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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2017, 1:01 p.m....covalently joined, scarless DNA – perfect for transformation or as a PCR template. Some of the applications...target region. Assembled plasmids can be directly transformed into E.coli for plating, screening and generation..., generating expression cassettes for yeast transformation can take 5 days. NEBuilder shortens that time...inserted into a linearized cassette, ready for transformation into yeast that same day. The field of synthetic...
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Cultivating Community Science at BosLab
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 2, 2017, 1:35 p.m....December 2015 we held our first intro to bacterial transformation course (read our blog post on it and to see...consisting of over twenty members and volunteers. Transforming citizens into scientists Anyone can become a...dedicated time at BosLab, he became our bacterial transformation guru and instructor for our intro to biohacking...Addgene and are eager to do our first yeast transformations! Dennis Oleksyuk, Raphael Laurenceau, and Tami... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m....Wondering how you can develop more transferable skills? See Developing Transferable Skills During Science Training...advantage over other candidates. Write about your transferable skills Some of the skills you developed might...have presented in some public lectures? These transferable skills could be meaningful for your potential... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Applications
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....due to the ease of transduction in difficult-to-transfect cell types ranging from primary to embryonic stem...construct is also reliably higher than traditional transfection and random genomic integration of a plasmid.... is also generally less toxic to cells than transfections, preserving cell viability. Library delivery... with viral vectors instead of a traditional transfection method. This is because viral systems have a... -
Troubleshooting Your Plasmid Cloning Experiment
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2019, 12:55 p.m....the specific reaction you are running. Transformation Transform a few microliters of your ligation reaction...The PCR could fail to produce a product, the transformation may not result in any cells, or all the colonies...fragments If you don’t get any positive clone, try transforming the ligation mix in different bacterial strains... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Conference Awards
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2021, 12:15 p.m....hippocampal cultured neurons, imaged 14 days post-transfection, excited at 505 nm (right). Scalebar represents...hydropersulfide-propagating enzymes 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (MPST) which catalyzes the desulfuration of...an enzyme-bound hydropersulfide that is then transferred to thiol-containing acceptors. These hydropersulfides...redox modification, the MPST hydrosulfide can be transferred to the roGFP2 cysteine thiols and change its ... -
Working with Nuclear Receptors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 15, 2014, 4:03 p.m....such as p300 and CBP histone acetyltransferases or CARM1 methyltransferase. This attendant signaling feature...laboratories. The development of the transient transfection platform for assaying transcriptional activity...over the years evolved from chloramphenicol acetyltransferase to luciferase, the basic assay remains widely... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....StayGold variants AAV.CAP-Mac for systemic gene transfer in primate brains Endothelial-specific AAV delivery...electroporation or poor cellular entry with other transfection methods. The Junwei Shi Lab addressed this problem... viral vectors for functional intravenous gene transfer throughout the non-human primate brain. Nature...the Gradinaru lab, AAV1-X1, was developed by transferring the 7-mer peptide region from variable region... -
Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 10, 2020, 1 p.m....Cas9 ribonucleoprotein complexes into transformed and non-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis...introduction of DNA into therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral vector systems also...treatment (Stephens et al., 2019). If sufficient gene transfer and knock-in is achieved, producer cells could... -
Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m....over for other applications, like PCR, cloning, transfection, or long-term storage. But what about those ...inverted terminal repeats. We use NEB Stable to transform and prep high quality DNA that contains these ... in a protein expression strain, we suggest retransforming the plasmid into a strain meant for DNA purification...to Quantify Your DNA Learn to Do a Bacterial Transformation Learn How to Perform a Diagnostic Restriction... -
Don’t FRET: Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Makes Visualizing Protein-Protein Interactions Easy
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2020, 1:15 p.m....Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET). Through the non-radiative transfer for energy between neighboring...BiFC constructs are expressed transiently by transfection or stably impacts the success of BiFC experiments...dose-dependent manner. This is straightforward in easy-to-transfect cell lines where plasmid dosage can be tightly... -
Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....most cases, interested in transferring genes to mammalian cells (i.e. transferring DNA), yet retroviruses...generalize the idea of “transduction” to mean any transfer of material from the virus to the host. In fact...pseudotransduction” — to describe the direct protein transfer of RT, which would actually occur in step 2 during... -
Advanced Uses of Cre-lox and Flp-FRT - A Neuroscientist’s View
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 19, 2017, 1:54 p.m....brain? Cells of a specific brain area can be transfected by in utero electroporation. To achieve sparse... could reduce the plasmids amounts to reduce transfection efficiency. However, if the cellular structure... it reduces the probability that neurons are transfected with both vectors. Flex vectors are the solution... FLEx vectors guarantees that most cells are transfected with all labeling plasmids and the low concentration... -
Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m....others opt for a single harvest after transfecting with the transfer and packaging plasmids. A benefit of...the passage number of a culture the lower the transfection and transduction efficiencies. Cultures should...multiplicity of infection (MOI) for predicting gene transfer events.” Genetic Vaccines and Therapy 2.1 (2004... -
CRISPR 101: Engineering the Plant Genome Using CRISPR/Cas9
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 11, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... More information on Agrobacterium-mediated transformation can be found in this blog post. The pDGE Dicot...Simplified schematic of agrobacterium-mediated transformation in plant cells. Agrobacterium tumefaciens can...plant genome. B) The Ti plasmid and helper are transformed into agrobacterium tumefaciens and exposed to...Gelvin SB (2003) Agrobacterium-Mediated Plant Transformation: the Biology behind the “Gene-Jockeying” Tool... -
Site Directed Mutagenesis by PCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 2, 2016, 2:30 p.m....methylation-dependent endonuclease (i.e. DpnI), and bacteria are transformed with the nuclease-resistant nicked plasmid (the...the adenosine of the GATC recognition site. Transformation: After the PCR reaction, no ligation is required...required since the E. coli you transform your PCR products into will efficiently patch up the DNA. The ...parental plasmid provides a mean for selecting for transformants which have taken up the mutagenized plasmid.... -
Technologies Enabled by NanoLuc® Luciferase
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 8, 2018, 12:17 p.m....process known as bioluminescent resonance energy transfer (BRET). The fluor then emits light at a tissue-penetrating...have been made using fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes. These probes generally consist ...increasing their FRET signal. FRET is a non-radiative transfer of energy from one fluorescent protein to a compatible...activation of other fluorescent probes but can still transfer energy to the fluorescent protein acceptor. NLuc... -
Streaking for Single Colonies: The Streak Plate Challenge
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 2, 2021, 2:15 p.m....students transform them into different strains of E. coli,” says Westenberg. During the transformation experiment...genetic backgrounds of the host strains affect transformation efficiency. Aside from the Streak Plate Challenge... -
Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2017, 2:33 p.m....the non-profit sector are transferrable to industry such as technology transfer, communications, medical...and therefore the academic H-1B visa cannot be transferred to an industry position. If you cannot get an... Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Transferable Skills Guide 6 Steps to Submitting a Resume ... -
Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m....interference (RNAi). The most common method is transfection of short interfering RNA (siRNA). Knockdown .... This approach often involves the transient transfection of expression plasmids in a given cell line....antibody should be able to detect even in cells transfected with low efficacy. But since there can be large...differences between endogenous expression and transfected overexpression, this approach cannot confirm ...