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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2020, 1:15 p.m....characteristics that make them ideal for studying in a laboratory environment. We’ve covered five model organisms...have been specifically developed to thrive in laboratory settings. One of its most attractive features...characterized genome, and is easily maintained in a laboratory environment. What sets Arabidopsis apart from.... The Norway rat, from an obnoxious pest to a laboratory pet. ELife, 9. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.50651...
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SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... 37°C heat block, LED blue light illuminator or UV light illuminator. Approach: Highly similar to the ...method based on CRISPR-Cas12. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.29.971127 Rauch...SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Material. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.20.052159 Zhang... -
CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 10, 2020, 11:45 a.m....transcriptional repressor), and dCas9-VP64 (transcriptional activator)-containing plasmids. Each destination vector ...one. This approach is especially useful for combinatorial analyses. For example, if you were to develop...A versatile modular vector system for rapid combinatorial mammalian genetics.” Journal of Clinical Investigation...Cress, Brady F., et al. “CRISPathBrick: Modular Combinatorial Assembly of Type II-A CRISPR Arrays for dCas9... -
New Viral Vectors - Summer 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m....pAAV-Ef1a-fDIO-ChrimsonR-tdTomato AAV9 Controls Jensen New serotype pAAV-CAG-2xNLS-tdTomato-WPRE-hGHpolyA AAV9...multiple serotypes pAAV-CAG-FLEX-rc [Jaws-KGC-tdTomato-ER2] AAV5, AAV8 Optogenetics Boyden New serotypes... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: History of Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 7, 2017, 1:58 p.m....ways scientists have adapted them for use in the laboratory. The discovery of GFP The story of how fluorescent...sequence. Soon after that, in 1994, Prasher’s collaborator Martin Chalfie expressed GFP in exogenous organisms...studying it grew. In particular, studies in the laboratory of UCSD biochemist Roger Tsien resulted in much... -
Stem Cell Models for Disease & Open Science: Interview with Darrell Kotton
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2017, 1:32 p.m....research as an NIH-funded Principle Investigator in the Kotton Laboratory and is the founding Director of ...Medicine and in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He attends in the Medical Intensive... -
X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m....transduction of Cas9-expressing (Rosa26-Cas9) hematopoietic stem cells with a lentiviral vector containing...LaFleur is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Arlene Sharpe’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School and is interested in...G., & Sharpe, A. H. (2024). X-CHIME enables combinatorial, inducible, lineage-specific and sequential ... -
Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 31, 2019, 1:06 p.m....Vampire bacteria Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus is a predatory bacteria that attaches to the cell wall of green...forcing it out of hiding to become exposed to predators. Hungry birds spots the “caterpillar” and then... "Back from the dead; the curious tale of the predatory cyanobacterium Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus." ... -
Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.... interpret signals from these reporters. Lack anatomical context/spatial localization: In vivo imaging...years to clinically treat enteric infection and inflammatory bowel conditions. In these experiments, arg1...abdomen. arg1 signal, however, can be overlaid onto anatomical ultrasound imaging to show where the bacteria... -
Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Curriculum Development
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 1, 2017, 2:04 p.m....department.” Caitlin does this by acting as a facilitator between her team, the sales department, and operations...business.” Caitlin’s advice for budding science communicators: “My recommendation would be to take any opportunity...education tools? Check out this Addgene podcast with educator and science rap mastermind Tom McFadden Get tips... -
Tips for Improving Your Next Manuscript
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 22, 2016, 3:30 p.m....scientists. Over the course of the class, the moderator discussed individual sections of a paper, the ...quizzes and discussion on that week’s topic by the moderators. The assignments, which consisted of reading ...course was breaking up into focus groups with a facilitator. In the focus groups, we were required to critique... -
The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m....passion, and dedication to sharing epitomized by the creators of these plasmids with the first annual Blue Flame...has “literally enabled sharing with 100's of investigators worldwide. Now everything from every paper is...Flame awardee Sophien Kamoun of the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK: “We’re very pleased to distribute... -
Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m....plasmid. Parts shown in grey are optional cis-regulatory elements. Key elements of an AAV plasmid...plasmid harbors non-coding sequences. Other cis-regulatory elements Next let’s talk about some of the elements...Woodchuck Hepatitis Virus (WHP) Posttranscriptional Regulatory Element (WPRE) forms a tertiary structure when... -
RUBY-Red Siliques
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m....Willoughby Using RUBY as a selection marker The creators of RUBY highlight its use in crop plants under... is difficult for new members of the lab or collaborators unfamiliar with these mutant plants. Using RUBY...promoter with self-cleaving 2A site linkages and a terminator. Image from He, Y., Zhang, T., Sun, H. et al.... -
Hot Plasmids: FRET-Based Biosensors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 6, 2014, 1:07 p.m....Neurobiology has been working on genetically encoded indicators of calcium and other small molecules since the...imaging for beginners Griesbeck says his calcium indicators can be used in mouse, Drosophila, C. elegans,...his team is now applying it to improve upon an indicator they developed and published in 2010 for visualizing... -
Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 27, 2018, 2 p.m....to create gene deletions of important unknown regulatory regions in Pseudomonas and Klebsiella spp. The...Ibadan, Nigeriaunder supervision of Dr. Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Gloria Otito...Candidate working under the supervision of Akindele Oluwatosin Adeyi at the University of Ibadan. She works ... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2021, 1:15 p.m....15-30 minute break. The method is named for the tomato or “Pomodoro” kitchen timer that the technique’...student. The Pomodoro timer is literally a tomato! Image from Gerlos. Tools for checking grammar...with others which makes it easier to work with collaborators. Zotero is a desktop based program that’s compatible... -
5 Great Apps for Lab Life
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m....culture and include a counter, lab timer, dilution calculator, and a couple of other nice features. This app...sequence for your enzyme of interest. Lastly, the Tm calculator helps you set up an optimal PCR depending on ...apps: Findings Lab Notebook Cell Culture Split Calculator by DRDP Restriction Enzyme Tool by Promega Material... -
Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m....histidine kinase that phosphorylates a response regulator (RR). TCS-induced responses are varied; one outcome...conditions, the chromophore activates the response regulator via phosphorylation, promoting transcription of...spread across three plasmids, with the response regulator encoded in the genome. To make the system less... -
Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m....identified other advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins and high targeting efficiency, both ...WYL domain-containing proteins may be broader regulators of Cas13d activity. This property makes WYL proteins...REPAIR Get tips for using Cas9 Transcriptional Activators Learn about Cas13a (C2c2) Characterization Resources... -
Developing a cold tolerant E. coli using specialized chaperones
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 28, 2020, 2:35 p.m....of stakeholders from industrial and commercial operators, government agencies, active researchers, as well...understanding of the societal ramifications of laboratory science, and how it may best be leveraged for...re always delighted to engage with potential collaborators and interested audiences. Please visit our team... -
Addgene’s Viral Service - Why Virus? Why Now?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2017, 2:30 p.m....sponsored the capital construction of our new BL2+ laboratory and the infrastructure capabilities to produce...our generous, sharing depositors. Over 3,000 laboratories are sharing plasmids (with 16 labs currently...helping thousands of sharing scientists from laboratories all over the world. With this reach and exposure... -
A Deep Dive into BioBuilder
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2017, 1:44 p.m....effectively contribute as part of a team.” As a seasoned educator, Kuldell also knew that the best days in the classroom... or small, receive the BioBuilder textbook, a laboratory kit, and support during the academic year from...state-of-the-art lab embedded in LabCentral’s community of innovators that opened in August 2017. This flexible teaching... -
Protein Tagging with CRISPR/Cas9: A Conversation with Mendenhall and Myers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2015, 2:30 p.m....in Huntsville explains it, a major goal in his laboratory is to understand the function of the non-coding...effort to track down every last one of those gene regulatory proteins and the places in the genome where they... that, but the system is so flexible. Other investigators can easily adapt these vectors for use with ... -
Back to Bacteria: CRISPR gRNA Multiplexing Using tRNAs
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 2, 2015, 6:06 p.m....containing the RNA pol III promoter, gRNA and pol III terminator. These relatively large cassettes (considering...Size is also a factor; the pol lll promoter and terminator need be encoded only once, and each <200 bp tRNA-gRNA...deletions of other regions, such as noncoding RNAs or regulatory elements, to examine their function. Bacteria... -
Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Aggregation Tendency
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 15, 2017, 2:30 p.m....(Shaner et al, 2008). Obligate dimers (such as dTomato) that promote interactions between the FPs interfere...CytERM-mKOkappa, CytERM-mTurquoise2, and CytERM-dTomato. When using and interpreting the results of the...proteins. Fusions of CytERM with mTurquoise2 and dTomato, which are established monomeric and dimerizing... -
It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m....reporting and genetically encoded fluorescent voltage indicators (GEVI) are ideal tools to track bioelectric states...channelrhodopsin used as a sensitive fluorescent voltage indicator with near-complete desensitization in continuous...Use of genetically encoded, light-gated ion translocators to control tumorigenesis." Oncotarget 7.15 (... -
Developing Lab Management Software for Biology
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... Laboratory management software is not a requisite for a functioning lab, but it is for a scaleable lab...about what steps are most likely to fail. Our laboratory manager would definitely be interested to see...this case, the physical considerations of the laboratory make object composition a smarter choice than... -
New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m....Library, deposited by Carrie Bhang, a research investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis...ClonTracer Since starting her new role as an investigator in the In Vivo Pharmacology group at Novartis...Addgene community! Carrie Bhang is a research investigator in In Vivo Pharmacology at Novartis Oncology... -
Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m....), Antibodies: a Laboratory Manual, 2nd Edition. 2104. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Publications, New...production and subsequent purification. Academic laboratories and companies have already begun creating plasmids...