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  1. CRISPR 101: Cytosine and Adenine Base Editors

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    Feb. 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Addgene.org Catch up on your CRISPR background with our CRISPR Guide Browse CRISPR plasmids for base editing...Early CRISPR applications were often limited by the low editing efficiency of homology-directed repair... indels were observed than point modifications. CRISPR base editing persists through multiple cell divisions...editing based on Cas9 off-target activity.  Find CRISPR base editing plasmids at Addgene Improving cytosine...which you can learn more about in this blog post: CRISPR 101: RNA Editing with Cas13. Finally, the development...adenine deaminase TadA-8e for efficient and specific CRISPR-based cytosine base editing. Nature Biotechnology... M. J., & Joung, J. K. (2020). A dual-deaminase CRISPR base editor enables concurrent adenine and cytosine...
  2. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...For more information on these new CRISPR screening tools, see our CRISPR/Cas Plasmids: Pooled Libraries ...Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening. Also, check out our updated CRISPR-Cas ...CRISPR-Cas resources at www.addgene.org/CRISPR/ to browse CRISPR plasmids, watch informational videos, download...for background information on CRISPR technology? See our improved CRISPR-Cas Guide. Wang et al., Science...Tet-inducible CRISPR activators and repressor plasmids. (Kearns et al., Development. 2014..) CRISPRs for Xenopus.... 2014..) Our CRISPR-Cas collection of plasmids updates frequently, so visit our CRISPR pages often to...Microbiology 2011 Feb 22;11:38. Lentiviral CRISPR libraries for knockout screening New systems have...
  3. A Look Back at One Year of Plasmid Sharing for COVID-19 Research

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    July 12, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...COVID-19: CRISPR-Based Detection Tools. The CRISPR Journal 3:142–145. https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2020.0030...post that highlights five different methods to use CRISPR to detect SARS-CoV-2. Other protocols and tools...more. Recently, scientists used the genome-wide CRISPR libraries, Brunello (knock out) and Calabrese (...Konermann S, Hsu PD (2021) Genome-wide, bidirectional CRISPR screens identify mucins as critical host factors...part of a study that examined the repertoire of antibodies from 19 COVID-19 convalescent individuals (Tong... COVID-19, aside from the widely used qPCR and antigen tests.  Labs including Jennifer Doudna’s lab and...
  4. Mouse Modeling, Part 1: Genetically Engineered Mice

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    July 11, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
    ...vector. CRISPR/Cas9-based systems have been developed for generating knockin mice but because CRISPR/Cas9...recombination for precise gene insertion. However, CRISPR/Cas9 systems are more useful for generating knockout...used to engineer knockout mice. ZFN, TALEN, and CRISPR/Cas9 systems can all be targeted to specific regions...can introduce multiple base pair deletions, but CRISPR/Cas9 can also introduce point mutations. While ...Additional resources on the Addgene blog Find our CRISPR blog posts Read blog posts about using Cre-lox ... case, a positive selection marker such as an antibiotic resistance gene is also included to select for...
  5. 28 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2015

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    Dec. 23, 2015, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Nature Methods. 2015 Aug 31. CRISPR-Display: A novel CRISPR technology for targeting RNA cargos...technique, called CRISPR-Display, that may help answer this difficult question. CRISPR-Display uses the...system provides users greater temporal control over CRISPR/Cas9 mediated genome modification and gene expression...139-42. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3149. Light-inducible CRISPR-Cas9 system for endogenous gene activation Optogenetics...Nucleases, the Gersbach lab has modified the RNA-guided CRISPR-Cas9 system to create a tool that is quick, versatile...robust. Dubbed the LACE system for light-activated CRISPR-Cas9 effector, Polstein and Gersbach fused the ...targeted to a very specific site on the genome via the CRISPR system. The ease and flexibility of the LACE technology...
  6. Addgene's Top Blog Posts from 2020

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    Dec. 29, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ... Based on CRISPR/Cas by Shravanti Suresh Guest blogger Shravanti Suresh who studies CRISPR at Iowa State...State University detailed five methods for using CRISPR to detect SARS-CoV-2, including many with plasmids...for AAV Quantitation by Kate Harten DeMaio We made the switch to droplet digital PCR to quantify AAV titers...development virtually. 6. Quantifying DNA? Here are Five DNA Quantification Methods to Consider by Jennifer... dominates DNA quantification discussions, but what about the other methods to quantify DNA? Here we cover...
  7. Open Resources and Plasmid Tools For Studying C. elegans

