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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 24, 2015, 2:30 p.m....to see if anyone has published a protocol that would work for your system. Addgene has depositor submitted...Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing purposes because...Mammalian CRISPR expression systems Each model system has its own best practices for efficient delivery of ...
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Story of a SynBio Startup: RevBio's Epiphany (or Lack Thereof)
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 5, 2014, 3:32 p.m....understands (synthetic biology), building a product no one has ever seen before (flowers that change color throughout...but the experience is invaluable. This opportunity has given us the chance to develop the technology we ...the business training to make the most of it. It has also allowed us to really analyze what we want out...Nikolai Braun grew up outside of Washington D.C. and has always enjoyed exploring the outdoors and experiencing... -
Year of the Camelid: Antibody Style
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 9, 2024, 1:15 p.m....The UN General Assembly has declared 2024 the International Year of Camelids. The declaration is intended... antibody libraries to generate new sdAbs. There has also been some interesting work done developing transgenic...al., 2021. The single-domain antibody field has come a long way since the serendipitous discovery... -
Sensing Neuronal Dopamine
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m....measuring DA and other neurotransmitters in the brain has been in vivo microdialysis of extracellular fluid... dLight1 dopamine sensor In 2018, Lin Tian’s lab has developed dLight1, a molecular tool to detect and...here! The GRABDA dopamine sensor Yulong Li’s lab has created the GRABDA sensor based on a similar strategy... -
New and Upcoming Viral Vectors - Spring 2019
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 26, 2019, 1:40 p.m....AAV5 pOTTC1596 - pAAV SYN1 HA-hM3D(Gq) 121538 AAV5 pOTTC1484 - pAAV SYN1 HA-hM4D(Gi) 119741 AAV5 ...iGABASnFR GABA sensor (pAAV.hSyn-FLEX.iGABASnFR) has good membrane localization and brightness. The F102G... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m....require heavy optimization. Claudia Vickers’s lab has designed novel SL fluorescent biosensors by integrating...showed that the receptor-based fluorescent biosensor has a high sensitivity (50 nM-500nM range) and a high...recent months: Our selection of GCaMP8 AAV preps has expanded. Check out the new selection of ready-to-use... -
Hot Plasmids - October 2022
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 6, 2022, 1:15 p.m....channelrhodopsins. HcKCR1 has a maximum absorption of 540 nm and two-photon excitation around 1,040 nm, has larger photocurrents...anti-c-Myc [9E10] (Even, et al., 1985), the Myc tag has become one of the most commonly used protein tags... -
Arabidopsis in Education: How the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Brings Plant Science to Life
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 12, 2018, 1:02 p.m.... development, and response to environment - ABRC has kits for all these topics and more. Downloadable ...ordering account. Using Arabidopsis in the classroom has many benefits. Engaging students in active learning...working with animals. Because Arabidopsis is small, has a short life cycle, and is relatively easy to grow... -
CRISPR Challenges: Standardization and Homology Directed Repair
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 14, 2018, 2:36 p.m....KSgenome and seeing the intricacies of DNA repair has emphasized how essential these studies are to improving...alternative non-homologous end joining (Alt-NHEJ), has been harnessed for CRISPR knock-in applications. ...29266098 Creating knock-in mouse models with CRISPR has been challenging, with protocols using dsDNA templates... -
CUT&RUN: An Improved Method for Studying Protein-DNA Interactions
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 13, 2018, 2:51 p.m....for mapping where a protein binds genome-wide, and has been widely applied in many model organisms and cell...proteins (Figure 1). Importantly, since Protein A has weaker affinity for mouse IgG, it is helpful to incubate...prior to the addition of Protein A MNase. Once MNase has been localized to target sites, the nuclease is briefly... -
The Strength of Story Telling
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 19, 2017, 2 p.m....Show that as the story has progressed, you or your lab or science or your CV has grown as well. Find your...Task, Action, Result) interview technique, which has been addressed in much better pieces than I’m able... -
15 Hot Plasmids from 2017
