximately 3,000 constructs to support SARS-CoV-2 research.  Browse the entire Ginkgo Bioworks COVID...organizations to share materials more broadly to accelerate COVID-19 research: Sinai Health System                                     ...
  39. ReFigure: Save Scientific Figures into Dashboards and Share Your Insights

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    Dec. 13, 2017, 3:20 p.m.
    ...literature? Very often the data of interest are in 1 or 2 figures from one paper and then another figure in ...ReFigure by creating ReFigures and answering this 2 minute survey! You can also find ReFigure on Twitter... remember what happened when drug X was added to cell line Y, or the phenotype of a mouse with a specific...comparison of the same experiment from different cell lines/model systems ReFigure allows you to make...
  40. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...you look at the dot plot in Figure 2, you might assume that all cell populations are positive for both ... the case of Figure 2, one population is B- and another two are B+. Our A-B+ cells are in the lower right...right corner.      Figure 2: This flow plot has two populations that are B+ and one population...-B+ cells, and A+B+ cells, but no cells that are A+B-.      Figure 3: It's often easier to identify...population of B cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in the lower middle right. DCs and B cells are HLA-DR+ and...single cells in a population. It can be used to measure protein expression, identify rare cells, or even...looking for cells in a sample that are negative for marker A and positive for marker B, or A-B+ cells. If you...
  41. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...starting day 2 after transfection.     Fig: 2: Expressing mARGAna in MDA-MB-231 cells. (a) Plasmid...expression. When engineering a cell line, cotransfect the mARG cassettes 2:1 (A:N-V) with PiggyBac transposase...producing cells. After FACS, return the cells to doxycycline-free media and expand the cells. Use a subset...white inclusions in cells with GVs via phase contrast microscopy, GVs visible in cells via TEM, and purified... heterogeneity required single cell screening to isolate a clonal cell line capable of producing ultrasound...expression homogeneity, as the cells could be batch-sorted to isolate a polyclonal cell line with strong gas vesicle...transient transfection in rtTA+ cell lines (such as HEK293-TETOn cells), or they can also be integrated...
  42. Comparing Cas9 to NgAgo: Can the Argonautes Best CRISPR?

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    June 9, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Epub 2016 May 2. PubMed PMID: 27136078. Find plasmids from this publication at Addgene. 2. Swarts, Daan... be stable in the cell. gDNA guides will also need to be transfected into the cells of interest. In contrast...unable to show TtAgo-mediated cleavage in mammalian cells, likely due to high temperature requirements. To...plasmid and genomic DNA in a variety of mammalian cell lines, with an efficiency similar to that of Cas9...
  43. Tips for arabidopsis transformation

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    Oct. 25, 2018, 1:23 p.m.
    ... Plant Methods. BioMed Central, 2(1), p. 19. doi: 10.1186/1746-4811-2-19. PubMed PMID: 17087829. PubMed...PMID: 24032037. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3759027. 2 Harrison, S. J. et al. (2006) ‘A rapid and robust ...incubated at stationary phase for too long, the cells in your culture will no longer be viable. The time...graduate student at Stanford University. She studies cell fate maintenance in the stomatal lineage and has...
  44. Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility

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    March 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...daughter cell, instead of partitioning each type of plasmid into a separate daughter cells (Figure 2) (Ebersbach...to plasmid loss (Diaz et al., 2015).  Figure 2: The partitioning problem. For low copy plasmids...Plasmids. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 62(2): 434–464. Pubmed PMID: 9618448 Diaz R, Rech J, Bouet...copy number in the cell is high, but allows replication when copy number in the cell falls too low (Novcik...system to partition themselves to each daughter cell during cell division. They don’t simply rely on chance...eukaryotic cells). The partition NTPase is recruited and “walks” each plasmid to a separate daughter cell. When...from the cell with the same probability, or asymmetrical, where one plasmid lost from the cell at a higher...
  45. FastCloning: A Newer, Simpler Cloning Technique

