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  1. Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection

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    March 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...RNA-seq clustering of cells transduced with the TF pooled library. Louvain community clusters of individual...Collection) and an accompanying expression atlas, including over 3,500 human TF isoforms, to help researchers...
  2. FPbase: A new community-editable fluorescent protein database

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    May 16, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...protein, etc...).  There are many online guides – including an excellent series of posts by Joachim Goedhart...risk of inaccurate data submissions, so FPbase includes a versioning system that allows users to see when...improvement and elaboration.  Current projects include incorporation of biosensors, protein evolution ...
  3. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... planning to soon expand to other cell types, including more physiologically-relevant systems, to catch... viral proteins except for Nsp3 and Nsp16, and includes an additional catalytically dead version of the...the viral protease, Nsp5. Our set also includes a GFP construct as a control. For easier portability, ...
  4. The Crispr Babies Saga Shows the Need for Action, Not More Delays

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    Dec. 20, 2018, 1:15 p.m.
    ...navel-gaze over from the last couple of weeks, including whether or not scientists can recognize so-called...work on emerging issues in novel technologies, including self-driving vehicles, synthetic biology, biosecurity...factory with their cats, Harley and Lexi, and a clutter ofoutdoors-only spiders, all of whom are named ...
  5. What Good Citizenship Can Do for Reproducibility in Science

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    Nov. 7, 2019, 2:18 p.m.
    ...structure and transparency of methods sections, including clear information about reagents, and why other...roles on review and primary research journals including Trends in Cell Biology, Cell, Molecular Cell, ...inception and launch of other Cell Press journals, including Cell Metabolism, Cell Reports and Joule. In September...
  6. 5 Great Apps for Lab Life

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    Sept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...lifesaver when your research requires cell culture and include a counter, lab timer, dilution calculator, and ...quite helpful and provides a list of directions including which buffers to use and that indicates if a sequential...reagents you work with in experiments. Hence, I’m including this MSDS app. The Chemical Safety Data Sheets...
  7. Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab

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    April 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m.
    ... Tom Ellis was offered a start-up package that included a postdoc and a PhD student in his first year....gradually incorporated regular group meetings, journal clubs, and focused sub-group meetings to discuss day-to-day... great resources for Early Career Scientists, including their "Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Biosensors

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    July 6, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... fluorescence in the presence of calcium. This includes FRET-based sensors such as Twitch. While calcium...world, there are sensors available for other ions including magnesium, potassium, and zinc. These ion sensors...sensors designed for them. For example, this class includes tension monitors associated with specific proteins...
  9. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    May 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...nano-lanterns for use in various applications, including optogenetics, biosensors, and fusion proteins....chemiluminescent proteins for imaging, but it has precluded widespread adoption of the technology. In 2012...al. expanded the Nano-lantern color palette to include cyan and orange Nano-lanterns and showed that these...
  10. Hot Plasmids - February 2022

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    Feb. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...applications. This set of new anti-FLAG frankebodies includes mEGFP, mRuby2, iRFP713, SNAP-tag, and HaloTag ...HaloTag fusions, while the anti-HA frankenbodies include mEGFP, mCherry, and HaloTag. Figure 1: (a) Anti-FLAG...frankenbodies have a variety of applications, including live-cell imaging, single-molecule tracking, immunolabeling...
  11. Cas13d: Small RNA-targeting CRISPR enzymes for transcriptome engineering

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    May 3, 2018, 1:48 p.m.
    ...previously identified Cas13a-c orthologs, but they do include HEPN nuclease domains characteristic of the Cas13...these studies also identified other advantages, including Cas13d-specific regulatory proteins and high targeting... knockdown by CasRx for each of four targets, including two mRNAs and two nuclear long non-coding RNAs...
  12. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...target a particular DNA sequence? Musunuru: The kit includes 832 plasmids containing prefabricated pieces that...the kit have the rest of the protein in place including FokI endonuclease domain as well as fluorescent...use as testified by the fact that the TALEN kit includes 834 plasmids for the pieces you need to assemble...
  13. Transferable Skills Guide: Public Speaking

