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  1. Oh, The Places You Can Go: Careers in Science Communication - Curriculum Development

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    Nov. 1, 2017, 2:04 p.m.
    ..., case studies, and experiments for labs, in addition to testing those experiments. “We also do videos... with students and faculty, Caitlin also collaborates with the sales and operations departments at eScience... on her job as an SME: “I write curriculum for students taking science courses online, which is a blast...then condensing that and making it accessible to students.” Making science approachable is often the most...in isolation. “A lot of what we do is work with students who don’t have a science background. [We ask them... demonstrating an experiment or a technique to students, like how to pour a gel [for] electrophoresis ...team to meet faculty and introducing the kits to clients who might initially be doubtful of online science...

  2. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... are key elements of an AAV plasmid. Parts shown in grey are optional cis-regulatory elements.   Key...sequences. Other cis-regulatory elements Next let’s talk about some of the elements that aren’t required parts... common AAV plasmid elements! And while there are many other AAV plasmid elements and combinations out... Where do you start? Turns out like all good experiments, making AAV starts with some plasmids. You just...Key elements of an AAV plasmid First let’s talk about the key parts of an AAV plasmid. Inverted terminal...Addgene blog Learn more about basic viral vector elements Read about four considerations for the perfect...

  3. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...OCRL1 gene that leads to the early death of young patients as their kidneys fail. The condition was first...piqued their interest. They obtained cells from patients with the condition to reveal some “outstanding...problem. “We’ve had the opportunity to meet a few patients that suffered this disease,” Aguilar said. “Once... (XP). This recessive genetic condition leaves patients incredibly sensitive to sunlight and prone to ...interested in XP out of a desire to understand the early events in the transformation of healthy cells into melanoma... with CRISPR-Cas9. There are so many different variants and strategies out there. This will help us acquire... as Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood (AHC). Patients affected by AHC suffer from recurrent attacks ...

  4. Antibodies 101: Normalization and Loading Controls for Western Blots

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    April 8, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...condition 1” points (POI and loading control) are smaller than the analogous green “condition 2” points by the...blot.   Total protein measurements as loading controls Total protein measurements are an accurate alternative... example gel (left) with bands corresponding to points on the plot of protein abundance versus band intensity...the exact same value. For the two solid POI points, this difference is reflected on the band intensity...intensity axis. But the loading control points are outside of the linear detection range. As a result, they have...Outside the linear detection range, band intensity measurements become extremely susceptible to error, since...for your POI. Figure 6: Total protein measurements are taken on the same gel or membrane (depending...

  5. Transferable Skills Guide: Time Management

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    Dec. 5, 2017, 1:52 p.m.
    ...cell lines. As I started planning out my own experiments in graduate school, I had to divide my time between...the long and highly useful tasks. The quick accomplishments will likely energize you. For example, let'...experiment fails, you’ll still have made small accomplishments each day that should help keep you content ...section below, it’s important to dedicate specific amounts of time to specific tasks beforehand and assess...my undergrad days, I had general goals for my experiments, but didn’t spend enough time thinking about ...quite difficult. In my experience, planning has 3 components: A mechanism for blocking off time for different...make sure I have explicit goals in mind for the endpoints of a task or project (with metrics if possible...

  6. Deep Mutational Scanning with One Pot Saturation Mutagenesis

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    Feb. 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...homologous DNA fragments in a single-tube reaction. For mutational scanning experiments, libraries of ...of a plasmid library that expresses all desired variants of a protein. Applying a selective pressure winnows...winnows the pool down to plasmids expressing variants with optimal function. High-throughput DNA sequencing...mutational scanning Hundreds of thousands of protein variants can be tested in one experiment. There are many...of DNA fragments that contain variable bases (NNN) at any given codon site of interest can be cloned into...deficient in dUTPase and uracil deglycosidase. dUTPase prevents the buildup of dUTP and uracil deglycosidase removes...across a region of interest, generating multiple mutants in one PCR reaction. Below is a step-by-step overview...

  7. Multiple Plasmids at a Low Price: Kits from Addgene

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    Sept. 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...all the variant PUF segments required to bind any 8 base RNA sequence. The segments are provided in Gateway... have any questions, please write to us in the comments section.  FX cloning kit This kit is designed...Translation of the standardized leader peptide prevents secondary structures in the mRNA encoding your...expression systems; the Cell-free expression test kit represents a set of 88 clones in a pCellFree vector that...quantitatively determine allele frequencies across timepoints or populations. This kit consists of a 48 plasmid...ordered progression to resistance." Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 57.11 (2013): 5373-5383. Walkiewicz...Assembly Kit PUF proteins are composed of repeat segments that can be engineered to bind specific RNA bases...

