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  1. Viral Vectors 101: Types of viruses

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    ...heterologous envelope or a post-transcriptional regulatory element can be used for either type of retrovirus...clinical settings. AAV is also a cool tool in the laboratory! It is ideal for whole animal administration,...population. Some adenoviruses are known to cause respiratory disease across species, as well as cancer in ...strains have been engineered to induce a lower inflammatory response within hosts. Relative to the other...
  2. TALEN Plasmids and Kits

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    ... genome engineering. Fusions of transcription activator-like (TAL) effectors of plant pathogenic Xanthomonas...
  3. Plasmids 101: CcdB - The Toxic Key to Efficient Cloning

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    ...available to counteract the toxin. If, however, an investigator were to successfully clone an insert into the...insertion will completely replace ccdB with the investigator’s insert of interest. Hence correct clones are... behind the “swapping out” of ccdB with the investigator’s gene of interest.   CcdB resistant E. ...for non-cytotoxic proteins which retain their regulatory functions.” Mol Microbiol. 1995 Mar;15(6):1031...
  4. Supporting Rare Disease Research with the 2020 BeHEARD Awards

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    ...activation of keratinocytes, which release inflammatory mediators that trigger the activation of dendritic...Generalized pustular psoriasis is a chronic autoinflammatory skin disease estimated to affect 0.27 to 4.6...IL-36 cytokines are a potent inducer of an autoinflammatory loop: keratinocytes both respond to and release...
  5. Plasmids 101: The protein expression toolbox

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    ...CRISPR for that, too! CRISPR activators (CRISPRa) are transcriptional activators fused to a dead Cas9. The...increase expression. There are several flavors of activators which can be used with this approach - read more...them on our CRISPRa blog! Fig. 1 CRISPR activator and repressor mechanisms Want to transiently...
  6. All in a Twist: dsRNA

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    ...sword – balancing antiviral benefits with the inflammatory response associated with the introduction of...threshold and thus do not typically activate an inflammatory response. However, if dsRNA sensors are mutated...its way outside of the mitochondria, the same inflammatory response can activate. These types of cellular... disorders, including some forms of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. These types of immune responses are...
  7. Teaching an Old DOG New Tricks: Controlling Protein Activity with GFP

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    ...used red fluorescent proteins dsRed, mCherry, and TdTomato do not induce transcription. Thus, T-DDOGs can...expression robustly activated the reporter gene TdTomato, whose expression was absent without electroporated...T-DDOGs with two mouse GFP reporter lines; again, TdTomato was seen only in cells with GFP, at a high activation...frequency of 56-93%. In the converse test, 98% of TdTomato expressing cells were GFP+, indicating a robust...
  8. BeHeard Award 2018: Diseases of Glycosylation, Arginine Mutagenesis, & Neural Development

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    ... infections along with a mild or exacerbated inflammatory response which leads to nearly 25% child mortality...understood.  In line with this, Prof. Videira and collaborators will use Addgene plasmids to immortalize CDG...discovery led them to investigate the use of a common laboratory chemical, guanidine hydrochloride, as a potential... 1939 for the treatment of botulism and Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) because, at high concentrations...
  9. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    ...bone marrow (BM) cells, primary human hepatocytes, and hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) using Nanoblades....deliver Cas9 variants, such as a transcriptional activator dCas9-VPR, if these variants are fused to the ...from GFP transgenic mouse  GFP  ~60-65% Human hepatocytes  Myd88  ~50% Human HSCs  Myd88  ~50% Table...
  10. The Materials Science of Optogenetics Experiments

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    ..., 50ms “off”.  A pulse generator such as the A.M.P.I Master-9 Pulse Stimulator, which can control output...cable is threaded through—and fixed to—an optical insulator called a ferrule (below). The fiber optic cable...to give the animal the full range of motion, a commutator allows the patch cable to connect to the laser...
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