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  1. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...significant amount of equipment, most of which is relatively cheap). Several protocols have been written outlining...appropriately (tuned for optogenetics). These lasers are relatively cheap and will run you about $2-3,000/laser. ...

  3. Academic vs. Industry Postdocs

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    Blog Post
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    Nov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m.
    ...surrounded by lab members who are all working on related topics, scientific discussion is often part of ...resources on the Addgene blog Check out all careers related blog posts here Find 9 tips for a successful postdoctoral...

  4. Truncated gRNAs for Regulating Gene Expression

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 10, 2017, 3:37 p.m.
    ...SpCas9 (2). In many cases this is due both to lower relative nuclease efficiencies as well as to more stringent...tolerance and, consequently, increased specificity relative to the more commonly employed 20nt gRNAs. It should...

  5. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    Blog Post
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    May 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...good, high quality preps due to its endA1 recA1 relA1 genotype, as these mutations improve plasmid stability...these factors are generally, but not perfectly, correlated. Typical growth times for high copy plasmids...

  6. Anatomy of a Plasmid Page at Addgene

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 4, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...in mind! This section of our plasmid pages is relatively new, so some of our older plasmids may not have...here. Articles Citing this Plasmid: This is a relatively new feature of our plasmid pages, and provides...

  7. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    Blog Post
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    July 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...major advances in light microscopy, particularly related to the neurosciences.  These developments in microscopy... our understanding of the structure-function relationship of the central nervous system under normal and...

  8. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Blog Post
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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...plasmid is packaged for viral delivery, or the relative expression levels between two or more genes is... plasmids listed in the table above (and their related plasmids) are designed to have one or more of the...

  9. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    Blog Post
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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...not narrow enough to distinguish between closely related colors. Furthermore, most FPs  have a broad range...College of Medicine. He is interested in everything related to gene expression, particularly at the RNA level...

  10. Plasmids 101: Choosing an Antibiotic Resistance Gene

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    Blog Post
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    Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ... some people still use amp? Carb is expensive (relative to amp), and for some applications, the benefit...their mode of action and have a very similar relationship as amp and carb (they are interchangeable). ...

  12. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    Blog Post
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    July 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...before then. Other areas are newer, such as the relatively recent resurgence of “Do-It-Yourself Science”...hadn’t made manipulating the genome cheap and relatively easy? Have all of these things contributed to...

  13. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    Blog Post
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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...particular scientific subfields.  Plasmid requests correlate with paper publication The dataset includes 11,426...and uncertainty in estimating parameters from relatively sparse data from China. An important additional...

  14. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 16, 2020, 2:18 p.m.
    ...polymerase chain reaction Browse our blog posts related to viral vector protocols and tips Read all of ... by qPCR Browse our collection of viral vector related protocols Learn more about the Addgene viral service...

  15. SciComm: Taking Science to Elementary and Middle Schools

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    Blog Post
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    July 9, 2019, 12:52 p.m.
    ...rather “let’s see how we can make this fun activity relate to STEM.” Figure 1 shows the activities we had ...molecular mechanism, I was careful to keep it relatively simple. I honed the complexity of the talk by...

  17. New CRISPR Tools: Cas7-11 and PASTE

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    Blog Post
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    Feb. 17, 2022, 2 p.m.
    ...this information to identify a large variety of related bacteria with similar Cas systems. Some of these...knockdown efficiencies. The ability to identify related Cas systems opens up the potential of further development...

  18. Transferable Skills Guide: Creativity

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 18, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...session is to start with something completely unrelated to the issue and consider how it could be shaped...problem is to step away from it. Find something unrelated to do (many Addgenies enjoy rock climbing, for...

  19. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    Blog Post
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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...reliably distinguish between Zika and a closely-related virus, Dengue from multiple sample sources. SHERLOCK...from cell-free DNA fragments as well as health-related single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from human...

  20. CRISPR-mediated Plant Base Editors

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    Blog Post
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    Jan. 3, 2019, 1:35 p.m.
    ...editing efficiency based on the location of the ‘A’ relative to the protospacer adjacent motif (PAM). ABE7.10...edit in a stretched window ranging from 1-17 bp relative to the PAM sequence (Zong et al., 2018) (see CBE...
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