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  1. CRISPR 101 eBook...en español

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    Jan. 18, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...orgullosos de anunciar que CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición ahora es parte oficial de nuestra colección...colección de libros electrónicos. Descargar CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición Addgene tiene una gran...distribuidores de todo el mundo para ayudar a aumentar el acceso global a los materiales de nuestro repositorio...Sánchez, ¡y no podríamos estar más emocionados! Después de recibir la traducción, Addgene contrató a una...¡La primera edición de nuestro libro electrónico CRISPR 101 ya está disponible en español! Esta traducción...pleased to announce that CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición is now an official part of our eBook collection...collection.  Download CRISPR 101: Una herramienta de edición  Addgene has a large international audience...
  2. Design Tips for Prime Editing

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    Jan. 23, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...great tips to guide your experimental design, especially the design of the RNA sequences you’ll use in prime...principles pegRNA design If you’re just starting out with prime editing, you’ll need to design and optimize...reverse transcriptase (RT) template including the desired edit. Figure 1: Prime Editing schematic.... be edited and the sequence of the edit, so its design changes for every new prime editing application...transcriptase template, starting with about 10–16 nucleotides. For longer templates, it is even more important...and PE5b: In this approach, the nicking sgRNA is designed to bind only after the edit is installed. This...approach. Figure 7: Nicking sgRNAs can be designed to target edited DNA, so that nicking only occurs...
  3. Technical Design of a Western Blot

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    Aug. 22, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...ll know there’s a lot of choices to make when designing the experiment. What detection method? What membrane...Figure 1: The technical decisions to make when designing a western blot.  Psst! Looking for a western...find the original publication and ensure that it includes validation data relevant to your application —...of antigen, while providing flexibility in assay design. Conjugated secondary antibodies are relatively...typically spans 2–5 orders of magnitude, which includes a wide dynamic range for fluorescent proteins....cover. But don’t worry — the next time you’re designing a western blot, you can check out our handy reference...experimental needs. Table 3: Optimizing the technical design of a western blot If you want to… Consider...
  4. Summer SciComm Series: Modes of Communication

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    July 1, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...challenging to design a hands-on interactive activity using elephants than it is to design one demonstrating...semester-long after school program? Comparing your desired outcome to the limitations and potential of your...possibilities are, check out our table of commonly used modes of communications below!   Format Resource Requirements...
  5. Designer PUF Proteins for Any RNA Target

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    June 17, 2014, 7:57 p.m.
    ...targeting specific sequences of RNA is highly desirable for extending the complexity of genetic circuits...Zhao and colleagues, we now have just the tool…designer PUF proteins! A newly available PUF Assembly Kit...In a single step, researchers can now assemble designer PUF domains for RNA specificity engineering. “...proteins The tool she and her colleagues led by Zhao described and demonstrated in a report published in The ...translational repressor. In principle, however, designer PUF proteins can be fused to other components ...standard BsaI in place of the high fidelity version (despite what the original paper says). In their hands, ...phenomenon soon.  Rest assured, as the PUF protein design tools continue to evolve and improve, Abil says...
  6. Antibodies 101: Designing Your First Flow Panel

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    May 28, 2024, 1:45 p.m.
    ...process of designing a flow panel.  Principles of excitation and emission Before we design your first ...let's build your first panel! Designing a Panel In this example, I will describe a basic panel (Table 2, Figure...fluorophores that attach to the target. When you design a flow experiment, you'll need to pick a fluorophore...brightness of individual fluorophores. Table 1 describes the brightness of a few commonly used fluorophores.... Table adapted from: https://emea.bd.com/panel-design/en/flow-cytometry-fluochrome-brightness-spillover...transduced the cultured cells with a virus that encodes a transgenic protein for the HEK 293T cells to ...through a cell surface label. The viral vector also encodes for eGFP, which serves as a transduction reporter...
  7. Designing Your Chalk Talk for the Academic Job Interview

