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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m....forensic technique (aka DNA fingerprinting) that can place suspects at the scene of a crime (every human in...experience through working for a variety of pharmaceutical companies including GSK, AstraZeneca-MedImmune...talks and seminars on cell culture and other pharmaceutical topics. The LGC Group also provides standards...
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Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....protein attaches to cell surface receptors, other important binding events take place during the course of...viral envelop and the receptors on the target cell surface. The possible interactions and hence possible targets... -
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Detection Methods Based on CRISPR/Cas
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 5, 2020, 1:15 p.m....target site, while Cas12a requires a PAM (Protospacer Adjacent Motif) for target cleavage. This test can...assay. This reaction also contains SSB, strand displacement DNA polymerase, recombinase, and the ssDNA-FQ... -
Proximity Labeling: A Powerful Tool for Protein Complex Purification and Proteomic Mapping
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 2, 2019, 2 p.m....displayed on the surface of a cell of interest, where it can label interacting cell surface proteins with...capable of promiscuously labeling various cell surface proteins that contain a monoglycine residue at ... -
Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m....Immunosorbent Assay) Southern/Northern blotting Cell surface labelling Attaching polypeptides to a substrate...non-selectively label DNA and RNA. Photobiotin acetate consists of a biotin molecule attached to a photoreactive...activated patterning of dye-labeled molecules on surfaces.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 125.27... -
Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m....reservoir, researchers have previously used histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors to increase transcription of... for an “escape” virus to propagate and infect adjacent cells. It will be important to determine if CRISPR...application can benefit many others and accelerate the pace of research. We at Addgene hope to see the problem... -
Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m.... characterised antibodies against all human extracellular proteins with community-based validation. They...experiments on similar subjects in a single, searchable space. Finally there are new publishing outlets like F1000...their experimental designs. There are many more facets to reproducibility issues in the biological sciences... -
Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables That Matter
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... Modification. Pharmaceutics, 13(5), 750. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13050750 Murlidharan, G...GABA neuron, for instance, may not transduce the adjacent norepinephrine neuron at all. There may be more... -
Antibodies 101: Multiplex Immunofluorescence
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m....you want to know if they co-localize at the same place in the cell? Or you know that the presence of several...your microscope. Abcam's sample protocol is a good place to get started. One important consideration when...the offending red-green image, go to Image>Color>Replace Red with Magenta. Or you can use Color>Split Channels... -
Hot Plasmids: Spring 2025
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2025, 1:15 p.m....needed to replicate inside a host cell but with space to insert your genetic cargo of choice. After hearing...GAG), and are (typically) tethered to the cell surface by a GPI-anchor. Image courtesy of IPI. ...(LAMP5) — as well as cholinergic (choline acetyltransferase, ChAT) neurons. The authors characterized ... -
Recombinase-based State Machines Enable Order-dependent Logic in vivo
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 28, 2016, 2:30 p.m....PBAD), and the A118 gene downstream of the diacetylphloroglucinol (DAPG)-inducible promoter (PPhlF). Output...we used to drive recombinase expression may be replaced by sensors that correspond to the desired inputs...are composed. Fear not – the state machine design space is highly degenerate and often times there are multiple... -
Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 12, 2016, 2:30 p.m....the run, it got “dirty”, with multiple sequence traces overlapping each other! When the count was done...nucleotide change, insertion of a reporter gene, or replacement of the murine sequence with a human gene. Advantages...comes to larger scale genome editing, such as replacement of a mouse gene with its human ortholog (greater... -
Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m....restriction enzymes that allow your insert to be placed into the backbone in the proper orientation. For... restriction sites EcoRI, XhoI, and HindIII. To place your gene in the proper orientation downstream of... important to have nice crisp bands and to have space to cut out the bands. Because of this we recommend... -