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 9, 2018, 3:02 p.m....inhibitory GABA-ergic interneurons, Gordon Fishell’s lab has developed a new AAV approach using regulatory elements...fluorescent protein - mScarlet! The Dorus Gadella lab has recently developed a synthetic red fluorescent protein... imaging and in protein fusions. The Gadella lab has deposited all mScarlet constructs with Addgene. ...efficiency Blue flame depositor Yannick Doyon’s lab has developed a new method to increase CRISPR editing...increases the probability that the locus of interest has also been edited! Thus, ouabain selection enriches...coselection are available at Addgene, and the Doyon lab has also provided a detailed protocol at Protocol Exchange...Essential gene Knockdown library. Although B. subtilis has a fully sequenced genome, many applications in biotech... -
Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 10, 2018, 4:13 p.m....! Lentivirus envelope vector pMD2.G This plasmid has been requested nearly 6,000 times (over 800 orders...broad usefulness of pMD2.G and VSV-G. This plasmid has been used in studies of the secretome, ubiquitin ... -
Plasmids 101: Restriction Cloning
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 18, 2016, 3:42 p.m....and insert a linear fragment of DNA (insert) that has been cut by compatible restriction enzymes. An enzyme...one found on the left side of the image below. It has a promoter (blue arrow) followed by the restriction...finished plasmid Once it looks like your ligation has worked, you will need to pick individual bacterial...purpose. Ideally, once you know that your plasmid has an appropriately sized insert, you should send it...plasmid for more details. Once your complete plasmid has been verified, you’re ready to get experimenting!... -
Plasmids 101: Degron Tags
TypeBlog PostPublishedMarch 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m....In the last decade, the use of degron tags has become increasingly popular for the modulation of endogenously...protein levels can return to normal once the drug has been removed. The degradation and reversal are rapid... its first use as a protein regulation tool, AID has gone through an additional round of evolution (AID...the system, but the general concept of the system has remained the same. An obvious drawback of the system... -
Fluorescent Tagging of Endogenous Genes with SapTrap
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 12, 2017, 2:26 p.m....the growing spectrum of fluorescent proteins (FPs) has been an invaluable resource for studying the organization...sequence (like GFP) can be inserted at the DSB. CRISPR has allowed scientists to tag and light up endogenous..., and T2A-TurboGFP-PEST), and small epitope tags (HA, Myc, Strep tag II, AviTag, HaloTag, SpyTag). The...characteristics. For example, Masato Kanemaki's lab has developed a CRISPR/Cas-based system for tagging endogenous... -
Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.... disrupting normal brain function. Chemogenetics has become a popular tool in the field as it provides...chemogenetics are instead that it is noninvasive and has longer-lasting effects. Building your chemogenetic... agonist for muscarinic receptor derived DREADDs has been clozapine-N-oxide (CNO). However, concerns have...are already approved for clinical use. Varenicline has been further modified to create ultrapotent PSEMS... -
PCR Applications for Copy Number Variation Assays
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 26, 2022, 1:15 p.m.... ddPCR.) qPCR Quantitative/real-time PCR (qPCR) has been used for copy number assays for years. qPCR ...and quencher to quantify specific amplicons. Sybr has high background noise, due to the large amount of...AT-rich DNA and the length of the amplicon and it has a higher rate of false positives (Colborn, 2008; ... used to accurately call copy numbers, though it has been shown to identify trends correctly (Muhamad,... -
Academic vs. Industry Postdocs
TypeBlog PostPublishedNov. 13, 2018, 1:22 p.m....Not the case, as I’ve discovered.) As someone who has now seen both sides of the postdoc experience, I’... lab is closely involved with clinical trials or has ties to industry, the drug discovery process can ...Genentech, will not. The point is that each company has a unique approach, and some might suit your needs...currently a Postdoctoral Scientist at AstraZeneca. She has a background in cell and developmental biology and... -
Hot Plasmids February 2024
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m....FIQ or mStayGold (Ando et al., 2023). This variant has similar photostability and brightness compared to... of AAV9-X1.1 to that of AAV1. This viral vector has brain endothelial cell-specific tropism, with slightly...purify or image a recombinant protein, the FLAG tag has proven itself a good option for essentially all applications...western blots, though the original parent clone (M2) has been widely used in a variety of applications. Find...