Su-Chun Zhang, a world-renowned neuroscientist and pioneer in stem cell research, has developed a method for printing neural tissues that allows cells to form neural networks in vitro. The human brain...
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UW researchers have developed modified genetically encoded plasma membrane voltage probes for monitoring mitochondrial and ER membrane voltage gradients. A fluorescence protein tag was coupled with a ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a GFAP knockout mouse model, designated tm1Mes, that has been engineered to have an internal deletion of the Gfap gene that renders it completely non-functional. ...
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.2 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.1 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated B6.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm2Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R236H point mutation in the Gfap gene; this is ...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated FVB.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm2Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R236H point mutation in the Gfap gene; this is...
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a transgenic mouse, designated Tg73.7, that carries full-length copies of a human genomic clone of wild-type GFAP, including all introns and exons.
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UW-Madison researchers have developed a mouse model of Alexander disease, designated FVB.129S7 (Cg) Gfap tm3Mes, that was engineered as a knock-in of the R76H point mutation in the Gfap gene. This is ...
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into bioengineered elliptical neur...
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Viruses maximize their genetic potential through several mechanisms including expressing multiple protein products from a single mRNA template. A crucial mechanism is conserved by both retroviruses, i...
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Methods for derivation, culture, and maturation of small hepatic progenitor cells are described.
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An apparatus for measuring lesion volume, for example, in laboratory animals, provides a mirror box allowing a camera to simultaneously acquire profiles of the lesion along at least two crossing axes ...
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Systems and methods for protein engineering. The systems include a sequence testing subsystem and a machine learning subsystem. The sequence testing subsystem is configured to express proteins and tes...
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Accurately reproducing the blood-brain barrier in an in vitro setting has been a longstanding challenge. Current methods require the independent isolation of multiple cell types, and the quality of th...
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Patch clamping is a well-known technique for investigating the movement of ions and molecules through cellular membranes via ion channels. To create an extremely high-resistance ‘gigaseal’ around ...
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Nearly half of all diseases involve ion channels – channels in cell membranes that control the flow of ions into and out of cells. Certain channels open in response to natural signal molecules as we...
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The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is made up of brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMECs), which line brain capillaries and control trafficking between the bloodstream and neural tissue. Although esse...
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Approximately half of all diseases affect the function of ion channels in cell membranes. Testing the flow of ions and molecules through these membranes clearly is vital to drug discovery and research...
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Although it is essential to healthy brain function, the blood-brain barrier (BBB) interferes with drug delivery, preventing more than 98 percent of small molecule pharmaceuticals and nearly 100 percen...
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Cytochrome P450 (CYP) is a family of predominantly hepatic enzymes known to be important in the metabolism of many drugs, carcinogens and other chemicals of pharmacologic and toxicologic significance....
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Patch clamping is a well known method for measuring the flow of ions and molecules through ion channels imbedded in the cellular membrane.  The method employs micropipettes, or similar microscale ape...
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Accurate monitoring of gene expression is critical to determining those patterns of expression correlating with exposure to certain drugs or toxins. By elucidating these patterns, researchers may be a...
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The SCN5A gene encodes a human cardiac sodium (Na+) channel alpha subunit that carries the inward Na+ current in the heart. Three distinct polymorphic SCN5A clones, hH1, hH1a and hH1b, have been isola...
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The gene mdm2 is a negative regulator of p53, which plays a key role in apoptosis and is important in chemotherapy. Mice with knockout mutations in mdm2 would be useful in studying this gene; however,...
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