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TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m....mapping These tools are for viewing, editing or making plasmid maps, but can also analyze and annotate...also has a suite of molecular biology tools and can make plasmid maps. Free for academic users. Serial Cloner... blank spaces, from the text of a DNA sequence, making it ready to copy and paste into other applications... Addgene blog: Learn how the CRISPR software matchmaker can help you choose the best CRISPR software ...
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An Addgene Co-op: The Intersection of Fun, Friendship, and Work
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 29, 2023, 7 p.m....video. Don't worry - no pipettes were harmed in the making of this photo! Here, I was also given a mixture... understand the importance of using analytics to make decisions on content strategy. I really believe ...different best practices, create an email strategy, and make the occasional TikTok. I was also responsible for... my time here comes to an end, my worries about making connections with coworkers seem, in retrospect,... -
Walking beside Academia and giving it a high five: My transition from graduate work to a position at Addgene
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 2, 2015, 8:37 p.m.... in person to figure out ways we can make Addgene better and make scientists’ lives easier. Why transition... moved into this position because I want to help make the research enterprise work better and because ...learn ways Addgene can improve in its mission to make research easier. I’m hoping my story demonstrates... -
HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides
TypeBlog PostPublishedOct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m....for imaging a protein’s entire life-cycle. This makes it nearly impossible for scientists to use GFP to...large, dim, and permanently attached to a protein, making them hard to amplify and image for long periods...in vivo. These probes however can be expensive to make, hard to deliver into living systems, and often ... proven to fold and function in living cells. To make these scaffolds specific to different targets, the... -
Identifying Sequence Elements with SnapGene's Feature Database
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 21, 2017, 2:06 p.m....problems through good software design. But what makes software good? Fortunately, that question has been... task, we envision what the user wants to do and make the path to accomplishing their goals as intuitive...the most important controls front and center, and make specialized controls available when needed. SnapGene...For a coding sequence feature that may be used to make fusion genes, detection needs to occur even if one... -
Don’t Wait To Launch Your Health Science Startup
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 25, 2015, 2:30 p.m....you believe your idea has potential to make a difference, then make sure you’re able to answer every possible... Start with your network You've spent your life making connections and finding mentors -- well, it's time...discuss each project and business decision before making it, to have an internal review system. On top ... -
Even more elegant: Single injection CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 7, 2015, 3:36 p.m....method limits screening to a few hundred worms, making the detection of rare events difficult. Dickinson...resistance and the Roller movement phenotype. To make these markers easy to remove after injection, they... to generate a self-excising cassette (SEC). To make it possible fluorescently label proteins in C. elegans...fluorescent protein fusions, this system could be used to make many other genome modifications, including targeted... -
Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing
TypeBlog PostPublishedJan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m...., as it can edit near to or far from PAM sites, making it less constrained by PAM availability than other...within the base editing window, while prime editors make a specific edit defined by the pegRNA. In cases ...the non-edited strand, they can cause the cell to remake that strand using the edited strand as the template... These variants are worth testing if you want to make your prime editing as efficient as possible. ...Some examples include: TwinPE: two prime editors make complementary edits to opposite strands of the DNA... -
Reagent Repositories Are Speeding up Science During the Pandemic
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 4, 2020, 1:15 p.m....are able to make when they have access to shared materials, and then pay it forward by making the new materials...has been able to rapidly propagate this strain, making it available to scientists around the world. This...research by removing logistic hurdles to continue making materials available rapidly to scientists (Nature... -
Learning Technical Skills at a Lab Central Workshop
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 20, 2018, 2:30 p.m....generating/replenishing kits, is to find new ways to make lab processes more efficient. Being in the Boston...there because both LabCentral and Addgene aim to make scientific advancement easier. NEBNext Ultra FS ...we did at the workshop (the kit is mostly used to make new libraries as opposed to replicating them like...new without spending a lot of time developing and making space for the techniques ourselves. As you probably... -