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    March 12, 2019, 1:37 p.m.
    ...the knowledge gap? This includes the overview and the individual aims. Describe the question, the bare ...often hear, "I have an interview next week and it includes a chalk talk. What should I include in my chalk...may not actually help. Ultimately, if you cannot describe the likely outcome with some specifics, the search...cannot either. Therefore, you need to be able to describe experimental approaches in terms of the question...approach, anticipated outcomes, and preferably a description of the payoff if the aim is successful. Note ...the aims and clarify what type of aim you are describing. It's easy to be overly ambitious – a common ...accomplished in 5-10 years? You need to be able to describe what success looks like. If you are successful...
  8. How to Design Your gRNA for CRISPR Genome Editing

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    Sept. 24, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Vazquez F, Parts L, Boehm JS, Golub TR, Hahn WC, Root DE, Garnett MJ, Tsherniak A, Iorio F (2019) Agreement...j.stem.2014.04.020 Yang L, Guell M, Byrne S, Yang JL, De Los Angeles A, Mali P, Aach J, Kim-Kiselak C, Briggs... approaches, and provide updates on how best to design gRNAs. You can also find validated gRNAs for your...important to remember that the same is true when designing gRNAs for using CRISPR technology – the “best”...and sequence are important considerations for designing your gRNAs. For indels, it's not so important ...but it is important that your gRNA sequence is designed to be highly active and reduce off targets. For...since potential target sites occur ~1 in every 8 nucleotides, restricting gRNAs to 5 – 65% of the protein ...
  9. A Guide to Designing a Scientific Poster: Content, Layout, and More

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    Oct. 22, 2019, 12:20 p.m.
    ... to help you build a great poster.  Tips for designing your poster Check conference guidelines To begin...you should always follow conference rules when designing your poster, since they can differ. 48” x 36” ...to read. The Thompson Rivers University Library provides useful tips on how to craft this type of poster...Better Poster.” This new take on scientific poster design was conceived by Mike Morrison, a psychology doctoral... that links readers to more information if they desire it. Shapes. In this type of poster, written and...all of our illustrations above) so that the color fades to a lighter or darker version of itself from the...
  10. CrispyCrunch: High-throughput Design and Analysis of CRISPR+HDR Experiments

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    Feb. 7, 2019, 2:16 p.m.
    ...experiment in the program Design gRNAs by inputting the target regions Design donor RNA Design primers Review and...time for this project was spent selecting guides, designing primers, and running analyses. New team members...originals if desired. It works as a whole or in part. For example, you can analyze experiments designed outside...CrispyCrunch, or you can input pre-existing guides for primer design. The ecosystem of CRISPR tools Before...tools we found performed batch guide design, batch primer design or batch analysis. We wanted to relieve...section below.) For guide design, we decided to adapt the popular guide design tool Crispor by Max Haeussler... summary per batch. Ranking guides for HDR in-depth In other tools, guides are ranked by specificity of...
  11. CRISPR 101: Cas9 Nickase Design and Homology Directed Repair

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    March 15, 2018, 12:59 p.m.
    ... no available guides close to the desired mutation site. Quick tips for nickase design Ready to employ...PAM-out designs have the PAM sequences on the extremes of the targeted region, whereas PAM-in designs place...identify optimal nickase designs, IDT scientists Mollie Schubert and Shuqi Yan designed experiments to test...homology directed repair rates, and share their design rules for your next CRISPR nickase experiment Overview...overhangs and H840A creates 3’ overhangs in a PAM-out design.  Exploring nickases for homology directed repair...between the nicks? To find out, Schubert and Yan designed a PAM-out nickase experiment to insert an EcoRI...that are further away from the target site, they designed a D10A nickase strategy (46 nt nick distance, ...
  12. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    Sept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...mouse-model generation. Key components of Nanoblades Nanoblades are a Cas9 RNP delivery vehicle that’s based...components of Nanoblades. Image from Mangeot et al., 2019.   MLV GAG-POL polyprotein Nanoblades are formed...tropism of Nanoblades, different viral envelope protein(s) are expressed to pseudotype Nanoblades. The team...using Nanoblades? Plasmids are available from Addgene. Genome editing primary cells with Nanoblades Primary...50% Table 1: Nanoblades editing efficiencies of primary cells. Comparing Nanoblades to Existing CRISPR...in vivo gene editing. The bottom line on Nanoblades Nanoblades are tiny DNA-cutting ninjas which can stealthily...human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Nanoblades, a new CRISPR delivery method developed by the...
  13. Tips from the Repository Trenches: Using Barcodes to Track Samples

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    Oct. 6, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
    ...all of these samples have the 2D barcodes mentioned above. These barcodes identify what type of sample is...tubes. 1D barcodes are better for tubes that are meant to be read one at a time. 1D barcodes can be purchased...the tubes’ physical location in the lab. These barcodes additionally allow us to store multiple types ...fresh media with antibiotics at each stage. The barcodes and LIMS help us track each sample, but we also... a petri dish plate that is also barcoded. The barcodes on both of these are scanned into our LIMS system...samples within your lab, we highly recommend using barcodes! Barcoded tubes are easily accessible and can ... such as Corning. Tubes can even have specific barcodes etched or printed onto them by companies such ...
  14. Same Addgene, New Look - Why We Redesigned Our Homepage & Mascot

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    Dec. 5, 2019, 1:49 p.m.
    ...check it out!). After months of strategizing, designing, developing, testing - and repeat - we’re proud... also made it hard for users to get where they desired. It became clear to us that we needed to improve...plasmids and viral vector tools more easily. In the redesign, the new search bar is now front and center, with...these three main values we set out to radically redesign our homepage to reflect this message. We concentrated... a make-over as well. While in the course of redesigning the homepage, and striving to tell our story ...
  15. Golden Gate Assembly Upgrades: More Fragments, Faster Assembly, and Higher Fidelity

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    Oct. 11, 2018, 12:30 p.m.
    ... push the test system, we redesigned for 12 and 24 fragments.  This redesign was guided by both advances...in 5’ four base overhangs after cutting. The destination vector receives the assembly after similar Type...re-digested and "eligible” for ligation into the destination construct. Reactions are often cycled between...acquisition of antibiotic selectable markers by the destination plasmid. Antibiotic selection allowed for high...ability to correctly assemble a lacI/lacZ cassette (designed by NEB for use in optimization of assembly systems...very occasional uncut or cut/re-ligated pGGA destination plasmids. A final validation of the 5-, 12- or...is dependent on the presence of every module, destination construct and functioning Type IIS restriction...
  16. Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design

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    Sept. 13, 2018, 1:55 p.m.
    ...safe-targeting guides vs. non-targeting guides on screen analysis and hit calling. 5,644 non-targeting guides and...safe-targeting guides were included in the library. Safe-targeting guides were designed to target genomic...short guides had reduced toxicity compared to full-length guides. Reduced toxicity of short guides could...CRISPR screen design. Unanswered questions about genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 screen design Are non-targeting...non-targeting guides an appropriate control? Many CRISPR screens use non-targeting guides as negative controls...screens. Do short guides (17-18 bp) have less off-target cutting than full-length guides (19-20bp)?  Small-scale...predicted off-target activity when selecting guides. Guides were delivered as a pooled library via a lentiviral...
  17. Bricking Science: Portraying Scientific Reality Through LEGO

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    Nov. 29, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...thanks to our guest blogger, Dalila Cunha de Oliveira. Dalila Cunha de Oliveira is a PhD student in Hematology...post was contributed by guest blogger, Dalila Cunha de Oliveira. Bricking Science is an idea built, literally...with my husband, I thought about how the limitless design possibilities of the LEGOs were mirrored by the...made, colorful laboratory. When we started, the hardest part of the process was to embed personality in...
  18. Early Career Researcher Toolbox: Free Tools for Science Writing

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    April 28, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...suggestions, like alternative word suggestions. De-jargonizer The De-jargonizer can identify jargon in your writing...This paper talks more about the development of the De-jargonizer.   Academic Phrasebank  The Academic Phrasebank... of the suggestions Hemmngway makes (it wasn’t designed for technical writing), it’s great at flagging... Just enter the DOI of a paper and select your desired formatting style. This tool is great for generating...library in Microsoft Word. Mendeley has a web and desktop version that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux...easier to work with collaborators. Zotero is a desktop based program that’s compatible with Mac, Windows...
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