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  1. It’s CRISPR Week at Addgene!

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    May 13, 2019, 12:01 p.m.
    ... will focus on generating knockouts using CRISPR and Wednesday will highlight some Cas9 variants. Next...social media. #AddgeneCRISPRweek on Twitter From May 13 (today!) to May 17, the Addgene Twitter feed will...CRISPR. Hope you will join us this week at #AddgeneCRISPRweek. We updated the CRISPR guide! If you’re not...
  2. Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing

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    Jan. 26, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...Repair is Used to Edit Genes Read How Non-Homologous End Joining is Used to Delete Genes Additional Resources...long period of time. High fidelity Cas9s such as eSpCas9 and SpCas9-HF should be explored to reduce off-target... CRISPR gene therapy, it’s important to realize that DMD is a simpler case than other genetic diseases...there is still no good treatment. The dystrophin gene is very large (79 exons), but much of the sequence...Dystrophin’s size makes it difficult to deliver via gene therapy, so researchers have set their sights on... cells expressed functional dystrophin. Editing genes in vivo is of course much more difficult than in...cells, where precision editing of the dystrophin gene would take place, with minimal risk of off-target...
  3. The 12 Days of CRISPR: 2021

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    Dec. 28, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...to me: a Cas9 nickase 101 blog post.  On the twelfth day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: an updated CRISPR...CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: a primer on prime editing.  On the eleventh day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to...all of them here.  On the first day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: a miniature CRISPR-Cas system for mammalian... mammalian use. On the second day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: engineered pegRNAs to improve prime editing...editing efficiency. On the third day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: Selective Endogenous eNcapsidation ... Delivery (SEND). On the fourth day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: enhanced prime editing systems through...manipulating MMR machinery. On the fifth day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: efficient CRISPR editing with a hypercompact...
  4. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ...dominant disease-causing gene, or that carry only one copy of a recessive gene. Ma et al. claim that CRISPR...Variants Target Multiple Genes at Once with CRISPR Resources on Addgene.org Browse All CRISPR Plasmids... samples. Ma et al. designed plasmids containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs, and electroporated them...genome sequencing in selected control and CRISPR-Cas9 injected embryos. In all cases, they did not observe...authors to title the paper “Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation..” rather than using term ‘editing.’ While...but this advantage likely won’t transfer to all genes we’d like to target. In addition, as on-target editing...Reference Ma, Hong, et al. "Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos." Nature. Epub 02 August...
  5. Plasmids 101: Golden Gate Cloning

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    Aug. 27, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...scarless cloning. The cloning scheme is as follows: the gene of interest is designed with Type IIS sites (such... allows for multiple DNA components (promoters, genes, terminators, etc) to be assembled in the correct...oligonucleotides specifying a gRNA target sequence into a Cas9-containing plasmid such as pX330. This cloning strategy...recognition site(s) thus eliminating these from your gene of interest. PCR products are then digested with...ligated following a heat inactivation step. If your genes of interest or destination vector contain multiple...are using the Golden Gate method to create CRISPR/Cas9 constructs, assemble standard plasmids parts in ...More Resources at Addgene:  Check out more Plasmids 101 Posts! Check out Addgene’s restriction cloning...
  6. Important Considerations When Using AAVs

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    June 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ..."Future of rAAV gene therapy: Platform for RNAi, Gene Editing and Beyond." Human Gene Therapy ja (2017...required for the onset of gene expression. However, it has yet to be determined what gene expression looks like...exciting technologies (such as CRISPR/Cas9) as they allow for gene delivery in an efficient and non-pathogenic...Additional Resources on the Addgene Blog AAV: A Versatile Viral Tool for Gene Expression in Mammals A Match...Heaven: CRISPR/Cas9 and AAV Viral Vector Elements Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find AAV Vectors...transport desirable or not desirable? If diffuse gene expression is tolerated, then axonal transport is...Otherwise, using a specific system for controlling gene expression such as Cre-lox, may be sufficient to...
  7. Experimenting in an Open Source lab: from CRISPR to Cats

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    July 23, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...can also make accounts with  Addgene. We now have the incredible CRISPR/cas9 tools at our disposal to to...be useful to our model  so that we can use CRISPR/cas9 to build the mutants, analyse their motor behaviour...especially when trying to explore the links between genetics and anatomy, which are not yet fully understood...many different mutants because the Caenorhabditis Genetics Center (CGC) at the University of Minnesota has...folks at the makerspace comfortable with next-generation sequencing data and the bioinformatics pipeline...resources to pursue it. Since makerspaces are generally funded on a membership model - everyone contributes...
  8. The Twelve Days of CRISPR

