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  1. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    April 28, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., it's hard to get those words out and onto the screen and transform your work into a paper or a grant... categorized either based on the section of a manuscript they might be found, i.e. introduction, methods...the Addgene blog: Tips for writing scientific manuscripts: literature searching, reading, and organizing...
  2. Virtual Science Conference Coming Up? Three Addgenies Share Their Experience

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    June 30, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...to keep the audience engaged through a computer screen. For the Reproducibility for Everyone Workshop,...author of the poster,” he says.Viewing a poster on a screen is challenging, requiring you to zoom in to different... their poster, eliminating the need to zoom and scroll around the poster (Reshef et al., 2020).The Twitter...
  3. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    July 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ..., lengthy genetic payloads and insufficient transcription on the array have limited the scalability and...potential in vivo applications or multiplex CRISPR screening.   Using tRNAs Luckily, a fun feature of tRNA...engineering of crops or allow for sophisticated CRISPR screenings that would perturb the unprecedented number of...
  4. Luminescent Imaging with Nano-lanterns

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    May 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...adoption of the technology. In 2012, Saito et al. described the first Nano-lantern, a fusion of a mutagenized...hours! The latest enhanced Nano-lanterns (eNL) described in Suzuki et al. improve the brightness of previous...substrate furimazine. In addition to the previously described applications, the enhanced signal of eNL allows...
  5. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    May 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...27478040. The lung cancer mutant collection is described in this paper. Systematic Functional Interrogation...the genetic pathway reference collections are described in this paper Systematic morphological profiling...  The genetic pathway reference collection is described in this publication We also wrote an extensive...
  6. Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1

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    May 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m.
    ...editing!  A recent paper from Feng Zhang's lab describes how to use Cpf1 for multiplex genome editing.  ...transfection gRNAs expressed from a polycistronic transcript  Requires co-transfection of Cas9 Nissim et alTsai...transfection gRNAs expressed from a polycistronic transcript Requires co-transfection of Cas9   Xie et al  ...
  7. Top Requested Lentivirus and AAV of 2016

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    Jan. 6, 2017, 3:56 p.m.
    ...expressing cell lines, which can then be used both for screens (using pooled CRISPR knockout libraries) and individual...monoclonal Cas9-expression line prior to performing a screen or even a single gene knockout. Top AAV: pAAV-hSyn-DIO-hM4D... vectors and genome-wide libraries for CRISPR screening. Nat Methods. 2014 Aug;11(8):783-4. PubMed PMID...
  8. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...Cell, Musunuru, Chad Cowan and their colleagues describe a much more efficient tool for doing that disease...modeling work in human pluripotent stem cells: a transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN) kit...people unfamiliar with this new TALEN kit, can you describe it for us? Musunuru: TALENs are a type of genome...
  9. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    June 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...formulation of new knowledge than it is to read a manuscript whose whole purpose is to provide detailed evidence...images, noises and music, spoken words, and any onscreen text. Be aware of the effort the audience is expending...Maybe I needed to employ a visual aid instead of describing something verbally. Sometimes a group was just...
  10. Click Biology: How to Click and Play to Explore Biology

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    Oct. 21, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...features with optimal biological performance are described as Click Biology (Howarth, 2025). Figure... Addgene. Addgene Link Click Biology Tag Description Humberg et al. (2025) Split inteins Cysteine-less...  Click Into Biological Building Click Biology describes the search for robust, reliable reactions, using...
  11. CRISPR Meets Synthetic Biology: A Conversation with MIT’s Christopher Voigt

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    April 22, 2015, 2:06 p.m.
    ...Systems Biology in November, Voigt and Alex Nielsen describe what’s possible when multi-input CRISPR/Cas genetic...many deposits to Addgene over the years. Can you describe the toolbox you are putting together?  Voigt: ... Those will allow you to set the amount of transcriptional and translational activity a cell has and control...
  12. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...neurons from each class to fully characterize the transcriptome. The first data release for CeNGEN is planned... The 3’UTRs of mRNA are important for post-transcriptional regulation in C. elegans. To study the role...Addgene In addition to the wealth of open resources described above, there were many plasmid tools presented...
  13. Hot Plasmids May 2018 - Optogenetics, Decaffeination, Biosensors, and Fluorescent Protein Tools

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    May 15, 2018, 12:43 p.m.
    ...soCoChR-expressing system. Taken together, Shemesh et. al. describe a novel system for the precise mapping of neuronal...the single-cell level. Various soCoChR plasmids described in this work including the soCoChR-GFP plasmid...expression in E. coli. This operon is under the transcriptional control of a strong constitutive promoter (...
  14. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...'ve overlooked regulatory fragments of these transcripts. I remember when small RNA was just something...’t give tRNAs much thought. High throughput transcriptome sequencing methods including work done by the...circRNA datasets and download the custom python scripts needed to discover circRNAs in RNA-seq data. As...
  15. Illuminating Epigenetics with A FRET Based Biosensor

