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  1. Addgene Protocols Go Viral: AAV Purification and Titration

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    June 13, 2019, 12:19 p.m.
    ...2016, Addgene has shipped thousands of AAV and lentiviral preps to scientists around the world. In the ...gradient ultracentrifugation This video goes over AAV vector purification using an iodixanol column gradient...instructions and calculations on how to prepare a plasmid stock used to generate a standard curve, visit ...
  2. Podcast: Interview with Addgene's Founders

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    April 13, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
    ...Addgene.org Find Fluorescent Protein Plasmids Find Plasmids for FRET Find Plasmids for Subcellular Localization...would be successful and the importance of lentiviral vectors in ensuring that success Chapter 6 - Developing...organization (now with more than 50% international plasmid distribution!) Chapter 8 - Opportunities to create...
  3. 27 Hot Plasmids from 2016

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    Dec. 22, 2016, 3:03 p.m.
    ...Neurosci 2016. PubMed PMID: 26950006 Plasmid ID Plasmid Name Plasmid Type 74309 pcDNA3.0-TRPV4-p2A-ferritin-p2A-mCherry...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These brief articles...features and applications of a partiular plasmid or set of plasmids. We hope that these articles make it ... you to find and use the plasmids you need. You can find all the hot plasmids from 2016 below. With over...over 45,000 plasmids, we can't write posts for every great plasmid that comes into the repository, but...write about your plasmids in a future blog post. No time to read? Listen to our hot plasmids segment on the...stocks in a single plate with every plasmid or as individual plasmids shipped as agar stabs. Iverson, et...
  4. Twenty Years of Sharing: Expanding Accessibility

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    Nov. 21, 2024, 10:47 p.m.
    ...Culture Collections Lentiviral Plasmids Tetracyline Inducible Plasmids Empty Backbones Bacterial... that made it easy to share plasmids, both for people depositing plasmids and for people requesting them...Expression Systems AAV Plasmids Blogs Origin of Replication What is a Plasmid? How to Design Your... Verify Your Plasmid Using a Restriction Digest Analysis Videos What is a Plasmid? How to Design...video, however, is “What is a Plasmid?”, An animated explainer of a plasmid and its parts that helps the...them. Prior to this, many plasmids were available, but they often weren’t easily accessible, due to a ...barriers, allowing people to access a wide catalog of plasmids from all over the world. This idea, that available...
  5. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    June 6, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV Viral Vectors 101:...-studied lentivirus is HIV, which many lentiviral tools have been derived from. Lentiviruses have slightly...their required components are very similar. While plasmids containing virus-specific elements such as the...integrate, and the addition of a helper virus or plasmid allows it to replicate episomally, essentially ... Galla M, Baum C, Schambach A. Gammaretroviral vectors: biology, technology and application. Viruses. ...-associated Virus (AAV) Guide Addgene’s viral plasmids and resources Addgene’s viral services: AAV ... with immortalized cell line cultures. Lentivirus Lentivirus is a type of retrovirus and shares many ...
  6. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...ready-to-use viral vectors from some of our most popular lentiviral and AAV vectors, as well as developing...frustrated by the difficulty of accessing published plasmids from other scientists. She, Kenneth Fan, and Benjie...nonprofit that would facilitate the sharing of plasmids between scientists. The service would allow people...Addgene before we were a “labhold” name. Our first plasmid request came on September 8, 2004, for pcDNA-p160MBP... our first major repository milestone — 10,000 plasmids deposited and available — and nearly seven before...possible for scientists to both deposit and request plasmids, was a major focus of our first decade. We did...work In March 2015, Addgene reached the 500,000 plasmids distributed milestone! We were thrilled to see...
  7. Twenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service

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    July 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...released Viral Vectors 101 2nd edition — I was incredibly excited when we picked our viral vector service as...titer. Addgene’s Viral Vector Service Besides being complex to use, viral vectors are also difficult both... viral vector service in 2016. We realized we could apply the lessons learned from our plasmid lab to ... high quality viral vector service, making an array of ready-to-use viral vectors available to researchers...still offer many resources for producing vectors from plasmids — including the protocols we use in our ...day in 2023. And while viral vectors are not as easy to ship as plasmids, they still have a global reach...amount of vectors available and number of requests tell only part of the story. Viral vectors are, after...
  8. Meet the New Addgene Board Members!

