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  1. The Fluorescent Vegetables in Aptamer Soup

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    ...s group created Spinach2 using site-directed mutagenesis of Spinach. In doing so, they identified the ... intracellularly due to a lower dependency on magnesium and higher thermal stability, making it a potentially...and were presented in the study to support the uniqueness of the photostability of the Corn-DFHO complex...biotin. Two of these variants exhibit increased brightness compared to Mango, and all are photostable and...
  2. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    ...   Some phage display libraries screen antibody genes from B cells of immunized animals, but it's possible...screening scFv generated from the B cell antibody genes from diseased or vaccinated humans. How do you produce...cytoplasm. expression in the presence of molecular chaperones that help scFvs fold properly in the cytoplasm...also be fused to cellular toxins, radioisotopes, cytokines, and enzymes for cancer, autoimmune, and/or inflammatory...
  3. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    ...promoter-luciferase constructs. In multiple HIV-1 latent T cell lines, as well as a latent microglial line, treatment ...via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that can produce HIV-1 toxic proteins, CRISPR/Cas9...Cas9 have also been used to create mutations in genes essential to HIV-1 replication. However, this approach...modification targeting either the LTRs or essential genes. Many of these escape mutations were located near...
  4. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    ... Cre-dependent transgenes can also be paired with Cre-expressing transgenic mouse lines to restrict transgene...used and emerging capsids to help you decide which ones may be suitable for your experiment. Like all viral...inducing an immune response against the capsids or transgenes. Sensory neurons and liver appear especially ...appropriate cell type-specific promoters or Cre lines. Spatial transcriptomics suggests that AAV-PHP.eB... Seed, C., & Deverman, B. E. (2019). Delivering genes across the blood-brain barrier: LY6A, a novel cellular...
  5. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    ...them. There are suspected cases of insertional mutagenesis in humans (1) and AAVs are non-enveloped viruses... estate mantra, the choice of serotype (which determines which tissues and cells an AAV can infect) can... Russell, David W. "AAV vectors, insertional mutagenesis, and cancer." Molecular Therapy 15.10 (2007):... PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3098627. 6. Salegio, Ernesto A., et al. "Axonal transport of adeno-associated...
  6. Transferable Skills Guide: Teamwork

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    ...decision. If I’d spent my senior year isolating pheromones from various C. elegans mutants by myself, I ...etc. If you find that there is not someone (or someones) taking on these responsibilities on a team to...really starts functioning (or malfunctioning). Clear lines of communication Few people actually like meetings...purpose, an excellent leader, and perfectly clear lines of communication, but if teammates don’t trust each...
  7. Sequencing Options for CRISPR Genotyping

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    ...methods. However, most investigators use single cell clones for in vitro CRISPR experiments. The likelihood...may not be worth the cost and labor when single clones are selected. Conversely, translational research..., Yanfang, et al. "High-frequency off-target mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells...mutations triggered by engineered nucleases." G3: Genes| Genomes| Genetics 5.3 (2015): 407-415. PubMed PMID...
  8. Typing CRISPR Systems

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    ... analysis, neighborhood analysis of surrounding genes, and experimental data. In some cases, CRISPR systems...researchers began building optimal plasmids to harness the power of Class 1 systems. Class 1 CRISPR systems...cas10. All type IV subtypes are missing adaptation genes, Cas1 and Cas2, which are critical for inserting...A–C, with the beloved SpCas9 (from Streptococcus pyogenes) belonging in II-A. Cas9 was the first to be adapted...
  9. Which Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques is Best for Me?

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    ..., energy is propagated into the sample via an evanescent wave that only excites fluorophores within a ...through the fluorophore’s interaction with an evanescent energy field. Lightsheet microscopes that project...sheets of excitation light through multiple focal planes of a sample may also be useful for providing fast...Protein Resources Find Empty Fluorescent Protein Backbones Find Plasmids for Optogenetics ...
  10. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    ...protein, you can site-specifically label it with finesse using tRNA suppression technology (Fig. 1) (Dumas...cells nonspecifically, and they cannot cross cell membranes, so they are best used either with plasma membrane... Most importantly, these compounds cross cell membranes, thus enabling FRET measurements in intact cells...Fessenden is currently an Assistant Professor in the Anesthesia Research department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital...
  11. CRISPR 101: Multiplex Expression of gRNAs

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    ...sequence between two target sites. Modifying multiple genes at once. Using multiplexed gRNAs can target multiple...CRMAGE system is a fast, multiplexable method that combines CRISPR and recombineering-based MAGE (Multiplex...simultaneous multiplex editing of six different genes. This system doesn’t rely on any additional or host-dependent.... Yin, Linlin, et al. “Multiplex Conditional Mutagenesis Using Transgenic Expression of Cas9 and sgRNAs...
  12. Interview with Bart Newland, Addgene’s Newest Board Member

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    ... experience and judgement to a wide variety of business decisions that are not “legal” at all. Q: How ...Addgene board member? BN: Having seen so much in the business world from the mindset of a lawyer can bring a...if we do this, then what?” I hope to bring that business experience and judgement to the organization and...
  13. MassBioEd Career Exploration Day at Addgene

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    ...science and business or programming were new to some, who were surprised at “how much business there is ...Last week, 20 students and four chaperones from Denis-Yarmouth Regional High School visited our labs ...
  14. A Scientist's Guide to Ebola

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    ...that’s considered unlikely to change – but the illness has been fatal in 70 percent of the most recent...infection also makes it a critical component of vaccines and the target of neutralizing antibodies and ...Ebola representing the latest outbreak and earlier ones, along with links to the relevant scientific literature...
  15. Advice on Career Paths and the Green Card Process for International Researchers and Entrepreneurs

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    ...writing, clinical, regulatory, product development, business development, consulting, policy, big data and ...medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialties, theology, and the arts, and requiring...your work has impacted your field (i.e. finding vaccines for deadly disease, building algorithms to program...regulatory, project management, alliance management, business development, finance, and operations. To learn...
  16. Making Career Development an Integral Part of the Science Training System

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    ...My son is an engineer and my daughter has a business degree. From the very start of their undergraduate...of driving systemic change in academic career readiness training. It's been an honor to work with such... essential that we integrate inclusive career readiness training in this educational path before we lose...
  17. Your Top Requested Plasmid in 2015!

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    ...to knock-out single genes in clonal populations and to knock-out thousands of genes in mixed population...targeting over 19,000 and 20,000 human and mouse genes respectively, use lentiCRISPR v2 as the backbone...
  18. Keeping Up With CRISPR/Cas9

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    ...the CRISPR/Cas9 system to precisely edit specific genes in monkeys. "Our study shows that the CRISPR/Cas9...system enables simultaneous disruption of two target genes in one step without producing off-target mutations...the news on CRISPR has gotten, consider these headlines in The New York Times and Forbes respectively:...
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