The genome-editing tool CRISPR is famously RNA-guided... except when it’s not. Turns out, carefully designed RNA-DNA hybrid strands work just as well—or maybe even better—at guiding Cas nucleases to specific genomic targets.
Over 75,000 pathogenic genetic variants have been identified in humans and cataloged in the ClinVar database. Previously developed genome editing methods using nucleases and base editors have the potential to correct only a minority of those variants in most cell types. But ...
Prime editing is a versatile genome editing technology that allows precise modifications of DNA (replacements, small insertions, and deletions) without introducing DNA double-strand breaks (Anzalone et al., 2019; Chen & Liu, 2023). This method uses a prime editor (typically ...
We’ve all heard “Get that tube on ice!!” and “I hope it isn’t degraded” when scientists talk about their precious RNA samples. RNA is inherently less stable than most macromolecules used in scientific research such as DNA or protein. It comes as no surprise then that stability ...
Originally published May 3, 2017 and last updated Sep 24, 2020 This post was contributed by guest blogger, Addgene Advisory Board member, and Institute Scientist at the Broad Institute, John Doench. CRISPR technology has made it easier than ever both to engineer specific DNA ...
Originally published Jan 28, 2016 and last updated Sep 10, 2020 by Jennifer Tsang. CRISPR makes it easy to target multiple loci - a concept called multiplexing. Since CRISPR is such a robust system, editing or labeling efficiency doesn’t usually change when you add multiple ...
This post was contributed by guest blogger Fredrik Wermeling, leader of a research group at the Centrum for Molecular Medicine (CMM), Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska Institutet, in Sweden. It can be very time consuming to design 5 guide RNAs (gRNAs) targeting each of ...
This post was contributed by guest bloggers Alissa Lance-Byrne and Alex Chavez, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. CRISPR/Cas9 technology has revolutionized the fields of molecular biology and bioengineering, as it has facilitated the ...
