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  1. Hot Plasmids - January 2023

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    Jan. 31, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...standard CAR-T cells, but it reduces the off-target effects caused by T cell migration.  CAR expression... mCherry for FACS sorting of the weaponized T-cells (CAR-T cells) - and then delivering them to a tumor...for reducing the on-target off-tumor activity of CART cells was recently devised by the Yingxiao Wang ...here!   Wu Y, et. al. Control of the activity of CAR-T cells within tumours via focused ultrasound. Nat... RNA targeting system Heat-inducible lentiviral Car constructs Anti-GFP [N86/8R] ready-to-use antibody.... PMID: 36690762.   Heat-inducible lentiviral CAR constructs by: Brian O'Neill  A clever system for...the system is a set of heat-inducible lentiviral CAR constructs, the most basic of which is depicted here...
  2. Antibodies 101: Single Chain Fragment Variables (scFvs)

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    June 3, 2021, 1:15 p.m.
    ... receptors (CARs). CARs are a chimera of scFvs and T cell receptors and are expressed on T cells to make...Bispecific T-cell engagers (BiTE®s), bind CD3 on T cells and a tumor-specific antigen, it brings T cells to...make CAR T cells. The extracellular scFv portion of the receptors recognizes an antigen of interest while...while the intracellular T cell receptor portion of the CAR facilitates signal transduction and release...release of cytotoxic granules from the T cell. When a CAR has an scFv that binds cancer-related antigens, binding...binding of the scFv part of the receptor can activate T cells to kill cancer cells. scFv’s small size also...Hardman K, Jacobson J, Johnson S, Kaufman B, Lee S, Lee T, Pope S, Riordan G, Whitlow M (1988) Single-chain ...
  3. CRISPR in the Clinic

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    Nov. 2, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...CRISPR Therapies Cancer and CAR-T therapy The FDA has already approved CAR-T immunotherapy for cancer treatment... on giving this treatment a CRISPR spin. CRISPR CAR-T treatments for leukemia, lymphoma, and some solid... results (Dimitri et al). CRISPR engineering of CAR-T cells is particularly promising because of its potential...Fraietta, J.A. Engineering the next-generation of CAR T-cells with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. Mol Cancer ...the introduction of the cancer-fighting component, CAR. Clinical trials are underway to explore CRISPR’s...s12943-022-01559-z Zarghamian P, Klermund J, Cathomen T. Clinical genome editing to treat sickle cell disease-A...limited to, ones targeting muscular dystrophy, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory diseases, blindness, ...
  4. Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship

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    March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...occurred during CAR-T cell tests because treatment regimens were not chosen carefully. Participants in...Chimeric antigen receptors T cells producing chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) on their surfaces have been... on tumor cells and exhibit cytotoxic activity. CAR-T cells have consistently shown promise in reducing... system - cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), natural killer (NK) cells, and helper T (Th) cells. These cells... Additionally, tumor cells recruit regulatory T cells (T-regs) into their microenvironment by producing... "Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts... factor beta (TGFβ) and IL-10 that suppress APCs. T cells that would normally attack the cancer cells ...
  5. Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer

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    July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ...therapeutics such as  (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) CAR T cells and PD-1 modulators. An exciting development...PMC4597191. 5. Eyquem, Justin, et al. "Targeting a CAR to the TRAC locus with CRISPR/Cas9 enhances tumour...the combination of the CRISPR/Cas9 methodology with T cell receptor engineering (Ref 5)  as described by...search and stabilization during ligand detection by T cells." Science 356.6338 (2017): eaal3118. PubMed ...cancer/immunology researchers are preparing and carrying out this multi-pronged attack. Inflammation and...presented study analysed a model of hepatocellular carcinoma, a cancer which can develop from a state of chronic...
  6. Antibodies 101: Beyond Surface Labeling

