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TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... and variable spacer sequences. The array is transcribed and processed into crRNAs, each including one...from Addgene! RNA crRNA: “CRISPR RNAs” are transcribed from the CRISPR array and include a spacer and...
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Management for Scientists: What Makes a Good Manager Anyway?
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 9, 2014, 2:22 p.m....characteristics of scientists in the work place as described by Sebastiano Massaro in his Nature Biotechnology...Introduction to Managing People for Scientists. Subscribe to the Addgene Blog to follow the entire series... -
Choosing Your Perfect Empty Backbone
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 19, 2014, 3:39 p.m....find the vector that fits your experiments, I've described below some of the most frequently requested vectors... bacteria and a mammalian selection cassette to screen for positive transfected cells. The addition of... -
Intro to Our Summer SciComm Series!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 9, 2022, 1:15 p.m....generally refer to them as the “interested public.” Subscribers to Scientific America would be considered the...scientists in (roughly) the same field, often through manuscripts, seminars, or posters. It is important to note... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m....ready-to-use viral preps Improved cell-free transcription/translation system to examine biosynthetic pathways...pathways By Gabrielle Clouse Recently, cell-free transcription/translation systems (also referred to as TX-... -
CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 14, 2018, 2:36 p.m....DNA repair (with bonus gRNA design resources.) Subscribe to CRISPR updates on our blog to keep current ...Chris Richardson and members of Jacob Corn’s lab describe how a better understanding of Cas9 biophysics ... -
The Golden Stopwatch Award: Recognizing Facilitators of Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 5, 2019, 1:06 p.m....your institution’s tech transfer professionals: Describe to your TTO how unprocessed agreements slow down...University Salk Institute for Biological Studies The Scripps Research Institute St. Jude Children's Research... -
Bright Monomeric Fluorescent Proteins: mNeonGreen, mTFP1, and mWasabi
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 25, 2019, 3:01 p.m....tetramer-breaking mutations. The library was then screened through successive rounds of mutagenesis for the...choosing fluorescent proteins for your research Subscribe to the Addgene blog Resources on Addgene.org ... -
Tetbow: Bright Multicolor Labeling for Neuronal Tracing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 24, 2019, 2:24 p.m....multicolor labeling is a powerful solution for discriminating between neurons for light microscopy-based ...expression level of XFPs, most likely by suppressing transcription. It is critical to express a minimal amount ... -
Hot Plasmids September 2018 - Optogenetics, RNA Localization, Fluorescent Protein, and Base-editing Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 18, 2018, 1:33 p.m....developing a new imaging-based bacterial colony screening platform, Oliver Griesbeck’s lab set out to engineer...colleagues started with the FP mNeptune684 (originally described by Li ZY, et al. PLoS One, 2016) and tested a ... -
Addgene's Top 10 Blog Posts of 2015
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2015, 6 p.m....protein of interest. 4. Plasmids 101: Blue-White Screening Getting a lot of empty vector contaminants in ...Addgenie Jessica Welch explains how Blue-White screening could be a potential solution. 5. Cpf1: A New ... -
Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m....as their kidneys fail. The condition was first described more than 60 years ago, but there is still no ...changes in temperature. “The disease was first described in 1971,” McSweeney said. “But, it is still sometimes... -
Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 23, 2015, 8:37 p.m....transduced using only protein. Read on for a description of the lab’s iTOP protein-only transduction method...transduction by osmocytosis and propanebetaine) to describe this method of protein transduction. Later studies... -
Advice for Moving Into Sales After Your Science Postdoc
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 21, 2014, 3:15 p.m....Coordinator’ came up at Abcam. Unlike other job descriptions for marketing positions posted on recruitment...would be able to carry out a yeast-2-hybrid library screen; instead I thought they would focus on “Has this... -
Interview: Ed Boyden on Optogenetics, Neuroscience, and the Future of Neuroengineering
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 4, 2014, 4:49 p.m....published in Nature Methods, Boyden and his team describe the discovery of a light-sensitive opsin from ...then, there has been a steady stream of papers describing new photosynthetic or photosensory molecules ... -
Plasmids 101: Gram Negative and Positive Bacteria
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 2, 2022, 1:15 p.m....phrase gram negative or positive being used to describe a species of bacteria, but what does it actually...What is a plasmid? Plasmids 101: Blue-white screeningPlasmids 101: Common lab E. Coli strains ... -