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    July 18, 2019, 12:55 p.m.
    ...Bargmann’s keynote speech and in the workshops on CRISPR techniques and new tools for conditional expression...of your gene of interest.  SapTrap Tool Kit for CRISPR Cas9 edits At Addgene, we have the entire SapTrap...toolkit and plasmid assembly line for the creation of CRISPR targeting vectors that each contains a guide RNA...Schwartz and Jorgensen, 2016). Using SapTrap, this CRISPR plasmid can be created in a single tube. You can...Jorgensen. "SapTrap, a toolkit for high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 gene modification in Caenorhabditis elegans...Addgene blog Learn more about SapTrap Read about CRISPR/Cas9 in C. elegans Browse our Plasmids 101 blog...Dynamics Database (WDDD) The WDDD aims to acquire quantitative data on all the cell divisions of the C. elegans...
  8. 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.
    ...using the CRISPR-Cas9 system CHIME Article contributed by Aliyah Weinstein  Listen to the CRISPR podcast...require custom nucleases for each gene of interest. CRISPR-Cas9 tools have been used in immunology for in ...vitro screens of immune cell activity. However, a CRISPR-based tool for in vivo functional analysis of immune...Harvard Medical School developed a solution: CHIME, a CRISPR-Cas9 system that can edit genes in any immune lineage...immune response other than what would be the anticipated effect of the targeted gene. CHIME can also be...
  9. Addgene: The First Twenty Years

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    Dec. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...And when CRISPR arrived in 2012, our repository was rapidly able to support sharing of CRISPR constructs....org/guides/crispr/” — SirHamhands, responding to a request for “any suggestion for CRISPR online course...library of antibody educational resources, including our new Antibodies 101 eBook, the Antibody Guide, and...ready-to-use recombinant antibodies service, part of the Neuroscience AntiBody Open Resource (NABOR) platform...-use viral vectors were useful for researchers wanting high quality reagents, and we realized we could...use the same principles to provide recombinant antibodies, another plasmid-based product that, with Addgene... and two antibody animations.    A blast from the past: Cofounder and CSO Melina Fan setting up...
  10. Hot Plasmids: Summer 2024

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    Aug. 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...s Neuroscience Antibody Collection to find a recombinant anti-GFAP [N206A/8R] antibody shared by James...well as antibodies for identifying other cell types in the nervous system!  Find recombinant anti-GFAP [...N206A/8R] antibody here!   Figure 5: Free-floating rat brain sections stained with Anti-GFAP. The...Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing. Cell, 184(9), 2503–2519...months we highlight some of the new plasmids, antibodies, and viral preps in our repository through our...CHARM: A compact epigenetic silencer Recombinant antibodies for marking astrocytes MagIC-Cryo-EM for sample... Gilbert Labs have previously deposited their CRISPRoff system — a programmable epigenetic editor consisting...
  11. Transgenic Organisms, Cas9 Gene Drives, and Appropriate Safeguards

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    May 22, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
    ...PubMed. More CRISPR-Cas9 Resources: CRISPR 101: a blog series on the basics of CRISPR-Cas technology...technology CRISPR Resources from Addgene   ... crispr...experiments2,3. While that didn't work quite as well as anticipated4, greater awareness will certainly improve safety...
  12. Twelve Amazing Guest Blog Contributors!

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    Nov. 26, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...about recent CRISPR deposits from Arlene Sharpe’s lab. X-Chime and Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using...Biddle, of Only Good Antibodies, who shared their antibody validation expertise. Antibody Validation for Flow... Caitlin Faulds, who introduced the very first antibody deposit (the Integrin collection) from the Institute...Institute for Protein Innovation. An Integrin Antibody Toolkit from IPI Simon Moe, from Promega, who ...
  13. Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange