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    June 27, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... we want to sort out all CD8+ T cells from a mix of CD8+ T cells, CD4+ T cells, B cells, and dendritic...the various cell populations; for example, CD8+ T (“T killer”) cells. Typically, you would label the CD8...”. From left to right: B cell, CD4+ T cell, dendritic cell, CD8+ T cell. Created using biorender.com. ...CD8 co-receptor protein on the surface of the CD8+ T cells and gate on the positive events for your flow..., like an in vivo adoptive transfer of those CD8+ T cells, require the cells to be minimally altered, ...the lineage markers of all cell types except CD8+ T cells. We might choose the markers CD4, CD19, and ... CD11c, which would label everything but the CD8+ T cells (Figure 2). Even better, we can use the same...
  7. Viral Vectors 101: Systemic Capsids

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    Oct. 12, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ...H., Morin, E., Nguyen, T. N., Garren, E., Bendrick, J. L., Kim, T. K., Zhou, T., Mortrud, M., Yao, S.,...G. M., Hori, A. M., Chuapoco, M. R., Otis, T. S., Miles, T. F., & Gradinaru, V. (2022). Adeno-Associated... Wang, T., Wolfe, D. A., Arokiaraj, C. M., Ngo, V., Campos, L. J., Griffiths, J. A., Ichiki, T., Mazmanian...doi.org/10.1016/j.omtm.2022.07.010 Graybuck, L. T., Daigle, T. L., Sedeño-Cortés, A. E., Walker, M., Kalmbach... J. C., Buzhdygan, T., Cheng, M. J., Sena-Esteves, M., Bennett, R. E., Sullivan, T. P., Razmpour, R., ...Q., Chen, A. T., Chan, K. Y., Sorensen, H., Barry, A. J., Azari, B., Zheng, Q., Beddow, T., Zhao, B., ...w Krolak, T., Chan, K. Y., Kaplan, L., Huang, Q., Wu, J., Zheng, Q., Kozareva, V., Beddow, T., Tobey, ...
  8. Targeting HIV-1 with CRISPR: Shock and Kill or Cut it Out?

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    May 10, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...procedure in HIV-1 infected T-cells to see if they could be rescued by CRISPR. CD4+ T-cells were isolated from...HIV-1 is limited to a subset of T-cells, but it is unclear if enough T-cells could be reached to ablate... infects cells in the immune system, notably CD4+ T-cells, and eventually leads to acquired immunodeficiency...promoter-luciferase constructs. In multiple HIV-1 latent T cell lines, as well as a latent microglial line, treatment...3’ LTRs and expressed them along with Cas9 in the T-cell line 2D10. PCR amplification and Sanger sequencing...the HIV-1 copy number by over 50% in isolated CD4+ T-cells from two HIV-1 infected patients. Although this...aberrant DNA cleavage. Direct HIV-1 cleavage allows T-cells to survive, but preventing re-infection would...
  9. Exploring Applications of the Bioluminescent HiBiT Tag

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    Oct. 2, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...Shibata, C., Otsuka, M., Shimizu, T., Seimiya, T., Kishikawa, T., Aoki, T., & Fujishiro, M. (2023). Extracellular..., Vidugiris, G., Machleidt, T., Robers, M. B., Benink, H. A., Eggers, C. T., Slater, M. R., Meisenheimer...doi.org/10.3390/cells12232741  Kamio, T., Kono, Y., Hirosuna, K., Ozato, T., Yamamoto, H., Hirasawa, A., Ennishi...., Iwasaki, A., Zhu, J., Fukuda, R., & Okiyoneda, T. (2023). UBE3C Facilitates the ER-Associated and Peripheral...double-stranded RNA. They hypothesized that if ADAR1 were carried by extracellular vesicles (EVs), edited transcripts... as a sensitive reporter for tracking proteomic cargo flow via EVs. Find ADAR-HiBiT Fusion Vector at Addgene...the heterogeneity and spread of hepatocellular carcinoma in human tissue and in vitro. Oncology Reports...
  10. "Hall of Fame" AAV Enhancers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