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    April 28, 2020, 1:14 p.m.
    ...over 100 requests for the plasmids and the lab eventually deposited these plasmids at Addgene. While deposits...Baradaran’s expertise in viral safety, gene therapy vector development, vaccine development, and assay technologies...The mission to share critical reagents such as plasmids and viral stocks for researchers around the world...Harvard Medical School, he developed the first lentiviral microRNA-based system for polymerase II-regulated...Melina Fan and former Associate Director of Viral Vectors Karen Guerin for the journal Molecular Therapy....
  9. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    June 2, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need...infecting cells with sgRNAiBAR library containing lentiviral vectors the iBARs can be detected by next generation...need. If you'd ever like to write about a recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.  Human whole genome...4X CDRE repeat. In addition to showing that this vector is suitable for flow cytometry and fluorescence...attached fluorescent protein to the DNA. They created plasmids for purification of tTALE-eGFP and tTALE-mCherry...digestion of single molecules in real-time. Find plasmids expressing tTALE-FP Shin et al., Sci. Rep. 2019...
  10. New Optimized Genome-wide CRISPRko, CRISPRi, and CRISPRa Libraries

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    Oct. 4, 2018, 12:44 p.m.
    ...Brunello CRISPRko sgRNA library as pooled library or lentiviral prep! Dolcetto: human CRISPRi sgRNA library While...the Dolcetto library! Now also available as a lentiviral prep. Calabrese: human CRISPRa sgRNA library ...tracrRNA was combined with the sgRNA expression vector allowing the screen to be conducted with only two...function. Find the Calabrese pooled library and lentiviral prep here! Applications for the Root and Doench... CRISPR Resources on Addgene.org Find CRISPR plasmids and resources here Find pooled libraries available...
  11. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in the repository through our Hot Plasmids articles.  ...all applications. Addgene’s plasmid collection includes over 10,000 plasmids with a FLAG tag (!), but did...facilitates endosomal escape. Combining Cas9-PAGE with lentiviral sgRNA expression yielded editing of 80–90% in... al. 2023 with permission.   Find Cas-PAGE plasmids here!   Zhang, Z., et al. (2023). Efficient engineering...inspired and informed this section.  Find mStayGold plasmids at Addgene here!   Ando, R., et al. (2023). StayGold...developed an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector named AAV.CAP-Mac for non-invasive systemic gene...under CC-BY license.   Find the AAV.CAP-Mac plasmid here!   Chuapoco, M.R., Flytzanis, N.C., Goeden...
  12. London Calling - Addgene’s New Europe Office in London

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    June 10, 2014, 3:20 p.m.
    ...macrophages/monocytes using lentiviral expression vectors. I also used plasmids made and shared by others...Addgene, plasmids, and depositing (all while our US counterparts are still sleeping). Plasmid sharing ...have deposited their plasmids into the Addgene repository. More than 4,500 plasmids have already been deposited...in research, I developed several new plasmids, including: plasmids to study the dimerization of HLA B27... Years of Plasmid Sharing: Interested in more statistics from Addgene's 10 years of plasmid sharing? ...Check out our Top 10 Plasmid Technologies blog post Or look at our "10 Years of Plasmid Sharing" Infographic...emailed. And Addgene has been there to answer your plasmid questions. But until now, you’ve always had to ...
  13. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...Development of a novel mouse glioma model using lentiviral vectors." Nature medicine 15.1 (2009): 110-116. PubMed...Resources on Addgene.org Browse Cancer Plasmids Browse Immunology Plasmids Find Kits for Cancer Research  ...immunosurveillance have a look at our Immunology Research Plasmids and Resources. Studying the immune system and ...In contrast to using randomly integrating viral vectors, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing allows targeted engineering...analyse the tumor microenvironment (one of the plasmids on her poster is pTomo-Ras which has been deposited... immunology resources. If you have a great new plasmid you’d like to share with the scientific community...
  14. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...one are in a pLVX vector background, so you can package them into lentiviral vectors if you need to. Additionally...going on there!).  Find the Krogan Lab SARS-CoV-2 plasmids (Note: The Nsp6 construct is undergoing QC and... has been inundated with requests to share our plasmids with other researchers. We have been excited to...Gordon) have been quite busy shipping and sending plasmids to all who request them -- in locations all over...Facebook. Find more COVID-19 and coronavirus related plasmids and resources at Addgene* Many thanks to our...people, not just scientists! *If you are requesting plasmids for coronavirus or COVID-19 research, please email...
  15. Hot Plasmids - June 2019 - Optogenetics, Acoustic Reporter Genes, microRNAs, and the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME

