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TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.... has refined our use of the BLAST web browser interface to be as efficient as possible. If you find yourself...longer alignments to compare with your sequencing trace file. Unlike megablast, the regular blastn program...
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Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 29, 2022, 2:15 p.m....research uses ancestry groups rather than self-reported race, it highlights the myriad issues researchers need...between biology and ancestral groups or, by extension, race. Many researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens ... -
The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m....individual plasmid orders, because when a PI or lab places an order, they are likely to order several plasmids...next-generation therapeutics. Prime editing, base editing, PACE, and DNA-templated synthesis are four examples of... -
A Guide to Starting Your Own Journal Club
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.... journal club? Where will the journal club take place? Preparing for the first meeting There are many ...important pieces before that first meeting takes place to ensure success. One of the most important is ... -
Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 16, 2020, 2:18 p.m....required for a mini amplification reaction to take place. When the PCR is complete, a droplet reader extracts...contamination. Optimize your PCR For a good starting place on what PCR parameters to use, see Lock’s seminal... -
Plasmids 101: Secondary Nanobody Toolbox
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 27, 2018, 2:04 p.m....penetration Less resolution due to larger label displacement Require separate incubation of 1° and 2° Must...multiple dyes Greater resolution due to lower label displacement 2° incubation can be skipped by pre-binding ... -
AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m....labeling so that a cell’s projections are easy to trace and not lost in a jumble of fluorescent neurons.... But notice in figure 4b how difficult it is to trace individual cell’s axons, particularly the two green... -
Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m....samples accurately and in a way that can be easily traced. If you’re just starting a lab, or are looking ...barcode can store a lot of information in a small space and is ideal for tracking large collections. Many... -
Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m....materials, protocols, and courses, as well as a space for research labs to create their own lab or group...Website: http://www.labguru.com/ Labguru is a good place to go if your lab is looking to streamline your ... -
CRISPR 101: Any Base Transversion Editors
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 1, 2025, 1:15 p.m....across from the abasic site before filling the empty space. Over several rounds of rational mutagenesis, the...editors Excises G, T, or C, respectively, to be replaced with another base. References Chen, L., Hong... -
Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m....struggling to understand how the researchers decided to place their gates on the plots! Flow data is messy, so...., Pons, J. A., & Muro, M. (2018). In vitro intracellular IFNγ, IL-17 and IL-10 producing T cells correlates... -
Hot Plasmids - November 2023
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m....commercial antibodies can be tethered on the viral surface, expanding the range of targetable cell types. ...et al. (2023). Time-tagged ticker tapes for intracellular recordings. Nature Biotechnology, 41(5), 631... -
Viral Production at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 24, 2023, 1:15 p.m....preparations are purified by iodixanol gradient ultracentrifugation and concentrated to purity and titers adequate...maintained for ~20 passages before being discarded and replaced with a new vial of early passage cells. Approximately... -
Viral Vectors 101: Preparing Pooled Libraries
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 13, 2023, 1:15 p.m....without disrupting plasmid representation. A good place to start is with a protocol for a library of similar...Moderated by the Feng Zhang lab, this is a useful place to ask experimental questions. Practical Considerations... -
Antibodies 101: Immunoprecipitation
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 7, 2021, 2:15 p.m.... and vary in shape and structure. Their porous surface provides a large area for binding, but antibodies... than agarose beads. Proteins conjugate on the surface of magnetic beads, and are therefore completely... -
Plasmids 101: Plasmid Incompatibility
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 31, 2020, 1:15 p.m....are 27 incompatibility (Inc) groups in the Enterobacteriaceae family alone, and this is expanding as we...expelled antibiotic resistant plasmids from Enterobacteriaceae family members within the mouse gut (Kamruzzaman... -
Advancing Biology with Zebrafish: Genetic Tools for Developmental Studies and More
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 13, 2019, 12:58 p.m....illustrate some of the reasons that zebrafish have been embraced as a model organism, I’ll outline a few of the...high-resolution map of early embryogenesis in time and space, and was also used to precisely characterize developmental... -
Save Time with Transient Plant Leaf Transformations
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m....through the stomata into the abaxial site (lower surface) of the leaf. This is a simple and easy technique...Mortensen et al., 2019): Leaves or whole plants are placed in an Agrobacterium solution and a vacuum is applied... -
What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m....be studied over time. They recognize individual faces (I guess of other wasps) so can be used to study...adult female mosquitoes. Now they are trying to replace embryo injection (hard to do, expensive, not every... -
Data Freedom: The Expansion of Data Sharing in Research Publications
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 5, 2014, 6:51 p.m.... or the statistical variation is calculated and placed in the legend. Widely reported difficulties in ...on the fly”. This becomes intuitive with touch interfaces where the viewer is more likely to want to manipulate... -
Antibodies 101: Introduction to Gating in Flow Cytometry
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2024, 1:15 p.m....structural complexity inside the cell or on its surface. Bear in mind, the voltage setting of the laser...through conjugated antibodies targeting the cell surface markers CD11 (anti-mouse CD11b-BV510), which is... -
Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m....expressed on T cells to make CAR T cells. The extracellular scFv portion of the receptors recognizes an ...an antigen of interest while the intracellular T cell receptor portion of the CAR facilitates signal transduction... -
