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  1. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    ...CRISPR plasmids into MEL cells by electroporation, sort your transfected cells via FACS, primer validation...article "Generation of Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines via CRISPR/Cas9" from the Journal of Visualized...CRISPR/Cas9 to create genomic deletions in mammalian cell lines. Below Bauer and Canver discuss the motivations...deletions is to produce monoallelic deletion clones. Cells with just a single intact copy at a given locus ...screening by conventional PCR. Biallelically disrupted cells can be easily identified. Even in the case of clones... His lab studies the molecular genetics of blood cell development and disease. Learn more at his webpage...Kim JS. Targeted chromosomal deletions in human cells using zinc finger nucleases. Genome Res. 2010 Jan...
  2. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    ...help in the capture of other rare cell types, like stem cells or cells infected with malaria or other parasites...tumor markers to subsequently capture cancerous cells expressing low levels of tumor antigen. I asked ...looking at, magnetic isolation of circulating tumor cells, we found that the binding stability really mattered... in the pili that they use to anchor on to host cells. Addgene: Were there any major hurdles along the... donor for keeping going while we worked out the cell capture system.) Cancer and other applications Addgene...cancer? Howarth: The capture of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is going to have a big impact on our understanding...polymerizes affibodies to enhance magnetic cancer cell capture. Fierer et al (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A....
  3. Save Time and Money by Making Your Own Competent Cells

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    ... competent cells (protocol)  Transformation of electrocompetent cells (protocol)  Cells prepared using...to make your own competent cells It’s easy to make your own competent cells. If you need a high efficiency...purchasing competent cells. However, for most everyday cloning, homemade competent cells will work just fine...Preparing chemically competent cells (protocol)  Preparing electrocompetent cells (protocol)  Untergasser...of chemically competent cells (protocol) Preparation of electrocompetent cells (protocol) At Addgene...Set  from Zymo Research to make competent cells because cells prepared using this kit can be transformed...then wash and resuspend the cells in the provided buffers. The competent cells are then aliquoted and stored...
  4. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    ...OptoNBs to control cell signaling The second application for OptoNBs takes us into cells: light-based control... regulation of endogenous signaling activity in cells.  Let’s shed some light on the key components of...their use for protein purification and controlling cell signaling. Key components of OptoNBs OptoNBs have...can bind, it co-localizes with its target at the cell membrane and when the OptoNB can’t bind, it localizes... over-activated in cancer due to its involved in cell proliferation and differentiation.  Since Ras is...They expressed this OptoNB-SOS fusion protein in cells that expressed membrane-localized mCherry. With ...With darkness, SOS binds Ras and initiates the extracellular signaling-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling cascade...
  5. Stem Cell Models for Disease & Open Science: Interview with Darrell Kotton

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    ...engineered cells in therapy. The lungs are difficult, but other tissues like the retina have cell-based therapies...Chapter 9: Using stem cells as in-vitro models of disease. How Darrell is using stem cells from patients to...sharing reagents, cell lines, data, and knowledge without exclusivity. Chapter 11: The Stem Cell Bank (CReM ...the lungs, and, among other projects, using stem cells to develop in vitro models for lung disease. Darrell...what drives him as a praticing physician and stem cell researcher. Darrell's ultimate goal - to develop...means to treat disease through tissue repair, stem cells, gene therapy, and tissue engineering. How the multidisciplinary...nature of the Center for Regenerative Medicine accelerates research. Chapter 5: Research currently under...
  6. Multicolor Animals: Using Fluorescent Proteins to Understand Single Cell Behavior

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    ...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...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    ...labeling T cells, B cells, and antigen presenting cells, scientists have been able to decypher cellular dynamics...tracked by cell sorter giving immunologists the ability to count cells and statistically analyze cell movements...fast T cells could jump from one antigen presenting cell to another. Indeed, we now know that T cells are...2016)? How do dendritic cells migrate to lymph nodes to activate T cells (Celli et al 2008, Kitano et al...In complex metazoans, rapid cell division and large scale cell mobility are essential processes during.... a basal progenitor cell migrating to the epithelium). At this stage, only cells from the immune system... there is large scale cellular movement throughout an organism. Studying cell mobility within these ...
  8. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    ...already available today to cure sickle cell anemia in stem cells but this can’t be used in people until... audience discussed how J&J is already modifying cell and animal genomes to test hypotheses of disease..., open academic exploration in this area will accelerate the launch of clinical applications. During ...and more about the how to use genome edited stem cells to treat disease. As for me, I continue to be amazed... much we have yet to learn. As Dr. Mello said, “Cells have been in the information age for billions of...
  9. Measuring Kinase Activity at the Single-Cell Level with Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs)

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    ... the single-cell level can aid in drawing connections between signaling activity and cell phenotype. One...Covert, M.W. (2018). Live-cell measurements of kinase activity in single cells using translocation reporters... One method for monitoring live single-cell kinase activity is FRET, but FRET reporters are challenging...their Kinase Translocation Reporters (KTRs) whose cellular localization serves as a proxy measurement of ... used to measure kinase activity in specific subcellular compartments. Second, because KTRs shuttle between...
  10. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    ...primary human cells  Cell therapy approaches can use base editors to correct mutations in stem cells and return...primary human cell editing, the researchers tested ABE8 in CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells. ABE8 efficiently... In addition to stem cells the authors targeted 6 genes in primary human T cells using 8 selected ABE8s...to edit primary human T cells efficiently makes it a promising tool for T cell therapy development.  Reducing...be introduced into cells as a plasmid or as mRNA constructs. In primary human cells mRNA delivery of ABEs...ability for more robust editing in human cell lines and primary cells makes them a great addition to the base...these base changes, especially in primary human cells. Now, scientists at Beam Therapeutics have found...
  11. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    ...Induction of Human Germ Cell Fate from Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell, 2015. 17(2): p. 178-94....differentiation of human ES cells and iPS cells into mature pancreatic insulin-producing cells. Cell Res, 2009. 19(...blood cells, and renal epithelial cells from urine are some of the easily isolated somatic cells that ...some of these cell types [13]:  Germ cells [14] Hepatocytes [15] Pancreatic β-cells [16] Intestinal...differentiated cell to a different cell type. While transdifferentiation is suited for switching cell types between... differentiation of human cells with synthetic modified mRNA. Cell Stem Cell, 2010. 7(5): p. 618-30. PubMed...et al., Reprogramming of T cells from human peripheral blood. Cell Stem Cell, 2010. 7(1): p. 15-9. PubMed...
  12. Adenoviral Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 Aims to Expand Genome Editing to Primary Cells

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    ...vectors (right) are transduced to target cells. Within target cells, Cas9 machinery is transiently expressed...in order to facilitate its entry into the target cells (Beatty et al., 2012). These features make AdV an... complexes into transformed and non-transformed cells yielded rates of targeted mutagenesis similar to...nuclease-induced gene disruption frequencies in the various cell types ranged from 18% to 65% (Maggio et al., 2014... leads to a vast majority of AdV-modified human cells being subjected to scarless homology-directed genome...therapeutically relevant, non-transformed mammalian cells. These viral vector systems also work equally well... dividing and quiescent, post-mitotic mammalian cells. Applications of CRISPR delivery by adenoviral ...
  13. Starter guide to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) part 1:  A renaissance in regenerative medicine

