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  1. Save Time and Money by Making Your Own Competent Cells

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    ... competent cells (protocol)  Transformation of electrocompetent cells (protocol)  Cells prepared using...to make your own competent cells It’s easy to make your own competent cells. If you need a high efficiency...purchasing competent cells. However, for most everyday cloning, homemade competent cells will work just fine...of chemically competent cells (protocol) Preparation of electrocompetent cells (protocol) At Addgene...Set  from Zymo Research to make competent cells because cells prepared using this kit can be transformed...then wash and resuspend the cells in the provided buffers. The competent cells are then aliquoted and stored...20mL of competent cells, enough for 800 transformations when using 25uL competent cells per reaction. We...
  2. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ...OptoNBs to control cell signaling The second application for OptoNBs takes us into cells: light-based control... regulation of endogenous signaling activity in cells.  Let’s shed some light on the key components of...their use for protein purification and controlling cell signaling. Key components of OptoNBs OptoNBs have...can bind, it co-localizes with its target at the cell membrane and when the OptoNB can’t bind, it localizes... over-activated in cancer due to its involved in cell proliferation and differentiation.  Since Ras is...They expressed this OptoNB-SOS fusion protein in cells that expressed membrane-localized mCherry. With ...With darkness, SOS binds Ras and initiates the extracellular signaling-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling cascade...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...labeling T cells, B cells, and antigen presenting cells, scientists have been able to decypher cellular dynamics...tracked by cell sorter giving immunologists the ability to count cells and statistically analyze cell movements...fast T cells could jump from one antigen presenting cell to another. Indeed, we now know that T cells are...2016)? How do dendritic cells migrate to lymph nodes to activate T cells (Celli et al 2008, Kitano et al...In complex metazoans, rapid cell division and large scale cell mobility are essential processes during.... a basal progenitor cell migrating to the epithelium). At this stage, only cells from the immune system... there is large scale cellular movement throughout an organism. Studying cell mobility within these ...
  4. Stem Cell Models for Disease & Open Science: Interview with Darrell Kotton

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    ...engineered cells in therapy. The lungs are difficult, but other tissues like the retina have cell-based therapies...Chapter 9: Using stem cells as in-vitro models of disease. How Darrell is using stem cells from patients to...sharing reagents, cell lines, data, and knowledge without exclusivity. Chapter 11: The Stem Cell Bank (CReM ...the lungs, and, among other projects, using stem cells to develop in vitro models for lung disease. Darrell...what drives him as a praticing physician and stem cell researcher. Darrell's ultimate goal - to develop...means to treat disease through tissue repair, stem cells, gene therapy, and tissue engineering. How the multidisciplinary...nature of the Center for Regenerative Medicine accelerates research. Chapter 5: Research currently under...
  5. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...Because each cell can have multiple copies of the transgene that will recombine independently, cells may acquire...expressed. Each cell remains the same color for its entire lifetime and daughter cells retain the same... the fate mapping of cell populations over time. The ability to track single cell dynamics at the organism...expressed in a single cell maintains its color over the entire length of the cell, even axons of up to ... specific cell type. The Confetti mouse was first used to describe the self-renewal of cells in the intestinal...for tracking the fate of Langerhans cells. In the Ubow mouse, cells expressing YFP, CFP, and RFP are not... of CFP++ cells permitted researchers to longitudinally map the turnover of Langerhans cells in the dermis...
  6. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...already available today to cure sickle cell anemia in stem cells but this can’t be used in people until... audience discussed how J&J is already modifying cell and animal genomes to test hypotheses of disease..., open academic exploration in this area will accelerate the launch of clinical applications. During ...and more about the how to use genome edited stem cells to treat disease. As for me, I continue to be amazed... much we have yet to learn. As Dr. Mello said, “Cells have been in the information age for billions of...
  7. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...vectors (right) are transduced to target cells. Within target cells, Cas9 machinery is transiently expressed...in order to facilitate its entry into the target cells (Beatty et al., 2012). These features make AdV an... complexes into transformed and non-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis similar to...nuclease-induced gene disruption frequencies in the various cell types ranged from 18% to 65% (Maggio et al., 2014... leads to a vast majority of AdV-modified human cells being subjected to scarless homology-directed genome...therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral vector systems also work equally well... dividing and quiescent, post-mitotic mammalian cells. Applications of CRISPR delivery by adenoviral ...
  8. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    ...primary human cells  Cell therapy approaches can use base editors to correct mutations in stem cells and return...primary human cell editing, the researchers tested ABE8 in CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells. ABE8 efficiently... In addition to stem cells the authors targeted 6 genes in primary human T cells using 8 selected ABE8s...to edit primary human T cells efficiently makes it a promising tool for T cell therapy development.  Reducing...be introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA delivery of ABEs...ability for more robust editing in human cell lines and primary cells makes them a great addition to the base...these base changes, especially in primary human cells. Now, scientists at Beam Therapeutics have found...
  9. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...Induction of Human Germ Cell Fate from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell, 2015. 17(2): p. 178-94....differentiation of human ES cells and iPS cells into mature pancreatic insulin-producing cells. Cell Res, 2009. 19(...blood cells, and renal epithelial cells from urine are some of the easily isolated somatic cells that ...some of these cell types [13]:  Germ cells [14] Hepatocytes [15] Pancreatic β-cells [16] Intestinal...differentiated cell to a different cell type. While transdifferentiation is suited for switching cell types between... differentiation of human cells with synthetic modified mRNA. Cell Stem Cell, 2010. 7(5): p. 618-30. PubMed...et al., Reprogramming of T cells from human peripheral blood. Cell Stem Cell, 2010. 7(1): p. 15-9. PubMed...
  10. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    ... the single-cell level can aid in drawing connections between signaling activity and cell phenotype. One...Covert, M.W. (2018). Live-cell measurements of kinase activity in single cells using translocation reporters... One method for monitoring live single-cell kinase activity is FRET, but FRET reporters are challenging...their Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) whose cellular localization serves as a proxy measurement of ... used to measure kinase activity in specific subcellular compartments. Second, because KTRs shuttle between...
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