... . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep31730 Tsuruta LR, dos ML, Moro AM (2018) Display Technologies for the Selection... 2015a). With molecularly defined antibodies that do not change over time, scientists will know exactly...Harbor Laboratory Publications, New York. Helma J, Cardoso MC, Muyldermans S, Leonhardt H (2015) Nanobodies...

...tool for gene delivery, but it has a drawback: how do you ensure your gene goes where you want it to? Knowing...approach to enhance specificity in retinal cells. To do this, the group developed a new strategy for finding...

...sgRNA. What if I want to work with gene drives? Then do so! It's a tremendously promising field that could...degree of confinement are those of the author and do not represent a formal stance taken by Addgene or...

...everyone gets involved. So join the conversation! Do you have a question about culturing iPS cells? Confused...

...detection range of your protein. The most common way to do this is via a Bradford assay or BCA assay. Be sure...preserve specific protein modifications, we recommend doing a little more research into gel chemistry and/or...wide dynamic range for fluorescent proteins. They do tend to have increased background with higher exposure...your blot to calculate the amount in your sample. (Do ensure your blot is optimized so your standard curve...

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...fluorescence when excited with ultraviolet (UV) light, they do so via aromatic amino acids found in all proteins...photons excite electrons of a fluorophore, they can do so at a range of wavelengths, rather than at just...1, emission spectra of neighboring colors can and do overlap. For example, APC overlaps noticeably with...

... a part of a community that recognizes doing science (and doing it ethically) runs hand in hand with policy...views represented below are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of Addgene. ...

...biochemistry researcher at New England Biolabs. When do you need a high fidelity ligase—and when is an alternative...base pairing through minor grove contacts, and thus do not read specific base sequences, but are sensitive...differential is not known for certain, but may have to do with the slight melting of the 5 ́-terminus during...

... = 500,000 colonies.  Pro tip! Since you probably do not want to individually count 500,000 colonies, ...did not result in significant recombination. If you do see recombination, we recommend ensuring the cells...

...use But exactly what kind of editing are people doing with all these CRISPR plasmids (and libraries)? ...scientists use CRISPR technology? We think so — and so do our requestors! CRISPR plasmids in the Addgene repository...

...newer, such as the relatively recent resurgence of “Do-It-Yourself Science” described in Chapter 3, and ...never inherently bad or evil. However, it is easy to do sloppy science, misrepresent science, or misuse science...

...Do you ever wonder about the origins of some of the common techniques or tools you use in the lab? Take... to be less sensitive to sequence context.    So, do Schüchner, et al.’s results mean the end of 9E10’...

...guanines). This limits the use of ABEs as DNA sites that do not contain a suitable PAM cannot be edited efficiently...While base editors are precise molecular tools, they do have undesired off-target editing effects. ABEs have...

...Choosing a topic and gauging interest The first thing to do if you’ve thought about starting a journal club is...make. How often will you hold it? How many people do you expect to attend? What is the expectation on ...

...and realize you need to apply different filters you do not need to start a new search. Simply click the ...purpose (e.g. CRISPR) Beyond search What can you do if you don’t have any specific search terms in mind...

...proteins to pathways - Ras as a model When mutations do arise and cancer ensues, traditional chemotherapies...and thousands of investigators studying them, how do we ensure that the research community has access ...

...sites, or you can utilise several online tools that do it for you. One such option is the CRISPR Design ... take roughly 3 months from the day you decide to do a gene modification experiment in mice to the day...

...use. This will prevent spills, but, if any spills do occur, they should be wiped with 70% ethanol immediately...morphologies, being familiar with these morphologies and doing a quick check under the light microscope will help...

...they are present at a very low concentration. So how do we make sure to catch all of these potential mishaps...expected hits, we always get hits to “random” genes. Do these hits always mean the sample is contaminated...users titrate their AAV vectors to find the optimal dose that allows for sufficient transgene expression ...