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    ...Pharmacological Sciences, a Cell Press reviews journal. Stem cells are special types of cells that can develop ...specialized cell types [2]. We general speak of 4 levels of stem cell potency: Totipotency: When a cell has ...pluripotent cells can be thought of as descendants of totipotent cells. An example of pluripotent cells is embryonic... into myogenic precursor cells [5]. Classification of stem cells Stem cells are classified into two broad...Embryonic stem cells ESCs are pluripotent stem cells that are able to form all adult cell types and are... Adult stem cells (ASCs) Also known as somatic stem cells, these multipotent stem cells are located ... to maintain cell numbers or replenish dying cells. For example, hematopoietic stem cells found in the...
  14. pCXLE toolkit: Efficient episomal plasmid-based method to reprogram peripheral blood cells to iPSCs

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    ...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 ...
  15. When is a Monomer not a Monomer? The Top Three Ways Your Favorite Fluorescent Protein Oligomerizes in Cells

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    ...transcriptional reporter or as a general cytoplasmic label of cells, there's no problem. You're OK. However, if you ...(POI) to GFP to study the protein's behavior in cells, in solution or something in between, you are using...fluorescent protein (FP) could be forming dimers in cells. Why should you care? Three simple ways a dimeric...nanomolar Kd will exist primarily as a dimer in cells while a protein with a high micromolar or low millimolar...millimolar Kd is unlikely to form dimers in a cell. The Kd of EGFP is 0.11 mM [2]. Following the simple...might think EGFP is unlikely to form dimers in a cell. Unfortunately, things are not quite so simple. ...research situations, the relevant volume is that of the cell. For the physical behaviors associated with a molecule...
  16. Hot Plasmids - June 2020 - Barcoded CRISPR Library, Sparse Cell Labeling, Calcineurin Reporter, and DNA Staining Dye Alternative

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    ... 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...
  17. Protocol - pLKO.1 – TRC Cloning Vector

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    ...transfected cells. k. Incubate cells at 37°C, 5% CO 2 for 24 hours. Day 4: l. Harvest media from cells and transfer... infect the target cells. Addition of puromycin will allow you to select for cells that stably express... 7×105 HEK-293T cells in 5 mL of media in a 6 cm tissue culture plate. Incubate cells at 37°C, 5% CO 2...Although cells should regularly be passaged in DMEM + 10% FBS with penicillin/streptomycin, cells should... temperature. g. Retrieve HEK-293T cells from incubator. The cells should be 50-80% confluent and in DMEM...you do not want to dislodge the cells from the plate. i. Incubate cells at 37°C, 5% CO 2 for 12-15 hours...antibiotics to the cells and incubate at 37°C, 5% CO 2 for 24 hours. Day 5: n. Harvest media from cells and pool...
  18. Fluorescence Titering Assay

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    ...added to 150,000 cells resulted in 25% fluorescent cells, then the titer is: (150,000 cells x 0.25 fluorescent...protocol was developed for 293T cells but can be adapted to a variety of target cell lines and selection markers...to determine the percentage of fluorescent cells, these cells can still be used in downstream applications.... Workflow Timeline Day 0: Seed 293T cells Day 1: Transduce cells Day 2 (am): Remove media, replace with...health of the target cell line is critical for obtaining accurate titers. Check the cells for mycoplasma (...regularly Do not over- or under-grow your cells. Thaw a new vial of cells after 20–30 passages. Do not add penicillin...Procedure Seed 75,000 cells into each well of a 6-well dish. Prepare a batch of cells as follows: Dilute ...
  19. Colony Formation Titering Assay

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    ...1,000 cells into each well of a 6-well dish. Prepare a batch of cells as follows: Dilute 7,000 cells into...protocol was developed for A549 cells but can be adapted to a variety of target cell lines and selection markers...the cells cannot be used for later experiments. Workflow Timeline Day 0: Seed and transduce cells Day ...health of the target cell line is critical for obtaining accurate titers. Check the cells for mycoplasma (...regularly Do not over or under-grow your cells. Thaw a new vial of cells after 20–30 passages. Do not add penicillin...seeding of the cells at the same time as the virus-mediated transduction. For some cell lines, transduction...kill your target cell line needs to be empirically determined. Treat the target cells with a range of ...
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