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  1. What's New in CRISPR - December 2019

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    Dec. 17, 2019, 2:37 p.m.
    ...fluorescent tags in neurons. Their toolkit named ORANGE (Open Resource for the Application of Neuronal Genome Editing...CRISPR/Cas9-based toolkit for epitope tagging in neurons Harold MacGillavry’s lab developed a CRISPR-based...targeted genomic integration of fluorescent tags in neurons.  Read the paper in bioRxiv Find the ORANGE toolkit...
  2. Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!

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    March 5, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... in Frontiers in Neuroanatomy and summarized some considerations for precise neuronal targeting using ...Considerations For Precise Neuronal Targeting Using AAV Technologies Using AAV for neuronal tracing Resources...
  3. It’s Bioelectric! An Exciting Interdisciplinary Field of Research

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    Oct. 29, 2019, 2:52 p.m.
    ...ion-based communication is not just for neurons. Non-neuronal cells do this too. It's just that for non-neural...you hear the phrase “action potential?” Firing neurons are likely the first thing that comes to mind. ...exhibits an inactivation maximum of 590 nm light. Aurora and Phobos optogenetic tools - A collection of ...
  4. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Since the pioneering days of Golgi and Cajal, neuroscientists have developed and refined many tools to tease...understand the complex interworking of the 86 billion neurons in the human brain. But studying synaptic connections...generally very small, and can contain different neurotransmitters. Using genetically encoded fluorescent proteins...inhibitory synapses, respectively. Once expressed in the neuron, the FingRs bind to the endogenous synaptic proteins...
  5. Hot Plasmids February 2024

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    Feb. 20, 2024, 2:45 p.m.
    ...in green monkeys and cultured human neurons, with broader neuronal expression than AAV9. This new capsid...https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3188559/v1.  Neurogenetic alchemy: CAP-Mac unleashes the secrets of primate...-brain barrier and delivering a transgene, with neuron bias observed in young macaques and vascular bias...
  6. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    Sept. 17, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...channelrhodopsin for activation of CNS neurons. Current protocols in neuroscience / editorial board, Jacqueline... Simon. The surgeries and standard molecular neuroscience validation experiments we discussed last week...optogenetic molecules in freely moving mice. Neuroscience research. 2011;70(1):124-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neures...
  7. Corralling and Cornering the Goldilocks Antibody

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    Aug. 9, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network, the... Fig. 1: Antibody production methods    NeuroMab and others have an extensive library of monoclonal...mouse tissue and compare the IHC results to both NeuroMab and the Allen Brain Atlas. The comparison with...intuitive guide for checking their staining and neuroanatomy without the fear of referencing a wrong section...
  8. AAVs in Retinal Gene Therapy

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    July 31, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
    ... rare genetic eye disease, Leber’s congenital amaurosis. This is the first of what I, scientists, doctors...childhood-onset form of blindness name Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis (LCA). Shortly after the cloning of the RPE65 ...efficiently transduce various types of retinal neurons. Nowadays a toolbox of naturally occurring and ...muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy, neurodegenerative diseases and metabolic diseases are also underway...
  9. Introducing Addgene's New Search - Find Plasmids More Easily For Your Research!

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    Dec. 3, 2019, 11:38 a.m.
    ...expressing validated antibodies for neuroscience research (see the NeuroMab Collection for details). The following..., I wanted to find a specific plasmid from the NeuroMab collection for an antibody against PARIS, a zinc...zinc finger protein involved in neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Knowing the primary investigator...
  10. Who Gives a Tweet? 9 Facts About Scientists on Twitter

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    June 26, 2017, 1:31 p.m.
    ...Domains Tweeted by Biologists. 7. Biologists, neuroscientists and ecologists (re)tweet scientific domains...Domains, Categorized by Discipline. Biologists, neuroscientists, and ecologists (orange box) post tweets containing...however, ~20% of life scientists  (biologists, neuroscientists, ecologists) tweet scientific domains 20% or...
  11. Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation

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    May 21, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...image the calcium response in the dendrites of T5 neurons by placing the calcium indicator GCaMP6f in the...optogenetically control the depolarization of R2 neurons using CsChrimson::tdTomato, an optogenetic tool...projection-specific brain-wide reconstruction of single neurons. Nature Methods 15:1033–1036 . https://doi.org/...
  12. Networking and Inspiring Young Scientists at Freshers Fairs

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    Nov. 17, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...heard of a Freshers Fair? If you’re from outside of Europe, the answer is probably no, but these fun and informative... of the main ways budding young scholars across Europe get introduced to the cultures and opportunities... and scientific community activities throughout Europe and the world. So get in touch! Resources at Addgene...
  13. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...marker such as puromycin, you can (also) select for the positive colonies by puromycin selection. You ...transfected cells (for example, plasmid with a puromycin resistance cassette, such as PX459). After you...
  14. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...iPSCs) to take on a “neuron-like” phenotype when targeting genes involved in neurogenesis, which had proven...EGFP, mCherry, iRFP, tdTomato, luciferase, LacZ, puromycin or CreERT2 can be combined with custom-cloned ...a separate reporter gene (EGFP, iRFP, IFP1.4, puromycin, neomycin or luciferase) to create a final lentiviral... voltage indicator for use in the detection of neuronal action potentials. The Cohen lab wished to improve...the genome. In this work, they use AAVS1_Puro_PGK1_3xFLAG_Twin_Strep and nuclease driven recombination ...
  15. Using Addgene's New Viral Service for Your Research

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    Nov. 17, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...already available allowing you to chemically control neuronal activity while studying your phenotype of interest...interest. Optogenetic tools for similarly controlling neuronal activity with light will be available soon. We...we have retrograde AAV that you can use to map neuronal connections. Expanding the viral vector knowledge...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Technologies and Methods for Targeted Neuronal Manipulation. Front Neuroanat 13: . https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana...expression, while the human synapsin 1 promoter is neuronal specific (Haery et al., 2019). Most AAV transfer...
  17. What the HEK?

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    April 18, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Frank Graham showed HEKs display many immature neuron-like qualities, which is inconsistent with kidney...is next to the kidney and is known to have some neuronal qualities.) While HEKs probably aren’t a great..., et al., Preferential transformation of human neuronal cells by human adenoviruses and the origin of ...
  18. Quick Guide to Working with Drosophila Part 2: Controlling Gene Expression in Flies with Gal4/UAS

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    July 21, 2017, 12:48 p.m.
    ...genes and wanted to express them within a specific neuronal compartment, you could express them individually...J. C. Kagan, Environmental Stress Causes Lethal Neuro-Trauma during Asymptomatic Viral Infections, Cell...binary transcriptional systems in Drosophila., Nat. Neurosci. 9, 703–709 (2006). PubMed PMID: 16582903. 8. ...
  19. Hot Plasmids - September 2019 - CRISPR, Auxin Inducible Degradation, MerMAID Channelrhodopsins, and Genome Looping

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    Sept. 3, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
    ...channels that can be used to silence the activity of neurons. Earlier this year, the Hegemann lab and collaborators... cysteine.  With the introduction of MerMAIDs, neurons can be turned off quickly and with high precision... a valuable optogenetics feature when studying neuronal activity. The researchers identified MerMAIDS ...
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