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  1. Production of Virus in Insect Versus Mammalian Cells

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    ...that already do mammalian cell culture. HEK-293T cells are the most common cells used in viral production...versus insect cells for viral production Consideration Mammalian cells Insect cells Viruses AAV ...type of cells that will be used to make the virus. Viruses can be produced in many different cell types,...produced in bacteria cells. However, some viruses can be produced in multiple different cell types, including...you make an informed decision. Mammalian cells Mammalian cells are a great option for viral production,...production in mammalian cells is relatively quick. After transfection, HEK-293T cells start producing virus...using qPCR or digital droplet PCR. Insect cells Insect cells are a less common option for the generation...

  2. Another Pathway into Cells: iTOP

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    ...types of primary mouse cells, including neuronal and gut stem cells, dendritic cells, embryonic fibroblasts...fibroblasts, glia cells and neurons, and cell death post-transduction is low. Neuronal stem cells transduced... Primary cells recapitulate the natural biology of a cell type of interest better than immortalized lines...introduce a gene of interest into primary cells, so most primary cell lines require viral infection. A new ... primary cells. What if, instead of supplying a DNA construct, they could simply induce cells to take ...primary cell types using Cre and various loxP reporters. In both mouse and human embryonic stem cells, they...cultured mammalian cells by osmotic lysis of pinocytic vesicles. Okada CY, Rechsteiner M. Cell. 1982 May;29(...

  3. The Breast Cancer Microenvironment: A Tumor’s Backstage Team

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    ...and spread of cancer cells. Besides these stromal cell modifications, stromal cells are also constantly...how cancer cells influence microenvironments and vice versa, let’s take a look at cancer cell metabolism...inflammation, a noteworthy cell type in the tumor microenvironment is the immune cells. The contradiction is...injecting breast cancer cells into mice, exosomes expressed specific integrins (cell-adhesion proteins) targeting... be transferred to other cells, inducing epigenetic changes in targeted cells. In this case, exosomes ...Friendly” microenvironment cells Not all is bad news – we also have “friendly” cells in microenvironments! ...Take myoepithelial cells for instance. They retard tumor formation by inhibiting cell growth, invasion,...

  4. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    ...produced using complex mixtures derived from cells or using live cells. There are several types of expression...consists of transfecting cells with your DNA template of choice and allowing these cells to transcribe, translate...demanding cell culture conditions compared to other systems. Insect expression systems Insect cells can also...coli or yeast cells. The only problem with baculovirus systems is that the infected host cell is eventually...eventually lysed. Cell lysis halts protein production, but there are non-lytic insect cell expression systems...Sf21, Hi-5 cells)  that allow for continuous expression of genes integrated into the insect cell genome. ...that is then transformed into a bacterial cell. Transformed cells propagate, are induced to produce your ...

  5. 10 Basic tips for mammalian cell culture

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    ...times), depending on the cell line so old cells should be retired! Conversely, cells younger than the 3rd ...Make sure cells don't stay out too long While you’re preparing things, make sure your cells don’t stay...contaminants. Set up a routine to split cells Don’t be lazy about splitting cells, instead try to form a routine...’s best to split cells before the plates are more than 80-85% confluent because cells like their space...numbers! When starting off with a new cell line, grow the cells, aliquot them into a number of vials, ... Addgene Blog The Challenges of Cell Culture Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method Plasmids...lactic acid (a by-product of cellular metabolism that is toxic to the cells), and need to be split very...

  6. 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...

  7. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    ...Pluripotent Stem Cells by Direct Delivery of Reprogramming Proteins." Cell Stem Cell 4, no. 6 (2009): ...Jaenisch. "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Meet Genome Editing." Cell Stem Cell 18, no. 5 (2016): 573-86. PubMed... express a cocktail of stem cell reprogramming factors and wait for cells to de-differentiate. However...transgene-free and vector-free cells Genome integration Need to sequence cells to verify excision didn’t ...vector-free cells No genomic integration Can be difficult to fully remove virus from cells Plasmid Non-integrating...transduces a wide range of cell types and replicates in the cytoplasm independent of the cell cycle. A challenge...virus which is removed by culturing cells at 38℃, but screening cells for the presence of transgenes is ...

  8. Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using the FITS Approach

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    ...activated T cells, precluding analyses of T cell differentiation beginning with naïve T cells. The Framework...screens have been used to interrogate T cells, an important immune cell type, in more complex and physiological...naïve T cells. More broadly, this system can be used to perform in vivo screens in other cell types. A...screens to assess T cell responses and clonal dynamics in lymph nodes (LN) and tumor cells. Figure used with...FITS In vitro CRISPR screens in immune cells have identified many putative regulators of immunity. However...Framework for In vivo T cell Screens (FITS) approach (Milling and Markson et al., 2024), developed and deposited...enables efficient knockout (KO) of genes in immune cells; (2) is not immunogenic, a necessity for in vivo...

  9. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    ...mycoplasma contamination in your cell culture or you are about to begin a new cell culture project. If mycoplasmas...present in most of the cell culture facilities, tissue culture labs and every cell culturist has to deal...cost-effective (Sung, 2006). The sensor cell-based method uses specialized cells that can detect the presence of... should be made available for cell culturing and maintenance of the cell lines. Providing such an environment...Photo by Kate Harten DeMaio. Cell lines and reagents Examine your cell line stock for mycoplasma contamination...cryopreserved vials of the cell lines even though the viability of cryopreserved cells decreases with every ...cause mycoplasma infection from one cell line to another. Multiple cell lines should not be stored in a single...

  10. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    ...-B+ cells, and A+B+ cells, but no cells that are A+B-.      Figure 3: It's often easier to identify...population of B cells and dendritic cells (DCs) in the lower middle right. DCs and B cells are HLA-DR+ and...single cells in a population. It can be used to measure protein expression, identify rare cells, or even...looking for cells in a sample that are negative for marker A and positive for marker B, or A-B+ cells. If you...the cell populations as a guide  (Figure 3.) You can see that in our dot plot, we have A-B- cells, A-B...the first step is to separate cells from debris and roughly group the cells by size. This is done using ... and FSC are measured to differentiate cells from debris. Cells are gated, and in the gated population...
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