University of Tsukuba
Institute of Medicine
Generation of genome-edited mice using early embryos
Laboratory Animal Science
Trans-border Medical Research Center
University of Tsukuba
Overview
In Laboratory Animal Science, we aim to develop high quality laboratory animals with innovative approach. Mice share 95 percent of human genes and get most of the same human diseases with the same genetic reasons. Laboratory mice provides us essential experiment platforms for the advancement of medical sciences. Especially, genetically modified mice are used very often to study in vivo function of genes and proteins in development, homeostasis and disease.
In this course you will learn about methods for the generation of genome edited mice using early embryos.
We hope you find this course interesting.
English Task
Please download the PDF document here. Print it out. There are three parts. Please do the first part before watching the video below, the second part is to be done during the video, and the third part after finishing the video and task. In the first part it asks you to write Japanese translations of English words, but if you are not Japanese, please do this in your first language.
Upon completion of the exercise, please scan/photograph your work and email to: mayers@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (Thomas Mayers)
Your Task
Please download the Word document here, carefully read the questions and write your responses. You can re-watch the videos as many times as you like. You can do extra research by downloading the research papers below and searching for information on the Internet. Responses must be typed. Upon completion of the exercise, please email to: mayers@md.tsukuba.ac.jp (Thomas Mayers)
Further Study
Download some of our published research papers here
