— A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has identified an epigenetic pathway and two therapeutic targets that could be used to prevent cartilage loss and counteract the mechanism underlying osteoarthritis. The inventors have seen promising results in a mouse model of arthritis us…

— Mouse fibroblasts are isolated from Irf3-/-xlrf5-/-xlrf7-/-TKO mice. Researchers generated the mouse strains from an inbred C57BL/6 background. Associated Publication: IRF-3, IRF-5, and IRF-7 Coordinately Regulate the Type I IFN Response in Myeloid Dendritic Cells Downstream of MAVS Signaling

— Murine anti-Powassan virus antibodies and hybridoma cell Publication: An mRNA Vaccine Protects Mice against Multiple Tick-Transmitted Flavivirus Infections

— Plasmid comprising the signal peptide and extracellular domain of human glycophorin A fused to antibody Fc domain and a his tag. This plasmid has been used to study malaria treatments. Publications:

— Bacteria modified from the parental strain Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23 that doesn’t express the enzyme aryl aminotransferase. Culture supernatants from this bacterial strain failed to stimulate AhR reporter cells. Publication: Lactobacillus reuteri induces gut intraepithelial CD4+CD8α …

— Technology Description Prof. Barani Raman and colleagues have developed a robust, insect-based, non-invasive sensing system to detect explosives or other chemicals. This “artificial nose” technology includes methods to decode neural signals from the insect’s olfactory system and …

— Technology Description Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P1)-specific PET tracers. Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptors are G-protein coupled receptors, with five subtypes denoted S1P1-5, that have key functions in immune, inflammat…

— Technology Description Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues have developed S1PR2-targeted PET tracers. Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) is an important bioactive lipid that regulates critical biological functions by acting through five specific G protein-coupled S1P recept…

— A plasmid constuct containing the Streptococcus thermophilus dCas9 (dCas9sth 1) gene under the control of the arabinose inducible pBAD promoter and a constitutively expressed single guide RNA (sgRNA) on the pAL5000 vector backbone. Publication: Molecular Toolkit for Gene Expression Control and Geno…

— These materials are an alpha-synuclein binding compound (standard), and the precursor for PET radiolabeling the compound. Precursor’s code name: TZ61-23; chemical name: 2-((6-methoxypyridin-3-yl)amino)quinolin-6-ol. Standard’s code name: TZ61-44; chemical name: 6-(2-fluoroexthoxy)-N-(6-metho…

— Researchers developed these knock-in mice by using homologous recombination to clone the R120G mutation into exon 3 of the αB-crystallin gene (cryab). αB-crystallin (cryAB) helps to maintain protein stability in the eye lens, which is necessary for transparency. The R120G mutation causes…

— These plasmids were developed by Washington University researchers as tools for genetically engineering Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (S6803), a model cyanobacterium used commonly in research and biotechnology applications. Because S6803 is polyploid, genetic modification of this strain typically requi…

— Background: Vasodilatory shock, a reduction in effective blood circulation, occurs when endogenous vasoconstrictor mechanisms fail as a result of an often lethal combination of severe infections. Sepsis, as one of the causes, alone affects 1 million people resulting in more than 258,000 deaths each …

— These plasmids encode carboxyl ester lipase (CEL) with and without genetic variants that are associated with chronic pancreatitis. To make the plasmids, the researchers used a full-length human CEL cDNA clone. The cDNA encoded for a 14-repeat VNTR, the variant present in the CEL MODY family. The Ec…

— CL111 was first transformed with the plasmids containing BCFA-producing pathway. The straight-chain-specific fabH was then eliminated by phage P1 transduction with lysates grown on strain CAG12094. The transduction mixtures were plated on LB-agar medium supplemented with appropriate anti-biotics (te…

— Alpha synuclein is a 140 amino acid protein. The accumulation of aggregated alpha-synuclein within neuronal cells is the defining pathologic change in Parkinson’s disease. We produced recombinany human alpha-synuclein protein in E. Coli and purified it. We developmed an incubation procedure unde…

— Adenoviruses were generated using the Invitrogen Virapower system, which uses Clonase mediated recombination. They were generated in HEK293A cells and titered per the manufacturer’s instructions. Publications: Enhancing lysosome biogenesis attenuates BNIP3-induced cardiomyocyte death; Impaired …

— The plasmid was constructed in E. coli DH10B which was grown in LB at 37°C and 250 rpm in 14 mL BD FalconTM round‐bottom tubes. Kanamycin (kan) (20 µg/mL) and spectinomycin (spec) (100 µg/mL) were added as appropriate. Plasmids were constructed using the…

— MOG.15 is a T cell hybridoma that will be active when engaged with an antigen presenting cell that is presenting MOG35-55 peptide. Publication: Conditional MHC Class II Expression Reveals a Limited Role for B Cell Antigen Presentation in Primary and Secondary CD4 T Cell Responses

— Cultured and sequenced bacterial strains isolated from fecal samples. The samples were collected from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored studies of childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh.