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  1. A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club

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    Feb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.
    ... notice for the first meeting so that people can set aside time in their schedules and read the paper ...). This notice can be shortened as the meeting settles in and people get the time recurrently carved out...
  2. PITChing MMEJ as an Alternative Route for Gene Editing

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    Feb. 23, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...allow for two sets of microhomologies (5’ and 3’) to anneal, knocking the GFP-Puro cassette into the locus...protocol for MMEJ-mediated knock-in of a GFP-Puro cassette into a given locus, just upstream of a stop codon...microhomology to the insertion locus flanking the GFP-Puro cassette. Three double stranded breaks are necessary for...for knock-in: one on either side of the GFP-Puro cassette and one in between the 5’ and 3’ microhomologies...of PITCh. The PITCh plasmid contains a GFP-Puro cassette flanked by 5' and 3' microhomology and PITCh-gRNA...creates two DSBs in the PITCh plasmid to release the cassette, and an insertion-locus-specific gRNA cleaves ...and 3’ microhomologies are added to the GFP-Puro cassette via PCR, and this construct is inserted into the...
  3. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ... brightness is compared to that of EGFP which is set as 1. Some proteins are very dim (e.g. TagRFP657,...
  4. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...This modular approach combines an interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to reprogram...Every few months, we highlight a subset of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository...
  5. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...have become a powerful tool to address a diverse set of biological inquiries. References Ogura, Teru...death. The team used this cassette to knock out genes, knock in a GFP cassette, and introduced site-directed...for Zeocin resistance (Figure 2). This MazF-ZeoR cassette is flanked by two direct repeats which can be ... selects for those cells that have removed the cassette through a second recombination event between the...
  6. Neuronal labeling with Spaghetti Monster

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    Aug. 14, 2018, 12:42 p.m.
    ...difficult to use in a multicolor/multichannel imaging set-up. In contrast, smFP tags can be recognized by distinct...
  7. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ... used successfully in preclinical and clinical settings for ocular conditions. However, AdV was abandoned...responsible for an autosomal recessive, severe, childhood-onset form of blindness name Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis... of new capsid variants, designing expression cassettes to regulate and optimize transgene levels, and...
  8. Bioinformatics at Addgene

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    July 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...working on one process at a time, and testing a small set of data each time a new process was added, we progressively...easily shared with others without any complicated setup. We created, tested, and debugged each of our pipeline...
  9. Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...that do not express the protein. With this control set, you should see your target protein IP’d in the positive...
  10. Hot Plasmids - August 2020

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    Aug. 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...be useful for your studies.  Find the plasmids to set up your screening systems at Addgene! Schematic...Every few months we highlight a subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through ...
  11. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...nature, they are largely underutilized in research settings — mostly a consequence of Cascade's complexity...
  12. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    July 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...antigen or an antibody depending on how the assay is set up. Then they block the capture reagent to prevent...binding to a primary antibody.  While the precise setup of the method can vary, typically users first coat...
  13. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...facilitates the use of prime editing in pooled settings with hundreds to thousands of pegRNAs. Chromatin-based...primer binding site, and many more. Once we had our datasets with all the different features and editing efficiencies...PRIDICT2.0 (Mathis et al., 2024). The additional datasets used in the training of PRIDICT2.0 make this model...
  14. New Tools Enable CRISPRa for Neuroscience Applications

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    July 2, 2019, 12:51 p.m.
    ...mice CRISPRa has largely been limited to in vitro settings due to the large size of Cas9 activators, which...packaging limits (i.e., how many sgRNA expression cassettes will fit). Cre-dependent expression of the SPH...
  15. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    March 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
    ...the day of your chalk talk Bring your own fresh set of erasable markers. You’ll have the colors you want...research? Do you have innovative tools? A novel dataset? Unique expertise? A novel hypothesis? Part of ...
  16. Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)

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    Feb. 9, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...and/or perceived professional risk involved in setting up a CURE, especially if it’s a new approach within... amenable to in-class labs. Provost ultimately settled on a two-semester model, in which students learn...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Fluorescent Protein Timers

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    May 4, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... the use of a given timer in many experimental settings. Monomeric fluorescent protein timers Since the... simplifies cloning and makes your experimental setup less cumbersome. 3. Portability across multiple ...
  18. MXS Chaining

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    Feb. 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...sequences of the genetic elements may differ (e.g., a set of various mammalian promoters), the same cloning...sequences. Intermediate chaining products (called “cassettes”) can be readily reused in the assembly of any...any later construct (i.e.,functional cassettes are recyclable) Can only work if the restriction sites used...
  19. CRISPR Antimicrobials

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    May 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    .... suggest that it could be valuable in medical settings where antibiotic resistant bacteria have previously...Even when researchers develop new antibiotics, the onset of resistance is swift, as few as five years after...
  20. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ...independent variable. Biological replicates In any given set of experiments, the biological controls are more ...
  21. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...multiple genes is valuable in many experimental settings. To achieve this, scientists use a multitude of...individual expression cassettes, having the genes expressed from the same cassette is sometimes advantageous...and you can then insert the whole multicistronic cassette into a backbone as a single unit. Although it ...
  22. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...your “gating strategy.” This series of markers are set up sequentially, from broadest to most specific marker...Subtypes of immune cells are often defined by a subset of the markers used to identify them, such as “...
  23. Tips for Getting a Faculty Position

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    July 20, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... document examples are not especially helpful. I set out to make something practical and accessible. If...
  24. Overcoming the AAV Size Limitation for CRISPR Delivery

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    Sept. 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...gene-targeting capabilities of full-length SpCas9. This set of plasmids includes AAV-Cas9C-VPR for targeted gene...genes in human cells using compact expression cassettes. Sci Rep 5: . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10777...
  25. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    July 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...it’s a combination of many factors unique to this set of tools and the community they serve. As difficult...validating and using an AAV in a specific experimental setup. Teams across Addgene have worked hard to ensure...compared to other AAVs preps from 2016–2023. B) Inset showing distribution of only GCaMP6, jGCaMP7, and...
  26. Plasmids 101: E. coli Strains for Protein Expression

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    Feb. 10, 2015, 3:06 p.m.
    ...Tempurature: Analyze your expression conditions by setting up a small-scale expression experiment to test ...StrR, TetR) Expression of insoluble proteins  Rosetta2 (DE3)* Chloramphenicol (pRARE) Good for “universal... plasmid contains a chloramphenicol resistance cassette for positive selection and a p15A origin of replication...
  27. Hot Biosensors 2022: Year-End Roundup

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 6, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...range. With this in mind, Ed Boyden and colleagues set out to engineer a potassium ion biosensor with a ...
  28. Transferable Skills Guide: Conflict Resolution

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 4, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... this skill that you could strengthen. The right set of transferable skills, coupled with your technical...know you are bringing this asset to your job, you can become a valuable asset yourself.     Fig... point of view and can’t understand why they’re upset, conflict resolution is likely not one of your strengths...
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