The Ulster Gene Editing Academy (UGenie) is based @UlsterUniBiomed @UlsterUni and was established through funding from the Garfield Weston Trust.
Coleraine campus, N. Ireland.
Joined March 2024
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Ah, so exciting!!! Secondary students preparing CRISPR knockouts for multiplex PCR!!
I would have absolutely died to be a part of the UGenie summer school when I was a teenager.
UGenie 2025 is now in full flow. Our students have already generated CRISPR gene knockouts in E . coli and are now preparing their edited samples for multiplex PCR analysis on Bento Labs. @UUGene_Editing @UlsterUniBiomed @theBentoLab.
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We are really excited to finally share this resource. We hope it becomes a useful starting point for biology students. Please let us know if you have any feedback!
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Baby KJ, the world's first patient to receive personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy for a rare metabolic disease, is now home and thriving! This groundbreaking treatment offers hope for other untreatable genetic conditions. #CRISPR #GeneEditing yahoo.com/news/worlds-first-…
UGenie (Ulster Gene Editing Academy) retweeted
Amazing news! 🌟 Baby KJ received a custom CRISPR therapy for a life-threatening genetic disorder, developed in a record 6 months! He's now thriving, and this breakthrough could revolutionize personalized medicine. A true game-changer! 🧬 #CRISPR
wired.com/story/a-baby-recei…
UGenie (Ulster Gene Editing Academy) retweeted
Training Biology teachers from across NI key molecular biology skills with @theBentoLab that they can transfer back to the classroom. Many thanks to @atky33 @RachelleIrwin15 for invaluable help @UlsterUniBiomed.
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Fun day teaching year 14s how to analyse PCR products on @theBentoLab as part of our Ulster Life Science and Biotech (ULife) Education hub for schools and colleges @UlsterUniBiomed. Looking forward to more tomorrow @RachelleIrwin15 @atky33.
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CRISPR is revolutionizing cancer treatment! 💥 Researchers used CRISPR to eliminate 50% of head & neck tumors in mice by targeting the SOX2 gene. Read more about this groundbreaking study: insideprecisionmedicine.com/… #CRISPR #CancerResearch #GeneEditing
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Using bacteria for tissue engineering and cell therapy scitechdaily.com/breakthroug…
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Great to see these photos of secondary school students learning #PCR and to see how they've deployed their suite of Bento Labs!
Very impressive work by @UUGene_Editing @UlsterUniBiomed @UlsterFlexEd @WestonFdn and all involved! ♥️🧬
Day 3 of UGenie 2024 and our students learned about PCR with a talk and group activity. In the afternoon they had fun setting up a multiplex PCR to genotype their CRISPR edited DNA from yesterday using our suite of @theBentoLab. @UlsterUniBiomed @UlsterFlexEd @WestonFdn.
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1/2 Another year of impressive CRISPR-Cas gene editing by our year 2 BSc (Hon) Biology students on their Biotech module. They cut the lacZ gene in E. coli and introduced a premature stop codon using HDR leading to a change of blue (wild type) to white colonies @UlsterUniBiomed
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2/2 It was also another opportunity to use our set of @theBentoLab to genotype the lacZ edits by multiplex PCR @RachelleIrwin15
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BREAKING: CRISPR edited pig kidney transplanted into living patient. Scientists used CRISPR to make 69 changes to the pig kidney, removing harmful pig genes, adding human genes and making other edits to prevent the transmission of pig viruses. wbur.org/news/2024/03/21/bos…
