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  1. Using CRISPR/Cas9 to Edit Disease Out of the Genome

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    ... by Kendall Morgan and updated in 2022 by Lucie Wilson. Lucie is an Addgene co-op from Northeastern University...in monoallelic diseases In 2013, a team led by Jinsong Li from the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that...fibrosis (8).   The difference with CRISPR/Cas9 in comparison to other genome editing techniques is its ease...s Disease.” Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Parkinsonism. https://doi.org/10.4172/2161-0460.1000439 6...
  2. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    ...make for an excellent model organism for a few reasons: Affordable to culture and easy to work with ...established in yeast, including a widely used Parkinson’s experimental model. In fact, approximately 25%...of the uses outlined below. Biology They say comparison is the thief of joy, but I think it’s acceptable...aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and for good reason! However, there are other players in the game (...
  3. Fluorescent Protein Travel Awards - FLiPs and Fluorescent Protein Biosensors

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    ...fluorescent proteins everyday.  The late Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien played enormous roles in enabling...their legacy, we recently launched the Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Travel Awards. These... we’re proud to announce our first two Michael Davidson and Roger Tsien Commemorative Travel Awardees:...Plasmids from the Tsien Lab Browse the Michael Davidson Collection ...
  4. Addgene Depositors Get More Citations

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    ...contributed by guest bloggers Samantha Zyontz and Neil Thompson from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Professor...depositing a plasmid with Addgene, in contrast to other reasons for the correlation. However, determining this ...to our guest bloggers, Samantha Zyontz and Neil Thompson. Special thanks to Addgenies Pamela McA'Nulty ...page: https://ssrn.com/author=1232466.     Neil Thompson is an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy...
  5. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    ...When our Director of Biology, Lianna Swanson, suggested that I might be able to attend the 10 Years of...degeneration; Laurenz Studer discussed his work with Parkinson's Disease; Hideyuki Okano presented ground-breaking...clinical trials for ALS.   I have an uncle with Parkinson's, a half-brother who is a quadriplegic due to ... are key to the research, but they are also the reason this research is happening. Stem cells scientists...
  6. Synthetic Photobiology: Optogenetics for E. coli

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    ...Levskaya A, Chevalier AA, Tabor JJ, Simpson ZB, Lavery LA, Levy M, Davidson EA, Scouras A, Ellington AD, Marcotte...Chemical effectors are suboptimal for a number of reasons, including their potential toxicity and cross-reactivity...genetic edge detection program. Tabor JJ, Salis HM, Simpson ZB, Chevalier AA, Levskaya A, Marcotte EM, Voigt...
  7. Management for Scientists: Delegating is Key

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    ...come into being through the actions of a single person but through the coordinated efforts of many individuals...collection page, we certainly don't expect that one person will write all the copy, design every icon, curate...page. That would be entirely too much work for one person, it would take forever, and the end product would...who can do the job. It is good to delegate so the person doing the task will have to learn and stretch a...
  8. Sweating the Small Stuff: Details in the Lab

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    ...in the form of a protocol, and you can add in personalized steps like “check drawers for light-sensitive....      References and Resources Images used Roberson Lab, UPenn. Western blotting. Retrieved Feb. 7... 7, 2022. https://www.med.upenn.edu/robertsonlab/assets/user-content/documents/Western%20Blotting.pdf  ... Rachel Leeson...
  9. Stabilized Bacterial Promoters: Constant Gene Expression at any Copy Number

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    ...PMID: 29553576. 2. Kittleson, Joshua T., Sherine Cheung, and JChristopher Anderson. "Rapid optimization..., and ColE2 plasmids) as cell division slows (Kittleson et al., 2011). Segall-Shapiro et al. showed that...References 1. Segall-Shapiro, Thomas H., Eduardo D. Sontag, and Christopher A. Voigt. "Engineered promoters...
  10. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    ...AAV pRDA_889 (ITRs from AAV2) Mammalian Transposon pRDA_757 (Piggybac; constitutive expression... drosophila) Delivery type (lentivirus, AAV, transposon, Plasmid) Destination vector (dropdown options..., Bosch, J. A., Zirin, J. D., Viswanatha, R., Sontheimer, E. J., Goodale, A., Greene, M. A., Green, T.... Rachel Leeson...
  11. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Introduction to FRET

