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  1. Adeno Associated Virus (AAV) for Cell and Gene Therapy

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    Nov. 7, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
    ... do so, their T-cells were grown in vitro, their mutations corrected, and the T-cells were transferred...functioning T cell repertoire (1). In this example, it was possible to transduce the T-cells outside the...a wide range of cell types including but not limited to muscle, liver, and brain cells. There are a multitude...chain (c) and is characterized by a lack of immune cell development and function. To date, gene therapy ...that can deliver gene therapies directly to the cells that need them. Adeno-associated virus (AAV) – based...delivery of nucleic acid cargo (DNA or RNA) to target cells has been challenging. A variety of vector delivery...expression over many years in postmitotic, long-lived cell types. AAVs in the clinic Thus far, AAV vectors...
  2. 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 ...
  3. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Visualizing Subcellular Structures & Organelles

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    June 22, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...organs, cells comprise compartments and structures, called organelles. Take a sneak peak inside a cell with...vesicles via the secretory pathway to their subcellular or extracellular destination. At the end of their life...involved in intracellular transport pathways, it is possible to map the internal organization of a cell. This...proteins, however, in this case the cell needs to be fixed and the cell membrane permeabilized in order for...for labeling your subcellular structure of interest in the Allen Institute for Cell Science Plasmid Collection...and selected subcellular marker proteins, it’s possible to get an idea about the subcellular structures ...Medicine, 7). Identifying the subcellular localization and composition of cellular complexes are important ...
  4. Gendered Innovations: Why Does Sex of the Cell Matter?

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    July 21, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ...never considered the sex of their cells. For one thing, cells and cell lines degenerate over time—and sex... effects of using all female cells and tissues, specifically in stem cell therapies. Let’s go back to ...therapeutic capacity of stem cells. Yet, very few researchers consider the sex of their cells when doing experiments—which...sexes in basic research is excellent design), but they used all female stem cells—this was an unconscious... stem cells. Nor did they detect important differences in function between male and female cells. The ...experiment. In the case of stem cells, these factors may include cell type, the disease being treated,...sex of cells and tissues—when that information is reliable—is important to ensuring excellence in basic...
  5. X-CHIME: Context Dependent Germline Knockout in Immune Cells

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    Jan. 16, 2024, 6:13 p.m.
    ...hematopoietic stem cells with a lentiviral vector containing a gRNA. These transduced stem cells can be implanted...Annotation of genes in immune cells typically involves the creation of germline knockout mice, which ...CRISPR-based systems enable gene knockout in immune cells in a high-throughput manner, but these systems have..., ubiquitous knockout of single genes in immune cells in vivo (LaFleur et al., 2019a and LaFleur et al...many genes have different functions in different cell types, at different times, and in combination with... L-CHIME Knocks out a single gene in defined cell types (lineage-based) pXPR_070 Violet-excited...benchmarked on positive control genes in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells. To demonstrate the power of these systems to investigate...
  6. Celebrate Open Data Day with Addgene’s AAV Data Hub!

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    March 5, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
    ...2020 coming up on March 7th, what better way to celebrate open data sharing than with Addgene’s AAV Data... expression after AAV injection, what region and cell class ended up expressing your virus? If you were... good of growing this open data resource and accelerating reproducible research. Share your data on AAV...
  7. Enabling Precision Functional Genomics with the Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection

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    May 11, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ... plasmid toolkit, the Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collection, that we hope researchers ...poorly classified function and a well established cellular signaling gene, thus providing a starting point...reference cDNA clones mapping to well-annotated cellular pathways). It wasn’t clear whether gene-agnostic...and cancer phenotypes. Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collections To overcome this first challenge..., we’ve developed the Broad Institute Target Accelerator Plasmid Collections, now widely available to ...sequence-confirmed series of clones corresponding to known cellular signaling pathways as part of our Genetic Pathway...Mutations. Berger AH, Brooks AN, Wu X, et al. Cancer Cell, 2016. PubMed PMID: 27478040. The lung cancer mutant...
  8. The Blue Flame Award: Celebrating Addgene's Most Requested Depositors

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    Nov. 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.
    ...easier, cost effective and faster; this has helped accelerate scientific discoveries.” Occasionally, a plasmid...dedication to scientific sharing, we wanted to celebrate our depositing PI’s who have the most highly requested...
  9. 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...
  10. 3 Tips to Improve HDR Efficiency for CRISPR Editing in Human Cells

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    Sept. 5, 2017, 1:58 p.m.
    ...sequence change the cell must undergo homology-directed repair (HDR), a distinct cellular DNA repair pathway...incorporated into the edited genome. In mammalian cells such as stem cells, HDR is relatively rare and DSBs are predominantly...them into somatic cells affected by the disease and study what’s wrong with the cells. However, our excitement...sequence-specific changes in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). The CRISPR/Cas9 com­plex is very efficient... stranded breaks (DSBs) into genomic DNA in many cell types and often results in biallelic modifications... After genome editing with CRISPR/Cas9 in human cells was described in 2013 (Cong et al, Mai et al) we...excitement turned into frustration when we sequenced our cells and found how inefficiently our edits were being...
  11. CRISPR Protocol for Genomic Deletions in Mammalian Cell Lines [Video]

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    Feb. 18, 2015, 3:09 p.m.
    ...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...
  12. SpyLigase Irreversibly Locks Peptides Together for Efficient Cell Capture

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    Aug. 13, 2014, 3:49 p.m.
    ...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....
  13. Save Time and Money by Making Your Own Competent Cells

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    Jan. 28, 2014, 3:10 p.m.
    ... 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...
  14. 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...
  15. Opto-Nanobodies: Using Light to Manipulate Cell Signaling and Protein Purification

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    Nov. 19, 2019, 2:08 p.m.
    ...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...
  16. Stem Cell Models for Disease & Open Science: Interview with Darrell Kotton

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    July 7, 2017, 1:32 p.m.
    ...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...
  17. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Monitoring Cell Mobility Using Fluorescent Proteins

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    Aug. 15, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
    ...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 ...
  18. Celebrating Outstanding CRISPR/Cas9 Achievements at the Dr. Paul Janssen Award Dinner

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    Sept. 15, 2014, 6:05 p.m.
    ...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...
  19. Starter Guide to induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) Part 2:  Reprogramming and Transdifferentiation

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    Nov. 6, 2018, 1:12 p.m.
    ...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...
  20. A New Generation of Adenine Base Editors Improves Editing in Primary Human Cells

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    May 7, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...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...
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