  8. Evolution of Brainbow: Using Cre-lox for Multicolor Labeling of Neurons

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    April 24, 2015, 2:39 p.m.
    ...fluorescent proteins, with recombination events specified by three loxP variants, but the principles remain the ...recombination to generate additional recombination events, and the synthesis of alternative loxP sites to...expression; these deletions are defined using 2 loxP variants (only identical loxP sites can mediate recombination...either deletion removes one of the other loxP site variants, preventing further recombination. Brainbow-1.1...) The construct contains two tandem invertible segments, each with two fluorescent protein coding sequences...combinatorial effect of multiple, independent recombination events leads to a rainbow of colors. With three copies...Variations Between Brainbow Systems   Brainbow variants and applications beyond the mouse brain In addition...

  9. Plasmids 101: NGS Quality Control for Pooled Libraries

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    Oct. 26, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...same output: a spreadsheet of read counts. You can use these counts to confirm the representation of your...when you need to amplify a library for your own experiments. Library amplification 101 Library amplification... lots of library DNA is needed for screening experiments, so the scale of the DNA prep is larger. And ...is similar for most libraries. Here are the key points you’ll need to remember when undertaking library...enough DNA and competent bacteria to ensure all components of the library are represented. Typically, Addgene...need to count how many times each of the library components is found in the read list. If you also sequenced... your library. When plotted as a histogram, the counts will give you a bell curve of the abundance of ...

  10. Advice for Scientists Starting a Lab

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    April 29, 2014, 1:43 p.m.
    ...undervalued.” Connie Cepko points out the limited choices in hiring graduate students and postdocs when starting...be half of my day sometimes.” He points out that the copious amounts of email are probably because a PI... than just experiments and grant writing. You have to enjoy the mentoring role.” She points out that new... having projects ambitious enough that everyone wants to recruit rather than repel and hoard.” If you'...it is once it gets fully up to speed.” He also comments that it is also surprising “ how easily people...last post in this series “Fun in the lab!”   Acknowledgments Thank you to Dr. Tom Ellis (Imperial College...

  11. CasPEDIA: A Functional Classification of Cas Enzymes

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    Jan. 25, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...other RNA components are required? CasPEDIA provides information on crRNA and tracrRNA requirements, along...field has exploded with dozens of Cas enzymes and variants available. Without a comprehensive resource, it... and cleaves ssDNA in trans. In sum, CasPEDIA documents the target substrate (DNA/RNA and strandedness...(nick, bind, cleave, mixed). This information represents the ‘big picture’ features of the enzymes documented...a candidate Cas for your experiment. Target requirements As we all know, a Cas guided by a gRNA is useless...) in some cases. The resource displays these requirements in regard to their sequence (NGG, etc.) as well...experiment. Perhaps you are a structure junky who just wants to learn about Cas domains. CasPEDIA either directly...

  12. GCE4All: Making Genetic Code Expansion Accessible

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    June 15, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... interested in using GCE, here are the basic requirements of use. First, and most obviously, you need ...incorporated ncAA, ready for you do to any number of experiments with. The catch The rapid expansion of GCE led...That many GCE technologies have idiosyncrasies presents a significant barrier for those wishing to use...GCE aren’t able to successfully complete their experiments and many others are dubious enough that they ...optimization parameters the same for all three components, meaning that the final protocol may involve ...’s not uncommon to find protocols that require reagents which aren’t broadly or easily available, so you...protocol that you’ll have to rework to include reagents accessible to your lab. The solution GCE provides...

  13. Choosing a CRISPR Nuclease: Site Accessibility, Specificity, and Sensitivity

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    Nov. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
    ...the most recent advances and how some of these variants may be appropriate for your specific research ...nuclease When choosing the Cas9 nuclease for your experiments, there are three important factors to consider...isolated from different organisms and engineered Cas9 variants that were able to target different PAM sites (... be targeted (Hu et al., 2018).  These altered variants can allow for targeting of your genomic loci of...sensitivity in choosing the Cas9 to use in your experiments   The CRISPR drawer. So many options! ...off-site activity of Sniper-Cas9 to different Cas9 variants using gRNAs of different lengths (Lee et al., ...suitable for in vivo research and potentially treatments. Cas12b, characterized by the Zhang (Strecker...

  14. Prime Editing: Adding Precision and Flexibility to CRISPR Editing

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    Jan. 13, 2025, 9:49 p.m.
    ...domain from PE6e-g produced additive improvements. These variants are worth testing if you want to make...Over 75,000 pathogenic genetic variants have been identified in humans and cataloged in the ClinVar database... potential to correct only a minority of those variants in most cell types. But prime editing, a CRISPR...goal of the experiment can all impose different constraints and affect how you select and design your prime...research, the Liu lab created and evaluated 19 PE1 variants with RT mutations known to increase activity, ...system as complex as prime editing, every efficiency counts! The optimized enzyme can be used with any of the...PE2max, PE3max, etc. PE6: Specialized prime editing variants Four years after their initial publication, the...

  15. The CRISPR Software Matchmaker: A New Tool for Choosing the Best CRISPR Software for Your Needs

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    Nov. 3, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ... of the party goers, the piñata bursts and its contents spill to the ground. There is something akin to... trouble is, with so much choice, in those few moments after the piñata burst, value was subjectively ...disconnect arising between those reviewing the contents of the piñata and the audience blindly receiving...proceed in the future. When we think of designing experiments using CRISPR, there are two major areas where... The foremost handles the design of sgRNA and represents the lion’s share of the currently available tools...example is CRISPR-GA. These tools assess repair events by type (NHEJ/HDR) and track indels at a single...more common. User interaction: Software design elements that fall into this category describe how the ...

  16. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...bind to the operator. The bound repressor then prevents transcription from occurring, which means that...), TetR preferentially binds Tet over the TetO elements, allowing transcription to proceed (pJKR-H-tetR... virus. tTA binds to promoters containing TetO elements (often linked in groups of seven as a Tet Response...binds tTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning transcription... Bujard, both the promoter and transactivator components of the system have been engineered and improved...Tet-Off vectors (Tet-Advanced)” are the most recent variants of the Tet-Off system.  For more information on...binds cTA, resulting in a confirmation change that prevents binding to the promoter and turning transcription...

  17. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    March 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... can start your experiment? What about all the reagents you need to order? Sometimes, it feels like an... Doench also calculated the cost of consumable reagents used to make a plasmid, which came out to $115...means that the same plasmid would cost $155.25 in reagents and consumables today. Finally, this doesn’t account... the scientists designing and performing the experiments. This cost varies hugely based on a number of...assume it’s at least equal to the $155 spent on reagents. Five ways to decrease plasmid production time...plasmids with high-throughput methods that save on reagents, consumables, and time. We also handle the MTA...order to preserve time and money for their own experiments. Keep good records Oftentimes, you’ll be able...

  18. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Figure 1: SARS-CoV-2 proteins and other components. Image from Maya Kostman for the IGI.     ...COVID-19 research in other labs. Spike protein, variants, and pseudotyping The SARS-CoV-2 virus depends...cellular receptor. To more easily study the spike variants, scientists have developed ways to pseudotype ...lab. Jesse Bloom’s lab published a protocol and reagents for pseudotyping lentivirus with the SARS-CoV-... has had many opportunities to evolve. Several variants are now circulating and plasmids containing these...pseudovirus and those encoding different spike protein variants that can be incorporated into pseudoviruses. The...at neutralizing the different SARS-CoV-2 spike variants. You can learn more about their research in this...

  19. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    June 27, 2017, 1:03 p.m.
    ...measure these properties, and what fascinating experiments could push these tools even further? All of these...and find further tips for using FRET in your experiments here.     What is this FRET you speak of? Förster... acceptor In order for FRET to occur several constraints must be met. The donor and acceptor fluorophores...improved dynamic range for fluorescence lifetime measurements." PloS one 10.8 (2015): e0134436. PubMed PMID...the probe. More on these biosensors later on). Experiments using intermolecular FRET probes are typically...reference standards can be used to validate FRET measurements and serve as a type of positive control. In ...questions about cellular processes. Currently, FRET experiments can probe protein-protein interactions, measure...

  20. Engaging with science and society at pgEd

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    Sept. 20, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ...organize events that bring different voices together to talk about genetics. In addition to events that we...improved understanding of how our bodies work, new treatments for debilitating diseases, and maybe even ways...individual consumers of technologies and as societal participants in the political process. My role at pgEd I ...readership, and working with middle and high school students. One of these organizations was pgEd. After obtaining...industry conferences, as well as schools, community events, churches or mosques. On occasion, we also get ...researching and writing – following the latest developments in genetics research, their applications and...landscape of genetics and our consistent stream of events mean that there is never a dull day in the office...
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