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  1. CRISPR 101: Drug discovery and CRISPR

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    May 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...development and therapy. Nat Rev Drug Discov (2017) 16(2):89-100. DOI: 10.1038/nrd.2016.238 Additional resources...identification of potential targets by CRISPR can accelerate the drug pipeline. High-throughput CRISPR screens...knock out, etc. – CRISPR can be used to generate cell line or animal models which have the precise disease...Since CRISPR has been adapted for use in primary cells, many tissue types, and across species, it enables... phenotype. CRISPR can also be used to generate cell line knock-ins of patient mutations which are variants...CRISPR has revolutionized the generation of knockout cell lines which has made this control step extremely...in a cancerous background and treat the parental cell line and the X knockout with your drug(s). If a ...
  2. Some Like it Hot: Thermostable GeoCas9

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    Sept. 14, 2017, 12:40 p.m.
    ...remained active in up to 30% plasma. Figure 2: Human plasma longevity of SpCas9 vs GeoCas9. SpCas9...mammalian cells. Harrington et al tested GeoCas9’s editing skills by transfecting HEK293 cells with GeoCas9...choice for a number of model organisms: mammalian cells, yeast, drosophila, plants, worms, zebrafish, frogs... 45 °C 50 - 70 °C Genome Editing in Mammalian Cells? Yes Yes Longevity in Serum?* No Yes Table ...experimental results. GeoCas9 RNP editing in mammalian cells Besides being able to take some heat, GeoCas9 can...
  3. CRISPR/Cas9 FAQs Answered!

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    March 13, 2014, 4:08 p.m.
    ...articles, such as: Sander JD & Joung JK, Nature Biotech, 2 March 2014. Or browse the articles related to the ...allows you to sort for GFP-positive cells and to enrich for those cells that were positively transfected....introduction of a mutation into the genome, how can cells with that mutation be selected/screened? A4: Before...can use a selection marker to select transfected cells (for example, plasmid with a puromycin resistance...paper). If you detect positive HR, isolate single-cell colonies, grow them up, then perform individual ...
  4. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... gamma (IFNγ) - and eliminate cancer cells. 2. Equilibrium - In a process analogous to the development...PMID: 25818339. 2. Curiel, Tyler J., et al. "Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma...activity, and consists of other cell types, especially immune cells and cells of epithelial origin. Suppressing...turns off T cell function upon interaction with APCs. Furthermore, tumor cells alter their cell-surface proteome...molecules needed for T cell effector function. Cancer cells also produce programmed cell death ligand (PD-L1... activity of CTLs and NK cells. These cells would normally kill cancer cells but are directed not to through...to use whole cell therapeutics consisting of various types of immune cells. Dendritic cells (DCs) are particularly...
  5. Scientific Reproducibility - Focusing on Solutions at the Minisymposium on Reproducibility

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    May 18, 2018, 7:32 p.m.
    ...Almo, Institute for Protein Innovation  1:18:45 - 2:01:18 (end) - Panel Alex Tucker (Ginkgo Bioworks)...their curation of citable, linkable figures. Cause #2: Hidden “negative” data We all want to be able to ... characterised antibodies against all human extracellular proteins with community-based validation. They...
  6. Finding Your Science Policy Path

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    Sept. 22, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...teaching and mentoring others (see more in Figure 2). Starting early demonstrates not only your interest...application process so you can learn more! Figure 2: The many ways to prepare for a science policy career...example proposals and consider applying for their accelerator for some hands-on guidance.   Check out my webinar...
  7. Special Delivery: Fluorophore Targeting for FRET Studies

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    July 19, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...establishing the dynamic range of your FRET assay (Figure 2). These labeling methods are freely interchangeable...PMID: 20161833. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2802762. 2. Dumas, Anaëlle, et al. "Designing logical codon reassignment–Expanding...Mammalian Cells pCMV-DnpK dinitrophenyl hapten Mammalian Cells pANAP AnapRS Mammalian Cells Note:... Qi, and Marcel P. Bruchez. "Advances in chemical labeling of proteins in living cells." Cell and tissue...endogenous biomolecules in cells nonspecifically, and they cannot cross cell membranes, so they are best... ion channels, or cell surface receptors) or with experiments on permeabilized cells. Biarsenical labeling...these compounds cross cell membranes, thus enabling FRET measurements in intact cells. The Gradia Lab has...
  8. Safe Port in a Storm...How Addgene is Weathering the Pandemic

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    Sept. 17, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...majority of deposited materials to study SARS-CoV-2 would be fully open and available to industry requestors...they grasped the crucial role Addgene plays in accelerating research. Yet this was still not enough to ensure...type of biomedical science research. Our work accelerates and enhances productive collaborations as well...distribution of plasmids for COVID-19 research is accelerating essential research in laboratories all around...scientists worldwide with Addgene’s traditional excellence through whatever lies ahead this year. We can...
  9. Illuminating Choices: A Guide to Selecting Fluorescent Dyes and Ligands