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    Nov. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...vector:insert ratio is used in the DpnI digestion and 2 µL of digest product are used in the transformation...Biology 38 (2016): 145-154. PubMed PMID: 27391134. 2. Li, Chaokun, et al. "FastCloning: a highly simplified...properly. Directly transform chemically competent cells with the digested mixture. There is no need for ...purification before transformation. After transforming cells, you should perform colony PCR with vector specific...interested in protein science.     References: 1. Celie, Patrick HN, Annabel HA Parret, and Anastassis Perrakis...
  46. Tips for CRISPR Gene Editing in Mice

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    June 28, 2016, 10:59 a.m.
    ... than control, 3; same as control (Cetn1/sgRNA1), 2; darker than control, 1; very dark). Brighter fluorescence...you can hold off on genotyping until the pups are 2-4 weeks old and use the ear tag method (creating different...PMID: 24253446. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3875854. 2. Mashiko, Daisuke, et al. "Generation of mutant mice...expanded since its adaptation for use in mammalian cells in 2012-2013. Researchers are now using this system...plasmids containing sgRNA sequences into HEK293T cells. The fluorescence intensity was classified into ...is then a simple matter of transfecting HEK293T cells with your modified pCAG-EGXXFP plasmid along with...incubation, you assess the level of fluorescence in your cells under a fluorescence microscope. The higher the ...
  47. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    May 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... environmental sustainability in mind (Table 2). Table 2: Sustainability features highlighted in plasmid...plasmid DNA from unwanted cellular “debris”; and then clean-up the plasmid DNA (Figure 2). For most kits, the...together — no mixing and matching!   Figure 2: Plasmid isolation workflows are similar across kits...the steps for lysing cells and removing cellular debris look very similar. However, keep in mind that ...relative term — even armed with the highest-competency cells you will still struggle to get transformants if ...quantity) – Depending on the experiment, mammalian cell transfections can require quite large amounts of...your bacteria to release the plasmid, separate the cell debris from the plasmid, and then clean-up the plasmid...
  48. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...presented in a series of quick (10 minute) or very quick (2 minute) talks so we got to hear from everyone. Addgene...evolutionary tree at least 6-7 times and on at least 2 separate continents. Mimulus (Andrea Sweigart) Monkeyflowers...Organisms, Part 1 Five Popular Model Organisms, Part 2 ...Xenopus frog cell lines to develop robust methods for frog gene editing. They edit in a cell line, then ...is the smallest photosynthetic cell in existence, but most abundant cell on earth (twice the human biomass...only 1,700 genes total). Hydra (Celina Juliano) This is a known stem cell and regeneration model. Little...Mormyridae (Jason Gallant) Weakly electric fish are excellent systems to study for convergent evolution because...
  49. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Immunofluorescence

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    Nov. 16, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...into the several steps outlined below and in Figure 2. For a deeper dive into the steps and techniques, ...mounting sample on slides, and confocal   Figure 2: High-level overview of an indirect immunofluorescence...recognize the species of your primary antibody and 2) is conjugated to a fluorophore that suits your experiment...interest live within a cell,” “Does this disease change the architecture of my cells,” or “How does this ...IF), is an immunoassay that brings to light the cellular world. The technique allows you to ask questions...this mutation impact the types of cells found in my tissue.” It is based on the same principles as other ... visualize a target of interest within an intact cell, tissue, or, in some cases, a whole organism. But...
  50. The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9

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    Aug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System. Cell 163:759–771 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2015.09.038 Find...is unique compared to the rest of the genome and (2) the sequence is located just upstream of a Protospacer...pyogenes Cas9 variants with varying PAM sequences, 2) the use of Cas9 homologs derived from species other...are capable of cleaving genomic DNA in mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos, and they can be used to modify... adapted for targeted RNA cleavage in mammalian cells. The REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable A to I...reveals specificities of Cpf1 endonucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:863–868 . https://doi.org/10.1038...specificities of CRISPR-Cas Cpf1 nucleases in human cells. Nat Biotechnol 34:869–874 . https://doi.org/10.1038...
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