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  1. Choosing the B(right)est Fluorescent Protein: Photostability

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    June 8, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...time). Other illumination strategies, such as 2-photon-excitation, selective plane illumination, TIRF or ...experiments on a single day on a stable system. A final piece of advice is to measure the excitation power...
  2. The time and cost required to make a plasmid

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    March 23, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...This post was originally written by Jennifer Tsang and updated by Rachel Leeson. Have you ever wondered...cloning, waiting, and repeating before you can finally dive deep into generating the data you’re excited...cost $155.25 in reagents and consumables today. Finally, this doesn’t account for the most valuable component...
  3. CRISPR 101: Cas9 vs. The Other Cas(s)

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    Dec. 8, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ... deletions.   Cas12a – The staggered cutter  Originally classified as Cpf1, Cas12’s primary difference...Another similarity to Cas12a is that Cas14 also indiscriminately cleaves non-complementary ssDNA when engaged... the genome. Cas13, similar to Cas14, also indiscriminately cleaves ssRNA when engaged at its RNA target...
  4. Summer SciComm: Preprints

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    Aug. 16, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...or awaiting a final publication in a journal.  Preprints can be one tool in a combination of strategies... Addgene ID for their deposited plasmids in the final journal publication or an updated preprint, further...
  5. Visualizing Protein Turnover In Situ

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    Jan. 16, 2018, 3:20 p.m.
    ...ligation assay (PLA). The clever combination of FUNCAT and PLA PLA was originally published by the Söderberg...16590564. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC222790. 6. Buxbaum, Adina R., Bin Wu, and Robert H. Singer. "Single β-actin...
  6. CRISPRainbow and Genome Visualization

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    Feb. 28, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...yellow, or magenta, depending on the hairpin combination bringing the total number of individual colors...Adding an additional hairpin/fluorescent protein combination, for example, with a far-red FP, would increase...15! They also envision using CRISPRainbow in combination with gene editing. CRISPRainbow requires very...
  7. Uncertainty about Labor Law Brings More Uncertainty to Postdoc Wages

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    Jan. 11, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...available (below). However, on November 22nd a preliminary injunction against the FLSA updates was granted...inconsistencies across geographical regions When we originally started gathering this information, many assumed...to pursue academic work, and to enhance the sustainability of the scientific enterprise by reducing the...
  8. New Tool for Lineage Tracing: The ClonTracer Library

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    Sept. 22, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...drug discovery process.” The ClonTracer library originally came about as Bhang and co-workers were trying...treatment process. The authors went on to show that combination treatment with multiple drugs reveals even smaller...heterogeneity to drug discovery and the development of combination therapies.         References 1. Hyo-eun, C. ...
  9. Engaging with science and society at pgEd

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    Sept. 20, 2018, 12:17 p.m.
    ... incident, and the sterilization of women in marginalized communities have created a legacy of distrust...included taking extra coursework and attending seminars in bioethics, public health, science policy, and...advantage of their academic environment and attend seminars, symposia, or courses in social, health or policy-related...
  10. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Originally published Apr 30, 2020 and last updated Jul 12, 2021. What started out as a small collection...used for this study at Addgene which include a C-terminal deletion in the spike protein to improve expression...pseudoviruses to determine how effective sera from vaccinated individuals are at neutralizing the different...
  11. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells

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    April 6, 2017, 1:02 p.m.
    ... the protein or structure of interest. For a C-terminal tag, as shown in the example above, we inserted...would be transcribed and translated. For an N-terminally tagged protein, we used the same strategy, inserting...tagging using CRISPR/Cas9 in human stem cells to illuminate cell organization." bioRxiv (2017): 123042. Additional...
  12. Simple CRISPR-based Epigenetic Editing: dCas9-directed DNA Demethylation

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    Dec. 14, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...dCas9. Within a few rounds of cell division, the original methylated strand is diluted to undetectable amounts...dCas9 so that it may later be excised by Cre recombinase. Addgene has several great options: pLV hUbC-...L, Li C, et al. (2018) OGT binds a conserved C-terminal domain of TET1 to regulate TET1 activity and function...
  13. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    Jan. 23, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Editing, and that meant rereading many of the original papers reporting various prime editing tools. ...your curiosity, we encourage you to check out the original papers for more details. You can find many software...prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes. Cell, 184(22), 5635-5652...
  14. Viral Vectors 101: Chemogenetics

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    July 11, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...AAV serotypes, and the ever-growing variety of recombinase systems. Picking Ligands Picking the right ligand...ligand co-developed by Bryan Roth's and Takafumi Minamimoto's lab called deschloroclozapine (DCZ) shows promise...our chemogenetics poster! This blog post was originally written by Maya Peters Kostman in May 2020 and...
  15. Lab Automation at Addgene

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    March 22, 2018, 1:28 p.m.
    ...is ideal because it eliminates the potential of human error or cross contamination between samples. With... Shannon Rinaldi...
  16. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...immunogenic profile. AAV was first discovered as a contaminant of adenovirus preparations. It is an icosahedral...untreatable until 2008. Following a single dose of subretinal administration of rAAV2 carrying the human gene... responses to adeno-associated virus and its recombinant vectors." Gene therapy 10.11 (2003): 964-976....
  17. Tips for Technical Support Calls

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    Sept. 20, 2016, 2:39 p.m.
    ...majority of our plasmids and pooled libraries were originally described in a peer-reviewed scientific publication... our thousands of depositors. That means their original articles are your best bet to figure out how to...asking to avoid unrealistic expectations. And finally, provide feedback. If you are unsatisfied with ...
  18. Tips for Titering Your Lentiviral Preps

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    March 15, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...PCR product that comes from amplification of the original plasmid which can over-inflate results. A packing...vectors carrying fluorescent markers are used as it eliminates the need for antibody staining. Check Out Our...into a target cell’s genome. This approach can discriminate multiple integration events, reducing the possibility...
  19. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...researchers to use. Although we haven’t yet made our final target decisions, we intend to focus on motor neuron... a new project at a makerspace is finding the financial resources to pursue it. Since makerspaces are ...equipment for new uses. We’ll probably never use the Illumina GAIIx we recently acquired  for sequencing again...
  20. How-to: 5 Steps to a Great Panel Discussion

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    Oct. 22, 2014, 1:57 p.m.
    ...This post was originally published on LinkedIn. Follow Addgene on LinkedIn for repository news and updates...members all say the same thing and one panel member dominates the discussion? Or maybe the one that goes way...front of a crowd. The moderator will then develop a final list of questions for the actual event, based on...
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