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  1. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    ...luciferase assays require cell lysis as the most efficient means to disrupt the cell membrane and deliver .../phototoxicity Not susceptible Susceptible Subcellular imaging Improving Well-established High-throughput...produced. A similar approach can be used to analyze cell signaling pathways or miRNA knockdown. BRET for ...advantageous properties. This approach can improve live-cell imaging by avoiding autofluorescence and phototoxicity...can permit measurements of luminescence from live cells. Luciferase variants with incompatible substrates...
  2. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    ...gives a talk at the Cell Symposia: Gene- and Cell-based Therapies: CRISPR, Stem Cells, and Beyond meeting...III product is produced and can infect bacterial cells. If a phage does not deliver an active variant, ...passage from the infected to a fresh uninfected host cell culture). This dilution step represents the major...but gets manually passaged from an infected host-cell culture to an uninfected culture which results in...
  3. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    ...ssODN repair template in induced pluripotent stem cells made from the patient. With the first gRNA, they...homology-directed repair (HDR) taking place in 41.2% of edited cells. The results were even lower for the second gRNA...13.1% targeting efficiency with only 13% of edited cells employing HDR. Ma et al. moved forward with gRNA...as whole exome sequencing of embryo derived-ES cells.They also conducted whole genome sequencing in selected...babies.” The differences in editing between iPS cells and embryos make a case for conducting research ...analysis is not possible with IVF, as most of the cells are needed for proper development. Ma et al.’s experiments...
  4. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    ... Mammalian Autophagy Research. Cell,140(3), 313-326. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.01.028. PubMed PMID: 20144757...analyzing autophagy of cytosol and organelles in yeast cells. Autophagy (Greek for “self-eating”) is induced ...radio-labeled long-lived proteins as a proxy for autophagy. Cells are cultured with isotope-labeled amino acids for...fluorescence regardless of its localization in the cell. SEP’s pH sensitivity means Rosella will fluoresce...measurements of macroautophagy and mitophagy in mammalian cells using a single fluorescent biosensor. Scientific...
  5. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    ...proteins that bind an RNA motif of interest in living cells. Challenges with existing RNA-protein interaction...and naturally occurring complexes present in the cell, it can also introduce non-physiological RNA-protein...a short timescale, such as during drug action or cell signaling. Limitations of RaPID Like other BirA*... controls include both scrambled RNA motifs and cells transfected with BirA* protein alone (i.e. no RNA...protein that’s highly expressed in neural progenitor cells. Knock-down of QKI decreased Zika viral RNA levels...2018). RNA–protein interaction detection in living cells. Nature Methods, 15, 207-212. PubMed PMID: 29400715...
  6. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    ...transgenic animals, embryonic stem cells, and/or tissue-specific cell types: Cre-lox recombination. What...downstream of promoters that are active only in certain cell or tissue types, during certain stages of development... recombinase can be expressed only in specified cells or at specified times. Combining this with some ...has been used to successfully introduce Cre into cells of interest. What if I need two separate recombination...2. Site-specific DNA recombination in mammalian cells by the Cre recombinase of bacteriophage P1. Sauer...
  7. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    ...stain the cells that contain this mRNA-riboprobe-antibody complex and, as a result, these cells turn blue...specific cell types or entire organs in planarians. For example, the gene Piwi labels neoblast cells and the...techniques to alter gene expression or to label specific cells, but there are too few resources to teach students... in tissue. This is useful for labeling specific cell types and for viewing how gene expression changes...
  8. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    ...circuits to be deployed out of the laboratory in a cell-free and biosafe format that was stable for up to...possible and submitted our manuscript to the journal Cell just six weeks later. The Zika publication timeline...of Toronto. His research is focused on developing cell-free synthetic biology applications for human health...Virus Using Programmable Biomolecular Components." Cell (2016). PubMed PMID: 27160350. Find Plasmids from...de-novo-designed regulators of gene expression." Cell 159.4 (2014): 925-939. PubMed PMID: 25417166. PubMed...Keith, et al. "Paper-based synthetic gene networks." Cell 159.4 (2014): 940-954. PubMed PMID: 25417167. PubMed...
  9. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    ...Plasmids designed to express genes in a given host cell type are generally broken down into two broad categories...purpose and mechanism of polyadenylation vary across cell types, but polyadenylation generally serves to promote... thought that poly(A)s are used to control the cellular concentration of regulatory RNAs and may additionally...additionally act as a quality control mechanism to rid the cell of mis-folded RNAs. Eukaryotic termination and polyadenylation...signal by using in vitro analyses. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 1992. PMID: 1333042. PubMed Central PMCID...efficient rabbit beta-globin mRNA 3' end formation. Cell. 1987. PMID: 3568131.  Hager S, Frame FM, Collins...
  10. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    ... For most kits, the steps for lysing cells and removing cellular debris look very similar. However, keep...relative term — even armed with the highest-competency cells you will still struggle to get transformants if ...quantity) – Depending on the experiment, mammalian cell transfections can require quite large amounts of...your plasmid; separate plasmid DNA from unwanted cellular “debris”; and then clean-up the plasmid DNA (Figure...your bacteria to release the plasmid, separate the cell debris from the plasmid, and then clean-up the plasmid...Kits can be optimized based on the plasmid size, cell model, or overall throughput needed. Large constructs...
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