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  1. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...exposure to autophagy-inducing conditions. Rosella makes it easier to study the mechanisms behind autophagy... shown in Sargsyan et al. It is also possible to make Rosella fusions and thereby monitor autophagy of...

  2. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...However, they note that certain improvements could make CRISPRainbow even better. Adding an additional hairpin...activation/repression and genome editing. Ready to make your cells a little more colorful? CRISPRainbow ...

  3. Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV

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    May 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...systemically administered in an organism. These features make AAV ideal for human therapies and in vivo laboratory...delivery of genetic cargo to a host cell. In order to make room for a gene of interest, AAVs used in research...

  4. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    Feb. 16, 2023, 7:05 p.m.
    ...suppression of expression is faster and easier than making a knockout and is a great way to temporarily reduce...integrated (once or many times) into the genome. Make sure to choose an appropriate promoter to express...

  5. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    Aug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...comment online! Want the general public (say, policymakers or community organizations) to use your work...those plasmids alongside a journal article, but it makes the research materials available to the community...

  6. Summer SciComm Series: Cognitive Load

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    June 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...time to read the book.  Intuitively, this probably makes sense. It’s a lot easier to read a formulaic fiction...happens to us all!) and offer a variety of options to make your content more accessible to your audience.  ...

  7. Antibodies 101: Affinity Reagents

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    April 14, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...short linker peptide. The lack of constant region makes them less immunogenic, but they have lower affinity...produced in bacteria and are generally cheaper to make than antibodies. Minibodies are created by binding...

  8. What's New in CRISPR - November 2021

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    Nov. 18, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...developed by engineering the Cas12f scaffold gRNA and making strategic mutations in the DNA binding cavity of...half the size of the Cas9 or Cas12a based systems, making it well suited for AAV packaging. Most importantly...

  11. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...safety profiles as well as other benefits. What makes AAV vectors great gene delivery tools? There are...homology directed repair (HDR). This characteristic makes AAV vectors especially amenable to correcting disease-associated...

  12. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...transfer office or other authorized office directly to make sure the deposit agreement/MTA is taken care of ...spreadsheet will help expedite your data entry and make it easier than ever to share your discoveries with...

  13. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...low-cost, field-based diagnostics, our approach could make an impact. Our motivation was underscored by the... switches and amplification primers. This helped make sure that we had a number of successful sensors ...

  17. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning

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    March 12, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... of MoClo. Image courtesy of Rob Hurt. What makes MoClo systems so powerful is their modularity — ...engineering complex cellular behaviors requires making complex manipulations to cells. For example: in...

  18. Progress Towards a PAM-Free CRISPR

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    March 7, 2024, 2:39 p.m.
    ...to CRISPR experiments, therefore, you often must make a choice about what is your top priority: location...trying to knock-in a patient mutation or need to make a precise amino acid change, there is very little...

  19. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...effectiveness, if the editing frequency isn’t high enough to make a physiological difference, then the treatment will...systems as well as improving delivery strategies to make fast, effective, and targeted therapy possible. ...

  20. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021

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    March 23, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...summaries of recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you...receiver cells. There are over 40 trillion cells that make up the human body and G-baToN provides versibility...

  21. Reaching out to China: Canton Nucleic Acids Forum (CNAF) 2015

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    Dec. 1, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...cell membrane. His recent work shows that they are making fairly remarkable progress on establishing a system...the drug resistantance genes in the bacteria thus making the bacteria sensitive to known antibotics. These...

  22. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... humans (like many organisms) are opaque, which makes most biomedical applications of these tools difficult...purified. Although a ~1% change in signal might not make a very powerful tool, it was promising enough to...

  23. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...additional datasets used in the training of PRIDICT2.0 make this model more suited for prediction of very diverse...includes applying machine learning techniques to make sense of biology, with a special focus on gene editing...

  25. Chromoproteins: Colorful Proteins For Molecular Biology Experiments

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    Feb. 4, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...chromoprotein detection can be done by the naked eye. This makes cloning quite a bit easier since you can see if ...Learn more about FRET Find protocols and tips for making plasmid constructs Resources on Addgene.org Find...

  26. Plasmids 101: Optimizing Plasmid Yields

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    May 26, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... inadequate plasmid DNA yields. Why would volume make a difference? In the simplest of terms, more volume...cells present in the given volume.  Let oxygen in! Make sure your culture is getting the right amount of...

  28. Viral Vectors 101: Voltage Indicators

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    Jan. 30, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...separates the two components of the indicator, which can make the kinetics of voltage sensing to signal output... (voltage sensing) hydrolyzes a precursor dye to make it more lipophilic, increasing its affinity for ...

  29. Of Myc and Men

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    Jan. 19, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...used in way more applications.   Fig. 1 Making a Protein Tag (Abridged) (1) Locate a promising.... 1997; Schiweck, et al. 1997) with the goal of making the antibody more amenable to protein engineering...