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    April 20, 2023, 4 p.m.
    ...undergrad, I was assigned a paper to give as a journal club to my molecular biology class. A Cell paper. With...took just under a minute. I can't say the journal club was a rousing success–the response was a full sixty...with you. If you can give a seminar, lead a journal club, or present at lab meetings, you’ve developed a ...
  14. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...an epitope folded into a space that would size-exclude an antibody. In imaging applications, smaller affinity...They are often used for clinical applications, including imaging.  Diabodies are ~60 kDa proteins formed...molecules can bind to a wide variety of targets, including proteins, peptides, amino acids, drugs, metal ...
  15. Antibodies 101: Polyclonal Antibodies

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    July 14, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... antibodies available (others you’ll encounter include monoclonal and recombinant antibodies). By the ...further antibody production, polyclonal antibodies include any antibodies produced during the immune response...staining you are seeing is real. It’s important to include a negative control using serum from the same species...
  16. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...nearly 100% in some cases) and minimal toxicity, including in clinically-relevant lines such as CAR-T cells...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but ...recombinant antibodies as well? Our collection includes a mouse and a chimeric rabbit (original mouse ...
  17. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...overhangs, three or four base-pair sequences, and exclude or include specific overhang sequences, allowing it ...parameters. For even more specificity, you can exclude specific sequences or set a narrow search window...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...DREADDs DREADDs DREADDS, or designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs, are G protein-coupled...al., 2016).   DREADD ligands Several DREADDs, including hM3D(Gq), have been derived from muscarinic receptors... Relationship Studies for Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs. ACS Chemical Neuroscience...
  19. Plasmids 101: In-house NGS Plasmid Quality Control Now at Addgene

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    April 6, 2021, 12:30 p.m.
    ...the quality of other services that we provide, including viral preps and pooled libraries. As anyone who...throughout the library preparation process and includes Picogreen quantification of various intermediate...particularly difficult to sequence and assemble, including GC rich regions. For example, the CAG promoter...
  20. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... of infection and rare, but severe, symptoms, including the development of fetal microcephaly and Guillain-Barré...seven institutions involved in the effort. This inclusive and open approach by all involved definitely contributed...transformed the assay’s capabilities. Specifically this includes primer directed isothermal RNA amplification, ...
  21. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...series of single- and double-tagged constructs (including "CLAP", combining an N-terminal CLIPf tag and ...detect action potentials and subthreshold events, including miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (...triggered by endogenous GPCR. Example applications include large-scale pharmacological profiling or interrogation...
  22. Common Injection Routes in Mice

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    Jan. 22, 2025, 9:42 p.m.
    ... mice. While not an exhaustive list, these can include what’s being injected, the type of experiment, ...method. Many different substances can be injected, including cells, drugs, DNA, viral vectors, and viruses.... the name suggests, in the muscle. Common uses include administering vaccines, pain meds, or other drugs...
  23. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...the ATCC Declutter! Keep the hood clean Hoods should not be used as storage cabinets. Clutter not only...ll be brought under the hood with 70% ethanol, including your glove-covered hands! You should additionally...
  24. Mobile-CRISPRi: Bringing CRISPRi to Diverse Bacteria

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    April 4, 2019, 12:53 p.m.
    ... transferable into multiple bacterial species including several involved in human disease. However, the...every ~100 to 1,000 colonies, but some bacteria, including E. faecalis and P. mirabilis, had only ~1 transfer...Mobile-CRISPRi expands CRISPRi to non-model bacteria including pathogenic strains and environmental isolates....
  25. Google Forums Round Up: First Impressions of NgAgo

