Abstract: An expression cassette for conditional expression of a single guide RNA (sgRNA) of a CRISPR/Cas9 system, the cassette includes a promoter, an sgRNA sequence, and a sequence flanked by at least a pair of recombinase recognition sites, wherein recombinase activated re-combination at the pair of recombinase recognition sites is capable of excising said flanked sequence, whereby either i) at least one of said recombinase recognition sites is located within the sgRNA sequence and said flanked sequence contains an transcription disruption sequence or ii) said flanked sequence is at least a part of the promoter or of the sgRNA sequence; methods of conditional expression of sgRNA and a reaction product of the conditional expression, i.e. sgRNA with a recombination site remnant.

Abstract: A method for detecting a nucleic acid in a plurality of samples, including a) providing analyte nucleic acids from samples in separate containers, the containers are in a subset array; b) amplifying acids by reaction using primers hybridized to the acids, forward and reverse primers of the primer pair both include an adaptor sequence, a sample identifier sequence and a binding sequence; c) combining the acids of step b) of containers of subsets to a container array; d) amplifying acids by a primer extension reaction using a pair of further primers hybridized to the acids of containers of step c), the further primers include a further forward and a further reverse primer, both including an identifier sequence and a hybridization sequence; e) determining the sequences of the acids of step d); f) assigning a determined sequence of a nucleic acid of interest of step e) to a sample

Abstract: A nucleic acid including a sequence encoding a single guide RNA (sgRNA) of a CRISPR/Cas system is disclosed, wherein the sgRNA sequence is interrupted by a guide disruption sequence flanked by a first pair of recombinase recognition sites, and wherein the sgRNA sequence further includes a second pair of recombinase recognition sites that has a different recombinase recognition sequence than the first pair of recombinase recognition sites, wherein the guide disruption sequence is not flanked by the second pair of recombinase recognition sites and wherein the sequences flanked by the first and second recombinase recognition sites overlap; methods of using such a sgRNA, transgenic cells and kits.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an artemisinin compound, and 5-aminolevulinic acid or methyl-5-aminolevulinic acid and at least one chemotherapeutic agent, preferably at least one anti-glioblastoma drug. This pharmaceutical composition is used for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of hematopoietic cancers, brain cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer, and lung cancer such as non-small cell lung cancer. Preferably, the present application provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising artemisinin (1a) or di-hydroarteminisin (1b) or artesunate (1e) and 5-aminolevulinic acid (2) or methyl-5- aminolevulinic acid (2b) and at least one chemotherapeutic agent, preferably at least one anti-glioblastoma drug for use in prophylaxis and/or treatment of brain cancer, in particular glioblastoma.

Abstract: A method of preparing a population of iPS cells including (i) expressing one or more Yamanaka factors selected from Oct3/4, Sox2, Klf4, Myc, Nanog and Lin28, and reducing the amount and/or activity of Menin (Men1) in a population of target cells, and (ii) optionally isolating the iPS cells from the target cell population; and a method of enhanced differentiation of a first cell into a somatic cell of a tissue of interest, including (i) treating a cell with a differentiation factor of the tissue of interest, and (ii) reducing the amount and/or activity of Menin (Men1) in a population of target cells.

Abstract: An expression cassette for conditional expression of a single guide RNA (sgRNA) of a CRISPR/Cas9 system, the cassette includes a promoter, an sgRNA sequence, and a sequence flanked by at least a pair of recombinase recognition sites, wherein recombinase activated re-combination at the pair of recombinase recognition sites is capable of excising said flanked sequence, whereby either i) at least one of said recombinase recognition sites is located within the sgRNA sequence and said flanked sequence contains an transcription disruption sequence or ii) said flanked sequence is at least a part of the promoter or of the sgRNA sequence; methods of conditional expression of sgRNA and a reaction product of the conditional expression, i.e. sgRNA with a recombination site remnant.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of preparing a population of iPS cells comprising reducing the amount and/or activity of one or more components of the CAF1 complex, and/or one or more components of the SUMO pathway, in a population of target cells, and (ii) optionally isolating the iPS cells from the target cell population.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the generation of stable haploid cell cultures, uses of said cells in forward and reverse genetics, especially the identification of target genes associated with a modified phenotype and in particular identifying genetic targets associated with toxin resistance, especially ricin toxicity resistance, and therapeutic uses of target compounds.