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  1. Arabidopsis in Education: How the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Brings Plant Science to Life

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    Blog Post
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    April 12, 2018, 1:02 p.m.
    ... - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers...many benefits. Engaging students in active learning through hands-on experiments allows them to develop...conduct the experiments outlined in ABRC’s kits vary by module. As a general guideline, experiments that include...concepts than can be gained from lectures alone. Using plants as an experimental system comes with fewer ethical...include growing plants require pots, trays, soil, fertilizer, seeds and a growth space with fluorescent...fluorescent lights. Other experiments require only seeds, petri dishes, and filter paper. Another benefit of using...questions about growing conditions, to guiding students through specific protocols, ABRC staff are available...

  2. Addgene Receives NIH BRAIN Initiative Grant to Create Open-Access Recombinant Antibody Resource

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    May 25, 2021, 2:29 p.m.
    ...data with you. “Affinity reagents are among the most commonly used reagents in neuroscience research ...to introduce affinity reagents in protein format within the next year. NIH grants and Addgene’s mission...focus of the NABOR platform will be neuroscience reagents and data, the platform can be expanded for any...secrete antibodies in culture and provide renewable reagents with reliable and reproducible production. However...recombinant antibodies as well as other affinity reagents such as single-chain variable fragment (scFvs)...model for the creation and acquisition of affinity reagents and will enable researchers everywhere.” The ...door for a new generation of recombinant affinity reagents. Addgene is looking forward to working with the...

  3. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...because when RSpace documents are deposited into the repositories, links in the documents to data in the external...reproducibility RSpace was designed in response to requirements that emerged from intensive engagement with ...relevant to a particular experiment, series of experiments, or project. ‘Small’ data produced by the research...lab servers specifically designed to hold large amounts of data. Although it may be useful to selectively...reproducibility. For example, it’s possible to import Word documents into RSpace, maintaining the original formatting...edited, and it’s possible to link between various documents. A second example is the integration between RSpace... a two-way integration. It’s possible to send documents from RSpace to a selected Slack channel for discussion...

  4. CRISPR 101: Which Cas9 Do I Choose for My CRISPR Experiment?

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    Oct. 13, 2022, 1:45 p.m.
    ...the PAM Requirements of Different Cas9 variants Learn about CRISPR Pooled Library Experiments Additional...even image your favorite gene. With so many Cas9 reagents available, it can be difficult to decipher which...your experimental target, SpCas9 and its enhanced variants, eSpCas9 and HypaCas9, are great choices. Check...modifications Site-specific deletions and knockouts Some experiments may require the introduction of a mutation at...an expanding number of Cas9s with looser PAM requirements compared to SpCas9. xCas9 has a PAM requirement...Cas9 proteins (such as SpRY) with altered PAM requirements, giving it more flexibility. A consideration...target genes using dCas9-based repressors Early experiments using dCas9 in bacteria demonstrated that targeting...

  5. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...LOV-Turbo into TransitID experiments.  Find TransitID plasmids here! These two developments open up new possibilities...vivo. Incorporating reverse transcriptase (RT) variants, PE6a and PE6b are 500–800 bp smaller than previous...PE6d are optimized for dual-AAV systems. These variants use different RT enzymes and performed large edits...such as long or highly structured templates. Cas9 variants PE6e–g often had even higher editing efficiencies...interchangeable set of fusogenic and targeting components to reprogram delivery vehicles like lentiviral...DIRECTED particles where the fusion and targeting components are interchangeable. Image from Strebinger et...demonstrated LOV-Turbo in neurons, in pulse-chase experiments, and more. Find LOV-Turbo plasmids here! Next...

  6. "Build Your Plasmid": The Game - Play to Teach

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    July 17, 2018, 12:23 p.m.
    ...the game rules and then you let your students play. As your students play, you can observe, answer questions... make our classes more practical and hands-on. Students in these courses get plenty of theory in their... genetic manipulation of human stem cells when students are not even allowed to manipulate prokaryotic...cells? Especially, if you only have 4 hours and 35 students! After a course coordination meeting with some... I didn’t want to face another group of sleepy students at 8 a.m. many of them focused more on social ...therefore started planning a game that would force my students to use concepts learned from previous lectures...win-win strategy. After each team presented, all students had to pick the best strategy and propose a final...