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    ...    What is this FRET you speak of? Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) was originally described...has led to the alternative acronym Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer. Unlike the typical excitation...Müller, Sara M., et al. "Quantification of Förster resonance energy transfer by monitoring sensitized emission... Jason Niehaus...
  12. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    ...also probably thought about why certain posters resonate with you (or not). It is important to reflect ...length, and will be more difficult to read. The Thompson Rivers University Library provides useful tips...scientific poster design was conceived by Mike Morrison, a psychology doctoral student at Michigan State... avoiding red and green is a good idea for this reason but there are many other ways to make your poster...
  13. Gaining Leadership Skills Volunteering at a Professional Organization

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    ...national levels. These skills will also help the person mentor others more successfully. But how does one...phone calls. This has its challenges as meeting in person is often much more productive and makes it easier... previous formats but I learnt to overcome the personal frustration and submit reports in the format requested...voice may not always be perfectly aligned with my personal viewpoint but, as a leader in the NPA, I had to...
  14. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    ...proteins on the cell surface. Figure 1: Comparison of common antibody, HCab, and nanobody. For more...starting library size (up to 1012 members) in comparison to other display systems using phage and yeast...Egloff P, Hutter CAJ, Kuhn BT, Bräuer P, Newstead S, Dawson RJP, Geertsma ER, Seeger MA (2020) Generation of... Gera J, Gmür S, Spies P, Gygax D, Geertsma ER, Dawson RJ, Seeger MA (2018) Synthetic single domain antibodies...
  15. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    ...edit, it simply becomes impossible (or at least unreasonable) to test them all. This is where PRIDICT comes...find their way into the hands of users. For this reason, we made our tools available via the PRIDICT website...A. A., Koblan, L. W., Levy, J. M., Chen, P. J., Wilson, C., Newby, G. A., Raguram, A., & Liu, D. R. (2019.... M., Pallaseni, A., Kuzmin, I., Raudvere, U., Peterson, H., Liberante, F. G., & Parts, L. (2023). Prediction...
  16. Capturing a Moment with Marc Zimmer’s “The State of Science”

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    ...the most successful scientists have outgoing personalities to supplement their intellectual prowess and... era of social media and self-promotion, and personality is playing an increasingly important role in ... that produced by the confident and flamboyant Watsons.” In Part Four, “New Science,” Zimmer tackles more...little bit about many different things (part of the reason Addgene has been such a great fit for me!), the...
  17. Viral Vectors 101: The Retroviral Lifecycle

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    ... yet retroviruses are RNA-containing viruses  (Robinson et al., 1965)! You may be beginning to realize...Brian O'Neill, with thanks to Addgenie Rebecca Hutcheson for her assistance with lentiviral replication...PMID: 26225354. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4515362 Robinson, W. S., Pitkanen, A., & Rubin, H. (1965). The ... PMCID: PMC355630 Faras, A. J., Taylor, J. M., Levinson, W. E., Goodman, H. M., & Bishop, J. M. (1973)...
  18. Antibodies 101: Producing Recombinant Antibodies

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    ...PMID: 31891733. Brechmann NA, Schwarz H, Eriksson PO, Eriksson K, Shokri A, Chotteau V. Antibody capture....106. PMID: 33151027; PMCID: PMC7665837. L'Abbé D, Bisson L, Gervais C, Grazzini E, Durocher Y. Transient...Chen E, Haidar JN, Srivastava A, Goldstein J. Comparison of predicted extinction coefficients of monoclonal...
  19. Negotiating Work and Life: How to Find the Joy

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    ...maximise the time you are enjoying both work and personal life. There are no easy answers to negotiating...my colleagues and me. To that end, here are my personal 10 commandments for making it all work – most ...the “jobs” that take you away from having your personal time. Someone else can clean your house, pick ...you can’t make it to dinner this week. One swim lesson missed can mean a world of mental relaxation. And...
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