September 29, 2020
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has increased the speed and precision of genetic editing in cells and animals. However, model generation for drug development is still expensive and time-consuming, demanding more target flexibility and faster turnaround times with high reproducibility. The generation of a tightly controlled ObLiGaRe doxycycline inducible SpCas9 (ODInCas9) transgene and its use in targeted ObLiGaRe results in functional integration into both human and mouse cells culminating in the generation of the ODInCas9 mouse. Genomic editing can be performed in cells of various tissue origins without any detectable gene editing in the absence of doxycycline. Somatic in vivo editing can model non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) adenocarcinomas, enabling treatment studies to validate the efficacy of candidate drugs. The ODInCas9 mouse allows robust and tunable genome editing granting flexibility, speed and uniformity at less cost, leading to high throughput and practical preclinical in vivo therapeutic testing.
Publication - Summary
Apr 23, 2015
Cell
In this paper, the MacVicar Lab used Neuro9 siRNA cell transfection nanoparticles (Neuro9-siRNA) prepared using the NanoAssemblrTM Benchtop instrument to uncover the role of a specific chloride channel in cytotoxic edema, which is a...
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Feb 27, 2019
Cell Chemical Biology
Brent Stockwell’s lab at Columbia University demonstrated the efficacy of a small molecule encapsulated in a PEG-PLGA nanoparticle for inducing a form of cell death called ferroptosis (discovered by the Stockwell Lab) in diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) mouse models...