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  1. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...2020). Directed evolution of adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application. Nature...efficiency (Koblan et al., 2018). Later directed evolution efforts yielded an editor with more flexible sequence...DNA adenine deaminases. The team used directed evolution to create one from the RNA adenine deaminase TadA... TadA.   After seven rounds of molecular evolution, they obtained four adenine base editors (ABEs). ABE7.10...In this first, the Liu lab used phage-assisted evolution selection systems to generate ABE8e(TadA-8e V106W...alternative approach, engineering and directed evolution of the TadA domain has yielded base editors that...Tolar, J., Osborn, M. J., & Liu, D. R. (2023). Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient...
  2. Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR

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    March 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m.
    ...proteins that don’t utilize NGG   There are plenty of Cas9 variants which utilize alternative PAMs. These...et al, 2017). To add insult to injury, the most utilized PAM sequence, that of SpCas9, is NGG. Assuming...Identifying PAM-free and -flexible Cas enzymes   The solution to the PAM problem seems simple, in theory: find...options, none of them offer a one size fits all solution to the issue. Nor are all Cas enzymes equal; just...generated by the Liu lab through phage-assisted evolution, specifically with the goal of generating Cas ...-less? Have we reached an essentially PAM-free solution? Almost! Assuming a PAM of NRN, 50% of randomly...History of CRISPR Cas – A Tale of Survival and Evolution  ...
  3. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...2020) Directed evolution of adenine base editors with increased activity and therapeutic application. Nature...primary human cells. Now, scientists at Beam Therapeutics have found a way to improve editing in primary...Image from Gaudelli et al., 2020. Directed evolution identifies adenine base editors with improved ... and Head of Gene Editing Technology at Beam Therapeutics, used a previously developed bacterial selection...ABE8.x”: “8” stands for the eighth round of ABE evolution and the “x” is the placeholder for the number ...editing specificity, for example for potential therapeutic approaches, the authors recommend mRNA delivery...off-target deamination, an important attribute for therapeutic application. ABE8s demonstrate an overall improved...
  4. Transferable Skills: Negotiation

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    March 3, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...used as a guide to point you toward a creative solution where everyone wins. What are the underlying...Importantly, as the third example shows, the ultimate resolution can involve ideas not related to the actual data... beneficial to both.  Coming up with creative solutions where everyone wins can initially feel more difficult... get unstuck and move closer to an innovative resolution. Creative negotiation can also decrease or entirely...with negotiating (check out more about conflict resolution). How to develop negotiation skills You can easily...being remembered as a person who tries to find solutions that benefit everyone. Even if I “lose” a negotiation...understand my position and to find a creative win-win solution. What does professional negotiation look like?...
  5. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...cells (9). PA-FPs have helped to revolutionize the field of super resolution microscopy. PA-FPs, especially...reversible type, are very well suited for super resolution imaging, where the power of the technique relies...reconstruct an image. The best PA-FPs used for super-resolution imaging usually have the following characteristics-high...wavelengths. Indeed, within the world of super resolution microscopy, PA-FPs have helped create several... improved over the conventional FPs for super-resolution imaging, they still do not emit the large number...being engineered. By combining PA-FPS with superresolution microscopy, scientists now have at their fingertips...V., et al. "Photoactivatable mCherry for high-resolution two-color fluorescence microscopy." Nature methods...
  6. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    Jan. 16, 2020, 2:18 p.m.
    ...typically load 3 dilutions onto our ddPCR plate. As the titer is unknown, each dilution should fall within...The process to titrate AAV by ddPCR begins with diluting the virus. It is important to note that the dynamic...:6 million to 1:25 million.  After making the dilutions, they are transferred to a new plate containing...reduction in the number of positive droplets as the dilutions increase. The ddPCR software uses the ratio of...Copies/uL V = Volume of virus in reaction mix D = Dilution factor of virus Most droplet readers have a few...separate area from where you prepare your sample dilutions. Aliquot all of your reagents into single-use ... pipetting too quickly when making your virus dilutions. This will reduce aerosols that could potentially...
  7. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...-based directed evolution approach with some notable improvements. Directed evolution techniques mimic...you'll find in this post: Yeast-based protein evolution Fluorescent tools for mammalian cells Nanobody... Faster catalysis after yeast-based protein evolution By Joanne Kamens Mateo Sanchez and Alice Ting ...time modulation of the TEV cleavage and improve utility of the system for use with low affinity variants... new system has been demonstrated to work for evolution of other target proteins and might be useful for...screening systems at Addgene! Schematic of the evolution platform to generate TEV protease variants. Catalysis...transcription of the mCitrine gene. mCherry is constitutively expressed. Cells are then cultured and FACS...
  8. Why Do I Need an MTA Anyway?

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    May 1, 2014, 8:23 p.m.
    ... protect you and your institution, and almost all universities and institutions require them for material...protective of both the providing institution and the receiving institution. Therefore, many technology transfer...benefits for both the providing and receiving institutions and their respective researchers. Check out ...knowing your rights – and the rights of your institution – are protected while we handle all the paperwork... to you, or we can send it directly to your institution’s MTA coordinator. Organizations that have opted...
  9. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...the location and distribution of synapses in the mouse brain. Kim et al is utilizing a mammalian GRASP...random mutagenesis in the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida and demonstrate that they can successfully create...transport. pMitoTimer from Yan’s lab, which is constitutively expressed, reports on the balance of biogenesis...constructed using Golden GATEway cloning have been utilized to create recombination template vectors, to perform...chemogenetic technologies After several years of distributing his Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated...cloning vectors (Level 0, 1, or 2) which can be utilized in three successive assembly steps. Before beginning... (SSA) assay. This new Platinum Gate TALEN Kit utilizes a 4-module assembly system, which reduces the ...
  10. Running for Rare Disease, Running for FOP, Running for AJ

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    Sept. 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...protein engineer currently working at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. When I joined Sanofi/Genzyme...including Activin A. A commercially developed therapeutic antibody that binds Activin A and interferes ...This is why we cannot stop searching for novel solutions to treat rare diseases like FOP until a cure is...fight against FOP in two ways. First, Addgene is distributing ACVR1 Plasmids from a variety of research labs...will be hosting the AJ’s Boston League team (Contributing many new heroes to the team in the process) ...protein engineer currently working at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA. His work experience is in...in both vaccine subunit design and therapeutic biologic design (ADCs) along with pre-clinical analytical...
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