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    Dec. 22, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...eleventh day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: methods for adenoviral delivery of CRISPR/Cas9.  On the twelfth ... CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: a primer on prime editing.  On the second day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to ...On the fourth day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: ways to use optogenetics to control CRISPR editing.  ... day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: updates on base editing from the first generation of base editors ...the eighth generation (and dual base editors, too!).  On the seventh day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me... of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me: anti-CRISPR proteins!  On the ninth day of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me:...🎶 On the 12 days of CRISPR, Addgene gave to me… 🎶 A few years ago we used the #12DaysOfCRIPSR hashtag...
  9. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... insert the FP gene into the target gene’s native locus, but introducing large genetic changes in C. elegans...the plasmids at Addgene Sc++ is a codon-optimized, engineered Streptococcus canis Cas9 nuclease that has...glycosyltransferase genes and other proteins related to cellular glycosylation. Get the library at Addgene CasRx ...cassette exons and disrupts genes with alternative exons. Get the library from Addgene New from the viral...library inhibits over 18,000 human genes. Find the lentiviral preps at Addgene hSyn1-SIO-stGtACR1-FusionRed...So how can you use CRISPR to introduce large FP genes into C. elegans? By using a split FP approach. Split-wrmScarlet... validated this tool by targeting six different genes whose protein products have distinct localizations...
  10. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - January 2021

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 2:15 p.m.
    ...control expression of their genes of interest. While recombinases are powerful gene expression tools in and...targets human epigenetic genes was deposited by Kivanc Birsoy. Find the library here A new SaCas9 ABE variant...available from Addgene, head over to our CRISPR Plasmids and Resources page.  CDDR (CRISPR–Cas9-based Dual-fluorescent...blue-light inducible Cre for precise control of bacterial gene expression By Meghan Rego Recombinases are enzymes... ~70kDa, with a molecular weight roughly half of Cas9 or Cas12a. This is in part due to the fact that ...precisely controlled through the use of optogenetics. Optogenetic tools use light to induce conformational...Synthetic Biology publication, Mary Dunlop’s lab generated a photosensitive Cre, Opto-Cre-Vvd, by splitting...
  11. Making CRISPR Plasmids Using Fragmid

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    Aug. 29, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...depending on above selections.) CRISPR enzyme (Cas9 [sp], Cas9 [other], Cas12a, RNA-targeting) CRISPR mechanism...for stable fly cell lines; Hygromycin resistance gene; for genome integration by spontaneous insertion...own Fragmid components! Ensure your backbone and genes contain only the Bbsl cut sites needed for the Fragmid...plasmids on the Addgene website. Step 4: Naming your assembled plasmid and generating the vector file....2024.100519 More resources from Addgene Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Addgene's CRISPR Guide Plasmids 101: ...been looking for just the right CRISPR vectors on Addgene and found instead ones that were… pretty close,...select the components they want for each module, generate the vector file, and quickly clone their vector...
  12. Top Requested Plasmid of 2017 - pMD2.G

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    Jan. 10, 2018, 4:13 p.m.
    ...vectors, many of which are used to deliver Cas9 and other genes to mammalian cells. For this reason, the...means researchers who use VSV-G can deliver their genes of interest to a variety of cells and study their...plasmids you’d like to deposit with Addgene, be sure to visit addgene.org/deposit. Who knows, maybe yours ... articles cite the use of pMD2.G obtained from Addgene. Skimming the list, one gets a sense of the broad...searchable list here). Tips for using pMD2.G At Addgene, we use pMD2.G for producing our ready-to-use lentivirus...Lentiviral Transduction Additional Resources on Addgene.org Check out our Viral Service Learn more about...
  13. CRISPR Cheat Sheet

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    Jan. 27, 2021, 2 p.m.
    ...sequences. Cas9 is a very commonly used CRISPR nuclease. Note: Most CRISPR plasmids from Addgene produce...’t cut DNA (dCas9, for example) that are used to increase or decrease expression of a gene. Screen: A ...of gRNAs with a CRISPR nuclease target multiple genes in a cell population. The resulting mutant cells...’re bringing you a brand new third edition of Addgene’s CRISPR 101 eBook. This new edition of the eBook...
  14. Call for Guest Bloggers

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    March 2, 2016, 3 p.m.
    ...for mouse genome editing. Post: Generating Mouse Models Using CRISPR/Cas9   Erik L. Snapp, Associate Professor... Sign up to write for the Addgene blog! To sign up to write for the Addgene blog simply email us. We can...write for us! Click Here to Contribute to the Addgene Blog Possible guest topics Some topics you might...Exposure - With over 100,000 views each month, the Addgene Blog is a great way to get your name out there!...include on CVs and Resumes. An Expanded Network - Addgene will promote your blog on a variety of social media...
  15. Multiplexed Capture of Promoter-enhancer 3D Chromatin Structures Using CRISPR

