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  1. Replacing Paper: Tips for Choosing an Electronic lab Notebook

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    ...to capture ideas, write down certain notes or brainstorm, but we have to admit that paper-based record... and included hundreds of researchers. The full story is available here. Our questions focused on researchers...all types of data, which enables researchers to store everything in one place. From pictures to excel ...
  2. Antibodies 101: The Basics of Western Blotting

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    ... in your specific experimental context (Pillai-Kastoori et al., 2019). Tissues or cell lines other than...and references References Aydin S (2015) A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory...://doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(81)90281-5 Pillai-Kastoori L, Heaton S, Shiflett SD, Roberts AC, Solache ...
  3. Easi-CRISPR: Generating Knock-In and Conditional Mouse Models

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    ...the recombined product, you’d microinject into blastocysts to be implanted in pseudopregnant female mice...s a guide that directs cleavage right before the stop codon!  Figure 3: How to design a C-terminal...guide would be selected, since it cleaves at the stop codon TAG. Design your repair template with ...
  4. Technique: Probe Phage Genomes for Host Binding Proteins

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    ...and whose structures are just beginning to be understood. Therefore, in addition to their utility in the... strain that you can use for long-term library storage. After overnight growth, scrape up, pool and extract...during one of these steps is also a convenient stopping (ie. going home and eating and sleeping) point...
  5. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    ...2006): 703-9. PubMed PMID: 16582903. Potter, Christopher J., et al. “The Q system: a repressible binary...from this publication at Addgene. Wei, Xing, Christopher J. Potter, Liqin Luo & Kang Shen. “Controlling...s41598-022-07852-7 De Boer, Herman A., Lisa K. Comstock & Mark Vasser. “The tac promoter: a functional...
  6. Finding Your Perfect Job After University

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    ...adapt. By the end of my three months, I fully understood why parasitology roles in the field require experience... available at a small science non-profit doing customer service (recruitment agencies often don’t tell...I was also surprised to learn that I enjoy the customer service side of my job. Because of my background...
  7. Antibodies 101: Validation

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    ...This is a good option for applications like immunohistochemistry on human tissues, when (1) other strategies...correspond to protein levels, so you perform immunohistochemistry with your antibody on these tissues (B)....mean it’s a bad antibody but more that it’s misunderstood and it could work great in another context! ...
  8. When Fidelity Matters: A frank discussion about ligase fidelity

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    ...specific base sequences, but are sensitive to distortions in helix shape (22). Large purine:purine mismatches...enzymes.     References 1. Shuman, Stewart, and Christopher D. Lima. "The polynucleotide ligase and RNA capping...Jayakrishnan, Pravin A. Nair, and Stewart Shuman. "Last stop on the road to repair: structure of E. coli DNA ...
  9. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...Meselson-Stahl, Hershey-Chase...Who was I to dispute history? And boy did I make the right decision. If I’d ...performing quality control, and providing technical customer service. Team members are highly trained, and ...Jefferson dined alone.” There was a time in human history when an intelligent, motivated person really could...
  10. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    ... viruses were produced in high-titer retroviral stocks generated by the transfer of a retrovirus into ...gene (packaging plasmid), and 3) the vesicular stomatitis virus G protein (VSV-G) that improves the stability...24h after transfection. This supernatant can be stored at 4 °C or can be directly added to your target...
  11. Antibodies 101: Introduction to Antibodies

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    ...Antibodies can be used to visualize tissues (immunohistochemistry) or cells (immunocytochemistry). This could...bind to and inhibit the function of a protein to stop its effect within the body, or they can be used ...Arbabi-Ghahroudi M (2017) Camelid Single-Domain Antibodies: Historical Perspective and Future Outlook. Front Immunol...
  12. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    ...workhorse yeast — K. phaffii (formerly known as Pichia pastoris). If your goal is protein isolation, then the ...more MoClo? Check out Addgene's MoClo Guide! Customizing MoClo for your needs As you probably realize ...et al. “A Modular Toolkit for Generating Pichia Pastoris Secretion Libraries.” ACS Synthetic Biology, vol...
  13. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...creating flanking overhangs. These overhangs can be customized to link together multiple fragments, allowing...1x4; for 6 gRNAs, you’d use pX330A-1x6. This customization means you don’t ever need to clone in filler...plasmids allow expression of 2-5 gRNAs in zebrafish. Custom destination vectors are used depending upon the...
  14. CRISPR 101: Cytosine Transversion Editors

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    ...leads to the first base transversion editor The story of base transversion editors starts with researchers...the SOX2 activation domain (SAD), which recruits histone acetyltransferase to open chromatin, improved editing... newly synthesized, templated sequence. And the story still isn’t over! Keep an eye out for our next post...
  15. Trends in CRISPR and SynBio Technologies

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    ...Addgenie Eric Perkins attended the recent Keystone Meeting "Precision Genome Engineering and Synthetic...www.genome-engineering.org and http://www.egenome.org." At the Keystone Meeting Eric presented a poster with data comparing...
  16. Using AAV for Neuronal Tracing

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    ...including pseudorabies virus type 1, vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV; Beier et al., 2011), adenovirus, ...mechanisms of trans-synaptic trafficking are not fully understood and may be a form of transcytosis where the AAV...transsynaptic labeling of CNS neurons with vesicular stomatitis virus vectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 108, 15414...
  17. Expanded Access to Rabies Plasmids

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    ...elements from rabies plasmids to international requestors. We also offer export license applications for...processes, don’t hesitate to contact our friendly customer support team at [email protected].  Curious about...
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