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TypeProtocol...like microbes in a drop of pond water or the cells in your cell culture dish. Microscopes come in a huge ...transmission electron microscopes that allow us to see cellular components with science-fiction levels of detail...
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Viral Vectors 101: Viruses as Biological Tools
TypeBlog Post...Non-Dividing Cells Transient Gene Expression Low Tropism for Mouse Cells and Hematopoietic Cells Low Packaging...fuses with the target cell’s membrane, allowing the viral particle access into the cell. The viral envelope... of cell the virus will target and fuse with. In nature, this determines which organisms and cells they...viruses can be engineered to be cell type specific. Once inside the host cell, the virus unleashes its cargo...wide range of cell types that are typically ‘difficult to transfect’, such as primary cells. They can also... them to easily deliver their “cargo” to target cells and organisms, and when that cargo is designed to...Viruses as biological tools In nature, viruses infect cells and organisms (which we refer to as hosts) via viral... -
Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection
TypeCollection...Tagging in Human Cells on the Addgene Blog. Plasmids for Endogenous Gene Tagging in Human Cells Find additional...additional cell line information from the Allen Institute for Cell Science data portal (Link opens in a new...images from the hiPS cell lines gRNA sequences used in the creation of the hiPS cell lines The following...116 mEGFP Proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) DNA replication foci IPSC cell lines can be ordered ...ordered from the Allen Institute for Cell Science Cell Catalog (Link opens in a new window) . Protocols The ...with this plasmid collection. Single cell passaging of human iPS cells (Link opens in a new window) RNP transfection...for Cell Science has deposited plasmids to generate fluorescently tagged proteins of key cellular structures... -
Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?
TypeBlog Post...infected cells, the other using wild-type Cas9 to remove the HIV-1 genome from infected cells. Read on...1 reservoirs HIV-1 infects cells in the immune system, notably CD4+ T-cells, and eventually leads to acquired...percentage of cells with activated HIV-1, measured via HIV-1 promoter-driven GFP expression. In cell lines that... genome from every infected cell and 2. prevent reinfection of those cells. Kaminski et al. designed gRNAs...Kaminski et al. observed no negative effects on cell viability, cell cycle progression, or apoptosis with Cas9...in HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from healthy...1 is limited to a subset of T-cells, but it is unclear if enough T-cells could be reached to ablate a ... -
Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - March 2021
TypeBlog Post...Winslow’s lab to label cells after cell-cell interactions. Using G-baToN, “sender” cells express GFP on the... and “receiver” cells express an anti-GFP nanobody on the cell surface. When the cells interact, GFP is...the receiver cell, and the receiver cell turns green. This system can be used in many cell types including...engineering with single-pot assembly Tracking cell-cell interactions New auxin inducible degron system....brgcm3sw New system developed to track cell-cell interactions By Jennifer Tsang GFP-based Touching...including endothelial cell-pericyte, neuron-astrocyte, and cancer-stromal cell pairs. Figure 2: Schematic...of the interaction between the sender cell and the receiver cell. Image from Tang et al., 2020. ... -
CRISPR 101: Mammalian Expression Systems and Delivery Methods
TypeBlog Post...Calcium phosphate Cells Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Transformed cell lines Cargo Nucleic...identify and enrich positive cells or a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Transient or stable...and enrich positive cells. Likely contains a selection marker to generate stable cell lines. Packaging and...wide variety of mammalian cell lines. Useful for difficult to transfect cell types and can be used in ...protein are degraded within the cell. Delivery methods for mammalian cell lines As mentioned above, the...components into your target cells. Delivery of these components into mammalian cell lines is quite broad and...Electroporation / Nucleofection Microinjection Cells Many types Single cells Cargo Nucleic acids or protein Nucleic... -
5 Tips for Troubleshooting Viral Transductions
TypeBlog Post...contaminating your transduction with the packaging cells. Packaging cell debris can be removed either by filtration... you can reduce the volume of cell culture medium on the packaging cells immediately following transfection...efficiency in cells that are sensitive to the toxicity of polybrene (e.g., hematopoietic or primary cells), and... the packaging cells after 1–3 days of selection. A lower percentage of surviving cells may be the result...adeno-associated virus transduction of cells." American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology 291.2 (2006): C386...vector, collecting virus, and transducing target cells, one may have the unfortunate experience of witnessing...witnessing…nothing. For some unclear reason, cells are not getting transduced. Here, I will share five hail... -
Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative
TypeBlog Post... rising intracellular calcium levels within the cell. When levels of Ca2+ are high in the cell, calcineurin...infection (MOI) during cell library construction to ensure that the majority of cells receive one gRNA. The... of a genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population, it’s easier to visualize...lengths, the density of cells that are labeled can be altered to dense (45% of cells labeled), intermediate...or aging cell populations. Figure 3: Micrographs of wild type (top panels) and cells with high...barcodes (iBARs) in their loop region. After infecting cells with sgRNAiBAR library containing lentiviral vectors...high MOI, which is beneficial for a low number of cells and in vivo settings. Find the sgRNAiBAR library... -
Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?
TypeBlog Post...never considered the sex of their cells. For one thing, cells and cell lines degenerate over time—and sex... effects of using all female cells and tissues, specifically in stem cell therapies. Let’s go back to ...therapeutic capacity of stem cells. Yet, very few researchers consider the sex of their cells when doing experiments—which... stem cells. Nor did they detect important differences in function between male and female cells. The ...experiment. In the case of stem cells, these factors may include cell type, the disease being treated,...the most commonly used cell lines appearing in American Journal of Physiology-Cell Physiology over the past...aware of in our checklist for tissue and cell research. Using cells from both sexes ensures that the diagnostics... -
Genetically-encoded Sparse Cell Labeling - A SPARC of Innovation
TypeBlog Post...single genetically-defined subset of cells. By labeling fewer cells in a population, it’s easier to visualize...non-overlapping cells. While transgenic animals are commonly used to specifically manipulate a cell type of interest...expressed. In cells where the stop cassette remains, the effector is not expressed and the cells are not labeled...sparse labeling of the cell population that expresses SPARC and the fraction of cells that will be labeled... interest in an organism, all cells of that type are affected. Previous tools to overcome this restraint... of the gene construct. A predictable number of cells will express the effector or retain the stop cassette...tool that allows for the labeling of a subset of cells with the same genetic makeup, overcomes all of these...