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  1. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    March 5, 2019, 1:08 p.m.
    ...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...
  2. Delivery Methods for Generating iPSCs

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    April 17, 2018, 1:37 p.m.
    ...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 ...
  3. Performing In Vivo CRISPR Screens Using the FITS Approach

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    May 2, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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...
  4. Mycoplasma Contamination: Where Does It Come From and How to Prevent It

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    Oct. 8, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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...
  5. Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot

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    Feb. 6, 2024, 3:13 p.m.
    ...-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...
  6. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    Dec. 14, 2017, 2:08 p.m.
    ...Pluripotent Stem Cells from Blood Cells: An Efficient Protocol Using Serial Plating of Reprogrammed Cells by Centrifugation...human-induced pluripotent stem cells from cord blood and peripheral blood cells. Stem Cells, 2013. 31(3): p. 458...possible to reprogram differentiated cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) by the addition of reprogramming... somatic cells that are otherwise difficult to obtain. These can then be used to perform cell therapy ...in vitro. Find stem cell plasmids at Addgene Many sources of adult somatic cells have been probed for...Efficient human iPS cell derivation by a non-integrating plasmid from blood cells with unique epigenetic...stem cells from a small amount of human peripheral blood using a combination of activated T cells and ...
  7. Tips for a 1st Time CRISPR User (by a 1st Time CRISPR User)

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    March 7, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
    ...performed on whole-cell extracts from the initial stable cell pool (pool) and from individual cell expansions ... in several human cancers) in A549 cells (a human lung cancer cell line), armed only with viruses obtained...need our A549 cells to express Cas9. In these particular experiments, we generated A549 cells stably expressing...52962-LV, Figure 1). Some cells were then used to generate a monoclonal cell lines by limiting dilution...The rest of the cells were frozen down. Figure 1: Cas9 expression in A549 cells transduced with...blotting was performed on whole-cell extracts from stable pools of A549 cells transduced with Cas9 expressing...A549 cells are relatively easy to transduce. I ended up with too many Cas9 integrations per cell, and ...
  8. Four Factors that Differentiate the Stem Cell Field

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    Sept. 28, 2016, 2:35 p.m.
    ...prevent stem cell lines from becoming the new HeLa cells?), genome engineering and stem cells, and the difficulty... landmark Cell paper showing that it was possible to generate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable...forming nearly all cell types in the body from otherwise terminally differentiated cells simply by expressing... Podcast Interview with Stem Cell Researcher Darrell Kotton 2. Stem cell scientists care about patients... happening. Stem cells scientists have certainly not lost site of that. 3. Stem cell science is hard, ...sharing of his OSKM factors have affected the stem cell community – a community largely created due to Yamanaka...understatement. Multiple speakers from top minds in the stem cell field have described the Yamanaka paper as "life...
  9. Cloning Mammalian Cells with the Agarose Method

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    Sept. 7, 2017, 12:17 p.m.
    ... a wide variety of cell lines, from HEK to CHO cells to neural and endocrine cells such as AtT-20, PC12...then handled. Additionally, many cell lines, especially the endocrine cell lines we most commonly work with...specific cell line, and its transfection efficiency. We often trypsinize the transfected cells on the day...increased). For some cells, add a drop of serum to aid in outgrowth. Depending on the cell type, we sometimes...growing cells such as HEK and CHO do not seem to require this, while nearly all endocrine cells do. While...difficulty deriving single clones from SH-SY5Y cells, as these cells did not seem to form discrete colonies but... of Medicine. In the Lindberg Lab we often make cell lines that overexpress genes of interest; more recently...
  10. Kiran Musunuru on the Newest TALEN Genome-Editing System

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    Dec. 10, 2013, 3:13 p.m.
    ...model systems: either human cells or mice. In a recent issue of Cell Stem Cell, Musunuru, Chad Cowan and...done in stem cells, we can differentiate those mutant and wild type stem cells into any cell type relevant...system for generating human stem cell-based disease models." Cell Stem Cell. 12, 238-251 (7 February 2013...homology-directed repair by flooding the cell with a mutant template and fooling the cell into using that template for...mutations influence the disease process. In the Cell Stem Cell paper, for example, we generated hepatocytes...generating the mutant cell lines that one needs to do disease modeling in stem cells. Addgene: Tell me about...Kiran Musunuru's lab in Harvard's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology is to understand the basis...
  11. Plasmids 101: Transformation, Transduction, Bacterial Conjugation, and Transfection

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    June 25, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
    ... into cells in the lab. The introduction of foreign DNA or RNA into bacteria or eukaryotic cells is a ...application of an electrical charge to cells, to increase cell membrane permeability and thus transformation...introduce foreign DNA into eukaryotic cells, like mammalian cell lines. This can be done with lentiviral...the genome and stable cell lines, where foreign DNA is incorporated into the cell’s genome and is thus passed... pokes holes in the cell membrane so DNA can be introduced directly into the cell. Microinjection requires...multiple ways foreign DNA can be introduced into cells including transformation, transduction, conjugation...genetic material from the environment by bacterial cells. In nature, this genetic material often comes from...
  12. Multiplexed Overexpression of Regulatory Factors (MORF) collection

