...sharable products. Open-Source Microscopy Sharing Hardware vs. Sharing Software In the field of microscopy,...relatively young movement of sharing open hardware has a similar goal. The sharing of modules, ideas, and blueprints...material (BOM) of an assembly, the feasibility of manufacturing, and subsequent assembly can be difficult to... or 3D printers are key to enabling this work. Sharing open-source plans that rely on such tools has allowed...3D printing, on-demand CNC milling, and PCB manufacturing. These newly developed techniques are the key...enablers for making assemblies open-source. The sharing of digital representations of the 3D models, which...especially with regard to licensing models. Direct sharing of work from universities and research centers ...

... too. Schedule regular meetings Scheduling a recurring meeting every two weeks or every month is long...  Maintain informal communication In between recurring meetings, you should share interesting results...they’re set by checking in about them at your recurring meetings and reaching out if any milestones are...

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...terminal repeats (LTR). The 3’ LTR is duplicated during lentiviral integration, producing a second copy...voltage fluctuations, while having high fidelity during action potentials of fast-spiking neurons. The ...baseline voltage), the investigators found that administering these AAVs with a dilute Cre-expressing vector...splitting a large gene into smaller fragments, delivering them by individual AAVs, and then splicing their...

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...imagination of most of the authors during this period.  Genetic Engineering Era: Pre-CRISPR  Having visualized...associated with genetic engineering in the recent SciFi movies. Rampage (2018), starring Dwayne “The Rock” ...California, San Diego. The revolution in genetic engineering techniques is a speculation of yesteryear which...but the common themes that these authors were exploring were space and robots. Warping to stars in space...devise methods to manipulate it. The term genetic engineering itself is attributed to SciFi writer Jack Williamson...s Island. In 1976, the world’s first genetic engineering company, Genentech, was founded.  This commercialization...these corporations would extrapolate genetic engineering to exploit human beings. Ridley Scott directed...

...genome engineering have played a huge role. For instance, researchers are genetically altering tumor cells... works on genome engineering and cancer immunotherapy, and is interested in exploring new avenues in healthcare...ve been studying it and, now, researchers are exploring ways to bolster and modulate our immune defenses...environments for tumor cells spreading to other organs during metastasis. Evading Recognition Tumor cells over-express...cause a transient shutdown of the immune system, hampering its ability to inhibit further cancer growth and...increasing life expectancy by 4.1 months as opposed to curing the cancer. DCs are harvested from the body, and...trials going amiss and patient deaths have occurred during CAR-T cell tests because treatment regimens were...

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...waste. This is the second in a series of posts on bringing sustainable practices in the lab. The first post...waste from the landfill, but what about all the manufacturing steps that happen before you even receive the... lower the environmental impact in terms of manufacturing, energy, and water use. ACT labels are obtained...newsletter Help other scientists save resources by sharing plasmids Find plasmids at Addgene ...

...articles in this series: Bringing Sustainable Practices to the Lab: Innovations Bringing Sustainable Practices...Labconscious. I was eager to learn about practices I could bring both to Addgene, and share with my peers. In fact...the rate at which that happens and reduce the manufacturing of new containers, which is associated with ...huge contributor to the increase in plastic manufacturing, accounting for 40% of total plastic usage (...to be sustainability leaders. Take initiative to bring ideas to your workplace and you could end up making...newsletter Help other scientists save resources by sharing plasmids Find plasmids at Addgene ...

...Yoshii, Saori R., and Noboru Mizushima. "Monitoring and measuring autophagy." International journal of molecular...mitochondria-targeting sequence makes Keima useful for monitoring mitophagy. It’s important to remember that because...3B, or LC3. LC3 is a commonly used marker for measuring autophagic flux. mRFP-GFP-LC3 functions as an ...Maria Cuervo, and Per O. Seglen. "Methods for monitoring autophagy from yeast to human." Autophagy 3.3...

...2012). This made them an appealing target for bioengineering, but it wasn’t clear whether they could 1) ...bodies We have shown that all three of these engineering objectives are possible in our recent paper (...from This Publication at Addgene 4. Petroni, G., Spring, S., Schleifer, K.-H., Verni, F. & Rosati, G. Defensive...

...cycle for titering as this will better represent future experiments. The aforementioned titering options...in the long run. Read on for an overview of the titering options as well as the benefits and drawbacks ...measurements via ELISA and qPCR for viral RNA. Measuring p24 levels in a viral prep is straightforward ...transfer plasmid was used in the transfection; if preparing several different lentiviruses in parallel, this...should be considered. Similar to the p24 assay, titering via measurement of viral RNA can overestimate ...viral particles. One of the si mplest methods of measuring functional titer uses FACS to count the number...antibody staining. Check Out Our In-Depth Fluoresence Titering Protocol Another popular approach utilizes the...

...Addgene blog Twenty Years of Addgene Sharing: CRISPRTwenty Years of Sharing: Addgene's Viral Vector Service...many countries, import and export regulations, differing customs processes, and the distances the packages...specific to that country. ‌For example, when we began offering temperature-sensitive materials, we noticed a ...shipments arrived in India at room temperature. Partnering with our distributor allowed us to ensure that...shipments weren’t able to clear import control. Partnering with a distributor allowed us to share materials...scientists in China. They were also able to help with sharing information through the use of popular Chinese ...solutions aren’t enough to ensure accessibility, partnering with distributors who have expertise in a specific...

...chromosomal DNA.  Plasmids are said to be under stringent control when they depend on the host cell’s initiation...consider the replication mechanism of plasmids under stringent control, such as pSC101. DNA replication and regulation...replication for the bacterial chromosome and for stringently controlled plasmids. Binding of IHF (green) redistributes... cell growth or even kill the host cell. For stringently controlled plasmids, replication is tightly coupled...number.  Let’s consider pSC101. This plasmid is stringently controlled and has a low copy number. Like the... necessary. Iterons are not the only tool to stringently regulate plasmid replication. For example, the...Comparison of replication regulation mechanisms of stringently controlled plasmids pSC101 and ColIb-P9. pSC101...

...also a story of community, cooperation, and sharing. Sharing this story is a truly special way to celebrate...As we celebrate twenty years at Addgene, we are sharing stories of our repository’s positive impact on ... that developed CRISPR tools were committed to sharing them with the rest of the community. They did this...the usefulness of popular CRISPR tools is both enduring and rapidly recognized.   Where is the CRISPR ...appropriate MTAs and customs forms. Of course, ordering the plasmids is the easy part; using them can ... resources on the Addgene blog Twenty Years of Sharing Science  ...

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