K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion
TypeBlog PostPublishedApril 4, 2023, 1 p.m....pombe (fission) and S. cerevisiae (budding). Yeast make for an excellent model organism for a few reasons...phaffii is highly efficient at protein secretion, making harvesting recombinant proteins a cinch. This is...it doesn’t secrete its own endogenous proteins, making the recombinant protein its major secretion. Beyond... removing methanol from the media. This feature makes the strain tractable for peroxisomal studies on ... -
Revamp Your Lab Meetings With Creative Virtual Collaboration
TypeBlog PostPublishedFeb. 9, 2021, 2:15 p.m.... strategies can make socially distanced work more creative. An example could be making lab meetings more...without leaving Zoom. The annotate function can also make the screen-sharing experience more interactive. ...: “Science is increasingly done in large teams, making it more likely that papers will be written by several... -
Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli
TypeBlog PostPublishedSept. 8, 2015, 2:30 p.m....Christopher Voigt and Jeffrey Tabor have been working on making E. coli light responsive since 2005, when Tabor...systems continue to be optimized by Tabor’s lab, making light-controlled gene expression in E. coli easier...the response regulator encoded in the genome. To make the system less bulky and easier to use with other...Schmidl et al. chose to optimize these systems to make them more tunable and user-friendly. They experimented... -
Resume Writing for Non-academic Science Careers
TypeBlog PostPublishedDec. 18, 2014, 4:06 p.m....the earliest) or a functional one. Pick one that makes sense for your skills, and the job you are applying...seconds on a resume when they first look at it. Don’t make them have to guess what you are capable of. You ...might know a thing or two about computer modeling. Make sure to focus on these skills. The only exception... yet for that dream job. Also, many universities make their job postings and salary expectations public... -
Plasmids 101: How to Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis
TypeBlog PostPublishedAug. 28, 2014, 3:34 p.m.... digest tips and tricks: The following tips will make it easier for you to obtain a useful and informative... recognition sequence. Most enzyme manufacturers make High Fidelity versions of the endonucleases and/...before loading them. The glycerol in the buffer will make sure your sample settles in the gel well and the...wrong! Quantify your DNA. Loading too much DNA will make it difficult to obtain crisp bands and analyze the... -
Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection
TypeBlog PostPublishedJune 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m....efficiency. Check out Addgene’s blog to learn about making your own competent cells and our protocols page... encodes a green fluorescent protein gene which makes the bacterium fluoresce green. Comic by Maya Kostman...Lytic phages hijack the bacterial hosts machinery to make more viral particles. Eventually the cell lyses ...bacterial chromosome and allows the donor bacterium to make a small “bridge” or sex pilus that attaches to the... -
Hot Plasmids - May 2022
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 26, 2022, 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...Parton Lab recently created a flexible system that makes use of pre-existing transgenic lines, termed BLITZ...system provides researchers better flexibility and makes the approach more accessible, as it reduces the ... be packaged into an AAV system. dCas9-SSAP will make the editing of kilobase-scaled sequences more efficient... -
Communicating Your Science With Help From ComSciCon
TypeBlog PostPublishedJuly 19, 2018, 1:12 p.m....will be a positive asset throughout your career? 1. Make scicomm practice a priority The good news for young...of the work you presented may also be unclear. 2. Make the audience your primary focus When writing a paper...address that 'why' question effectively, you need to make your audience the focus of every sentence you write...know this? How will they react to it - what will it make them think? Does this lead to the conclusions I ... -
Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m....sometimes called “VUS”) function is unknown. How can we make a decision for each patient if the majority of information...high-throughput manner and therefore push us closer to making cancer precision medicine a reality. Challenges...have worked closely with our Addgene colleagues to make these available to the scientific community. Functional... Institute of Harvard and MIT and is focused on making precision functional genomics a reality for future... -
Multiplex Genome Editing with CRISPR-Cpf1
TypeBlog PostPublishedMay 9, 2017, 2:12 p.m....Zetsche, B., Gootenberg, J., Abudayyeh, O., Slaymaker, I., Makarova, K., Essletzbichler, P., Zhang, F. (2015... diagram below for an example of how this works. Make sure to order 5’ phosphorylated oligos or treat ...single plasmids are generally more efficient. Pro-Tip Make sure to reverse the orientation of the crRNA’s direct...