Video 2 v2 - PCR and Cloning

Aug 08, 2026 08:06 · 4:21 · English · Whisper Turbo · 2 གསལ་བཤད་

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Hello and welcome back to our quest to prove that we can make a vaccine for canine

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coronavirus in just 100 days.

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This week,

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the viral genes being used to make the vaccine arrived a whole day ahead of schedule,

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so the team was in a flurry to get everything ready for the next steps.

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So basically this week we received the gene box we ordered and all

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our primers.

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So we've been able to start our planning process.

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So getting the inserts ready for all the different constructs

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that were designed.

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So we started that yesterday.

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So how does this tiny amount of raw genes get processed not only into

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a vaccine, but into enough vaccine for hundreds of dosages?

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It all starts with gene cloning.

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You may have heard of cloned animals like Dolly the Sheep or seen movies and

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TV shows where they're cloning genes.

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But the real process into making a vaccine is a completely different story.

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The first step is to take these gene blocks and rehydrate them.

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So we're cloning basically the fusion protein,

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so the specific small part of the virus that we

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use to...

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pre -act our antigen,

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so it's not the whole virus,

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it is a subunit of it,

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and it is basically that sequence combined with the molecular

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clamp.

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Now,

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here comes the cool part,

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taking our gene construct and amplifying it.

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If we wanted to make,

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say, thousands of copies of a mug,

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we would have to have a factory to make them.

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But when we're making copies of our genes,

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we use E.

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coli as our cellular machines.

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Bacteria like E.

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coli have the ability to uptake genetic material in the form of plasmids,

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copy it for their own use,

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and spread it to other E.

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coli.

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It's like the plasmid is a DVD with an awesome movie on it,

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and all of the E.

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coli are pirating that movie and then passing it along to their friends,

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creating thousands and thousands of copies of our movie in the process.

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So all we need to do is make our genetic material in the form of a

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lot of DVDs for.

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To make enough plasmids for our movie to go viral or maybe bacterial,

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we need to use PCR or a polymerase chain reaction.

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PCR is an incredibly big part of what we do.

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So whenever we create an antigen,

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which is the small part of the virus that we use that we put in

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the molecular clamp.

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Sometimes you need to do slight modifications for it to make it more stable

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or to make sure it expresses better.

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So we have our gene blocks,

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which are basically almost a native sequence,

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and then we use different primers to change small things in it.

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And that stands for a PCR.

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Usually when cells are dividing,

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they need to copy their DNA first with the enzyme polymerase.

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What this reaction does is take a polymerase from a bacteria native to hot

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springs and put it in a solution with our gene block that we need to copy.

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We add in primers,

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small segments of DNA that matches where we want polymerase to

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replicate and acts as a homing beacon for the polymerase.

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Because the polymerase is from a hot spring bacteria,

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we can warm up the DNA to split it for replicating,

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cool it down so the primers can attach,

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and then warm it back up again so that the bacterial polymerase can duplicate it all.

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Each cycle of this doubles the DNA,

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so we quickly get enough DNA for all of our plasmids.

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Then, after we check the PCR copied the correct sequences,

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we cut and glue the different sections together into a plasmid using a bunch

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of other enzymes.

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It's like we're editing the movie,

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cutting and ordering the scenes to make a movie that we can put onto our DVD.

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Then we get our DVDs,

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our plasmids,

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and we put them in a solution with our E.

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coli, heating the solution so that the plasmids are uptaken.

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Now, all that was left was for the team to let all the E.

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coli grow on agar plates and incubate.

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And every time they replicate,

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they're copying our plasmid and sharing it.

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Then go through the process of transformation where we put

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the DNA into E.

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coli cells.

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It's through this process that the team turns a tiny little pellet of

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DNA into enough genetic material that next week...

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they can start turning these genes into protein for the vaccine.

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At the moment,

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we're currently transforming those into E.

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coli bacteria,

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which we all played on agar plates overnight and purify out the DNA.

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Then we will transfect their DNA into trocells.

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But sadly,

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we have to wait a while for all of that E.

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coli to grow.

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So that's it for today.

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Tune in next week to see what the team does with all of that E.

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coli on their journey to create a vaccine in less than 100 days.

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See ya!

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