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  1. Getting Started with Behavioral Neuroscience: Standardizing Experiments and Using Viral Vectors

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    Aug. 20, 2019, 12:31 p.m.
    ...into the liquor of the cerebral ventricles (ICV, intracerebroventricular) to minimize tissue damage; however...Experimenter Interaction should be minimal and strictly controlled; optional handling animals Experiment...depending on the choice of channel protein, they can trigger neuronal excitation or inhibition upon light (or...
  2. High Complexity Golden Gate Assembly with NEB’s DAD

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    Aug. 1, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...that the five traditional rules didn’t need to be strictly followed in order to generate high-fidelity reactions...overhang set by uploading the set with the Type IIS restriction enzyme and thermocycler protocol. It will also...a circular or linear assembly. If you aren’t constricted to a specific number of fragments, you can also...correctly assembled phage genomes, it required a very stringent selection process and benefited from a longer ...
  3. Plasmid-based Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: What They Are and Why You Should Be Excited About Them

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    May 4, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...data (Begley & Ellis, 2012; Baker, 2015). This contributes to an enormous amount of wasted money and time...Nguyen K, van der List D, Murray KD, Engebrecht J, Trimmer JS (2019) A toolbox of IgG subclass-switched recombinant...https://doi.org/10.1038/520295b Bradbury ARM, Trinklein ND, Thie H, Wilkinson IC, Tandon AK, Anderson ..., Bestagno M, Burrone O, Maynard J, Ferrara F, Trimmer JS, Görnemann J, Glanville J, Wolf P, Frenzel A...
  4. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...in any format. Distribution status for your plasmids: Hold for Publication or Distribute pending QC. The...Gibson cloning, ligation-independent cloning, restriction enzyme, TOPO cloning, unknown, or other. ...or licenses that could prohibit Addgene from distributing the plasmid, select “yes” from the drop-down...
  5. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...This post was contributed by guest bloggers Keith Pardee and Alexander A. Green. Zika background First...successful sensors to draw on as our assays grew more stringent, and it avoided any days of lost productivity ...when we needed additional expertise. Perhaps most striking is that there were seven institutions involved...and open approach by all involved definitely contributed to our ability to complete the project on such...
  6. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    July 12, 2018, 1:09 p.m.
    ...This guest post was contributed by Sana Khan Khilji, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids...that UV light only kills microorganisms that it strikes directly. UV light exposure is also harmful for...way to prevent contamination. This sounds rather trivial, but often solves most problems before they occur...PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4047077. 2. Pagliara, Patrizia, et al. "Ostreopsis cf. ovata induces cytoskeletal...
  7. Hot Plasmids: Winter 2025

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    March 11, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... functional heterotrimers with endogenous Gβγ, enabling detection of activation triggered by endogenous... responsivity in screening ASAP3 variants. B) Electrical and optical recordings of spontaneous activity...sharing your experience with other researchers by contributing to the Addgene Antibody Data Hub.  Figure...
  8. Pooled Library Amplifications

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    May 30, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
    ...and loss of plasmid diversity, so Addgene strives to distribute aliquots of the original library whenever...cheaper and easier. One library that Addgene distributes with a chemical transformation amplification ...with. In either case, it can be useful to run a restriction digest of your amplified library on a gel to ...
  9. No Llamas Required - Synthetic Nanobodies Against Membrane Proteins

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    June 18, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...antibodies against proteins embedded in membranes is tricky because they have fewer hydrophilic surfaces, require... randomized with a defined set of different trinucleotides (corresponding to different amino acids) in...exchange (FX) cloning technique which uses Type IIS restriction sites (Geertsma, 2013). Once the phagemids are...after a few washes, binding is detected using a colorimetric reaction. After the ELISA step, the narrowed-down...
  10. Drew Endy Introduces the Biobrick Public Agreement Plasmid Collection

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    Dec. 12, 2013, 3:35 p.m.
    ... this way: "Addgene is one of the leaders in distributing plasmids amongst the academic community. On ...has partnered with the BioBricks Foundation to distribute the physical DNA samples, for when that's the...central dogma at the genome scale, it's going to be tricky to tame the rest of a cell. The BIOFAB plasmids...Who owns computer-programming languages? That's trickier. Sometimes it's the developers. But, it turns ...
  11. Great Results Start with Great Standard Curves