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    Aug. 4, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...NgAgo optimization before we can make any major conclusions: That said, many people are having difficulty...Some great places to get your results out there include: Google Groups - I've specifically set up a forum...Medicine (CRM), Edinburgh. His research interests include optimizing genome-editing methods in brain cells...
  26. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...be relied on exclusively because historical studies of pathogen research have conclusively shown that barrier...For example, an sgRNA-only drive will spread exclusively through populations that already express Cas9...
  27. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...this, scientists use a multitude of techniques including co-transfection of two or more plasmids, the use...course multicistronic vectors do not have to exclusively be used as a means of detection; they are useful...note that IRES and 2A peptides are not mutually exclusive elements. Labs have successfully utilized 2A and...
  28. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ...terrific getting-started guide for BLAST, which includes a simple explanation of the different BLAST programs...regions” filter unchecked so that these regions are included in the search to maximize the alignment length...sequence alignments that BLAST is unable to handle, Clustal is our frequent choice for pairwise or multiple...
  29. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...mind that access and availability to resources (including the internet!) can vary depending on factors like...your best to understand what kind of resources - including your time - will be required to produce an outcome...naked eye or to make things more accessible by including, highlighting, or omitting details. Digital or...
  30. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...addressed in a somewhat cursory manner, their inclusion here adds much needed context to understand every...state of science would be complete without the inclusion of some interesting case studies, and Zimmer provides...who originally isolated the GFP gene but was not included amongst the Nobel prize winners for developing...
  31. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... different.  Conclusion Figure 7: Mean inferred effects by region. In conclusion, our model infers...requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426 plasmid requests over 6 years for 35 papers...
  32. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...current genome engineering applications of CRISPR including: generating single or multi-gene knockouts in ...) that harbors two surface exposed cysteines, including the native C547, allowing for ligation to pyridyl...Senior Scientist at Addgene.  Andrew's interests include genome engineering and microbiology.     References...
  33. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ... Selecting crispr in Guides will return links including our CRISPR guide.  For a closer look at this new... deposit prior to publication and were able to include specific plasmid ID numbers. If you know the ID...suggest direct links to other types of searches including depositing labs and institutions. For example,...
  34. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...viral vectors in the lab. Advantages of lentivirus include a large genetic capacity and the ability to transduce...CRISPR plasmids are designed for lentiviral use, including Addgene’s top requested plasmid in 2015: lentiCRISPR... observed in small trials for other diseases, including the common hematopoietic disorders sickle cell...
  35. A Career in Grants: How To Become a Grant Professional

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    Aug. 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ... and management process or the whole process, including grant readiness, funding opportunity research,...grant training, mentoring and coaching services, including Smartegrants, to help those entering the Grants...LLC, a grant professional development firm that includes the social media community GrantChat. She has ...
  36. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP)

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    May 15, 2014, 3:33 p.m.
    ...scientists employ GFP for a wide number of functions, including: tagging genes for elucidating their expression...detect a variety of intracellular conditions, including ion (such as Ca2+) concentrations and pH, using...selection: Expression constructs like plasmids often include GFP as a marker to help identify which cells have...
  37. Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries

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    July 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...many types of pooled libraries here at Addgene, including cDNA, barcoding, screening, and gRNA libraries...viruses are sensitive to freeze/thaw cycles, we include a 1.3 mL aliquot with mostlibrary requests specifically...aliquot to full use! Common conditions to optimize include incubation time, antibiotic conditions, and amount...
  38. CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors

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    April 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...N-glycosylase (UNG) enzymes. Various other proteins included in different CGBE tools allow the researcher to...again, this post has a lot of acronyms, so we've included a glossary at the end of this post! Figure...for their application from among many options.  Conclusion With these advances, every base can now be directly...
  39. Plasmids 101: Gateway Cloning

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    Jan. 12, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...If you choose this strategy, it’s important to include the proper protein expression elements (ribosome...entry clones available for many popular genes, including Hs.KRAS4a. Use our website to search for your ...Gateway Multisite plasmids available at Addgene, including the Frew Lab Multiple Lentiviral Expression Systems...
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