  7. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...labor with up and coming immunotherapy treatments. As treatments enter the clinic, physicians and researchers...keep ahead of the disease in patients and developing collaborative treatments will go a long way in combating...macrophages (M1 and M2) that help create welcoming environments for tumor cells spreading to other organs during...to inhibit further cancer growth and subjecting patients to the risk of microbial infection. Chronic inflammation...one of the most commonly used immunotherapeutic agents. Currently the FDA has 12 approved monoclonal antibodies...cells and T cells activated ex vivo are also contestants for cell-based immunotherapy. Using activated... CRISPR-based clinical trial in 18 lung cancer patients. This study used CRISPR gene editing to knockout...

  8. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    Jan. 31, 2019, 1:32 p.m.
    ...microenvironment, a tumor’s backstage team. Microenvironments are cellular regions with specialized structures...structures. Tumors are surrounded by microenvironments and what encircles a disease is highly prone to affect...precisely that for breast cancer. What are tumor microenvironments made of?  A tumor’s genesis is divided into...development? Being pathological active regions, microenvironments shape a tumor’s evasiveness, evolution, and...others repress it. Unfortunately, as a whole, microenvironments promote tumor durability instead of repressing... To understand how cancer cells influence microenvironments and vice versa, let’s take a look at cancer...improving cancer cells proliferation.  How do microenvironments affect tumor spread and drug resistance? Although...

  9. Developing Lab Management Software for Biology

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    Aug. 25, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...from their contents. You should be tracking both, you should easily be able to move contents from one container...can be useful in academic labs where postdocs, students, and lab mates are coming and going frequently...Addgene website, it sets off a chain reaction of events throughout all of Addgene - within the office, ...applied to containers and not the mushy, gooey contents of said containers, think carefully about how ...encoded numbers. Loosely couple containers and contents Right from the get-go be as clear as you can be...are being applied to the containers, not to the contents. Tightly coupling barcodes and containers might...such a bad idea, tightly coupling them to their contents might leave you sad and confused when a tricky...

  10. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 29, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...1-3 kb (approximately gene-sized) fragments so that these fragments can be cloned into E. coli and subsequent... Express random phage DNA fragments in E. coli Now that random DNA fragments have been cloned into E. ...return no candidates. Our strategy: Express random fragments of the phage genome and probe with live cells ...DNA frequently enough to result in a smear of fragments that get smaller in size as a function of digestion... method that results in the bulk of resultant fragments falling between 1 and 3 kb results in optimal ... causing issues associated with cloning large fragments. After fragmentation, repair sheared ends with...into chemically competent E. coli and analyze transformants for appropriately sized inserts. We consider...

  11. Antibody Validation for Flow Cytometry

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 10, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...fixation/permeabilization reagents for intracellular targets. Since knockout experiments can be time-consuming...selectivity of an antibody for flow cytometry experiments. This will include a discussion of the Human ...approach that prioritizes more reproducible/renewable reagents, such as recombinant or hybridoma-derived monoclonal...cells that are amenable to genetic knockout, this represents a very robust approach to antibody validation...staining. This can include using: different blocking reagents; titration of antibody concentration (this can... need to study protein expression at multiple timepoints. When the target of interest is critical to cell...increase confidence that the labeling observed represents the expression level of the target of interest...

  12. Three Tips to Organize Your Lab Notebooks in the New Year

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    Jan. 2, 2014, 3:44 p.m.
    ... easily access the documents. These tools not only allow users to access documents from anywhere, but ... papers on your desk, and to tackle some new experiments before the next R01 is due. But what about organizing...re frustrated and no closer to starting your experiments. Get organized now! Start by gathering that pile... color coded binders and tabs (for different experiments or projects) to make it easier to know where ...go Never miss a deadline again. Organize you experiments, keep track of upcoming grant deadlines, and ...from webpage clippings, photographs, and file attachments. Organize your notes into notebooks, create checklists...required to change the status quo. But with recent improvements to ELN and online lab management software, there...

  13. Lambda Red: A Homologous Recombination-based Technique for Genetic Engineering

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 15, 2016, 3:57 p.m.
    ...selectable DNA fragments, such as antibiotic resistance genes, as well as non-selectable DNA fragments, such as... as gene replacements and tags.  The typical frequency of recombinants is 1 positive clone out of 104 ...Enhanced levels of λ Red-mediated recombinants in mismatch repair mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy...homology to the target site for recombination. Key components of the Lambda Red recombineering system The lambda... lambda red recombineering system has three components (Figure 1): 1) Exo, 2) Beta, and 3) Gam. All three...modification with an ssDNA substrate.  Gam: Gam prevents both the endogenous RecBCD and SbcCD nucleases...an ssDNA oligo substrate.   Figure 1: Components of the Lambda Red Recombineering system. See ...