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    March 21, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... ligands can elicit varying degrees of β-arrestin-2 recruitment to receptors, indicating their agonistic...fluorescent labels. In Nature Methods (Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 149–158). Nature Research. https://doi.org/10.1038... is technically cell-permeable, its use in live cells can sometimes result in cellular toxicity due to... Dyes that can pass through cell membranes can prove useful for live-cell imaging. Experimental context...Additionally, cell permeability is a critical factor, as it influences the dye's ability to enter cells without...enabled the visualization of both organic tissues and cell cultures, opening biological interiors to many inquisitive...fluorophores to enable highly specific visualization of cellular components, typically a protein of interest. Fluorescent...
  10. Sensing Neuronal Dopamine

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    July 30, 2019, 12:59 p.m.
    ...developed fluorescent-protein based DA sensors (Figure 2). The dLight1 dopamine sensor In 2018, Lin Tian’s ...the brain has been in vivo microdialysis of extracellular fluid (Darvesh et al., 2011). This technique... across the semipermeable membrane from the extracellular fluid into the perfused liquid. The probe then...detection of dopamine in flies, fish, and mice." Cell 174.2 (2018): 481-496.PubMed PMID: 30007419. PubMed...
  11. Hot Plasmids and Viral Preps - July 2021

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    July 27, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ...method relies on the fluorescence ratio between the 2 fluorophores, rather than on the fluorescence intensity...Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS), allowing for enrichment of successfully targeted cells that can be used...investigating genetic mechanisms related to morphogenesis, cell fate specification, and human disease.     Sun,...
  12. RUBY-Red Siliques

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    March 1, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...make it easier to study these mutants.   Fig. 2: (A) Betacyanin is produced from tyrosine by the activity...graduate student studying plant development and cell-cell communication in the Nimchuk Lab in the Biology...untransformed seedlings or callus (undifferentiated plant cell culture), which is great for a wide variety of applications...
  13. Tag Your Favorite Yeast Genes with Ease

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    Nov. 19, 2013, 2:37 p.m.
    ...Pringle’s former lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Bähler et al.(2) describe a modular collection of plasmids for a wide...insertion. The linear PCR product is introduced into the cell by direct transformation. A given insert will typically...
  14. Using Ultrasound to Image Bacteria in vivo: Acoustic Reporter Genes

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    June 19, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ...E. coli: acoustic gene 1 (arg1) and acoustic gene 2 (arg2). The key difference between arg1 and arg2 vesicles...limit of detection for arg1 expressing ECN is 109 cells/ml, which is within the range of  the ~1011 commensal...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    April 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... last ~2-7 days at moderate levels. With regard to target cells or organism, some primary cells and differentiated...packaging plasmids into a viral production cell line, usually HEK-293 cells. When all of these viral plasmids ...secreted into the cellular media, making viral collection fairly easy. Producer cell media can be collected... rogue HEK-293 cell). This virus-containing media can then be placed on whatever cells you would like ...just zapping your cells? That really depends on two things. First, what type of cell or organism context...process of transferring foreign nucleic acid into a cell by a viral agent. Transductions are similar to transfections...processes which introduce foreign nucleic acid into cells by any means, but are unique in that they require...
  16. Viral Vectors 101: Parts of the AAV Transfer Plasmid

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    Aug. 11, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... temporal activation of a transgene. Figure 2: FLEX Cre-Lox system.  WPRE The Woodchuck Hepatitis...about synthetic promoter AAVs for cell-type expression in retinal cells Resources on Addgene.org Find ...
  17. Creating accessible biology activities in schools with BioBits

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    Aug. 2, 2018, 12:56 p.m.
    ...PMID: 30083608. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6070312. 2. Stark, Jessica C., et al. "BioBits™ Bright: A fluorescent...on freeze-dried, cell-free (FD-CF) components. Making proteins outside of a cell - cell free extracts Typically... into a host cell (through a process called transformation), essentially giving the cell all the instructions...to dispose of the live cells. The alternative is to express the protein in a cell-free manner. This is ...biology, especially those at the molecular and cellular level. The reason for this is cost and complexity...electrophoresis to separate DNA or transforming cells with green fluorescent protein, these activities...transcription and translation. Unfortunately, having live cells in a classroom presents equipment needs, such as...
  18. HA Frankenbody, a New Imaging Tool to Visualize Single Molecules and Nascent Peptides

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    Oct. 10, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    ...structure-based framework engineering. Methods, 34(2), 184–199. PubMed PMID: 15312672. Inbar, D., Hochman...Stability improvement of antibodies for extracellular and intracellular applications: CDR grafting to stable...systems, and often do not fold properly once inside cells.  Developing the HA frankenbody To combat the issues... detects the widely used HA epitope in diverse cellular environments. They called this probe the HA frankenbody...previously proven to fold and function in living cells. To make these scaffolds specific to different targets...the tagged protein upon probe binding in living cells.  In their proof of concept experiment the Stasevich...mCherry, 4xHA tagged histone protein (H2B) in U2OS cells. They then showed that the HA frankenbody probe ...
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