  30. Experimenting with New Careers while in Grad School

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    Feb. 25, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ... learned along the way and hope they’ll help you make the most of the opportunities you’re provided throughout...erlenmeyer flask with gold glitter spray paint to make a trophy for the winner. We promoted the contest...

  31. Genome-wide Screening Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...made publicly available through Addgene.  What makes CRISPR so special? A major advantage of CRISPR/Cas9...  2) What genetic modification are you trying to make? Addgene carries CRISPR libraries for gene knockout...

  32. Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy

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    July 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...developments in microscopy coupled with techniques that make tissues transparent are enabling microscopes to ...point-by-point scanning along the entire specimen makes imaging too slow and unwieldy for large specimens...

  33. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ...accurate, as these peptides are thought to function by making the ribosome skip the synthesis of a peptide bond...within the same multicistronic vector, effectively making a construct that expresses multiple unique genes...

  34. Tips for Using BLAST to Verify Plasmids

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    May 29, 2014, 1:29 p.m.
    ...or validating your new clones, try these tips to make the most of your time and sequence! You might also...Standard Nucleotide BLAST page, the first decision to make is whether to compare a Sanger sequencing result...

  35. Which Fluorescent Protein Should I Use?

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    May 20, 2014, 2:06 p.m.
    ...are of no use to you. When using more than one FP, make sure their emission light does not overlap in wavelength...eel was shown to mature independently of oxygen, making suitble for use in anaerobic conditions. Maturation...

  36. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    Feb. 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...powder slurry that has a milk-like appearance. To make DNA stick to the glass particles in glass milk, ...but the Zhao and Deng labs found they could just make their own buffers when the kits buffers ran out....

  37. Droplet Digital PCR for AAV Quantitation

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    Jan. 16, 2020, 2:18 p.m.
    ...our samples 1:6 million to 1:25 million.  After making the dilutions, they are transferred to a new plate...generator, you should avoid pipetting too quickly when making your virus dilutions. This will reduce aerosols...

  38. CRISPR 101: Ribonucleoprotein (RNP) Delivery

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    Sept. 6, 2018, 12:02 p.m.
    ...has greatly enhanced the ability of scientists to make genomic alterations, bringing about a revolution...the cell via protein degradation pathways. This makes Cas9 RNPs useful for CRISPR applications where limited...

  39. Transferable Skills Guide: Identifying Your Transferable Skills

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    Jan. 11, 2018, 3:29 p.m.
    ... a specific field. While searching for jobs and making connections, avoid falling into an identity trap...yourself, and to demonstrate them to the people who make hiring decisions. Though having all the technical...

  40. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ...Multi-color labeling of neurons is for more than making pretty pictures (see figure 4). It also enables...a specific cell type in the brain, you needed to make a transgenic mouse. Combining AAv.PHP.eB’s or AAV.PHP.S...

  41. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...tumors. Lentiviral vectors are also commonly used to make stable transgene-expressing or knockout cell lines...clinical stages. Researchers are also working to make lentiviral vectors safer. Since lentiviral vectors...

  42. Plasmids 101: Protein tags

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    Dec. 11, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
    ...resources are being spent to make something the cell doesn’t need to make. Eukaryotes and some bacteria...

  43. Interview: Hodaka Fujii on enChIP, New CRISPR Tools, and More

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    Dec. 2, 2014, 7:23 p.m.
    ...excited because genome-editing with these molecules makes it much easier to knock-in LexA binding elements...developing several additional systems of enChIP to make the technology more user-friendly and precise. We...

  44. Antibodies 101: The Four ELISAs and When to Use Them

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    July 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...buffer components can interfere with conjugates. Make sure to do your research before conjugating at the...The assay only uses one antigen binding antibody, making it less specific than other methods. In addition...

  47. AAV Titers: Where Do They Come From And What Do They Mean?

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    Nov. 15, 2017, 3 p.m.
    ...standard curve of known concentration. We regularly make and validate fresh plasmid standards. We validate...determine accuracy and reliability. When doing this, we make a judgement call on whether the two titer values...

  48. Using Video to Share Your Science: We Share Science

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    Nov. 3, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...for whom English is a second or third language (making publishing their research all the more challenging...Washington in St. Louis, offer guidance on how to make a low-cost whiteboard video about your research....

  49. Healthcare Consulting: A Door to the Business of Life Sciences

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    Oct. 13, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    .... Consultants often work with such teams to help make decisions about R&D investments in either new internal...benefits of novel drugs. Commercial Affairs teams make up a large and diverse group of professionals running...

  50. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...effective and with no additional off-target edits, making them ideal for size-limited AAV delivery. PE6c ...and MMLV gag, to specific cell types. It can also make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible by simplifying...
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