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TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m....true reproducibility. The following are critical: (1) connectivity to other data sources used in research...engagement with the Wisconsin research community were to: (1) prevent vendor lock in by making it easy to get data...other large research institutions. The following graphic depicts the ways in which the two guiding principles...it difficult or impossible to reproduce. As the graphic depicts, RSpace supports linking to all of the ... other tools and resources. As depicted in the graphic, RSpace is integrated with most of the tools noted...
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The PAM Requirement and Expanding CRISPR Beyond SpCas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.... modify any desired genomic target provided that (1) the sequence is unique compared to the rest of the...will cover three ways to circumvent this limitation: 1) the use of novel S. pyogenes Cas9 variants with varying...Cas9 from Staphylococcus aureus (SaCas9) is about 1 kilobase smaller than SpCas9, so it can be packaged...Biol 19: . https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-018-1591-1 Cox DBT, Gootenberg JS, Abudayyeh OO, Franklin B, ...Campylobacter jejuni (Cj) NNNNRYAC Streptococcus thermophilus (St) NNAGAAW Treponema denticola (Td) ... -
Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.... closely data points fall to each other (see Fig. 1). Alpha values – numerical risk allowance in a ...statistical test assumes your data follows. Fig. 1: Examples of comparable groups with and without equal...values from smallest to largest and ranking them (1 being the smallest value). It calculates the cut off...directly manipulating affect an outcome (age, demographic, diet, etc., in a cancer drug clinical trial,...know type of distribution you are working with, graphing data with a histogram is sometimes sufficient ... -
Pairing CombiGEM and CRISPR for Combinatorial Genetic Screening
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m...., including those found at Addgene! Figure 1: Strategy for assembling the barcoded gRNA library...pool-clone them into the pAWp28 storage vector (Figure 1): Forward oligo: 5’- CACCGNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGTTTGGGTCTTCGAGAAGACCTATTCXXXXXXXXC... He can be contacted at [email protected]. References 1. Cheng, Allen A., Huiming Ding, and Timothy K. Lu....26190106. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4559080. 8. Shalem, Ophir, et al. "Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screening... -
Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m....Collection Fluorescent tagging strategy Figure 1: Gene editing is the addition of a useful coding sequence...plasmid design strategy. A donor plasmid contains 1 kb homology arms matching the gene of interest, a ...Institute website at alleninstitute.org. References 1. Roberts, Brock, et al. "Systematic gene tagging using...includes systems for tagging mammalian cell lines, Drosophila cells, and C. elegans. In addition to generating... -
Viral Vectors 101: Calcium Sensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 10, 2023, 1 p.m....want a low affinity calcium biosensor, so that the (1) binding of calcium, (2) allosteric rearrangements... to a red fluorescent state only by simultaneous (1) user-controlled illumination with violet light and...fluorescent indicators. Nature protocols. 2006 Aug;1(3):1057-65. Resources on Addgene.org Addgene’s AAV...GCaMP6 only). The genetic elements required for Drosophila studies have been added for jGCaMP7 and jGCaMP8... -
Four Ways to Package Transgenes That Exceed the Size Limit of Adeno-associated Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2020, 1:15 p.m....and drawbacks of four split AAV vector approaches. 1. Overlapping Overview: The overlapping strategy has...Adeno-Associated Virus Capsids. Human Gene Therapy Methods 27:1–12 . https://doi.org/10.1089/hgtb.2015.140 Frischmeyer...deliver the mini-dystrophin gene to a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. While mini-dystrophin expression levels...levels were lower than expression of wild-type dystrophin in normal muscles, mice treated with the overlapping... trans-splicing vector to deliver a 6 kb mini-dystrophin gene to a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. ...achieved ~80% of muscle cells expressing mini-dystrophin. 3. Hybrid Overview: The hybrid approach combines...Gene Therapy of mdx Mice With Large Truncated Dystrophins Generated by Recombination Using rAAV6. Molecular... -
CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m....new data). For general transfection, you could use 1 µl of 10 µM oligo stock for each well on 24-well plate...A10: The most we've tried to insert so far has been 1 kb. We used homology arms that were 800 bp long. Q11...able to cut). Clones without insertion will show a ~1 kb and ~7.5 kb fragment (both BbsI and AgeI will be...Mammalian Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 18(1), 93–101. https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.18.1.93 Ran...for a discussion on conversion tract length in Drosophila. Elliot et al. (1998) suggests mammalian cells...your HR by doing Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) (see Figure 4 of the Cong et. al (2013... -
Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m....Zhang et al., 2015). In this system a modified TIR-1 protein can degrade degron-tagged proteins in an auxin...splitting cGAL4 in two and binding each half to a gp41-1-N-intein. Split inteins are protein domains that naturally...mutations with unc- 119 + selection." MicroPublication 1 (2018): 2–3. Wang, Han, et al. "cGAL, a temperature-robust...by members of the worm community but there are Drosophila and zebrafish articles published there as well... -
Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m....reconstitution with a normally functioning T cell repertoire (1). In this example, it was possible to transduce the...significant improvements in vision over a period of 1 to 3 years – the treatment appears to be both safe...research and science communication. References 1. Gaspar, H. B., S. Howe, and A. J. Thrasher. "Gene...directed at diseases including but not limited to hemophilia B, LPL deficiency, Cystic fibrosis, Muscular ... -
Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m....optimized for expression in E. coli: acoustic gene 1 (arg1) and acoustic gene 2 (arg2). The key difference... plasmids are available from Addgene! References 1 Bourdeau, R.W., Lee-Gosselin, A., Lakshmanan, A., ... used arg1 to in vivo image tumour-homing S. typhimurium strain ELH1301. Bourdaeu et al see this as just... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m....the other (Sandomenico et al., 2020). Figure 1: Comparison between the IgG antibody and scFv. ...intensity of a tagged protein. SunTag has two components: 1) a protein of interest that’s tagged with 10-24 copies...Application. Clinical and Developmental Immunology 2012:1–15 . https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/980250 Bates A,...without disulfide bonds, made by molecular evolution 1 1Edited by I. A. Wilson. Journal of Molecular Biology...made up of glycine and serine with dispersed hydrophilic residues for increased solubility (Monnier et... -
Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 31, 2019, 1:06 p.m....biosynthesis in Drosophila melanogaster." Molecular and cellular endocrinology 215.1-2 (2004): 1-10. PubMed...stories. Six spooky science stories Zombie ants Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a fungus that infects ants ... a set of cytochrome P450 genes discovered in Drosophila melanogaster (Gilbert, 2004). Mutations in these...blood out. Once the blood is depleted, the tongue atrophies and falls off. The louse remains becoming the ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m....References 1. Peters, Nathan C., et al. "In vivo imaging reveals an essential role for neutrophils in leishmaniasis...do researchers track fluorescently labeled cells? 1. Epifluorescence microscopy This technique uses a ... The video above depicts the infiltration of neutrophils expressing LysM-GFP (green) into a draining lymph...infection with S. aureus (red). You can then see neutrophils swarming around S. aureus and eating the bacteria...two-photon microscopy include: How do T cells and/or Neutrophils travel to the sites of infection or damage (Peters...Good two-photon probes when using a standard Ti:Sapphire Laser include: Blue-green fluorescent proteins...this requires other lasers than the standard Ti:Sapphire laser. It is also important to finely tune the... -
CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2019, 2:16 p.m....This gives each guide a score ranging between 0 and 1. The cutting frequency determination (CFD score) is...converted to a weight (which ranges between 0 and 1) so that they can be used in the rank equation above...converted to a weight (which ranges between 0 and 1) (shown in the graph below) so that it can be used...HDR. Optimal mutation in-depth One the most sophisticated features of CrispyCrunch is how it mutates guide... -
Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m....biological questions. The two most common uses are: 1) to test the expression level in a specific system...brightness is compared to that of EGFP which is set as 1. Some proteins are very dim (e.g. TagRFP657, which...Photostability can be as short as 100ms (EBFP) or as long as 1 hour (mAmetrine1.2). However, for most FPs it is a...emission is green or red light. For example, T-Sapphire, LSSmOrange, and LSSmKate. Fluorescent Sensors... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m....organoid model (Sun, et al. 2021). Figure 1: Example schematic from the Organoid EasyTag system...without altering that of the internal control (Fig 1). Because this method relies on the fluorescence ratio...and can be used for genome editing in moderate thermophiles. These evolved SpCas9 variants have improved... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....more tools for plasmid mapping and design (Figure 1). Benchling: While you might think of Benchling as...Davis from the University of Utah. Figure 1: A plasmid map created in SnapGene of Blue Flame plasmid...patterns, post-translational modifications and polymorphisms Codon optimization tool: To access this tool... -
Summer SciComm: Science Storytelling
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m..... In literary terms, conflict can be defined as (1) the struggle between two opposing forces or (2) the...journey even when they know the ending. Fig. 1: We all know that the superheroes win in the end. ...other affected people, man/animal vs nature, anthropomorphized animals, or even seemingly unrelated stories... -
A New Optogenetic Tool Based on AraC Controls Gene Expression with Blue Light
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 17, 2021, 1:17 p.m.... that dimerizes upon exposure to blue light (Fig. 1). Another blue light-inducible dimerization domain...expression needed for most applications. Figure 1: With blue light, the VVD domains of the BLADE dimerize...Mustafa Khammash's lab at ETH Zürich. “Instead of a graphical abstract, it’s a musical abstract,” says Di Ventura...