Pushing the Limits of DNA Assembly
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 6, 2017, 1:01 p.m....directly transformed into E.coli for plating, screening and generation of sgRNA. Generation of sgRNA libraries...Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods Screen Plasmids by Colony PCR Addtional Resources on ... -
Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 3, 2019, 1:15 p.m....are also thought to play a key role in the transcriptional regulation of many genes. A number of groups...thus far for these latter experiments, such as transcription factors tethered to dCas9, require long time... -
Addgene-Seeding Labs plasmid grant round 3: microbial drug resistance and biofilms, antidiabetic plant components, visualizing brain injury - and a glowing robot fish
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 27, 2018, 2 p.m....promoter regions that activate fluorescent protein transcription in response to river contaminants and transform...Labs Plasmid Grant awardees' projects progress. Subscribe to the Addgene blog for updates and future collaborations... -
Hot Plasmids - January 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.... knockdown efficiency across the 11 candidate transcript targets analyzed. CRISPR-Csm presents an attractive...! Colognori D, Trinidad M, Doudna JA. Precise transcript targeting by CRISPR-Csm complexes. Nat Biotechnol... -
Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m....speakers from top minds in the stem cell field have described the Yamanaka paper as "life changing". Dr. Yamanaka...scientific communities, but usually I only get to scratch the surface of different fields. This meeting has... -
5 Great Apps for Lab Life
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m....that lab notebook from 2 years ago. The free subscription to Lab Archives allots for 25 MB of space per...only need to skim the alphabet on the side of the screen to find the sequence for your enzyme of interest... -
R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m....mutagenesis to extend at different pH values. Using a screen that takes advantage of the fact that coiled R-...both lower and higher pH. We initially used this screen to find R body mutants that couldn’t extend at ... -
Plasmids 101: Mammalian Vectors
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 25, 2014, 3:15 p.m....mammalian plasmid components, it may be useful to describe the means of introducing genetic material (such...the plasmid in the same way. Selection methods, described below, are typically employed when creating stable... -
Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m....positive effect on cancer treatment (Ref 1). As described in the presentation, starvation or the use of ... with T cell receptor engineering (Ref 5) as described by Blue Flame Addgene depositor Professor Michel... -
Targeted Mutagenesis with EvolvR
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 21, 2019, 1:15 p.m....forward genetics harnesses this at a large scale by screening diverse libraries of genetic variants. Several... integration of oligonucleotide libraries of a discrete size at the target site. The use of such libraries... -
Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2023, 1 p.m....Pol, the last component, contains the reverse transcriptase and integrase components to convert the cargo...the primary viral polymerase. E4/E1A activate transcription of other relevant viral genes (including the... -
Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m....single-stranded RNA viruses that use reverse transcriptase to synthesize complementary DNA copies of their... such as a heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional regulatory element can be used for either type... -
Viral Vectors 101: The AAV Retrograde Serotype
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 27, 2023, 1:15 p.m....trillion connections (synapses.) In this post we’ll describe the AAV retrograde serotype (AAVrg) and how it..., 2022) and substantia nigra (Tervo, 2016). Discrepancies in transduction efficiency can have a major ... -
Plasmids 101: Methylation and Restriction Enzymes
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.... NEB's Resource describing Dam and Dcm Methylases Discovery of DpnI Review describing dam-/dcm- E. coli... -
REPLACR Mutagenesis: Replacing In Vitro Recombination Methods
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 10, 2016, 3:30 p.m....diverges from previously discussed methods. As described above, you design two primers, each containing...vitro recombination. Across all modifications described in Trehan et al., REPLACR-mutagenesis’ median ... -
CRISPR 101: Non-Homologous End Joining
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 16, 2015, 3:45 p.m....better substrates for ligation. Although we do not describe these steps here, the processing of DNA ends tends...Genome-Wide Control for Large-Scale Functional Screens ... -
Form Your Own Peer Mentoring Group: A How-To Guide for Scientists
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2014, 4:22 p.m.... for over 10 years. Many successful scientists describe having a “posse” of mentors as one key to their...Ellen Daniell. In “Every Other Thursday,” Daniell describes a group of 7 women scientists who met every other... -