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    Aug. 15, 2019, 12:30 p.m.
    ...genomes using exogenous enzymes: Lambda red and CRISPR Developed over the past 20 years, Lambda Red recombineering...used  (Thomason et al., 2014). In recent years, CRISPR-Cas9 technology has also aided in the creation ... "RNA-guided editing of bacterial genomes using CRISPR-Cas systems." Nature biotechnology31.3 (2013): ...15109831. Pyne, Michael E., et al. "Coupling the CRISPR/Cas9 system with lambda red recombineering enables...blog Read our Plasmids 101 blog posts Find our CRISPR blog posts Learn more about Lambda Red recombineering...chromosome is to disrupt expression of a gene with an antibiotic resistance cassette. This leaves a “scar” in ... This can be accomplished by selecting for an antibiotic resistance marker from the vector (abR, Figure...
  14. Plasmids 101: Gibson Assembly and Other Long-Homology Based Cloning Methods

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    March 1, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...mixing and matching of parts. Gibson assembly meets CRISPR Gibson can be adapted to more complicated cloning...use of Gibson assembly combined with the popular CRISPR technology and is described in a recent publication...second example of using Gibson Assembly along with CRISPR was also described recently (Jiang et al. 2015)...chromosome (up to 100 kb) were specifically cut out via CRISPR and then assembled into a vector using Gibson assembly...homology with the bacterial chromosome fragments. CRISPR cutting was used to circumvent the need to PCR ...Wang A, Li K, Wang B, Jin S, Reiser M, Lockey RF. CRISPR/Cas9 nuclease cleavage combined with Gibson assembly...such as a hairpin or a stem loop (as might be anticipated to occur within a terminator sequence), since...
  15. 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.
    ...Susanna Bachle Figure 1: Initial steps in the CRISPR-pooled screening using sgRNAiBAR. Image from Zhu...'s lab at Peking University has developed a new CRISPR screening method that makes use of guide RNAs with...false-positive rate discovery rate, conventional CRISPR screens require a low multiplicity of infection...as a drug-screening platform to identify new antifungals that target calcineurin. Current calcineurin ...
  16. Lentiviral Vector Uses and Overview

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    May 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Lentiviral vectors are the vector of choice for many CRISPR applications, and they’ve also had success in clinical...transgene-expressing or knockout cell lines. Many CRISPR plasmids are designed for lentiviral use, including... Improved vectors and genome-wide libraries for CRISPR screening. Sanjana NE, Shalem O, Zhang F. Nat Methods...Lentiviral Plasmid FAQs Answered Learn How Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries Enable Genome-Scale, Knockout Screening...Screening Read about Genome-Wide Screening Using CRISPR/Cas9 Additional Resources on Addgene.org Check out...including Addgene’s top requested plasmid in 2015: lentiCRISPR v2, used both for targeted modification and genome-wide...transduced with a lentiviral vector containing an antisense sequence against the HIV-1 envelope. As of 2013...
  17. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ...Addgene Blog Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User) The Challenges of Cell Culture...; more recently we have also been using Addgene CRISPR vectors to generate cell lines with knockouts of...the 48-well plate for further analysis. To assess CRISPR/Cas9 knockout efficacy, we have used both Western...using glass cloning rings to isolate colonies of antibiotic-resistant cells; during the time required to ...YouTube video below) is simple: After obtaining antibiotic-resistant colonies, use a Sharpie to circle 12...case of contamination. We do not normally use antibiotics. Lastly, and perhaps obviously, it is important...
  18. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Online Molecular Biology Tools

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    Sept. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...blog: Learn how the CRISPR software matchmaker can help you choose the best CRISPR software for your needs...repository for Cas enzymes.  Open repository of CRISPR screens Cellosaurus: A knowledge resource for cell...reagents.  mAb3D atlas validated antibodies: A database of validated antibodies for mouse, human, and marmoset...
  19. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...xCas9, a CRISPR variant with PAM flexibility Resources on Addgene.org Get the basics of CRISPR in our ...our CRISPR guide Find all plasmids for base editing in our collection Sign up to get our free CRISPR eBook... produce 3 concurrent base edits to withstand antibiotic selection. As a result, 8 mutations in TadA could...cells using 8 selected ABE8s and ABE7.10. They quantified genomic editing by measuring the reduction in...
  20. Donations from Addgene to Yield Answers for Rare Disease Researchers

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    Sept. 15, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...induced pluripotent stem cell (iPS) technology and CRISPR-Cas9 constructs from Addgene to gene-edit mutations...looking at a bunch of different strategies with CRISPR-Cas9. There are so many different variants and ...functional role of those mutations, they now plan to use CRISPR-Cas9 technology to create cell lines and/or mouse...Rare Genomics Institute and Addgene will make a substantial difference in pushing the work forward. Xeroderma...
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