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  1. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    Blog Post
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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...Quality at Dimension Therapeutics, which was acquired by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical in 2017. As one of the... the original employees at Dimension Therapeutics, she helped build and grow the gene therapy division...research funded,” she says. Baradaran met Addgene Executive Director Joanne Kamens several years ago through...Stegmeier is the Chief Scientific Officer at KSQ Therapeutics and is an Addgene depositor. KSQ uses a CRISPR-Cas9...Barcoding Library, a library that “enables the high-resolution tracking of more than 1 million cancer cells ...himself to finding “immunological and virological solutions to crises like those and ended up in the field...
  2. FlipGFP, a novel fluorescence protease reporter to study apoptosis

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    May 21, 2019, 12:10 p.m.
    ...caspases, protease enzymes that cleave proteins. Executioner caspases are activated last in the cascade and...scientists have used genetically encoded fluorescent executioner caspase reporters. Several apoptosis reporters...Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based executioner caspase reporters. In these reporters, the FRET... an improved apoptosis reporter, ZipGFP, which utilized the self-assembling split GFP (GFP1-10 and GFP11... of the linkers is a consensus caspase-3 (an executioner caspase) cleavage site (DEVD). Upon cleavage ...of sfCherry approximately 20 fold by directed evolution. They then optimized the length of both linkers...fold increase in fluorescence after cleavage by executioner caspases. Failure for cells to die or cells dying...
  3. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...dilute it, err on the side of caution when adding buffer back to the solution. Add a bit less buffer than...concentration to avoid over-diluting, and make sure to remeasure your titer after diluting to confirm. Luke...allow you to add many more viral particles to your solution while still using a volume that’s compatible with...surface of the filter membrane with the surrounding solution to ensure excess viral particles do not remain...remain adhered to the membrane. Be careful when diluting - if you end up concentrating your AAV above your...
  4. A Quick Guide to a Career in Software Product Management

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    Nov. 24, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...implement solutions for the stakeholders. Finally, software product managers test the solutions with the...cycle over again to refine the solution, or to come up with a new solution.  Now, you may be wondering how...the time, the problem to solve is clear, but the solution is more complicated. You’ll need to be creative...able to work with others to come up with a great solution.  How to get into software product management?...customer help tickets, and respond when I have solutions. We use these to help us know what to work on ...
  5. 3 Challenges in Plant Synthetic Biology

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    July 22, 2014, 5:46 p.m.
    ...Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering. Read their previous blog post...the public in an open, responsible manner. At Revolution Bio, we are addressing this challenge directly...people can decide for themselves if they want this beautiful flower in their front yard or not. By developing...investigated on limited funding and time. While institutions that focus on creative problem solving like ... science, these tools sometimes have limited distribution. We hope that will change with Addgene’s expansion...project. We’ve shared some of the concerns that Revolution Bio had to address as we developed the color-... in the United States Air Force. She left active duty to pursue a degree in a synthetic biology laboratory...
  6. 5 Steps to Writing Grant Proposals for Grad Students

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 11, 2014, 12:13 p.m.
    ...description of the RFA and funding institution. Emphasizing how your solution fits into the mission of the ...funding from a variety of government and academic institutions. New graduate students may assume that their...advisor may choose to allot some if not all grant duties to trusted students. For example, if the proposal...the mission of the application and the funding institution. Moreover, avoidance of ‘to be’ verbs creates... of the statement, use it to confirm that your solution is the best approach to the research challenge...the intended protocol, and offers alternative solutions to demonstrate thorough thought planning on the...
  7. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    March 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...that is shared across all CRISPR types; the fast evolution of these adaptive bacterial and archaeal immune... in archaea, though Class 1 remains largely underutilized compared to Class 2. Class 1 Despite their incredible...., & Koonin, E. V. (2014). Classification and evolution of type II CRISPR-Cas systems. Nucleic Acids Research... E. V., & Makarova, K. S. (2019). Origins and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems. Philosophical Transactions...Zhang, F. (2017). Diversity, classification and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems. Current Opinion in Microbiology... J., . . . Koonin, E. V. (2015b). An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems. Nature... Yakunin, A. F., . . . Koonin, E. V. (2019). Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst...
  8. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...spectrum and emission spectrum. Fluorescent dyes utilize these fluorophores by combining them with a molecular...These variations directly impact the way you can utilize these dyes. The most-used fluorescent dye is fluorescein... between multiple dyes during analysis. Image resolution is impacted by several factors. Firstly, brighter...have been specifically designed for use in super-resolution microscopy techniques, such as Stimulated Emission...These dyes have specific properties that enable resolution beyond the diffraction limit of light. Dyes like...properties that position themselves for super-resolution usages, such as superior brightness, photostability...brighter and more stable fluorescence for super-resolution applications. Other current advancements include...
  9. Savvy Advocates Needed to Navigate a Scientific Enterprise in Flux

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    Sept. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...These events have also started progress towards solutions. The 2015 Boston FoR meeting was designed to explore...further data is necessary to determine the best solutions. The event also culminated in a joint American...students and postdocs broadly – and thus PI’s and institutions in turn. The first is the passing and upcoming...the NIH recommended pay scale – used by many institutions to set postdoc wages. The second event of note...simply being able to categorize all postdocs at institutions, will be challenging. At the same time, there...level, FoR is currently compiling a database of institutional responses to the FLSA ruling. Similarly, from... and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the...
  10. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    March 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...expression following transduction with serial dilutions of a viral prep. This method is particularly useful...Fluoresence Titering Protocol Another popular approach utilizes the antibiotic resistance genes carried on transfer...plasmids. Target cells are transduced with serial dilutions of a viral prep, treated with the antibiotic, ...intensive. Target cells are transduced with serial dilutions of a viral prep, genomic DNA isolated, and primers...months but should be considered in labs that will routinely be producing virus or require precise titers. ...their benefits and drawbacks. Labs that do not routinely produce virus may want to choose more straightforward...colony-forming unit assays, whereas labs that routinely produce virus may want to consider the more accurate...
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