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    July 2, 2020, 12:40 p.m.
    ... what part of a gene enhancers like to interact with, and how many promoters or genes each enhancer is...plot line in gene regulation. When chromatin conformation data is compared with changes in gene expression...dynamic role in gene regulation The high resolution and multiplexed chromatin ‘photos’ generated with CAPTURE...changes in gene expression and determine who’s a key driver of these changes. By generating a more vivid...Favorite CREs Here Additional Resources on Addgene.org Find Other Cas9 Variants for Purifying Genomic Regions...updated Jul 2, 2020. Promoters may be the star of gene regulation, but enhancers and chromatin looping ... bound by transcription factors, can increase a gene’s transcription. Sometimes enhancers are located ...
  16. Analyzing CRISPR Editing Results with ICE from Synthego

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    May 8, 2018, 1 p.m.
    ...Currently, ICE is configured for Cas9 fromStreptococcus pyogenes (SpCas9). ICE Score - The editing efficiency...from single or multiplex CRISPR-Cas9 double-strand DNA breaks using SpCas9. More features will be added ...-based genome engineering has revolutionized the gene editing field by making experimental workflows considerably... tools. As a consequence, a critical step in the gene editing workflow - analyzing the data - is often...likely to result in a functional KO of the targeted gene.   Analyze Complex Edits   Traditional Sanger sequencing-based...result in a functional Knockout (KO) of the targeted gene. The analysis can be sorted by any of the parameters...validation tool, and guaranteed editing with the CRISPR Gene Knockout Kit. Please contact us at [email protected]...
  17. Addgene’s Top 10 Blog Posts from 2014

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    Dec. 16, 2014, 8:01 p.m.
    ...Resistance Genes By Marcy Patrick Plasmids 101: Yeast Vectors By Marcy Patrick CRISPR-Cas9 FAQs Answered...community, so email us at blog@addgene.org if you are interested. Addgene's Most Popular Posts of 2014 ...year in science – as seen through the lens of Addgene’s blog and plasmid repository. Our blog is just ... Competent Cells” has been extremely popular, generating many additional questions. We’re happy to see...
  18. INTEGRATE: Bacterial Genome Engineering Using CRISPR-Transposons

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    Dec. 7, 2020, 2:53 p.m.
    ...effectors employed by Type II systems (such as CRISPR-Cas9). Unlike in regular Type I CRISPR-Cas systems, however...plasmid (pEffector) expresses all seven required genes and the CRISPR RNA under the same promoter, and ...bacteria, alongside more established tools such as Cas9-recombineering, CRISPRa/i, and base editing. Leveraging...genomic insertions and/or deletions, to multiplexed gene knockouts (Vo et al., 2020), to multi-copy genomic...a wide variety of applications - as mutagenesis tools for genetic studies (e.g. using mariner), as a method...Medical Center. DNA transposons are ubiquitous genetic elements capable of spreading within and between... CRISPR-Cas, these systems represent the next generation of tools for efficient and programmable insertions...
  19. Plasmids 101: Modular Cloning Applications and Kits

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    May 14, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...cross-cassette interactions in gene expression, and to generate multi-gene knockouts. Mammalian and fly ...High-Efficiency Genome Editing in Plants Mediated by a Cas9 Gene Containing Multiple Introns.” Plant Communications... to generate anything from individual transcription units (TUs) used to express your favorite gene-of-...While a generic MoClo system for any given species can be repurposed for CRISPR applications (gene insert...insert = Cas9 + gRNA), Addgene distributes specialized CRISPR kits too. The AspFlex Kit was developed to ...DNA assembly tool used to build single- and multi-gene constructs for a variety of applications. MoClo ...several additional capabilities, including conditional gene expression, multiplexed CRISPR, and chromosomal ...
  20. PRIDICT: Predicting Efficiencies of Prime Editing Guide RNAs

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    June 25, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...2023). This method uses a prime editor (typically a Cas9 H840A nickase fused to a reverse transcriptase) ...to make sense of biology, with a special focus on gene editing techniques. References and resources References...Steensel, B. (2021). Impact of chromatin context on Cas9-induced DNA double-strand break repair pathway balance...2019). SpCas9 activity prediction by DeepSpCas9, a deep learning–based model with high generalization performance... and PE5 prime editing strategies) based on a DeepSpCas9 score ranking (Kim et al., 2019). PRIDICT saves... versatile genome manipulation. Nature Reviews Genetics, 24(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576...). Chromatin context-dependent regulation and epigenetic manipulation of prime editing. Cell. https://...
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