Will You Be My Mentor? Finding and Asking for Mentoring Support
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 4, 2014, 3:50 p.m....mentoring questions I set out to answer. First, I will describe some of the many ways you can approach finding...Watch for my upcoming mentoring post in which I describe how to organize a successful peer mentoring circle... -
Transferable Skills Guide: Problem Solving
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 30, 2021, 2:15 p.m....molecular biology experiments was in the job description, but this skill is not just about reacting to...research non-academic careers, I always felt that descriptions of transferable skills seemed fuzzy or ill-defined... -
CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m..... Such a system has been previously described for transcriptional activation/repression and genome editing... -
Celebrating 15 Years of Scientific Sharing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 14, 2019, 2:08 p.m....video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False, type='scriptV4', hide_playlist=True, viral_sharing=False, embed_button...', style='' %} Resources on the Addgene blog Subscribe to the Addgene blog Read our viral vector blog... -
CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m....Another similarity to Cas12a is that Cas14 also indiscriminately cleaves non-complementary ssDNA when engaged... the genome. Cas13, similar to Cas14, also indiscriminately cleaves ssRNA when engaged at its RNA target... -
New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m....figure out how to optimize protocols for in vivo screening with lentiviral pooled shRNA libraries. Later,... Blog Learn about the Sabatini and Wood Drug Screening Kit Find Out How to Best Utilize Our Cancer Resource... -
Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.... fragments, these problems can be overcome by screening a higher number of potential clones. Golden Gate...In early 2011, the Bogdanove and Voytas groups described a new Golden Gate-based technology for genome ... -
Plasmids 101: Cre-lox
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m....Cre-dependent gene expression – placing a series of transcriptional and translational termination features with... Combining this with some of the loxP methods described above, a genetic modification can be restricted... -
How to Prepare for an Industry Interview
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m....method seems simple, I found it hard to remember to describe all four parts of a STAR answer once the interview...hard during this talk since you’ll be sharing your screen and won’t be able to see who’s asking a question... -
A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m....efficient. Informed by these mutations and previously described TadA mutations (Gaudelli et al., 2017), they modified...undesired off-target editing effects. ABEs have been described to introduce base changes in cellular DNA and ... -
Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Finding Relevant Papers
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2020, 1:45 p.m....of citations per year and the number of other manuscripts that heavily cite the paper are displayed. You...the context of these citations. The number of manuscripts that cite the background, methods, or results... -
Split Fluorescent Proteins for Studying Protein-Protein Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 3, 2022, 1:15 p.m....from the associated paper: Color Base FP Description Article PI Blue EBFP2 EBFP2(1-10) and Capri...acetylation system and novel in vivo high-throughput screen for molecules affecting alpha-synuclein oligomerisation... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m....cloning, the Haynes lab’s Protocols.io protocol describes an elegant system that allows for the assembly...editing assemblies are sensor-actuators, either transcriptional regulators or chromatin-modifying enzymes. ... -
Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m....Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) was originally described by Theodor Förster in 1948 as a variation of the...FRET probe, try searching PubMed for articles describing the FRET tool that you are looking for and check... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....authors used a multispecies approach to generate and screen a library of AAV9 variants (Chuapoco et al., 2023... Figure 3: Overview of library generation and screening that led to identification and characterization... -
Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m....forward as quickly as possible and submitted our manuscript to the journal Cell just six weeks later. The...Asian-, African- and American-lineages). Strain discrimination is especially important in the current outbreak... -
7 Simple Strategies to Resolve Conflicts with Difficult Supervisors
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m....there are any forms that need to be signed, or manuscripts that need to be reviewed, bring them to the meeting...familiar with the minute details of your work. Describe the problem by stating the facts and explain how...