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    June 6, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...highlight a subset of the new plasmids in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles ...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... recent plasmid deposit please sign up here.      Listen to this episode of the Hot Plasmids podcast ... (ARG) plasmids to better monitor gene expression in vivo using ultrasound. These ARG plasmids contain...high-throughput manner. They designed the pXPR_053 lentiviral expression vector, which contains an sgRNA insert site...responses in C. elegans. Find the split BoTN/B plasmids at Addgene. Liu Q et al., Neuron. 2019. PubMed...potentially problematic for imaging. Find the ARG plasmids at Addgene. For more details on acoustic reporters...
  16. 5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions

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    Aug. 11, 2016, 2:23 p.m.
    ... about Lentiviral Vectors Additional Resources on the Addgene.org Check out Our Viral Vector Guide Pages.... Viral vectors undergo DNA rearrangements. Depending on the composition of the viral vector and the ... one point or another. After amplifying a viral vector, collecting virus, and transducing target cells...the repeat sequences present in the LTR, the vector may undergo genomic rearrangements during replication...genomic rearrangements, try amplifying the viral vector with bacteria designed to minimize rearrangements...have low titers (which is unavoidable for some vectors) you can concentrate your virus by ultracentrifugation...antibiotic whose resistance gene is encoded in the viral vector. This antibiotic selection can be performed approximately...
  17. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    .... At the time, adenoviral vectors were the most commonly used viral vectors for gene delivery, and they... better vector for ocular gene therapy: Adeno-Associated Virus (AAV) While other viral vectors such as...gene can be targeted to RPE cells using a lentiviral vector and a clinical trial is ongoing. Moving forward...Addgene.org Find AAV plasmids Find ready-to-use AAV viral preps Browse all viral vectors ...AdV) and lentivirus (LV) are known to transduce retinal cells, AAV quickly became the vector of choice...technician in a lab using adeno-associated viral vectors (AAVs) to treat an inherited retinal degenerative...tolerate the presence of antigens (such as viral vectors) without triggering a destructive inflammatory ...
  18. Plasmids 101: The Promoter Region – Let's Go!

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    April 3, 2014, 8:05 p.m.
    ...the Addgene Blog Browse All Plasmids 101 Posts Learn about Mammalian Vectors Read about Reporter Gene like...Once you've gotten to know what a plasmid is in general, it's time to take a look at some of its parts...origin of replication are necessary to replicate plasmids and make sure the cells maintains it. Here, we'll...the promoter, which is necessary for getting the plasmid express our gene of interest. This element is responsible.... This means that the promoter present in your plasmid backbone must to be compatible with the type of... as RNAP II promoters is commonly employed in lentiviral and retroviral constructs and we will discuss...discuss these in a future post on viral vector parts. Promoter specificity Aside from choosing a promoter based...
  19. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - September 2021

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    Sept. 21, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...subset of the new plasmids and viral preps in the repository through our hot plasmids articles. These articles...recent plasmid deposits and we hope they'll make it easier for you to find and use the plasmids you need... CRISPR plasmids are always being added to the repository. To find all of the CRISPR plasmids available... Xiao Wang Lab has recently deposited a set of plasmids that helps identify base edited cell populations...populations without end-point sequencing assays. These plasmids use “Cas9-mediated adenosine transient reporter... a) Cells are transfected with three different vectors and flow cytometry is used to sort populations ...available from Addgene, head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page. Here are some highlights from the...
  20. Viral Vectors 101: AAV Serotypes and Tissue Tropism

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    Jan. 16, 2025, 3:42 p.m.
    ...Viral Vectors 101: An Introduction to AAV Viral Vectors 101: AAV Variables that Matter Viral Vectors 101...choice of AAV vector for your experimental system. AAV1 AAV1 was the first viral vector approved for gene...al., 2023). AAV9 packaging plasmids are available at Addgene. AAV9 vectors are not available through our...by Adenovirus, Adeno-Associated Virus, and Lentiviral Vectors After Intravenous and Direct Kidney Injections...A viral vector that can target specific tissues, even when administered systemically, without causing...causing disease? Recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors, or rAAVs, can sound almost too good to be true...components. Created with BioRender.com. AAV vectors have both distinctive capsids and genomic structures...
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