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  1. Evolution of Lab Techniques

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    June 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Neuroscience at Harvard University. Just as computers, cell phones, and cars become more technologically advanced...gene mutation is the genetic test used for sickle cell anemia (2). Southern blotting, in conjunction with... of the mutated β globin gene that causes sickle cell anemia. The mutation happens to destroy a sequence...conducted on a sample from an individual without sickle cell anemia, two DNA fragments are observed because the... site where MstII cuts. In a patient with sickle cell anemia the enzyme does not cut the DNA so only one...Wai Kan. "A sensitive new prenatal test for sickle-cell anemia." New England Journal of Medicine 307.1 (...transgenic constructs and mice." Current Protocols in Cell Biology (2009): 19-10. PubMed PMID: 19283728. PubMed...
  2. Supporting Rare Disease Research with BeHeard 2017

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    July 20, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...partners in mouse cell lines. Dr. Di Schiavi hopes that these studies will accelerate the development of...learn how plasmids from Addgene will be used to accelerate rare disease research and provide hope to patients...plasmids to upregulate their expression in specific cells. With a more concrete understanding of the molecular... of ~30 patient derived peritoneal mesothelioma cells lines and assess their tumorigenesis. These experiments...effects on the disease. This work will hopefully accelerate the development of targeted therapy for peritoneal...
  3. CRISPR 101: Off-Target Effects

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    Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
    ...millions of cells. For every individual sgRNA, you recover a minimum of 1,000 targeted cells to sequence...trying to generate a knockout cell line, with the goal of isolating single cell clones to use for multiple...generate a ssDNA break which can easily be repaired by cells with a near zero likelihood of mutation arising.... a level of, say 5%, then the majority of single cell editing events will be on target. Thus, if you isolate...example, if your goal is to generate a knock-out cell line to perform downstream characterization of, ...
  4. Plasmids 101: Dimers and Multimers

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    Jan. 10, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...at lower copy numbers within bacterial cells, and bacterial cells with multimers grow more slowly compared...stable and more prone to being lost in bacterial cells compared to monomers, although this can be prevented...increase the frequency of base substitution in human cells. J Biol Chem. 2011 Mar 25;286(12):10017-26. doi:...plasmids leading to the formation of plasmid multimers. Cell. 1976 Dec;9(4 PT 2):707-16. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674...supercoiled plasmid DNA concatemers in mammalian cells. J Gene Med. 2009 May;11(5):444-53. doi: 10.1002...essential for plasmid monomerization and stability. Cell. 1984 Apr;36(4):1097-103. doi: 10.1016/0092-8674...
  5. Scientists Map the SARS-CoV-2-Human Interaction Network

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    April 9, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ... used HEK293T cells in our first study, but we're planning to soon expand to other cell types, including...26 of the 29 SARS-CoV-2 viral proteins in human cells and used these viral “bait” proteins to fish for...human proteins that the virus interacts with in cells. Because viruses rely on the help of human proteins...monkeywrench into the virus’ hijacking of human cells. Even better, more than half the drugs hitting these...they have an IRES-Puro marker to facilitate stable cell clone selection. Expression is driven by a fairly...
  6. K. phaffii: Rising to the Occasion

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    April 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...path.   Yeast as a model organism Yeast are single cell, eukaryotic organisms formally classified as fungi...and S. cerevisiae (budding). Yeast make for an excellent model organism for a few reasons: Affordable...similarity to the ancient yeast strains and metazoan cells.   Applications for K. phaffii There’s a number ...protein bang for your media buck - it grows at higher cell densities than most of its counterparts, yielding...oxidative reactions. They are found in all eukaryotic cells and peroxisomes are where methanol metabolism occurs...in methylotrophic organisms. K. phaffii is an excellent model for peroxisome studies since their peroxisomes...
  7. DAP arrays for multiplex gene editing

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    July 7, 2022, 1:15 p.m.
    ...different types of human cells, including T cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Now with the DAP...to enable multiplex gene editing in a variety of cells and organisms. However, lengthy genetic payloads... over 50% averaging editing efficiency in human cells. MBE with DAP array also exhibited reduced Cas9-... editing, and nuclease editing, in virtually any cell type or organisms of interest with only minimal ...
  8. R Bodies: Membrane-Rupturing Microscopic Tools

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    April 14, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... can rupture E. coli spheroplasts (cells which have had their cell walls removed with lysozyme). This ...protein fusions allowed us to image R bodies inside cells, and these constructs may be useful to future scientists...applications. For example, you could use them to lyse cells (and surrounding membranes) in keeping with their...penetrate other barriers (like vasculature or extracellular matrices) in response to pH changes. Beyond...assemble and function, we might be able to endow cells with new ways to interact mechanically with their...
  9. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Luciferases

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    July 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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...
  10. Expanding the Targeting Scope and Editing Efficiency of Adenine Base Editors

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    March 17, 2020, 1:32 p.m.
    ...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...
  11. Viral Vectors 101: Viral Vector Elements

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    July 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
    ...genetic cargo, typically an expression construct, to cells/organisms. This is often cDNA, shRNA, or something...perform very similar functions to infiltrate the host cell and deposit viral cargo. Gene expression While AAV...what will be delivered and expressed in the host cell from the transfer plasmid. Viral packaging and entry...altered tropism of AAV to target different tissue or cell types. AAV also requires some back up from adenovirus...promoter that you wish to deliver to your target cells. In adenovirus, the ITRs serve as a type of origin...deficient. This is typically supplied by the production cell line (HEK-293) during production. Fun fact: There...
  12. Screening for Successful Genome Editing with Digital PCR

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    March 30, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...to quantify rates of mutation in a bulk or single cell-derived genomic DNA sample as part of a precision... successfully analyzed gDNA from a few thousand cells from single wells of a 96-well plate without prior... that they are easily able to distinguish single-cell derived samples with mono-allelic mutations versus...Isolation of single-base genome-edited human iPS cells without antibiotic selection. Nat Meth 11, 291–293... and Highly Specific Screening of Genome Edited Cells. PLoS ONE 11, e0153901–17 (2016). PubMed PMID: 27089539...mutagenesis induced by CRISPR-Cas nucleases in human cells. Nature Biotechnology 31, 822–826 (2013). PubMed...
  13. RaPID Detection of RNA-protein Interactions

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    Aug. 16, 2018, 12:40 p.m.
    ...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...
  14. Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR

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    Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
    ...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...
  15. Rosella: A Fluorescent pH-Biosensor for Studying Autophagy

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    April 13, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... 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...
  16. Plasmids 101: Cre-lox

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    Jan. 13, 2015, 3:47 p.m.
    ...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...
  17. Educational Planarian Tools for Teaching Developmental Biology Techniques

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    May 24, 2018, 1:20 p.m.
    ...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...
  18. Adapting Toehold Switches to Detect Zika Virus

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    Aug. 30, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...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...
  19. Plasmids 101: Terminators and PolyA signals

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    March 31, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...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...
  20. Selecting Your Plasmid Purification Kit

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    May 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ... 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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