...contributed by Eric Perkins Mammalian genomic DNA is not just a 2-D linear molecule snaking through our cells...These loops not only provide a 3-D structure for packing genomic DNA into nuclei, but are also thought to...

...biological motion (whether endocytosis, vesicle trafficking, or muscle contractions) are produced by orchestrated...the ciliate. It’s thought that they function as a kind of armor to protect their host from predation (Petroni...

...Cas9, and the tracrRNA which acts as a scaffold linking the crRNA to Cas9 and facilitates processing of...different components of CRISPR, It's time to start thinking about how you can used them in your experiments...experiments. Use the following flow chart to get you thinking about the types of experiments you're planning on...

...idea to take some time to confirm that you are working with the correct construct, and verify that the...Consult the manufacturer’s manual for the optimal working conditions for each enzyme. Watch out for methylation...run control uncut DNA to ensure your enzymes are working. When uncut plasmid DNA is isolated and run on ...

...reference protein) under identical conditions, a ranking of the practical brightness can be made (Goedhart...repeating this with another fluorescent protein, a ranking of practical brightness can be made. This strategy...their practical brightness in a system closely mimicking the future application. In figure 2 we provide...

...high-throughput manner and therefore push us closer to making cancer precision medicine a reality. Challenges...Since time is of the essence in clinical settings, looking ahead, we’re starting to build saturating libraries... Institute of Harvard and MIT and is focused on making precision functional genomics a reality for future...

...think. So, if you’ve ever wondered what goes into ‘making virus’ or what gag and pol stand for, we demystify...recombinant adenovirus is missing the endogenous E1 gene, making it replication deficient. This is typically supplied...discussed are compiled for reference below. Happy virus making!  References and Resources Kulanayake, S., Tikoo...

...can begin to understand how the brain works. It’s kind of like “the head bone’s connected to the neck bone... to the rest of the body. Therefore, by simply looking at how neurons are physically connected we can ...efficiently deliver genetic information or tools, making them useful tracers, but finding a virus that works...

...These enzymes also do not require a protospacer flanking sequence, so you can target virtually any RNA ...Cas13d enzymes have a median length of ~930aa - making them 17-26% smaller than other Cas13s and a whopping...and we at Addgene appreciate our depositors for making their tools available to the broader community....

..., you may be curious about all of the different kinds of antibodies that are available. One common type...References Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson S, Bladen CL, Jones B,...TA, Humphries MJ (2016) Ligand-induced Epitope Masking. Journal of Biological Chemistry 291:20993–21007...