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    Sept. 9, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
    ...H., Morin, E., Nguyen, T. N., Garren, E., Bendrick, J. L., Kim, T. K., Zhou, T., Mortrud, M., Yao, S.,...doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.035 Graybuck, L. T., Daigle, T. L., Sedeño-Cortés, A. E., Walker, M., Kalmbach....2021.03.011 Mich, J. K., Graybuck, L. T., Hess, E. E., Mahoney, J. T., Kojima, Y., Ding, Y., Somasundaram...References Ben-Simon, Y., Hooper, M., Narayan, S., Daigle, T. L., Dwivedi, D., Way, S. W., Oster, A., Stafford,...Way, S. W., Thyagarajan, B., Otto, S., … Ting, J. T. (2025). Enhancer AAV toolbox for accessing and perturbing...continue to develop improved, reliable tools to help carry out that research. Organizations like the Allen ...
  11. Deep Dive: Statistical Tests (Comparisons)

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    March 7, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ..., which we will discuss more in another blog. T-tests T-tests compare the mean of two groups to determine...the simplest statistical tests available. Tailed t-tests If you are solely interested in whether or not...exclusively less-than comparisons. Paired and unpaired t-tests Samples that come from the same subject or population...treatment, for example - should be analyzed with a paired t-test, because they eliminate subject-to-subject variation...the other hand, should be analyzed with an unpaired t-test, which does account for subject-to-subject variation...assesses the difference of the group means). Unpaired t-tests can also be referred to as two-sample or independent...accounted for. ANOVA tests ANOVA tests are essentially t-tests with room for more variables and groups. ANOVAs...
  12. Hot Plasmids - November 2023

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    Nov. 14, 2023, 3:35 a.m.
    ...MMLV gag, to specific cell types. It can also make CAR-T cell therapy more accessible by simplifying the ...production process and could even enable the creation of CAR-T cells directly within the body. Overall, DIRECTED...system to improve on-target delivery of genetic cargo Optogenetic proximity labeling and TransitID Tracking...system to improve on-target delivery of genetic cargo  By Alyssa NeuhausTo improve delivery and reduce...
  13. Degrading DNA with Cascade-Cas3

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    Feb. 11, 2025, 2:15 p.m.
    ...Y., Nakada, S., Yamamoto, T., Sano, S., Hotta, A., Takeda, J., & Mashimo, T. (2019). CRISPR-Cas3 induces...doi.org/10.1126/science.aat0839 Yoshimi, K., & Mashimo, T. (2022). Genome editing technology and applications...Bravo, J. P., Ramos, D., Hibshman, G. N., Wright, J. T., & Taylor, D. W. (2023). Structural snapshots of ...Smith, S. C., Vidal, B., Donohoue, P. D., Rotstein, T., Kohrs, B. W., Nyer, D. B., Kennedy, R., Banh, L...., Edwards, L. S., Lin, C., Owen, A. L. G., Künne, T., . . . Sternberg, S. H. (2019). Harnessing type I...which means it requires multiple Cas effectors to carry out genomic editing. Specifically, these types of... using a gRNA and can then recruit Cas3, which carries out the brunt of the mechanical work for editing...
  14. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...-m to edit primary human T cells efficiently makes it a promising tool for T cell therapy development....Adenine base editors (ABE) mediate A•T-to-G•C base changes (Figure 1), but it can be challenging to make...cells the authors targeted 6 genes in primary human T cells using 8 selected ABE8s and ABE7.10. They quantified...reducing protein expression the most in primary human T cells. While editing single genes is very useful, ... DI, Liu DR (2017) Programmable base editing of A•T to G•C in genomic DNA without DNA cleavage. Nature... developed a second set: The ABE8.x-d version carries a fusion of wild-type TadA and the evolved TadA...
  15. An Introduction to Adenovirus

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    Oct. 3, 2023, 1:15 p.m.
    ....73.8.6930-6936.1999. PMID: 10400791. Kafri, T., Morgan, D., Krahl, T., Sarvetnick, N., Sherman, L., & Verma...062117. PMID: 17510320. Tollefson, A. E., Scaria, A., Hermiston, T. W., Ryerse, J. S., Wold, L. J., & Wold...Castro, D., Karr, M., Hawkins, L. K., & Hermiston, T. W. (2003). Multigene expression from a replicating...Huebner, R. J., Gilmore, L. K., Parrott, R. H., & Ward, T. G. (1953). Isolation of a Cytopathogenic Agent from...vectors persist in vivo and maintain activated CD8+ T cells: implications for their use as vaccines. Blood...
  16. Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream

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    Sept. 24, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...nl202950h.  Matsuoka, R., Kimura, S., Miura, T., Ikoma, T., & Kusamoto, T. (2023) Single-Molecule Magnetoluminescence...., Tzouanas, C. N., Avants, B. W., & Robinson, J. T. (2019). Magnetic Entropy as a Proposed Gating Mechanism... Rai, A., Lazzari-Dean, J. R., Lefebvre, A. E. Y. T., York, A. G., Ingaramo, M. (2024). Magnetic control... Andrew and Maria were skeptical. The team was careful to test the possibility that this might just be...proteins that had shown magnetic responses: EGFP, mScarlet, and AsLOV2. After several rounds of semi-random...semi-random mutagenesis and screening, the EGFP and mScarlet variants were showing no obvious signs of improved...
  17. Sharing is Caring: But How to Distribute Open Hardware?

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    Feb. 28, 2023, 2:15 p.m.
    ...processing and low-cost optical setups. References Joel T. Collins, Joe Knapper, Julian Stirling, et. al, "Robotic...successful. Machine-learning denoising of raw data (CARE), segmentation of imaging data (ILASTIK), or the..., for example, can also be printed quickly in Madagascar. Platforms that allow for on-going creativity..." bioRxiv. 2020. Diederich, B., Lachmann, R., Carlstedt, S. et al. A versatile and customizable low-cost...
  18. Viral Vectors 101: Producing Your rAAV

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    July 16, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ... Byrne, B. J., Caton, T., Chiorini, J. A., Chtarto, A., Clark, K. R., Conlon, T., Darmon, C., Doria, M..., Boye, S. L., Boye, S. E., Levites, Y., … Golde, T. E. (2020). Utilizing minimally purified secreted ... M., Douar, A., Flotte, T. R., Francis, J. D., … Snyder, R. O. (2010). Characterization of a recombinant...10.1089/hum.2010.107 Zen, Z., Espinoza, Y., Bleu, T., Sommer, J. M., & Wright, J. F. (2004). Infectious...can be transfected with your transfer plasmid, carrying your gene of interest, and the two helper plasmids...undergoing titering, to remove residual plasmid DNA carried over from the production process. For more details...
  19. Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

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    April 11, 2024, 1:15 p.m.
    ...https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6968.12241  Keen, N. T., Tamaki, S., Kobayashi, D., & Trollinger, D. (1988...10.1016/0378-1119(88)90117-5  Lale, R., Brautaset, T., & Valla, S. (2011). Broad-host-range plasmid vectors...BF00268809  Prior, J. E., Lynch, M. D., & Gill, R. T. (2010). Broad-host-range vectors for protein expression... https://doi.org/10.1002/bit.22695  Schmidhauser, T. J., Ditta, G., & Helinski, D. R. (1988). Chapter ...for Gram-Negative Bacteria. In R. L. Rodriguez & D. T. Denhardt (Eds.), Vectors (pp. 287–332). Butterworth-Heinemann...Enterobacter sp., Erwinia amylovora, E. carotovora subsp. Carotovora, E. herbicola, E. rubrifaciens, E. stewartii...can replicate and stably maintain the genes they carry among organisms belonging to many different phylogenetic...
  20. Plasmids 101: Multicistronic Vectors

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    Sept. 9, 2014, 8:20 p.m.
    ... L L T C G D V E E N P G P P2A: (GSG) A T N F S L L K Q A G D V E E N P G P E2A: (GSG) Q C T N Y A... A L L K L A G D V E S N P G P F2A: (GSG) V K Q T L N F D L L K L A G D V E S N P G P * (GSG) residues...Apr 29.) PubMed. 5. Scalable signaling mediated by T cell antigen receptor-CD3 ITAMs ensures effective ...segment of the 5' nontranslated region of encephalomyocarditis virus RNA directs internal entry of ribosomes...
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