Building Global Connections with the International Mentorship Program USA-EUROPE
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 6, 2015, 3:30 p.m....of the world, professional internationalization faces several obstacles; for instance there are few resources...career are common problems that many others have faced yet, still, this challenge did not hinder them from...evaluation of the pilot program IMP 2014/2015, took place on July 27th, 2015 at a dedicated international ... -
Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m....packaging plasmid caused the Psi sequence to be placed on the packaging plasmid forming a vector that ... Alternatively, your gene and the marker can be placed under the control of two different promoters. Both... Tet-off system a Tet-response element (TRE) is placed upstream of the promoter in your transfer vector... -
Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m....Overview of using Lambda Red recombineering system to replace a gene of interest with an antibiotic resistance...as non-selectable DNA fragments, such as gene replacements and tags. The typical frequency of recombinants....e. make changes to the third base pair of the adjacent 4-5 codons that alter the nucleotide sequence ... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 28, 2017, 2 p.m....teamwork was what drew me to the school in the first place. The famous discoveries and experiments I’d been...at Addgene, an unofficial title that I happily embrace (and admittedly, I may have started that nickname...sometimes even necessary, to build a team in the first place? Let’s think about some of the advantages of team-based... -
A Guide to Getting Started in Undergrad Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 8, 2021, 1:15 p.m....that’s where you’re at too, it’s a perfectly great place to begin. Here’s my advice: Reflect on your personal... next four years. But college, and science, are places for learning and growth! As you learn more about....org/10.1126/science.aba8039 Cordova FA (2016) Embrace uncertainty. Science 351:994–994 . https://doi.... -
With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 24, 2017, 1:54 p.m....government, evidence to inform policies, a protected place to work, funding for science, and numerous other...every political persuasion) must be humble in the face of evidence. Stephanie Hays is moving from engineering...Harvard University to studying an evolutionary arms race at University of California, Berkeley. She is a ... -
Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....ultrasound (FUS), intracorporeal (IC), intracerebroventricular (ICV), intramuscular (IM), intrathecal ...many of the same restrictions, like limited cargo space (~4.7 kb) for your genetic payload — there are a...enhancers, and switches all take up precious cargo space in AAV vectors. Dual expression systems, which use..., 2019). LY6A is functionally expressed on the surface of brain endothelial cells in C57BL/6J mice, but... -
Participate in the Pets of Addgene Scavenger Hunt
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 1, 2021, 1:15 p.m.... year to give our lab and shipping teams enough space at HQ and for some of us, that means spending more...co-workers” have made their way onto our Slack workspace over the last year. Now, we’ve collected photos... -
Summer Fun at Addgene!
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 12, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Are you following us on Twitter or Instagram (or Facebook or LinkedIn) but want to hear and see even more...behind-the-scenes peaks of Addgene’s people, culture, and workplace. Rumor has it that a few Addgenies* may even be... -
2018 #DeckTheLab Contest Winners
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 15, 2019, 2:19 p.m....Matthew J. Sikora (@mjsikora) December 18, 2018 Fireplace from the Dyer Lab If you’re feeling as chilly ..., they turned one of the lab computers into a fireplace scene. Got our @EmoryChem lab office looking... -
Grad School Advice Part 2: Building Community
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 6, 2016, 2:30 p.m....to younger graduate students Check Out Angela Depace's Talk on "Precision and Plasticity in Mentoring...studies developmental gene regulation with Dr. Angela DePace in the Department of Systems Biology, and he tweets... -
Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 10, 2015, 3:30 p.m.... tag a protein, inntags IT5 and IT6 are a great place to start. These tags are easy to use in multiple...high-throughput applications. Perhaps IT5 and IT6 will even replace our older epitope tags - only time will tell! ... -
Editor's Choice, September 2016
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 7, 2016, 4 p.m....useful post was contributed by guest blogger Sean Stacey from Eastern Tennessee State University and provides..., Lianna Swanson, and researcher at Sanofi Pharmaceuticals. This post highlights a rare disease, Fibrodysplasia... -
Scientist Networking: What is an Informational Interview?
