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  1. FLEx Technology and Optogenetics: Flipping the switch on gene expression with high spatial and temporal resolution

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 17, 2019, 12:28 p.m.
    ..., 2005; Deisseroth et al., 2006). Despite its relatively recent development, the history of optogenetics...delivery in the central nervous system due to their relatively stable extra-chromosomally long-term expression... neuronal inputs to induce aversion- or reward-related behaviors. The high spatio-temporal precision and...containing FLEx technology. Read the genOway press release for more information. References Abdallah, Khaled...hippocampal interneurons that express corticotropin‐releasing hormone." Hippocampus 26.1 (2016): 41-53. PubMed...
  2. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...AAV-PHP-B, it can be produced with high viral yields relative to AAV9. At lower viral titers than AAV-PHP.B ...when paired with the ubiquitous CAG promoter, is relatively biased toward L5 and inhibitory neurons and astrocytes...C57BL/6J and BALB/cJ mice through LY6C1, with relatively even distribution of target gene expression (...Spatial transcriptomics shows that its tropism is relatively more biased toward excitatory neurons than AAV-PHP.eB...DNA levels (~25-fold and ~4-fold respectively) relative to AAV9 in the pigtail macaque brain slices. Similarly...BALB/cJ mice, meaning that systemic capsids that rely on LY6A interactions cannot cross the BBB in BALB...not have known homologs in NHPs, and capsids that rely on interactions with those two proteins to cross...
  3. What the HEK?

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    Blog Post
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    April 18, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... to faithfully produce these proteins and its relatively low expression of native channels.  No matter...
  4. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...activity on NAG PAMS and reduced activity on NGG PAMs relative to wild type. A new genome-wide CRISPR knockout...opportunities for investigating genetic mechanisms related to morphogenesis, cell fate specification, and ...the internal control (Fig 1). Because this method relies on the fluorescence ratio between the 2 fluorophores...
  5. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    Blog Post
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    July 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
    ... live animal that can be correlated to behavior, the technique is relatively slow and is not suited to...and concentration of released DA in mouse brain slices Visualization of DA release dynamics during locomotion...Though DA firing patterns (or the frequency of its release) are well understood, the direct effect of DA binding..., enabling detection of individual peaks of DA release.  Using dLight1 sensors in experiments The Tian...following types of data: Report endogenous DA release from a single dopaminergic fiber in mouse brain...stimulus in vivo in transgenic zebrafish Report DA release in live mice over the course of Pavlovian conditioning...
  6. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 13, 2018, 2:51 p.m.
    ...organisms and cell lines. Although ChIP-seq is a relatively simple and robust protocol it does have limitations...or more transient DNA-protein interactions, the reliance on fixation does increase the chance of false-..., which stands for ‘Cleavage Under Targets and Release Using Nuclease,’ was recently developed by the ...digestion. After MNase digestion, fragments are released from nuclei by a short incubation at 37 °C. These...strong detergent to permeabilize cells rather than to rely on nuclei extraction. They report that this change...
  7. Antibodies 101: Flow Cytometry

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    Blog Post
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    July 20, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...scatter (FSC) and provides information about the relative size of the cell; larger cells produce more FSC...experiment, you would need a way to determine the relative contribution of yellow and orange from FITC and...intensity of events. Since intensity positively correlates with expression, the further the shift of a cell...
  8. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    Blog Post
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    May 28, 2024, 1:45 p.m.
    ...are absorbed and then emitted, which creates a relatively stronger — or brighter — signal.   Figure...use brighter fluorophores for markers that are relatively lower in abundance. In contrast, when you expect...brightness for a few commonly used fluorophores in relation to the laser type. Table adapted from: https:/...again. In the beginning, we talked about the relationship between a photon's wavelength and energy, how... into different levels of brightness and their relation to the fluorophore's excitation efficiency, and...
  9. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    Blog Post
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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...high Cas9 MOI considering that A549 cells are relatively easy to transduce. I ended up with too many Cas9...on genomic DNA. The surveyor assay itself was relatively easy. Figure 4: Detection of edited BRAF...
  10. New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - September 2019

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    Sept. 12, 2019, 1 p.m.
    ...potential, GCaMP7s is approximately twice as bright, relative to baseline fluorescence, as the GCaMP7f variant...viral vectors. Here are some of the AAV we have released in the last few months. You can also browse our...testing purposes. To address this, we recently released our serotype testing AAV, which are small (20 ...continue to add more controls, and have recently released these controls: pAAV-hSyn-DIO-EGFP (50457-AAV5...and recombinase-dependent vectors. We recently released several recombinases in various serotypes, and...grow this collection. Of note, we are excited to release a Flp-dependent Cre AAV in AAV9 and AAVrg. See ...
  11. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    Blog Post
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    May 16, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...using simple web forms) while also maintaining a relatively strict database design (schema).  Registered ...allows for visual comparison of FPs and how they relate to one another. .  In addition, the FPbase Fluorescence... page with all the information in the database relating to that specific protein (for instance: EGFP)....retrieve all of the information in the database relating to that set of proteins.  For computer-savvy users...
  12. Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database

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    Dec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m.
    ...control elements Coding sequence features are relatively straightforward to define, but for control elements...literature, some of it decades old, to provide reliable feature annotations. Even with these extensive...fluorescent proteins, which often come in closely related versions that have different properties. To prevent...
  13. Optimizing Donor DNA for Enhanced CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Blog Post
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    March 24, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...approaches. Moreover, the cost of reagents is relatively modest, requiring expressed Cas9 protein, transcribed...experiments with more detailed investigations into the release of DNA post-cut. Using substrate DNA labeled on...the cleaved duplex, while the fourth strand (the released strand in Figure 1 below) was free to anneal to...single stranded donor DNA: Complementary to the released strand, 127bp in length, With 36bp on the PAM-...
  14. Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis

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    Blog Post
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    Aug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.
    ...the reaction on an agarose gel to determine the relative sizes of the resulting DNA fragments. Restriction...) shows 3 possible plasmid conformations, with relaxed and nicked marked with asterisks (*). When the ...conformations the most abundant being: supercoiled, relaxed and nicked. If your digest lanes look like your...
  15. Behind the scenes: Addgene’s new search engine and more

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 12, 2019, 2:22 p.m.
    ...adding more terms.  Weighting We determined the relative importance of different bits of information for...completeness of our information, and the accuracy and relevance of our search results. The footer and improved...search engine to return only the filters that are relevant to a specific query and category. For example,...shortcuts to specific catalog items as well as related items (for example, a kit that contains a plasmid...
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