Last updated Sep 30, 2020 by Marcy Patrick. CRISPR technology has been widely adopted for genome editing purposes because it's cheaper, faster, and easier than prior editing techniques. More and more CRISPR tools are being published each month, making CRISPR a great choice for ...
This post was updated on Aug 20, 2020. What genes are important in your phenotype of interest? Many scientists study diseases for which the underlying genetic cause is not entirely known. Identifying which genes are important for a phenotype can lead to a wealth of additional ...
It seems that there’s a new CRISPR advance or technique published every week! One of the newest applications is a colorful system that uses fluorescently labeled Cas9 to label multiple genomic loci in live cells. While other systems can be used to label loci, such as ...
As Eric Mendenhall of the University of Alabama in Huntsville explains it, a major goal in his laboratory is to understand the function of the non-coding portion of the genome. Mendenhall and Richard Myers of HudsonAlpha (where Mendenhall is also an adjunct faculty member) have ...
In the summer of 2013, a remarkable nine papers describing CRISPR/Cas9 genome engineering methods for C. elegans were released, signaling a new era in C. elegans research. Homology directed repair (HDR), which enables insertion of custom genomic modifications, is very robust in ...
Primary cells recapitulate the natural biology of a cell type of interest better than immortalized lines derived from the same cell type; however, their usage has been limited by technical problems. For instance, it’s much more difficult to introduce a gene of interest into ...
In the short time since its development, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing has been used to study the effect of gene knockout in vivo and in vitro, as well as to insert targeted mutations through homologous recombination. To further increase the utility of CRISPR/Cas9, it will be ...
This post was contributed by Kevin Esvelt, a Wyss Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. Scientists making transgenic organisms with Cas9 should be aware of the potential hazards of creating “gene drives” capable of spreading through wild ...