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    March 30, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...human embryonic stem cells. Transduced stem cells were differentiated and single cell RNA-seq was performed...transduced human embryonic stem cells with the viral TF library, with each cell receiving only 1 TF expression...construct. Cells were cultured following a differentiation protocol before performing single-cell RNA sequencing...differentiation.   Fig. 2: Single cell RNA-seq clustering of cells transduced with the TF pooled library... clusters of individual cells along with color coded nominated reference cell types.  (Adapted from Joung...delivered to each cell, future applications could deliver multiple TFs to each cell, allowing for combinatorial...generate unique cell types. Of the 24 TFs they tested, 22 expressed markers consistent with the cell type that...
  13. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...Love your cells and they'll love you back A successful lentiviral infection begins with your cells, both ...both your packaging cells and your target cells. Poor tissue culture practices can lead to low titers and... promote cell growth. Overgrown cultures stimulate quiescence, the resting phase of the cell cycle; quiescent...quiescent cells do not take up nucleic acid or express transgenes as well as actively dividing cells resulting...reaching 108 cells per ml before the media becomes cloudy. Mycoplasma compete with host cells for nutrients...consumption due to the high cell density of the culture. In addition to benefitting your cells, medium exchanges...therefore titers obtained in one cell type may not translate well to other cell types. To overcome this issue...
  14. Quick Guide to All Things Lentivirus

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    March 21, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...-dividing cells. The ability to infect non-dividing cells is not restricted to in vitro cell culture as...target cells. If you are transducing non-adherent cells you might need to centrifuge your cells with the...favourite gene into your favourite cell line or into primary cells, this blog article will give you some...infect both dividing and non-dividing cells, including stem cells. These properties make lentiviral vectors...immortalized cells lines but reach their limits when it comes to transferring DNA into primary cells or non-...non-dividing cells. To target these un-transfectable cells, labs use viral vectors and particularly retroviral...will first need to transfect producing cells, usually 293T cells, with your transfer plasmid and your packaging...
  15. Viral Vectors 101: Transductions

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    April 30, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...With regard to target cells or organism, some primary cells and differentiated cell types are picky when...packaging plasmids into a viral production cell line, usually HEK-293 cells. When all of these viral plasmids ... 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...secreted into the cellular media, making viral collection fairly easy. Producer cell media can be collected...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. New Acoustic Reporter Genes: Ultrasound Imaging of Gene Expression

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    Jan. 24, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...producing cells. After FACS, return the cells to doxycycline-free media and expand the cells. Use a subset...white inclusions in cells with GVs via phase contrast microscopy, GVs visible in cells via TEM, and purified... heterogeneity required single cell screening to isolate a clonal cell line capable of producing ultrasound...expression homogeneity, as the cells could be batch-sorted to isolate a polyclonal cell line with strong gas vesicle...transient transfection in rtTA+ cell lines (such as HEK293-TETOn cells), or they can also be integrated...PiggyBac transposase. In rtTA-cell lines, it is better to first engineer the cell line with rtTA, then integrate...own mARGAna cell line. (c) Z-projected phase contrast images of GV expressing MDA-MB-231 cells (top, scalebar...
  17. Photosensitizer Induced Cell Ablation with FAP-TAP MG-2I-dL5**

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    Sept. 19, 2017, 1:20 p.m.
    ...HEK293 cell culture and in live zebrafish. For cell culture experiments, only dL5**-expressing cells treated...inactivate target proteins or cells while having little effect on neighboring cells. The photosensitizer used...Here Light-induced cell ablation with MG-2I-dL5** He et al tested out light-induced cell ablation with MG...effective killing of dL5** cells without death of neighboring bystander wild-type cells.   Zebrafish experiments...fewer mCer3-labeled cells in their hearts 24 hours post treatment and no mCer3 cells present 96 hours post...increase cell ablation efficiency, but dL5** phototoxocity is induced when expressed on the cell surface...protein inactivation/cell ablation while having limited collateral damage to bystander cells. Are you ready ...
  18. Nanoblades: Tiny CRISPR Ninjas for Genome Editing Difficult Cells

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    Sept. 26, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
    ...gain access to some cells and tissues, such as human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Nanoblades... into particles at the cell membrane. Mature Nanoblades then bud into the cell culture supernatant and... Addgene. Genome editing primary cells with Nanoblades Primary cells are often refractory to gene delivery...mouse bone marrow (BM) cells, primary human hepatocytes, and hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) using Nanoblades...-70% for these four cell types (Table 1). Additionally, hiPSCs and mouse BM cells still behaved like iPSCs...Primary cell type Gene targeted by guide Editing efficiency hiPSCs  EMX1  67% Mouse BM cells from GFP...mouse BM cells when using a gRNA targeting the Fto gene, while editing was not detected in cells electroporated...
  19. Hot Plasmids - October 2020

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    Oct. 13, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...determine cell cycle length by examining the ratio of blue to red cells. Cells undergoing rapid cell cycles...’s difficult to observe the cell cycle in vivo, particularly if the cells are migratory or in deep tissues... BaF3 cells were transduced with H2B-FT virus and grown in varying concentrations of IL-3. Cells grown...proportion of blue fluorescence, indicating cell proliferation. BaF3 cells maintained in media without IL-3 show...H2B-FT consistently predicted the cell cycle speed across these different cell types. In one example, H2B-FT...expressed in murine B cells (BaF3), which depend on IL-3 to proliferate. The cells cultured with a low ...and had a greater number of red cells as measured by flow cytometry. Cells grown in high IL-3 showed mostly...
  20. The Importance of High Titer for AAV Transductions

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    March 1, 2018, 2:11 p.m.
    ...Making contact with a cell Although an individual AAV particle’s ability to infect a cell is dependent on its...construction and the cell it’s infecting, getting these particles to infect cells is also very titer-dependent... particle to infect a cell, it has to come into physical contact with that cell. Since there is a limited...of surface area on each cell, the way to get more AAV in contact with the cell is to increase the AAV ...between the cell and any individual AAV particle is rare. But simply getting into the cell may not always...particles that have entered the cell now have to travel up the axon, through the cell, and potentially spread ...particles per cell, you may not be able to detect AAV-mediated gene expression in a target cell. Practical...
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