  14. Simplify Cloning with in vivo Assembly

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 18, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
    ...cell to perform multiple recombination events, all linear fragments need to get into the same cell. For ...3), producing multiple fragments with specific homologous ends. These fragments are assembled in vivo ...multiple recombination events to assemble the final plasmid. At least 5 fragments can be correctly assembled...Figure 1). As this approach requires no special reagents or purification kits, it is low cost and can be...protocol:  Fragment generation - Any linear DNA fragments can be assembled in vivo as long as they have ...PCR is the primary method to produce the linear fragments, as desired modifications and homologous regions...positive colonies. Transformation - the linear fragments are transformed into E. coli and plasmid assembly...

  15. CRISPR 101: Making a Knock-In Cell Line

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    Blog Post
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    Dec. 22, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...essential components of both pathways have been shown to be efficacious for increasing knock-in events (Yang...mutations and gene editing Targeted genome editing events fall into two general classes: knock-in and knock-out...frameshift mutation. The majority of cellular repair events will generate these types of mutations, making ...DNA repair mechanism in general. On average, it accounts for less than 10% of DNA repair, with this rate...considerations for designing donor DNA for successful HDR events. CRISPR cut site location Position your CRISPR...disrupting mutations in donor DNA   Promoting HDR events over other edits Like I said earlier, HDR is not... to exist as a repair template. To maximize HDR events, ensure cells are actively cycling through the ...

  16. Your Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered

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    April 23, 2014, 1:08 p.m.
    ...of the vector components are HIV-based? A7: No single plasmid contains all the components necessary to ...The components are divided as follows: Transfer vectors contain minimal cis-acting HIV components: LTRs...specific experiments being performed and you should understand the guidelines for using such reagents as outlined... produced by co-transfecting three essential ingredients: the lentiviral packaging vector, a transfer ...Second-generation vectors are likely sufficient for most experiments; however, the 3rd-generation packaging systems...the 3'LTR in the transfer plasmid. The deletion prevents full-length viral RNA from being produced in target...LTRs, PPT, RRE, and psi packaging signal. Viral components typically total <1.5kb, which is rarely more ...

  17. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    Jan. 3, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
    ...NGCG 8  Tips for designing base editing experiments in plants Choose a base editing platform depending...engineering through adenine base editing in plants." Nature plants (2018): 1. PubMed PMID: 29867128. 11. Li...Plant base editor platforms and their molecular components. Adenine base editors for plant We developed... could be used to generate stable genome edited plants via Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. We also...). Type Nickase Cas9 (D10A) Deaminase PAM requirements Reference CBE SpCas9 rAPOBEC1 NGG 6 SpCas9...transient assay. For stable transformation, regenerated plants may be subjected to genotyping. If successful base... Yuan, et al. "Efficient C-to-T base editing in plants using a fusion of nCas9 and human APOBEC3A." Nature...

  18. Plasmids 101: Control Plasmids

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    April 9, 2015, 3:29 p.m.
    ...result presents an opportunity for troubleshooting and optimization of the transfection reagents and process...There are many, many different types of experiments carried out by scientists every day. Although the... controls that can be used for plasmid-based experiments. What are control plasmids? Generally, control...interpretation of the results. Typically, plasmid-based experiments employ transfection, negative, positive, and ...control allows you to examine if the transfection reagents or the transfection process itself has any cytotoxic... on gene expression in your target cells. In experiments employing gene targeting or genome editing technologies...results are reproducible from properly controlled experiments. The observed phenotype associated with the independent...

  19. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...unique tropisms are now available. These include variants with broad CNS or PNS transduction, cell type ... control transgene expression. Gene regulatory elements [promoters and enhancers, miRNA target sites, ... 2021) to evolve new systemic capsids for both rodents and non-human primates (NHPs). These engineered...fluorescent proteins, optogenetic sensors, CRISPR elements, etc... *These are only starting recommendations...not been tested in rats. For more information on reagents and protocols, visit https://clover.caltech.edu...frequently been used for screening candidate regulatory elements such as enhancers and promoters for cell type-...Tabebordbar et al., 2021) method, selecting for variants that were effective in C57BL/6J mice, BALB/cJ ...

  20. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...selection easier, as well as highlight some recent advancements within this field. Fundamental principles of...enable highly specific visualization of cellular components, typically a protein of interest. Fluorescent...ligands Effects on protein function and cellular components: It's important to assess how dye-conjugation... function and its propensity to bind cellular components. Some dyes target specific organelles like mitochondria...may prove challenging to stain intracellular compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra care must..., highlighting its reliability for long-term experiments (Salari et al., 2019). Photostability, the ability...experiment types: Different types of fluorescent experiments, such as using fluorescently tagged ligands or...
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