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 1, 2014, 3:42 p.m....Perhaps you can offer to buy coffee or lunch at a place convenient to your interviewee? It is always best... interaction. Most people like to help One good place to look for interesting connections is your university... -
Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 31, 2019, 1:06 p.m..... "Tongue replacement in a marine fish (Lutjanus guttatus) by a parasitic isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda).... -
Scientific Sharing in the Time of COVID-19: Databases and Resources
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 12, 2020, 1:15 p.m.... to scientists around the world. To support this pace of research, new, centralized databases and centers...protocols, publications, and more to accelerate the pace of research into COVID-19. While this program is... -
Three Key Considerations for Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 27, 2019, 2:03 p.m....viral capsid proteins bind to the target cell’s surface proteins and this interaction determines the specificity...intravenous injection. Even when injected into the same place in the brain, certain serotypes spread further from... -
New Norepinephrine Indicators: nLightG and nLightR
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 12, 2023, 2:15 p.m....pixel-wise ΔF/F0 heatmaps. White insets indicate surface expression of the indicators over white dashed ...Wasielewski, L. M., Sönmez, L., Benke, D., Weber, B., Bohacek, J., Reiner, A., … Patriarchi, T. (2023). Sensitive... -
pSiM24: Simplifying Plant Genetic Engineering
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2015, 2:30 p.m....efficiency in both types of bacteria. They also replaced the promoter regulating the gene of interest with...the M24 promoter, allowing it to be removed and replaced if needed. In total, three MCS regions permit ... -
6 Steps to Submitting a Resume That Gets Seen
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2015, 2:30 p.m....and to get the important information in the right place on the page. 5) Apply for the job as requested in...Resources representative). Pro tip: if there is no place to upload a cover letter, make your cover letter... -
Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2014, 6:05 p.m....speechless (the club of people who have been in space is pretty small). Therefore, I was delighted to ...Johnson’s Dr. Paul Janssen Award dinner which took place at the New York Public library. Being in the presence... -
The Michael Davidson Collection: One-Stop Shop for Fluorescent Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 29, 2014, 6:16 p.m.... at Florida State University has been the go-to place. In 2012, his National High Magnetic Field Lab worked...everywhere to get a clearer picture of that intracellular world, even as the Davidson lab prepares to ... -
Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m....In the second-generation SPARC2 system, HDVR is placed upstream of the second attP site to cleave and ...expression of using the SPARC system. The effector is placed downstream of the rest of the SPARC components ... -
Sensing Neuronal Dopamine
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m....the brain has been in vivo microdialysis of extracellular fluid (Darvesh et al., 2011). This technique... across the semipermeable membrane from the extracellular fluid into the perfused liquid. The probe then... -
Addgene's a Nonprofit? Nonprofit Awareness Day 2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 5, 2017, 3:19 p.m....scientists to deposit and request plasmids (via web interface, processes, distribution, and customer service...Questions? Feel free to reach out to us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, email, or even the comments section... -
Bricking Science: Portraying Scientific Reality Through LEGO
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 29, 2016, 3:30 p.m....of plastic for us now). With the personality in place, everything now is about the plot. This part is ...after all, who working in a laboratory has never faced an odd situation with experiments? Our art simply... -
New CRISPR Web Resources and #12DaysofCRISPR Recap
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 12, 2017, 3:13 p.m....tools is especially exciting, including histone acetylation by p300, histone demethylation by LSD1, cytosine... REPAIR (RNA Editing for Programmable A to I Replacement) system. Like RNA targeting systems, RNA editing... -
5 Uncommon Ways to Gain Career Skills During an Uncommon Time
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 20, 2020, 1:15 p.m....level of intimacy that creates the magic of a safe space. No matter why, now is a great time to find a few...Funding Opportunities Open Education Database: 100 Places to Find Funding For Your Research University of... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m....protein phosphatase that responds to rising intracellular calcium levels within the cell. When levels ... wild type (top panels) and cells with high intracellular Ca2+ (bottom panels) equipped with destabilized... -
Meet the New Addgene Board Members!
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m....Therapeutics, which was acquired by Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical in 2017. As one of the original employees at...impactful. At Novartis, Stegmeier deposited the ClonTracer Barcoding Library, a library that “enables the... -
HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m....Stability improvement of antibodies for extracellular and intracellular applications: CDR grafting to stable... -
What Do I Do Now? Academic v. Non-Academic Career Decisions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 9, 2017, 3:40 p.m....self-promoting—No one is going to tell you to pick up the pace Constant worry about grants and renewals What is... can be an issue in getting promoted (especially race and gender) Interpersonal issues can create interpersonal... -
Hot Plasmids June 2018 - Reverse transcriptase, nanobody, and protein-DNA interaction tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2018, 1:16 p.m....toolkit to monitor retrograde transport at the cell surface Article contributed by Marcy Patrick Listen to...nanobodies to study retrograde transport from the cell surface. Their toolkit includes a set of plasmids each ... -
Arabidopsis in Education: How the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Brings Plant Science to Life
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2018, 1:02 p.m....scientists around the globe. As a member of the Brassicaceae family, Arabidopsis is related to a variety ...pots, trays, soil, fertilizer, seeds and a growth space with fluorescent lights. Other experiments require... -
In Vivo Biotinylation of Bacterial Fusion Proteins
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 25, 2018, 2:09 p.m....successfully used this plasmid to biotinylate the extracellular domain of the erythropoietin receptor and subsequently...kinetics using a multitude of methods including surface plasmon resonance (Biacore, GE Life Sciences) or... -
Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m....possible. Instead of crowding the interface with every possible option, we place the most important controls... -
Summer SciComm Series: Master of SciComm
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 21, 2022, 1:15 p.m....communication, then, is its sheer versatility in the face of disparate spheres of research. In my case, an...Over time, this interest came to incorporate other facets which occupied my attention, until these coalesced...