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    Aug. 15, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...dilution series should be run in duplicate or triplicate. The closeness of the data points generated by... the standard dilution series in duplicate or triplicate. Replicates allows you to calculate the curve...within the linear portion of the graph. It does restrict the dynamic range of your standard curve, so if...and mix samples very well.  Use duplicates or triplicates to increase the accuracy of your experiment.  ...
  12. AAVs CREATed for Gene Delivery to the CNS and PNS

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    Sept. 28, 2017, 2:01 p.m.
    ...Vector  Percent of Neurons Transduced   Cortex Striatum Cerebellum AAV.PHP.B (parental) 49 +/- 7% 36...of a transgenic mouse. 2. Cell-type-specific restricted transgene expression in the CNS and PNS Previously...promoter or enhancer now allows for cell-type-restricted expression in both the CNS (figure 5 in Chan ...These capsids can serve as powerful cell-type-restricted gene vectors for neurons, no transgenic mouse...
  13. The Effect of COVID-19 on Liu Lab Plasmid Requests From Addgene Data

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    July 16, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...This post was contributed by Max W. Shen from MIT, Alvin Hsu Harvard University, and David R. Liu from...statistics provided by Google on 6/4/20). Many countries entered lockdown for weeks to months, pausing ...requests. We received plasmid requests from 56 countries, though the data is heavily dominated by the U.S...noise to each of the terms which make up our distribution, resulting in the following hierarchical model...
  14. DNA Purification Without a Kit

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    Feb. 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...solution. Proteins and genomic DNA are removed by centrifugation. At this point, the plasmid DNA sample can ...binding DNA, the glass particles are pelleted by centrifugation and washed before DNA is eluted with water ...was free of agarose and could be digested with restriction enzymes.  Cellulose nucleic acid purification...phosphoric acid for 3 minutes followed by a short centrifugation for a total of four times before a wash with...
  15. Sharing Your Lab Protocols: Using Apps to Save Time & Track Your Experiments

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    Sept. 23, 2014, 3:05 p.m.
    ...decided this protocol would be a worthy first contribution to the protocols.io community. Did I mention... protocols, including making LB agar plates, restriction digest of plasmid DNA, and bacterial transformation... was created in 1999 and allows scientists to contribute protocols or provide links to protocols on their...subscription-based software, Labguru does offer free trials and pricing options for academic labs, departments...
  16. Deciphering the Mysteries of Behavior with Viral Vectors

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    Sept. 17, 2019, 12:40 p.m.
    ...made great strides to map brain regions and allocate specific functions to them. Electrical recordings...circuit by integrating neuronal signalling and triggering release of the stress hormone norepinephrine ...levels in general, or anxiety associated with psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder...
  17. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...protein ticker tape Teaching an old antibody new tricks   New compact, efficient prime editors By Susanna....10.13.463862.    Teaching an old antibody new tricks By Ashley Waldron While IHC protocols typically...thick-section and whole-mount labeling techniques. The Trimmer lab’s anti-PSD-95 [K28/43R] recently passed their...antibodies in Addgene’s collection since we began distribution and has been verified to perform well in standard...
  18. CRISPR 101: Targeting RNA with Cas13a (C2c2)

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    Sept. 21, 2017, 2:07 p.m.
    ...single crRNA The Feng Zhang lab used Cas13a from Leptotrichia shahii (LshCas13a) to begin to characterize ...et al., 2017). They characterized Cas13a from Leptotrichia wadei (LwaCas13a), using a superfolder GFP fusion...global RNA expression, cell stress, and RNA size distribution. When comparing LwaCas13a to shRNA, they found...community. Note: Cary Valley and Mary Gearing contributed to the update of this post. References 1. Abudayyeh...
  19. Viral Vectors 101: Pseudotyping

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    April 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
    ...envelope proteins from another virus to either restrict or broaden the host cell range (tropism). Pseudotyping...vesicular stomatitis virus G protein. VSV-G is a trimeric protein that binds phosphatidylserine and low-...preparation, VSV-G is stable and can withstand ultracentrifugation which helps scientists achieve a high titer..., Young JAT, Callaway EM (2007) Monosynaptic Restriction of Transsynaptic Tracing from Single, Genetically...
  20. CRISPR-based Genome Editing Systems For Editing in E. coli

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    April 13, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...and last updated Aug 12, 2021. This post was contributed by guest bloggers, Yiwen Zhang, a Ph.D. candidate... pTargetF with the ccdB gene containing BsaI restriction enzyme sites at its ends to generate pEcgRNA....that is 2.6 times higher when compared to the industrial strain. In our metabolic engineering case study...high-yielding strain which had 6 times the yield of the industrial strain. Not only is MUCICAT better, it is faster...
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