...This guest post was contributed by Johnny Kung, Director of New Initiatives for the Personal Genetics...Education Project (pgEd), where I currently work, strives to broaden the conversations about genetics and...implications of genetics. In these conversations, pgEd strives to be inclusive of all voices, regardless of socioeconomic...

...Applications for synthetic promoter AAVs Besides restricting AAV transgene expression to particular cell types...types, pairs of synthetic promoter can be used to restrict expression to a single cell type based on the ...cell-type specific promoters could be an easier way to restrict expression of a gene interest in an animal model...

...Scholar library. You can add hashtags to library entries, which can help you organize and search for papers...number of times a paper is shared online, or its altmetric score, is also displayed in your feed. By clicking...us know if you if you have any favorite tips and tricks for navigating the always growing sea of scientific...

...recommend checking your cloning via a miniprep and restriction digest, and then plasmid sequencing if you can...Cloning specifics Fragmid uses Bbsl, a Type II restriction enzyme that cleaves outside of its recognition..., 93% had the correct banding pattern in the restriction enzyme digest. They sent 82 of the correctly ...

...generated a series of StayGold mutants and identified a triple mutant, Y187F, R144I and T155Q, which they named...with a FLAG tag (!), but did you know that we distribute ready-to-use recombinant antibodies as well? ...anti-FLAG antibody, both of which are also available in trial sizes. Addgene recommends these recombinant antibodies...

...Oct 14, 2020 by Seth Kasowitz. This post was contributed by the gene editing team at the Allen Institute...regions of high homology to the gene with the cut, we trick the cell into using the introduced donor plasmid...Allen Institute for Cell Science. This post was contributed by the gene editing team at the Allen Institute...

...This post was contributed by guest blogger Sean Mac Fhearraigh, co-founder of www.assaygenie.com. No ...findings will be worth knowing? This can sometimes be tricky, as most of our research builds on ideas and findings... realization that, if we want people to keep contributing to science, it would be helpful for them to ...

...Find Cpf1 Plasmids at Addgene   Image attribution: Zetsche, Bernd, et al. "Cpf1 is a single RNA-guided...differing from that of Cas9 (3’-NGG) in both distribution and GC-content, which might improve editing ...directional gene transfer, analogous to traditional restriction enzyme cloning. Sticky-end mediated gene transfer...

...This post was contributed by Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering...with very little money. So when did inspiration strike us so hard that we upended our lives and took this...things we could do for work, and they weren’t restricted to science jobs. Keira’s an optimist, I’m a realist...

...downstream flanking sequences to their input string (Figure 2). This string can then be used as input for the prediction...many genomic locations. In our study, we used the TRIP (Thousands of Reporters Integrated in Parallel; ...

...This post was contributed by guest blogger Jon Chow, an immunology PhD student at Harvard University....their germ cells (sets of genomic material are contributed by mother and father). While some mutations can...start working with live animals yet, Harvard’s DRSC/TRiP- Functional Genomics Resources website has in vitro...

...creating the Expression Systems table. Marcy Patrick contributed to the writing of this post. Additional Resources...Last updated Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing...

...default scoring matrix BLOSUM62, but you may want to check the description of the other matrices to see if ...laboratories that deposit their plasmids with us or other entries in NCBI’s numerous databases. As our repository...

...and relatively easy? Have all of these things contributed to the steadily increasing distrust the general...that “Addgene, with its easy, fast, and cheap distribution of the newest CRISPR-Cas plasmids, has been ...to thank fellow Addgenies Joanne Kamens, Marcy Patrick, Aliyah Weinstein, Fabienne Furt, and Quintin Marcelino...

...sgRNA-level metrics to assess library performance in viability screens. Based on these metrics the Brunello... CRISPRi libraries with 10 sgRNAs in the sgRNA metrics, confirming again that sgRNA design plays a significant...

...production, reliable expression, and easy distribution as DNA (Trimmer, 2020), you may be interested in using...Purification Protocol Addgene's Antibody Guide References Trimmer JS. Recombinant Antibodies in Basic Neuroscience...

...This post was contributed by guest blogger, Luke Lavis, a Group Leader at the Janelia Research Campus...synthetic fluorophores. Add a dash of DNA with an electrical jolt and cells become perfectly capable of synthesizing... D. Lavis! All images in this blog post were contributed by Luke D. Lavis. Luke D. Lavis is currently ...

...therapy. In 2003, VIRxSYS began the first clinical trial with a lentiviral vector. CD4+ T-cells from patients... lentiviral vectors have been observed in small trials for other diseases, including the common hematopoietic...monitoring and follow-up in lentiviral clinical trials. McGarrity GJ, Hoyah G, Winemiller A, Andre K, ...

...insert. Traditionally this has been done with restriction enzyme digest; however colony PCR can accomplish...you’re screening for positive clones! Tips and tricks from the bench Don't pick too large of a colony...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog Learn to do Restriction Cloning Try SLIC cloning Learn about Gibson Assembly...

...competitions (ranging from cook-offs, to corn toss to trivia, and everything in between). Eleven years later...everything from kayaking, to field day, to relay triathlons, to 5Ks. Many of these examples we’ve done annually...are the sole event planner)! If you have a very intricate itinerary, there is a higher likelihood that something...