Thoughts on the Future of Research 2015 Boston Symposium
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 25, 2015, 4 p.m...., their makeup (in terms of nationality, gender, race, etc), or their career outcomes. Some of the more...their mentorship with the same critical eye they place on others within their labs - as a sort of over-... -
Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.... but is controlled by FLP/FRT recombinase. When placed under different promoters, Brainbow and Flpbow ...useful in lineage tracing; “Zebrabow” was used to trace the development of the corneal epithelium. For scientists... -
Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m....but is activated by GAL4 binding to UAS. If you place the GAL4 gene downstream of a tissue- or developmental...inhibiting the binding of GAL4 to UAS. One can therefore place GAL4 and GAL80 under different promoters and create... -
When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 6, 2018, 1:49 p.m....and the ATP dependent 9°NTM DNA Ligase are not replacements for T4 DNA Ligase in applications such as routine...PMCID: PMC306403. 11. Wu, Dan Y., and R. Bruce Wallace. "Specificity of the nick-closing activity of bacteriophage... -
Typing CRISPR Systems
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 18, 2025, 1:15 p.m....function. After analysis, CRISPR classifications were placed into a fairly simple hierarchy: class to type to.... However, knowing the basic diversity and the surface-level function of each type could lead you to new... -
Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 28, 2024, 1:45 p.m.... presence or absence of certain markers on the surface or the inside of your cells. While proteins themselves...plasma membrane and can be detected through a cell surface label. The viral vector also encodes for eGFP, ... -
Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m..... Other dyes may prove challenging to stain intracellular compartments in in vivo model systems, so extra...green, red, and far-red dyes is important for intracellular fluorescence live imaging (Hayashi-Takanaka... -
Deep Dive: qPCR
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 29, 2022, 1:15 p.m....multiplex your reference genes to save on plate space. For many cell lines and tissue types, appropriate...your reference gene set can save significant plate space and may be worth the initial effort of setting it... -
Technical Design of a Western Blot
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 22, 2024, 1:15 p.m....stability Limited protein size range Tris-acetate 40–500 kDa Tris-tricine 150 V, 1–3 hours ... simply wet your membrane with 20% methanol and place it on a light box after drying. Nitrocellulose, ... -
Addgene’s First AAV Data Hub Challenge
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 20, 2022, 1:15 p.m....Addgene’s first AAV Data Hub Challenge, now taking place Dec. 6, 2022! Share your AAV data, connect with ... -
Introducing the Addgene Antibodies 101 eBook!
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m....application question, the Antibody 101 eBook is a great place to start looking for answers. We hope you find... -
Meet Aavery, Blugene's New Virus Friend!
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 13, 2020, 2:34 p.m....vector terms. And, the name Kendall has a special place in our hearts: our first two offices were located... -
Addgene is Stopping Use of X (formerly Twitter)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 11, 2024, 2:15 p.m....addgene.bsky.social; or @addgene on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. We are also exploring other social... -
The 12 Days of CRISPR: 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 28, 2021, 2:15 p.m....Addgene gave to me: the PEDAR strategy to delete and replace long genomic sequences. On the ninth day of CRISPR... -
Overwhelmed? Take a Break With Our 5 Favorite Science Comics
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 5, 2013, 3:27 p.m.... science and in the lab? Addgene is after all a place that encourages people to take some time out every... -
Twelve Amazing Guest Blog Contributors!
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 26, 2024, 2:15 p.m....Cytometry, Designing Your First Flow Panel, and Beyond Surface Labeling Ashlyn Lemmen, who shared her flow cytometry... -
Addgene’s New Way to Help You Share Science
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 14, 2013, 4:10 p.m.... at [email protected] or tell us on Twitter and Facebook. We’ll track down the story, get the inside scoop... -
Deck the Lab 2022!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 17, 2023, 2:15 p.m....It's just unfortunate that we had no choice but to place it next to our lab trash (which coincidentally matches... -
Bringing Renewable Energy to Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 27, 2019, 1:08 p.m..... Addgenies swapping out printer cartridges can place the spent cartridge in the large cardboard box in... -
Addgene Protocols Go Viral: AAV Purification and Titration
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 13, 2019, 12:19 p.m....! AAV purification by iodixanol gradient ultracentrifugation This video goes over AAV vector purification... -
CRISPR Cheat Sheet
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m....! CRISPR Cheat Sheet Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: Sequences of DNA found... -
Tips for Working in Industry & Success in Management: Interview with Crystal Shih
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 5, 2017, 1:13 p.m....Investigator III at Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland. After completing... -
Countdown to Halloween @Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 29, 2014, 5:26 p.m....this year’s Addgene costume contest, like us on Facebook and checkout our FB page on Friday for more photo... -
Newly Updated AAV Data Hub!
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m....revamped, and re-launched Addgene AAV Data Hub, the place for scientists to share their AAV validation data... -
Addgene’s Blog Gets a New Look!
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 25, 2021, 5:54 p.m....topics in the dropdown menu. These pages are a great place to start if you’re new to the topic. Or, try the... -
Grad School Advice Part 1: Picking a Lab and a Project
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 1, 2016, 2:30 p.m....studies developmental gene regulation with Dr. Angela DePace in the Department of Systems Biology, and he tweets... -
Addgene Stands with the Scientific Community
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 23, 2025, 1:30 p.m....demonstrated remarkable resilience and creativity in the face of funding challenges. By strengthening our commitment... -
The Addgene Antibody Data Hub
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m.... process, so you can work through it at your own pace. To submit, simply click "Contribute Data." ...