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  1. Plasmids 101: How to Name Your Plasmid in 3 Easy Steps

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    Feb. 13, 2014, 1 p.m.
    ... used as the first letter of a plasmid name and simply denotes that the object is a ‘plasmid’. “p” is ... empty backbone name in your plasmid name. This simple piece of information can often convey many important...pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene-EGFP or pBACKBONE-Flag-hGene(wt)-EGFP These simple rules allow any scientist to know what is in a ...
  2. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...edited strand. The first iteration of prime editor simply fused the wild-type Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus...or exceed PEmax editing efficiencies for short, simple edits. PE6c and PE6d further evolved the Tf1 and...pegRNAs, but combining PE7 with epegRNAs resulted in similar or reduced editing efficiencies, likely because...Ravisankar, P., Ward, C. C., Levesque, S., Jing, Y., Simpson, D., Zhao, A., Li, H., Yan, W., Goudy, L., Schmidt...
  3. Build Your CRISPR Vocabulary

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    July 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. That contrast of simplicity and complexity is reflected in the biology, too...into a single strand that folds back on itself, simplifying the CRISPR-Cas9 system for laboratory applications...post on the structural biology of Cas9. Want a simpler guide to keep at your desk? We’ve got a CRISPR ...
  4. Cellosaurus: A Cell Line Information Database

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    Feb. 21, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ... the Cellosaurus STR similarity search tool (CLASTR) to find cells lines similar to your STR profiles ...CLASTR results by minimal number of markers and similarity score match. This tool’s algorithm can be adjusted...
  5. CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions

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    Feb. 13, 2018, 2:51 p.m.
    ...and cell lines. Although ChIP-seq is a relatively simple and robust protocol it does have limitations. The...change offers a significant improvement and simplification of the original technique, specifically in ...CAPTURE Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find simple lab protocols Browse CRISPR plasmids for isolating...
  6. Chemogenetics vs. Optogenetics: Which Method Should I Choose?

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    June 11, 2020, 1:34 p.m.
    ...control over neuronal activity. While they serve similar purposes, both techniques offer researchers different...resolution as receptors can be turned on and off simply with the presence or absence of the correct wavelength...flexible as it relies on designer ligands that can be simply introduced by injection. The main challenge in ...
  7. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    July 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
    ... DA in live animals (Patriarchi et al., 2018). Similar to calcium and glutamate sensors, the new dLight1...s lab has created the GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy: a GFP variant bound to a DA receptor,...cyclase in caudate nucleus of rat brain, and its similarity to the “dopamine receptor”." Proceedings of the...
  8. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    April 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...ve ever wondered how they are different from or similar to the other Ts, we have your answers. If you know...into a cell by a viral agent. Transductions are similar to transfections, processes which introduce foreign... Transfection and transduction seem to achieve similar outcomes, so why and when should you opt to make...
  9. Multifunctional Neural Fibers: Modulation from Gut to Brain

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    Aug. 31, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...multifunctional fibers, embedded, and validated simultaneously in the brain and the intestines of mice. The...organisms, including the Anikeeva lab’s work on a similar neural fiber (Park et al., 2019). This provided... To operate both types of implanted fibers simultaneously, a mini-Bluetooth system named NeuroStack was...
  10. Viral Vectors 101: What is a Virus (and a Viral Vector)?

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    Aug. 18, 2023, 4:15 p.m.
    ...Viruses are simple: a genome packaged in a protein shell (Taylor, 2014). They’re so simple that we can... even decide if they’re alive or not. Yet these simple, small particles have quite the outsized impact...
  11. Single-cell tracking of lineage and identity with CellTag

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    May 9, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...provides a combinatorial indexing strategy that simultaneously tracks clonal history and cell identity at ...that cells with common ancestors tended to have similar reprogramming outcomes. For example, cells with...with shared CellTagD13 tags often had similar gene expression pattern changes and reprogramming outcomes...
  12. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    March 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...equipment. Reporters for studying gene expression have similar drawbacks, often requiring the destruction of plants... events and am currently planning to use it to simplify my work with an Arabidopsis mutant that can’t ...unfamiliar with these mutant plants. Using RUBY to simplify the identification of these mutants will speed...
  13. Rewiring Metabolic Circuitry with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds [Video]

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    April 7, 2015, 4:21 p.m.
    ... multiple sgRNA constructs to be introduced simultaneously in a single plasmid. The functionality of the...of S. cerevisiae and E. coli. The utility of simultaneous and multidirectional multiplex control via scRNA...Multiple scaffold RNAs can be designed to allow simultaneous, multidirectional and tunable control of gene...
  14. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...levels for 6 days - after just 15 minutes of FUS.  Similar constructs to the one above can be made for expressing...But why might you need a second GFP antibody?  Similarities:  Generated against full length GFP and converted...the group rationally designed GFP variants with similar capabilities. If you’re looking for a super stable...
  15. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...amplification protocol, but the overall workflow is similar for most libraries. Here are the key points you... For libraries where the plasmids are all very similar sizes, like a gRNA library, this is less of a concern... hope you’ll agree with me that they look very similar to each other - that’s exactly what we want! At...
  16. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    Aug. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ... about operating the rest of the car as well. Similarly, cell free expression systems contain all the ...students to use in the classroom because the students simply need to add water to express a variety of proteins...Addgene.org Browse our protocol videos to learn simple lab techniques Check out our molecular biology ...
  17. Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration

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    Feb. 9, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...disappears from the video, and prepares a coffee, or simply moves away from the desk to switch off a few minutes...GA, O’Reilly CM, Lofton ME, Catalán N (2018) Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored...journal.pcbi.1006508 Vicens Q, Bourne PE (2007) Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration. PLoS Comput...
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