By Susanna Stroik
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“Off-target effects” a vague catch-all term for unintended consequences in an experiment. For CRISPR work, this often means DNA cleavage at unanticipated sites. While off-target effects are nearly impossible to eliminate, it’s essential to understand them in order to design the ...
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The biomedical field is often concerned with understanding the cause of diseases and how to treat those diseases. The “cause of disease” often requires understanding the disease genetics and the “treatment” usually requires drugs. While we often think of these two fields as ...
Originally written by Marcy Patrick and Mary Gearing on Mar 12, 2015; updated by Christina Mork, Jul 27, 2020; updated by Susanna Stroik January 24, 2023. DNA damage drives genome instability and contributes to cancer, premature aging, and other harmful processes. The most ...
Taking the road less traveled and generating a knock-in cell line instead of a knock-out? We’ve got you covered in this blog, with tips and tricks for harnessing the homology-directed repair pathway, designing the best donor DNA, and avoiding common mishaps in this class of ...
We are all oh so familiar with the nuclease Cas9, but how does it stack up to the new Cas enzymes on the block? The Cas family of proteins has many useful genome engineering enzymes, each with their own unique features and quirks. Here, we will review the genome engineering ...
This post was originally written by Melina Fan and updated Nov 3, 2022 by Susanna Stroik. You’ve designed your gRNA and introduced it into your target cells with Cas9. Hooray! Now it’s time to make sure your genome edits went according to plan. In this blog post we’ll explain ...