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    Nov. 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...histone modifications, which can influence the transcription of genes by RNA polymerase II, or by the addition...methylcytosine in CpG islands makes  genes less transcriptionally active. The role of epigenetics in studying...of tumor suppressor genes can repress their transcription and inactivate them. Global hypomethylation,...
  16. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...chromoproteins have a shorter history. In 1987, scientists described an unusual blue-colored protein from the jellyfish...methods. While techniques such as  blue-white screening require X-gal, an expensive exogenously-added ...chromoproteins don’t require other substrates for screening. Thus chromoproteins can be used as markers in...
  17. Tips for a 1st time AAV user (by a Rookie AAV user)

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    Oct. 23, 2018, 11:49 a.m.
    ...transfer plasmid at 30 °C instead of 37 °C and then screen for ITR recombination with a SmaI or XmaI restriction...duplicated regions like the ITRs. Restriction digest screening for ITR deletion is still necessary. To save time...mL of my AAV transfer plasmid cultures and then screen with SmaI digests. I freeze the bacterial pellet...
  18. Plasmids 101: 5 factors to help you choose the right cloning method

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    Aug. 21, 2018, 12:31 p.m.
    ...following cloning methodologies have been extensively described in other articles; so if you are interested in... to assemble up to 6 different fragments in a prescribed order. These fragments can be pooled in one tube...homology. You might also consider FastCloning, first described by Chaokun Li and colleagues. Here you simply ...
  19. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...synthesize a particular protein DNA must first be transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA). mRNA can then be translated...template of choice and allowing these cells to transcribe, translate and modify your protein of interest...assembled in vitro using purified components of the transcription and translation machinery. These include ribosomes...
  20. AAV Vector Quality Control: Going the Extra Mile with NGS

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    Sept. 12, 2017, 1:44 p.m.
    ...transduced cells whenever possible. This post will describe our workflow for viral genome sequencing (VGS)...identification, we developed custom open-access Python scripts that can perform a deeper analysis of the data....Check out our Viral Vectors Featured Topic Page Subscribe to Viral Vectors Blog Posts Learn How We Use NGS...
  21. CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods

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    Sept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...vivo. A common choice for conducting genome-wide screens using CRISPR. AAV transduction Only compatible...containing gRNA and Cas9 are used in in vitro transcription reactions to generate mature Cas9 mRNA and gRNA...complexes Purified Cas9 protein and in vitro transcribed gRNA are combined to form a Cas9-gRNA complex...
  22. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ...looking at your resume while they wrote the job description. You check off all the boxes - you have the desired... gaps in scientists' transferrable skills. In describing the limitations of the study, the authors noted...over email. Examine your current and past job descriptions. Scan through all the things for which you are...
  23. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...video_player "embed_player" overrideable=False, type='scriptV4', hide_playlist=True, viral_sharing=False, embed_button...into two components: 𝜃x(t) and 𝜓z(t). 𝜃x(t) describes the exponential decay process we observed, while...appears to return to normal. The model fit these two discrete phases with an estimate of 62.3% for the COVID...
  24. Bacterial Toxin-antitoxin Systems as Molecular Biology Tools

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    Nov. 1, 2018, 12:35 p.m.
    ...restriction endonucleases in plasmid addition was first described by studies of EcoRI and Bsp6I in Escherichia coli...systems. As with the other toxin-antitoxin systems described above, one part of the pair is more stable than...toxin-antitoxin system discovered. Unlike the systems just described, the hok/sok systems consist of three components...
  25. Finding nucleic acids with SHERLOCK and DETECTR

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    April 16, 2020, 1 p.m.
    ...amplification) or reverse transcriptase (RT)-RPA, respectively. RPA is coupled with T7 transcription to convert amplified...2018) CRISPR-Cas12a target binding unleashes indiscriminate single-stranded DNase activity. Science 360...
  26. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...heterologously by bacteria inside the body. So we screened gas vesicles gene clusters from a diverse set ...expression heterogeneity required single cell screening to isolate a clonal cell line capable of producing...improvement in expression. Stabilizing the gvpA transcript with WPRE reduced the number of copies of gvpA...
  27. Tips and Tricks for Using Golden Gate Modular Cloning (MoClo)

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    July 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...vector with two other independently regulated transcription units. Created with BioRender.com.   Planning...contain plasmids with undesired ligations, so always screen multiple colonies after each transformation. This...beginners or those performing complex assemblies should screen a minimum of 8–10 colonies. You can check colonies...
  28. Supporting Reproducibility with a Connected ELN

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    Jan. 17, 2019, 1:38 p.m.
    ...used in research, and data repositories. Below I describe how each of these kinds of connectivity facilitates...deposits will be made. The Dataverse integration is described in this video and the Figshare integration in ...from RSpace documents to external data sources (described above) further enhances the value the repository...
  29. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...Cas13a as a diagnostic tool, as discussed below. Subscribe to CRISPR Blog Posts Applications of Cas13a   ...Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) or Reverse-transcription RPA (RT-RPA), respectively. Amplified nucleotides... the collateral RNA cleavage response is well described in bacterial cells, LwaCas13a does not display...
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